Citlali will be arriving in 5.3, and she comes with a wide set of supportive utility, allowing her to be a strong pick in the meta. One of the interesting things about her design is the use of Elemental Mastery scalings. While it seems fine on paper, there are a few innate details that end up contradicting her design and the expectations of what she should bring for Cryo. We will discuss these and more in this analysis video.
===Timestamps===
❋ 0:00 | The Bit
❋ 0:55 | Kit Summary
❋ 2:29 | General Meta Opinions
❋ 3:51 | Cryo and Elemental Mastery
❋ 8:24 | Vape-Melt Team
❋ 10:36 | Conclusion
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Dehya havers are eating well, I see. . .
She's niche. Pyro-hydro limitation, majority buffs locked behind cons and bis, need natlan teammates
Cryo reactions hopefully get a rework at some point down the line
I wouldn't mind if she was free she'd be worth use obviously lol but i have too many cryo characters, and my best teams are dendro
Citlali is just a dedicated Chasca support for the Furina Bennet team comp. She's really designed for her
This is definitely a video…
Just for note, super conduct can now be effective against large groups for quadric spam.
That said, its more fitting to use Ganyu for that sort of thing.
I think she'll be great for Abyss and bosses or longer battles, but since her Cryo application is based on her burst being up, I don't think she has great overworld value.
smut is insane 😭😭
(real)
she's perfect wym i love her
pretty niche character like most 5 stars however she buffs hydro and pyro dps, although her shield is not that strong compared to shielders like zhongli, her cryo application is quite good even phenomenal.
"either that or sm*t" REAL
Do you think an Arlecchino, Xilonen, Citlali, and Bennett team work?
C2 R1 Mavuika or Mavuika C0R1 and Citlali C0R1 which would be best if I have Xilonen C0R0 and Furina C6 R1 as supports…
idk why hoyo put em scaling on her it makes her shield strength limited compared to hp or atk scaling which means even at max em her shield is still weak
An idea I had that could make freeze more valuable is to have it apply a “frosted” aura to enemies that the reaction triggers on which appears as a white-blue frosty tint on enemies. What it could do is increase the incoming crit damage an enemy takes while it lasts. Let’s say 7 seconds or so. The amount of crit damage the increase gives could scale based on a few different things, but what I thought could be good is the triggering character’s EM / ATK or HP I feel like crit damage would be a good upgrade as to me cryo is the element of critting considering it’s resonance gives crit rate. I’m not really sure how much crit damage it would give base on the attack but let’s just say that an off field hydro or cryo unit building around 800 EM would give around 70 crit damage. And a 1000 EM character would get around 90% like how stacking 1000 EM on dendro characters like nahida is most optimal and any more suffers from scaling issues. The frosted aura would be removed by pyro but not electro, meaning physical dps would work with it.
I’m not sure how good the numbers are or if this idea has been discussed much on this channel before but I just felt like sharing my thoughts on how cryo could be made better. I think 6.0 is the perfect opportunity for Genshin to rework or expand upon the element as they KNOW freeze just doesn’t work in a lot of increasingly common situations.
Goodbye Bennett Kazuha Impact….
EM scaling (if not used for reactions) is a massive disadvantage.
-EM main stat artifacts are at minimum 2-3 times more rare than other stats
-EM has 0 base stat even at max character level unlike hp or ATK so you can't afford not running EM main stats
-Being limited to EM weapons narrows build options even further. Fortunately Catalyst at least has Sacrificial.
To me she feels like a 3 star Layla honestly.
She has weaker shield, higher ER cost, wants more rare artifacts, and even if her damage technically exists, it's less than the damage of a clam set healer and comes with like 40:80 crit ratio at best due to the rarity of EM pieces.
Ok, she buffs team damage but if I don't play F12, this level of buffing is too low to be relevant. So what if I save 3 seconds on my Emblem domain runs? Oh wait she can't even buff there because she'll react with the electro on the enemies, and my hydro/pyro units will not get either buff.
And the final nail in the coffin, she is a shielder for Hydro/Pyro teams. But Furina teams don't want that, they want a healer. Even Sigewinne had better pull value than this pile of garbage.
at least its not another Fremi or Eula, such potencial wasted on characters that work better Physical dmg
The only thing I don’t like is that her shield isn’t that good
Wonderful video!
It's so hard to choose who to pull for this patch all the characters are so amazing. It's funny cause I really wanna pull for Hydro arc con but having this little old grandma would be amazing.
So… Just to make sure everyone remembers, she is a cryo support made to allow forward melt to be viable… And EM also works perfectly fine with hydro in permafrost, since the amount of EM makes the target be frozen for more time
In both cores she shines like this and i think any other scaling she would most likely have would've been way worse
The only two offensive, EM scaling Cryo-specific reactions are Superconduct and Freeze- the latter only dealing damage if you hit with a blunt attack shortly after.
I'd love to see a cryo unit who has a Lisa-type burst (Like Ganyu, Layla, Ayato, Kinich, etc.) that does Physical damage- so that superconduct works for a catalyst.
Yeah the em scaling is making her built kinda a bit over the place, you need crit to actually get enough dmg also you need em and er for her shield and buff to work, like whaat? Too much required in her kit
in the hu tao gameplay… why is bro using normal atk hu tao and not chargeds..
Ive noticed that whenever an archin is released a cryo member is released with them venti is a special case since its the first banner everyone is a “new” character, zhongli with diona, raiden with aloy, nahida with layla, furina with charloette, and now mavuika with citlali….end yet cryo is still the most forgotten element
I thought she was gonna be in fridge teams
8:40…. no, its ….bad actually
Because bosses cannot have frozen aura , this kinda teams just …lose aura and reactions on bosses, and against freezable enemies you have another issue,
Blunt atks will actually not melt, instead cause shatter so units like gaming, diluc , mavuika, two of which are are the biggest beneficiaries of citlali, get punished from this.
Hello, i really appreciate your work and time you put into this video i never imagined i will want to subscribe to genshin channel but here we are…no ai crap no stupid promotions of shady primogems and you spend a lot of time to know that character 👍🙌
Wow, a YouTuber not completely glazing Citlali? Amazing.