How good are the defenses of genshin impact’s main cities?

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37 thoughts on “How good are the defenses of genshin impact’s main cities?”

  3. We see hillichurls make towers in the ocean, and some hillichurls on boats. We've also seen that treasure hoarders and nobushi can, and do, travel by boat. Fatui have been dispatched by sea as well, during Sumeru's archon quest where Dottore leaves by boat with some lower rank members.
    If they're intelligent enough they can take boats.

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  12. I think the point of these cities not being highly defensible is that they rely heavily on their archons, while the story of Genshin is all about humanity being independent from their archons. (Making the higher defences of Fontaine and Liyue predictable)

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  17. I actually agree with the mondstadt assessment, and im sure the devs knew this very well too because theres a commission quest where the side entrance was easily overwhelmed by a bunch of slimes and the traveller hv to help them out.

    For inazuma, they do hv their archon who actively monitor and repel potential threats unlike the other 4 regions currently in the game. Liyue used to hv an archon that actively protect their region as well but has since retired after Osial's failed attack.

    As for sumeru, they likely hv a different doctrine from the others, which is much like most jungle warfare irl. That is, they probably employ guerrilla doctrine with just how much caves, caverns, and hiding spots that soldiers can ambush from. This way, its up to the enemies to maintain whatever power and resource they can in the city at a severe disadvantage. So if you take into account the effectiveness of guerrilla warfare throughout history, sumeru might hv the worst defences, but they make up for it by being the best to survive long term warfare, that also includes war of attrition.

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  26. Okay okay hold on, what about the Varuna Contraption though?? Nahida could use it to summon rain in seconds! Sumeru's architecture is insane, sure, but I don't think fire is that unsolvable of a problem.

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  27. In my probably shitty opinion, if we're including all factors, the list changes dramatically when it comes to invasion.

    The safest to least safe would be
    Fontaine
    Sumeru
    Inazuma
    Liyue
    Mondstadt

    Fontaine sits on the Fontaine Plateau, which is exceptionally hard to get to in the event of invasion and if the gardes disable the lifts and scrap the cranes, there's just no accessible way into the country without Scaling insane smooth brick walls or flying on in. We also see in the Fortress of Meripoide that there are Meka being constantly constructed for use as Fontaine Gardes, delivered through the pneumatic system across all of the country. They also have the Hydro Sovereign with his full power over all that is Hydro, he could obliterate any invasion near instantaneously.

    Sumeru has easily the second hardest to invade territory, thick, dense jungle and no easily accessible routes to the city with a nation who's only easily accessible points include Bayda harbour in the north and Port Ormos in the south. A big tree like that is also not catching fire easily, especially in a humid, wet rainforest. Most tree fires are from overwhelming heat… or the trees are already dead and have little water in them. They are also the only nation to have 3 types of (pseudo)millitary. There's the Matra, the Corps of thirty and the Forest Rangers, all of whom are very skilled in their native territory. Sure they don't have walls, but their city is hard to get to and even harder to navigate, gigantic homefield advantage… this is of course implying Nahida doesn't just literally erase the event from history using Irminsul, making it literally impossible for anyone to ever take the city.

    Inazuma is definitely the worst defended nation due to its islandic nature and the fact that before the traveler got involved, the Fatui basically succeeded with their cheeky secret coup of internal policies.. And as you mentioned their city itself is easy to penetrate and difficult to properly defend, their best advantage land wise is being invadable realistically from only one direction. The main reason why the country sits third is because of the Raiden Shogun, Ei is not the slightest bit afraid to just cleave an army in two with a single strike if needed. You'd need to do a ranged invasion to really get anywhere.

    Liyue is half open with its water and so easily invaded from that front, unless they drop another Jade Chamber there's no really a proper defense outside of their one proper military boat. Their lands are also not as easily defended as you think, having a total of 4 places to invade the city, the Millilith would need to defend all areas at once to make sure their safe, which means even with their impressive numbers and skills, a large or calculated invasion force would easily get in there. Their best bet is hoping Ningguang, Zhongli or the Adepti get involved, a strong force but not impenetrable.

    Mondstadt has the unfortunate case of "our troops are all on tour"… most of their army is away and their city is easily approached from water (their lake connects to the ocean), though they'd either have to go through the land and build boats or sail right through Dornman Port which would alert everybody, including the army currently marching that way who has Varka, who is meant to be exceptionally strong. Their city as you mentioned is also poorly defended as its walls are nonsensical and one of its gates… well… has no gate. Their current powerful forces include Jean, Klee and what's left of Venti. Maybe if Dvalin returns they have some extra forces there.

    Granted this is referring to more than just the city and its immediate land and more so invading the city as an invasion of the country, but you can't really invade the city unless you invade the country first anyway.
    Just my trash thoughts on this anyhoo.

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  32. you could also include the archons as a defense
    for example venti whos drunk and maybe does something… or maybe not
    zhongli who just watches and does nothing
    raiden who already can just spawn a thunderstorm
    nahida who can… be kept in a cage for centurys
    and furina… who does nothing… BUT neuvieltte who can solo every army lol

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  34. NICE TOPIC!! i did my own rankings awhile back to see which city's forces i'd join to defend it: 1. Court of Fontaine – Guns, big walls, tons of fallback positions. 2. Inazuma, Most recent experience fighting a long term war, 3. Liyue Harbor – Battled the forces of the abyss 500 years ago, battled a sea god, Mondstadt and Sumeru City tie but i think i like Sumeru more, Mondstadt feels like id be trapped inside the city while its under attack, with Sumeru City, you can fall back into the rain forest or Desert Ruins to recapture the city.

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  35. NICE TOPIC!! i did my own rankings awhile back to see which city's forces i'd join to defend it: 1. Court of Fontaine – Guns, big walls, tons of fallback positions. 2. Inazuma, Most recent experience fighting a long term war, 3. Liyue Harbor – Battled the forces of the abyss 500 years ago, battled a sea god, Mondstadt and Sumeru City tie but i think i like Sumeru more, Mondstadt feels like id be trapped inside the city while its under attack, with Sumeru City, you can fall back into the rain forest or Desert Ruins to recapture the city.

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  37. I think you were too harsh on Mondstadt, even if the defenses on the island aren't too good there is still only a singular choke point to access it, and in the mondstadt archon quest we see how the procedures of the knights of favonius, to set up a barricade and defend the entrance of the bridge. We also see knights of favonius patrolling various areas outside the city. There is also Boreas who is the only non-vision holder non-dead or left four winds defending the city (assuming vanessa won't come down from celestia). You state a major reason for Liyue being the most defensible city being that it's only accesible through three chokepoints in the mountains & and the well trained millileth. Mondstadt solidly beats Liyue on the former.

    Historically Mondstadt has also been much better defended, with Varka taking away the vast majority of the knights of favonius and Dvalin protecting the city.

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