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The ULTIMATE Genshin Impact Character Tier List

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Timestamp:
Dendro MC: 1:36
Albedo: 2:17
Amber: 3:13
Ayaka: 3:43
Barbara: 4:54
Beidou: 5:48
Benny: 6:29
Chonguyn: 6:55
Diluc: 7:24
Diona: 7:47
Fischl: 8:29
Ganyu: 9:30
Hu Tao: 10:18
Jean: 10:51
Kaeya: 11:16
Keqing: 11:31
Klee: 12:30
Lisa: 13:00
Mona: 14:10
Ningguang: 14:43
Noelle: 15:12
Qiqi: 15:39
Razor: 16:11
Sucrose: 16:32
Childe: 17:13
Venti: 17:53
Xiangling: 18:51
Xiao: 19:30
Xingqiu: 19:58
Xinyan: 20:32
Zhongli: 20:39
Rosaria: 21:22
Eula: 21:44
Yanfei: 22:11
Kazuha: 22:28
Yoimiya: 22:46
Sayu:23:12
Raiden: 23:36
Sara: 24:02
Kokomi: 24:30
Thoma: 25:02
Itto: 25:31
Gorou: 25:46
Shenhe: 26:01
Yunjin: 27:17
Yae Miko: 27:32
Ayato: 28:16
Yelan: 28:36
Kuki Shinobu: 29:31
Nahida: 30:09
Heizou: 30:37
Tighnari: 30:56
Collei: 31:13
Dori: 32:32
Nilou: 31:54
Cyno: 32:39
Candace: 33:02
Layla: 33:30
Wanderer: 33:50
Faruzan: 34:11
Yao Yao: 34:22
Alhaitham: 34:53
Dehya: 35:18
Mika: 36:07
Kaveh: 36:33
Baizhu: 37:08
Kirara: 37:46

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  2. my 2 cents on why this tier list is questionable:
    – xingqiu on super good but kokomi and yelan on highest tier? xingqiu is literally the best character in the game
    – you really rated sucrose below yoi? ganyu? zhongli? huh
    – yoi on super strong. i just had to laugh
    – agree with placement but alhaitham's techs and "difficulty" seemed to not hinder his ranking but childe's burst-skill-na for 6 secs is too difficult without cons? according to a CHILDE MAIN? what childe main lol
    – and why would childe being tied to bennett xiangling be a negative when hes literally one of the best if not the best in that slot, withstood the test of time. and if your candace hits 200k on E, and your childe cant hit those numbers maybe youre building your characters wrong?
    – beidou too low. i refuse to believe we are in the universe that she is lower than lisa lol
    – kaeya is too low, rated him without saying any of his pros compared to the other cryo options
    – ratings for hypercarries (xiao itto cyno wanderer) are so messed up. and of course xiao AGAIN took the hardest hit. biases are showing
    – thundering furry exists
    – heizou literally beside aloy and dori??!?!?! why arent we talking about his driving capabilities?
    – layla second best shield in the game kek
    – barbara, by virtue of being hydro on top of healing, is in no way bad at all.
    – baizhu squishy??????? his hp is AT THE VERY LEAST 40k, add the healing, how you gonna die? he should be at least on the same tier as yaoyao. both good, baizhu heals more for less field time, yaoyao more dendro application
    – kaveh, for being the worst dendro character in the game right now, being rated that high, i wonder if we're really playing the same game

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  3. Would be this team actually good?
    -Raiden (DPS mostly and sub-dps)
    -Kokomi (Healer + helps to get hyperbloom)
    -Tighnari (Good DPS + does Dendro, which helps to get hyperbloom)
    – Wanderer (helps to spread the elementaries + has some juicy DPS)

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  4. This tier list pretty close to my experience. Would move Layla up to Very good with Itto. She really shines when Zohngli is on the other side. I would move put Alhaithem next to Keqing in very good because they have very similar perfomance if you dont optimise play and rotations (personally it's probably a skill thing but i have trouble keeping 3 mirrors up).

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  5. In my opinion i think eula should be at least "not bad" cuz she may lack in reactions but she can deal millions of damage and she also carried my acc, pair her with raiden then everything dies.

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  6. I already know this guy has never actually played childe, (the way he is supposed to be played) and it showed throughout the video. From the way he explained childe's 'long cooldowns' to the way he compared childe and ayato. You might be surprised to know that childe does far more damage in international than ayato if you double swirl hydro and pyro and vape his ult while standing in benny ult. Its something you probably never tried but im just here to correct you, maybe one day you try and you understand. But yeah, i loved how you also compared him to xingqui and yelan in international too, with the 'xingqui can do the same thing'. Um no 💀, they dont even come close to childe's high nukes (at c0, ofcourse at c6 yelan is better). Then I laughed at how you said candace did 200k, which is higher than childe. I have a c0 childe with a 5* bow and he has does 1.1 million damage (in abyss, not on clickbait scara boss etc.). There were some other characters you ended up rating lower than they shouldve been and some higher than they shouldve been. Like kaveh (although i havent personally played him at c6, so maybe im wrong about that one), i truly dont understand how you rated him there, hes the most dogshit dendro character out of the ones we have, i would rather play any other one. And kaeya too, i could tell you have never used a kaeya at c6 (trust me he is far better than rosaria even at c6 and its not even close). As for baizhu, i think you should always rate characters at their base powerlevel? regardless of whether a ''yao yao exists''. Its true that she exists but baizhu is basically a 5* version of her, with a dmg buffing ability unlike yaoyao (her 15% dendro dmg doesnt really count in my eyes). You know how stupid it would be to rate yelan in 'not bad' just cuz 'xingqui exits'. Its very stupid, and im not sayin baizhu is as good as yelan, not by a long shot but he is definitely a good upgrade over yaoyao. Then rating him so much lower just cuz an alternative 4* exists is mind boggling to me and i dont know what you were thinking when making this tier list. Most of the placements i do agree with but some were so absurd i just had to comment. I do understand you probably havent played every character in the game for a long enough period of time to know how well they perform in their specified roles, but thats what it usually takes to create an unbiased tier list.

    im an ar60 veteran player so if you (any other commenter idfk) wanna argue with me, plz know your shiiit first.

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  7. Just a question to whoever reads it, I need some honest answers
    Is C0 Raiden really worth it?
    The only place where I use electro is Alhaitham Nahida hyperboom and it's fulfilled really well by Kuki being the hyperbloom trigger and healer together
    Rest of my teams are Ayaka Freeze ( No Shenhe, No Kokomi), Ganyu Melt, Nilou Nahida bloom (Yao Yao, Xingqiu)
    I did use Beidou for some time with my Tighnari (somehow he procs Beidou burst even with CA) and that's it…

    I maybe completely wrong but isn't just National or Hyperbloom her only team at C0
    I face no problem with my current roster at all so is Raiden really worth it for me?
    I'd rather wanna get Yae Miko some day if I be honest because I feel she is more versatile

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  9. I can tell that u have never played the childe international team before just by your take. Childe has massive aoe due to his riptides and his hydro application is faster than both yelan and xingqiu. On top of that he contributes to roughly 40 percent of the damage on that team.

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  10. At this point of game I agree with the list that you have made because we are at a point that every character has become preferential. In my case got all characters as I collect them but then it has became preferential with how I want to play the game. Honestly never used Hu tao till recently and she is strong but not my cup of tea. Baizhu provides more survivability than Zhongli in like abyss 12 where those beast can easily shatter even a 54k hp shield bot Zhongli. Itto for new players have a far more easier combo and easy to get high damage from him. Bennet, Xiangling, & Yelan are indeed strong but can have the same outcome with Al Haitham, Kuki, Xinqui, & Yaoyao.

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  12. Let's cut some of the crap surrounding this misinformation regarding Childe value and contributions.

    "The role of Hydro enabling can be performed by Xingqiu/Kokomi/Mona/Barbara/Yelan"

    While It’s true that all of these characters can be Hydro enablers, they don’t perform even remotely as strongly at enabling as Childe, especially within the International Team. They’re limited by an internal cooldown on their application, a lower range on their attacks and in some cases, a single-target application or limited turret mobility.

    Childe is the strongest enabler in AoE situations and has 8 independent sources of Hydro application, with some of them having no effective ICD. Many of these come from his Riptide mechanic, a status effect applied by Childe that scales quadratically with the number of enemies in a small area. This means that if there’s one enemy, a melee attack (Riptide Slash) triggers one instance of damage, 2 enemies trigger 4 instances, 3 enemies trigger 9 instances, and so on.

    Childe’s personal damage is also higher than that of other Hydro enablers, with the exception of Xingqiu/Yelan in single-target situations. In multi-target situations, Childe’s damage SIGNIFICANTLY pulls ahead.

    "cHiLdE’s jUsT aN eNaBlEr fOr XiAnGliNg"

    This ties in with a widespread ignorance and confusion over Childe’s role in his teams. He’s BOTH a DPS and an enabler.
    The damage contribution between Childe and Xiangling in International team is from around 40:60 to 50:50, with a large chunk of Childe’s damage coming from his Vaporised burst.
    Take out Childe from the equation as the Hydro Enabler, not only do you lose a significant amount on DMG from the Hydro Slot, but you also lose so much of Xiangling's DMG since the replacement Hydro Enabler won't be capable enough to apply the hydro application needed to vape her burst.

    You can downplay Childe's value all day, but regardless there is a reason why Childe International has stayed within uncontested Top 3 teams within Abyss during the teams history thus far, with the fastest clear times. The Synergy between Childe and Xiangling is some of the best the game has to offer, Childe International will continue to stand firm at the top with the rest of the best.

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  14. Thundering Furry Razor is actually pretty good and definitely worth considering if you need an aoe Dendro based team and you don't like using Thoma (I think Thundering Furry is better than Thoma's burgeon, but it also uses more important characters).

    Xingqiu is better than Yelan; more hydro application, longer hydro application.

    Sucrose is on par with Kazuha, and is better in EM only teams.

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  17. It's crazy that characters like bennet, xiangling, xinqiu etc are preserved so well over time, there are 5* characters that I took out at the time and I no longer use them or they are out of the meta

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  19. I honestly feel like you are underrating and underselling Beidou mad hard. She’s one of the best 4 stars in the game and will remiss that way cause she has such high scaling/damage plus support capabilities that most don’t have. The fact she has such reliable and high aoe damage with her burst w/ the addition of damage reduction/small shield makes it even better. Plus her energy issues isn’t a big deal since it’s easily fixable and people over exaggerate that as a big problem. On top of that she gets buffed from dendro more so that other electro units cause not only does it make her damage on counter and storm breaker ridiculous she works on all electro related teams.

    For example in a hyper bloom team because she does hit the bloom cores at all with her burst it makes her much better than other options just cause she doesn’t need to change builds. This makes her more reliable in making sure the other electro partner with massive EM hit the cores instead.

    Beidou has been the most underrated character in the game and it’s upsetting to see people keep putting her lower than where she should be. She’s always been that 4 star that people tend to undersell cause they forget how much she brings to the table.

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  21. Sucrose and baizhu should atleast be in the 2nd highest tier ngl. Also i think childe should atleast be on par with yoimiya or higher. Alhaitham is probably better than hu tao ngl and he doesnt require as much investment. One last thing is that xinqui should be in the highest tier, and also fischl probably

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  24. Yikes, didn’t expect this to be as bad as it is. Horrible takes, new players DO NOT LISTEN, every character in the game can be fun to play or get you through challenging content if you build them right or get them on a synergistic team

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  26. I don’t think nilou belongs in the “unique” tier, probably supera strong. I get where it’s coming from but there’s a major difference between nilou and the other chars of that tier: teams are built specifically around her. “Nilou bloom” is a team, but shenhe and Sara are just members of Ayaka freeze and Raiden hyper carry respectively.

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  27. I don't think Wanderer is really any better than Xiao though, I think he might have a little higher damage output but he feels so much more squishy than Xiao who already IS very squishy to the point where it really feels very even between the two.

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  28. I agree with most of the characters but there are some that you definitely underestimate. These are:
    – Fischl: she deals half of the teams dps in an aggravate team!
    – Xingqiu: he is better than Yelan and if not than he is as good as Yelan
    – Sucrose: I'm not kidding when I say that her buff especially with ttds can be better than kazuha's but she has not the best grouping so she and kazuha are similar in strength.
    – Beidou: You should put her in the unique tier cuz she she is so incredible strong against exactly 2 enemys and she is still ok against more. If not unique than very good- supera strong
    – Ballz (Kaeya): is the best cryo battery (in freez teams) and deals quite a lot of offield dmg so at least 1 tier higher.
    – Xiao: he's just better than his counter part wanderer so it doesn't make sence that he is lower rated.
    – Baizhu: he is not better than yaoyao but he is decent.
    – Barbara: I don't wana say she is as good as Kokomi, cuz she definitely isn't, but she is quite good in Nilou teams and you don't play circle impact.
    – Razor: I agree on the phisical razor, but he is very good in thundering furry (xingqiu, nahida, c6 benett, em-razor), but I guess you didn't know this team.
    – Eula: she is bad, I agree, but not as bad as qiqi.
    – Heizou: He is ok in taser teams. He's not that good but definitely not thrash tier.

    And these are the characters that you overestimated:
    – Ganyu: power creeped by ayaka. Her dps role is kinda dead, so all that's left is her burst who is a very powerful one but not enough for supera strong. more like very good.
    – Yoimiya: Hu tao is just way better and for single target there is hyperbloom.
    – Kaveh: his numbers and app are bad and he has no offfield presence.
    – Amber: elegy doesn't make her good she is really bad tier at least.
    – Mika: He can't even support eula! he is one of the worst units in this game.
    – Shenhe: her first con does nothing, cuz if you make this rotation: shenhe e+q, kazuha e+q, kokomi e thrilling tales to ayaka, ayaka skill+dash+burst+one or 2 charge attacks and when you now swap back to shenhe her skill should be just off cooldown. And you may say that you loose 1 or 2 ayaka charge atacks, but they don't matter, cuz they do basically no dmg compared to her burst.

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