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Imo hydro traveler also has worst and most boring animations in game.
The only character on here that I can't agree with is Ningguang, mainly because I still use her lol so I'm completely biased. Though I have built the other characters except Amber and they all have too many downsides.
As a main dps, she is good. Though yes, there are many options for dps and you can only have one on a team. The nice thing about her is you can just use her as a burst dps. She only really needs less than 5 seconds of field time to dish out most of her damage. She can be paired with Navia or Noelle for a double geo team where either Noelle is the dps or she switches with Navia.
She is a bit redundant as of now if you have Navia though, because she just doe more upfront damage, but you can always use them together.
Imo dehya is worse than ningguang
Ningguang my wife 💔💔💔
Sorry man, Ningguang top 10 worst? Really???? Even in her nish the boss deal absurds ammount of damage, yea she needs cons but even bennet need his c1 to do anything. How can Candace, Dori, Collei, even Barbara escape this list?
i mean amber would also be a good fk buddy right?
Ningguang was my first main and I've been rebuilding her with Nighttime Whispers artifacts. She's much better now! Still trash, and I would never bother using her in Spiral Abyss, but I've been having a lot of fun exploring Chenyu Vale with her as my main DPS again.
The saddest part of qiqi is that she got to be a 5* when ning got 4*
It breaks my heart to see ninnguang here. But yeah, the more we go on, everyone get some buff here and there but she never got nothing (esp since she’s geo and atk scaling)
I actually use Xinyan as a shielder for my Hu Tao. Is it optimal, no. But I enjoy it
Hot take: ninguang is actually a really decent support for an f2p navia team (ascension 4 talent gives geo dmg) and she produces a nice amount of geo particles
Fuck the preambles and trying to not step on any toes; FUCK your favorite character, they're shit!
Just levelled Amber, for the against the odds gameplay and a travelling party. Let's wait for mihoyo to release some narrow artifact set that quadruples explosives and even she will shine.
Would love to see a part 2 of this vid.
Dehya is just barely staying iut of this list thanks to Lyney making her actually viable. Otherwise yeah, she def would've replaced Qiqi.
While your general assessments of the characters were correct, some of your specific claims were incorrect. I'll just go through them by character:
1. Ningguang is as you said pretty bad as an a sustained on-field damage character relative to the other options, but not that there is Navia she actually has a role that she is not quite as bad in as a quick swap battery/crystalize generator/damage dealer in those teams. She benefits from the buffers that Navia has and has reasonable front loaded damage while the crystalize, energy, and geo resonance provides good value for the team as a whole. Once again she is not generally good, but she does now have a niche where she works reasonably well.
2. Qiqi does have a problematic kit and alone she is practically never justified because her kit is so focused on healing and nothing else, but to say that "Furina has elevated the situation of almost every healer, but Qiqi is one of the few who really [was not elevated]" is simply incorrect. While still not going to be the best healer for a given team assuming you have access to any character and the artifacts you need to make them work, she still is inherently more valuable after Furina as she can enable Furina's buff (effectively her kit now does something other than healing). It isn't enough to make her better than other 'team heal while on field' characters, but that is now a niche that is actually valuable because of Furina. I.e. though she is not the best character in the game for that role, that role has become significantly more valuable, and thus, Qiqi has become significantly more valuable.
3. "Only there's not a single team that capitalizes on Amber's type of application": this is false. While you are correct to notice that Xiangling's sustained, no-ICD off-field application (and the damage in its own right) is extremely powerful (especially because she is the only unit that does well in the game right now), not all teams benefit from sustained copious off-field pyro application–Amber's current niche where she remains somewhat relevant. Specifically Amber because her burst applies large amounts of pyro in a short time frame and then doesn't do anything over time it is useful in high investment VV-vape Hu Tao teams. This is generally not relevant for most people but in things like speed running she is actually very valuable here because she can hold/proc Elegy, Instructor, give pyro res, and also her C6 which gives an additional 15% ATK–all while quickly wiping any hyrdo aura to enable a pyro swirl and not interfereing with Hu Tao after. Does this mean she is a generally good as Xiangling? Of course not. But she is also not just a tutorial character: she still has a niche role that she excels at.
I forgot most of the characters that he listed by the end of the video 💀💀. That's how u know they're bad
I agree 100% with everything you've said. As a Eula main…your joke was funny :3
Tbh qiqi with chongyun and furina can dish out some pretty crazy numbers
I've had Xinyan as my main DPS since her release, I've definitely put a lot of time and effort into her. Also a bit of money too, to R5 Itto's weapon for her where my saved primogems only got me to R4.
She might not be the strongest, but she's the most fun character to use for me. I like the simplicity of her kit as well as her awesome character (wish they'd show us more of it than just her love of music), and I've never really noticed an issue with the stat splits. Early on whilst I was still levelling my AR, I ran her with maximum Energy Recharge because I liked the idea of 100% shield uptime that I could get from her. (A single hit with her Skill would give 100% of her Burst back without fail with that old build) but over time I started properly building units and no longer had to rely on Klee/Sucrose (DPS) to solo everything for me, to which Xinyan kicked Klee off the team and took her spot as slot 1 on the team when she was previously slot 4.
The only character I own that can outdamage my Xinyan without help at this point is my C6 Furina, but I mean… that's obvious.
I like the concept of specific teams of units to maximise damage in theory, but I hate the actual gameplay of it. I want every one of my characters to be able to deal enough damage on their own to handle overworld enemies, rather than just being used for their skill/burst and then swapping them out for the damage dealer.
It's led to a lot of characters just being built as pure/mostly physical DPS; like Shenhe, Kuki Shinobu and most all 4* sword characters, Dori, Collei, Kujou Sara, etc.
Sure, I can't brag about how my main DPS can deal 500k damage after 10 seconds of setup and as many food items as will fit, but at least I can actually beat a Treasure Hoarder 1v1 with these "support characters" and that's what makes the game fun for me!
the only bad part about ning is that she's geo, otherwise she's a really solid dps character who does great geo damage. the other geo dps units are infusion based AND limited 5 stars
the only bad part about qiqi is that she doesn't regen energy on skill. other than that she's the best healer in the game bar none
xinyan is glitched and doesn't work properly
amber's main issue is that her taunt is ass and her burst aoe is a very tiny circle. plus there's better supports like thoma and c6 xiangling (no, bennett is not a good support. never was)
candace is awful because she's basically a much worse beidou instead of having candace be a really good dps/a secondary xingqiu
nilou is awful because she only wants to be in a double dendro double hydro, and since dendro is the second worst element in the game with barely any good units that aren't 5 stars, she's very lack luster
venti is the WORST limited 5 star, or at least one of the worst. his skill knocks enemies back instead of scooping them up, and his burst lifts them up in to the air making it almost impossible to hit the enemies unless you have a specific character that can land attacks that high
i'd say mona is the worst standard banner 5 star. her hydro application sucks, she's a taunt and taunts don't work at all in this game/work well at all, and she's very tricky to use properly, but why would you go through that effort when xingqiu is right there
i find it a bit unfair you're showing off limited 5 star units and comparing them to standard 4 stars. better examples would've been yan fei, diluc, thoma, etc. not everyone has access to the limited characters you know
I really love Xinyan, but her Elemental Skill is bugged since 1.1!
She needs to be fixed and she needs a artifact set that makes her shine
Ning is not good but I would say Dori is worse and should have her spot.
its a shame how bad xinyan is. She is cool
They did Xinyan, Dehya, Candace dirty..
Xinyan:
– If only they made her a solely Pyro DPS, she would have had more uses, cuz Pyro + Physical just doesn't work because Overload mess with Supercondt..
– Atk / Def Scaling is fine, cuz Noelle and Itto are fine.. and for her shield, she can just use Unforged or Redhorn, or have a 2nd shielder and ignore hers..
Dehya:
– if only they focus her on only 1 role, possibly her tanking..
– and make her either go; HP Attacker, full on tank support, or Burgeon enabler
Just one of these 3, and she will become a decent characters
Candace:
– She is basically a worse Yunjin, and even yunjin is too niche, but at least she is good at it..
– she literally has a shield and a village guardian, why not focus her as a shielder? Instead of just having a shield counter only for her..
– imagine NA Buffer + Shield, she will be used more..
– nd change her C6 from waves on a small aoe around the active char, to blasting a water wave to an enemy.. since it doesnt active too fast, Xingqiu and Yelan are still better for dmg..
At least Ningguang, Qiqi & Amber has fixed playstyle since the beginning that doesn't contradict their kit or feels weak..
Ningguang is still considered one of the good 4 star dps..
Amber Baron Bunny does high dmg, and she is good with Elegy as a support (the problem is her cons)
And Qiqi is literally made to be an onfield healer like barbara.. and since we have clam set now, it's not so bad, as she can still deal decent dmg while healing in hyperbloom teams..