A video essay explaining why Bennett’s strengths are so compatible with Genshin’s combat mechanics to the point where he is going to be a top tier character probably forever.
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Intro: 0:00
Bennett’s Strengths: 1:20
Unnerfable (Indirectly Through Content): 2:31
Attack Buffing Abilities: 5:12
Xingqiu Being “Replaced: by Yelan: 7:35
The Implications of Being Irreplaceable: 8:43
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Great video! You talked about some of his downsides, but I would like to mention a few that you didn’t, which do impact me when I play with Bennett, and could even be targeted to decrease his viability in the future.
First off, he only heals the active character. Now, that might not seem like a huge issue, but it has caused some pain and a few character deaths in the Spiral Abyss for me, especially with certain new mechanics like corrosion. The problem is that all of my party is losing hp, but only one of them is getting healed, unless I purposefully swap to them and wait a few seconds, which is weird and annoying to do. Another problem is that certain characters have too much HP to make this strategy practical, like my Zhongli with 55k HP. Corrosion drains a percentage of his HP, which can’t be quickly healed back by my Bennett. Then, in the time it takes to hold his skill, Zhongli dies from corrosion.
In this regard, more effects that drain from off-field characters could actually nerf Bennett, since a lot of other healers can heal off-field characters. Kuki Shinobu, Diona, and Bennett are the only healers who can’t.
Secondly, Bennett’s ATK buff from his burst only applies to the active character. This means that off-field characters who don’t snapshot won’t have access to the buff, although they can still benefit from 4p Noblesse Oblige and pyro resonance. For example, Yae Miko’s skill does not snapshot, so they won’t benefit from the buff from Bennett’s burst unless she’s on the field, which she usually won’t be. By making future characters have off-field damaging abilities that don’t snapshot, Bennett‘s viability with those characters decreases.
Thirdly, Bennett buffs ATK, and not all characters scale off of ATK. You mentioned this in the video, but I think it could be a bigger problem in the future for Bennett lovers. Yelan, for example, won’t benefit from Bennett’s buff, but she will benefit from Sucrose’s or Kazuha’s buffs, which could mean running them instead of Bennett. There might even be a future pyro character who buffs dmg bonus similarly to how Bennett buffs ATK, which could make them more viable in certain teams that Bennett. This won’t necessarily make him less broken with current characters, but who knows? Maybe a really powerful character who doesn’t scale off of ATK will come along, and work really well in a team with Yelan and Albedo, making an anti-Bennett team, haha!
Fourthly, Bennett only heals in a small AOE. You mentioned this in the video, but I don’t think you put enough importance on it. Again, I’ll bring up corrosion, since Rifthounds are a good example of something that makes me want to swap Bennett out for Barbara. Rifthounds move around a lot and teleport all over the place, making it harder to hit them with Bennett’s skill to regenerate energy. My Bennett has well over 200% er, so that isn’t the issue. It’s the enemies. On top of that, once I get his burst up and use it, assuming I’m not dead from corrosion, the Rifthounds fly out of my range. My Yoimiya’s range. When that happens, my only options are to sit and wait for the Rifthounds to come back, or to run out of Bennett’s circle and risk dying from corrosion.
The worst part is that this is isn’t just with Rifthounds. Having to run out of Bennett’s AOE happens with a lot of enemies, especially with certain teams that deal a lot of stagger damage. Small Geovishaps, Whopperflowers, Apecters, and a lot of bosses like to move out of range. Large Geovishaps and smaller enemies get knocked back easily by certain reactions and certain attacks, which sends me chasing after them and out of Bennett’s AOE. However, that doesn’t necessarily make them annoying to fight in general, it just makes them more annoying to fight with Bennett and other circle impact characters. There’s also Treasure Hoarders, who usually spawn far away from each other in the Spiral Abyss, which also isn’t annoying in and of itself, but can become annoying when I’m using Bennett.
This came out a bit longer than I expected, but thanks for reading it! Again, your video is great! No hate to it, you brought up some pretty good points! Have a nice day! 😀
Xingqiu got replaced by Yelan and Benet will be replaced by another white haired pyro waifu. It's inevitable. Difference is that her C6 will not overwrite others elemental attacks and maybe only infuse their physical attacks if they have any with pyro. Also she could heal all the time and not only when your character is under 50%, making Benet probably the worst healer in the game. He is great on other stuff but he literally heals zero when your character is over 50% HP, and literally all other healers heal at all % of HP. Plus C6 Barbara and C6 Qiqi literally have the power to revive fallen characters. His healing is bad in general, it's just, mediocre under 50% not bad, but in total it's bad, actually the worst healing. He is kit is definitely flawed. People do not see it yet because there is zero alternative. Two years ago Razor was seen as one of the best main DPS characters in a time where there were less than 10 main DPS characters, so there was no real competition. In Benet's case is even worse, because it's literally just him, he competes with noone, thus people think his kit is great. Despite in Ayaka, Eula, Ganyu teams you can add Shenhe or C6 Rosaria, in Hu Tao teams you add Yelan and Xingqiu. In Shogun teams you can add Kujou Sara, in Geo teams you add Gorou, Zhongli and Albedo. He is a pyro character and he isn't even meta in pyro teams. They made his kit as much as vanilla as possible at C5 to be medioce and then at C6 as a bad pyro support. But he looks good as there is literally only Xiangling as another pyro support ans she is much better at C6 than his C6. He was already outclassed by Xiangling from the beginning.
the only way i see bennetts usage drop slightly is if/when they add more dendro enemies in abyss
one other thing that can go unnoticed is that alongside just using VV against heavy enemies, venti also still provides 15 flat energy to party members of the element his burst infuses with. Albeit difficult at times to consistently infuse, the use of self application of elements with Bennett or Diona can help.
Bennett is like god he once came and made everything possible and just left and there is no second coming of it!
Bennet is definitely and F2P and Whale's favorite alike for the value he brings. Only thing that could ruin him is if Hoyoverse suddenly makes enemies that applies Dendro on players and causes them to burn instead of getting buffed. That or they bring in new enemies that dispel all buffs once every so often.
ehh, i replaced him ages ago.
Bro genshin starting to release hp based characters and sooner or later Bennett would probably be replaced
5:04 hu tao moment everybody
6:08 you are missing Shenhe from this chart, although she is only for cryo, her damage boosting is for cryo only, it can be better than bennet
Now that they made a " 5 star Xingqiu" they could also add a 5 star bennet.
nobody will use bennet when his 5 star waifu version comes out
Or hoyoverse can just decide to make character with a yelan type scaling which totally ignore atk making benett useless
i agree with 90% of your points in this video but saying bennett can buff entire party but sara cannot is not fully correct. in order to buff whole party, all members have to snapshot his buff. however, sara can buff 3 party members simultaneously (her included). this is why hyv made raiden, miko and the majority of inazuma characters unable to snapshot, so they could work well with sara other than bennett
They dont want to make a strong character so bennet will have a really long meta time, look at Kuki as an example, cant believe she is a modern character, who normally support to kick the old characters out of meta, like other game often does.
Bennet is also the only good Pyro battery for XL which is the ONLY strong Sub Pyro DPS . "Free" Energy recharge stats from ascension, access to 4* with high base attack, only needs HP and ER stats on artifacts, low ULT downtime, amazing healing, insane synergy of passives and constellation, and only needing to Crown his Ult while ignoring every other skill talent. He's the perfect support character.
That being said, I'm 95% sure Bennet, Fischl, Xingqiu, and Beidou were wrongly tuned because they are staple units in every team comps even after 2 years lol. (Game was too new, not enough gameplay or testers before launch)
Qiqi is 5*
Bennett is 4*
Yes he will when they release the waifu 5 star version XD
I think it would be fun to get hp bennett, he would increase max hp so we could have a buffer for Yelan, burst Ayato, Shinobu etc. (Ofc the scaling should be balanced but i think we need hp bennie at least in a tier)
If only he knew how much the fandom loves him UGH 😭
My triple crown Benny was doing 140k in co op and someone asked if I would trade for their Hu Tao…I said no way
you could totally indirectly nerf him further down the line, introduce a status that that cuts base attack and not other stats
of course this would probably require more characters like yelan to exist that can deal damage without attack stats
alternatively, you could also make the cut base attack convert into attack% somehow (maybe every 1 point of cut base attack is 0.25% more attack percent?), or just make attack% more effective
The only way Bennett will get power crept is if they make 2 characters that do what Bennett does and better, which is probably gonna take a while for that to happen
If we get someone on par w Benny… that just means I can put them on the team Benny's not on in abyss… this is an absolute win. I've always wanted two Bennys!
If they release a better bennett , they would just run the better character with bennett and completely break the game.
Me who is still bennetless
If Genshin even adds a dev team for adjusting older characters, the easiest way to nerf Bennett would probably be getting rid of his c1 and/or switching the placement of his c6 to his c1.
Baido sukros xq benny got the most spike out of all
Only thing that will power creep benny will be murata. Arons r made with their element resonens. Ei-electro-er. And big pp q dmg. Zl ei venti Q. As we saw mihoyo merged fischel and beido into ei. I.e e skill er but and big pp aoe slash and single target and genral er on dmg steroids. So murata will be more atk buffer than bennet. Pyro infusion nd and aoe pyro dmg of xiangling. But u dont have er issue like xiangling. Atk buff one and big pp q dmg, u get pyro arcon.
c6?
They being moving enemies. Fis and ganyu will get a direct buff. Even yoimia can get buff. Melt ganyu with kazuha or sunfire will be op. Vv ganyu zl shield benny sunfire and snipe away the mobiles bitch. We already shit like it .eg kingky electo oceanid, gold wolve lord and ruin serpent. Yelan is not that good on herself. Xq-yelan is her best slot. C0 yelan is way worse than c6 xq.
They could add a mechanic that is similar to corrosion but it effects your energy.
Can't wait for a character who buffs base atk.
How hoyovers nerf Bennett :
Enemy with Hydro – Electro – Dendro attack.
Increase EM of the enemy at the point Overload becomes death sentence
Yelan kind of character.
But in the end of the day, Bennett is indeed a really really good end game character.
Bennett is like Future Princess From Guardian Tales their Irreplaceable and still top tier characters despite being around for so long since the games Release.
Hint: Bennett not needed on non atk scaling team…
Only constant to the original tier list, Amber hahaha. Bennet is what happens when a company doesn´t understand the power of player focus to maximize everything.
Thanks for the video.
Yeah…my Bennet will stay lv 20 (for the quick easy blue fate) til the end of days, never seeing a party.
I tend to put their overall design, weapon, and personality over their gameplay, so he was already at a rough start, so why play someone I’m not a fan of? Lol
He reminds me of a “standard main character” for a video game or anime, which doesn’t do it for me.
xinqiu has been replaced, so bennet will be soon as well
How to nerf Bennett: switching his 1st and 6th constellations 💀
No for real i love benny boy and he's in almost all my teams but the "dmg" boost he gives is not exactly dmg but rather an atk boost who only benefits atk scaling characters (yes i know there are plenty) but hoyoverse seems to be releasing more and more split or not atk scaling characters making Bennett a little less useful in new teams, he would be completely useless with yelan main dps (in terms of buffing) and he's healing alone isn't a good enough reason to keep him on the team with characters that doesn't benefit from atk buffs.
I mainly use xiao and raiden so benny is my favourite support and i don't have yelan either or any characters that scales off anything other than atk so i value him a lot.
Cool vid! And plz hoyoverse don't take my first sentence seriously lmoa
Before Yelan I joked about the Hydro Archon being C6 Xingqiu with Steelbreaker as a C1, now seeing Yelan’s constelations I’m back to believing that yeah, Pyro Archon is just going to be C5 Bennett + C1 Hu Tao or something stupid like that.
Genshin Dev's with nerfing powers: hmm what did you say?
v2.9 patch
bennet does no heals and damage
i thnk if mihoyo wnat to nerf him the heal decresee to 50%
Bennet will always be meta regarding characters in the current pool, he will slowly be worked out teams when newer characters have better synergy with other newer characters
yelan dont need bennette
His only problem is his C6, which for some players, including myself, is not actually a problem.
Bennett is already declining. There is already someone who buffs more than Bennett for pretty much every character, which is why he is much less used now.
Im ar56 and I STILL don’t have Bennett(literally I have five 5stars and still no Bennett)
I just got ti the point that I don’t care about him anymore.
Him: you need a healer.
Me, a Hu Tao main: I do not think so.