Yaoyao seems pretty good but only in some spots. Is she just another sub par AND niche 4 star? Let’s see.
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Was waiting for this! I'll be picking up Yaoyao from the Liyue 4-star pick (assuming she's including) regardless, but these were kinda my thoughts, too. What do you think about her burst ending her E skill? Does that make her more of a pain to play or do you think the duration lasts long enough that it won't be noticeable anyway?
I might need her to pair with Tighnari if I don't use someone like Kuki
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She's tricky with lots of potential builds depending on what constellation you have on her.
I plan to get her. With the leaks on Dehya's kit, I think she'll be a great member for my burgeon team. Her/Dehya/XQ/Yelan or Nahida
all of the sumeru and non-sumeru characters have seemed to be flying under the radar, even 5*s. 3.0 characters have been useless, niche, or weak. it sucks because now four stars truly are four stars no crazy animations and sub-par usage/needs in teams. it’s becoming the same story with each character and yaoyao seems to be another four star to the inazuma and sumeru list.
She seems pretty useful honestly. I've been wanting a dendro unit with some role consolidation. Even just at c1 she can buff spread dps, heal and hold deepwood. A little sad that she has to stay on field during her burst, but it is only 5 seconds, and only used for emergencies. Since she likely won't need to burst every rotation you can spec mainly into HP and Black Tassel becomes a useful weapon. She definitely seems like a shoe-in for Nilou bloom teams but I'm hoping she can be a healer/buffer/debuffer in a spread/aggravate team with Tighnari/Yae or Keqing/Fischl. I really love both of those teams but don't want to be forced to bring Nahida and the defensive slot is hard to fill at the moment. Hopefully she will allow for a strong hyperbloom team on one side and a strong aggravate/spread on the other in abyss.
ugh, that's too much split scaling.
I guess I'll just go HP/HP/Healing Bonus and conclude she does no damage whatsoever.
Maybe with a bit of EM substats she can at least do bloom but without Dendro% or Crit she'll suck in Quicken which is really her main team (Keqing/Fischl really wants a dendro healer to have one slot open for anemo CC). If only she was a sword user for Harbinger of Dawn to fix the crit part then HP/Dendro/Healing Bonus would be viable for quicken teams but with a spear, nah. Reminds me of Dori, another unit that wants ATK for damage, HP/KB for healing, EM, Crit and DMG% for some reactions but pure EM for others. At least Yaoyao doesn't do circle impact or self-overloading and can do something without ER.
Tighnari studying Alhaitham at 13:18 ahaha
thank you for this very in-depth description. I'm glad she's a non-burst dependent healer, that's what I like on all my 4* supports, I'll just give her the black tassel and slam my existing 4 piece deepwood on her. I was expecting a dendro healer for my Nahida quicken team, for the dendro resonance, for the dendro shred from deepwood and because I have fischl and beidou in the team instead of Kuki.
I mean we've been needing a defensive dendro support for a while and honestly her utility and role consolidation outweighs her lack of damage imo. Plus in a lot of teams, especially hyperbloom or burgeon, just having readily consistent dendro application is all you really need to generate the seeds since you proc the secondary reaction with another character anyways. I don't think Yaoyao will be anything groundbreaking, she is a 4 star healer so obviously she's not going to have the same DPS or healing performance as Nahida or Kokomi especially if you're comparing Yaoyao at C0 to limited banner 5stars but I don't think that makes her "niche".
Personally I just prefer playing with a healer or reliable shielder so finally having one of those for the dendro roster is a plus for me and I'm planning on just building her on 4p tenacity or deepwood and probably slap homa on her if I wanna try building her for some damage kinda similar to Zhongli. She opens up more team options and I'm always here for trying out different team comps!
reeewind; You forgot Burngeon was literally in her drip marketing. She seems a little too perfect for a Hu Tao comp. Even giving Stamina back to the party? C'mon how'd you miss it? LOL
I don’t use characters if the animations are goofy. I just don’t think it’s a good look for Al-Haitham while he attacks to have Pikachu throwing vegetables around. Not joking, animations are a dealbreaker for me.
I get the comparison with kokomi and tht she is slightly worse off in the utility department. But please don't forget that kokomi is a limited 5 star and yaoyao is not.
I lot of people were saying they were going to make YaoYao their main DPS as a joke, but with her abilities and how they're intended to work, I can actually see some Burst DPS YaoYaos out there making it work, lol
I want her with tigh thas all and I don’t want to always be in struggle in dendro teams since i only have tigh and travel( collei who we don’t know her) so I’m desperate for dendro healer
I think stamina restoration is anything but useless. Even now there are characters that could benefit from stamina restore whether in battle or exploration.
Bro literally compares 4 star to kokomi
SHE ADORABLE IDC IF SHEE GOOD
So Beizou will have snakes that heal and do damage… I’m waiting for Beizou.
my friend runs nilou+nahida, so I gotta run dendro mc+barbara … is yaoyao a better healer than barbara in that comp?
We need more healer mommies
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only thing i disagree with is saying the spread dpses are better with deepwood. i’d still put deepwood on someone else on the team, like a zhongli or kuki shinobu. stuff like gilded will still and always be better for haitham or tighnari’s personal damage if you can get them on dps sets.
I would argue that comparing her to Barbara instead of Kokomi would make more sense. We can't expect a 4 star to be as good as a 5 star
How disappointing. Thank you for review; was really hoping for a solid dendro support.
Were you expecting any new character to be good? It’s just another useless 4 star.
I don’t want her at all. But the fact that she’s getting thrown in Alhaitham’s banner and the combination of me not wanting her, I can bet the game will give me her several times..