You know the answer, everybody knows the answer I can't take it anymore. I'm sick of Xiangling. I try to play Diluc. My Xiangling deals more damage. I try to play Yoimiya. My Xiangling deals more damage. I try to play Cyno. My Xiangling deals more damage. I don't even try to play Dehya. I want to play Klee. Her best team has Xiangling. I want to play Raiden, Childe - they both want Xiangling. She grabs me by the throat. I fish for her. I cook for her. I give her the Catch. She isn't satisfied. I pull Engulfing Lightning. "I don't need this much er" She tells me. "Give me more field time." She grabs Bennett and forces him to throw himself off enemies. "You just need to funnel me more. I can deal more damage with Homa." I can't pull for Homa, I don't have enough primogems. She grabs my credit card. It declines. "Guess this is the end." She grabs Gouba. She says "Gouba, get them." There is no hint of sadness in her eyes. Nothing but pure, no icd pyro application. What a cruel world.

the lv 100 baptist being the most chill enemy in the abyss was the twist of the century lmao

I wanna see a Hoyo dev attempt this Abyss so either 1. I can see how they imagined doing it or 2. so they can experience how awful this attempt that a "challenge" was.

I really like that they make you use different teams than the usual meta ones with the weird combination of elements required, but i hate the enemy attack patterns, this would be much more fun if the abyss heralds didn't permafreeze/one shot you and the consecrated beasts didn't stunlock you and tossed you around for years

PSA reminder: beidou + xingqiu have ~70% damage reduction combined, as well as shields and heals. If you're struggling with second half, just throw these two with nahida/LaHaitham aand fischl or kuki and you should be bueno even if you have the situational awareness of a kebab

once again, i feel like i say this every time a meta roundup is published, but the editing of the waves/placements and how to manipulate the enemies movement visually is sooo well done. lots of love to the editor(s).esp sam and or buggo, great job you do.

For floor 2, I heavily advise if you got electro, fill the chicken rage meter then IMMEDIATELY run behind him, this’ll greatly reduce the chance of him using the move where he run around the field; for thunder manifestation, the key move of it is the sweeping (animation look like it boutta slap you), let this hit you with i-frame burst, basically let it “hit” your hit-box or else it gonna dash away pretty far!

One thing you didn't mention is that Nilou Bloom can clear the second half reasonably fast if driven by Kaveh thanks to the most forgotten reaction: Shatter, that removes 4U of Cryo, which is as much as a Bennett skill. That also lets you run Nahida on the second side.

God this abyss is aaaass. . .

I love to hear ur videos like podcasts, pls keep the long video streak lol

i come to your videos to learn about the game cuz i love the way you explain it but then at some point while watching i zone out cuz i just like your voice and end up rewatching the video multiple times lmao

I DID IT! Jeez these tips helped out so much. Last rotation I had so much trouble but this time around Zajef's tips carried me through it.

Thanks for all the ideas and status on teams, last couple abysses have just gotten harder and harder so I've been trying to strike a mix between keeping my meta units up to snuff while also branching out and trying whackier dendro teams.

The editing visuals in this (and of course Zachef cooking up a storm of information for us. Some of the best Genshin content. Thanks to all involved

This abyss was actually the first one where i had to use different teams on different floors. Cleared floor 2 and 3 pretty comfortably with Ayaka freeze and Hu Tao/Xingqui/Nahida/Zhongli. Struggled a lot in the first floor, but was able to clear with Nilou in the first half and Hu Tao/Xiangling/Bennett/Zhongli.

More difficult, more annoying, more restrictive, more painfull... i dont think they can go further beyond after this one, this is their definitive limit right???

Zajef I become so happy when I see you post

Ironically, this is the farthest I’ve ever gotten in the spiral abyss. I finished the last floor with 6/9 stars

this abyss finally forced me to level + ascend my Xiangling who had been at level 60/70 for the past year 💀💀

i love all of the genshin vids recently, making the game feel much less stale

Zajeff - you're a legend as always!!!

The abyss is so hard that zajeff need to make a 40 minutes video about how to beat the abyss

This Abyss especially I wouldn't be too religious about sticking to one team for all 3 chambers if someone is struggling. If I used Beidou I would make sure I 3* chamber 3 first and use her on A side, then adjust build and clear chamber 1 B side with her as well. That way of thinking is way more efficient if the goal is just getting 36 stars overall.

Much anticipated video

I hope they add a Damage/Contribution Graph or something at the end of the fight to see who does what and how much (i.e how much dmg a characher does, how much healing, how much dmg reduction, and how much shielding).. Also because i want to see which enemy is one shotting my character..

My battle chronicle is a mess this time. After finally 36* a few days ago I ended up with these teams: 12-1-1: Nahida-Nilou-Kokomi-Kirara 12-1-2: Benny-Xiangling-Kazuha-Ayaka (with freeze artifacts >.

I loved the visualiser showing the different floor spawn locations at around 1:10.

amazing job by the editors as usual

Zajef, although I've watched your videos for a long time, I just realized today that you are a very sweet person when you said that thing of the saute team XD

I heckin love Zajef

i had to use alhaitham burning to deal with those haralds to get the 3 stars, and my nahida was being used on the other side. i actually realised when it comes with the terror shroom if it does the dash its possible to dash toward it and angle your self so that it crashes into a wall vary close to it reducing its dash vary short

For Sucrose in aggravate team, I suggest you use Hakushin Ring. It boosts Electro damage by 20% at R5! It helps sucrose to burst more often too.

I did it! Thanks a lot for the tips Zajef! I managed to do the last chamber with Beidou/Kazuha/Fischl/Baizhu in first half and Nahida/Xiangling/Xingqiu/Bennett on second. I finished with 30 extra seconds!!!!

2 super long videos in 2 days holy fuck let’s go

This abyss took me many retries but I eventually got through it with Kazuha, Alhaitham, Fischl and Kokomi first half and Diluc, Thoma, Kuki and Baizhu second half but dang it was painful

I avoid the abyss like the plague, but I adore Zajef, so here we are😊

This was the first abyss in a long time that I've done the reset strat to use different teams for different chambers. It still bothers me that you can do this with the only restriction being that it's so cumbersome, abyss setups like this wouldn't bother me nearly as much if you could easily swap teams for each chamber.

My most comfy clear so far was aggravate side 1 and Reverse melt side 2. Yae, Beidou, Kazuha, Kirara. Rosaria, Xingqiu, Xiangling, Bennet.

hyperbloom w/ beidou deserves a shout, the shield breaking is good and frees fischl for first side.

I've been using a deepwood lisa to provide the dendro shred in a solo dendro alhaitham team (alhaitham, bennet, fischl, lisa) and honestly it just happened to work really well for the baptist. I don't really think its that good of a team but I loved that it ended up being really useful in this abyss lol sidenote: 12-1 second half was surprisingly easy with kazuha, bennet, XL, and ZL. OPPA

I basically cleared each chamber with different teams, Beidou Nahida Kuki Xingqiu and Yelan Xiangling Bennett Jean helped me cleared 12-3 3* (this was a chamber I struggled the most), for first chamber I changed Yelan for Kazuha. When you stay on Bennett circle you are always swirling pyro. Jean is really really good this Abyss. Beidou is also Queen. I tried freeze first half but it was really annoying.

I used a variant of Baizhu aggravate with 4pc clam set in first half and I have to say the extra damage reduction and the small shields Baizhu gives really helped me a lot in this abyss. I used Baizhu fischl beidou kazuha in the first half And nahida Thoma Bennett and Xingqiu in 2nd half because Bennett can heal and provide as a battery for Thoma and surprisingly performed well against thundering manifestation and if dodged well made quick work of first half if you focus on the hydro herald in first half

The frantic clicking of the sped up portions are weirdly funny lol

i prefer this abyss to the last one i can finally use ayaka freeze on first half and just use hyperbloom on the second

Best advice I can give for this abyss is to completely ignore your room 1 time for your first clear as long as you can get through it, and focus on teams that excel at the other two. Then once you clear the full streak with 3 stars in the other rooms you can go back and just bring like Bennett/Xiangling/Sucrose/some other characters that apply a lot of element to shred 12-1-2 pretty easily, and any good enough AoE team for the first side, especially if it has some type of Quicken reaction to break the invisibility

i cant wait to get through this hell again in a week or so :)

I got 34 with units i like and have built fairly well and used to 36 star in the past. I used a few units i hate but have kinda built because they are super strong in the teams i normally use (aka fischl for example) and with 0.5sec left i got 3 star on the first and 3rd chamber as well

This video came like from heaven just as I was struggling in the abyss (RIP my poor nahida)

Just coming back here to say that I actually beat the abyss today! Had to get Zhongli out to prevent my death, but I did it and I feel awesome about it

Nilou Bloom team dropped in usage this cycle. I’ve yet to try this on my own. But I managed to beat this abyss using 4 stars only (Fischl, Yaoyao, Sucrose, Beidou 1st side | Rosaria National 2nd side). It was truly a pain and I hate the fact that one side is locked on having Pyro units. Good thing I C6’ed my Bennett

I found out in this abyss second half its REALLY optimal to have rainbow razor (razor, nahida, bennett, xingqui) or other variations of such, especially with nahida. Then take your best second team in the first! (like hypercarries--kazuha is also great in first half)

I've always liked your videos, but this time is special, you saved my "virtual life" today. I have had my worst runs on the 12th floor since 1.X cicle, and I even failed 11-1 hahahaha. Now I'm 8 stars at least.

thank you Zajef for making me feel better I literally got bullied by other stream's chat for saying this abyss isn't fun lmao Gludge

That editing 1:10 !! That looks super nice

Thank u so much for the information i've managed to 1 phase 36 star as a complete f2p because of u

thak you for this, this abyss is so hard

Thundering Mommy? lol you had me with that one xd

That's great! 🔥🔥🔥

My fully built beidou who's only been used for mining recently is about to get a lot more use. Shame her overload team isn't making a comeback, but i'll take it!

Very grateful for these vids, wouldnt be getting 36 stars without them.

Retriburgeon obliterates this abyss. If you have a built diluc and nahida, GO TO TOWN

Yea my mono pyro Keqing team was stumped this cycle as to what to do. I tried her on both sides and eventually had to get my 36 by doing that. But after many hours put into testing comps to see if I could still play pyro Keqing in this cycle on either side, I found that it seemed viable to play burgeon second side while basically completely ignoring playing burgeon correctly. Just having the comp that causes it without the em stacking on either pyro. And that got 12-1-2 within 2 seconds on the timer so its possible and stomped 12-2-2 and 12-3-2. At the least using Nahida burst also does give you some EM for the burgeon regardless. 12-1-2 does feel pretty bad without Xiangling and Kazuha though. Its annoying trying to keep those shits in line without the grouping and normalized aoe application. But I was very happy I possibly found a way. Could have saved myself some hours if I just read other peoples advice and realized I could even make a burgeon team while remaining pyro. Why pyro? Because infusion is the most fun mechanic in the game and I already did abyss as cryo Keqing for a year. (It was a mess).

What builds are on the first team?I want to know the stats of that beidou,Fischl,Yaoyao cause I cannot do it faster than 2min on 12-1 with the same team. Also the second group of Whooperflowers dong teleport to me even when I go to the same location as Zajeff. Same with the mages. I play on phone

could you show us your builds of the teams you're using in the abyss

I had just found out about this team comp yesterday. It’s basically Raiden national except you replace Xiangling with Nahida. This team uses both hyperbloom and burgeon. There is a video that showcases this comp by SharkH3art. They call it Rationhida. I haven’t attempted abyss yet, but this team looks like a ton of fun and it should be able to get through the entire second half of floor 12. It’s especially good against the Baptist since electro, hydro, pyro, and dendro are the best elements to use against it.

He's back boys and gals!

The tip about using fischl in 12-1-2 was very helpful. I used kazuha, xianling, fischl, bennett. Was finally able to 3 star the floor (after like 30 mins of restarting due to bad rng).

Before this video I tried and just got 33 stars. Thanks to your advice you encouraged me to keep trying and after around 70 resets I just got 36 stars. The teams I used are these (in case it's helpful for anyone): Floor1: Raiden- Fischl- Kazuha - Baizhu Floor 2: Xingqiu- Nahida- Kuki - Bennett Thank you so much Zajef!❤

This was the 1st Abyss I thought I wouldn't bother (started 3.0). No where close with the 1st chamber. After watching this, I was able to 3* everything! Much appreciated! ^_^ Teams: Raiden, Sucrose, Yao Yao, Lisa Hu Tao, Yelan, Nahida, Yan Fei Female only account.

27:56 Sunfire Meltyu (Ganyu Diona Bennett Jean) that I run shreds the pyro shield just as easily as all the other shields

I was already intrested in trying Thundering Furry and how do you improve on that? YES. THUNDERING MOMMY.

After 3 days I finally pulled off 12-1 with Ayaka, Ganyu, Venti, Kokomi first half and my newly built, newly C6 Kaeya with Xiangling, Kazuha, Bennett second half. 2 and 3 were little problem after that in comparison.

I c6’d my Bennett for this abyss lmaoo

My meme burgeon yanfei team really shined this time. To the point where my friend was like "oh no, she's gonna do the team" when he saw the enemy lineup

I played floor 12 today and got 9 stars with the same team: Kokomi taser first half (kokomi, Yelan, Kazuha, Fischl) and Thoma burgeon second half (Nahida, Xingqiu, Bennett, Thoma). The burgeon team was great for breaking down all those annoying shields. It motivated me to finally build up my C6 Thoma!

Ah I remember this abyss I need some times to figures out what's the most optimal team for this but finally came to two of the most consistent and comfy. First half is Aggravated team (Raiden, Baizhu, Kazuha, Fischl) and second is Burgeon team ( Hu tao, Nahida, Yelan , Zhongli) Will definitely use this team again on the next reset until the line up completely changed

Thanks for the XQ Beidou nahida Bennett team! It made the 2nd half very doable

i was so close to giving up on 9* this abyss but then i tried beidou first half and did it so pog

Question : how good is Kirara (+anemo grouper) in part 2 ? Are her bomblets effective against hydro shields ?

I dont know if it helps anyone else but I found out Venti's AOE Vortex can suck up the Primal Constructs. So you can have your Kazuha or Sucrose in other chambers.

If they would just stop making enemies randomly moveblock me with their attacks I would not mind this abyss. Thanks for all the help!

Good thing I didn't try this abyss until my internet was fixed. Going blind and with 500 ping would melt my brain and make me ragequit the game forever. Gonna watch this vid and see what I can do later.

Might be my first abyss I haven’t 36 starred in a year

idk how but i actually 36 starred this abyss with yae/raiden/venti/zhongli on the first side. no reactions. just two besties brute forcing their way lmao.

i used the same teams for all 3 chambers except I did wait for good cards to make sure I could clear

Got 34 stars first run. Not worth the anxiety for 50 or 100 gems. Then I played Diablo 4 and actually had fun.

I remember in a time used to have cryo slimes in floor 12, after a while they made floor with 1 hydro abyss dude, now there is 3 of them, just where are they going with all of that

I've never 36* but I was getting closer at 32/33 but these last 2 cycles have just been so annoying that I'm back down to like 27 starts and not even fully clearing floor 11 cuz I can't get rid of those lecter shields fast enough. I just haven't had the time to do a bunch of retries and the teams/characters that seem to be better here I do not have well built

i got frustrated with abyss and tried a "random" team for fun (baizhu, nahida, xiangling, xingqiu) and ended up 3 starring the floor kekw. i know most of those units are busted but i wasn't expecting burgeon to be so good haha. my main team (a salad comp) cleared as well but that's mainly cause my tighnari is nuts lol

Also, the way I like to usually beat the thundering manifestation is just by constantly doing spread on nahida's E (If I have kuki I'll obviously use some hyperblooms as well but if not, nahida doing spread on E with like 31k or something is usually more than enough after TM hits 50% HP

Part 1: whatever does the most damage Part 2: Jean, Nahida, Bennet and Xingqiu

I've had a lot of success with my usual Hu Tao team on the second half, just with XQ subbed out for Nahida. Nahida cheeses 12-1-2 by autochunking the hydro shield while Hu Tao's very high pyro application is great for breaking pyro shields. Anemo isn't even needed here. For 12-3-2, I can use Hu Tao's E to break the cryo shield, let her E come back, start setting up Yelan's burst on the hydro shield and basically one-cycle him since he's being chunked by the full Yelan+Hu Tao combo on the second and third shield break (with the occasional burgeon damage as extra damage). Baizhu was also really helpful on the first half for providing interrupt resistance. Aggravate doesn't need that much dendro application, and Yaoyao lacks the sustain (she still sustains ok with burst but burst is generally a bit DPS loss in aggrevate), so Baizhu providing IR and healing and some mitigation via his minishields is quite great.

As a melt ganyu cultist, I'm happy with the current second half lol

That curry Team with bennet actually sounds really good. I would like to try but how should I built him, as usual ,full em or only sands em?

this was the first time i had to use different teams to 36 star, in 12-1 i used nilou bloom and national with kazuha and in 12-2/12-3 i used ayaka freeze and hyperbloom, and surprisingly hyperbloom worked very well for me against the baptist even tho i didn’t have any pyro. I hope they won’t make another abyss like this one ever again😭

The heralds move a lot. I agree. Pisses me off so much, then i accepted it.

i miss this abyss

Accurate breakdown of this Abyss. I ended up using melt Ganyu with Bennet/Xiangling second side - and I just went for completion, not three stars I’ve been wanting to test speedy Yoimiya (C2 Jean and C6 Yun Jin), but it might be way too painful… might just try burgeon and never touch this abyss again

Plz show stats of chars used in the video This will make your video more helpful and complete!! And it will be perfection!!!!!

That Nahida clap in the beginning was really nice.