the little chibi characters that pop up when you mention a character's strengths are the cutest thing

Thank you for including all of Ganyu’s teams, including hyperfridge. Every other guide pretended that hyperfridge didn’t exist.

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Genshin reactions do be weird, Zajef is out here explaining Burning reaction while my brain is performing a Melt reaction

Ganyu on release was my Oceanid and Dvalin killer. Now she’s my Fungi farmer without having to use Electro and Pyro. I’ll always find a great use for her in the overworld.

I heckin love sending hellfire missiles with Ganyu in open world 💥

I learned so much about Nahida in this video thank you Zajef

40:26 This sounds like revisionist history. For the time, pre-2.0, Ventiable floors were aplenty, so Ganyu was basically one of the best characters to have in the game at the time. It really was the META at the time. Not to say that she wasn't overrated then, but she definitely was basically a top 5-10 unit pre-2.0 and definitely was one of the best DPS in the game whether that'd be solo output or team based. I can't say much about the melt teams tho, because I don't really remember it being used as much back then, since having both Ganyu and Zhongli back then basically meant that you had to spend quite a bit to get them both, but from what I remember, it was mostly just the Tony To style of content with those teams. Tbh she was still pretty damn META in 2.1 or 2.2, before they nerfed the fuck out of Venti to cater to Raiden and Inazuma 5-stars based content, so the latter part of the question is somewhat true. Even now, they've nerfed Ayaka and freeze in general with how the abyss lineups are, which also hurts Ganyu too. Ganyu Melt teams are still quite underrated by Mr Zajef and others tho imo

Nahida Melt Ganyu being unlimited range against the increasing number of flying bosses in Spiral makes me think Ganyu's stock has risen some. Hyperbloom can still hit some flying enemies, but it's not always easy to apply the elements in certain boss phases. And teams with Xiangling are stuck in melee range and likely have short damage windows. Also worth noting on the EM sand vs Atk sands for Melt Ganyu, if you're playing Sapwood Bennett with Nahida for Melt Ganyu, that's potentially another 120 EM you're picking up from the leaf (if r5 Sapwood), which further skews the sand choice towards Atk sands. Zajef's suggestion was for if you're over 500 EM to consider attack, but you'll have 400-450 fairly easily just off Attack Sands without even considering substats (250 max from Nahida, 80 from Wanderer's 2pc, 120 from r5 Sapwood leaf)

I love Ganyu, she helped me out so much when I initially started the game. She'll always have a special place in my account.

EXACTLY overworld comfort. i always use her slot 2 and overworld feels as comfortable as a goat eating qingxing

never would've predicted ganyu would become a qol overworld unit lol

I never thought that i would see ganyu holding an operator

Just a heads for anyone that plays with high ping and is considering on pulling for Ganyu. You cannot chain charge attacks right away, when you release the charge shot you will have to wait for your ping to catch up before holding for the next charge shot otherwise the imput will be missed and you will be left there standing doing nothing or cursing the devs for not optimazing in the least for high ping users.

Side note about what zajef says here 5:10 there is no “first one” when it comes to the auras applied on the enemy. Some elements might react with 1 aura first while others will react with the other one first. There’s a reaction priority list not an element priority list!

Such great editors

16:40 Kirara seems to be a really good shielder for Ganyu, which means she finally has a good 4 stars shielder for her melt playstyle.

Ganyu is 1 of a few characters I want to vertical invest. I will try to get her C1 in this banner. Hopefully, I can get Kaveh and some C for Candace(for Nilou bloom with Yaoyao.) along the way. I saw the leak about potential CA support character. I hope it's true bc I want her to buff big buff like what Xiao got from Faruzan.

YES FINALLY! SOMEONE POSTING SOMETHING OTHER THAN STAR RAIL THANK YOU CHEF

Zajef, I enjoy your videos but I would enjoy them more if your audio was more focused and had less echo. Some damping pads w/ a new mic + boom would probably help a lot. Thank you for your work!

omega GIGACHAD editors buggo and sam as alaays absolutely amazing work ty Homi s

unironically looked forward to AZ ganyu just so I could hear about her in hyperfridge teams cause that's her team that I feel I like the most atm. also hilarious thumbnail

i was on stream yst and i asked about hyperfridge ganyu so i came back to this video for more info. i just wanted to say that DAMN your hair looks good here. damn!!

Funny you should mention it, I do in fact play Ganyu as a burst support in a super conduct team. With r5 Mounn's Moon, she's legitimately a fantastic sub-dps for Eula, and since Shenhe is good for buffing Eula anyway, that's a nice extra bit of damage from her burst.

1) About the timing of Ganyu's Charged SHots in Burn-Melt: Do you have to wait until you see the visual indicator of the 2nd level Charge? Or can you fire as fast as you normally would in other melt teams? (Aka, letting the arrow go just a bit after the level 1 charge indicator still allows you to get the Bloom part. Basically you don't have to wait for the "2 charges indicator" to fire your arrow and get the bloom, as you can get them quicker). 2) Is there any importance between applying pyro first before Nahida E in creating the burning aura VS Nahida E first and applying Pyro afterwards?

im a ganyu main since day 1, each rerun i get a con to get closer to c6 ( 🐬 btw ) and im so happy that she gets to be used with dendro and it comforts my take that ganyu > ayaka 🤓 AWARE

The burn would have been a viable comp if it could make the enemies go "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA IT BURNSSSSS!!!!!!" just like any other RPG

My Granyu freeze rotation: Shenhe Q > tap E > Kazuha Q > hold E > Kokomi E > Ganyu Q > E > Charged shot > Shenhe tap E > Ganyu catch particles and Charged shot Now you can do more charged shots, can try to refresh Kokomi E with her Q, apply Kazuha shred again, dodge, etc.. Current abyss you can use her in the second side, you can kill the triple Kenkis with her Kazuha freeze, just takes longer than with proper boss teams, but if you finish the first side fast enough (like ~1 min / 1min and a bit) you still should have like 30 seconds to spare (i have a very good freeze build and Amos). Wenut i used to kill in 2 mins with a not perfect rotation and you can cut up to 30 seconds of that if you actually play really well and get good nut rng. Same team. I like Kazuha freeze a lot because you can snapshot her Q with Kazuha buff + Shenhe tap E and Q + Kokomi 68% atack buff.

It was really hard trying to make ganyu work in this abyss on any side but the hyperfridge team helped a lot!

overworld comfort Ganyu is heavily underrated by who don't play with mouse/keyboard

I already have ganyu and she's my fav character so i know most of the things about her but zajef video so ofc i watch

Oven with Ganyu makes short work of the entire second side of Abyss 12. Its lowkey pretty great.

While I have never used her in floor 12 anymore, she is a staple in 9-11 where all the content there is still Ventiable. good that you don't have to think so much what to do for floors 9-11

We need ask zajef barbara edition!!!!!

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@ off meta ganyu teams: I've been running Ganyu/Zhongli/Flex/Flex (usually Kazuha/Shenhe these days, sometimes Albedo or Venti) literally since I got her and it works just fine (C1 Amos Bow Ganyu tho). I very frequently use this team in Abyss (it's pretty much my go-to alongside Rational) and I've been 36-starring for a long time now.

I think Layla is a very good cryo unit for hyperfridge, especially with kuki since her shield CD lines up with kuki’s skill

She's a 'one person army'. I mainly use her when i have to farm friendship exp for more then one new character. I put those two guys along with zhongli and Ganyu, or when i have to do some annoying daily commissions. She has definitely fallen off, her value right now is more as an emblem support for freeze teams compared to a proper dps.

Overworld ganyu is really really comfy. Just 2 charged shot from a teleporter, boom ez 10 primos baby, not even moving.

while baizhu is probably useless for ganyu, would love to see your testing on baizhu/nahida/dehya/ganyu in the future and see if it's just ok or not optimal.

17:10 didnt mention layla as being a good defensive option is she just worse than dehya or was it an oversight

IMO Ganyu still makes up the best and most meta freeze team against groupable enemies. Ganyu, Venti, Kokomi and Ayaka against groupable enemies makes it so that Ganyu's Q, Ayaka's Q and Ganyu's normal attack hit every single enemy at once while Venti has his Q active, which wipes enemies faster than any other freeze team in the game.

Support Ganyu in Freeze is great, but not to pull if you didn't already have her I guess and had Shenhe. Ayaka, Shenhe, Ganyu, Kazuha though for straight cryo I feel this way about c1 with a 5* bow and a damage build with 160 ER, I forgot how different the energy regen is on C0

Would Ganyu, Benny, xangling and Baizhu work? Or should i stick to Kazuha? I need Nahida on Alhaitham team

My Ganyu is quite OP with a bunch of cons and refines on her cause of some crazy luck all around (C2 Kazuha and C3 Shenhe on her way to C6 also come into play), but I tend to choose atk vs. EM sands based on how I wanna pace my dps. If I can frontload or need like 1.5 rotations with smooth energy, EM will 99% of cases just be better, but atk can be nice for just consistently taking enemies out. I do have Kazuha C2 + usually Wanderer's (All my homies hate Shime) so my frontloading is still substantial/would run into diminishing returns in any melt setup I use her in, and my overal dps doesn't suffer as much, so just prioritize dps if you don't reach thresholds that work out efficiently. With Shenhe supporting my particular Ganyu, the dps is consistently enough to finish a chamber without bursts, too bad you can't fit a melt package AND Zhongli, and too bad she can eat some melts, but it can work out really well when that doesn't create a problem when trying to solve one in the first place. In open-world? Zhongli held E, Shenhe held E, atk sands go pew pew pew, flying fuck manifestation no longer flies. Ohh, you teleported away? I don't need energy, I don't need circle-impact, they're just dead within an instant, every time. When clearing mobs I'll prefer my Kazuha over Zhongli if I feel like swapping, and basically make it more about Ganyu Q + the extra E charges from all of Ganyu, Shenhe and Kazuha, just quickswap spam with a ton of grouping. It's elemental coverage never really holds me back (Unlike pure freeze, my god that sucks in open-world), Ganyu has proven to STILL be my go-to daily activity choice, and that's like 99% of the game. It's a genuine part of why I rank Kazuha so incredibly high in spite of Sucrose being incredible, too.

I wonder what Zajef means when he says Whale level investment because a high investment F2P level Wanderer's Trad Melt C0R1 Ganyu team with 60/200 200+ EM probably can do 600k DPR with XL on fav + 230 ER. This is based on 3-4 CA/rotation from Ganyu and energy issues aren't really a problem with the team if played correctly (which is fairly simple, just proc fav and hit your skills). The team is really comfortable to play in AOE and single target and for me, has cleared every single abyss cycle that doesn't have a Cryo/Pyro check. My Ganyu for reference is C1R1 360 EM Hunter's Path with 80/256 Crit and 1460 Atk. It does around 160-180k CA which is roughly 800k DPR. I understand most people won't get to this level, but the F2P level investment I mentioned above is comfortable enough for people to clear the abyss. So I just don't understand the notion that a Melt Ganyu team needs whale level investment to be good unless my Ganyu is considered that level which imo is pretty fuckin BS since I have only spent Welkin primos for Ganyu

Where can we submit "ask zajef" questions? I'm really curious how he would rank 5* constellations for late game F2P players. Nahida c2, Raiden c2, Hu Tao c1, Alhaitham c1, etc. Which ones are the most impactful to target, assuming you use all characters equally?

You didn't mention that shimenawa is worse than usual if you play melt ganyu with Kazuha since you have to use your e for the setup and can't e at the beginning of her uptime so you generally lose the 4p effect for 1 of her charge shots and have to spend time using her e again which also prevents you from doing rotations of less than 20-21 seconds

Something we can do if we really want to use melt Ganyu without a shielder is to get C6... in 10 years.

Melt feels so bad and I don't have Venti for the ideal freeze team but hyperfridge Ganyu might actually make me use her. But i'm swimming in characters atm so thats unlikely. I do agree with Ganyu making the overworld more interesting. Shes really fun there.

yeah, the most insane thing was, that ganyu got compared to hu tao and xiangling and now shes just... meh. i currently find much success in the abyss playing hu tao/xingqiu/fischl/beidou. the team works without any healer or shielder because hu tao gets alot of i-frames, has high dmg resistance and her own burst healing with xingqius healing, xingqius dmg reductions + beidous dmg reduction and with beidous shield. you can easily get through the abyss with hu tao under 30% hp. it doesnt deal quite as much dmg as hu tao/xingqiu/yelan/xiangling does but its more safe to play, thanks to beidou and it has fischl, who is pretty usefull in abyss and overworld.

It's giving I don't know what to talk about so I'll rehash a video vibe, we shall see tho

My f2p Ganyu-Nahida team happens to have Amos and her burn-melt deals over 500k in three charged shots (~7 sec). In addition, burn ticks around 2k per instance. Xianling is not even close. TY for the vid

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gunyu thumbnail YEP

Impressive, very nice

How do you know you messed up the timing and need to wait? EDIT: so I watched the video and still do not really have a clue how Burn-Melt works. I'll probably just stick with Xiangling.

I would have pulled for ganyu for open world however tighnari performs the same role of dealing with annoying shit so I'll probably save until hydro archon.

Hoyo just has a thing for freeze. In HSR freeze is also kinda cracked

Pyro Archon will have a gun.

i thought baizhu was gonna be sick with ganyu melt but it really is kinda meh when i even think about it i dont even wanna try it lmao

You did the voicelines anyway 😂😂😂

I still commonly play Morgana teams. There is plenty of content where it works really well.

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I really don't think this dude understands how broken Morgana was back then. To say it wasn't at least meta is pretty dumb. It was just a few buttons mash win.

I like using charge shots in hyperfridge sometimes since it procs raiden

Omg I’m not the only one who uses 4 set emblem for hyperfridge

I've been playing hyperfridge Ayaka a lot more than freeze

Am I on crack or does hyper fridge work phenomenally against consuck beasts

my main team is Yae Nahida (best waifu yae) and alt team is Ganyu melt, cleared wenut with her. She's still really good and shes a top tier waifu

I watched the whole video and now i think ik even less than when i started, great video though im just dumb

She makes a lot more sense to me than Eula. First Eula and now Chongyun...why are people whining about these characters being placed on banners when they aren't that good? Then they appear on the banner and the user rate for abyss won't shift a hair.

Regarding hyperfridge, wouldn’t Rosaria be better since she applies cryo more frequently with virtually the same uptime at C2?

i use ganyu and ayaka together with sucrose and zonghli its a good team just did 36 stars this abyss f2p btw

What's this Nahida, Xingqiu, Raiden, Ganyu team he's talking about? 38:40 Can't you just; let go of R and press it again? Isn't it the same thing as with M1? Also, I like to use Ganyu in Air Fryer, quadratic scaling melts+burning, delicious. And I usually replace Zhongli in other BurnMelt teams with Kazuha to keep damage and Burning up.

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I agree. If I get ganyu, she's going to my hyperfridge team :)

41:51 Should have opened with this disclaimer, and even then it's an understatement. I rolled my eyes so many times during this video, it's a wonder I can still see.

Hell yeah Ganyu with the op

Which hydro character works in hyper-fridge, can Barbara works? I play Nahida, Raiden, Barbara, optional(kazu/ayaya)

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Ganyu strapped with an awp

Could something like this work with tighnari?

Genuine question regarding use of hyperfridge: why does my nahida, raiden, xingqiu, yelan team clear 12-1-1 faster than my nahida, raiden, xingqiu, ganyu team? Is yelan's subdps just that much better? The consecrated beasts also sadly don't get frozen often, which was what I was hoping for from hyperfridge.

good sludge thanks for the food

I havent played in like 2 months is kaveh out yet

Can she work with dehya xiangling Bennet?

I want one single copy of kaveh but I'm at 60 pity and i really really hope i lose my 50 50 if i have to reach 90 pity... I don't really want any of the featured 5 stars tbh

Don't peek ganyu she got an AWP

Any honestly opinion I should pull ganyu or skip if I have one cryo dps ayaka my account. In general without ganyu my account but I have ayaka I can clear abyss content?

i dont like how hes phrasing the melt ganyu team, makes it sound like u need whale level investment for her to be playable in abyss but i havent spent a dime on ganyu and ive been 36 staring abyss for almost a year now and always have ganyu in one half

Goat is goat

i would say you still want to burst in melt ganyu. If your team is bennet, xl, zhong li you will have enough pyro to still melt your blooms just wait like 0.5 seconds before your first charge shot for the pyro to appear clearly without blinking. (important note place the zhong li pillar away from enemies because that can actually steal your pyro for crystalize and make you not melt)

I've found my ganyu's current best playstyle as the second cryo in ayaka's team (fav bow, 4pc noblesse)

I want zajef for Star Rail!

Hmm wouldn’t Baizhu + Dehya work fine?

21 seconds after release? 3 likes already???

I love Ganyu but for hyperfridge if you have ayaka please try it. It's extremely funny

I listened to tentengames and pulled Ganyu cuz in his video he made it seem like she was the best dps in the game and how she was impossible to counter...

cold take, if bosses cant be frozen, players shouldnt be frozen either. its rly annoying, and it feels like cleansing is a forgotten mechanic anyways. they could make it so bosses are resistant to frozen instead of immune so its not actually useless. it could be like after multiple, maybe 3, procs of frozen on the boss, they actually freeze. this would help a lot against stall bots that hoyo likes to make.