Just want to add that apparently some of her default combos aren't doable on high ping... Aware. Just be warned that might be a thing and make sure you check if the combos work for you in the test run!

Zajeff likes a unit -> They’re mid to bad Zajeff dislikes a unit -> They’re amazing

Ngl nerfing her uptime made her so tough to play sometimes. It can't be extended by hitlag, and she can still be affected by elemental reactions that slow her down. And God forbids a hilichurl sneezes on the other side of the abyss chamber, since she has zero resistance to interruption. Even if you wanna be a badass and play without a shield, dodging once already feels like you're cutting your uptime in half. I have a lot of fun with her, but she does suffers from a lot of issues that Yoimiya did, for example (who's my other fave 💀).

that cool down nerf on her skill really hurt her

A bit of a side note from a controller player with default button layout. You can’t move camera around during the charge attack because your thumb is occupied. Meaning you can’t see shits most of the time unless you’re a claw grip pro or are willing to change button mapping and rewrite your years of muscle memory. This is not the case with bow characters or Neuvillete because the game alternatively let you charge attack with left trigger button. If anyone else see this, consider that. But if you already pulled her, help me put that into survey. She really needs to be able to charge attack with different button.

*sees Kazuha wielding Festering Desire* _what is THAT?_ *immediately looks at chat and sees "festering kazuha"* made me laugh

pure guide, pure analysis, no streamer drama crap Zajef77 numbah 1

As you say, whether she's fun or not is entirely subjective. I very much enjoy the fast and furious playstyle, blasting and jetting around the battlefield. I also like how the gun will actually aim upwards to shoot flying enemies, even if she can't crit the flying ruin enemies to knock them out of the sky. You can also play around her range to wait out an enemy attack while still doing damage from afar, or cut your 3-shot sequence short to zip through an enemy and then finish your sequence once you're behind them and out of danger. I can also see how others would find her repetitive, and sometimes frustrating due to her uptime. Getting interrupted during her Skill is pretty devastating to her DPS. And no, she doesn't compete with the top-tier teams, but she's more than good enough. For me, she's a better Keqing. Not in terms of her damage output, it's about the same. It's her range, movement, and self-healing that makes her stand out. I always wanted to enjoy Keqing, but the short range on her normals and the backwards movement in her CA always annoyed me. Do I wish they hadn't nerfed her Skill duration? Of course, it's pretty bullshit that they did it, but it didn't kill the character.

I didn't know if I'd enjoy her, didn't know much about her kit but I liked the design, so I pulled. Ended up having a blast, probably the most fun I've had since Navia. But as you said that is subjective. As far as power level goes, she can range from very underwhelming when played sub-optimally to very much balanced overall. And in perfect case scenarios her ceiling can be as high as my Arlecchino in AOE (both are C0 with 5* weapons). I like that personally, because it pushes me to improve my gameplay. Not every unit needs to be as simple to play as Arlecchino and Neuvillette. I think it's just recency bias when people say she's "bad", or as I like to call it, the Kokomi syndrome. Overall, I'm very much enjoying her and am happy with her place in the meta. EDIT: I changed up some formatting, cleaned up some wording and added a few more details, since my comment got quite a few upvotes. Thanks for those, by the way 🙏

I enjoy Clorinde a lot. For me, TF makes the difference. With Whimsy the rotations felt super awkward, but now with TF+Blacksword at 183CV, 1.5k Atk and 226 EM she feels nice! Still not suuuper sure about teams, but Sucrose, Clorinde, Nahida, Fischl is my favorite team so far.

wheres our wriothesley post release king... its been 84 years

I honestly find her to be one of the most fun units to play. I'm just a sucker for her zoomying all over the battlefield and starting off with her burst always feels amazing.

kirara with clorinde is goated

I was super duper excited for her ever since the fontaine trailer last year. All my excitement went down the drain as soon as I booted the test run. Playing her felt miserable. Glad I didn't pull her in my overexcited state of mind and now I can save for navia this time

The more units get released, the more I'm tempted to pull Zhongli, lol. Might try to get him in his next rerun if it's still far away (since I currently have a guarantee I'm using for Furina's C2).

This video had way more cope than the usual post-release stuff, I mean, you mainly talked about how she was "not that bad", how her less useful teams are "still ok", how "she is fine", that doesnt inspire much confidence on her as a character

Thanks for the content! Clorinde feels like Better Cyno (& Keqing). Her rotations allow Furina, fischl, and nahida to do their thing comfortably. Add Zhongli when I don't feel like playing good or Furina is needed elsewhere. TF is fine like you said. Nahida and fischl are super easy to set up if you need a 2nd rotation. Just hold back your bursts for another wave. Its nice that Qiqi has a team that does things.

I don't like playing her with Kazuha because then you have to do stupid shit to get the Electro swirl over Nahida's Dendro. I've been using Zhongli which works great because Clorinde and Fischl can already heal themselves if they take some damage here and there. Furina in there instead of Zhongli can be fun as well (no shield but more self healing). I have kinda adjusted to the shitty situation with Bond of Life and Ping. Did Zajef find Arlecchino fun or just good? because with Arle you really don't do much more than you do with someone like Yoimiya to be honest (especially at C2+ when you don't even need to let the mark cook). You can't call that super fun gameplay.

I’m not enjoying my Chlorinde, but I think it’s mainly because she’s about 3 feet tall and has a cryo vision…

I think shes really fun

Yay zajef posted

200 pulls saved for murata. Might look into the new dendro perfume girl if she is any good sub dps

The moment I saw the uptime nerf, I was worried about what it would do to her unit feel. After playing her extensively in the trial, I can say my fears not only were justified, but that she has an even bigger problem I didn't think about: the camera. With how mobile she is, I've killed an enemy only to have no idea where the next one is too many times to count, and when this happens it *really* cuts into your uptime. Perhaps this is less of a problem with TF, since you can just start another rotation right away, but it really put me off from rolling her. (Controller player, fwiw)

I think the problem with making a strong electro carry is that if u use that electro character in aggravate teams he/she may be too op. I think that concern of Hoyo made Clorinde little bit weaker than she is supposed to be.

Clorinde is the most fun character to me

I think ultimately, the power just isn't there, and her gameplay is quite busy, so, immediately after powerhouses like navia and neuv and arly, it feels like you're doing more work for less return.

I'm sadly disappointed with her, the CD nerf really ruined her. Especially after experiencing a chara like Arle with technically no CD on optimal play, playing Clorinde feels AWFUL. I'm gonna have to gamba really really hard to get her a functional TF set. The only TF set I have is on Keqing & is crit rate focused so I cant give it to Clorinde. Also, her enemy targeting is so bad. Sometimes she targets the enemy I want, sometimes its a different enemy, sometimes she's flying off to go knows where & leaving the enemies behind. I can see myself going back to just playing with Miko cos she actually is just a lot more fun than Clorinde.

i have enjoyed clo on TF. not gonna farm whimsy cause i enjoy not having to wait for e cd. yea i feel that lack of int res against aggressive enemies too

Been a bit lazy with playing genshin so I haven’t played her quite enough to determine if the novelty has worn off but I don’t see how that burst animation could get old and she is on mistsplitter so I do gotta use it

All views Zajeff is ascending !

Can't wait for Clorinde Post-Release buff guys

You can't tell me that after I spent 70 bucks! Anyway, I really like playing her, so it doesn't matter

Guys, is the ping issue true? Soz I've been busy so I pretty much just pulled for her then haven't played since. My ping is like in the 200s and I heard that N3E doesn't actually get you the full combo at high ping, so you gotta do N4E...or something like that

balls

I like her design, I like her gameplay and I am not salty about the long E cooldown, because I the set I use on her is thunder fury, so I try to do many electro related reactions and it WORKS.

I'm definitely enjoying watching Clorinde move 😏

how good is Echoes for Clorinde guys? i have a quite decent full set of Echoes, and havent farmed a single piece of Fragment. If the gap between those 2 sets is acceptable, i might go for Echoes

I honestly really liked her design and kit feel especially because I dont have any other electro onfielder (sadly my shougn is c0r0 so outside of national/hyperbloom she doesnt do good dmg atleast for abyss) so would have filled a hole in my character rooster. But alas i had to skip her as i read that shes very ping dependent not unlike echo set and with my already bad 300+ ping, didn't want to risk playing a characterwho at c0r0 ppl say feels a bit underwhelming even more nerfed because my ISP issue. Although I would like to ask others what do you think is the potential dmg lost from having high ping with her? As i read everything from negligible to a 1/3 of her total dmg lost per rotation

i have fun with Clorinde. she's like the embodiment of electro, fast as lightning. its like having the 4th Hokage in the team.

I run her on the Fischl-Nahida-Kazhua team. But I also put a prototype amber on Nahida. It is far from ideal for Nahida's damage, but it provides enough healing for comfort if you play well enough to not get beat up. Even used that team against triple kenki last abyss and it performed just fine as long as I dodged and i-framed the attacks appropriately. And my artifacts are a joke on that account, nobody but Neuvi is geared well on it, but it still got close to 36* this new abyss cycle. Other side was Neuvi-Furina-Dehya-Jean.

9 secs to 7.5 made her so terrible especially because she has no interrupt to resistance and her healing is beyond mid. I think she's fun but a mid unit that is bound to dendro like any other electro dps which is a huge shame.

I wanted her Sig sword but when i lost the 50/50 in getting her and then got her after using the wishes I saved for the weapon banner, I got burnt out lmao

She is the same level as C0 widsith wanderer in dps. I was disappointed by wanderer and now clorinde is also doing the same

3:24 OVER 9000!!!!!

Initially when I pulled her I was disappointed with the uptime but after playing the teams more I don't have a problem with it. Only big gripe is her lack of interruption resistance, because her uptime is so short I feel she's almost unplayable without it because even dodging is a large DPS loss, but the teams with Zhongli and Xingqiu do feel reasonably good so it's not terrible.

Cooldown sucks

awesome video mate!

she have a very visual gameplay but boring and repetitive teams. At this point I like to get 36 stars in abyss with my best teams and THEN try to clear it with Clorinde

im expecting a BOL buffer eventually

just got one copy of her by winning my 50/50 and shes a nice addition to my account! been wanting to play some aggravate stuff but i didnt want to use raiden for that she’s fun imo but the lack of ir is really tough to deal with in certain situations i’ve been liking clorinde/yaoyao/fischl/kazuha or clorinde/furina/nahida/jean the most teams wise

hmm not sure if i should pull her on my main acc which has black sword or my alt which has mist and also a lot more primos.

After all my testing with her, I just went back to playing Wuthering Waves… I don’t like the way her Quickbloom teams feel and honestly, even if her damage is better with her Sig, I think I find Keqing Quicken teams more fun to play.

What?! Nine thousand?!

I've been having fun with Clorinde! Definitely, been while since I had as much fun with the game :) After playing her while with C2 R1 I decided to blew rest of my primos on C6. 😂 I really don't like Neuvilette or Arle as much so I wanted to get a dps I'd be really happy with. I used to main Raiden since her release and before that been Keqing player, so you probably will see pattern there 😂 I do agree the skill cooldown is issue but I really see it only in Coop tho. Which is not big deal to me. I am sorry you are not happy with Clorinde as much hyped you been for her Zajef, thank you for cool and highly informative vids !❤ ❤❤

So if I have an on-set Thundering fury healing bonus circlet with 50.5% CV, 1x atk% and 1x EM rolls Should I run that on my Clorinde-Furina team?

I clicked through my notification instead of the link in chat! WOW!!

Her healing is over 9000!!!

The CD reduction from TF made her gameplay so much smoother. Even tho whimsy dmg is higher I don't think I will ever remove TF from her. 😂 Its just the button spamming that got my hand tired after playing her for a while, same as Yoimiya 😅

I'm a big Clorinde fan and I feel like her gameplay feels a bit restrictive. I still love her and play her over other electro units but I'm having more fun experimenting on Sethos than I am on Clorinde who was just a by product from pulling on her banner. I don't understand why mihoyo places such huge restrictions on their characters. She's supposed to be a champion duelist but her normal attacks are worthless. She should have been a character that had flexible combos not skill, 1 2 3, skill 123, ult ocassionally.

she is not bad indeed but do we need another electro?

got alhaitam sword, then did like 110-120 pulls for clorinde, didnt get her, then went back to keqing with the new sword and killed everything just fine, decided to not get clorinde and save for other chars since she is fairly similar to keq team wise, and just to clear a few seconds faster dont seems worth.

She's too redundant. When theres already Keqing and Yae there's not really much point in another electro aggravate dps and her damage doesn't make up for that. It would have been smarter to design her with Chevreuse and overload in mind a bit more that would put her apart from other electro dps. Skyward blade Clorinde + Qiqi is definitely funny tho.

Yeah, I like her but she's a pain to play with due to her being knocked around almost every time. I tried teaming her with XQ but is not enough.

i love her! used her with qiqi zhongli and furina in abyss - such a weird team but worked

I regret pulling for chlorinde for the same reason. I don’t find her fun at all. Just pressing E after 3 attacks feels bad.

I played her with furina nahida and dehya first half of floor 12and it felt pretty good (tho thats to be expected with two archons but i digress) but I agree with the sentiment of the video- in terms of dmg, its underwhelming, but like other comments said, she generally feels better than keqing because of the bol mechanic but other than that I wish she wasn’t nerfed🤧🤧

How well does the qiqi team scale if you happen to have high refine skyward blade from standard banner?

ITS OVER 8 THOUSAND!!!

Yo zaj, try chlorinde nahida pamber furina thoma. Like a furina burgeon type thing but furina's buff actually matters. And thoma's shield actually helps so super fun frfr

Mid character mid dmg mid teams and mid future treatment most likely Just another Cyno situation but Fontaine, Hoyo needs to prevent baby girl Raiden from getting overshadowed by another electro unit that does not resemble their past creations from Honkai

I never played with quicken until now but I always thought it just means attacking with electro on an enemy that has dendro on it. So I just used Clorinde/Nahida/Chiori/Zhongli and cleared floor 12 bottom half pretty easy in one go. So what I don't understand is why people insist you need Fischl. Nahida does the dendro and then Clorinde attacks into it with electro, why do I need Fischl on top of it?

Fun = subjective. Xing qiu is fking boring.

I like her, but her teams... (I don't have nahida and chev 🤩)

I cant believe ppl still play this game. 😢

Not fun char or Burned out?

I do indeed hate sucrose, you got me there

Honestly between tf clorinde and tf keqing, keqing feels a lot more fun and dynamic. Id rather string together a bunch of skills and CAs than just E -> hold M1-> E -> repeat

its not about how she strong now. all i can see is the potential she got in the future that will release new supports that she can maximize

Clorinde is super fun for me, glad I prefarmed for her. She has some of my fastest clear times on domains and Abyss is pretty good with her. Not the strongest, but good enough

I got her 20 pulls from 0 pity 50/50 I only want thoma cons coz i only have c0 (well im at 0 pity 50/50 so i thought its safe to do some pulls 😅) But then she showed up 😂 Well now i have clorinde plus c2 thoma and a sethos 😂 But even when i didnt have her, im contemplating if i should get her coz i already have raiden And then now that i have her, IM STILL THINKING IF SHOULD BUILD HER OR NOT COZ I HAVE RAIDEN 😂😂😂 But in the end, ig i should 😂 so i can try her myself

I got her on my first 10 pull and while she is nice to do overworld stuff she isn't that great.. Would rather have Raiden or even Kuki Shinobu

She doesnt use favge bad unit true

I play her with Raiden, Nahida and Baizhu and it's pretty decent. Since her uptime isn't that high I have time to also use Raiden as dps, which is cool because I like Raiden but it's hard to use her in teams where she isn't the only dps (outside of hyperbloom). I like the fast her playstyle a lot as well, I really like the concept of doing a lot of small hits really fast, and she's (I think?) the best in that category.

Still trying to snipe her C2. She's great.

Man a few of the last vids or opinions in general have been sounded more and more doomposty and just sad. At least its true this os subjective bc her gameplay is super fast paced and fun to me and lots of others people, i didnt expect her nor do i need her to be another Neuvi or Arle, idk

Loving her gameplay, personally. Got her C0 and I enjoy using her on TF quite a bit. Furina, Fischl and Nahida makes a great team, as does Dehya, Chev and Beidou. Been good fun to play. She is not overpowered but doesn't feel weak either.

I preferred to skip her for alhaitam, I already have neuvillette and arlechinno and nahida as the only dendro, I preferred to have an additional dendro unit for future contents that require having several characters.

I find TF is very overrated on her since you don't do extended rotation outside of Furina teams, maybe also Xingqiu. in her usual aggravate team with Kazuha using TF or Glad/Whimsy made no difference since you'll need to swap out anyway. I only use it in coop now. idk i kinda like the elemental/shield checks on recent abyss where matchup matters more instead of strictly dps checks you can bruteforce with anyone. it's an obvious way of balancing abyss around any current featured unit.

That's disappointing. Even though I got a c2 keqing I can use I still really wanted her and thought she'd be more fun and much stronger and cooler to play with

I think she is a great unit and relatively fun. I didnt realize the stiff rotation she was going to have was going to be a factor in how much fun I was going to have with her. I actually prefer Raiden still. I kinda knew that was going to be the case. I am saving for Murata now. I am done with Fontaine units.

I think she's fun in the context of genshin, but we're inevitably going to experience the wuwa effect since its combat is so much more engaging compared to genshin where they literally copy paste abilities sometimes.

hoyo releasing 2 of the best characters at c6 in the same version but being dogwater at c0, i wonder if this was for getting more reneuve against ww

i having fun with my clorinde so i not understanding

I got her pulling for sethos and i gotta say she is pretty boring at least from what I expected her to be. I thinked the pistol + sword style would be funny to play remembering me of DMC or other hack n' slash games but nah. Plus i gotta add she is not even a noticable upgrade over keching in her best teams (aggravate) at least in SIM calculations she ended up being better than my c4 keching only at c2 (wich i didn't pulled for) and that's pretty disappointing for a limited time character compared to a standard one.

3:25 Truly a "It's over 9000" moment

regret pulling for her her e feels short, have to watch the xp bar all the time, easy to interrupt won't use her much :(

this means she's fun af to play, noted

Whimsy is best damage but horrible feeling rotations. TF is free rotations but worse dmg. Abyss is fucking her over on both sides on both this and last Abyss so it's hard to really tell how good she is since everything is multi wave rn for some reason AND super application specific. I'm just gunna use her in overworld, a lack of competitive damage is irrelevant and she is super fun, not to mention her skill dash spam regens stamina over the duration so you have good movement. She feels like a gateway drug between casual and Hard-core gamers

i was hoping for a better xiao, dash type of unit. but she feels so dull and boring after 1 week. i dunno man. genshins feels so bad after Wuwa I don't even wanna play it anymore

I have an absolute blast playing her with Furina, Nahida, Fischl. Just really fun. Kazuha makes every team less fun in my experience