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Lmaoo im howling 😂

where is the king of yappers, the zy0nix?

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Dude has been responsible for lobotomizing the EN theorycrafting to such degree that only Bennett-Kazuha team is ever viable or they are total shit.

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Lol Im sorry Mr Kek its too easy to do (and it was an easy example)

Well Kekvin just has to many accounts between Genshin and HSR. There is no feasible way to keep up with them all.

Poor kekvin catching strays​@@Kekvin

having only her as hydro does things to your

Yeah the account has fewer competent off field options (its basically just XL or bloom Raiden), and I suspect she will be one of the best units for Polearms Only because of that.

​@@Solunerra dps Candace with emilie and thoma/xiangling will be viable option

Absolutely!!! Me with Candyman (Candace)

Yeah Candace will always be my preferred example of this. Dehya I also found surprising fun uses for on my main account still too! (I recently played Sethos/Dehya together to good success)

i like to play burnmelt amber on my nowish account. diona collei amber kaeya for the rotation. not a great team at full power for amber due to needing enemies with weakpoints, but it just about works.

@@Solunerra So that would be Sethos using charged attacks instead of ult?

Haha ty, Im fairly confident we will be able to guarantee C0 without much issue, but it would be nice to get more…

Its really hard to justify the time and slog of doing the same content multiple times in Genshin, so I cant say I recommend it, but it can end up being a lot of fun!

personally it would be nice for me to start a new account since I've been playing for 3 years so i would have forgotten a lot of lore relationship stuff and i would pull for units i don't have in main acc

Yeah, for Polearms only she basically single handedly made it so I had way more competent team options than I had before is all. On a normal highly invested account shes an interesting character as an option to enable competent teams, as you describe. With only Polearms she lifts up the entire accounts power level significantly

Raiden Chevreuse teams ARE top tier

i don't regret skipping furina for her

@eclipseeffigy raiden and chevruse are really good on paper and bosses or big enemies. But her range and overload is a huge pain in the ass for staggerable high hp enemies. Like the fatui fencers or the vishaps who are very common in the abyss. In a perfect world, the team is fantastic, but it can be pretty annoying.

You lose EM and the crit rate that way. The point was that his build allows for good talent damage AND good transformative reaction damage.

I cut out a ton of me talking about hybrid Raiden in the interest of keeping it simple. I kept in showing the increase from the full passive to demonstrate that she can get a lot of atk from EM stats. So the point with showing that was that Raiden can have a high end attack stat because of the passive with the end goal being to keep high transformative reaction damage but also have high enough talent damage that it is worthwhile to burst. What matters is not base attack, but the entire way any stat is contributing to a characters damage output. Which gets kinda messy with this kind of build. Normally, youd choose need to choose between a transformative reaction build (hyperbloom) or a talent dmg build (traditional emblem) on Raiden. SoSS enables you to spec into stats in a way that normally is not sensible, hence "hybrid" wherein it is the balance between the two. On a resource investment level I cannot say its really worthwhile, because it takes some pretty specific artifacts, and imo doesnt make sense to do without SoSS, which is obviously a limited 5 star weapon. But it has been the difference maker between Raiden being a character I basically didnt use at all for over a year, and now I default to using her all the time, because there is a ton of different teams hybrid Raiden can work in, and allows her full kit to be utilized.

Yep I did it in livestreams, with and without C6 Arle enabled (removing her circlet and not using burst is the same as C4-C6 doing nothing). It wasnt too bad, but if I didnt have Arlecchino at all it wouldve been a very very difficult abyss I think. May mess around with trying to clear it without Arle still, as I think its doable. Just potentially miserable to optimize to that point

I will probably do another stream about Emilie closer to 4.8, but at a baseline I think she may be a lot better for hybrid Raiden (eg Thoma/Raiden/Emile/Candace), and she will make Cyno aggravate properly usable, which is cool. Other than that I think she will actually help characters like Hu Tao have better team options. Since burning should easily enable 4pc MH on Tao, and she diversifies Tao teams dps significantly enough that she probably becomes a compelling choice again (right now Tao feels much less useful due to Arles existence). There’s plenty of other possibilities with Emilie too. I imagine burn melt could work well with Emilie/Rosaria/Shenhe/Pyro too. Plenty of options I can think of just off the top of my head, which likely means she will he a very strong unit for the account.

Put simply: it makes her a lot easier to build. On top of the emblem passive, Raiden gets even more dmg bonus from ER%. You are correct that 4pc emblem is not benefiting her transformative damage, just her talent based dmg of course. Another universal set for a hybrid Raiden is 4pc Gilded dreams, which gives a bunch of EM and some atk%. I've found that I like having about 200% ER on for Hybrid Raiden at a minimum usually, but it isnt necessarily required to hit a hard ER breakpoint since Raiden on a hybrid build is doing meaningful dmg without actively bursting still, so its definitely an option. But personally I want to be able to burst whenever I feel the need to, which means ER is pretty important, and 2pc emblem really really helps with that. And if you are doing 2pc emblem, 4pc is absolutely worthwhile if you have decent enough artifacts (you would not gain more from 2pc EM than 4pc emblem gives unless your 2pc combos are very good). So yeah, emblem is the most accessible way of getting the stats you need, since hybrid Raiden has a lot of different desirable stats. For ease of access, the only other 4pc build Id consider is MH in conjunction with Furina, since it giving so many crit stats for free means you can almost ignore crit rate as a relevant substat in favor of ER%/CDMG/Atk%, compared to gilded wherein you also heavily prioritize ER%, but still want crit rate. I dont like limiting hybrid Raiden to being used with Furina though, and despite having a ton of MH artifacts I dont have ones that are the right balance for hybrid Raiden, hence emblem it is.

Do bow only

Sadly we cant set it to default to filter something though, so that doesnt really do much

He does do theory crafting, but I agree, I think he too often fall into the trap of “you COULD use bennet XQ, sucrose, etc” and so he immediately sees comps that don’t use them as lesser, even when the damage does not suffer with more exotic units

The issue is 3 fold. Zajeff's main aim is to explain the meta. So in his content, he'll first point out who would be the ones that get the most out of your character. So that's where Boring, Sucrose, Xingqiu etc come in. But as you can see, when it comes to the Most Effective Tactic Available, that often involves Boring for Atk scalers, Sucrose for EM and Reaction carries, XQ for Vapers, Fischl for Aggravate carries/drivers. And because this is about the Most Effective Tactic Available, the idea of who you like compared to them - Sara, C6 Diona, Yelan, Miko etc - they may be more interesting and fun to play, but from a strictly Spreadsheet Impact perspective, they're not as strong. And it's because of the Spreadsheet Impact perspective, that then his community full of Spreadsheet Andies will continue to berate and belittle anyone who doesn't play Meta. That you NEED to build Boring, and play Boring, even if you find him... Well... Boring. So yeah.

@@KategariYami Agreed. This isn't even unique to Zajef - almost every theorycrafter is going to say the same thing because many of them operate on the assumption that the average person doesn't have the wherewithal to get any- and everyone. So in order to maximize one's "bang for the buck", it's almost a given that every Carry's best team is going to be some form of National or Hyperbloom (up to and including the archons. In fact, just rolling for them gives you a Hyperbloom team that can literally play itself). And if they don't mesh with those teams, they better be an absolute powerhouse like Neuvillette or Navia or they're going to be deemed as not worth the trouble since you'd need to go out of your way to get more units to make them work (and that's assuming they don't have some jank built into their kit, e.g. Dehya). Also, let's be real: 4-star supports are kind of a meme at this point. You get the odd outlier like Shinobu and Chevreuse, but otherwise they've been super gimmicky ever since Inazuma (e.g. Sayu). With Candace in particular, she could've been a very powerful teammate for melee units (including Heizou and Wriostheley), but there are just enough misfires in her kit that prevent her from being so, from the hard cap on her DMG bonus to needing C6 for her Hydro pops to be more autonomous and consistent. Shame too. She's easily one of my favorite characters.

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They got flushed

Account is over 2 years old lol

@@Solunerra Congratulations on the ar60 account, I'm marathoning your videos ❤️

I think you missed the main point, which was that Chevy is an important enabler of teams. That was a statement that I (keyword being "I") was making regarding _my_ account, and how I think Chev is more important. Thats it. It wasnt a comparison of damage contribution, it was a comparison of how I enjoy playing around with different teams, and Chev is more important in that regard to me. Also, you may not have noticed, but this was recorded before the abyss reset. And I dont look at abyss lineups ahead of time. You can see the livestreams if you want, but I still intend to try clearing without Arlecchino at all. I already cleared with her C6 disabled. Chevreuse is a more important character than Arlecchino, even with the added context of the new abyss cycle.

Me or Zajef? Zajef definitely was tired (both of our faults, we shouldve coordinated better lol) because he had been streaming since 4am that day for some godforsaken reason

@@Solunerra you lol please get some sleep