Small clarification for Eula : HYV would generally not want constellations on 5 stars to be too good, but there's such an incredibly small portion of F2P or low budget players that reach C6 on standard 5 stars that I don't think a really good C6 would NECESSARILY be that much of an issue. Also kinda didn't think about it that much, she might not be the best choice. Oh well

the dev who swapped Xiao and Albedo's c4 probably thought it was funny

I think albedo is just a victim of early game constellations, I don’t believe hoyo were as comfortable as they are now with the design of that system. So some characters get dumpster fires as constellations because they think they’ll be too strong with better ones. (Doesn’t change the fact albedo should be a standard geo though lol)

I still think mihoyo accidentally swap albedo and xiao's C4 constellation lol

I'd reckon it's fine with characters like Klee and Albedo but Eula will be absolutely insane with multiple constellations.

I think the one of the main requirements for being on the standard banner has to be that the unit cannot scale too well with constellations, which is not the case at all for Eula. People who have been playing for a time and aren't insanely lucky are bound to have cons of the standard banner 5*s, and Mihoyo wants you to pull for the new characters and not have a broken high constellation Eula.

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As far as Albedo's constellations go, the thing to keep in mind is that he's an earlier designed character. That has two implications. First, Hoyoverse hadn't adjusted the power level goal of five stars yet, hence why he's mostly used because he's the second best off-field geo character in the eyes of most players. And second, his constellations will be more miss than hit, and not ramp up his power nearly as much as newer five stars. So it isn't that they plan to put him there, but rather, that he was designed at a time when the design parameters were different. If they do add him, though, then they need to give him a good, accessible, four star weapon, rather than this trend of making him a good user of limited event weapons. Well, that or they need to start re-running friggin' events already. Sure, Harbinger is a good weapon for him, but he should have a defense%, 4 star, standard banner or craftable weapon option. That said, I do think he'd be a good choice. He's Mondstadt, so his materials are accessible at low AR. He adds a geo to the mix. He fits in easily in most teams, just for his off-field damage potential, so a newer player will likely get far more use out of him that the likes of Mona. As far as Geo as an element goes, I think it is screwed over for now. Gorou's design is a mistake. Now you need both defense and geo to be worth using. And that's doubled down with the Husk set, which, again, is geo and defense. And this adds a further issue that now you want multiple characters chasing the same stats, on the same set. And, of course, there's Crystalize being rather lackluster as far as a reaction goes. Wouldn't mind them doing a little something to help it. Say, have it do more damage to shields based on your EM, just go give EM a tad bit more value to geo and to make the idea of geo as a "decent against all shield elements" a bit more basis in reality.

For a long time now I've thought that Albedo should be a permanent banner 5*. Not a DPS, easy to learn and use, f2p friendly, one of the most important characters lore-wise, the character with the most dialogue in the game (or was at least, don't know if that's still true after the last few events). Having him as a limited banner character just hurts his usage, even more so now that the pyro-hydro-double geo teams have faded away and geo usually going for triple geo and not just mono geo (although I guess a lot of people prefer mono geo unga bunga).

imagine a f2p getting c6 eula on the standard banner then starts doing 1 million with the fish

The only real problem with Yoimiya(well really any Inazuma character) being on standard banner is that you can’t access Inazuma until getting to that point in the archon quests. That means Yoimiya’s ascension materials would be completely unobtainable for a new player who pulls her on standard banner for quite a while.

Well i think Geo should break shield more effective against different elements shield because they can't work well with others elements so nothing wrong if they can eat more elements aura to break shield more effectively

When working on the energy calculator sheet, it feels so confusing. But then I see you doing energy like that for Beidou looks so much simpler.

eula cons are way too strong, it'd kinda be like having shenhe on standard

I think only Albedo should, for geo, but that's

When they want to beef up the standard banner, they'll do what they did with Tignarhi which is release them, give them one rate up, then toss them into the pool. Now whether or not they'll make them an actual good character remains to be seen.

Nice, my question about Cyno/Beidou made it in. I figured it'd work, but I was mostly asking because I keep seeing people outright dismiss running Beidou with Cyno on principle of her needing a battery, without the thought that Cyno would be doing that from on-field.

14:13 this is exactly why I never got into pulling for or building geo characters. To have the best geo team you basically need itto gorou albedo ZL. That’s 3 different geo 5*’s that have little to no use outside of a geo team, apart from maybe ZL in melt ganyu. Albedo CAN be used as a fill slot in some teams, but is never the option. Itto should never be ran outside of a geo team. I’d much rather pull for a 5* like venti, kazuha, raiden, kokomi, or yelan that can all fit in many teams. Or dps 5*’s like ayaka, ganyu, hu Tao, tartaglia, or ayato whose teams all revolve around universal supporting or off-field dps characters that many teams use. Geo is simply too much of an investment for me to get into. Not to mention the geo domain is very resin inefficient if you don’t have kokomi, and you need a good 4 piece set on both itto and albedo.

Just make Wanderpog Invocation and slap Albedo on there. At the rate Genshin is going, they won't be able to rerun characters efficiently if they stick to the current setup for banners (as in, we're gonna need triple banners or a rotating standard banner).

Albedo on standard would make it harder to get secure a geo team for people not winning him in the permanent banner or to lost 50/50s. and he's necessary to make the team complete. I can go 2 years without completing my geo team if he's added to standard and i'm unlucky

Getting albedo off the standard banner would be so amazing, although the people who rolled for him as a limited would be sore about him being "devalued" and rightly so.

I do feel each element should be represented in the standard banner.

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Since you talked about Beidou, is there a possibility of using her in a Agravate comp or Mono Electrocomp without Fischl? Did Dori changed something? Like Using a C6 Dori with TF would help somehow? I Know that Fischl is a incredible unit, but lately I have been trying to depend less on her... IDK, maybe Cyno will help Beidou to rise from ashes? PS: Still pissed about Raiden x Beidou not working together

another factor to consider a character being put in standard is also how much they made. So yeah, the likes of Raiden, Ayaka, Yelan, etc. will never be on standard. So Yoimiya & Albedo is pretty much obvious choices from both meta & financial view. Klee, while her first banner made banks, that was because the game just started, just look at her rerun to see how she tanks lol. So Hoyo would not mind putting her on standard banner as well, people just don't like playing her

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I want that sword for Kazuha so bad, but then I remember back on Homa's banner how I was trying to get Wavebreaker's Fin and kept getting only Sacrificial Swords over and over. I got Homa, 2 R5 Sac Swords, and no 4 star polearm. I'm glad I risked it on a banner I could use both weapons, not gonna lie, because it was painful.

I was expecting them to add albedo on the standard banner after they released his 4* sword.

Really Geo is a fricking expensive team, luckily Noelle have so many rate ups since the start of the game that get her C6 is not that hard, but in Gorou's case, he always be with Itou, and you if don't wanna have Itto because you have C6 Noelle, then is annoying get cons for Gorou. Zhongli at least is very flexible for other teams, but Albedo is nothing amazing outside Geo Teams. Yunjin is also a very flexible unit but the Geo carries right now are claymore and catalist and they are to slow for Yunjin, and Ningguang don't scalate with DEF so her in a mono Geo as a carry is not good unless you have C6 Gorou and again is annoying to get his cons because Itto. Indeed Albedo need to be in a standard banner, and not only in a X-mas rate up.

The ONLY reason I would be upset about Albedo being put on Standard is if they didn't give him at least one more rerun before that. Because I really want Albedo- and I really want the opportunity to guarantee I get him before he's shoved into a nebulous "maybe you'll get him if you lose a 50/50". Or they could add the weapon banner thing to the standard banner, that would be cool.

If albedo was on the standard banner, I probably would have rolled for Itto. Needing both itto and albedo to play just one comp is just way too expensive for me

Honestly just put most of the older characters in the standard like any gacha games please, also gl getting c6 cons for eula in standard, the more the characters are in standard the harder it is to actually get cons, keep in mind you can get weapons as well any sane person won't pull on standard just like in any gacha games lul, but I can see why HYV not doing it, sinr they released new character after a long ass time

to your point re: wishing for a specific 4*, I remember wishing on ayaka's 1st banner only because I wanted chongyun to help me clear the new hydro abyss heralds in spiral abyss. I got c1 ayaka before I got chongyun

Agree on never rolling on the weapon banner for one specific 4* That's how I ended up with a Hunter's Path and 5 Fav Codexes in 40 pulls

I think hoyoverse just needs to fix archaic petra's clunky crystalize and geo will be fine for elemental teams

If new characters get added to the standard banner, then they should add the ability to select a character and make it like a custom limited character banner. Having more characters in the standard banner may make it worse 'cause it'll be even more random

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Considering that stringless was literally the first 4* I pulled on the game, not weapon, but 4* in general, and I still have it at r1 even though I pulled on weapon banner featuring it........yeah I never get the 4* weapon I want lmao

one thing i didnt understand about the cyno and beidou energy thing: why would you want to pair those two to begin with if i may ask? isnt cyno the one you want to battery? or doesnt he need it because he catches most of the particles? edit regarding geo: i pulled itto and did six more 10pulls after getting itto and ended up with no gorou. when i pulled for kuki/gorou on ittos rerun i ended up with c3 kuki, an itto constellation and THEN i got my first and only gorou xD

Wish for a 4* weapon in the weapon banner if: -You're ok getting ANY of the 5*s -Your account doesn't need any 4* character constellation and whatnot -That's not the only 4* weapon you want in there -You're pilling up wishes and is gonna be a while before your next banner For endgame players is mostly fine to do some pulls, tho i would say weapons in general are way less entertaining then getting new characters.

Even if the option to make another standard banner or include the very old limited chars into the current ones, mhy could still use the '2 months or more event banners' that streches over patches, with no featured 4 stars characters since thats one of the factors u re going to pull in an event banners. This one focuses more on limited old characters, but they have no seperate weapon banners. Why 2 months? Its usually what it takes for me to get to the guaranteed pity after losing 5050.

i wish i saw the math for trying to snipe a specific 4 star from the weapon banner before i dumped half my sumeru savings on it trying to get 1 copy of fav sword (ar 57, still 0 fav swords) coping by thinking i am closer to getting an eventual homa or jade cutter 🤡

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There is the Liyue region in the northwest - "Qiaoying Village" - hinted at in parts of the game. My guess is that they will release a Geo 5* with meh constellations who will go onto the Standard banner at that time when it opens up.

Can you do some maths and work out the chances of getting a 4* at C6 vs a 5* at C0? I always see CCs comparing the two but I think that point of view only makes sense when you’ve been playing since launch, when there were far less 4*s and therefore everyone could get them to C6. If you started later (I started 9 months ago) it seems obvious that getting a 4* to C6 is far more difficult than getting a 5* once

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Eula constellations are so good if she's in standard getting lucky can actually make whale damage on your account

Ok but having albedo and yoimiya on the standard is something id want for real. I can finally have albedo for my noelle team (just need gorou) and more constellations for my wife yoimiya (idk if c6 yoimiya would be any better, bu5 at least its something)

What are your thoughts as mihoyo starts to lock characters in which comps are viable. Like nilou works great with dendro and meh with any other.

The element there's the fewest characters of is geo. And considering who we know is coming out during Sumeru, this problem is only going to get worse.

Albedo, Tingari, Eula, Yoi, Xiao That's a hell of a standard banner And you give Geo, Dendro and Phy that are missing, also you give single target pyro and dps Anemo that are different from the jean and diluc

I wish they add albedo to standard but i m gessing they will probably make a new geo unit and add it there . Albedo is kinda their december filler . They release his banner with some dragonspine event and they go take their holyday 😅

Boutta put all of Mondstat on standard

how about ningguang in a quickswap geo team? like, noelle/itto + gorou + ningguang (4pc noblesse oblige) + bennet ningguangs jade wall can grant bonus geo damage and her ultra costing 40 energy can make her good in a quick swap strategy

Yeah, I agree completely about the state of Geo. Its absolutely crazy that Geo is so dependent on its 5stars (Zhongli, Albedo) or high constellation 4stars (c6 Noelle, high constellation Gorou) but they simply aren’t frequently available (only 3 Geo 4stars, two of whom are extremely new) and at the SAME TIME is the self reliant element. Tbh if I didn’t love literally everyone in the Geo cast (excepting Zhongli - who is simply too strong for me to miss) I would be struggling with a benched Albedo. I really hope they bring a Geo 5star to the standard banner at some point.

No. No no no, I completely disagree on Geo being fine, in a good spot and needing no changes. If you're making elements tier list, you will need to add 10 tiers below the second worst element just to show how bad Geo is. Especially now when Electro got boosted by Dendro to a pretty comfortable spot. 1. I fundamentally disagree with the idea of self-contained element being good in a game like GI, focused on elements and reactions. Especially the current state of the roster. Let's assume every element has 10 characters to it. When we have any non-Geo character, it has at least 60 other characters to choose from as their teammates, while Geo char will have only 10. That destroys any prospects of team building or creating a fully functional team using characters you have and not those you must have. For this idea to work, Geo needs 3 or even 4 times more characters than any other element, which is ridicuolus. 2. To play Geo teams you must have several limited 5* or specific high cons 4* and you can't swap them with anything else, because Geo works only with itself. That makes Geo teams literally the most expensive teams to play. And adding some essential Geo 5* to a standard banner is a recipe for disaster as standard 5* are virtually impossible to get. It took me 2 years of playing every day to get a single copy of Diluc and that can be considered lucky. To clarify on "you can't swap them with anything else": once you start swapping Geo characters for some other elements, there's no point using Geo characters in this team anymore, just swap them with some unit that can actually utilise all the reactions and elements you're apllying. 3. Geo lacks any identity or too much of it's characters don't follow it at all. You can take half of the Geo characters, remove their element completely and nothing will change. They have the same utility, effectivness and gameplay. It's not okay. 4. Geo sucks agains shields, but doesn't want any other elements in it's teams. The only one that half decent is Itto and you can't judge the entire element on a single unit. And various elemental shields are a permanent stay in abyss. At this point Geo is unironically a Phys recolour. IMHO, Geo dmg should be replaced with Phys and both those elements be "combined". They're working exactly the same anyway, do the same exact job in the same exact way and even have identical buffs. It just Phys is not an "official" element.

I would rather have a neutral element like geo be the worst element in game than some element that's reaction based ...as it will drag the whole reaction experience down with it

How does C1 Yelan affect Funerational rotations? What about C1 Kokomi with taser and Sukokomon comps?

if you were to bring dori to abyss, in what comp would you use?

If they add Albedo on standard, I wouldn't mind losing 50/50

I dont get this argument that Albedo is necessary for a itto geo team, cant we replace him with Bennett for that dmg buff? That's what I did with my geo team

I personally run Itto in Abyss without Albedo and he does fine. He's not broken like other meta units are, but he does the job without trouble. That said, I do have Redhorn and I'm sure that without it I wouldn't be able to 36 star. I do run Zhongli with him, but I used to run Geo traveler in his place before I pulled Zhongli and I could make it work, even though I had to struggle a lot and Traveller's balls are SO annoying. So no, you don't NEED Albedo specifically, but I agree that you still NEED some combination of other 5* resources to make it work. The whole Geo situation is sad, really.

One way to buff Geo is to have another level of elemental resonance... "If you have 3 or more characters of the same element in your party, increase elemental damage of that type by 20%.". This buffs all elements to be fair, but probably buffs geo the most as they have good teams with 3 geo units.

Lets swap Albedo and Xiao C4 and they actually have a decent constelations

I wish I had albedo, of the 6 or 7 characters I dont have I want him and ayaka but I cant justify pulling albedo when other characters I want more were coming out. Currently I only really want dehya so maybe I'll pull albedo if he reruns soon.

Having had C1 Klee since 1.0 (got early drops back to back and had no idea how wishing worked back then), if they added Klee to standard I'd be super happy. A chance to get C2 Klee when losing 50/50? That would be awesome, I wouldn't even be mad about losing 50/50 if that happened, considering that it's actually among the better C2 out there (no, of course, not on par with Raiden's, but still pretty damn good). Potentially getting some Albedo constellations would also be great, if I managed to get to C4, so that my double geo Xiao team would become that much stronger.

I do have a question: which anemo unit should i have for Kuki Hyperbloom team I also wanna know the best hydro unit as well. SCRAP THAT just tell me the best Kuki Shinobu team pls

Totally agree with this decision since I want those const

rip ningguang for not even being mentioned in the geo section.

I would only put Albedo in the Standard banner. Maybe Klee but that fucks up the symmetry of having only 1 5* of each element.

itto pretty good if on burst, sometimes i can do 70k per swing his moo moo usually reach more than 100k

albedo being on standard would actually be pog, since a lot of players have zhongli and double geo is a good team comp

I'm a Nilou simp who is planning on pulling for her weapon. I hope they put that new sword for Kazuha on that banner 😁😁

Xiao too short to meet the height reqs necessary to be put into Standard Banner Kappa LAMENT

When they release all the archons the should have an archon banner

can someone explain to me how bloom works?? i mean, the only thing that matters is the EM on the person making the hyperbloom/burgeon, or the EM of the people creating the seed is also relevant??

why are albedo and xiaos c4 swapped

I don't mind if some older limited 5*s eventually become Standard 5*s, coz if they don't then at some point we'll be seeing Triple Banners and I'm not sure how I feel about that... Hell right now I've been personally lucky in not necessarily desiring to high hell BOTH characters in these Double Banners, but if for example sometime in the future Ei and Yae are the double banners, I'm not eating anything for that month.

bestie ur so right about albedo's constellations being standard banner constellations lmaooo they are doodoo

My Eula blasts through all content in the game at C0. Although I would welcome getting free cons for Eula on a missed 50/50, she is way too strong for hoyo to ever let that happen. I also think Yoimiya is better than you give her credit for. The biggest thing Yoi has versus other characters is literally not having to move. Xingqui E, Raiden E, and any shield and she can literally melt any target in the game without losing time to dodging and repositioning. Just mash left click in the middle of the fight. Enemy teleports around? Who cares, Yoi just re-locks when they appear again. Something I also don't ever hear you talk much about Zajef is characters that counter content. The above example for Yoi is part of this sort of conversation. Eula also has this benefit that there is very little that actually counters a claymore, phys DPS with resistance to interruption (without mentioning her nuke). Whereas someone like Hu Tao is the opposite of this. Charge attack cancelling, repositioning, lots of dodging around. Hu Tao might have a higher ceiling, but comfort and ease of countering enemies means so much in Genshin when none of the content is hard enough to require a high damage ceiling. Just food for thought.

Now that you mention it... Albedo totally feels like a standard banner 5* character. I don't think people would be mad if Albedo got into the Standard Banner.

The thing that fucks with MHY the most is the legal requirement for that one statement that forbids them from adding 5* to the Standard pool even tho they did it with Tighnari(its the special case since they announced it) so their only workaround is to make a second Standard banner but that wouldn't be impossible,just leafe the one we have now as it is and make a new one with the weakest limited 5* as Standard 2 or something then add all the 5* from both Standards as 50/50 and that's it.But yeah i think they would've added some more to the Standard already at least a Geo one IF that legal requirement didn't fuck with them on the long run. They can do it and dodge the bullet but they don't want to take the risk

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zhongli, xiao , and i'm sure many others have pretty bad cons but people just don't like albedo for some reason

Even though they won’t albedo the only character I want on standerd mostly cuz I want him but don’t wanna spend any primos on him

Wait didn't Xiphos get nerfed hard after this was recorded

2:44Welll 8 days from this video somethingss gonna happen

Im a welkin only player and playing for a year. Still only have c0 noelle from the beginner banner. Lol

I love yoimia she carries me a lot through every abyss soo ... I wouldnt mind her in standard

Idk what's worse on this comment section; -TCs sheeps shitting on Eula/Yoimiya like they are unusable when the game is easy. (May as well have a soundboard with Ayzel repeating Eulabad 3000 times per second on your streams to make your average viewer happy) -Eula mains getting mega triggered by one man's opinion. -Comments talking about Eula's damage thinking you need Bennet to hit 300k in abyss when you can hit that with a 180-190cv build using a 4* weapon. -That one dude saying Kokomi is Qiqi 2.0 Ah man, Genshin community.

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Everyone is talking about Eula C6, but Klee C2 (and to a much lesser extent C4) would be pretty nice and way more reasonable to reach. Too bad that you need to play Klee to take advantage of them.

getting the one 4*weapon or chara is so hard, took me one and a half year as a low spender to get Rust bow

11:07 what's the name of that math formula?

hoyo might create a new perm banner but it wont use blue fates

i had 180 pulls, i needed fav sword to r5 cuz r1 fails to proc on kazuha c0, and i have zero weapon on yoimiya, i need two homa and a wgs for hutao xiao and eula, guess what? i got r5 fav sword, r4 rust, two homa and kne wgs. man that was a blast for me.

Yes I need Albedo make him standard banner or their make new 5 star Geo unit will be transferred in standard wishes.

brother predicted chronicled wish 17:21