He needs indicators on the health bar to distinguish his charged attack window. That red aura ain't even visible when there's too many particle effects going.

Wrio should be able to heal himself with his burst at c0 😢 would make it actually synergize with the rest of his kit at all

I think the editors should have left a disclaimer SOMEWHERE about when the rizzly is C0 or C1 in the abyss footage, like at the very least in the timestamps. It can very easily lead to misunderstandings.

My friend said that Rizzley feels more like Heizou than Wanderer (emphasis on feels) despite having the same kit because the gameplay is more about getting in your enemies’ faces

Love how he is explaining why Shenhe could have some problems with Wrio but chat is just drooling over Shenhe's talent pose.

Came here to vent. As for Wrio - he feels well balanced to me and on par with similar characters, not better, not worse. He does fine numbers, he uses artifacts from a domain that is effective to farm, he can synergize with lots of characters, he moves smoothly, he looks fire. Great. To me this is what character design should be in gacha games: make a new char effective and feeling good to play but not overcook him to become too good to make similar pre-existing characters feel worse. Ganyu and Ayaka enjoyers are still feeling fine after Wrio came out and that's good. How are Childe and Ayato enjoyers feeling rn though? I play Childe international much and I am so done with both being a Xl slave and with how stupidly strong and not reliant on the team they made Neuvilette even on C0 - to me that situation is cancer. Now every single unit will be compared to him, our perception is skewed and every unit in Fontaine other than Furina will be "underwhelming" because he exists and he is so darn strong. I remember Nick Zyox once said that he kinda (not really) regrets that Nahida is a catalyst because she is just too good and now every dendro unit coming out is always worse and won't be played much. Which is what we kinda see in the abyss usage stats - Nahida dominates the whole dendro element alone (Alhaitham is pretty high but he is always paired with her). Xl and benny killed entire pyro element for 3 years, you just can't play other pyro units cause they always will be worse. Fuck that honestly. Coming from a person who played Childe international and Alhaitham hyperbloom every abyss for god knows how many cycles. I am so ready for new comps. Wrio in burning melt with Thoma just made me feel alive again lol.

He is truly one of the units... to have surprised me pleasantly more than I anticipated because of his problems at C0. The longer I use him, I feel more adapted but damn, they really missed the mark with what they did to the first part of his C1 being locked away. It's a resource that is unique to the character, and they locked it away. It's like as if they locked away Neuvillette's hydro orbs behind his C1 😹

when i saw his punching mechanics it gave me extreme dehya vibes so i was worried lmao, HOWEVER I AM PLEASANTLY SURPRISED

wow, his burst animation is noticeably long but strangely it doesn't bother me. it just looks so cool every time

My first impression playing in the trial is that its surprisingly difficult, with the enemies they chose, to clear in a way that feels satisfying. Usually they pick a lineup which suits their damage profile, but it seems like they didn't even bother with that, which makes him feel pretty wack. Another thing I noticed is that he's really cool and I like his animations sound effects, references and voice acting, its just a shame that he's not worth pulling, and especially not this patch...

Sam is a legendary editor FeelsAmazingMan

I'm just happy that we now have a Cryo DPS that it don't felt a hindrance to play, like I get it being HP negative but gameplay wise experience he so smooth.

Looking forward to seeing Bain-Marie Rizzley when Furina comes out. As always, big thanks to Zajef and the editing team for these videos.

Personally I like him, but I still think two things: 1) He should have came out before Neuvilette since literally every comparison from now on will be how strong and easy they are compared to Neuvilette. 2) Im keeping hope that he will pull a Kuki and have better units that come out later that are a better team comp for him. Honestly all the current 5 stars in Fontaine feel like the characters available at the moment aren’t their best teams. Very good teams, but not the best.

Comparing him with other drivers and carries, he really does feel middle of the road. Not bad, but if you have units like Wanderer, Alhaitham and Neuvilette, he can definitely feel incomplete or underwhelming. I’m not gonna pass judgement on him until Furina enters the stage though. Right now, I think it’s more important to tweak things like the visibility of his buffs. There’s too much sh*t on screen, especially for a melee character who attacks at point blank range, for me to notice his buff changes in the heat of combat.

I've been doing Wriothesley Nahida Thoma Bennet. It feels fine in single target but I think he is really held back by the lack of off field pyro characters. For me Xiangling feels awful to play with him because of how much of a chore it is too keep Xiangling's burst up.

If anything I consider him more of a Yoimiya than a Wanderer. Both are NA focused (unless youre C1), both have enhancement Es that keep them on field, both have ults that dont really do much for them, and both are on-field drivers for their comps. That said I dont have Ayaka so Im more fine with him. Id arguably say his lack of AoE without C1 atleast is felt. With C1 his CA becomes very consistent and imo flows better.

Wriothesley is at least a great option to take on the Mondstadt hydro domain

I love when Zajef talks about Shenhe, chat was like looking away 'respectfully' and act like they listen to him lmao

sam youre a legend, holyyy high quality as always and so fast 🫡

He’s good enough that people who pulled for him won’t be disappointed, but he’s not extremely good to the point that people feel forced to pull him. Reminds me of a certain someone

A fun team that doesn’t revolve around circle impact is Wrio, Baizhu, Thoma, and Kazuha (you can also swap out kazuha for a hydro character for freezing or burgeon and it works really well). I was able to one cycle the seahorse in spiral abyss and 36 star the abyss with him. You get very consistent melts and you get plenty of healing if you mess up from Baizhu. Kazuha does great grouping and if you swirl the cryo for his ult you get a huge cryo damage boost too so it works just fine. 36 starring the abyss with ease using that team so I wasn’t disappointed. Plus if enemies ran away from the grouping or I missed I could still proc the burn/melt because of the Baizhu/Thoma ults just staying on your character. You don’t have to worry so much about enemies running away. Sure it’s not the highest dps ceiling team for him but it’s comfy, easy, and does a lot of damage.

I kinda like his burgeon and burnmelt teams. Burgeon helps in AoE damage since he's mostly single target. His cryo/freeze team feels meh if you don't have Shenhe to buff him and that he shatters frozen enemies.

He may be bugged also as dashing in his combo seems to reset it despite his kit saying it shouldn't

Having Heizou theme song in bgm for Wriothesley video, I see what you tou did there.

So far from the video (the first half), his reverse melt and hyperfridge looks nice. This gives him an advantage (team-wise) over other Cryo DPS we had in the game although I still prefer reverse melt Ganyu tbh. And, does it seem that his freeze is worse? Some issues that I encountered with him is that he feels more clunky (Pauses during combo + NA continuation is inconsistent) compared to Ayaka and Ganyu and I can't tell if it's a controller issue or some weird mechanics.

One thing that leaves me a little confused is whether I actually activated his elemental ability in combat, since he doesn't have any obvious animation like all the other characters if you are very close to an foe

a team that felt good for me was tenacity layla, with an em noblese thoma and kazuha. i still think he feels lacking but that was a team enough to get be through abyss with him with 36 stars. (used hyperbloom neuvi on the other side)

I really like his playstile, its so fun to punch enemies in the face lol. I'm really looking forward to pulling Furina and Shenhe to support him in a freeze team, right now it just feels fine, but a bit awkward. I've also tried melt teams in abyss, but man does circle impact make me mald. Especially with those stupid mechs that don't stay in one place for more than 2 seconds😢 Maybe i need to try some burnmelt/oven/hyperfridge teams for now.

its intresting and annoying at the same time that his E only taking 4.5% per hit, the amount of persicion needed to manage 3 ticks to get the A1well under bennetts burst is super specific with its tick rate that i think its possible but not realistic.

I would go for him if I could also get his C1, but I want to save everything to try to get Furina C2. Will have to wait for his rerun. Good to know that he is better than expected. The gameplay with C1 does look kinda fun.

Wriothesley's C1 indicates that the duration of his E can last originally 10 seconds to 14 seconds. The cooldown of his E is 16 seconds. But I think it's extended by hitlag. I was fighting Masanori with only him, and while consistently hitting my attacks and CAs, I was able to press E again before it ended. Tried again and there was maybe a 1 second margin till it ended? Unsure, but I'm almost 80% sure its extended by hitlag.

I think a big problem with him is the nature of cryo interactions. Offensively speaking, they all suck outside of melt. And, sure, there's Freeze, but that is A) more CC than offense and B) tends to work best with a character that deals its damage, in a relatively small window with some reasonable AoE. Superconduct really needs to be reworked, for the sake of both physical and cryo. His damage seemed okay, though, and I expect he'll have casual appeal because you cryo-punch all the time. Nothing too complicated. Have some healing. Apply some pyro. Punch.

I thought it would’ve been really cool if his ult was similar to Keqings, where it’s pretty much a mini nuke, but with a small bonus of something to go along with it. Maybe a decrease in enemy’s cryo resistance would’ve been cool, or even something as small as a burst of health. I’m not complaining too much though, he’s really fun imo, I don’t have too many amazing characters, childe international and keqing aggrevate (but with Yao Yao and Dendro traveler) being my “strongest” teams. But I have a lot more fun with childe in burgeon and my Wrio in a burn-melt, than international.

HoYo just updated his kit, still waiting for your response and testing. Keep it up!

C1 with his signature weapon are pretty strong. Add in Furina once she comes out and I bet he'll be incredibly strong.

Got C1 Wriothesley and a Jean constellation within 70 pulls. So much fun to play so far. Still got 36 stars with Wrio on 1st half and C0 Ayato on 2nd half. No 5-star weapons. When it comes to power level, I'm gonna reserve my judgement for when the rest of the Fontaine cast get released (Furina, Sigewinne, + Cloud retainer maybe) because at the moment, his HP drain ability only triggers Marichaussee Hunter set. The only feeling of annoyance I've gotten so far while playing him is when enemies teleport away just as he does his charged attack. Extremely frustrating. I wish Hoyoverse would add some sort of tracking+teleport to these extremely important attacks given the fact that it already has miniscule range and AoE to begin with. And some DMG resistance during the charged attack as well. I think these would make him extremely smooth to play without making him OP.

I wish he didn't have so many issues because based on the demo his punches feel really good to do.

He looks hella cool, but i haven't really been enjoying playing him. I've really liked doing the big drain and then big heals from the Fontaine characters, but you cant do that with him. You also have to get reaaaaaally close and, uh, yea...... If he healed himself more, or maybe got rid of the 50% hp threshold for his skill, that'd prolly feel much nicer.

He looks cool and feels good, hell only get better with furina. Ill get him on his rerun probably

He seemed fun tbh. I might want to pull on a rerun, since Furina is around the corner and she seems great if dreams are true

I pulled him as my first limited 5* on my f2p account since I use it to play with units I don't normally pick on my main (I'm low AR and I won't do Abyss there). I have him with a shield and 2 healers in melt and he keeps dying to hilichurls... he's completely artifact dependent - until I can farm a good set for him so that he can kill before taking a hit, he's made of glass. Not to mention how infuriating farming his bugs is... Man, I really want to love him though.

thus the song of ice and fire is complete

It would be cool if you rated the teams when you do them maybe with an on screen number like 4/5 or 6/10 etc

Considering the amount of hype around him good to have a balanced opinion.

Keep calm and wait for Furina

to be honest i play him with dehya, xq and mona and have never seen such great ult uptimes with other teams and dehya keeps him on field for awhile. i’ve tried hyperfridge too but since i dont have nahida (im using collei), it feels okay

Would you say he's Cyno level right now? If so, maybe a unit down the line will help him out much like how later units help Cyno out

The title and thumbnail seems a lot harsher than the closing thoughts lol

I'm loving the melt archetype with him. Hyperbloom is always good on virtually any char but he's other teams feel great still. Def not as bad as Mr.Zaj made it seem to be earlier.

Oven looks surprisingly fun.

The thing is his aoe is linear not omnidirectional, I wouldn't say it's bad just different

Yo what we think of Layla with him? I kinda wanna use characters i havent used before so i wanna try Layla Mona and then Jean if i need heals otherwise Lynette

The difference from c0 do c1 is quite big in terms of fun and mechanics, he is still average in c0, but c1 he just feels amazing to play, hopefully mihoyo dosent follow this tru

This abyss needs grouping.

he is nice as cyro users goes. again his supports will make or break him. just make sure to have a healer with him. future units proof for sure

I like Burn-melt with Thoma and Nahida. I can get consistent melt procs 60-80k+ on NAs and 150k+ on CA. I feel like he will get "better" over time with new char releases and once people figure out the combos better. Right now his teams feel all over the place with not one being the absolute best, unlike Ayaka with freeze comps. So definitely not a char to pull now if you want a really broken DPS. But he does the job (albeit the Abyss this patch favors him).

will there be an ask zajef venti edition? kinda wants to get him but not sure really

I somehow got a C1 Wriothesley so I don't really know how he feels at C0.

Zajef77 have you considered Sayu for healerless teams instead of kazuha as vv shread healer? (not grouper tho, unlucky)

Does Zajef play other ppl's accounts? I'm curious if I'm having a skill issue or artifact issue with my account sometime haha

How did he edit it so fast! Great video nonetheless!

9:15 That Pyronado sync.

Idk, i think he feels very good to play. i have him C0, running him with bennett, kazuha, nahida for burnmelt, and he's performing REALLY well. he's hitting 70 k charges without A1, and 90k with A1, and 30-40k melt normals, plus 50k melts on the burst ticks that melt, 25 on the ones that don't. not only that, bennett manages to keep him healed so he has good uptime on his E buff, but the burning self-damage alongside his E's HP drain manages to get him down to 60% enough for him to proc A1 consistently. plus, Nahida and Kazuha do some good dmg themselves too. managed to clear all first half of abyss with a good 1 or 2 rotations. he could be better for sure, and he definetly feels like C1 would be like the missing puzzle piece to his kit, but he does not feel bad or weak at ALL at c0

I am a mobile genshin layer with 2 accounts that are ar 56 with decent characters and artifacts but I have never managed to do anything better than floor 11 + 3 or 4 stars at best in floor 12 i think it might make interesting content to just see if its a skill / mobile issue (its very laggy and everything feels much slower in general) or that the accounts still need work do contact me if you think thats a good idea

got him c1r1 around 150 pulls and im really happy so far he is so satisfying to use and im excited to use him with furina

i got him and his c1 early i’m so happy😭

Considering he is a cryo user its actually not too bad on what he could do.

7:37 that mouse? keyboard? spamming sound is so funny to me idk why

Nah I don’t see him toppling Neuvillette from Most Used Spiral Abyss Characters who himself broke Nahida’s months long reign.

Behold! The single fist of Vander!

Personally, I wasn't expecting him to be this meta breaking unit but he actually feels better than I was expecting at least from what all the talk around him leading up to his release led me to believe. I've been playing him more NA focused than CA focused and just using his CA more as a way to heal up once every 5s instead and I've been pretty satisfied. I'm honestly not a fan of his Bennett/Xiangling melt comps just because it usually feels so janky to play especially with Bennett's somewhat anti-synergy with him, the way Wrio's icd and attack string lines up, and not to mention Xiangling's annoying energy needs. One particular comp I'm having fun with is a Wrio/Kazuha/Shenhe/Yunjin comp where I use Kazuha and Shenhe's skills and i-frames to dodge, Yunjin's skill to parry, and Wrio's CA to heal up whenever necessary. It's not too great against things like rifthounds but it actually feels pretty engaging and fun to play and takes more skill than comps like hyperbloom that you can just go on autopilot for the most part. Admittedly though, I have been playing for a while so I do have Kazuha's and Shenhe's C1 so those really help fill out rotations and help with energy.

And all of his teams are good at c1. I'm happy that i got 2 Wriothesley from 10 pulls and i have shenhe. But his c0 is underwhelming as hell

Yay caught an early upload

Maybe if rizzly could heal via ult he could have good sole sustain

Why not Tap EQ Shenhe (plus team rotations) & spend all the stacks with Wriothesley's Burst, then swap back to Shenhe for either Tap/Hold E & start punching the enemies with Wriothesley? Yeah your burst doesnt benefit from the 30% ATK buff, but it's very minor when you already have Bennett, plus the rotation is much smoother this way. The same logic can also be applied to Freeze/Mono Cryo Teams. He also get to benefit from his own particle by not having his burst at 100% energy while he's generating his own particle.

my takeaway from playing him in the story quest and seeing this is that he's ok and can be made to work if you want to, but he doesnt make any new teams viable and he's never the best choice in existing teams. my main issue with his kit is that he's the first unit where hp manipulation is a pain and instead of feeling like a reward for getting it right its a punishment for getting it wrong, coz when played perfectly in a team with the right amount of healing he's still worse than freeze ayaka and only on par with melt ganyu, who are both way easier to play. the only teams where he is an upgrade over other cryo units is as a flex onfielder for dendro teams, which can be done by half the units in the game, so unless you love his design or hate ayaka's and ganyu's (which is based ngl) there's no reason to get him

last time i saw the title was on dehya's video...

in the freeze team with kaeya, what does kaeya provide? off-field application?

Genshin making the sexiest 5 star in a region have disappointing kits seems like a pattern huh. I'm just glad he's not Dehya at this point.

How are his teams/rotations changed with his C1? I've literally been waiting on this man since the day my wife rolled on Ayaka so I knew he was a must have for my account. Of course doing my due diligence, I knew if I wanted him to feel better to play, C1 was almost a necessity so I went for it.

Did he do any testing with C1? How much of a difference does it make for his kit?

imagine of superconduct did something beneficial for cryo dmg. hyperfridge would be cracked

You really need to raise your mic noise gate. The clicks are so loud

I guess I'm not the only one who's struggling with Wrio after I pulled up to his C1 KNOWING he's going to be difficult to play with. This is the first character that I'm actively studying kits and teams from people who know their stuff in genshin. You could say his "mid"-ness made me a better player.

Zajef's keyboard kun, getting smacked so hard

I like his playstyle, would have wished for him, but none of his efficient teams work for me, so I'll skip for now and consider his rerun when more units are out that synergize better with him. I'm more worried about Furina...she "seems" way too specific and underwhelming for an Archon...but I'll wait for release and how she actually performs/works. But my personal first impression is that she's a situational sidegrade to already existing units, rather than the best at what she does, how it should be for an Archon.

no hate but watching it closely your barely used the charge attack. were you waiting for a specific moment?

Why is the term for Burgeon + Cryo “oven”? Are ovens cold?

I NEED MORE BULLETS -WarioSlay 2k23

you should try the hypercarry tream, Wriothesley senhe kazuha bennet

Catalyst users already deals elemental dmg with their NA and CA, so what's the point of a "NA+" E skill? I don't get why they keep not designing actually innovative kits...

his C1 feels so fucking good, im pissed off at mihoyo for gateing what feels like his TRUE KIT behind a pay wall

I think he's gonna be another Yoimiya situation. As in he's gonna shine brighter as new units come out like how Yunjin really bumped up Yoimiyas numbers

C1 Really makes me want for him

is the background music Yelan's Theme? edit: nvm it's heizou's

Me thanking my C0 Ayato that didnt even need constellation to feel complete

To anyone that's C1'd him; thoughts on his teams etc with C1, does it change much?

8:48 Tekken?

The only thing bigger than his absolutely massive dumpy are his abyss clear times