I love the explanations of personal experience with characters!

Yeah, I really like it that she talks so much about her own opinions and experiences with the characters and also their personality and appearance in stories! At the same time it’s a pretty good guide and just shows you everything you need to know about the character

yeah she needs more subs.

Yeah it's frustrating to reach the point where there's little reason to pull for most characters since they're starting to overlap roles... 😬Hope they don't go down the powercreep route though, since that'd be even worse!

@@raptori We are cooked 🤭

​@@raptoriwith New imaginarium teather, "overlapping" Character have more use now

@@krumi_hazuki1440 True! I'm really looking forward to that mode - I have 57 characters built, plus fully pre-farmed for both Clorinde and Sethos... I may have a problem 😅

May she dro[ by in a single 10 pull next time 😊💜

@@saurusness thank you 🥺💜

she shines in the current abyss for sure!

thank you thea 🥰💜

Hope you get her!! 💜

what do YOU think 👀

Oh that’s interesting! I need to look up how she sounds in Chinese now…

OOh that's really interesting 👀 I haven't heard her other dubs, but yeah the EN one is more of a "mysterious" enigma type voice, that makes it hard to assess ehr true intentions, which I think is a perfect fit. I was also on the fence before completing her story quest, but really liked what it revealed in the end! It definitely does have a huge effect though; in HSS I can't stand Kafka because of her EN voice, and that voice is actually the final thing that 'forced' me to change my in game dub to non-english because her voice was literally making me nauseous???

@@saurusness That was my experience with Paimon, though it wasn't only her. After a few months it became impossible for me to keep playing the game in English. I've been really happy with the CN dub. So many of the voices are just so pleasing and silky smooth and lower-pitched. (Teyvat in CN has fewer adolescents and more adults.) Even Paimon is perfectly fine. And there are other benefits. The animations match the voice lines. And, for a person who doesn't speak Chinese, it's harder to get tired of characters saying the same things over and over because your brain doesn't know what the words mean. But it's also fun to start recognizing simple Chinese words and phrases in other contexts.

thank you! 🥺💜

Yeah it's bizarre that the best cryo off-field DPS characters are Kaeya and Ganyu 😂Such a contrast to hydro

@@raptori ikr but maybe that will be to overpowered. But hydro is mihoyo precious favorite ;)

@@hermenbuitendijk580 Yeah true! I'd say I'm sure they could balance it right, but... that doesn't seem their strong suit 😅

yeah I definitley prefer her normal playstyle to Hu Tao as well, though I've foudn I relaly enjoy HT plunge with Xianyun, so that's her new niche I guess 😅

aww thank you! 😊💜

LOL I guess if it works, it works?!

Ouch that's the worst 😭 I had the same experience with Chiori and it really dampens the initial excitement... I hope you get double gold on your next banner to compensate 💜

Yeah stack generation won't be an issue in that team because Jean is a team-wide healer! Her burst pretty much instantly maxes out Furina's buff. Same goes for Charlotte, and Baizhu, plus others like Kokomi or Yaoyao during their bursts. Still not as good as it could've been since the healing is a little bit wasted in an Arle team 👀

@@raptori Well it's not as big as people make it out to be. You get into harder hitting things like the legends then your supports not dying when they hit for an obscene amount is kind of a nice bonus. They still are effected by the drain. Then outside of Jean providing VV the others can help set up for elemental reactions. You really only need to worry about Arle's damage. She is going to do more than enough damage. Furina and Mona in my comp do some serious damage buffing and since my Jean is c2 she provides attack speed. That does feel pretty good to me despite it not being considered the best thing due to hit lag. It's not nearly as bad as people like to make it out to be. Some people were making it out like you can't get Furina's stacks and She makes Arle too squishy and It's not the bad set up as some people would have you believe. The healing is primarily to gain stacks for Furina's buffs and you can still get a lot of fanfare and Arle is going to provide some because of her burst. However, some supports are pretty squishy when you dont use a shield. Your supports die then that is a dps loss. Everyone in my comp is doing something. Furina= more damage for Arle and high off field damage, Jean VV shred and attack shred while Sucrose may provide more buffing potential for a VV spot Jean still does provide VV and Attack speed and is still more damage and Mona crazy buffing potential. Nothing is really wasted. It's my best preforming comp when you are focusing on vape damage. C4 For Arle too makes for you to pretty much almost be able to to burst on command with little to no ER. It's super underrated for a Furina comp. Most people don't have it but you go from low healing to instant full and you are better set up for Normals because Furina's buff is still up. Granted my Arle is c6 but in one rotation of bursts then normals through one bar of BOL I can do 2.2 million damage in just a few seconds from just normals. No being a slave to Benny's prison circle either. You can do a crazy amount of damage without doing C6 in this comp too. I don't find anything to be all that wasted in the end to be honest.

@@ambersdarkfox Oh yeah I wasn't saying it's necessarily bad! For me, it was noticeably less comfortable - BUT the whole point of a character like Arle is that you're trading comfort for both more damage, and extra satisfaction when you get things right. I'd have loved it if Arle/Furina teams were like 10-20% stronger than her other teams and just had even more extra risk, but for me they were practically identical in terms of DPS to the teams with a shielder, for whatever reason, so the extra risk added by Furina's health drain wasn't worth it. That could totally have just been bad luck with the ones I tried or something though! Glad it works out for you though, sounds like a fun team to play!

That's because she only makes videos about characters she actually has on her account, and she doesn't pull for ones she doesn't like 😜 That's definitely a short list though 😂

sorry for the delayed reply I was very sick for a week and I'm only just catching up! The funny thing is; several of the characters I've made videos about I started off REALLY disliking (like Faruzan, Hu Tao, and actuall even Yae Miko!), but while getting to know them through their playstyle and their backstories I almost always end up appreciating them a little more, even if they don't end up as "favourites" :D Meanwhile the characters I really don't care much for I end up avoiding completely and thus I feel like I can't really truly "review" them 😅

Yeah 100% agreed on her story quest, feels like it'd be really odd without that extra context. Strange decisions all round! The problem I had with Arle plunge is that she seems to take forever to finish her plunge animation, and dash cancelling wasn't working... wonder if doing a normal attack cancels the animation for her 🤔 For all the other characters I love doing plunge -> dash -> jump -> plunge since it lets you do the plunges super quickly, for her it just didn't let me!

A normal attack is my first reaction when ending the plunge. My sequence is plunge -> normal -> jump -> plunge and it feels shorter, I tend to go with natural feel and how my instincts want to react in the action and it feels faster that way though it may actually be cancelling the animation I haven't actually paid attention to that - I shall check it out in abyss and see if that's what's happening or it's just me not noticing the length of the animation which is totally possible🔍

@@82ilerya Yeah makes sense - if it feels natural then that probably means you're doing it right! Depending on the character normals should cancel the animation too, but then again so should dashes 😆 kinda annoying how inconsistent it is really!

YEah the short was AWESOME but i really question whether it should have just been released after with a warning that it'll spoil her story quest some.... I think the experience would have been completley different!

I haven't followed any discussions, but I'm very excited to try Clorinde! I'm a firm believer in pullign hcracters you enjoy regardless of what others say 😊

RIP, always sucks to lose 50/50. Hope you get her when she re-runs!

@@raptori thank you!

Gahh that sucks :( I hope you gt a doublke gold to make up for this loss next time 💜

Huh, I had always thought of Rosaria as a buffer rather than a sub DPS. Maybe finally a reason to build her 🤔

@@raptori Melt rosaria (rosaria, benny, xl, sucrose) is absolutely amazing. I have used this team in abyss to 36* for almost 3 years without fail in my 4* only runs. Her teamwide crit rate buff is just cherry on top. In the last abyss rotation blessing my rosaria was sweeping enemies with 100k+ ticks.

​@@UzzyB945 Nice! She was one of my first C6 4 stars, but I just never levelled her past 20... 😅

I.... admittedly often forget Rosaria exists - this is not the first time she's escaped my attention💀I think I ought to make building her finally a top priority to stop that from happening! 😅

hahah likely not honestly! My new favourite hu tao team is Hu Tao plunge with Xinayun - or Hu Xiao as it's been dubbed - so there's a different kind of novelty there!

Ooh with geo resonance too then absolutely worth it. The main reason I've been avoiding using Yun Jin with Arle is that I prefer other shielders to Zhongli - with those two together on the team it'd be fantastic though. I often used Zhongli, Yun Jin, and Xingqiu as the team for Yoimiya; with Arle the same team would be top tier!

@@raptori i have Thoma built, but for burgeon. For shields and especially in abyss with very aggressive mobs I default to zhongli, pyro resonance with thoma and dmg reduction with Xq would be enough but my Thoma is C5 and I would use him for NA buffs but not untill I get him to C6.

@@kuvrut7747 Yeah makes sense, Thoma is amazing for burgeon anyway! So far I've been using Arle with Layla instead of Zhongli, prefer her since she's so quick to cast her shield...

@@raptori yeah but such a pain to build cuz he needs so much ER and still EM. Still I like burgeon with Ayato or Baizhu.

@@kuvrut7747 Yeah true - worth it though!

Yes essentially! I think she wanted to distance herself from "Mother", andperhas as an added perk it ads to the mystery of her position and allows her to in some way stay a step ahead of the enemy occasionally