Xingqiu salesman creating a special tier just for Xingqiu, truly a classic.

cryo characters really need more love, feels like after the freeze meta few years ago they've been left to rot

As Xingqiu entered the spiral abyss, the traveler asked him, " would you be able to be more broken than Furina?" Xingqiu replied, "Well, if she used her 4th Ascension Passive, it might give me a little trouble" "But would you be powercrept?" " Nah, I'd Win" As Xingqiu approached Furina, Furina asked " Are you meta because you're Xingqiu, or are you Xingqiu because you are meta?" At that moment, Furina opened up her Domain, Let the People Rejoice, and buffed Yelan's damage with full Fanfare stacks and Hydro Resonance. "Stand Proud" said Furina, "You are viable. But when it comes to Genshin Impact, throughout Teyvat and Celestia, I alone am the Hydro Archon"

1:03 Beginning 3:13 Xingqiu 4:05 He don't like xingqiu 😱 7:33 Yunjin 8:00 Lisa 8:56 Amber 9:13 Noelle 9:36 Barbruh 9:42 Add nilou teams to hyperbloom tier 10:48 Sucrose 11:39 Fischl 12:23 Xingqiu c0 not best character 😱 12:32 Xingqiu tier ? 12:39 Yelan vs c0 xingqiu 13:33 c2 Yelan vs c6 xingqiu 14:05 Zajef vs viewers 15:41 Defensive utility > DMG when ? 16:19 c4 xiangling > xingqiu ? 16:23 Kaeya 16:32 Razor 17:02 c6 Yunjin vs bennet w/ yoimiya 18:00 Bennet ( vs xingqiu obviously it's zajef) 19:27 ZyoxEatingAnEggplant 19:32 Xingqiu 20:16 5 Best units in the game ??? 20:41 Why zhongli 21:11 Why no kazuha 22:52 Ningguang 23:34 Beidou 25:17 Xiangling 25:39 Xiangling vs fischl 26:10 Xiangling and bennet, misconception, er 27:31 Chongyun 29:58 End of chong yapping, ranking him 30:07 Diona 30:28 Strange tcg player 30:36 Xinyan 31:03 Rosaria 31:11 COOL IT 31:19 Yanfei 31:32 Sayu 32:08 Sara 32:38 Thoma 32:44 New tier 33:04 Explanation of new tier 33:42 tl;dr new tier explanation 33:57 Xiangling powercreep ??? 34:41 Back to thoma 34:57 Layla vs thoma 35:34 Layla with arlecchino 36:15 Gorou 36:38 Kuki 37:38 Heizou 39:22 Why people think heizou is bad but that's not true ? 39:35 Collei 40:54 Dori 42:22 Candace and why so high, + candace vs xingqiu with arlecchino 44:16 Layla 44:54 Faruzan 45:28 Why not sara w/ her 46:28 Yaoyao, and why nahida is above everyone in dendro 90% of the time 47:51 Mika, lack of phys carry 48:32 Kaveh 48:45 Kirara 50:51 why diona so low in comparison ? 52:27 Lynette 52:30 He disappear 52:36 lol 53:02 Back at lynette, lynette vs heizou 53:31 Freminet 54:00 Freminet razor language explanation 54:16 Charlotte 54:29 Mika not cryo ??? 55:16 Chevreuse 55:37 Gaaaa ming 56:25 Tl;Dr gaming 56:56 Sethos 57:24 End 57:30 Not the end 57:36 Travelers 57:57 ¿Furina? 58:14 Please screenshot out of context 58:19 Hydro mc : Strongest character 58:39 Disclaimer 58:43 Geo mc 58:51 Anemo mc 59:19 Electro mc 59:37 Dendro mc (nahida again) 59:59 collei slander 1:00:23 THE END 1:00:30 TU TURU TURURU

The xingqiu glazer strikes again Edit: I am not denying how good xingqiu is, but the way he glazes him on any given opportunity is funny to me, lol

Is XQ Zajef's strongest soldier or is it the other way around?

Chongyun is one of those characters that I can never find an optimal reason to play, but I can find like 30 different excuses to build wacky teams around his unique utility, and that's who I love him ❤

Still waiting for an Off-field Normal Attacker to capitalize on Yunjin's 120+ wasted stacks.

Faruzan C5-C6 is so drastic that it makes the constellation feel like having another 5 star on your team. It's the best way I can describe it

Kirara should be higher because she goes "Nya!" when you jump around in box-cat form Very Pog indeed

anytime i see any genshin tierlist video it's just the maker fighting for their life as chat criticizes anything and everything they say lol

"nobody pulls for 4* specifically on a banner" On my way too pull for C6 Faruzan in Wanderer banner even though I don't like or want Wanderer

People act like zajef talks out of his ass when he literally tests most stuff on stream in abyss and does math on stream as well. And most of these people never even use units like sucrose or beidou and just think they are not as good as he says. He even tested frickin geo mc with navia in abyss to see how good it is. Not many people test as much as he does. Most of the things he doesnt test are 5 star constellations which arent relevant for most people anyway

Why Neuvillette isn't always better than Kazuha: It's very simple. You play on fielders because you like them. You play off fielders to work in a team. There can be exceptions, but in general that's how a lot of people approach it. People want to play their Ayaka, or Navia, or Hu Tao, or whatever, and don't care if Neuvillette is better because they don't like him as much. Whereas that argument doesn't tend to apply to off fielders nearly as much unless players actively DISLIKE them.

Bennett also deserves at the top with Xingqiu honestly, both of them have different jobs that do outstandingly well in their department. Still don't know how he has this unhealthy amount of glazing to Xingqiu, but surprisingly enough he had a healthy relationship with Bennett from the early days till now.

7:15 here's where the XQ part ends, y'all can thank me later

Sucrose just isnt better than Kazuha to the average player though. The avg player wants grouping & dmg buff & Kazuha is the one who gets that done properly cos Sucrose can be a little more tricky to use. He talks about the avg player when he mentions Zhongli or Xingqiu but not when he mentions Kazuha which is where I find myself disagreeing. Cos when you are unable to group enemies properly or unable to infuse an element accurately with Sucrose because of her clunky 1.0 kit features, Kazuha really shines. idc how good Sucrose is, she just ISNT for the avg player. Just like Childe isn't or like how Zhongli IS!

watching people getting triggered over another genshin tier list is my favourite genre of entertainment

when im in a glazing competition and my opponent is zajef

Xingqiu77 strikes again.

Sethos, Layla, Kaveh and Candace are SSS tier characters in the “omg you’re so pretty and beautiful” category 🤭

dori ranked high? ive seen enough this tierlist is BASED

It's funny how when they talk about Zhongli, defensive utility is so important but when Xq is in the equation suddenly it doesn't matter.

He just said yelan is worse than c0 xq 😭😭

Been playing Beidou with Fischl, Chevy and Arlecchino and it's SOOOO fun. I've built her a long time ago but never managed her to slot her properly in a good team. But I think she has found her place now!

I think Zajef overrates xingqiu’s defensive utility. In hard hitting abyss sides (copellia) the extra resistance is usually not enough and a healer is required. At that point using a furina team tends to be more “comfy” as faster clears for me tend to lessen how perfect execution needs to be.

first comment? that aside zejef has Been one of my favorite genshin youtubers. I wish I knew about him when I first got into genshin

I know Bennett is an absolutely amazing character, but with additions like Nahida, Furina, and, recently, Xianyun, it becomes harder and harder to continue tolerating Circle Impact (Let alone with all the new enemies that dash/teleport out of bennett's burst). Still an amazing character, but I would still knock him down a tiny peg because of circle impact. But that's just me since I know there are others who dont see the circle impact as an impactful negative factor.

layla shield is big enough that you can comfortably rely on it not to break

Alternative title: "1 hour talk on why xingqiu is better than every other character in genshin"

Opinion is currently fichel at c0 still okey to use? If don't have c6 fichel?

36:00 wouldnt layla turn vapes into melts, for more damage? How does layla steal arlecchino's reactions?

I just recently got back into Genshin after leaving in 3.5 and was wondering how much the meta has changed since then (the top two teams were Childe International and Nahida Double Hydro Hyperbloom)? What would be considered as the top two meta teams now?

Cheeseburgers

how good would skill dps Diluc be with Sigewinne? or Yun Jin buffing with Clorinde? or Ayaka bond of life weapon plus set in a melt team? (Sorry for asking a bunch of questions)

While I get that Xingqiu is really strong, I just haven't used him in abyss for a long time now. My teams are mostly like Neuvillette, Raiden Furina, Al Haitham Spread, Childe International, heck I even try to fit in Wanderer - Chiori - Ning - Flex on lower floors if I get the chance lol. And even in that team, the flex goes to Yelan usually simply because Geo already shields me so well Only this abyss I've finally dusted him off, purely for an Arlecchino team on Floor 12. I get that XQ is really strong, but he's not the type of unit I'd build my teams around. And with the amount of chars we have these days...

I think this tierlist is just a sales pitch for Xingqiu

Are you a Xingqiu glazer because you're Zajef or are you Zajef because you're a Xingqiu glazer

I feel like beidou is a character you use when you don’t have other options lol. She’s also somewhat splashable, on neuvi teams, or chevruse teams.

can someone explain this Candace + Arlecchino thing? I thought her pyro couldn't be overridden

Zajef out here showing off his Xingqiu simphood with pride...again.

zajef's xingqiu is like socks' xiangling

neuvillette over kazuha cuz neuvillette has good aoe consolidation doesn't change the fact that kaz brings good aoe consolidation to many different teams, whilst neuvillette can only bring it to his own teams. and some players prefer playing many different teams

God we need better off field cryo. All pf the options are just pretty mid

C6 Faruzan feels like a 5* to me. Built her as a sub dps with golden troupe which she does great (20k+ skill procs), then she does anemo dmg bonus, res shred, crit dmg buff, and battery for the whole team. Burst has 2 seconds of downtime, 6 second skill cd, crowd control, fast charged shots... what is she missing?

Xingqiu can be replaced by Yelan ,Yelan is the 5star version of xingqiu with more Dps potential. But Bennett can't be replaced by anyone,nobody can replace Bennett! You may be able to find a better buffer or a better healer but no single character can do what Bennett does(alone). And for people who are saying Bennett is getting useless,most of the characters released in fontaine need him(even Arlecchino )except for maybe Neuvillette. He can only be replaced by maybe a 5 star version of him if they release one in natlan.

Now i know my acc is blessed from day 1 when i got atlest 1 of all characters in 1st second teir and venti back in 1.0

48% damage reduction and all you need is a hydro goblet and crowned E on xinqiu is nuts. Combine this with shields and it becomes nigh unbreakable. More so with zhongli.

Many of us thought the 1.0 characters would fall off a bit, but they have mostly remained the same or have gotten stronger (fischl Hyperloom) over time. I'm glad there's no power creep, but the game state feels very stale with the same characters being just as optimal as they were 3 years ago.

for gaming if you make use of his HP fluctuations with the artifact set and make sure his crit rate is good, he can dps. i have him c6 though, and that makes a difference because iirc its his c2 that means i dont have to focus on ER for the healing from his Q and can just focus on ATK

Can you use thoma with Arlecchino?

I'd like to also point out how freeze (as it appears to me) has become mores valuable for other carries as opposed to cryo. Neuvillette and wanderer benefit from freeze moreso than any other character not named ayaka. Which is ironic considering a hydro and anemo carry outperform someone outside their element. This makes me think the cryo archon will either be a freeze carry or support who can freeze anyone including bosses

who would you use in neuvillette team (neuvi+furina+kazhua) instead of baizhu as a 4* option? Yao yao, kirara or charlotte?

Can we get timestamps?

you're wrong Zajef, did I pull on Baizhu/Xianyun for Kaveh and Gaming yes lmao. I even pulled on the yomiya banner for Chevreuse! I love having options and new ways to play and most of the 4 stars give that.

Xingqui: *exists Myrtle: *exists *Full Metal Alchemist meme

I legit think if you cut all xq yapping the video would be 20 min long

Theres a noticeable difference in using xq and yelan and if you dont play and compare them directly then idk what to tell you if zajef is "glazing" for xq.

Never have built Xingqiu, Bennett and Xiangling, so my teams are always at a >80% power drip unlike anyone who has had the three mentioned in their teams and their drip automatically drops 25% with each of them.

Oh ye, yaoyao was basicaly only dendro i was using be4 i got nahida I mean at the begining i slaped coley or mc for em on agravate team but that option got replaced by yelan or water boy (depending if i can get away with more dps)

Argument for Kazuha in top 5: Zajef strongly overrates how much normal players, even normal abyss 12 players, understand and can manipulate enemy AI and thus underestimates how much value they can gain from easy-to-use grouping. What Sucrose provides in terms of grouping is not anywhere close to as good for the average player (even if what she provides in terms of buffs and debuffs is comparable). Kazuha and Venti are the real options for this, there aren't any others. However, it isn't necessary in every abyss chamber, and Kazuha doesn't work well with every carry, so I personally still wouldn't pick him as the overall best unit (Nahida is my choice because of how strongly she enables Dendro teams and how much they overperform at lower levels of overall account power, which is the point in progression where rankings and tier lists are the most relevant).

More than half of the vid is a Xingqiu ad

Kirara allows for more flexible rotations in Aggravate compared to Yaoyao

When you box yourself in, putting xingxiu in a seperate tier 🤣

Can someone explain how does arle candace work?

I must disagree with c0 Xingqiu. That character has very strong constellations and it makes a big difference when you hit c6. At c0 he is not comparable at all to c0 Yelan even considering the defensive utility. In fact I would consider him pretty far from the most powerful 4 star at c0. I would rank c0 Fischl, c0 Kuki, c0 Chevy, c0 Bennett higher than c0 Xingqiu. A new player will get much more use out of those other c0 4 stars than c0 Xingqiu.

I'm sorry but he is wrong that Layla is not a good shielder, she is just amazing as a shielder for Neuvi, the problem lies in trying to build her as a dmg dealer character and expect her to shield well. But building with full HP and some ER, together with a favonius sword, she is very good at her job

We want updated 5 stars characters tier list

Candace's resurrection by arlechinno needs to be studied. This girl finally got a job

Layla mad underrated. Her shield is second only to zhongli and by a few K.

It really is telling how much Zajef overvalues defensive utility 50:22 He mentions how he believes the average player will take chip damage and not refresh their shields properly - this is just him projecting his playstyle on the average player. Good player and those who decide to learn how to use shielders really shouldn’t have these issues or take too much damage. Maybe this explains why he undervalues Layla as well

Sara should’ve gone into POG only at C6 imo Every character above Mika on this list is worth building imo

Xinqui shouldve gone to the "very pog but only at c- " tier, hes good b4 c6 but you'd get more dmg out of a c0 yelan, and for those of you saying thats not a fair comparision, on abanner with yelan and xinqui, you'll get c2 yelan before a c6 xq, unless your insanely lucky, ive been playing for 2 years and only have c5 xinqui even though i pulled on every banner he was on

try fighting injury wolwes with just xinqiu and no healer

8:43 HAR HAR HAR HAR 🍕

I think 5 star characters at C6R5 simply just bring too much raw power to the point that it's not worth it to sacrifice that raw power for xingqiu's superior utilities anymore. It doesn't matter if Yelan have weaker hydro app compare to xingqiu when her ult does 27k per water arrow and comes in with a massive front loaded damage with C6, she clears most contents by herself before you even swap back to your pyro carry. When a unit is that bloated in raw damage it just doesn't make sense to pick Xingqiu over her anymore. Which is why a lot of whales would bench Xinqiu, his lower ceiling starts to become quite noticeable when you whale that hard, but even for whales you just can't bench Bennett.

i do agree on the bennett statement, he gives the best buff in the game but the self pyro application (the amount of times i died from self overloading lol) and being circle impact is really annoying, cant wait for pyro archon to powercreep him soon as a scara c6 main mika and yunjin are his best teammates after faru, speed is all he want so id pick either of them or both over benny

My go to team in abyss when I can’t be fucked is Nahida, Beidou, XQ, and Kuki. I use Beidou a lot in abyss with this team.

Zyoxidation of Zajef

33:04 I built Beidou and Thoma for my fatui harbingers. Arlecchino, Wanderer, Childe

why is charlotte better than mika? mika works great on wrio furina, on scara furina, and also as a general healer he feels better than charlotte bc better energy. on top of that you can get a little bit of phys dmg in case you want that. Charlotte applying a bit of cryo is kinda irrelevant. what do you need that for

Infinite Xingqiu glazing

I feel so bad maxing Yao Yao. Cause after pulling baizhu I have no need for her

Biggest xq glazer in history strikes again

Holy glazing

Kazuha is the only unit that can do a good and fast vv vape with arle and hu tao. So he is a must for those lowkey

That opening statement on the fundamental issue with tier lists was the best thing I've heard today. Glad to know that at least one KZfaq person that covers TC has enough integrity/responsibility to publicly denounce (and act generally consistently with that denunciation of) tier lists. The whole 'tier-list meta' thing is probably my top pet-peeve about the community. I see even generally trustworthy TC people going around spouting off power-levels/tiers of characters as if there were some single universal value that applied for all situations. It only gets worse from there as you go further down the communication chain to people further removed from the actual analysis and testing done to figure out the performance of and optimize the use of characters. While talking about relative power or value of characters might be fine if it is between people who have the background knowledge and skill to come to their own conclusion based on rigorous methods (i.e. actual TC people not just 'meta enthusiasts'), as soon as you start talking about that stuff to people who aren't able or inclined to think critically about it tends to just become decontextualized dogma that leads people to make uninformed decisions. Tier lists fundamentally present themselves (regardless of the disclaimers) as universal statements about the value of the things which distracts people from the much more useful strategy of actually learning about how the character works, the game mechanics, and other relevant details so one can make a decision for themselves based on their circumstances. I really respect Zajeff for at least trying to do the responsible thing and go against this trend despite how lucrative it seems to be.

1 fking hour for a Zakarias Daily? Might as well upload the whole Stream at this point holy crap...

XL oppa being lower than Sucrose is an opinion. the problem with that is Sucrose has alternatives, aka Kazuha, and Xianyun. XL does NOT. no one does what Xiangling does, unlike Sucrose.

At this point i have played all the posible teams and idk i keep on coming back to the original national and Rational. The new teams i love r hyper bloom an nilue over national. I pulled nuvullet but he is not that valuable to me other than being my canonical furina baby sitters and 2nd fontain character. I should have gotten knave or navial for the sake of variety

the Xingqiu glazing going too far 💀

please let the cryo archon be cryo yelan and energy battery

When he said "he's in one of everyone's best two teams" and I was like "my best teams are Nilou and Neuvillette" 💀😭

The Xingqiu glazing brainrot is going too deep man, are you okay?

Where is the time stamp hero 🥺

Basically nobody pulls for the four stars? Brother are you okay

Me clearing with Barbara on my Ayaka freeze teams ;_;

I think Kaveh deserves an Okayge tbh. His team whit Nilou is incredibly underrated (like Nilou-Xingqiu-Nahida-Kaveh), and is (if I remember correctly) the most damaging one. The argument to be made for it is that the dmg difference to a defensive team whit Barbara or Kokomi is so minimal AND the investment for Kaveh must be just… high… that it really feels like not worth it, and in fact, I’d say that it isn’t worth it. (+ the fact that everyone else but Kaveh in that team is literally fighting for their life, Kaveh stays at full health but the others just try to flash out the field immediately, so it’s kinda frustrating if you slip some buttons from time to time). So yeah, he’s underrated but I would argue that he’s just still not good, maybe an argument could be made for the good at C6 only tier but idk, Okayge feels fine for me… maybe even neesh whit “little power” despite being mostly just unreliable and inconsistent for the defensive utility for the team.

Kaeya is no way okayge. He is a very solid character on C6! I never struggle to clear the Abyss with him. And if you consider the fact, that there wasen't one Abyss that supports cryo for a loooong time now, he is even better than much people are giving him credit for. You are of corse free to think what ever you want but that dosen't change it for me. P. S.: in fridge he is also really nice. I enjoy it a lot.

40:54 Best part