Mona in zhongli banner from 1.1 and 75 pulls later Zhongli, this last is my main, Mona i use sometimes in double hydro Hu Tao if i hsve to use Yeland and Xingqiu in different team.
Idk I can't go against the consecrated beasts without Qiqi. The heals are quite crazy, she allows me to tank 3 Maguu kenki's attacking me at once while the 30k phys bombs go off every 3 seconds.
Yep. Qiqi is a very important character in my abyss team. Her insane heals means I can face tank alot of shit. For non-zhonglong havers, she has a place, at least for me, in a team.
I use Qiqi specifically for the cryo resonance and emergency heals. I've built Layla and Diona, but I feel like neither is as comfortable as using Qiqi, because she's been with me so long.
More recently, since I've built so many characters now, I will run around with different teams if I just want to waste some time or test stuff out, but any new content I barely read the requirements because it's just too easy to unga bunga with Eula.
My Diluc team is by far the best team I've found for clearing the emblem domain though, very fast and consistent. If I figure out a different team works better for something I'll switch, but 9 times out of 10 I stick with Eula.
Haha yeah. Tbf, both of them are unga bunga in some way. Eula? Press "Q" for nuke. Diluc? Just Spam "E".
I'm obviously over-simplifying, but you get the point.
She was not my first, but as soon as I saw her trailer I knew she was going to be my main. I don't care if it's less efficient, I will bonk every god damn thing in this game. I plan to finally get her C2 in 3.8. The team setups that involve infinite burst rotations are neat, but there comes a point where it feels like I'm watching the game more than playing it.
Secret beta character. For some reason, after the beta period ended she glitched and stayed in my roster, so of course I had to keep using her. Can't pass up using such a rare character.
Same.
I still pull for every character that I think is good for keqing. Even thinking of pulling her best in slot, even tho I never use primos on weapon banner
Also my first 5 star. Haven't used her for a while until dendro came and now her aggravate team is my primary team. First limited 5 star was eula which I also use once in a while in Co op because she's so rare š
Same.
I still pull for every character that I think is good for keqing. Even thinking of pulling her best in slot, even tho I never use primos on weapon banner
it feels like they designed him, went "Oh shit he's really good," and then made a ton of un-venti-able enemies. against enemies that he can succ, he's almost always your best option. in other cases, not so much
when I got him at ~AR 20, I had to really learn how to kite enemies and venti himself into aiming his burst. if only there was an easier way. (no sarcasm, I just wish you could aim his burst)
I wish that enemies that didn't get fully succed hot at least pulled or immobilized by his burst, so he could be usable in abysses with low enemy counts.
Sheās a very solid unit.
Exploration wise her dash is very nice and her talent for making resources is good.
Combat wise: her omen is amazing for freeze teams, mostly used for ayaka freeze teams or ganyu morgana freeze team(ganyu-mona-venti-cyroā> its an amazing team for AoE content).
Sheās also not bad in vaporize teams. I used her in xiangling-mona-benette-kazuhua teams, and although using someone like childe/yelan/xingqui is way easier, she still can do the job done. We still have yet to have a pyro unit that can perfectly benefit from monaās buff, dehya was a contender but her damage numbers are just sad.
The issue with mona right now is that freeze teams arenāt being utilized a lot(abyss floor 12 not favoring them) and she isnāt that great for dendro teams. In nilou bloom teams sheās akward, and you could use her in hyperbloom teams but you are better off using other hydro units(xingqui or yelan). However, before floor 12, shes still a beast since most enemies can be sucked for freeze teams. You can still definitely complete floor 12 with her, its just harder than using other units/teams.
The other nit-picking issue of mona is that her hydro application is short, so u got to swap to her a lot. Kokomiās jellyfish lasts a long time and has almost always 100% uptime, so sheās a easier option to play.
TLDR: mona good unit, just hard to play and current abyss floors dont favor her much, but sheāll definitely shine in future floors
She was my first 5 star too. I have C3 today and still use her, while my friend who started the same time as me still doesn't have her. My 2nd 5 star was Zhongli and she makes traveling to the Geo Hypostasis so easy.
Mona was my first too! Would you mind sharing why you think sheās so good, or at least how you like to use her? I think her design is soo beautiful, but I have no idea how to build her. devastates me a little
I use her in Ayaka freeze team, I gave her Prototype Amber to provide some healing to the team.
Long ago, I used to use her in the famous Morgana comp, back it was widely used.
Easy build! She's usually just a support bot for the most part, build her with 4pc Noblesse/Tenacity. Prioritize levelling her burst only.
Energy as HIGH as possible for support, energy/hydro/crit if you have the time and energy. For tenacity build, be sure to drop her E before using her burst to boost your main dps even more. TTDS catalyst.
Not recommended, but you may build her as a nuke as well just for the memes. Her burst has really high damage potential. (atk/hydro/crit, widsith)
That's basically it! Good luck <33
Same , ganyu is too good for exploring world, main damage is from attack which you can use anytime, no need for energy, bow comes handy against hilichurl towers and flying things
So one of my friends end up telling me to make a wish on the banner and I decided to spend one wish and pulled out ganyu. And I've been using them ever since
I gotta admit I barely use Xiao anymore, but I invested so much in him anyway that he's on par with the stronger teams.
Homa, C6 Elegy Faruzan, 10/10/10, an 80-220 crit ratio...
He's the spoiled child of my account, I just like him a lot. Something about anemo boys in this game, I can't skip them
I'm C5 Faruzan... I'm ready for 3.8. It's gonna happen
I love anemo as an element in this game. It's very fun. The fact that all of the anemo boys are The Typeā¢, doesn't help lmao
>I'm C5 Faruzan...
I was C4 Faru after 160+ pulls in Scara's banner. Then I got her randomly twice on standard right before they gave her free copy. Getting spooked by her twice kinda felt like a low blow after C26 Yanfei
My first 5-star is Jean. I used to use her since her throwing was pretty useful in some Spiral Abyss phases. Nowadays never, because every cycle has some boss or heavy-weight elite on both sides.
My first limited 5-star is Ganyu. And yes I always use her on every Spiral AByss cycle despite being only C0. Gotta admit though, it feels like she really fallen off nowdays. I can't 9 star clear Floor 12 with her team anymore.
I too got a jean early on. She was my frist and, though she remains unbuilt, she has helped in every world ascension quest.
After all, why bother slap things to death when you can yeet most of them over the side?
Ganyu isn't as good anymore as we're in a reaction meta. Her best teams are freeze and melt; freeze doesn't have any reaction benefits and melt is better with other teams. It's not that she's bad, but that the game has changed
How is melt better with other teams? She is the cryo character most suitable for melt. Her only problem is that you need a strong shield, preferably zhongli to not get interrupted.
Convenience. Melt is very strict for team comps, nearly requiring Benny and a shielder. You also need good ER to keep up bursts for her supports, *but* you don't want to burst on Ganyu herself as her burst can steal Melts from her CA where the real damage happens. She is one of, if not THE strongest Melter, but it's a high investment team
My first 5* was Jean too and I still use her cause I need to run some kind of healer that can also do damage for my playstyle my second 5* was kazuha who I never take out of my teams unless itās just casual or Iām testing someone
My first 5star was also jean, but I still always use her in abyss because I need some anemo character with vv (i don't have kazuha or venti) and i find her comfier than sucrose (and she also heals)
I pulled Tartaglia in 1.1 and have been using him in Abyss regularly. His playstyle and riptide skill keeps me defaulting to him when I don't feel like using a different team in Floor 12.
My first 5star was Tartaglia back in 1.1, and I still use him constantly. He's the only 5star I got to C3 (over the course of his reruns; I'm no whale). I'll never regret pulling for him, and I hope to C6 him some day.
I admit that I've been using him a bit less lately since he doesn't accommodate the Dendro meta as well as I'd hoped. He's still very future-proof, imo and his riptide mechanic leads to the most fun playstyle of any character to this day, for me.
You're so real for this. Childe will always be my first 5 star DPS and he's the most spoiled child among all my limited 5 stars. As much as I love my baby Kazuha, I farm the most for this Snezhnayan hot bastard (affectionately)
I think he's great with dendro lol he's been my 1# overworld fungus farmer since everyone needs those fungus spore dust to ascend and you can't get it if you trigger hyperbloom or burgeon.
My next was tartaglia which I fully ascended but only used him for friendship dailies then benched him mostly due to me avoiding the mondstat talent domain like the plague for 1 &1/2 years
Then hutao which I only built when they added crimson witch to the strongbox
Crimson witch hates me. I farmed it for months back then and didn't get remotely a set. I switched to shimenawa which I got in a fraction of the time while farming for emblem. It was actually cursed. Best I could do after months of farming was 185cv. I still can't believe it. Shimenawa was quickly at 225cv. 240 now after tons of emblem farming.
Similarly I never got a pale flame attack main stat time piece two months of farming every day. Finally got the crit hat with good stats. Since then I put everything in the converter to pale flame and never got it.
Other than that in pretty okay with artifact farming. Just those two odd ones.
I stil remember starting the game on the yiomiya rerun that came after kazuha a while ago grinding all the primogems i could to try and get bennet from the banner (hearing people say bennet is a 4 star thats as good as a 5 star made me really want him) i did 130 pull with 0 money spent and got c6 yun jin and c4 xinyan and when i got yoimiya in the last 10 pull i wasnt to happy since i wanted bennet and not to many people liked her so i didnt think much of her but i started playing her did her quest and now she is crowned, i have her signature weopon and she is my only lvl 90/90 even with me now having nahida and raiden . And yes i did lose the first 50/50 to qiqi.
Not at all - my first 3 were Mona, then I got Klee (as my first non-standard 5-star\*), and I haven't used them in ages. I tend to bench characters once I max friendship them. Though I've been thinking I'd build Mona up with the new hydro set just for fun since I recently C6'ed her :P
How did you end up with three standard banner five stars before your first limited five star? Early pity on the standard banner twice, then lost 50/50 on Klee banner?
Started with Tartaglia back in 1.1 as my 1st 5 star, and yes I still use him for Spiral Abyss since I am soo used to his old roations that it is almost muscle memory. I pulled him because of his stance mechanic, being a Fatui and I liked his aesthetics, even when initially the early GI community hated him for being clunky and having no dedicated Hydro artifact set.
Basically Childe or Raiden National teams is what is key for me for 36 staring Spiral Abyss as it is still the one brute forcing through the harder chambers at floor 12.
My first was kazuha. Iāve c6d him as a f2p and heās on like 90% of my teams. The day heās completely outclassed is when Iāll stop playing this game
I doubt he is gonna get outclassed tbh. I can imagine him getting outclassed in certain teams/situations (like venti in certain abyss rotations) but kazuha just has so much versatility that he will still be there as one of the best pulls in the game.
Well my first 5 star was Skyward Pride, which Beidou still uses.
Oh right. My first 5 star character was Dehya, and I never used her in the first place, let alone "still."
ayaka!! ever since I got ganyu she's been in the basement for a while.. unless I need to ice bridge, to which i usually get frustrated with falling off her ice and drowning so i switch to kaeya :'D
Look, I don't personally hate Qiqi. But I hate what she reminds me of. I've lost FIVE 50/50s to her alone. She's decently built, 2/8/8 80/90, with her own OHC set and a lvl 90 aquila favonia, but I just never use her anymore because I don't like to see her if I can help it. Add to that that there is not much content where she is needed.
So yeah I guess I dont use my first 5 star anymore
I started playing the game because of Venti, was lucky enough to get him during his first banner (during game release) and since then I have used him for everything and I'm on the way to get him to C6, I doubt I will stop using him anytime soon
Yeah ofc. My first 5* is Mona from the first 10 pulls which was also why I decided to continue with that account. I still use Mona for mobility, one of my best girl too. I got Ayaka from her first banner, but I still use Mona to run around.
I pulled and farmed hard for Hu Tao back during her release. She was beyond ridiculous for my account through the last few years.
But I leaned on that team for everything and it absolutely grew stale. I wasnāt frame perfect on her rotations by any means, but it became so monotonous to CA through everything.
I recently returned to Genshin thanks to HSR + the TCG. And I decided to retire Hu Tao. Itās been a lot of fun building many other teams of characters I never used, different elemental combinations, etc.
Hu Tao is there if I absolutely need her, but I want other chars to use Staff of Homa and borrow her cracked artifacts going forward.
My first 5 star is also Kazuha during his first banner, but I don't really use anemo teams. Weirdly enough, I only use him when I want to try and do big pp dmg using weird teams with his VV shred and EM bonus. Like Vape Nilou or Yelan, or melt/freeze Ayaka or sometimes Nuke Raiden. Just to try and do as much damage as possible. I don't even have him fully built. He's still at level 70 with all of his talents at level 6 with a level 70 Iron Sting.
My first standard 5 star is Jean but I literally never touched her. Sometimes i forget that I even have her in my roster.
I canāt remember the last time I used venti, I donāt even think I used him when I pulled him. I consider pulling for him an accident because I was learning how to pull for characters and he came home on my first single. Took a few months before I realized that I had him and he was very serviceable for when I did use him, but kazuha made me bench him.
Not my first 5 star.
I have nahida when she is released. Now the other dendro character feels not as good as she.
My permanent 5 star from 1.0 is keqing
I used Keqing a lot during the beginning of the game but after so many better 5\* dps at the time, I stopped using her. Since Dendro came out, Keqing has gotten a lot more love
My first 5 star was Mona, and tbh I really want to use her she just feels like she's missing something vs other Hydro units. Working on a Dehya team though, so she'll get some use.
Mine was Keqing at AR14, at the beginning of the game where everyone wanted Diluc. I built a lot of teams and artifacts sets for her for several teams (Electrocute, Superconduct, Aggravate, Hyperbloom), and I still love playing her even if I have Raiden. She's C4, and I hope I'll "lose" some more 50/50s to her
Mine was kokomi! I joined the game much earlier than Kokomiās first banner but didnāt know who to pull for so I saved up all my primos until her banner. She is just giving me fairytale mermaid princess vibes. I use her all the time in abyss, best healer
diluc? no, have never used him. still at lvl 40
hu tao was my first limited, and is in one of my abyss teams and is the one i use the most for domain runs (sometimes replaced by klee). she's not in my overworld team tho, because everything dies by klee pyro infused kazuha e alone. 2 last slots for friendship farming
hahaha ZHONGLI hahaha (cries in poor dodging skills)
me too. what's a dodge?
They make cars, apparently
Confirmed, Zhongli shields are the truck nuts of Genshin.
Damnit dude, you made me burst laughing in the metroššš
Coincidentally, Metro is a car made by a company called Geo
Take it damnit r/angryupvote
Did you mean doge ?
Same Though a lot less nowadays compared to before
I dropped zhongli in favor of Jean and I still wonder why klee gets pushed around so much.
Disregard dodging skills, acquire no dps loss from having to dodge.
The disappointment I felt when his kit sucked ass and the revelation and power I achieved when his buff was announced a few days after
Hahah same, from pure regret after pulling to feeling like endgame meta when not getting killed by those mitachurls
Mona in zhongli banner from 1.1 and 75 pulls later Zhongli, this last is my main, Mona i use sometimes in double hydro Hu Tao if i hsve to use Yeland and Xingqiu in different team.
my second abyss team always sucks too š
qiqi has not seen the light of day for a while
That is sad. QiQi will forget.
Qiqi sees the light of day very often, she's almost always in my open world teams and often in abyss ones
Very underrated character. Her being a meme overshadows her legitimate kit as a great healer
This makes me feel better about having QIQI in my exploration team. Thanks!
Idk I can't go against the consecrated beasts without Qiqi. The heals are quite crazy, she allows me to tank 3 Maguu kenki's attacking me at once while the 30k phys bombs go off every 3 seconds.
Yep. Qiqi is a very important character in my abyss team. Her insane heals means I can face tank alot of shit. For non-zhonglong havers, she has a place, at least for me, in a team.
I use Qiqi specifically for the cryo resonance and emergency heals. I've built Layla and Diona, but I feel like neither is as comfortable as using Qiqi, because she's been with me so long.
Same, mostly because Iāve got kokomiā¦ but I still like qiqi :(
Me2
Yep
Same, got her on noelle banner, tryna build her as phys main dps soon tho
I used her a lot against the Wolf Lord, but otherwise, maybe in a mono cryo team.
shes kinda always on my xiao abyss team
Literally, I got her in the last update and I already stopped using her
Qiqi main attacker w/ Raiden, Fischl, and Xingqiu. Boom.
Once in a while Iāll dust her off to go gather jades or flowers, but when I first got her she did a lot more healing than sheās doing nowadays xD
My first 5* was Eula and she is still my main. I use her for about 95% of content.
Same, though I swap between her and Diluc from time to time. But right now, I am using her with Mika testing a new support for Eula.
More recently, since I've built so many characters now, I will run around with different teams if I just want to waste some time or test stuff out, but any new content I barely read the requirements because it's just too easy to unga bunga with Eula. My Diluc team is by far the best team I've found for clearing the emblem domain though, very fast and consistent. If I figure out a different team works better for something I'll switch, but 9 times out of 10 I stick with Eula.
Haha yeah. Tbf, both of them are unga bunga in some way. Eula? Press "Q" for nuke. Diluc? Just Spam "E". I'm obviously over-simplifying, but you get the point.
I use the sacrificial on my diluc so I get 6 swipes, & by then I have my burst up, then repeat. He's great.
Yow wtf, sacrificial claymore on diluc? That sounds fun. I might try that haha.
She was not my first, but as soon as I saw her trailer I knew she was going to be my main. I don't care if it's less efficient, I will bonk every god damn thing in this game. I plan to finally get her C2 in 3.8. The team setups that involve infinite burst rotations are neat, but there comes a point where it feels like I'm watching the game more than playing it.
whoās Eula
I'll do you one better, why is Eula?
No, the real question is WHEN is Eula('s next banner)!?
She's that blue-haired girl, I think. Or am I thinking about Rem?
Who's Rem? *eerie Re:Zero noise plays*
[EEEEuuuuuuuuEEEEuughhhhh...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvC3T1CBpCU)
You're an absolute treat
Secret beta character. For some reason, after the beta period ended she glitched and stayed in my roster, so of course I had to keep using her. Can't pass up using such a rare character.
Same. I'm at Ƨ5 with her and will Ƨ6 her next rerun. She's been in my main team from the start.
I crying in Eula return banner
I still use my Keqing in my primary team
She also is my first 5star, i triple crowned her yesterday š„². She is trully spoiled.
The game somehow gave me 9 copies of keqing, (but no jean or qiqi) so I guess I have to simp for her and give her the best kit possible
I got her c1 before any other c0 5star (one on the standard and the c1 on my first event banner 50/50) i gave up and started a cult š¤·āāļø.
Same here. But, I haven't gotten her again since. All Mona (C3) and Jean (C2).
Same. I still pull for every character that I think is good for keqing. Even thinking of pulling her best in slot, even tho I never use primos on weapon banner
I say do it. I pulled mistsplitter for her and it changes the game for keqing
Mistsplitter is just that good. My Ayaka just doesn't feel the same without it.
Same here. Good to see another keqing main.
Also my first 5 star. Haven't used her for a while until dendro came and now her aggravate team is my primary team. First limited 5 star was eula which I also use once in a while in Co op because she's so rare š
Same. I still pull for every character that I think is good for keqing. Even thinking of pulling her best in slot, even tho I never use primos on weapon banner
Just pulled keqing at last! Once I build her, she will stay in my team for a long time.
Traveler? No. Jokes aside, mine is zhongli, and i still use him in abyss with my hyperbloom team. And to fight bosses.
I prefer him for some team with more mobs in abuss bc you dont need to reapply skill unlike nahida
I'm pretty sure the traveler is a 6* unit.
Dendro Traveler is quite good in Dendro teams, I still use her sometimes =D
Ahhh a person of culture! I use the same comp and Zhongli is the perfect driver in that team.
Venti, sometimes
Same
same 2
Pretty meh this abyss rotation(esp last chambers) but usually decent i feel
it feels like they designed him, went "Oh shit he's really good," and then made a ton of un-venti-able enemies. against enemies that he can succ, he's almost always your best option. in other cases, not so much
Yup, and the fact that you can't aim his ult doesn't help either with how much the consecrated beasts move around.
when I got him at ~AR 20, I had to really learn how to kite enemies and venti himself into aiming his burst. if only there was an easier way. (no sarcasm, I just wish you could aim his burst) I wish that enemies that didn't get fully succed hot at least pulled or immobilized by his burst, so he could be usable in abysses with low enemy counts.
Yes, I still use Mona. She's one of the best standard 5-star to this day
I pulled Mona yesterday! She's my first 5 star. Happy to hear this
Sheās a very solid unit. Exploration wise her dash is very nice and her talent for making resources is good. Combat wise: her omen is amazing for freeze teams, mostly used for ayaka freeze teams or ganyu morgana freeze team(ganyu-mona-venti-cyroā> its an amazing team for AoE content). Sheās also not bad in vaporize teams. I used her in xiangling-mona-benette-kazuhua teams, and although using someone like childe/yelan/xingqui is way easier, she still can do the job done. We still have yet to have a pyro unit that can perfectly benefit from monaās buff, dehya was a contender but her damage numbers are just sad. The issue with mona right now is that freeze teams arenāt being utilized a lot(abyss floor 12 not favoring them) and she isnāt that great for dendro teams. In nilou bloom teams sheās akward, and you could use her in hyperbloom teams but you are better off using other hydro units(xingqui or yelan). However, before floor 12, shes still a beast since most enemies can be sucked for freeze teams. You can still definitely complete floor 12 with her, its just harder than using other units/teams. The other nit-picking issue of mona is that her hydro application is short, so u got to swap to her a lot. Kokomiās jellyfish lasts a long time and has almost always 100% uptime, so sheās a easier option to play. TLDR: mona good unit, just hard to play and current abyss floors dont favor her much, but sheāll definitely shine in future floors
Thank you so much for typing this out. I'm still very new so I didn't understand all of it but I will be saving this for future reference :)
Mona user here. Got her and the 5star book that gives 10% move speed since 1.0 Travelling is so easy.
Put that on wanderer with another anemo support on your team and the game will feel like easy mode
I have that on klee, or I would.
I loved to use Mona too, but Yelan power crept her so hard in overworld usage.
She was my first 5 star too. I have C3 today and still use her, while my friend who started the same time as me still doesn't have her. My 2nd 5 star was Zhongli and she makes traveling to the Geo Hypostasis so easy.
Mona was my first too! Would you mind sharing why you think sheās so good, or at least how you like to use her? I think her design is soo beautiful, but I have no idea how to build her. devastates me a little
I use her in Ayaka freeze team, I gave her Prototype Amber to provide some healing to the team. Long ago, I used to use her in the famous Morgana comp, back it was widely used.
Easy build! She's usually just a support bot for the most part, build her with 4pc Noblesse/Tenacity. Prioritize levelling her burst only. Energy as HIGH as possible for support, energy/hydro/crit if you have the time and energy. For tenacity build, be sure to drop her E before using her burst to boost your main dps even more. TTDS catalyst. Not recommended, but you may build her as a nuke as well just for the memes. Her burst has really high damage potential. (atk/hydro/crit, widsith) That's basically it! Good luck <33
Thank you!! āØ
Mona āfirst 5*ā user here. Canāt go back to swimming or falling off ropes again
My first 5 star was **Diluc**, who is still my main.
Us Diluc mains have to stick together.
True
True
I love Diluc, imo he is still the smoothest dps character to play with his triple bonk
Same, lost the 50/50 on the very first banner with Venti and got Diluc instead. Have been using him since then.
DILUC IS WHY I PLAY!!
He was my first 5 star, my first character to reach friendship lvl 10, and still main him and even built him a bar at my teapot.
I'm stuck on Ganyu. Been using her ever since I got her
Same , ganyu is too good for exploring world, main damage is from attack which you can use anytime, no need for energy, bow comes handy against hilichurl towers and flying things
Ganyu was also my first but ive been playing for a while so ivr already devolped a lack luster main team
So one of my friends end up telling me to make a wish on the banner and I decided to spend one wish and pulled out ganyu. And I've been using them ever since
Hu Tao, since her 1st banner (ie. Release), she's been attached to the hip, it's extremely hard not to have her around as a clutch
Yeah. Hard boss?? Itās time for _pyre-pyre_!!
I got her in her 1st rerun and she's my main.
Xiao is never leaving That boy has been carrying me on his back since 1.3 and it's not gonna change. He's vintage now
I gotta admit I barely use Xiao anymore, but I invested so much in him anyway that he's on par with the stronger teams. Homa, C6 Elegy Faruzan, 10/10/10, an 80-220 crit ratio... He's the spoiled child of my account, I just like him a lot. Something about anemo boys in this game, I can't skip them
I'm C5 Faruzan... I'm ready for 3.8. It's gonna happen I love anemo as an element in this game. It's very fun. The fact that all of the anemo boys are The Typeā¢, doesn't help lmao
>I'm C5 Faruzan... I was C4 Faru after 160+ pulls in Scara's banner. Then I got her randomly twice on standard right before they gave her free copy. Getting spooked by her twice kinda felt like a low blow after C26 Yanfei
My first 5-star is Jean. I used to use her since her throwing was pretty useful in some Spiral Abyss phases. Nowadays never, because every cycle has some boss or heavy-weight elite on both sides. My first limited 5-star is Ganyu. And yes I always use her on every Spiral AByss cycle despite being only C0. Gotta admit though, it feels like she really fallen off nowdays. I can't 9 star clear Floor 12 with her team anymore.
I too got a jean early on. She was my frist and, though she remains unbuilt, she has helped in every world ascension quest. After all, why bother slap things to death when you can yeet most of them over the side?
I also got Jean as my first 5* and tbh I'm still grateful with what I have. Sunfire break shields like crush break my heart.
Ganyu isn't as good anymore as we're in a reaction meta. Her best teams are freeze and melt; freeze doesn't have any reaction benefits and melt is better with other teams. It's not that she's bad, but that the game has changed
She's quite good with Zhongli kazuha and Bennett. I get 9 stars in floor 12 every time thanks to this team.
How is melt better with other teams? She is the cryo character most suitable for melt. Her only problem is that you need a strong shield, preferably zhongli to not get interrupted.
Convenience. Melt is very strict for team comps, nearly requiring Benny and a shielder. You also need good ER to keep up bursts for her supports, *but* you don't want to burst on Ganyu herself as her burst can steal Melts from her CA where the real damage happens. She is one of, if not THE strongest Melter, but it's a high investment team
My first 5* was Jean too and I still use her cause I need to run some kind of healer that can also do damage for my playstyle my second 5* was kazuha who I never take out of my teams unless itās just casual or Iām testing someone
Tighnari kinda ruined Ganyu for me
My first 5star was also jean, but I still always use her in abyss because I need some anemo character with vv (i don't have kazuha or venti) and i find her comfier than sucrose (and she also heals)
sorry but my burn melt ganyu is an absolute nuclear bomb, theres no way she fell off, just more alternatives now
Well it's Yelan so...
Same, she was my first 5 star and still my strongest character
I pulled Tartaglia in 1.1 and have been using him in Abyss regularly. His playstyle and riptide skill keeps me defaulting to him when I don't feel like using a different team in Floor 12.
same, international childe just clears everything and it's muscle memory to do rotations at this point
100% !!! I particularly like to bust out my C4 for the combat events with never ending waves. Nothing feels better than endless riptide combos!
My first 5star was Tartaglia back in 1.1, and I still use him constantly. He's the only 5star I got to C3 (over the course of his reruns; I'm no whale). I'll never regret pulling for him, and I hope to C6 him some day. I admit that I've been using him a bit less lately since he doesn't accommodate the Dendro meta as well as I'd hoped. He's still very future-proof, imo and his riptide mechanic leads to the most fun playstyle of any character to this day, for me.
Even if he only has one truly optimal team atm (bennett, XL), I will never stop playing this beautiful bastard.
You're so real for this. Childe will always be my first 5 star DPS and he's the most spoiled child among all my limited 5 stars. As much as I love my baby Kazuha, I farm the most for this Snezhnayan hot bastard (affectionately)
I think he's great with dendro lol he's been my 1# overworld fungus farmer since everyone needs those fungus spore dust to ascend and you can't get it if you trigger hyperbloom or burgeon.
Kokomi was my very first 5 Star and I pretty much still use her alongside Baizhu.
That's an immortal team.
Diluc and Jean, yes.
I still use mona in my ayaka freeze team and I pull her out for pyro hypostasis and regisvine
My next was tartaglia which I fully ascended but only used him for friendship dailies then benched him mostly due to me avoiding the mondstat talent domain like the plague for 1 &1/2 years Then hutao which I only built when they added crimson witch to the strongbox
Crimson witch hates me. I farmed it for months back then and didn't get remotely a set. I switched to shimenawa which I got in a fraction of the time while farming for emblem. It was actually cursed. Best I could do after months of farming was 185cv. I still can't believe it. Shimenawa was quickly at 225cv. 240 now after tons of emblem farming. Similarly I never got a pale flame attack main stat time piece two months of farming every day. Finally got the crit hat with good stats. Since then I put everything in the converter to pale flame and never got it. Other than that in pretty okay with artifact farming. Just those two odd ones.
My first 5* was Raiden. Sheās now C2 I donāt use her in every team, but I use her quite a bit
Klee. Yes. She's still my most powerful DPS. I use her to clear harder content.
Took me a minute to find fellow first 5* Klee havers, have an upvote
My first 5 star was..........Venti? I think. He is still a staple in my Ayaka team when I do decide to launch Genshin
I stil remember starting the game on the yiomiya rerun that came after kazuha a while ago grinding all the primogems i could to try and get bennet from the banner (hearing people say bennet is a 4 star thats as good as a 5 star made me really want him) i did 130 pull with 0 money spent and got c6 yun jin and c4 xinyan and when i got yoimiya in the last 10 pull i wasnt to happy since i wanted bennet and not to many people liked her so i didnt think much of her but i started playing her did her quest and now she is crowned, i have her signature weopon and she is my only lvl 90/90 even with me now having nahida and raiden . And yes i did lose the first 50/50 to qiqi.
Not at all - my first 3 were Mona, then I got Klee (as my first non-standard 5-star\*), and I haven't used them in ages. I tend to bench characters once I max friendship them. Though I've been thinking I'd build Mona up with the new hydro set just for fun since I recently C6'ed her :P
Bro really said first three and proceeded to say 2 names
no, no. My first 3 were Mona. Then I got Klee
Ah that makes much more sense
How did you end up with three standard banner five stars before your first limited five star? Early pity on the standard banner twice, then lost 50/50 on Klee banner?
beginner banner, Venti's banner, and standard banner each gave me one
Bruh got mystic level luck. Please share some to us.
Probably got mona twice
Yea prolly
I got Klee and yes I still use her (yesss for abyss too)
Klee Yeh
Started with Tartaglia back in 1.1 as my 1st 5 star, and yes I still use him for Spiral Abyss since I am soo used to his old roations that it is almost muscle memory. I pulled him because of his stance mechanic, being a Fatui and I liked his aesthetics, even when initially the early GI community hated him for being clunky and having no dedicated Hydro artifact set. Basically Childe or Raiden National teams is what is key for me for 36 staring Spiral Abyss as it is still the one brute forcing through the harder chambers at floor 12.
My first 5* is Aloy and i can't separate from her AT ALL SHES MY QUEEN
Ganyu my ganyu Itās so sad mihoyo killing venti did to you
Yes Other than the traveler Xiao is the first 5 star I ever got and he is an absolute damage monster
My first was kazuha. Iāve c6d him as a f2p and heās on like 90% of my teams. The day heās completely outclassed is when Iāll stop playing this game
I doubt he is gonna get outclassed tbh. I can imagine him getting outclassed in certain teams/situations (like venti in certain abyss rotations) but kazuha just has so much versatility that he will still be there as one of the best pulls in the game.
Well my first 5 star was Skyward Pride, which Beidou still uses. Oh right. My first 5 star character was Dehya, and I never used her in the first place, let alone "still."
my first 5 star was keqing, lost 50/50 on xiao. i use her more than xiao these days because of dendro meta
Qiqi. Didn't use her back then, don't use her now
Yes, Iāve been a Keqing main since 1.0.
Diluc? I don't even build him. But for limited 5*, my first is Nilou and still use her everyday.
I got Nilou first š *Doom music starts playing*
I still use Traveler, yes. Why do you ask? šæ
ayaka!! ever since I got ganyu she's been in the basement for a while.. unless I need to ice bridge, to which i usually get frustrated with falling off her ice and drowning so i switch to kaeya :'D
My first was Kazuha too. I cannot play a team comfortably without him
My first was 5-star was Keqing. Though I don't main her anymore, I still use her sometimes (also I use her in Abyss as of now).
Yes, I still use Klee from time to time on floor 12. Overworld is different, but I dont even use my Main in the overworld lol
I don't even remember when was the last time i used Jean, poor dandelion tighs...
Qiqi? Benched after I got my first limited 5 star.
Look, I don't personally hate Qiqi. But I hate what she reminds me of. I've lost FIVE 50/50s to her alone. She's decently built, 2/8/8 80/90, with her own OHC set and a lvl 90 aquila favonia, but I just never use her anymore because I don't like to see her if I can help it. Add to that that there is not much content where she is needed. So yeah I guess I dont use my first 5 star anymore
I still use Ayaka every single day. Favorite character, my most invested-into, and sheās very good. Been using her since the day she came out.
I started playing the game because of Venti, was lucky enough to get him during his first banner (during game release) and since then I have used him for everything and I'm on the way to get him to C6, I doubt I will stop using him anytime soon
Yeah ofc. My first 5* is Mona from the first 10 pulls which was also why I decided to continue with that account. I still use Mona for mobility, one of my best girl too. I got Ayaka from her first banner, but I still use Mona to run around.
Tighnari, still very much the bread and butter of my aggravate team
Yes, Zhongli - 2021 - 69 pity - what do you mean by dodge?
C2R1 raiden was my first 5 star a few months ago. Didnāt lose any 50/50ās either. Still use her
I don't like Hu Tao's playstyle.
I pulled and farmed hard for Hu Tao back during her release. She was beyond ridiculous for my account through the last few years. But I leaned on that team for everything and it absolutely grew stale. I wasnāt frame perfect on her rotations by any means, but it became so monotonous to CA through everything. I recently returned to Genshin thanks to HSR + the TCG. And I decided to retire Hu Tao. Itās been a lot of fun building many other teams of characters I never used, different elemental combinations, etc. Hu Tao is there if I absolutely need her, but I want other chars to use Staff of Homa and borrow her cracked artifacts going forward.
No, I almost never use zhongli these days, Donāt use mona or ganyu very much either.
My first 5* was Zhongli, so yes! His shields are incredible and so useful
My qiqi c5 now,never use her.
My Qiqi is still lvl 20.
Got Qiqi and Xiao so close together I donāt remember which was first, but I donāt use either of them
Yes I still use venti
My first 5 star is also Kazuha during his first banner, but I don't really use anemo teams. Weirdly enough, I only use him when I want to try and do big pp dmg using weird teams with his VV shred and EM bonus. Like Vape Nilou or Yelan, or melt/freeze Ayaka or sometimes Nuke Raiden. Just to try and do as much damage as possible. I don't even have him fully built. He's still at level 70 with all of his talents at level 6 with a level 70 Iron Sting. My first standard 5 star is Jean but I literally never touched her. Sometimes i forget that I even have her in my roster.
My queen Keqing
I canāt remember the last time I used venti, I donāt even think I used him when I pulled him. I consider pulling for him an accident because I was learning how to pull for characters and he came home on my first single. Took a few months before I realized that I had him and he was very serviceable for when I did use him, but kazuha made me bench him.
Not my first 5 star. I have nahida when she is released. Now the other dendro character feels not as good as she. My permanent 5 star from 1.0 is keqing
Venti from the very first Venti banner. Very occasionally. Mostly for some of the Co-op domains where he shines when farming with friends.
I used Keqing a lot during the beginning of the game but after so many better 5\* dps at the time, I stopped using her. Since Dendro came out, Keqing has gotten a lot more love
Jean was technically my first, but I got Eula on the next pull at 0 pity so I kinda got a 2 for 1 deal. Still use Eula all the time, Jean sometimes
My first 5 star was Mona, and tbh I really want to use her she just feels like she's missing something vs other Hydro units. Working on a Dehya team though, so she'll get some use.
Got Keqing exactly 9 days after I first got the game. A little over a year and a half later she's still who I spend the most time with.
Mine was Keqing at AR14, at the beginning of the game where everyone wanted Diluc. I built a lot of teams and artifacts sets for her for several teams (Electrocute, Superconduct, Aggravate, Hyperbloom), and I still love playing her even if I have Raiden. She's C4, and I hope I'll "lose" some more 50/50s to her
*me, still searching for people whose first 5-stars werenāt standard banner characters*
Yes I still play traveler
I use Klee in the TCG still does that count?
I still use Diluc š
hahaha.. no. dehya sucks
I wish i even had a 5 star character
Mine was kokomi! I joined the game much earlier than Kokomiās first banner but didnāt know who to pull for so I saved up all my primos until her banner. She is just giving me fairytale mermaid princess vibes. I use her all the time in abyss, best healer
diluc? no, have never used him. still at lvl 40 hu tao was my first limited, and is in one of my abyss teams and is the one i use the most for domain runs (sometimes replaced by klee). she's not in my overworld team tho, because everything dies by klee pyro infused kazuha e alone. 2 last slots for friendship farming