The food expired for Heizou and Yanfei for the Kaguu Menki fight and I just now noticed 😞 It'll likely help save Yanfei a couple of seconds. Not sure about Heizou though as the most important parts of his kit still crit. If I redo those runs I'll update the times in this comment 🙃
I just got C6 Ning on Kazuha Banner... I might build her on dead patches on Sumeru. I want a Mono Geo But I don't have Itto or Albedo. So Noelle/Ning/Garou/Zhongdong will do I think.
Mine is still at c5 💔 and she only missed last patch's floor 12, but this patch she's back to carry the whole team to full stars as always. Pull 50 times on current banner still no c6 ningguang, i'm so saddd 😭😭😭
@@homuhomu2724 have you ever heard diminishing return? Also, by walking through the jade screen is dps loss for whale ningguang in terms of dps showcase anyway.... why bother wlk through it if you can kill them with only burst and single CA?
Maybe the c5 Ningguang, I have gained from trying the banner again from losing 50/50 is not a waste of primogems (before you ask, I lose 50/50 to Diluc)
One thing people have to know: Pyro characters' dmg ratios are generally lower than those of anemo, geo, and electro because they have vaporization and melt which both multiplys dmg insanely. Unlike them, anemo elevtro and geo, although have unique advantages, inevitably cannot do as much dmg as Pyro characters. Therefore, they have higher ratio to be in the same level with Pyro characters even without the elemental reactions. But in the video it is just mono dmg showcase of each character, which means yanfei particularly is not weaker than other if we see in party units. Nice video tho!
Catalyst anemo's attack values are bad as well, because they're expected to swirl, which adds both the damage from the swirl and any other reactions the swirling causes. This is why Heizou has bad normal attack multipliers. But, of course, his kit is designed so that you can go for either atk% or EM, and it'll work out, thanks to how his E works. With an EM build, you'll swirl for more, but won't hit as hard, while with an atk% + crit build, you will swirl for less damage, but have a harder hitting E. End result, you can build him either way.
@@AuthorityCat Partly because Heizou NEEDS to swirl to build stacks, it influences his actual gameplay. WIth Yanfei, it just makes her deal more damage.
@@olived9560 True but pyro DPS are balanced around being able to Vape or melt, Removing that from a DPS comparison makes for a misrepresentation of what Yanfei is capable of.
@@olived9560 He needs to swirl to build stacks so he can do dmg faster, it’s literally the same as Yanfei so why couldn’t Yanfei use vap from the jump? Dps is damage per second so anything that makes u do dmg faster counts. Btw not being a jerk here, just liked the discussion
Ehhhh I'm a veteran player and I think Ningguang's kinda... ok. She's also kinda hard to play on mobile because Hoyoverse refuses to fix her animation cancels (which is fair, animation cancels aren't intended).
ningguang is so solid as a standalone character, but i've always been hesitant to use her because she just doesn't really fit into any team very well... like... she has difficulty finding synergy with other characters. its a shame she didn't get anything from the geo boom in 2.3, because she's not a DEF scaling character to take advantage of husk and gorou
I run her with Zhongli, Bennett, and Sucrose/Kazuha. There's geo resonance +shielder, cc, and a buffer/healer. You can definitely try her out with Yunjin, too, but I haven't built mine yet.
I personally use her in double geo double pyro team. My 2nd geo is usually zhongli. Benny for atk buff and xiangling for off field dps and pyro resonance. It's pretty good imo! I often use this team to clear abyss f12.
@@Gabrielle-xm9tt that does sound very good actually because you're getting geo and pyro resonance. and very comfortable as well with zhongli shield + bennett healing. I'll give it a try when i eventually build ningguang :)
doesn't surprise me. Non reaction based characters tend to have high scalings. These three are like hutao (yanfei) xiao (heizhou) and itto (ningguang). Hutao will definitely fall off without reactions like yanfei but because she has top tier hydro supports like yelan&xingqui she's way meta and we know meta likes reactions.
Tbh I think that's very fair. Reactions are very important to certain character unlike what my friend said . Most top tier character basically needs reactions to be important . Not important but searching for answers I had this debate with my friend about mono element ganyu vs itto . i picked itto he picked ganyu
Correction: Yelan doesn't work on HuTao. If you mean getting Yelan and Xingqiu both in the same team Yelan doesn't add anything to HuTao's damage. That's like getting Xingqiu in a Kokomi Ayaka freeze comp. Just saying
This one felt unfair for Yanfei, Heizou was allowed to swirl to get his E charges faster, wich increased his DPS, while Yanfei wasn't allowed to vaporize or melt her attacks, wich would also increase her DPS. Being a solo DPS showcase I think neither of them should have been allowed extra DPS increases like those. Ninguang was the clear winner here though.
I think they both should've gotten their intended buffs. You don't play Genshin with one character. Of course Ninguang is going to have the best solo damage, but solo damage is completely irrelevant.
Not letting heizou get his declension stacks I think would've put his at an unfair disadvantage because it's an integral part of his kit. It's not as though yanfei needs reactions to utilize her whole kit, because heizou charging his E is simply unfeasible it takes far too long
@@AngryBubble159 So what? As long as Yanfei can deal damage without reactions, so can Heizou hold charge his E without Swirl. It's not about execution here, you can utilize both kits just fine. But who runs Yanfei without Hydro? Almost nobody. And nobody runs Heizou without swirl reactions, so just use supports on both or neither
honestly it's kinda sad seeing how yanfei never had any vape runs considering it's her best team. even a xingqiu with lvl 1 dull blade and no artifacts would be enough to properly showcase how strong yanfei is with reactions, which is her ideal gameplay. heizou and yanfei getting the jellyfish is a huge difference in how much dmg they gain for sure, but it's only bc yanfei is just that good of a character with her intended playstyle
@@ChAnTAxR and thats why showing yanfeis raw pyro damage is useless. literally no ones running pure pyro yanfei since her reaction teams are so much stronger and theyre her intended playstyle, if ningguang has geo reso and heizou has on field swirls then yanfei should be allowed to vape as it's how she normally plays
@@blippy117 that’s why I urge people to not take these videos as a fact on who is better because it is extremely bias, unfair to AOE-focus units or pyro/cyro units who are balanced around anmeo supports and melt/vape That’s why Iwintolose is banned from KQM, a discord full of professional theorycrafters
yeah :( geo doesnt have any reactions so naturally they would deal more raw damage. i think that these showcases should've had specific teams for each characters, even if those teams are half built, just so that they can do some reactions.
Ningguang was my first triple crown and I use her for everything from the spiral abyss to overworld farming/roaming. I spent all of the primos I got from Inazuma to get her C6 on Ayaka's banner. To beginners: do not sleep on her. She's so good, especially if you have constellations on her, though C2 is definitely where she shines.
Her attack is so Slow Even you do The Animation Cancel its still Slow since Your not gonna use it in Battle so In MY opinion Ningguang Is One of the Worst Character Xinyan is More Good than Her In MY opinion
@@gin9794 In your opinion but in meta, she literally bosses burst support faster than Xinyan and even the likes of razor can main field. Mono geo Res spam shield burst rotate and she wipes through everything light work. Like she's literally a no effort DPS once built so if you can't get damage out of her to beat out Xinyan of all characters then that's a you skill issue not Ningguan lol no offense.
I mean obviously yanfei without reactions would have worse scaling than the other two. Kinda sad we don't really get reactions on her, it dont seem fair
@@stevenchandra7372 I mean I ain't malding, just genuinely puzzled. Like the showcases are quite close but yanfei always lags. And I just don't understand why reactions for Yanfie are discounted.
Everyone commenting about the gimmicky serpent bit at the end is missing the point. It would've been much more interesting to see how Yanfei's personal vaped damage compares to Ningguang and heizou, who don't rely on reactions to do damage. All of the runs should've included it, it's obvious without testing that Yanfei wouldn't compare to the others without vapes.
I too think it was a little bit unfair to let Heizou use Kokomi for swirls but not to Yanfei. Sure, the swirls doesn't improve Heizou's damage as much as vaporize does to Yanfei, but if not for the swirls Heizou would have to be 2 seconds charging his E which would make his time defeating the bosses a lot higher, therefore showing that just like Yanfei he needs to rely on reactions to propely function
disagreed. the swirls for heizhou and hydro for yanfei to vape aren't the same thing imo. the swirls are borderline needed while yanfei can still play comfortably without reactions
@@hidehaise but why providing all heizou needs while discouting yanfei's? We all know pyro dps rely on reaction to show their max dmg output as well as heizou who needs his declension stacks to deal max dmg output..
I kinda disagree with this. the swirl is just there to trigger his counter which is his tool, not do damage. But Vape would completely change Yanfei's damage output. To me, that tickle swirl damage is equivalent to bringing Zhongli to apply shield, or using traveler to generate Particle for Ningguang or Barron Bunny for Yanyei. So, if we are to ban Heizou swirl, we should just not even use Zhongli, Amber, Xiao, traveler etc. in the first place.
I agree with this, if one character can use elemental reactions to improve their usability it’s only fair all of them can, it will just show what the character is capable of.
Always use characters with reactions in showcases. This is how most people will use them and shows their potential. I feel like heizou would have been last in most of these showcases if it was fair. I would like a rematch.
Not necessarily since the artifacts are also wrong here. But yeah, Yanfei wouldn't have been so far behind even with a Kokomi with no artifacts and a level 1 weapon helping out. But to be fair, Heizou would also need to constantly swirl. As it stands, this video is useless for comparing these three characters so we can only imagine which one actually performs the best...
@@AuthorityCat tbh, yanfei can do much better at reactions w wanderers set rather than raw pyro dmg, reactions for yanfei would have been way more fair since heizou had swirls and ningguang had geo resonance.
@@AuthorityCat no heizou actually would be last if this was fair. yanfei’s entire kit is meant for reactions & ideally with max scarlet seals before every CA, so he wasn’t even playing her optimally or fairly, while heizou got free declension stacks by swirling, which isn’t his solo damage. he gets stacks but yanfei doesnt? i assure you if they were all played optimally, yanfei would possibly be ties with ningguang in every situation and heizou would be last.
Nah, the video might be unfair but all characters have their own strength in different circumstances, it would never be fair to rank and compare all of them like this tbh. There would never be such thing as playing optimally and fair too because it will involve whole other team comps for different char. NingguangHeizou quick swap, Yanfei overloaded with Raiden, etc. Also, not saying the video is doing right or whatever but Yanfei pyro team without reaction is actually a very viable comp if you have the right teammates. Though the fact that Yanfei CA wasn't fully stacked is pain indeed.
@@liiich6175 maybe with 5 star dps if credit cards are involved but as far as 4 star dps goes, Ningguang still holds up as one of the better catalyst dps. IWTLG already made a showcase between Yanfei vs Ningguang and Ningguang won majority of the tests and now with Heizou added she once again triumphed when it came to single target tests.
I don't mind it when you add another character to help Heizou swirl, but maybe you want to do the same for Yanfei. Like doing 2 runs where one is monopyro, and the other one is melt/vaporize for yanfei
@@TerraTheWise yes, but im not talking about Heizou's e stack, im talking about another character giving element to help Heizou swirl, if you know what i mean. I think Iwtl should do the same for both Yanfei and Heizou, like mono element/add another element so Heizou can swirl, and Yanfei can Vape/melt.
I love ur showdowns, but it kinda feels a little unfair. I wish you did showdowns using full teams for the characters, rather than just solo. People here may think a character like Yanfei is bad, but truthfully they just need to see her with good reactions. She's similar to Hu Tao in that sense. And Ning is an amazing DPS by raw power, I wouldn't say she really needs a super supportive like Yanfei, which I suppose gives her another leg up. I'm a Yanfei main to the core and it just makes me sad bcus she's so nasty with reactions. It's nice seeing big ning numbers too tho I love her as well. I just love catalyst characters. Can't wait for your next showdown
Yanfei hits like a truck when she can melt the only problem is having fast enough off field cryo application Ayaka's ult is the only thing that can really hit it.
@@cinnamon4954 I used Yanfei, Bennett, Rosaria and Ayaka together in abyss at a time where I was struggling to get better times in floor 12 that team helped me realize I wasn't using team comps that gel well with how I play Yanfei. I used Xingqui with her a lot early on but the swords don't proc from her ult, Skill or charged attacks which meant my damage wasn't too good. Once I switched to a melt team I saw much higher damage output.
Catalyst has always been my favourite weapon and gameplay and I have maxed out all three of them, but especially Ningguang as well as double crowning her. Thanks to her I was able to cheese Thunder Manifestation in this abyss. She's honestly so underrated and her burst and skill do an insane amount of damage for such low cooldown.
Really enjoyed this showdown! I do feel that it is hard to compare anemo and geo to the reaction elements... Yanfei did her best but I feel, like you showed, she generally is behind without reactions and then just ahead (or dead even) with them.
This is why I'm not a fan of how he's running these comparisons nowadays. It's simply not an accurate comparison cause he's not running characters on their ideal teams.
Watching the Yanfei piloting against the cryovine was painful. Clearly less research when into how to actually play her than Heizou and Ningguang. The choice in artifact sets really hits home the lack of attention to her builds as well. It was like watching an LoL iron player first time Ryze.
Obviously ningguang were going to be, her personal dmg is just insane, but surprisingly above yanfei, i thought he was going to be more fun than those 2 but a below dps input
redo this but give them all the same supports (them) + zhongli + xingqiu + bennett. this gives ningguang the geo resonance, yanfei her vaporize, and heizou his swirls
@@Tsareena54i ok? And Heizou destroyed with swirls. The swirls weren’t needed for Heizou’s run as he could have just charged his E, but he had them to speed up his time.
Lost prayer is better imo for yanfei. Kagura relies heavily on skill. Lost prayer increase all elemental damage way more and since yanfei stays on field it helps her..also the movement speed is a nice little bonus..
Using Yanfei without reactions or vv shred gimps her super hard it's not really a fair test. I'm getting up to 144% pyro damage with lost prayer, C6 seal buff and Kazuha buff it makes a big difference. Ayaka's ult does work well with Yanfei as her biggest damage comes as she takes the field with her ult and skill ready as she gets max seals from both it was good to see it. The abyss mechanical array would be a good showcase as the world bosses die too quick.
You should test those solo without other team members because sometimes your teams are not fair to other two characters tested, for example here yanfei was unable to vaporize or melt while heizou could swirl and ningg had geo resonance (which boosts her more than pyro resonance does to yanfei) - catalyst main who mains all three
Man, that wasn't very fair for yanfei! As a double-crowned yanfei main I'm a little ashamed that she wasn't allowed to use reactions, because it would've made the playing field a lot more equal.
Dmg isn't the only important thing. I love Xiangling to death and use her a lot but u can't deny even with a raiden in team she really has a lot of energy requirements and will struggle without having her burst at all times. Ningguang, Yanfei are not dependent on E and Q. That is why it's unfair to compare sub dps/burst dps to main dps. It's like saying "bruh Raiden is soo much better than Ayaka" when Raiden is burst dependent.
As a free to play, even just a C1 Ningguang already becomes your most reliable DPS She's geo, so she doesn't get much advantage from reactions, but as long as you have a shield, her damage increases a lot
Great video! One bit of feedback - It would've been great to see Yanfei's personal damage with vapes in all of the runs rather than solo pyro. i.e. partnered with an ungeared Xingqiu I think it would've been a lot more meaningful to see what a normal pyro unit's personal damage is in their natural team scenario is. Especially since anemo and geo characters aren't dependent on reactions like pyro reactions are, it feels stacked against Yanfei without reactions. I'm much more curious about how Yanfei's personal vaped damage compares to Ningguang and Heizou, rather than personal pyro damage, as that result was pretty obvious from the outset.
Considering how vape works tho, we'd see literally Yanfei's time cut in half everytime... unfair to the teammates if she's allowed reactions, but unfair to her to have reactions. I do agree tho, a "4th Yanfei" option would have been great that allowed her to have reactions.
@@latioshunter i mean then why not make a comp allowing each character to be played in their supposed playstyle? Nobody ever plays yanfei without vape, heizou can add a little bit more dmg with swirls (even on a crit build) and ning would do similar to what she did here
@@latioshunter Heizou also got to react though? He'd be about half as fast without his swirl declension stacks too. If vape Yanfei ends up way better than the other two then that's just reality. You're not going to run Yanfei without a hydro or cryo character just like you're not going to run Ninguang without geo resonance or Heizou without swirls.
I think the swirls helped Heizou more. Without them he would of had to spend time charging up his E. You also kept saying how Yanfei is meant to be played with reactions, so why not play her with reactions? They are a part of her character. Pyro characters have lower multipliers *because* they are meant to be used with reactions.
@@Purpletrident Exactly, giving yanfei the ability to vape is not going to be a fair comparison imho Edit: Also, it's a raw damage comparisons not another big pp damage with vapes xD
I saw the free swirls Heizhou got more like how everyone got particle generation. Since it's not extra damage, but saving time from charging. Kinda like how baron bunny is used to funnel for Yanfei etc. Besides, Ningguang got geo resonance which is so strong but no one had a problem with that, methinks. A true solo show case though would be with them being the only party member and Heizhou won't really do well alone, but then again, it's meant to be a party gameplay kinda game.
If solo I think ningguang will win too, the only thing she may suffer is if there's bunch of enemies since she can't do AoE without her skill or c1 (even c1 isn't that changeable since her normal attack isn't where she shine), but regardless, ningguang would win since she has low cooldown for both skill and brust and her energy ult cost is low
So using Zhongli is fair considering he is the best in slot support for Heizou and Ningguang, geo resonance + geo resistance shred? Also using kokomi to help heizou? why not allow Yanfei to use Xingqiu or Yelan w/o artifacts, just to vaporize?.
@@blakedout having kokomi's jellyfish literally helps build his stack faster which mean giving him faster clear time tho... unless, this comparison meant only for raw damage, which ofc no pyro unit will be better without hydro enabler.
@@blakedout DPS is composed not only of single instance of damage but also how often it does. And killing boss with the same hp is comparing DPS not just damage.
To me the most important thing isn’t the solo showcases, but the team showcases. It’s a team game after all. So I’d like to see a heavier focus on that :)
Good showdown! Like you said IWTLG, the fact that all three of these characters are at near parity shows that Mihoyo is trying its best to maintain some semblance of balance with the 4-star DPS characters. It's also nice to see validation that all three are surprisingly viable in pretty much any situation.
It‘s really nice to see that they‘re balanced even tho their release dates are all different. I‘m really happy that I managed to get Heizou to C6, I have him at 9,12,12 and I’m planning to crown his Elemental Skill. To me he is (currently) the most fun to play character.
I think for the future, any supports thats basically required for the character (like heizou swirling for stacks to save 4s of charge up for his e, yanfei needing a hydro to vape, ningguang needing a geo for resonance) should be included in the teams, since when the character is being balanced mhy is definitely considering those factors (seen by lower scaling on pyro characters, higher on non reactions, etc), but give the supports a build that contributes basically nothing to the team besides that core feature (so for xq with yanfei that could be something like lvl0 sac sword r5, 2pc emblem 2pc random set that doesnt give damage, er/def/def, max er rolls, min atk and crit rolls) so that they can do their job for the main dps being compared but add nothing else after. This issue is most evident in the abyss runs where ningguang as a dps should be able to kill the rooms faster (especially with her aoe constellation somewhat overcoming her single target issue), but the overreliance on the xiangling core makes heizou and yanfei barely need to attack in every room, so instead of a dps comparison it was more of a short duration burst dmg comparison where heizou easily wins since his e and q can nuke harder than the other 2 but he loses out when he needs to auto attack, and yanfei doesnt have a hydro/ningguang doesnt have a geo to help them. Done this way, if a team cant get 3 stars or cant even clear a room in time, it is also useful in helping gauge their power level, so getting 3 stars every room shouldnt be a priority i would still take comparisons in full teams, but thats not very feasible at your level of investment, even for abyss, since everything dies way too quickly to actually compare how much the main dps in question is doing for the team
Inthink the free swirls were not fair, bc it would have slowed his solo time a lot. To balance, you could put kokomi in all the rosters (instesd of amber for yanfei)
I personally think the Regisvine alone is sufficient for the solo showcase, and the fights following should use tailored builds and teams to really show how they perform. I would also shy away from Crit Fishing builds during the main showcase competition and maybe add them in at the end as a little "bonus" segment. Just my opinion, love your videos either way.
The kokomi on heizou st the first primo Vishal I think was a little unfair considering what you said since he kinda requires the application so he could function at all but he does need so it’s kind of a fuzzy situation
hiii just wanted to say your content is way more powerful than other people, specially your guides on builds are complete and useful thank you very much.
Awesome video, thanks for the effort! A few notes: there were a number of times when Heizou had his declension stacks built up and yet you didn't unleash his punch immediately but rather kept on triggering swirl. As his punch can be deployed so quickly and the stacks built up again relatively quickly, that cost at least a few seconds in each fight. Yanfei really should have been able to benefit from Kokomi's water application too to show her potential. And Ninguang didn't walk through her Jade Screen a few times before using her burst, which likely also cost her a second or two per fight. But otherwise, great video!
I think an important part of yanfei's rotation to consume less stamina while ulting is to go 2NA then CA so she can have 4 seals, instead of 3 half the time, or at least that's how I play with her
As raw damage, ningguang maybe better than other 2 As teamgame, yanfei maybe a bit higher than other 2 Heizhou is fun but he need to play as enabler, means he need a good sub dps for him to do good
I can understand the thought process behind running the same weapon for tests on everyone but not giving yanfei a hydro applicator for the dps comparison eludes me when you're granting heizou that luxury.
Thank you for more quality comparisons, i feel like your effort sometimes goes underappreciated, so I just wanted to say thank you for all of your work o7
Ningguang is ridiculous!!! Geo doesn’t have reactions but all geo dps ALWAYS dish out ridiculous damage. They work perfectly with their fellow geo family. I love it!!
Yeah, that's why there are so many Geo teams beating records in Abyss...oh wait, there are none. Obviously because they don't have reactions that amplify their damage, Geo and Anemo characters hit harder just from skill scaling, but as soon as other elements get reactions, Anemo and Geo are left in the dust
@@Gennosuke1983 True and its so sad lmao but on the brightside anemo and geo are better in coop events and coop in general simply bc they dont have to rely on anyone else for reactions or skills, just themselves.
@@Gennosuke1983 which record have you made? Send me you video link please. 99.999999% of genshin Players are not setting records. What you need is a consistent DPS to clear the abyss. That’s where geo comes in. It is consistent and trusted. Not to wait or gauge a reaction. Just get you 36 stars and go. The gold is getting 36 stars and at speed record. Even 99% of content creators just use consistent DPS. Geo is ungabunga which most player do. Eula that sets records is rarely in abyss top 20. Making a point that applies to 20 people out of millions is nonsense
Personally, I think the fight was a bit unfair and favoured one character over another a little more at times, but it's a great video and I know you made all you could to try and keep them at the same or closest power level.
@@natalienatz1903 she is, but she’s kind of hard to slot onto teams, and the units have to heavily compensate for what she lacks imo But all is simply solved by using Ben/Xing/Zhong
C6 Kazuha doesn’t really compare to any top tier dps, it’s a fun cool looking constellation, but building em to get dmg bonus sacrificing atk and crit isn’t really ideal, and if you don’t build em, he won’t have much em to get buffed from, it’s a decent dmg increase but on a character that isn’t meant for dmg
@@thecrazyremy Yeah i know, but he gives a lot of damage in his elemental skill and his ultimate and with c6 he has anemo enchantmemt with attack buffs, I know he won't be able to beat the top tier dps but it will be fun to see
I wonder why the last round wasn't in second half spiral abyss? i think second half of the abyss can let you run all of them with their best team comp plus we can see how their performance in single target and multi targets scenario. But nonetheless thank you for this amazing video
@@jhunwizard15 No because yanfei does better with reactions, ningguang CANT do them. It’s a slap in ningguang face, imagine if she had a better element.
@@MurtazaGI Yanfei does better with reactions but the dmg end results are almost the same. To make matters worse, Ningguang does better. Not to mention Yanfei's stamina issue. Can you imagine if Ningguang can utilize reactions? That's not gonna happen tho.
I don't think in the first tests, any elemental resonanse should be taken into account... eventually, all 3 characters should use the pyro one. Geo resonance is really strong - one of the main DMG Boost Sources for Geo units. By giving Ning a Geo Resonanse, Yanfei should able to vape (or at least do any elemental reactions) at this point, because that's from where her potential comes. AND, for whatever reason, you also allowed Heizou to skip E charging. Pyro resonance is kinda laughable compare to Geo one. Every Geo DPS wants to run with its Resonance, and you won't always go with Pyro Resonance on other characters, especially Heizou. Another thing is that by making everyone's 100% crit, you've actually lowered realistic performance of Heizou's C6 (which provides up to +16% crit rate for his E). In that case, I think for a longer fights, Heizou should get some extra atk bonus or a crit dmg, perhaps even +32%. Ofc I know it's really hard to balance stats on all characters, but it's still doable; by using lower level crit dmg Circlet on Ning and Yanfei for example. And in the last test (against Ice Cube) it was more of a Xiangling showcase, rather than Ningguang's... There is still some value here, however... that's in my opinion, one of the most inconsistent video-test you've ever made.
Each of these abyss runs were just Xiangling and Kazuha showcases honestly, I guess they were shown because it's a tradition to put them in a DPS showdown
I appreciate your work for these fun videos, I think in the future you should consider the second half of abyss 12 because it has some good testing area for a lot of characters like 2.7 or 2.8 because lately the top half requires specific characters for the perfect time like 2.7 with pyro, 2.8 with Bennet and Kazuha, 2.6 with Venti and a hydro character, 2.5 with an electro character and so on
I kinda just wanna say good job Because let's be real it's impossible to do a showcase between those characters.. they all have some situations where they shine more than the others.. but that yanfie showcase with the ruin serpent is just stupid. Ayaka is the one who killed him
8:46 I don’t see any issue with it because her dmg was negligible and this shows his dmg given he’s maxed as the most opportunities possible. Good in my book brotha 💯
I don't really think there's a winner between the three of them. It comes down to which character you personally prefer and the time you spend building them. A 1 or 5 seconds difference is absolutely fine and incredibly well balanced
Since you asked for opinions, I think you should've let Yanfei have Kokomi's jellyfish. All 3 of those characters are dependent on the reactions they cause but she was the only one who wasn't allowed to receive the benefit. If Heizou gets to swirl Bennett and Kokomi and Ninguang gets to crystalize off of Bennett, Yanfei should get to vape off of Kokomi. Just strip Kokomi down with a level 1 weapon and no artifacts to restrict her impact to only vapes
This man is geneus. Lets take Heizou with reaction, Yanfei without and Ninguang (well there isn't mush anyway). Hmmmm, Yanfei clears slower how come ?)
I feel like if you’re not gonna give Yanfei a character to also react off of then you should’ve given her a set like Lavawalker or Shimenawa if the argument is supposed to be their own personal dmg.
I've always been a Ningguang carry until I got Itto... And now I still use Ningguang as my main carry and Itto as a burst dps 😂 she consistently dishes out more damage than Itto when he doesnt have his ult ready, and acts as a really good battery for him during his downtime because of how much energy she generates at C2
Lmao, heziou himself can't even take advantage of the vvv shred, he's anemo, ningaung is the best dps here, lmao try bursting with her when. You're left with just 5 seconds in abyss and you'll see why I say she's the best
@@corpse214 they use the vv shred for the other party members. they didn't say it was for dps heizou but in terms on viability. he's a great damage dealer and has more support capabilities than ningguang
@@heyking8583 I said that the three of them are tied as DPS but in terms of actual viability in the meta and spiral abyss in general, heizou is the more useful one out of three due to him being anemo and being able to take advantage of vv shred
This is absolutely not fair for yanfei in overworld comparisons. Both heizou and nigguang showcases met their respective ideal situation except for yanfei. Why would even compare "raw" damage when you can just compare each with their ideal teams. And who would want to not run xq/yelan in yanfei team
I wonder if it's fair to compare the damage without reaction support. Heizou gets a considerable amount of damage from swirl, and yanfei gets a considerable amount of damage from other reactions like vape. I wonder if it would have been fair to give each character a fischl with minimum stats just to compare damage when one gets swirl and another gets overload, and one can set up crystalizes more efficiently. For the abyss fight, it felt like the 4 star showcase characters didn't really do much, and the teams definitely benefited heizou and yanfei more than it did Ningguang (who's much better with geo resonance as she also functions as a great battery while being a main DPS). It also felt like Bennett/Kazuha/Xiangling as a 3 man duo wouldn't have done significantly worse without the main DPS to join them. Even if you ran a main DPS amber you'd still be fine if you slapped bennett kazuha and xiangling on a team.
I think he did the right thing, both geo and pyro have a DMG boost on the resonance so letting Heizou swirl for minimal damage and the declension stacks seems fair.
@@inciknight want them to all do the same? Pyro can make reactions Geo can't, they have better numbers to cover that, if it's about reactions Yanfei wins, if it's about personal damage Ningguang wins, Heizou is competing with an support element on a non support build. This is exactly why Electro releases awesome characters or piles of garbage the element has damage oriented reactions with sad damage and a sad excuse of a bonus for using two.
@@drekhunter if he don't want to allow Yanfei to have reaction then he shouldn't have let Heizu to swirl. He can't stack declension? Yeah so what? That's part of his kit as much as reaction to Yanfei's kit. He should've relied on charged skill to level the field.
@@Vizible21 Again take away all the characters from the party and see how they fare without the resonance. He isn't allowing Yanfei reactions because it's OBVIOUS SHE WILL WIN SINCE MULTIPLICATIVE DAMAGE IS BUSTED. Stop crying about it she did well and Heizou barely managed to keep up with the swirls, he didn't take the crit fishing route and that favors Heizou a lot since he has a mininuke.
Swirls add minimum damage compared to vaporizes but mainly it is literally required for Heizou not to feel awkeard to play without that awkward E charge. For Anemo characters swirls are a part of their kit. But if you for example randomly added a little pyro for Garyu then it would make a fuck tón of dofference and it isn't really a core part of her kit because it isn't like she needs to melt for her frostflake to activate. Heizou on the other hand literally can't function without swirls.
I gotta disagree with you on this one, you say it doesn't add much damege but it also is required for him to contribute damege, the same argument could be made for I believe it's jeans attack speed buff for yanfei as it allows her to effectively gain seals between charge attacks which she can't do normally
Yes, he does need swirls to speed up the building of his declension stacks. But you do hopefully know about the whole charging aspect too, right? It's cumbersome but certainly functional.
@@Mr.Hot_Take and I realize he need to swirl, what I was saying was that him having a support to help speed that up when yanfei has a almost identical system but she doesn't get a support to help speed it up seem very weighted towards heizou
@@demigirlanarchist2883 all yanfei teams had pyro resonance though. and gaining stacks is an essential part of a kit, while reactions literally ups the damage by 50%?
The food expired for Heizou and Yanfei for the Kaguu Menki fight and I just now noticed 😞
It'll likely help save Yanfei a couple of seconds. Not sure about Heizou though as the most important parts of his kit still crit.
If I redo those runs I'll update the times in this comment 🙃
i like when you say kaguu menki intead of maguu kenki
either way ill look forward to the updated times, happy to see you every time there's a new vid
Even after you burned all those meals... it made me hurt inside.
Kakuu Mengi
Not even hoyoverse did Yanfei so dirty. Allowing Heizou to use kokomi but Yanfei gets nothing?.
It seems people forgot how strong C6 Ningguang actually is.
like he said the proper CEO OF GEO.. mommy ning best girl
Ngl these are the times where I wish I had her c6
- a certain ningguang player with only c4.
A true 6 star character.
I just got C6 Ning on Kazuha Banner... I might build her on dead patches on Sumeru. I want a Mono Geo But I don't have Itto or Albedo. So Noelle/Ning/Garou/Zhongdong will do I think.
Mine is still at c5 💔 and she only missed last patch's floor 12, but this patch she's back to carry the whole team to full stars as always. Pull 50 times on current banner still no c6 ningguang, i'm so saddd 😭😭😭
... Did I just see Ningguang not pass through the jade screen for 12% more geo damage and still wipe the floor on the plant ? All Hail the queen!
Because kagura gives the same buff anyway...
@@enesjei kagura buff and the jade screen buff will stack making her deal more damage, I don't get your point??
She did
@@homuhomu2724 have you ever heard diminishing return?
Also, by walking through the jade screen is dps loss for whale ningguang in terms of dps showcase anyway.... why bother wlk through it if you can kill them with only burst and single CA?
Maybe the c5 Ningguang, I have gained from trying the banner again from losing 50/50 is not a waste of primogems (before you ask, I lose 50/50 to Diluc)
One thing people have to know: Pyro characters' dmg ratios are generally lower than those of anemo, geo, and electro because they have vaporization and melt which both multiplys dmg insanely. Unlike them, anemo elevtro and geo, although have unique advantages, inevitably cannot do as much dmg as Pyro characters. Therefore, they have higher ratio to be in the same level with Pyro characters even without the elemental reactions. But in the video it is just mono dmg showcase of each character, which means yanfei particularly is not weaker than other if we see in party units. Nice video tho!
Catalyst anemo's attack values are bad as well, because they're expected to swirl, which adds both the damage from the swirl and any other reactions the swirling causes.
This is why Heizou has bad normal attack multipliers. But, of course, his kit is designed so that you can go for either atk% or EM, and it'll work out, thanks to how his E works. With an EM build, you'll swirl for more, but won't hit as hard, while with an atk% + crit build, you will swirl for less damage, but have a harder hitting E. End result, you can build him either way.
@@Axterix13 And yet Heizou got to swirl bit Yanfei didn't get to vape.
@@AuthorityCat Partly because Heizou NEEDS to swirl to build stacks, it influences his actual gameplay. WIth Yanfei, it just makes her deal more damage.
@@olived9560 True but pyro DPS are balanced around being able to Vape or melt, Removing that from a DPS comparison makes for a misrepresentation of what Yanfei is capable of.
@@olived9560 He needs to swirl to build stacks so he can do dmg faster, it’s literally the same as Yanfei so why couldn’t Yanfei use vap from the jump? Dps is damage per second so anything that makes u do dmg faster counts.
Btw not being a jerk here, just liked the discussion
Ningguang is lowkey underrated for new players
veteran players already know she's solid.
Solid? to me she's bouncy 😍
She is bad bruh
ToshiroDaGoat cope....
Ehhhh I'm a veteran player and I think Ningguang's kinda... ok. She's also kinda hard to play on mobile because Hoyoverse refuses to fix her animation cancels (which is fair, animation cancels aren't intended).
She's good but very clunky imo
ningguang is so solid as a standalone character, but i've always been hesitant to use her because she just doesn't really fit into any team very well... like... she has difficulty finding synergy with other characters. its a shame she didn't get anything from the geo boom in 2.3, because she's not a DEF scaling character to take advantage of husk and gorou
She works really well with Yunjin, that's for sure
@@Bluzlbee yes true, and she also works well with bennett, at that point its basically a ningguang hypercarry lmao
I run her with Zhongli, Bennett, and Sucrose/Kazuha. There's geo resonance +shielder, cc, and a buffer/healer. You can definitely try her out with Yunjin, too, but I haven't built mine yet.
I personally use her in double geo double pyro team. My 2nd geo is usually zhongli. Benny for atk buff and xiangling for off field dps and pyro resonance. It's pretty good imo! I often use this team to clear abyss f12.
@@Gabrielle-xm9tt that does sound very good actually because you're getting geo and pyro resonance. and very comfortable as well with zhongli shield + bennett healing. I'll give it a try when i eventually build ningguang :)
doesn't surprise me. Non reaction based characters tend to have high scalings. These three are like hutao (yanfei) xiao (heizhou) and itto (ningguang). Hutao will definitely fall off without reactions like yanfei but because she has top tier hydro supports like yelan&xingqui she's way meta and we know meta likes reactions.
You are, very not wrong 👍
@@zukato6800 indeed he is not very wrong
Tbh I think that's very fair. Reactions are very important to certain character unlike what my friend said . Most top tier character basically needs reactions to be important .
Not important but searching for answers I had this debate with my friend about mono element ganyu vs itto . i picked itto he picked ganyu
It is true, and I think it's fair and quite balanced
Correction: Yelan doesn't work on HuTao. If you mean getting Yelan and Xingqiu both in the same team Yelan doesn't add anything to HuTao's damage. That's like getting Xingqiu in a Kokomi Ayaka freeze comp. Just saying
This one felt unfair for Yanfei, Heizou was allowed to swirl to get his E charges faster, wich increased his DPS, while Yanfei wasn't allowed to vaporize or melt her attacks, wich would also increase her DPS. Being a solo DPS showcase I think neither of them should have been allowed extra DPS increases like those. Ninguang was the clear winner here though.
I think they both should've gotten their intended buffs. You don't play Genshin with one character. Of course Ninguang is going to have the best solo damage, but solo damage is completely irrelevant.
Yanfei with Xingqiu or/and Yelan would win for sure. Would be nice a video where those characters are played with the optimal teams for each one.
She gets baron bunnies at the big frog
Not letting heizou get his declension stacks I think would've put his at an unfair disadvantage because it's an integral part of his kit. It's not as though yanfei needs reactions to utilize her whole kit, because heizou charging his E is simply unfeasible it takes far too long
@@AngryBubble159 So what? As long as Yanfei can deal damage without reactions, so can Heizou hold charge his E without Swirl. It's not about execution here, you can utilize both kits just fine. But who runs Yanfei without Hydro? Almost nobody. And nobody runs Heizou without swirl reactions, so just use supports on both or neither
honestly it's kinda sad seeing how yanfei never had any vape runs considering it's her best team. even a xingqiu with lvl 1 dull blade and no artifacts would be enough to properly showcase how strong yanfei is with reactions, which is her ideal gameplay. heizou and yanfei getting the jellyfish is a huge difference in how much dmg they gain for sure, but it's only bc yanfei is just that good of a character with her intended playstyle
That’s cause it’s a solo dmg run, geo units have higher raw dmg then pyro units
@@ChAnTAxR and thats why showing yanfeis raw pyro damage is useless. literally no ones running pure pyro yanfei since her reaction teams are so much stronger and theyre her intended playstyle, if ningguang has geo reso and heizou has on field swirls then yanfei should be allowed to vape as it's how she normally plays
@@blippy117 that’s why I urge people to not take these videos as a fact on who is better because it is extremely bias, unfair to AOE-focus units or pyro/cyro units who are balanced around anmeo supports and melt/vape
That’s why Iwintolose is banned from KQM, a discord full of professional theorycrafters
Abyss with 70% pyro damage
yeah :( geo doesnt have any reactions so naturally they would deal more raw damage. i think that these showcases should've had specific teams for each characters, even if those teams are half built, just so that they can do some reactions.
Ningguang was my first triple crown and I use her for everything from the spiral abyss to overworld farming/roaming. I spent all of the primos I got from Inazuma to get her C6 on Ayaka's banner. To beginners: do not sleep on her. She's so good, especially if you have constellations on her, though C2 is definitely where she shines.
i have her at c6 but bench as i dont really use geo. Nice showcase of her potential though
Her attack is so Slow Even you do The Animation Cancel its still Slow since Your not gonna use it in Battle so In MY opinion Ningguang Is One of the Worst Character Xinyan is More Good than Her In MY opinion
@@gin9794 she can be used as a burst support tho
Low energy cost
@@gin9794 In your opinion but in meta, she literally bosses burst support faster than Xinyan and even the likes of razor can main field. Mono geo Res spam shield burst rotate and she wipes through everything light work. Like she's literally a no effort DPS once built so if you can't get damage out of her to beat out Xinyan of all characters then that's a you skill issue not Ningguan lol no offense.
@@gin9794 or probably you just cant use her
I mean obviously yanfei without reactions would have worse scaling than the other two. Kinda sad we don't really get reactions on her, it dont seem fair
Clearly you don't watch the whole video only the beginning part
@@stevenchandra7372 I mean I ain't malding, just genuinely puzzled. Like the showcases are quite close but yanfei always lags. And I just don't understand why reactions for Yanfie are discounted.
@@cl0k3 he does this at the beginning of all the showdown and at the end he uses reactions
Did you see the ruin serpent part? lmao
Everyone commenting about the gimmicky serpent bit at the end is missing the point. It would've been much more interesting to see how Yanfei's personal vaped damage compares to Ningguang and heizou, who don't rely on reactions to do damage. All of the runs should've included it, it's obvious without testing that Yanfei wouldn't compare to the others without vapes.
I too think it was a little bit unfair to let Heizou use Kokomi for swirls but not to Yanfei. Sure, the swirls doesn't improve Heizou's damage as much as vaporize does to Yanfei, but if not for the swirls Heizou would have to be 2 seconds charging his E which would make his time defeating the bosses a lot higher, therefore showing that just like Yanfei he needs to rely on reactions to propely function
Yeah same It would've been ok if he gave Kokomi to Yanfei too. Even though not typical team atleast Heizu and Yanfei both have something to react to.
disagreed. the swirls for heizhou and hydro for yanfei to vape aren't the same thing imo. the swirls are borderline needed while yanfei can still play comfortably without reactions
@@hidehaise but why providing all heizou needs while discouting yanfei's? We all know pyro dps rely on reaction to show their max dmg output as well as heizou who needs his declension stacks to deal max dmg output..
I kinda disagree with this. the swirl is just there to trigger his counter which is his tool, not do damage. But Vape would completely change Yanfei's damage output. To me, that tickle swirl damage is equivalent to bringing Zhongli to apply shield, or using traveler to generate Particle for Ningguang or Barron Bunny for Yanyei. So, if we are to ban Heizou swirl, we should just not even use Zhongli, Amber, Xiao, traveler etc. in the first place.
I agree with this, if one character can use elemental reactions to improve their usability it’s only fair all of them can, it will just show what the character is capable of.
Always use characters with reactions in showcases. This is how most people will use them and shows their potential. I feel like heizou would have been last in most of these showcases if it was fair. I would like a rematch.
Not necessarily since the artifacts are also wrong here. But yeah, Yanfei wouldn't have been so far behind even with a Kokomi with no artifacts and a level 1 weapon helping out. But to be fair, Heizou would also need to constantly swirl. As it stands, this video is useless for comparing these three characters so we can only imagine which one actually performs the best...
Yeah we like a rematch a "solo" without the free swirls and with reactions.
@@AuthorityCat tbh, yanfei can do much better at reactions w wanderers set rather than raw pyro dmg, reactions for yanfei would have been way more fair since heizou had swirls and ningguang had geo resonance.
@@AuthorityCat no heizou actually would be last if this was fair. yanfei’s entire kit is meant for reactions & ideally with max scarlet seals before every CA, so he wasn’t even playing her optimally or fairly, while heizou got free declension stacks by swirling, which isn’t his solo damage. he gets stacks but yanfei doesnt? i assure you if they were all played optimally, yanfei would possibly be ties with ningguang in every situation and heizou would be last.
Nah, the video might be unfair but all characters have their own strength in different circumstances, it would never be fair to rank and compare all of them like this tbh.
There would never be such thing as playing optimally and fair too because it will involve whole other team comps for different char. NingguangHeizou quick swap, Yanfei overloaded with Raiden, etc.
Also, not saying the video is doing right or whatever but Yanfei pyro team without reaction is actually a very viable comp if you have the right teammates. Though the fact that Yanfei CA wasn't fully stacked is pain indeed.
Ning - Best non reaction DMG and single target DPS of the 3
Yanfei - best reaction DMG of the 3
Heizou - probably the most fun out of the 3 🤣
finally someone with the best take
In the end they are all very nice 👍
Yass this guy here!!
Give him an award for his answer.
People really forgot that at one point Ningguang was the champion of single target dmg.
New characters need to be always stronger to make $$$$ unfortunately
@@liiich6175 maybe with 5 star dps if credit cards are involved but as far as 4 star dps goes, Ningguang still holds up as one of the better catalyst dps. IWTLG already made a showcase between Yanfei vs Ningguang and Ningguang won majority of the tests and now with Heizou added she once again triumphed when it came to single target tests.
Yeah, nowadays an AoE dps is much more preferred.
@@Unforgiving_Eye I wouldn't even say it's nowadays, people have always preferred the more aoe oriented dmg dealers over single target.
@@acanthafiore That makes sense too
I don't mind it when you add another character to help Heizou swirl, but maybe you want to do the same for Yanfei. Like doing 2 runs where one is monopyro, and the other one is melt/vaporize for yanfei
Melt/vape makes a massive difference in yanfei's damage in comparison to stacking Heizou's e charge faster.
@@TerraTheWise And stacking Heizou's charges faster makes a massive difference. What's your point?
@@AuthorityCat That's an inherent mechanic and part of his kit. Melt vape is not for yanfei.
@@TerraTheWise yes, but im not talking about Heizou's e stack, im talking about another character giving element to help Heizou swirl, if you know what i mean. I think Iwtl should do the same for both Yanfei and Heizou, like mono element/add another element so Heizou can swirl, and Yanfei can Vape/melt.
@@TerraTheWise "an inherent mechanic and part of his kit" Sorry could you point what WHOLE OTHER CHARACTER TO CAUSE SWIRL IS IN HEIZOU KIT ?
I love ur showdowns, but it kinda feels a little unfair. I wish you did showdowns using full teams for the characters, rather than just solo. People here may think a character like Yanfei is bad, but truthfully they just need to see her with good reactions. She's similar to Hu Tao in that sense. And Ning is an amazing DPS by raw power, I wouldn't say she really needs a super supportive like Yanfei, which I suppose gives her another leg up. I'm a Yanfei main to the core and it just makes me sad bcus she's so nasty with reactions. It's nice seeing big ning numbers too tho I love her as well. I just love catalyst characters. Can't wait for your next showdown
Yanfei hits like a truck when she can melt the only problem is having fast enough off field cryo application Ayaka's ult is the only thing that can really hit it.
@@DayFul a 4* alt to ayaka is rosaria, she helps too with her Q esp at higher constellation, the cross stays quite long
@@cinnamon4954 I used Yanfei, Bennett, Rosaria and Ayaka together in abyss at a time where I was struggling to get better times in floor 12 that team helped me realize I wasn't using team comps that gel well with how I play Yanfei. I used Xingqui with her a lot early on but the swords don't proc from her ult, Skill or charged attacks which meant my damage wasn't too good. Once I switched to a melt team I saw much higher damage output.
he already showed how strong she is with melt tho....
@@DayFul xingqiu works well with her
12:44 Is it really a Ningguang showcase if Xiangling ate that cryo cube for lunch?
Catalyst has always been my favourite weapon and gameplay and I have maxed out all three of them, but especially Ningguang as well as double crowning her. Thanks to her I was able to cheese Thunder Manifestation in this abyss. She's honestly so underrated and her burst and skill do an insane amount of damage for such low cooldown.
Really enjoyed this showdown! I do feel that it is hard to compare anemo and geo to the reaction elements... Yanfei did her best but I feel, like you showed, she generally is behind without reactions and then just ahead (or dead even) with them.
This is why I'm not a fan of how he's running these comparisons nowadays. It's simply not an accurate comparison cause he's not running characters on their ideal teams.
@@dinerenblancc Didn't you read the disclaimer?
give them all xingqiu q and it's gonna be the same...
@@dinerenblancc Ugh I will just believe that you skipped watching his DISCLAIMER than being that dumb lmao
@@leshou907 Doesn't excuse his awful testing methods lmao
I like four star characters featured in videos cause it’s more relatable than all of your c6 five stars!
He always shows the c0 version of each character first when they come out and then upgrades to show the differences.
yeah i know but most of his content is still not relatable
@@kandyslayer I'd say it's relatable for both f2ps and whales
relatable: 1 ningguang gem dealing 109k
Watching the Yanfei piloting against the cryovine was painful. Clearly less research when into how to actually play her than Heizou and Ningguang. The choice in artifact sets really hits home the lack of attention to her builds as well. It was like watching an LoL iron player first time Ryze.
The Geovis Yanfei gameplay was just as bad... Painful to watch the failed basic attack -> charged attack timings.
Less research on how to play Ningguang also, not once he run past the wall before burst.
Obviously ningguang were going to be, her personal dmg is just insane, but surprisingly above yanfei, i thought he was going to be more fun than those 2 but a below dps input
His charge E hits hard
@@Dynamight_01 oh boi it does
His damage is bad stop the cope
He doesn't use xingqiu or yelan in Yanfei's team ofcourse she's going to be lower without reactions.
@@kingdoom5022 ….what..???
i dont have him myself but hes incredibly strong …
every time he didn't go through the screen with ningguang i lost a year of my life...
redo this but give them all the same supports (them) + zhongli + xingqiu + bennett. this gives ningguang the geo resonance, yanfei her vaporize, and heizou his swirls
Yes it probably was a bit unfair to give heizou the free swirls while yanfei got no reactions.
Tru but heizou would take 2 minutes to kill regisvine if he didnt get swirl. We all know yanfei destroys with reactions. I mean look at the abyss run
Imo its pretty fair
Swirls are an inherent part of his kit due to his E. Vapes are not for yanfei.
@@Tsareena54i ok? And Heizou destroyed with swirls. The swirls weren’t needed for Heizou’s run as he could have just charged his E, but he had them to speed up his time.
@@jacksond7956 you contradicted yourself
"the kagura's verity is the most reliable and consistent option"
solar pearl: am i a joke to you
Lost prayer is better imo for yanfei.
Kagura relies heavily on skill. Lost prayer increase all elemental damage way more and since yanfei stays on field it helps her..also the movement speed is a nice little bonus..
Using Yanfei without reactions or vv shred gimps her super hard it's not really a fair test. I'm getting up to 144% pyro damage with lost prayer, C6 seal buff and Kazuha buff it makes a big difference.
Ayaka's ult does work well with Yanfei as her biggest damage comes as she takes the field with her ult and skill ready as she gets max seals from both it was good to see it. The abyss mechanical array would be a good showcase as the world bosses die too quick.
You should test those solo without other team members because sometimes your teams are not fair to other two characters tested, for example here yanfei was unable to vaporize or melt while heizou could swirl and ningg had geo resonance (which boosts her more than pyro resonance does to yanfei)
- catalyst main who mains all three
The way you wasted a months worth of crit rate food gave me a heart attack
Man, that wasn't very fair for yanfei! As a double-crowned yanfei main I'm a little ashamed that she wasn't allowed to use reactions, because it would've made the playing field a lot more equal.
The abyss test just showed Xiangling’s damage blows the 3 4* dps numbers out of the water lol
kazuha also did most of the damage lol
@@midgur i think his kazuha is c6 also
Xiangling is way stronger
This video is just for fun to sell heizou tho...lol
Dmg isn't the only important thing. I love Xiangling to death and use her a lot but u can't deny even with a raiden in team she really has a lot of energy requirements and will struggle without having her burst at all times. Ningguang, Yanfei are not dependent on E and Q. That is why it's unfair to compare sub dps/burst dps to main dps. It's like saying "bruh Raiden is soo much better than Ayaka" when Raiden is burst dependent.
As a free to play, even just a C1 Ningguang already becomes your most reliable DPS
She's geo, so she doesn't get much advantage from reactions, but as long as you have a shield, her damage increases a lot
As a Ninguang Main in the making AR 25) I find this as a bigger win then touching grass
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Great video! One bit of feedback - It would've been great to see Yanfei's personal damage with vapes in all of the runs rather than solo pyro. i.e. partnered with an ungeared Xingqiu
I think it would've been a lot more meaningful to see what a normal pyro unit's personal damage is in their natural team scenario is. Especially since anemo and geo characters aren't dependent on reactions like pyro reactions are, it feels stacked against Yanfei without reactions. I'm much more curious about how Yanfei's personal vaped damage compares to Ningguang and Heizou, rather than personal pyro damage, as that result was pretty obvious from the outset.
Considering how vape works tho, we'd see literally Yanfei's time cut in half everytime... unfair to the teammates if she's allowed reactions, but unfair to her to have reactions. I do agree tho, a "4th Yanfei" option would have been great that allowed her to have reactions.
@@latioshunter i mean then why not make a comp allowing each character to be played in their supposed playstyle? Nobody ever plays yanfei without vape, heizou can add a little bit more dmg with swirls (even on a crit build) and ning would do similar to what she did here
@@latioshunter Heizou also got to react though? He'd be about half as fast without his swirl declension stacks too. If vape Yanfei ends up way better than the other two then that's just reality. You're not going to run Yanfei without a hydro or cryo character just like you're not going to run Ninguang without geo resonance or Heizou without swirls.
I think the swirls helped Heizou more. Without them he would of had to spend time charging up his E. You also kept saying how Yanfei is meant to be played with reactions, so why not play her with reactions? They are a part of her character. Pyro characters have lower multipliers *because* they are meant to be used with reactions.
hu tao is the exception. She dont need reactions and she still smashes all in single target lol
9:17 You literally missed Yanfei's Burst LOL and also you should have tried her with oceanid to be fair since she's based on reactions
12:44 basically xiangling destroying the ice cube with 65k melts
5:20 if Yanfei can't use Kokomi for reactions, why does Heizou get them?
Because heizou needs to swirl stuff in order to get his declension stacks. His elemental skill is the main focus after all.
@@Unforgiving_Eye Also vape is a biiiiit stronger than swirl.
Vape does a ton of damage
He's a bad carry, so he needs some advantages to make the comparison sensible
@@Purpletrident Exactly, giving yanfei the ability to vape is not going to be a fair comparison imho
Edit: Also, it's a raw damage comparisons not another big pp damage with vapes xD
I saw the free swirls Heizhou got more like how everyone got particle generation. Since it's not extra damage, but saving time from charging. Kinda like how baron bunny is used to funnel for Yanfei etc. Besides, Ningguang got geo resonance which is so strong but no one had a problem with that, methinks.
A true solo show case though would be with them being the only party member and Heizhou won't really do well alone, but then again, it's meant to be a party gameplay kinda game.
If solo I think ningguang will win too, the only thing she may suffer is if there's bunch of enemies since she can't do AoE without her skill or c1 (even c1 isn't that changeable since her normal attack isn't where she shine), but regardless, ningguang would win since she has low cooldown for both skill and brust and her energy ult cost is low
So using Zhongli is fair considering he is the best in slot support for Heizou and Ningguang, geo resonance + geo resistance shred? Also using kokomi to help heizou? why not allow Yanfei to use Xingqiu or Yelan w/o artifacts, just to vaporize?.
He’s still dealing raw anemo dmg. That’s why. The only way Kokomi “helps” is by charging up his e
@@blakedout having kokomi's jellyfish literally helps build his stack faster which mean giving him faster clear time tho... unless, this comparison meant only for raw damage, which ofc no pyro unit will be better without hydro enabler.
@@blakedout DPS is composed not only of single instance of damage but also how often it does. And killing boss with the same hp is comparing DPS not just damage.
As a Lisa main I’d LOVE to see a dps showdown featuring her hahaha, I understand that not many other people might want that tho,
To me the most important thing isn’t the solo showcases, but the team showcases. It’s a team game after all. So I’d like to see a heavier focus on that :)
Good showdown! Like you said IWTLG, the fact that all three of these characters are at near parity shows that Mihoyo is trying its best to maintain some semblance of balance with the 4-star DPS characters. It's also nice to see validation that all three are surprisingly viable in pretty much any situation.
Would love to see a video showcasing day one 5 star characters vs new 4 stars/5 stars
I really like those 4* showcase and showdowns, I hope to see more in the future :D
As someone who try to collect and preserve as much food as I can, that spam click at crit food really trigger me
It‘s really nice to see that they‘re balanced even tho their release dates are all different. I‘m really happy that I managed to get Heizou to C6, I have him at 9,12,12 and I’m planning to crown his Elemental Skill. To me he is (currently) the most fun to play character.
its not balanced, with her proper xingqiu, even if xq were lvl 1 with no artifacts, yanfei would double the damage and make all of them eat ***
SOLO dmg
1.Ningguang
2.Yanfei
3.Heizou
Full Buff/Team
1.Heizou or Yanfei
2. Ningguang
I think for the future, any supports thats basically required for the character (like heizou swirling for stacks to save 4s of charge up for his e, yanfei needing a hydro to vape, ningguang needing a geo for resonance) should be included in the teams, since when the character is being balanced mhy is definitely considering those factors (seen by lower scaling on pyro characters, higher on non reactions, etc), but give the supports a build that contributes basically nothing to the team besides that core feature (so for xq with yanfei that could be something like lvl0 sac sword r5, 2pc emblem 2pc random set that doesnt give damage, er/def/def, max er rolls, min atk and crit rolls) so that they can do their job for the main dps being compared but add nothing else after.
This issue is most evident in the abyss runs where ningguang as a dps should be able to kill the rooms faster (especially with her aoe constellation somewhat overcoming her single target issue), but the overreliance on the xiangling core makes heizou and yanfei barely need to attack in every room, so instead of a dps comparison it was more of a short duration burst dmg comparison where heizou easily wins since his e and q can nuke harder than the other 2 but he loses out when he needs to auto attack, and yanfei doesnt have a hydro/ningguang doesnt have a geo to help them. Done this way, if a team cant get 3 stars or cant even clear a room in time, it is also useful in helping gauge their power level, so getting 3 stars every room shouldnt be a priority
i would still take comparisons in full teams, but thats not very feasible at your level of investment, even for abyss, since everything dies way too quickly to actually compare how much the main dps in question is doing for the team
As I’m sure you know, ningguang did get a geo for geo resonance.
@@IAmGodHimself777 in the abyss she didn't
Inthink the free swirls were not fair, bc it would have slowed his solo time a lot. To balance, you could put kokomi in all the rosters (instesd of amber for yanfei)
Yes! It was very unfair to compare characters that have their own dps merit in themselves and then a character that relies on other characters
lol how’s koko going to refund yanfei’s energy ?
Everybody talking about these three characters
Where i am worried about the clip where he wasted over 150 crit food 😭😩
You’re the best at doing character comparisons keep it up 👍
I personally think the Regisvine alone is sufficient for the solo showcase, and the fights following should use tailored builds and teams to really show how they perform.
I would also shy away from Crit Fishing builds during the main showcase competition and maybe add them in at the end as a little "bonus" segment.
Just my opinion, love your videos either way.
The kokomi on heizou st the first primo Vishal I think was a little unfair considering what you said since he kinda requires the application so he could function at all but he does need so it’s kind of a fuzzy situation
Once again, great job, your content is super entertaining!
hiii just wanted to say your content is way more powerful than other people, specially your guides on builds are complete and useful thank you very much.
When you were completely obliterating that 'use' button on the crit rate food...... Pain. 😭
After these years, mama ningguang still got it~ my first DPS still amazing~
WHERES MY GIRL BARBARA AT, SHE SOLOS
I hear nothing but fax here
Lol the few, the proud, the barbara mains. I wish i could make barbara slap but I don’t have patients to do it.
FAX, my barbara c2 can hits hard than my yanfei c6, idk why ppl hate her😌
Awesome video, thanks for the effort!
A few notes: there were a number of times when Heizou had his declension stacks built up and yet you didn't unleash his punch immediately but rather kept on triggering swirl. As his punch can be deployed so quickly and the stacks built up again relatively quickly, that cost at least a few seconds in each fight. Yanfei really should have been able to benefit from Kokomi's water application too to show her potential. And Ninguang didn't walk through her Jade Screen a few times before using her burst, which likely also cost her a second or two per fight.
But otherwise, great video!
I literally was wondering this yesterday bc I didn’t know who to build and you made a video omg
Since swirls are necessary to get stacks for heizou, koko jellyfish was allowed imo
I think an important part of yanfei's rotation to consume less stamina while ulting is to go 2NA then CA so she can have 4 seals, instead of 3 half the time, or at least that's how I play with her
As raw damage, ningguang maybe better than other 2
As teamgame, yanfei maybe a bit higher than other 2
Heizhou is fun but he need to play as enabler, means he need a good sub dps for him to do good
U did yanfei dirty heizou was swirling with kokonut , Ning had geo res which reduces geo res...u should atleast use VV shred to balance it for yanfei
Each had his element resonance so yeah I think letting Heizou swirl is fair since his team has no damage boost from pyro nor geo resonance.
I can understand the thought process behind running the same weapon for tests on everyone but not giving yanfei a hydro applicator for the dps comparison eludes me when you're granting heizou that luxury.
Thank you for more quality comparisons, i feel like your effort sometimes goes underappreciated, so I just wanted to say thank you for all of your work o7
As a Ningguang believer, I’m very pleasantly surprised at how competitive Ningguang was considering the other two have reactions on their side
the only time yanfei has a reactions was the serpent boss and the abyss tho while heizou has kokomi for swirl
Seeing Yawnfei not doing N2C hurts my eyes...
Ningguang is ridiculous!!! Geo doesn’t have reactions but all geo dps ALWAYS dish out ridiculous damage. They work perfectly with their fellow geo family. I love it!!
It's because they have higher multipliers than reaction characters
Yeah, that's why there are so many Geo teams beating records in Abyss...oh wait, there are none. Obviously because they don't have reactions that amplify their damage, Geo and Anemo characters hit harder just from skill scaling, but as soon as other elements get reactions, Anemo and Geo are left in the dust
@@Gennosuke1983 True and its so sad lmao but on the brightside anemo and geo are better in coop events and coop in general simply bc they dont have to rely on anyone else for reactions or skills, just themselves.
@@Gennosuke1983 which record have you made? Send me you video link please.
99.999999% of genshin Players are not setting records. What you need is a consistent DPS to clear the abyss. That’s where geo comes in. It is consistent and trusted. Not to wait or gauge a reaction. Just get you 36 stars and go. The gold is getting 36 stars and at speed record. Even 99% of content creators just use consistent DPS. Geo is ungabunga which most player do. Eula that sets records is rarely in abyss top 20. Making a point that applies to 20 people out of millions is nonsense
You uploaded this right as I got my first copy of Heizou lol How fitting I'd end up here
Personally, I think the fight was a bit unfair and favoured one character over another a little more at times, but it's a great video and I know you made all you could to try and keep them at the same or closest power level.
Heizou's skill looks so satisfying deleting big chunks of health off the bosses
As a ningguang main, I approve! hahaha
Don't forget with the super low energy cost you can E Q E CA the moment her CD ends
Considering she slaps hard and can get a shield to keep slapping, I can't help but think Ninn is the superior DPS catalyst
@@natalienatz1903 she is, but she’s kind of hard to slot onto teams, and the units have to heavily compensate for what she lacks imo
But all is simply solved by using Ben/Xing/Zhong
Will there be a dps showdown of kazuha c6? It would be cool to see what a c6 kazuha can do against some of the top tier dps
That would be a funny thing.
A competitor would then be a c6 DPS Bennett who also gets standard attack infusion with the c6
Yess
C6 Kazuha doesn’t really compare to any top tier dps, it’s a fun cool looking constellation, but building em to get dmg bonus sacrificing atk and crit isn’t really ideal, and if you don’t build em, he won’t have much em to get buffed from, it’s a decent dmg increase but on a character that isn’t meant for dmg
@@thecrazyremy Yeah i know, but he gives a lot of damage in his elemental skill and his ultimate and with c6 he has anemo enchantmemt with attack buffs, I know he won't be able to beat the top tier dps but it will be fun to see
How is nobody talking about 2:17
All the food???
I feel like I'm watching a research paper with a full chapter 1 to 5 😂🤣 kudos
I wonder why the last round wasn't in second half spiral abyss? i think second half of the abyss can let you run all of them with their best team comp plus we can see how their performance in single target and multi targets scenario. But nonetheless thank you for this amazing video
He's probably just don't know the best tactic against 2nd half yet for single target dps...
It's because getting good runs of the second half is a major hassle - each time you reset you have to clear the first half.
You should use reactions and full potential. The clear winner here is Yanfei
He did at the ruin serpent, it's obvious she was going to win with reactions...
That is actually a slap on Yanfei since Ningguang doesn't rely on reaction. And there's the Ruin Serpent test lmao
@@jhunwizard15 No because yanfei does better with reactions, ningguang CANT do them. It’s a slap in ningguang face, imagine if she had a better element.
Not exactly. If you run full teams that includes a heizou taser team which will most definitely outperform her vape teams.
@@MurtazaGI Yanfei does better with reactions but the dmg end results are almost the same. To make matters worse, Ningguang does better. Not to mention Yanfei's stamina issue.
Can you imagine if Ningguang can utilize reactions? That's not gonna happen tho.
I don't think in the first tests, any elemental resonanse should be taken into account... eventually, all 3 characters should use the pyro one.
Geo resonance is really strong - one of the main DMG Boost Sources for Geo units. By giving Ning a Geo Resonanse, Yanfei should able to vape (or at least do any elemental reactions) at this point, because that's from where her potential comes. AND, for whatever reason, you also allowed Heizou to skip E charging.
Pyro resonance is kinda laughable compare to Geo one. Every Geo DPS wants to run with its Resonance, and you won't always go with Pyro Resonance on other characters, especially Heizou.
Another thing is that by making everyone's 100% crit, you've actually lowered realistic performance of Heizou's C6 (which provides up to +16% crit rate for his E).
In that case, I think for a longer fights, Heizou should get some extra atk bonus or a crit dmg, perhaps even +32%.
Ofc I know it's really hard to balance stats on all characters, but it's still doable; by using lower level crit dmg Circlet on Ning and Yanfei for example.
And in the last test (against Ice Cube) it was more of a Xiangling showcase, rather than Ningguang's...
There is still some value here, however... that's in my opinion, one of the most inconsistent video-test you've ever made.
Each of these abyss runs were just Xiangling and Kazuha showcases honestly, I guess they were shown because it's a tradition to put them in a DPS showdown
I appreciate your work for these fun videos, I think in the future you should consider the second half of abyss 12 because it has some good testing area for a lot of characters like 2.7 or 2.8 because lately the top half requires specific characters for the perfect time like 2.7 with pyro, 2.8 with Bennet and Kazuha, 2.6 with Venti and a hydro character, 2.5 with an electro character and so on
I kinda just wanna say good job
Because let's be real it's impossible to do a showcase between those characters.. they all have some situations where they shine more than the others.. but that yanfie showcase with the ruin serpent is just stupid. Ayaka is the one who killed him
all of them are great, i really wanna raise them just to play with some new characters that i've never used before
8:46 I don’t see any issue with it because her dmg was negligible and this shows his dmg given he’s maxed as the most opportunities possible. Good in my book brotha 💯
I don't really think there's a winner between the three of them. It comes down to which character you personally prefer and the time you spend building them. A 1 or 5 seconds difference is absolutely fine and incredibly well balanced
Well said
Since you asked for opinions, I think you should've let Yanfei have Kokomi's jellyfish. All 3 of those characters are dependent on the reactions they cause but she was the only one who wasn't allowed to receive the benefit. If Heizou gets to swirl Bennett and Kokomi and Ninguang gets to crystalize off of Bennett, Yanfei should get to vape off of Kokomi. Just strip Kokomi down with a level 1 weapon and no artifacts to restrict her impact to only vapes
This man is geneus. Lets take Heizou with reaction, Yanfei without and Ninguang (well there isn't mush anyway). Hmmmm, Yanfei clears slower how come ?)
I feel like if you’re not gonna give Yanfei a character to also react off of then you should’ve given her a set like Lavawalker or Shimenawa if the argument is supposed to be their own personal dmg.
That actually would have been neat
Exactly. A 4p Wanderers isn't the best choice if reactions aren't allowed.
I've always been a Ningguang carry until I got Itto... And now I still use Ningguang as my main carry and Itto as a burst dps 😂 she consistently dishes out more damage than Itto when he doesnt have his ult ready, and acts as a really good battery for him during his downtime because of how much energy she generates at C2
All of them are tied as a dps but in terms of actual viability I'd go with heizou 90% of the time, vv shred is too hard to give up lol
Heizou is very hard to defeat Electro Armored Fatui
Lmao, heziou himself can't even take advantage of the vvv shred, he's anemo, ningaung is the best dps here, lmao try bursting with her when. You're left with just 5 seconds in abyss and you'll see why I say she's the best
@@corpse214 they use the vv shred for the other party members. they didn't say it was for dps heizou but in terms on viability. he's a great damage dealer and has more support capabilities than ningguang
@@blorgis op said "dps"
@@heyking8583 I said that the three of them are tied as DPS but in terms of actual viability in the meta and spiral abyss in general, heizou is the more useful one out of three due to him being anemo and being able to take advantage of vv shred
At 2:06 you really just wasted 100+ crit rate food like that… I’m flabbergasted
Good I wasn’t the only one screaming stop in my head :’D
Yanfei could use overvape with 4-Crimson Witch
Heizou and Ningguang could also buff teammates with Petra and VV
This is absolutely not fair for yanfei in overworld comparisons. Both heizou and nigguang showcases met their respective ideal situation except for yanfei. Why would even compare "raw" damage when you can just compare each with their ideal teams. And who would want to not run xq/yelan in yanfei team
Right
Hu tao mains ... Yelan and xinqiu is not available for us mostly
wanderer's 2pc is also rather useless without any reactions
I wonder if it's fair to compare the damage without reaction support. Heizou gets a considerable amount of damage from swirl, and yanfei gets a considerable amount of damage from other reactions like vape. I wonder if it would have been fair to give each character a fischl with minimum stats just to compare damage when one gets swirl and another gets overload, and one can set up crystalizes more efficiently.
For the abyss fight, it felt like the 4 star showcase characters didn't really do much, and the teams definitely benefited heizou and yanfei more than it did Ningguang (who's much better with geo resonance as she also functions as a great battery while being a main DPS). It also felt like Bennett/Kazuha/Xiangling as a 3 man duo wouldn't have done significantly worse without the main DPS to join them. Even if you ran a main DPS amber you'd still be fine if you slapped bennett kazuha and xiangling on a team.
I think he did the right thing, both geo and pyro have a DMG boost on the resonance so letting Heizou swirl for minimal damage and the declension stacks seems fair.
@@drekhunter 20% atk from pyro res is a bit less than the 15% dmg bonus and 20% geo res shred
@@inciknight want them to all do the same? Pyro can make reactions Geo can't, they have better numbers to cover that, if it's about reactions Yanfei wins, if it's about personal damage Ningguang wins, Heizou is competing with an support element on a non support build.
This is exactly why Electro releases awesome characters or piles of garbage the element has damage oriented reactions with sad damage and a sad excuse of a bonus for using two.
@@drekhunter if he don't want to allow Yanfei to have reaction then he shouldn't have let Heizu to swirl. He can't stack declension? Yeah so what? That's part of his kit as much as reaction to Yanfei's kit. He should've relied on charged skill to level the field.
@@Vizible21 Again take away all the characters from the party and see how they fare without the resonance.
He isn't allowing Yanfei reactions because it's OBVIOUS SHE WILL WIN SINCE MULTIPLICATIVE DAMAGE IS BUSTED.
Stop crying about it she did well and Heizou barely managed to keep up with the swirls, he didn't take the crit fishing route and that favors Heizou a lot since he has a mininuke.
Swirls add minimum damage compared to vaporizes but mainly it is literally required for Heizou not to feel awkeard to play without that awkward E charge. For Anemo characters swirls are a part of their kit. But if you for example randomly added a little pyro for Garyu then it would make a fuck tón of dofference and it isn't really a core part of her kit because it isn't like she needs to melt for her frostflake to activate. Heizou on the other hand literally can't function without swirls.
Did you walk into an electric fence while typing this?
I gotta disagree with you on this one, you say it doesn't add much damege but it also is required for him to contribute damege, the same argument could be made for I believe it's jeans attack speed buff for yanfei as it allows her to effectively gain seals between charge attacks which she can't do normally
Yes, he does need swirls to speed up the building of his declension stacks. But you do hopefully know about the whole charging aspect too, right? It's cumbersome but certainly functional.
@@Mr.Hot_Take and I realize he need to swirl, what I was saying was that him having a support to help speed that up when yanfei has a almost identical system but she doesn't get a support to help speed it up seem very weighted towards heizou
@@demigirlanarchist2883 all yanfei teams had pyro resonance though. and gaining stacks is an essential part of a kit, while reactions literally ups the damage by 50%?
Yanfei should've had something like kokomi or anything else like heizo
As a Yanfei main when i saw her charge atk without 3-4 stacks... It hurts me TT
Best Ningguang showcase in youtube 10/10 subscribed!