I don't understand why people look at her solo damage & call her mid.. She's literally a core enabler of DoT, even a future proof character at that.. If you are willing to play DoT teams she's almost as a must pull, with blackswan as another if not the most anticipated character we can alr see the synergy with Kafka's banner before her!!
@@DeathkaiserG For grinding materials she’s fine without another dot character, her own shock is enough damage But she definitely need another dot character if you want to run her for MoC
tbh BS has barely any synergy with Kafka outside of the fact that she's a DOT character: Her stack bonus can't be triggered by Kafka she's just as skill point reliant as Kafka Kafka has no way of helping her stack her DOT outside of her talent. Overall she just seem like a bad unit with no perfectly synergizing teammates.
@@Winter1145I4IDK where you heard those stuffs but..Blackswan's DoT is counted as all 4 types of DoT & Kafka's ult allows sacrament to be considered any regard of dot damage, which means any dot explosion will trigger sacrament: Guina ult, Luka passive, Sampo skill at E4. Kafka does proc sacrament with skill and ultimate.. I could provide you more information but as the description implies she can work with her.. its just by the time she comes out it might/mightn't change
My favorite character,both in gameplay and design. She enables remembrance and nihility in SU golds and gears. She also frees other support for another team in moc.
I'm planning to use my Gaurenteed pity on Kafka cause I really wanna pull for Black Swan. Though I'm a f2p it will be tough getting Swan after getting kafka but let's hope. I just have a question I actually don't have Ruan mei, so is it a problem???
@@Why_AreYou Ruan Mei does make everything easier. But you can run kafka with 2 other dots too (sampo/luka/guinaifen) I’ve been clearing MOCs with them before I got Ruan Mei.
Really great video to watch right after losing 50/50 a second time in Kafka banner, got Bailu e1 in first kafka banner and now got e2 Sorry I just gotta vent somewhere
Last couple months I lost 50/50 on nahdia in genshin lost 50/50 on argenti (forced argenti cause I wanted him) lost 50/50 on raun mei and lost the insane 75/25 on SW's LC. I took a break from both games for about 2ish months now after that. I feel you my man
...i have kafka and Black Swan. MY DoTs sometimes go upwards of 80k. WITH 4 STAR RELICS WITH not that good substats(building acheron for Dat Nihility team with gepard) SHE IS GOOD.
I hope I pull her! She looks fun simply because she enables a completely different team/uses different units only her archetype wants which is great to comfortably build a second team that wants units like Tingyun
I run tingus, Kafka, sampo, and huohuo and Kafka gets her ult like every 0.5-2 turns. It’s such a fun team and also very strong. I’m so so hyped for future nihility characters!
Ever since I pulled for her during her first banner, every SU content Hoyo threw became always 'cheese-able'. In my case, I always cleared any difficulty with only 1 try. 😆
I'm so glad you've pointed out how good Solitary Healing can be on her. It gives her a massive damage bonus, gives her energy back too so that she gets her Ultimate back faster. I've been using it on her since it came out even though everyone was just 'meh' on it.
Definitely the next best option! Though her own LC is just too good. Stackable speed and mine is at 167 speed and 4.1k atk…I ULT almost every turn or every other turn
Pure Fiction and the new Echo of War boss really gave Solitary Healing more utility with the wave style combat. Now it has a niche over LCs that do more damage on a straight-up fight like Eyes of the Prey, Fermata, or Good Night, Sleep Well.
DoT play style is so fun. Genshin players are used to buffing DPS/carry for big oneshot DMG, but this game is meant for estrategy mainly. If you are playing for just spaming skill and ult of your main dmg dealer you are missing the fun part of building dmg overtime like Kafka does. Aplying debuffs and seeing how enemies are dying from accumulation and also are unable to recover from shield break, it's so cool. That's why I also use Ruan Mei, her flower breaks their shield again making another big break dmg plus the previous debuffs of Sampo and Kafka. Really recomend people to give her a try
Her and Topaz are on my “want” list, but I’m hesitant to throw my wishes away. Still need either FX or Loucha, DHIL, and maybe Jingliu. As well as saving some in reserve for potential new characters. So much to catch up on.
I am really conflicted with Kafka. I like the idea of a DoT archetype, and currently the only way to viably do it is with Kafka. The entire archetype hinges on her. I either pull Kafka and be able to play DoT, or I save my guarantee for Sparkle (since I skipped Ruan Mei) but I will basically have to give up ever hoping to be able to play a DoT archetype.
Really great guide. Thank you for showing numbers. Especially with MoC resistances and effect hit rate needs. For some reason I couldn't wrap my head around how to balance it out since i didnt want to dump too much effect hit rate into her with E1 and light cone. Probably because im a dumb dumb.
I'm seriously considering getting her light cone this time around. I have GNSW at S5 and SH at S5 but that speed and second dot from her signature light cone would be nice. My new set for her rolled tons of speed so her light cone would most likely push me over the 160 speed threshold and allow me to max out the bonus on that 18% planar set
@@SitiJubaedah-gq2sj Sig LC might be quite impactful for Black Swan comps - that additional DoT effect will not only help with proccing the Prisoner set but also speed up the Arcana stacking.
My Kafka is on Prisoner and Glamoth set at 3,643 atk, 28% Effect HR, 165 Speed. She gets a lot of turns when I pair her with Ruan Mei and with her LC she goes up to 189 Speed. She may not deal as much as Seele and other crit based dps but the fact that she gets a lot more turns than them satisfies me.
I've been loving her so much ever since her first appearance at the start of the game that when she was first released, I pulled for her on both of my account (luckily I didn't lose my 5050 since I accidentally got blade), she is a very fun unit to use. I didn't pull for her lightcone back then and I was wondering if I should pull for her lc now, and I'm really glad I did! I got it on pity 22 🤣🤣
Congrats on pulls, mate. Got her on my main account after her release, sadly still got around 20 pity on secondary, so I'll probably wait till some jades pile up and try my luck the day before banner ends.
6mos later, my Kafka has literally carried my account in a lot of game modes. With the release of more tools for DoT to shine, Black Swan, and soon Acheron, I imagine the mileage I'm getting on Kafka will only keep increasing. She's basically THE carry of DoT teams, and while they still function, she just amplifies it by a TON. And the fact that you can just keep stacking dmg amplifiers on your other DoT sources and only really need to optimize Kafka makes her that much better. And she's the quintessential (hot) mommy.
started running crit kafka ever since the new sets she got. Dot 4pc set Bis planar Sig LC Using with RM alone just wrecks anything with the sheer amount of damage always being put out from all her attacks along with the DOT damage, i almost exclusively run the hypercarry comp unless i need to bring another dps to break mobs.
been using yukong for my DOT team until i got ruan mei. she's without a doubt hard to play, but give the team the right amount of SPD, that 80% ATK buff is pretty huge.
Thanks for the guide Now for the hard part: getting the perfect relic stats for her, which is gonna take... 5? Maybe 6 months of grinding with my shitty built characters
broooo i joined when dhil got released and i was so sad when i found out kafka existed, but i did get her today so im happy as fuck. great content as always :D
Dots trigger on break too not just the enemy's turn. That's why Ruan Mei is so busted with dot characters. Although break dots scale with break effect rather than atk & elemental bonus.
For some reason she’s my only character that does damage in my account. probably cause ive never farmed artifacts so I’ve just always added ATK% on her main stat and left.
100% effect hit rate won't guarantee shock if the enemy has resistances though. Having a little extra doesn't hurt. Also important to build break effect for those break dots. So it should be elemental buff > atk% > break effect with as much speed as you need to hit certain set thresholds and to spd tune with other teammates.
@@ShapeshifterOS Just don't? There's literally only 4 lightning resistant enemies in the entire game and all of them are weak to the initial trio that you get for free plus dr ratio also exist. When making a guide you don't go to the lowest common denominator, you are guiding, you show what's optimal. If you get more than 29% ehr when rolling atk% and spd that's a happy accident, you also don't pair her against the only 4 lightning resistant enemies or just rely on your dot sub dps if you're hellbent on Kafka vs Kafka gameplay. A guide teaches the newcomers what to aim for and not build weird lvl 1 set ups.
@@ShapeshifterOS Also I forgot to mention that lightning resistant doesn't mean shock (debuff) resistant, I think only 1 enemy in the entire game is resistant to the actual shock debuff and it's so weak that it might die randomly in the aoe
Finally, the character who can be used to dump all those "prisoner relics" I got piled while farming for Ashblazing Duke... I also wonder how well she's gonna work with Ruan Mei/Bronya/Huohuo. I wonder if it's even possible to get her do her followup attack after EVERY character basic attack, like she does in her boss form, or it still remains her 'NPC-exclusive" feature, like Gepards counter move or Svarog's "rocket barrage".
I luckly got her on my first banner with just 20 pull and I have loved her since then. I currently equipped her with Welt LC, so I was trying to decide to pull for her Signature LC or go for E1
Finally got her because I wanna try out the dot playstyle and thankfully I did get her after losing to Gepard but at least his E1 is useful. Sadly I didn't get her LC but at least the free five star one is second best. Now for teams I'm just trying this out but I'm doing Kafka, Sampo, Ruan Mei, and HuoHuo.
Hi, an amazing video and thank you for giving justice for the DoT queen! But I was wondering how much atk do you have on her? because I have 3612 (with 140 speed and 29% ehr) and she doesn't do much dmg T~T
Kafka is easily one of my favorite characters. The best thing is, she'll always be relevant since she's the only one who can do what she does. The only downside she has is that you need to build other characters solely for her (e.g. Sampo, Guinaifen, Black Swan). However, this is not much of a problem as you need to build supports for all units, although, Kafka's supports aren't as universal as other units'.
My E3S1 Kafka's got 3.9k atk, 154 spd (not counting her LC), and 33.0 ehr. 4pc prisoner, 2pc glamoth. Her gloves and orb are mid af, if I can get better ones with high spd subs I might swap to atk boots so I don't completely outpace the rest of the team. I'm gonna try and get to e6 when I get home from work today. I'll be cutting it a little close, I'm on a guarantee with roughly 160 combined pity and tickets and another 60+ pulls worth of stardust(? Idr what the currency you get from pulling is called) currently in shop. That plus whatever I generate tonight should get me close enough to get 4 5★s. So as long as I win one of the 50/50s I should be set. Edit: And no I'm not a whale, I'm a light spender who started about a week after launch and saved everything until Kafka's first banner where I won every single 50/50 and the 75/25 on her LC banner. I've skipped plenty of other banners since then and the only other 5★ I have eidolons on is e1 Ruan Mei because I got a super lucky early 2nd one 30 pulls after the first while trying to get a Xueyi (who I thankfully got in the 10 pull with the 2nd RM).
i just got her and was abt to clear Gold and gears diff 5 C2 with nihility it was so stupid that my game lagged cuz of the number of DoTs happening at the same time and she wasnt even level 80 or with max level artifacts, i love her
I almost regretted pulling for her, cuz I'm not big on DoTs and I was trying to make JY work. Then I built her and threw my half assed Sampo on her team. She's been my lightning carry ever since. It wasn't even hard to build her, it was wild😅.
Kafka is the only character that made me early finish both gold and gear and swarm disaster SU at torturous difficulty thru nihility path. I have Jingliu, Blade, Jing Yuan, Seele, Fu Xuan, and Luocha, but all I can do is to have abundance path with them in order for me to clear that. But to be fair, Kakfa isn't good with the new Memory of chaos for a fast 3 star, I'm talking about the 11 and 12.
Funnily enough I got her SigLC after I bought Texture for my Fu Xuan and thinking that I should've just went for Solitary. I was thinking of either waiting for 2 months to get a good 5* Lightcone for her or just try my luck on her Lightcone's banner, and I somehow won lol.
Biggest question for me(i already have her) is if black swan and kafka will interact. As it is not explicitly stated that black swans debuffs are dots, just that they apply dot, so im not sure if kafka can trigger them. If so, its going to be absolutely broken
been waiting for an updated guide! thank you needed the lightcone recommendation so bad🥲 i have welt's lc, and other f2p ones and cant decide which to give kafka guinaifen or pela
I started playing star rail and I got she pity 80,Then I tried 10 pulls on her light cone, I simply get the signature light cone on the first pull of the account,I am happy :)
I kind of hate this game, because I genuinely want every character. I wish I could pull Kafka (and Black Swan next patch), but I just can’t. It hurts. Even if I got her, I’d never get to build her. I’m still wrestling with Blade’s relics (where are my SPD or HP boots), and I want to build Dr. Ratio, as well as Himeko, Herta, and Asta for Pure Fiction. And then Sparkle in 2.0. And potentially re-runs of Fu Xuan and DHIL. And then other new characters. I just don’t have the Stellar Jades or resources. Edit: Not that anyone cares, but I decided to throw Jades at the Kafka's banner anyways, just to see what happened. What happened is that I got Bronya at 2 pity, and then decided to go all the way as a result. So, now I have Kafka, with no idea when I'll have the spare resources to build her when I've got so many others on the docket right now.
Yeayy this bann3r is kind to mee. Got ratio lc and kafka lc. Also manage to get 2 kafkas (e1). Won 50 50 streaks😊😊😊 i lost kafka at pity 81 to welt from bann3r 1.4. And luckily kafka reruns faster. Im planning to get blackswan and acheron next. Dot is so much fun to play. U can have fire el3ctro physical wind team at once. It is fl3xible
@bepo1k it's about a 14% difference which isn't bad but if you have welt's weapon its better Also "good night and sleep well" is a 4* at S5 is very close to her weapon It will take a bit of luck but kafka definitely has a variety of weapons to choose from her weapon isn't really necessary Fermata is another f2p option accessible from the forgotten hall shop and at S5 it performers better than solitary healing with breaks
@@bepo1702 it KINDA is for using 2 DoT units only, 3rd dot is only from break which isn't 100% uptime. Also reaching 161/201 speed. S5 GNSW is better than solitary. S5 Solitary probably better when all enemies are lightning weak and Kafka is the one that breaks.
I wish i had more pulls in reserve for Kafka, but i'm gonna wait for acheron (seems to be Nihility Electric too) and keep saving pulls until then. Kafka looks awesome still...
I can't believe i got Kafka, Black Swan and Black Swan's signature Lightcone all in a row without losing 50/50 and using very few wishes. My luck's blowing my mind and i‘m talking as an absolute F2P. My DoT team: Black Swan, Kafka, Tingyun and Lynx is rolling on the game.
Having Kafka E2 at the 1st banner and E6 this time. Kafka is still worth the money. I mean I don't really care people keep saying her mid dps, she's good to me and my game style
why no mention of asta ???? i don't have ruen mei ... asta is best to buff atk & spd for the 2p ..... i'm using Kafka(E1S1) + sampo(c5)/luca(c3)/gunifen + Asta + lynx(c6)/Gepard
Got her off my first Multi, Bronya off the discount banner, and Black Swan on my 67th pull. I am now fully prepared to break the game. P.S. I'm only just now finishing Jarilo. Lol
I pulled her for Black Swan, hopefully they don't disappoint. (It took me 150 pulls💀💀💀 i lost to Yanqing..) My future 2.0 teams: Ruan Mei, Kafka, Black Swan, Luocha Hanabi, Seele/Qq/IL, Silver Wolf/Yukong, Fu Xuan Excited to be finally able to to try out dot teams and a true mono quantum team
Tbh, with the release of new characters every new patch (new player here too) I think that she will rerun on about 4-6 months. Wanna pull for her too since she's actually the first character that I've liked in the game
I'm considering pulling on Kafka till I reach 50/50 (I'd like an Early Kafka, but I ain't Expecting it) If I get Granted with my 3rd lost 50/50 (I lost my last 2 50/50s and used the Guarantees on Ruan Mei & Huohuo) Then I'll stop pulling and Guarantee Sparkle (Who I legit really want) but If I win my 50/50 or get Kafka Early (Doubtful especially on getting her Early) Still going to go for Sparkle over Black Swan. (Black Swan will have her Rerun & I do really want Sparkle over Black Swan) Not F2P
i got kafka on her first banner because of uhh hype around her?? but sadly i didn't build her properly. although now that we have herta shop lc + the dot set i feel like i might build her haha
Im saving for Black swan since i already pulled for Kafka when she first came out. Ive wanting to re build Kafka and idk if to build her with Prisoneer in Deep Confinement since its for DoTs comps and Black Swan is for DoT comps, im really confused cuz i dont wanna miss 😭
14 pulls and momm- i mean kafka. Came home unfortunatly i didnt get a hook :( And uh in that team with bronya kafka, tingyun and houhou can i use nat instead of houhou coause i sadly do not have her
I was wondering why my Kafka sucks with my amazing crit stats that I grinded for a whole month just to be told they don’t buff her well. I went insane.
I just did one random goofy 10 pull on her banner, got her and was little disappointed. Then I leveled her, gave her random LC at lvl30 and lvl 0 signature relics. Then I tried her out and proceeded to hit 30k on 4 enemies using her ult.... now I'm happy
started a new acc a few weeks ago and saved all my pulls just to get hard pityd twice and lose 5050. now i dont even have her weapon and 0 pulls for black swan fml
Ok but is solitary healing still good when not in pure fiction or should I use good night and sleep well when doing anything else (I don’t have patience is all you need)
If i am stupid i would get her e2 but i am saving for black swan e1 + lc so and yes kafka has been buffed a lot because of ruan mei well just imagine break effect + dot debuff
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I don't understand why people look at her solo damage & call her mid.. She's literally a core enabler of DoT, even a future proof character at that.. If you are willing to play DoT teams she's almost as a must pull, with blackswan as another if not the most anticipated character we can alr see the synergy with Kafka's banner before her!!
If i can ask... How is kafka without dot in your opinion i dont have any dot characters levelled. And i dont have lightning dps. What do you think?
@@DeathkaiserG For grinding materials she’s fine without another dot character, her own shock is enough damage
But she definitely need another dot character if you want to run her for MoC
tbh BS has barely any synergy with Kafka outside of the fact that she's a DOT character:
Her stack bonus can't be triggered by Kafka
she's just as skill point reliant as Kafka
Kafka has no way of helping her stack her DOT outside of her talent.
Overall she just seem like a bad unit with no perfectly synergizing teammates.
@@Winter1145I4 is BS’s dot lower then Sampo’s or any other 4 star dot character?
@@Winter1145I4IDK where you heard those stuffs but..Blackswan's DoT is counted as all 4 types of DoT & Kafka's ult allows sacrament to be considered any regard of dot damage, which means any dot explosion will trigger sacrament: Guina ult, Luka passive, Sampo skill at E4. Kafka does proc sacrament with skill and ultimate.. I could provide you more information but as the description implies she can work with her.. its just by the time she comes out it might/mightn't change
My favorite character,both in gameplay and design. She enables remembrance and nihility in SU golds and gears. She also frees other support for another team in moc.
I'm planning to use my Gaurenteed pity on Kafka cause I really wanna pull for Black Swan. Though I'm a f2p it will be tough getting Swan after getting kafka but let's hope.
I just have a question I actually don't have Ruan mei, so is it a problem???
@@Why_AreYou Ruan Mei does make everything easier. But you can run kafka with 2 other dots too (sampo/luka/guinaifen) I’ve been clearing MOCs with them before I got Ruan Mei.
She works well with the remembrance path? Curious why you say that lol sorry if it’s a stupid question.
Never tried that with her.
is welt lightcone good on her?
@@mint-zv6yh nahh welt LC works mainly only on Welt himself or maybe Gunifen, not on kafka
Really great video to watch right after losing 50/50 a second time in Kafka banner, got Bailu e1 in first kafka banner and now got e2
Sorry I just gotta vent somewhere
Damn, sometimes the game doesn't want you to enjoy it...
hope she comes home man, that sucks
Last couple months I lost 50/50 on nahdia in genshin lost 50/50 on argenti (forced argenti cause I wanted him) lost 50/50 on raun mei and lost the insane 75/25 on SW's LC. I took a break from both games for about 2ish months now after that. I feel you my man
Thanks for condolences, the banner ended, in the end I didn't get Kafka 🙂
@@tobs7444 NOOOOOOOOOO😭😭😭
Her value just keeps increasing almost every new patch
She's still our momm- our dot dps
Mommy. Shes our mommy.
Man of culture 🗿
Feel free to say mommy because she's the mommy of dot
Definitely not something else🗿
We only need a mommy sustain to complete the dream team with Kafka, Black Swan and Ruan Mei
@@Barcia14natasha, she might be copium sustain but shes mommy
Still?
She is always been
...i have kafka and Black Swan.
MY DoTs sometimes go upwards of 80k.
WITH 4 STAR RELICS WITH not that good substats(building acheron for Dat Nihility team with gepard)
SHE IS GOOD.
An updated version for Kafka is something I do need from IWTL
Thx dude
I hope I pull her! She looks fun simply because she enables a completely different team/uses different units only her archetype wants which is great to comfortably build a second team that wants units like Tingyun
i skipped her initially for IL, but now im ready to finally get her so i can build a DOT team
I run tingus, Kafka, sampo, and huohuo and Kafka gets her ult like every 0.5-2 turns. It’s such a fun team and also very strong. I’m so so hyped for future nihility characters!
Perfect timing of guide! Was just starting to finish my Kafka build for black swans upcoming banner!
Ever since I pulled for her during her first banner, every SU content Hoyo threw became always 'cheese-able'. In my case, I always cleared any difficulty with only 1 try. 😆
Agreed
Swarm disaster, golden gears, anything at all
Kafka just destroys
@@satyamkumar8805which Path tho ?! Nihility ?
@@hariyantdm7295 yup
@@hariyantdm7295mostly nihility, and I got to admit. If your run on SU is pretty bad but still got some nihility buff, she still deal a ton of dmg
I'm so glad you've pointed out how good Solitary Healing can be on her. It gives her a massive damage bonus, gives her energy back too so that she gets her Ultimate back faster. I've been using it on her since it came out even though everyone was just 'meh' on it.
Definitely the next best option! Though her own LC is just too good. Stackable speed and mine is at 167 speed and 4.1k atk…I ULT almost every turn or every other turn
@@andrewaguayo115 Well yes, her signature LC is definitely going to be the absolute best.
Pure Fiction and the new Echo of War boss really gave Solitary Healing more utility with the wave style combat. Now it has a niche over LCs that do more damage on a straight-up fight like Eyes of the Prey, Fermata, or Good Night, Sleep Well.
i was on the fence for Kafka. ty for this, now I know to swipe for her for my first spend in HSR
goodluck!
How'd it go?
Good news, bad news. Goodnews. Got kafka, bad news. Lost my first 50/50 to welt. took 139 tickets@@muhamwed
@@devinayaz9210 well well welt actually synergizes pretty well with Ratio
@@devinayaz9210welt applies the debuffs needed to make DR ratio’s dmg bonus’s activate
DoT play style is so fun. Genshin players are used to buffing DPS/carry for big oneshot DMG, but this game is meant for estrategy mainly. If you are playing for just spaming skill and ult of your main dmg dealer you are missing the fun part of building dmg overtime like Kafka does.
Aplying debuffs and seeing how enemies are dying from accumulation and also are unable to recover from shield break, it's so cool. That's why I also use Ruan Mei, her flower breaks their shield again making another big break dmg plus the previous debuffs of Sampo and Kafka.
Really recomend people to give her a try
Her and Topaz are on my “want” list, but I’m hesitant to throw my wishes away. Still need either FX or Loucha, DHIL, and maybe Jingliu. As well as saving some in reserve for potential new characters. So much to catch up on.
You wont need Jingliu, leaks have shown that the future of DPS is looking bright. But if you like her, then ofc get her
Cant wait to get Black swan and destroy every thing with this queen duo😍😍😍♥️
I am really conflicted with Kafka. I like the idea of a DoT archetype, and currently the only way to viably do it is with Kafka. The entire archetype hinges on her.
I either pull Kafka and be able to play DoT, or I save my guarantee for Sparkle (since I skipped Ruan Mei) but I will basically have to give up ever hoping to be able to play a DoT archetype.
Really great guide. Thank you for showing numbers. Especially with MoC resistances and effect hit rate needs. For some reason I couldn't wrap my head around how to balance it out since i didnt want to dump too much effect hit rate into her with E1 and light cone. Probably because im a dumb dumb.
I'm seriously considering getting her light cone this time around. I have GNSW at S5 and SH at S5 but that speed and second dot from her signature light cone would be nice. My new set for her rolled tons of speed so her light cone would most likely push me over the 160 speed threshold and allow me to max out the bonus on that 18% planar set
I'm debating whether to go for sig LC or her E1
@@GigaChad-Senpaiher e1 is better according to some showcases
@@SitiJubaedah-gq2sj interesting 🤔
@@SitiJubaedah-gq2sj Sig LC might be quite impactful for Black Swan comps - that additional DoT effect will not only help with proccing the Prisoner set but also speed up the Arcana stacking.
Omg I play her all the time! She is my go to. I prefer playing her in hypercarry teams (Kafka, Tingyun, Ruan Mei, HuoHuo)
I hate you. Teach me how
Incredible updated guide. Thanks a ton for the information!!
My Kafka is on Prisoner and Glamoth set at 3,643 atk, 28% Effect HR, 165 Speed. She gets a lot of turns when I pair her with Ruan Mei and with her LC she goes up to 189 Speed. She may not deal as much as Seele and other crit based dps but the fact that she gets a lot more turns than them satisfies me.
Don’t forget it’s satisfying for enemies get cancer and BOOM!💥
How'd you get her atk so high? Do you run attack orb?
@@nevermindme3714 3.6 is not that high really. Some people use atk boots, they reach up to 4k.
I use lightning orb and speed boots.
@@yeetusdeletus3072what's your atk and SPD with it?
@@GratoNite still samw speed rn 165, but raised her atk to 3,718. I still need a better chest piece roll for speed.
I was waiting for a new Kafka guide and here it is
just got her, hope this video can help
Thanks for the updated guide it was very helpful
Thanks for the guide for Kafka 💜
I've been loving her so much ever since her first appearance at the start of the game that when she was first released, I pulled for her on both of my account (luckily I didn't lose my 5050 since I accidentally got blade), she is a very fun unit to use. I didn't pull for her lightcone back then and I was wondering if I should pull for her lc now, and I'm really glad I did! I got it on pity 22 🤣🤣
Congrats on pulls, mate. Got her on my main account after her release, sadly still got around 20 pity on secondary, so I'll probably wait till some jades pile up and try my luck the day before banner ends.
4 videos in last 24 hours !!!
Got her S1 and E1 in 80 pulls. Blessed, now my Kafka is officially goated
Her E2 is OP, go for it so Kafka can a complete GOAT
6mos later, my Kafka has literally carried my account in a lot of game modes. With the release of more tools for DoT to shine, Black Swan, and soon Acheron, I imagine the mileage I'm getting on Kafka will only keep increasing. She's basically THE carry of DoT teams, and while they still function, she just amplifies it by a TON.
And the fact that you can just keep stacking dmg amplifiers on your other DoT sources and only really need to optimize Kafka makes her that much better. And she's the quintessential (hot) mommy.
i pulled her on a single pull last night truly blessed to be adopted by my new mother
started running crit kafka ever since the new sets she got.
Dot 4pc set
Bis planar
Sig LC
Using with RM alone just wrecks anything with the sheer amount of damage always being put out from all her attacks along with the DOT damage, i almost exclusively run the hypercarry comp unless i need to bring another dps to break mobs.
been using yukong for my DOT team until i got ruan mei. she's without a doubt hard to play, but give the team the right amount of SPD, that 80% ATK buff is pretty huge.
Kafka w black swan?!! Love them so much! I’ve been a Kafka main since her release but now w black swan even better!
Got Kafka in 1 pull.I am so happy 🎉
Me too. With zero pity. First time I was lucky in this game.
Thanks for the guide
Now for the hard part: getting the perfect relic stats for her, which is gonna take... 5? Maybe 6 months of grinding with my shitty built characters
broooo i joined when dhil got released and i was so sad when i found out kafka existed, but i did get her today so im happy as fuck. great content as always :D
i just pulled and i got here RAWWWWW
Dots trigger on break too not just the enemy's turn. That's why Ruan Mei is so busted with dot characters. Although break dots scale with break effect rather than atk & elemental bonus.
For some reason she’s my only character that does damage in my account. probably cause ive never farmed artifacts so I’ve just always added ATK% on her main stat and left.
100% effect hit rate won't guarantee shock if the enemy has resistances though. Having a little extra doesn't hurt. Also important to build break effect for those break dots. So it should be elemental buff > atk% > break effect with as much speed as you need to hit certain set thresholds and to spd tune with other teammates.
It's 130% and why on earth would you square Kafka against a lightning resistant enemy?
@@NihilityProxy Maybe someone is new and only has a few characters to use? Or simply wants to use Kafka to proc additional dots?
@@ShapeshifterOS Just don't? There's literally only 4 lightning resistant enemies in the entire game and all of them are weak to the initial trio that you get for free plus dr ratio also exist. When making a guide you don't go to the lowest common denominator, you are guiding, you show what's optimal. If you get more than 29% ehr when rolling atk% and spd that's a happy accident, you also don't pair her against the only 4 lightning resistant enemies or just rely on your dot sub dps if you're hellbent on Kafka vs Kafka gameplay. A guide teaches the newcomers what to aim for and not build weird lvl 1 set ups.
@@ShapeshifterOS Also I forgot to mention that lightning resistant doesn't mean shock (debuff) resistant, I think only 1 enemy in the entire game is resistant to the actual shock debuff and it's so weak that it might die randomly in the aoe
Finally, the character who can be used to dump all those "prisoner relics" I got piled while farming for Ashblazing Duke...
I also wonder how well she's gonna work with Ruan Mei/Bronya/Huohuo.
I wonder if it's even possible to get her do her followup attack after EVERY character basic attack, like she does in her boss form, or it still remains her 'NPC-exclusive" feature, like Gepards counter move or Svarog's "rocket barrage".
I luckly got her on my first banner with just 20 pull and I have loved her since then.
I currently equipped her with Welt LC, so I was trying to decide to pull for her Signature LC or go for E1
would say if you feel rich go for E1, if not just use solitary and your fine
Finally got her because I wanna try out the dot playstyle and thankfully I did get her after losing to Gepard but at least his E1 is useful. Sadly I didn't get her LC but at least the free five star one is second best. Now for teams I'm just trying this out but I'm doing Kafka, Sampo, Ruan Mei, and HuoHuo.
Hi, an amazing video and thank you for giving justice for the DoT queen! But I was wondering how much atk do you have on her? because I have 3612 (with 140 speed and 29% ehr) and she doesn't do much dmg T~T
Kafka is easily one of my favorite characters. The best thing is, she'll always be relevant since she's the only one who can do what she does. The only downside she has is that you need to build other characters solely for her (e.g. Sampo, Guinaifen, Black Swan). However, this is not much of a problem as you need to build supports for all units, although, Kafka's supports aren't as universal as other units'.
My E3S1 Kafka's got 3.9k atk, 154 spd (not counting her LC), and 33.0 ehr. 4pc prisoner, 2pc glamoth. Her gloves and orb are mid af, if I can get better ones with high spd subs I might swap to atk boots so I don't completely outpace the rest of the team. I'm gonna try and get to e6 when I get home from work today. I'll be cutting it a little close, I'm on a guarantee with roughly 160 combined pity and tickets and another 60+ pulls worth of stardust(? Idr what the currency you get from pulling is called) currently in shop. That plus whatever I generate tonight should get me close enough to get 4 5★s. So as long as I win one of the 50/50s I should be set.
Edit: And no I'm not a whale, I'm a light spender who started about a week after launch and saved everything until Kafka's first banner where I won every single 50/50 and the 75/25 on her LC banner. I've skipped plenty of other banners since then and the only other 5★ I have eidolons on is e1 Ruan Mei because I got a super lucky early 2nd one 30 pulls after the first while trying to get a Xueyi (who I thankfully got in the 10 pull with the 2nd RM).
i just got her and was abt to clear Gold and gears diff 5 C2 with nihility it was so stupid that my game lagged cuz of the number of DoTs happening at the same time and she wasnt even level 80 or with max level artifacts, i love her
Kafka is the enabler and the heart of all dot teams.
I almost regretted pulling for her, cuz I'm not big on DoTs and I was trying to make JY work. Then I built her and threw my half assed Sampo on her team. She's been my lightning carry ever since. It wasn't even hard to build her, it was wild😅.
Playing Kafka is like mommy. I have her e2 weapon and DAYM SHES SOO FUN
Wait till they add a monster that is "debuff immune" for 3 turns and also uses cleanse
Kafka is the only character that made me early finish both gold and gear and swarm disaster SU at torturous difficulty thru nihility path. I have Jingliu, Blade, Jing Yuan, Seele, Fu Xuan, and Luocha, but all I can do is to have abundance path with them in order for me to clear that. But to be fair, Kakfa isn't good with the new Memory of chaos for a fast 3 star, I'm talking about the 11 and 12.
Funnily enough I got her SigLC after I bought Texture for my Fu Xuan and thinking that I should've just went for Solitary.
I was thinking of either waiting for 2 months to get a good 5* Lightcone for her or just try my luck on her Lightcone's banner, and I somehow won lol.
Biggest question for me(i already have her) is if black swan and kafka will interact. As it is not explicitly stated that black swans debuffs are dots, just that they apply dot, so im not sure if kafka can trigger them. If so, its going to be absolutely broken
2 words “she will”
Got her in 1 multi while at 10/90 with no guarantee and then got her LC too. Will go for Black Swan next. Got 11k jade saved so far
been waiting for an updated guide! thank you
needed the lightcone recommendation so bad🥲 i have welt's lc, and other f2p ones and cant decide which to give kafka guinaifen or pela
I started playing star rail and I got she pity 80,Then I tried 10 pulls on her light cone, I simply get the signature light cone on the first pull of the account,I am happy :)
I kind of hate this game, because I genuinely want every character. I wish I could pull Kafka (and Black Swan next patch), but I just can’t. It hurts.
Even if I got her, I’d never get to build her. I’m still wrestling with Blade’s relics (where are my SPD or HP boots), and I want to build Dr. Ratio, as well as Himeko, Herta, and Asta for Pure Fiction.
And then Sparkle in 2.0. And potentially re-runs of Fu Xuan and DHIL. And then other new characters. I just don’t have the Stellar Jades or resources.
Edit: Not that anyone cares, but I decided to throw Jades at the Kafka's banner anyways, just to see what happened. What happened is that I got Bronya at 2 pity, and then decided to go all the way as a result. So, now I have Kafka, with no idea when I'll have the spare resources to build her when I've got so many others on the docket right now.
Yeayy this bann3r is kind to mee. Got ratio lc and kafka lc. Also manage to get 2 kafkas (e1). Won 50 50 streaks😊😊😊 i lost kafka at pity 81 to welt from bann3r 1.4. And luckily kafka reruns faster. Im planning to get blackswan and acheron next. Dot is so much fun to play. U can have fire el3ctro physical wind team at once. It is fl3xible
Her LC shock isn't a nice bonus, it's crucial for DoT relic def ignore. Low EHR is fine because she has high speed and multiple FUAs
is her lightcone necessary? or can I get by comfortably with s5 solitary?
@@bepo1702 it’s not necesarry but definitely really nice to have if you’re using 4-piece prisoner
@bepo1k it's about a 14% difference which isn't bad but if you have welt's weapon its better
Also "good night and sleep well" is a 4* at S5 is very close to her weapon
It will take a bit of luck but kafka definitely has a variety of weapons to choose from her weapon isn't really necessary
Fermata is another f2p option accessible from the forgotten hall shop and at S5 it performers better than solitary healing with breaks
@@bepo1702Imo he lc good only cuz it gives her free 14 spd but not a must pull or smtg
@@bepo1702 it KINDA is for using 2 DoT units only, 3rd dot is only from break which isn't 100% uptime. Also reaching 161/201 speed. S5 GNSW is better than solitary. S5 Solitary probably better when all enemies are lightning weak and Kafka is the one that breaks.
I wish i had more pulls in reserve for Kafka, but i'm gonna wait for acheron (seems to be Nihility Electric too) and keep saving pulls until then. Kafka looks awesome still...
I can't believe i got Kafka, Black Swan and Black Swan's signature Lightcone all in a row without losing 50/50 and using very few wishes. My luck's blowing my mind and i‘m talking as an absolute F2P.
My DoT team: Black Swan, Kafka, Tingyun and Lynx is rolling on the game.
hello there, can you make a updated character tier list and a general tips and tricks video for HRS. thanks
I'm still using 4p Band of Sizzling Thunder since Kafka Released, the Damage dealt is also high 😅
11:17 Gwen Eye Fin 😂
I had to skip her on her first banner since I was saving for Dan Heng but I'm finally gonna pull for her as soon as she drops on EU server
Having Kafka E2 at the 1st banner and E6 this time. Kafka is still worth the money. I mean I don't really care people keep saying her mid dps, she's good to me and my game style
why no mention of asta ???? i don't have ruen mei ... asta is best to buff atk & spd for the 2p ..... i'm using Kafka(E1S1) + sampo(c5)/luca(c3)/gunifen + Asta + lynx(c6)/Gepard
" Domination Over Turn "
Got her off my first Multi, Bronya off the discount banner, and Black Swan on my 67th pull.
I am now fully prepared to break the game. P.S. I'm only just now finishing Jarilo. Lol
I pulled her for Black Swan, hopefully they don't disappoint. (It took me 150 pulls💀💀💀 i lost to Yanqing..)
My future 2.0 teams:
Ruan Mei, Kafka, Black Swan, Luocha
Hanabi, Seele/Qq/IL, Silver Wolf/Yukong, Fu Xuan
Excited to be finally able to to try out dot teams and a true mono quantum team
Bro has same issue with me 💀
I missed her rerun banner. What's the cycle for banners to return?
Tbh, with the release of new characters every new patch (new player here too) I think that she will rerun on about 4-6 months. Wanna pull for her too since she's actually the first character that I've liked in the game
luckily i had a good roll on spd substat for kafka
her base spd now is around 163 thanks to her sign LC
i already have her, should i get her signature or her eidolons instead???
Hey great vids. Can you make a guide on lynx? Tnx much appreciated
I got her Light Cone in 7 pulls. I’ve been blessed by the queen!
I'm considering pulling on Kafka till I reach 50/50 (I'd like an Early Kafka, but I ain't Expecting it) If I get Granted with my 3rd lost 50/50 (I lost my last 2 50/50s and used the Guarantees on Ruan Mei & Huohuo) Then I'll stop pulling and Guarantee Sparkle (Who I legit really want) but If I win my 50/50 or get Kafka Early (Doubtful especially on getting her Early) Still going to go for Sparkle over Black Swan. (Black Swan will have her Rerun & I do really want Sparkle over Black Swan)
Not F2P
I'm kinda lost since is my first time building DoT team... I don't plan on getting her LC, how much EHR% do I need for her?
30 is ideal
Use good night and sleep well s5 on her its really good but i still use her LC cause why not
Just got her... did not pre-farmed... now I'm in a chaos farming for her and dr. Ratio
I'd save farming for ratio, till 2.00 since a debuffs set is coming with it, and he'll work better with it, same for acheron.
i got kafka on her first banner because of uhh hype around her?? but sadly i didn't build her properly. although now that we have herta shop lc + the dot set i feel like i might build her haha
I stated playing yesterday after a month got kafka at 5 pity
thanks for this just returned to the
game
too many players underestimate kafka
players, don't forget that black swan will be a DoT character and will needs kafka to be even more broken
thats precisely why I pulled kafka, I want to experiment with and get into the DoT playstyle. Excited to pull for black swan as well
@@bepo1702 good luck as Kafka haver from her first banner she is powerful and fun to play with and extremely f2p friendly
Will she be? It just says that sacrament will apply dot, not that it is a dot. So I'm not sure that kafka will trigger it
@@blackwing1362she can’t activate the def shred but she can trigger the dot applied by sacrament
@@ThatoneBirdIdkwhy is she f2p friendly honest question
Im saving for Black swan since i already pulled for Kafka when she first came out. Ive wanting to re build Kafka and idk if to build her with Prisoneer in Deep Confinement since its for DoTs comps and Black Swan is for DoT comps, im really confused cuz i dont wanna miss 😭
I didn't pull e1 s1 for nothing when first release...she is really good
is her e1 really that good? Cuz I'm thinking if i should get E1 or S1
@@xingqiu1809 yep her e1 is good for lightcone you can use solitary healing,or good night and sleep well
14 pulls and momm- i mean kafka. Came home unfortunatly i didnt get a hook :(
And uh in that team with bronya kafka, tingyun and houhou can i use nat instead of houhou coause i sadly do not have her
Its a good thing i decided to get her E6, still need 3 light cone copies though
I was wondering why my Kafka sucks with my amazing crit stats that I grinded for a whole month just to be told they don’t buff her well. I went insane.
Having kafka on my team makes simulated univers so easy
I just did one random goofy 10 pull on her banner, got her and was little disappointed. Then I leveled her, gave her random LC at lvl30 and lvl 0 signature relics.
Then I tried her out and proceeded to hit 30k on 4 enemies using her ult.... now I'm happy
Kafka best women~! 🙏
When Black Swan will come out....ugh boy.. DOT's are gonna skyrocket even more. 🚀
Just got her with 70 wishes ❤ also 2 natasha and 3 hook
started a new acc a few weeks ago and saved all my pulls just to get hard pityd twice and lose 5050. now i dont even have her weapon and 0 pulls for black swan fml
Ok but is solitary healing still good when not in pure fiction or should I use good night and sleep well when doing anything else (I don’t have patience is all you need)
Already got my E1, but got save for Black Swan now.
If i am stupid i would get her e2 but i am saving for black swan e1 + lc so and yes kafka has been buffed a lot because of ruan mei well just imagine break effect + dot debuff
3 videos in day ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
Got her within 30 pulls from the multi banner in the new update