Well edited, well scripted, well explained, this is gold standard educational content. Most youtubers (genshin and otherwise) just do a low effort slap of some barely relevant footage over a rambling script, but you made every single thing that went onscreen actually useful and timely in illustrating the concept at hand. If only every class I'd taken had this kind of clarity. o7 this is amazing.
I was going to write something exactly like this, but you took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you and thank you, Jyo!! I've subscribed because this insanely high quality content is amazing and a GODSEND!!!! You explained SOOOOO much so well and covered SO MUCH MORE than any other videos I've seen on this!! I've never understood ICD well until this video. The enormous amount of effort you put into every detail in this video is SO apparent (and it's especially refreshing considering the (sorry) lazy content of other RUclipsrs). Thank you!!!!!
Loved this video a lot, but as someone who mains Childe since day 1 when I was damn surprised he didn't get mentioned during the No ICD part. Genshin's in their 3rd year and he's still the quickest hydro applier and the reason combining him with Xiangling who has no ICD on her burst makes his dmg so sick T T
Absolutely agree. Only reason I didn't include Childe is because I don't have a copy of him, so I couldn't get any footage of him lol. But otherwise, I would've mentioned him for sure - definitely not a coincidence that the Childe National team is one of the most consistently powerful and longest-lived team comps in the game.
I mean Childe has an ICD. It's just that, his ICD for NA, CA, and Riptide are all separate, making him have 3 sources of hydro application which is why his hydro application is so quick.
A thorough and easy to understand explanation, amazing! Thank you for making some of the best guides in this community. Hoping you’ll make a video on elemental gauge theory soon too!
Agreed, while its true that there are egt guides out there, they are mostly quite old and we have learnt a lot more about egt these days like aura tax, reaction priority, simulations reaction, and non standard/1.5u gauge.
To be honest, I only know the basic of Elemental Gauge Theory myself, so I’ll definitely have to do my homework for this one lol. Hopefully I’ll be able to make a sensible guide in the not-too-far future.
@@jyolikearock_ Is Elemental Gauge Theory how strong elements applies? Like Childe E initial cast is 2U, Nahida E is 1.5U and most attacks in Genshin have 1U?
@@Scythra Yup, exactly. Before EGT was more formally defined, the different types of gauges were simply referred to as "Strong" or "Weak" versions of that Element. Now, we know them as 2U and 1U gauges, respectively, and also discovered that there are other gauge values, such as 1.5U and 4U.
This video tackles one of the more complicated mechanics in Genshin Impact, so it naturally ended up being a little more dense than my usual content. I hope my explanations weren't too difficult to follow, and that this provides a more clear understanding of ICD, at least a little bit. If anything wasn’t clear, please feel free to ask any questions you have in the comments, and I’ll try my best to answer them.
You using Yanfei on electro hypostasis and explaining ICD finally got me to realize why Yanfei wasn't quickly destroying those electro pyramid things at the end of the hypostasis fight.
@@papagooseonline Exactly, that’s another great example to apply this concept to. ICD is the same reason Amber IS able to break all 3 with her Charged Shots, since her Charged Shots aren’t limited by ICD.
While I've been watching other content creators explain to me how ICD works, this is the only one where I understood its importance. Thanks for making guides like these and for making difficult mechanics of the game more understandable 😊
Great guide. ICD is no secret to anyone who uses more sources than just the game but this was really well explained and documented with examples. Thanks.
Bow charged attacks some times do have icd. You can confirm this yourself by using diona’s constellation 4 effect, when you stand in your burst and charge attack you can see that she does not in fact apply cryo with every charged attack, but instead uses the 2.5s rule. Tho that might just be a diona problem :D
Great catch. I definitely should’ve said “most” bow/catalyst charged attacks there. In the same vein, there are many more exceptions to the standard 2.5s ICD and 3-hit rule than the few examples I covered in the video. If anyone is interested in the full set of data for ICD of various attacks, check out the fandom page: genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Internal_Cooldown/Data
@@nicho.7400 What Fatui "shield" are you talking about? Because Hydro Fatui armor only has a weakness to Electro, and not Dendro and Cryo Edit: I misread the sentence.
Character like Yoimiya is based around the 3-hit rule, if you pay attention to her normal attack string. This allows her to hit Vaporize on her 3rd and 5th attack string, which has the highest multiplier on her normal attack. But this is TOO RIGID, that if you missed a single shot, you’ll miss your big vaporize shot.
yoimiya's atk pattern is like 1st x 2, 2nd x 1, 3rd x1, 4th x2, 5th x 1, the first hit is divded into 2 part so the first part of the first hit will react as well, but of course the big hits are 3rd and 5th, that's why you don't want to dodge or get interupted mid atk string because you'll loose the big vape hits. Also if she gets too much atk speed to a certain point the vape order will change, this is apparent when she gets to c6.
@@Eclin also from ym experience yoimiya's targeting works fine when enemies is moving towards or away from you, it only gets bad when enemies moves side to side.
I already knew all of this, but this is a great video I'd only add that ICD is tracked per skill per target, so exploding dendro cores isn't bound to ICD, since any pyro/electro elemental damage it takes will definitely trigger it Also, some gauges in the game don't have an ICD either, the wolf lord shield heads for example, they take damage from all ticks of Nilou's elemental skill "serenity aura or something" which has normal ICD
Wow! Although I knew about this mechanic already, this was the best and the most understandable guide I've seen so far. All these examples were just great and list of characters with shorter or no ICD was really helpful. I've been wondering why Diluc works better with Xingqiu than Chonguun, for some reason I didn't realise it's because of ICD, thank you for pointing at that! Special thanks for clear pronunciation and subtitles, English is not my native language and autosubs don't work well with game slang and names, so really appreciate it! I've been watching your guides for quite a long time and the quality only gets better. Showing builds in the end of the video is also an amazing update. Happy to see you're getting more and more attention, you deserve it!
Wow this is a very complicated and well thought system. I'm amazed by Hoyo because they came up with these out of nowhere and managed to get all characters to be in a balance somehow while still making them unique. But this video deserves compliments no less than that because this video is a goddam masterpiece. You explained all the cooldown durations and icd conditions so well even I understood the whole thing.
@@aldyzero6676 Well while I agree that it isn't a completely new idea, I don't think they took it from the avatar series. There weren't many reactions between elements in avatar, only earth+water =mud or earth+fire=lava kind of stuff. I think vaporize melt and overload kind of reactions in genshin are easy to come up with just by imagination but implementing these reactions in a game and setting the amplifying rates are very cleverly done. Also I don't think the ICD idea was taken from anywhere, I mean different kinds of videogames might have had it but Genshin didn't come this far by just taking inspiration from things that already exist.
@@aldyzero6676 I can see Avatar being a main inspiration about elemental combat, but I don't see how Genshin's elemental reaction came from Avatar, or any other media in fact. Though, I would like to know if there was a game before Genshin where their elemental combat interacts with each other like reactions.
those who played since the begginning knows the game back then is nowhere near balance lol, but yeah it took them 2 years and lots of update to balance things out.
Excellent video! You made this complicated mechanic pretty easy to understand and went so in depth that, even though I knew most of the ICD mechanics, still taught me something new (I didn't know about the 3 hit rule). Keep up the good work!
Would love to see more guide videos about obscure mechanics, such as elemental gauge and snapshotting. You explained this in such a thorough yet efficient manner.
I liked that for examples such as Xiangling’s burst you even thought about making sure she had 0/100 percent crit rate so damage was consistent for teaching purposes. Put a lot of thought into things, great video!
Good video. When I started, I had the same "wrong" understanding, since mihoyo/game never explained anything about ICD and was constantly showing off reactions.
Sorry for a long-ish comment, but.... I started playing Genshin Day 1. I knew right away, I was going to save my primos. Once I got Diona, when she first came out... I played with the same team for the next 10 months, until I got Yoimiya. For those 10 months... I hardly paid attention to elemental reactions... I knew of them, but I pretty much just used Superconduct for my main source of damage (with Fischl as my main DPS). Once I started expanding my teams a little more... I felt I kind of had to learn more about elemental reactions. That's when I hit up youtube to watch videos. With a much more broad understanding of elemental reactions... I felt I was good to go. Then I started running into this thing called ICD. I googled and watch so many videos, that would try and explain about it is. But all those videos did a terrible job explaining it. The only knowledge I came away with (from watching those videos, and reading comments) is that ICD just means you're restricted on how often you can trigger elemental reactions. I don't care much for Meta. I'm like 1% Meta, and 99% just play with whoever I want to play with. So I didn't bother learning EVERYTHING about ICD...since I was having trouble finding people who could do a good job explaining it. Then, I just happen to stumble upon this video tonight...... and wow! I can't believe, in a 10 minutes video, you were able to explain so much, in so much detail. Putting on-screen graphics of what you're talking about, helps A LOT!! Also, explaining how specific characters are when it comes to ICD is amazing. I learned so much from this video, that no other video did a good job at teaching.
ICD is also entity dependent. Different entities will have different ICDs. For Yae's E, the turrets hit the enemies randomly, and each enemies has a separate ICD of when the element is applied. In groups of enemiers, Yae can technically apply electro a lot more than expected. The same is true for the burgeon and hyperbloom reactions on bloom seeds. The faster your trigger hits regardless if those hits don't actually apply the element, they can trigger more burgeon and hyperbloom reactions.
Appreciate the video! The demonstrations and editing to emphasize certain concepts were great, and the pacing felt just right. It also didn't feel like 10 minutes had just passed. While I did know that an ICD exists, I never truly understood what that meant (that being said, I haven't researched it before, but seeing formulas or walls of text are kinda intimidating in a sense). Now I know that there's more to it than just "you wait before an element is applied again" and why certain characters are "broken" :^p
This is good quality content. Pretty basic stuff for advanced/veteran players like me, but is an amazignly well made guide for new players or players that know nothing about TC. Great explanation 👍
Man, I'm already at AR59 but I didn't know much about ICD, until i stumbled on your video. Thanks for the video dude. The information is absolutely clear and well detailed.
This Video right here did so much more for me then the countless of hours of other RUclipsrs parading off their awesome Team Comps with no real explanation as to "why" those comps are so busted. You Sir, deserve a freakin medal, and this piece of Videographic evidence should be proliferated for prosperity so others can also revel in the understanding on what makes their teams tick :D
Thing is, most Genshin theorycrafter youtubers have explained this mechanic in depth a while ago along with the elemental gauge theory. Not sure which one you watched, but a lot of them do explain how teamcomps works. Although one thing that makes this video so good is the amount of effort put into the visuals that helps with his explanation.
maybe update ur microphone so listening to u by headphones is more pleasant. u got a voice one likes to listen to, only the static noice is a bit of a bummer =)
Never seen this channel before, but very well-made guide. Nothing I haven't heard before, but I appreciate the formatting and presentation, and imagine it will be quite helpful to those unfamiliar with the mechanics of ICD.
This is an underrated youtube channel. hands down one of the best explanations. Been here since launch of the game ive never seen anyone explain it this way. ❤❤❤
I've had a hundred people or so explain ICD to me including my whale brother, and as much as I understood its presence and who was strong around it, I never understood why. This video easily paints the clearest picture I've seen. Well put together thank you.
really helpful, thank you for this! I've always heard abt the term ICD but was never able to fully understood these kinds of mechanics/understand how it works. your explanation's rly thorough & the video's edited pretty well
What a great watch... I think you have one of the most clear and well illustrated explanations about ICD out there ! Elemental reactions are very basic and simple at the surface but the hidden layer of "complexity" behind elemental combos is what I love the most in genshin, little things like e.g how electro-charge allows you to have 2 auras to coexist and proc vaporise and overloaded at the same time when pyro is applied etc...
Thank you, i have been playing since launch and am face rolling the abyss, but when i learned this mechanic it became a lot more easier, and surprisingly even non meta characters gets the job done.
Wow, I'm glad I gave this video a shot. I knew about ICD beforehand but clearly never REALLY understood it. Thanks for finally bringing some easily understood clarity to a topic that even we non-TC OG players only somewhat understand and appreciate.
Hmm. I've been playing raiden + nahida + yelan + kokomi hyperbloom and of course it destroys all the content in the game. But this video has now explained just how important the Kokomi component is in this team comp, and it's the main character I want sitting on the field proccing bloom/hyperbloom while raiden and nahida's lingering effects proc as they normally do. Thanks for explaining when ICD is ignored on certain characters depending on weapon types and whether mihoyo straight up removes the default ICD from their kit. Very nicely explained.
Please make more of this type of content! Guides on snapshotting, elemental gauge consumption, damage uptime, and energy constraints would all be great. It's so refreshing to see someone refrain from both 'repeat after me and get yourself a Hu Tao' and 'here is a 20-page spreadsheet I made, study it'. Thank you for explaining the principle, and taking the time and effort to make all these mini-showcases!
i've always understanded that ICD was something that limits the amount of times you can trigger a reaction but this video helped me fully understand it. very simple to understand and detailed video!
For Xiangling, did you know if you run up and hug the enemy, her pyronado will attack more times? But you need a character that attacks moving forward like Raiden, Bennett, usually melee character. For Xingqui and Barbara, the barrier around you can apply hydro and surprisingly often for Barbara's, so you wanna get close. Good video, though it's good they don't reveal these things for casual players. They don't want to know these things. And people love testing, so it's probably better this way. People didn't know Xiangling's viability until quite a while later.
thank you for this video! you're right that the game didn't tell us about this important mechanic. it did make my genshin learning curve to be pretty steep. I thought now I've learned about ICD, but still there's new things I learned from your video. I like your explanation style, it's really easy to follow. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids!
Now why didn't YT did put this video on my feed? This is well explained and well documented. The saddest part is, I've been playing for almost 3 years now.😪
ok im verry knowing about icd but nobody ever mentioned this 3 attacks rule, thankyou so much also, with proper animation canceling hu tao can apply pyro way faster than xingqiu can apply hydro so i have to chill a little
God I wish this video existed two years ago. I generally understand ICDs nowadays, but I spent a lot of time feeling very confused and no explanations were good enough to paint the whole picture. There are some things in this video that I still had no idea about and no one had ever mentioned, like the 3-hit rule. Awesome job, I wish all Genshin content was like this. Edit: The madlad even included the builds of every character he used in the video at the end because he knew people would ask. A lot of character/team showcases don't even do this for some reason. I like this guy.
I guess that most casual youtubers don't even know a thing about this, whereas the the more Theory Crafting centered channels already covered this mechanic long ago and their viewers knows so there's no need to talk about it, you gotta search specifically for how icd works to get videos talking in depth about it
When gaming becomes a scientific endeavor LOL tbh, I wanted to pass this video because usually, when they put "They don't want you to know this" it's usually a completely useless and groundless thing. But this video was actually super cool and I really enjoyed how to get to the point it was. Thanks!
You,deserved more likes and attention. Well edited,great and clear explanation,straight to the point no bullshit. I hope this channel became big and we're hoping you keep doing this type of content,cause you are that guy who can make it big.
Something you should consider when talking about units like yanfei who has normal ICD in her normals. Because her main gameplay loop is to stack her sigils and vape her charged attacks, having normal ICD on her normals make sense since in actual scenario when you're using xing qiu on her you dont want the hydro to be immediately snuffed out or to be overridden by pyro right before she can perform her charged attacks. If there isnt any ICD tied to her normals, it kinda breaks her kit design and it'd be impossible to get any actual vapes onto her charged attacks. The same thing can be said for yoimiya who also follows the same idea as yanfei but in her case her normal attacks are a string of continuous pyro instances. Again if she doesnt follow the ICD rule, it'd be impossible to sustain the hydro aura on the enemy with just xing qiu or yelan and you kinda have the same issue with yanfei. Once the enemy gets a pyro aura on them its gg and it'd be impossible to get them back onto hydro.
Well explained, i always play 5 star characters. The only 4 star i play is Benneth. But now i understand it a little more. Thank you. I know now i will have more fun playing and testing with different characters. Thank you.
This is by far the best ICD explanation video on RUclips. You gave constant examples and slowed it down for us to see properly what was going on. I finally understand ICD properly. Thank you so much!
Even though I already knew about ICD and how it works its always good to go back and make sure your understanding of the game's mechanics is correct as you never know when something might change or if you have forgotten/somewhat misunderstood a term and wanted more clarification on your understanding
So much quality goes into this. I thought i already knew pretty much about everything regarding ICD, but turns out i still miss something important. Cant wait for your guide on elemental gauge!
well you caught my attention at elemental gauge, can you make a video on that please? i am still confused on how the auras are retained in the burning reaction
I did not know the 3 hit rule until now and I've been watching most famous genshin content/guide creators for the past 2 years. Great video and great way delivering it! 🤘
I had to deal with the ICD when my only water and cryo team wouldn't freeze enemies everytime as expected, so i got really frustrated. Thanks for explaining and give me another perspective!
It's a great video overall! Kinda like how you explain things on ICD and the rule itself I'm also kinda wondering how you will tackle/explain about Fischl and how she and some Electro characters are using Fischl's passive in Quicken team. Can't wait to see that, tho!
"They DON'T Want You to Know About" you can say that to every in game combat mechanics e.g Elemental Gauge Theory, HitLag extension, snapshotting, Elemental absorption priority etc. When the TCG got released I questioned on why there is almost zero tutorial on combat mechanics but explained TCG in full detail. Hoyoverse really don't want you to know how fighting in this game works fr
Thanks, you Yelan put mine into Depression 2 (even with Aqua mine still has 4~5k Less HP, a bit high Rate and a difference of 30~40 in cDMG higher, and Almost the same ER... Now i need more Emblems
As a new player this is a great video informing me as to why so many people like my Benny, xiangling, xingqiu 4*s. I have newfound respect for the water blade burst.
Because of my RNG luck early on I got C2 Mona, this makes her normal attacks have a chance to trigger charged attack with no stamina cost. With her fast normals + charge + taunt pulses I find she's able to layer hydro really fast. After watching this I'll want to look into who can team up with her for rapid reactions. C6 Fischl is usually with her, might need to build some Dendro.
I’ve been playing Genshin since Klee’s 1st banner, but my friends have played since the first Venti banner, We’re pretty much Day 1’s HOW TF has this never been publicly established/explained by Mihoyo?? This feels wrong lmao like they knew it was put in place to stop us from progressing but I feel like it cheats you out of earned damage you worked hard to build characters for.
One of the best Genshin Impact videos I've ever seen. I already knew the mechanic, but the way you edited, scripted and explained in the video made me understand even more clearly about the mechanic. I am going to share this video with my friends!
Well edited, well scripted, well explained, this is gold standard educational content. Most youtubers (genshin and otherwise) just do a low effort slap of some barely relevant footage over a rambling script, but you made every single thing that went onscreen actually useful and timely in illustrating the concept at hand. If only every class I'd taken had this kind of clarity. o7 this is amazing.
I was going to write something exactly like this, but you took the words right out of my mouth. Thank you and thank you, Jyo!! I've subscribed because this insanely high quality content is amazing and a GODSEND!!!! You explained SOOOOO much so well and covered SO MUCH MORE than any other videos I've seen on this!! I've never understood ICD well until this video. The enormous amount of effort you put into every detail in this video is SO apparent (and it's especially refreshing considering the (sorry) lazy content of other RUclipsrs). Thank you!!!!!
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@LeoC Zajef? No way. He's too talkative
Totally agree, as someone who doesn't get too into technicalities in genshin this was very well explained
Exactly what I was thinking to say.. really good effort in explanation, good edit and simple vocabulary 💙
What a breath of fresh air. A video without 9 minutes filler and 1 minute content.
This video is pure content.
What videos are you watching. 💀
@@Fringewonder ziox and a bunch of more cringe genshin tubers
@@nxxiv436 most of the big names literally do the same thing. He is doing now. So I don't see this. Only 1 minute of content making sense. 💀
Man, you must be watching shitty channels then...
@@nxxiv436 'ziox'
Loved this video a lot, but as someone who mains Childe since day 1 when I was damn surprised he didn't get mentioned during the No ICD part. Genshin's in their 3rd year and he's still the quickest hydro applier and the reason combining him with Xiangling who has no ICD on her burst makes his dmg so sick T T
Absolutely agree. Only reason I didn't include Childe is because I don't have a copy of him, so I couldn't get any footage of him lol. But otherwise, I would've mentioned him for sure - definitely not a coincidence that the Childe National team is one of the most consistently powerful and longest-lived team comps in the game.
I mean Childe has an ICD. It's just that, his ICD for NA, CA, and Riptide are all separate, making him have 3 sources of hydro application which is why his hydro application is so quick.
A thorough and easy to understand explanation, amazing! Thank you for making some of the best guides in this community. Hoping you’ll make a video on elemental gauge theory soon too!
Agreed, while its true that there are egt guides out there, they are mostly quite old and we have learnt a lot more about egt these days like aura tax, reaction priority, simulations reaction, and non standard/1.5u gauge.
To be honest, I only know the basic of Elemental Gauge Theory myself, so I’ll definitely have to do my homework for this one lol. Hopefully I’ll be able to make a sensible guide in the not-too-far future.
You got your wish
@@jyolikearock_ Is Elemental Gauge Theory how strong elements applies? Like Childe E initial cast is 2U, Nahida E is 1.5U and most attacks in Genshin have 1U?
@@Scythra Yup, exactly. Before EGT was more formally defined, the different types of gauges were simply referred to as "Strong" or "Weak" versions of that Element. Now, we know them as 2U and 1U gauges, respectively, and also discovered that there are other gauge values, such as 1.5U and 4U.
This video tackles one of the more complicated mechanics in Genshin Impact, so it naturally ended up being a little more dense than my usual content. I hope my explanations weren't too difficult to follow, and that this provides a more clear understanding of ICD, at least a little bit.
If anything wasn’t clear, please feel free to ask any questions you have in the comments, and I’ll try my best to answer them.
One of the best video in term of quality and simplicity, great job!
You using Yanfei on electro hypostasis and explaining ICD finally got me to realize why Yanfei wasn't quickly destroying those electro pyramid things at the end of the hypostasis fight.
Dude when did you attend the Akademiya! GREAT VIDEO!!
@@papagooseonline Exactly, that’s another great example to apply this concept to. ICD is the same reason Amber IS able to break all 3 with her Charged Shots, since her Charged Shots aren’t limited by ICD.
Please may you make on on gauge consumption
While I've been watching other content creators explain to me how ICD works, this is the only one where I understood its importance. Thanks for making guides like these and for making difficult mechanics of the game more understandable 😊
Great guide. ICD is no secret to anyone who uses more sources than just the game but this was really well explained and documented with examples. Thanks.
I already pretty much knew how it works because of frequently browsing community guides but the whole explanation in one place was good recapitulation
Bow charged attacks some times do have icd. You can confirm this yourself by using diona’s constellation 4 effect, when you stand in your burst and charge attack you can see that she does not in fact apply cryo with every charged attack, but instead uses the 2.5s rule.
Tho that might just be a diona problem :D
Great catch. I definitely should’ve said “most” bow/catalyst charged attacks there.
In the same vein, there are many more exceptions to the standard 2.5s ICD and 3-hit rule than the few examples I covered in the video. If anyone is interested in the full set of data for ICD of various attacks, check out the fandom page: genshin-impact.fandom.com/wiki/Internal_Cooldown/Data
No
ganyu doesnt have icd on charge atks for ex.
Explains why the electro fatuo shields just say no sometimes when I shoot. Sure does damage but it barely does the full damage
@@nicho.7400 What Fatui "shield" are you talking about? Because Hydro Fatui armor only has a weakness to Electro, and not Dendro and Cryo
Edit: I misread the sentence.
I salute you. This is the best explanation on ICD I have seen. They way you explain it and have very clear visuals is very helpful. Thank you so much!
Character like Yoimiya is based around the 3-hit rule, if you pay attention to her normal attack string. This allows her to hit Vaporize on her 3rd and 5th attack string, which has the highest multiplier on her normal attack. But this is TOO RIGID, that if you missed a single shot, you’ll miss your big vaporize shot.
That's why i always play her attacks on point blank
@@aldyzero6676 contrary to people believes, Yoimiya being a range character is just an illusion lol.
yoimiya's atk pattern is like 1st x 2, 2nd x 1, 3rd x1, 4th x2, 5th x 1, the first hit is divded into 2 part so the first part of the first hit will react as well, but of course the big hits are 3rd and 5th, that's why you don't want to dodge or get interupted mid atk string because you'll loose the big vape hits.
Also if she gets too much atk speed to a certain point the vape order will change, this is apparent when she gets to c6.
@@Eclin also from ym experience yoimiya's targeting works fine when enemies is moving towards or away from you, it only gets bad when enemies moves side to side.
@@hagianghoang4026 yeah, thats why ICD as mechanic is flaw
I already knew all of this, but this is a great video
I'd only add that ICD is tracked per skill per target, so exploding dendro cores isn't bound to ICD, since any pyro/electro elemental damage it takes will definitely trigger it
Also, some gauges in the game don't have an ICD either, the wolf lord shield heads for example, they take damage from all ticks of Nilou's elemental skill "serenity aura or something" which has normal ICD
Deep understanding of the game’s mechanics and clean editing. What an underrated channel! Subbed.
this man really has a harvard phd in genshin mechanics and presentation skills
Wow! Although I knew about this mechanic already, this was the best and the most understandable guide I've seen so far. All these examples were just great and list of characters with shorter or no ICD was really helpful. I've been wondering why Diluc works better with Xingqiu than Chonguun, for some reason I didn't realise it's because of ICD, thank you for pointing at that!
Special thanks for clear pronunciation and subtitles, English is not my native language and autosubs don't work well with game slang and names, so really appreciate it! I've been watching your guides for quite a long time and the quality only gets better. Showing builds in the end of the video is also an amazing update. Happy to see you're getting more and more attention, you deserve it!
Wow this is a very complicated and well thought system. I'm amazed by Hoyo because they came up with these out of nowhere and managed to get all characters to be in a balance somehow while still making them unique. But this video deserves compliments no less than that because this video is a goddam masterpiece. You explained all the cooldown durations and icd conditions so well even I understood the whole thing.
The elemental reactions system isn't really came out of nowhere, HoYo learned and took the reference from the Avatar animated series.
@@aldyzero6676 Well while I agree that it isn't a completely new idea, I don't think they took it from the avatar series. There weren't many reactions between elements in avatar, only earth+water =mud or earth+fire=lava kind of stuff. I think vaporize melt and overload kind of reactions in genshin are easy to come up with just by imagination but implementing these reactions in a game and setting the amplifying rates are very cleverly done. Also I don't think the ICD idea was taken from anywhere, I mean different kinds of videogames might have had it but Genshin didn't come this far by just taking inspiration from things that already exist.
@@aldyzero6676 I can see Avatar being a main inspiration about elemental combat, but I don't see how Genshin's elemental reaction came from Avatar, or any other media in fact. Though, I would like to know if there was a game before Genshin where their elemental combat interacts with each other like reactions.
those who played since the begginning knows the game back then is nowhere near balance lol, but yeah it took them 2 years and lots of update to balance things out.
Excellent video! You made this complicated mechanic pretty easy to understand and went so in depth that, even though I knew most of the ICD mechanics, still taught me something new (I didn't know about the 3 hit rule). Keep up the good work!
Would love to see more guide videos about obscure mechanics, such as elemental gauge and snapshotting. You explained this in such a thorough yet efficient manner.
I liked that for examples such as Xiangling’s burst you even thought about making sure she had 0/100 percent crit rate so damage was consistent for teaching purposes. Put a lot of thought into things, great video!
Good video. When I started, I had the same "wrong" understanding, since mihoyo/game never explained anything about ICD and was constantly showing off reactions.
Sorry for a long-ish comment, but....
I started playing Genshin Day 1. I knew right away, I was going to save my primos. Once I got Diona, when she first came out... I played with the same team for the next 10 months, until I got Yoimiya. For those 10 months... I hardly paid attention to elemental reactions... I knew of them, but I pretty much just used Superconduct for my main source of damage (with Fischl as my main DPS).
Once I started expanding my teams a little more... I felt I kind of had to learn more about elemental reactions. That's when I hit up youtube to watch videos. With a much more broad understanding of elemental reactions... I felt I was good to go. Then I started running into this thing called ICD. I googled and watch so many videos, that would try and explain about it is. But all those videos did a terrible job explaining it. The only knowledge I came away with (from watching those videos, and reading comments) is that ICD just means you're restricted on how often you can trigger elemental reactions.
I don't care much for Meta. I'm like 1% Meta, and 99% just play with whoever I want to play with. So I didn't bother learning EVERYTHING about ICD...since I was having trouble finding people who could do a good job explaining it.
Then, I just happen to stumble upon this video tonight...... and wow! I can't believe, in a 10 minutes video, you were able to explain so much, in so much detail. Putting on-screen graphics of what you're talking about, helps A LOT!! Also, explaining how specific characters are when it comes to ICD is amazing. I learned so much from this video, that no other video did a good job at teaching.
Great guide for new Genshin players!
Keep it up, buddy!
ICD is also entity dependent. Different entities will have different ICDs. For Yae's E, the turrets hit the enemies randomly, and each enemies has a separate ICD of when the element is applied. In groups of enemiers, Yae can technically apply electro a lot more than expected. The same is true for the burgeon and hyperbloom reactions on bloom seeds. The faster your trigger hits regardless if those hits don't actually apply the element, they can trigger more burgeon and hyperbloom reactions.
Appreciate the video! The demonstrations and editing to emphasize certain concepts were great, and the pacing felt just right. It also didn't feel like 10 minutes had just passed.
While I did know that an ICD exists, I never truly understood what that meant (that being said, I haven't researched it before, but seeing formulas or walls of text are kinda intimidating in a sense). Now I know that there's more to it than just "you wait before an element is applied again" and why certain characters are "broken" :^p
I have seen lots of videos talking about idc, this is the first one explaining it so good
This is good quality content. Pretty basic stuff for advanced/veteran players like me, but is an amazignly well made guide for new players or players that know nothing about TC. Great explanation 👍
Man, I'm already at AR59 but I didn't know much about ICD, until i stumbled on your video. Thanks for the video dude. The information is absolutely clear and well detailed.
This Video right here did so much more for me then the countless of hours of other RUclipsrs parading off their awesome Team Comps with no real explanation as to "why" those comps are so busted. You Sir, deserve a freakin medal, and this piece of Videographic evidence should be proliferated for prosperity so others can also revel in the understanding on what makes their teams tick :D
Thing is, most Genshin theorycrafter youtubers have explained this mechanic in depth a while ago along with the elemental gauge theory. Not sure which one you watched, but a lot of them do explain how teamcomps works.
Although one thing that makes this video so good is the amount of effort put into the visuals that helps with his explanation.
this is SO educational SO easy to follow AND informativ. insane. props to u!
maybe update ur microphone so listening to u by headphones is more pleasant. u got a voice one likes to listen to, only the static noice is a bit of a bummer =)
Never seen this channel before, but very well-made guide. Nothing I haven't heard before, but I appreciate the formatting and presentation, and imagine it will be quite helpful to those unfamiliar with the mechanics of ICD.
Brother this is the best Explanation about something complicated, I've ever heard in my life....And the neat thing is I understood it.
This is an underrated youtube channel. hands down one of the best explanations. Been here since launch of the game ive never seen anyone explain it this way. ❤❤❤
Well explained, I kinda new what ICD was, but never to this lengths you demonstrated and explained.
Great explaination of how this hidden mechanic works with great examples. Good job!
I've had a hundred people or so explain ICD to me including my whale brother, and as much as I understood its presence and who was strong around it, I never understood why. This video easily paints the clearest picture I've seen.
Well put together thank you.
really helpful, thank you for this! I've always heard abt the term ICD but was never able to fully understood these kinds of mechanics/understand how it works. your explanation's rly thorough & the video's edited pretty well
What a great watch... I think you have one of the most clear and well illustrated explanations about ICD out there ! Elemental reactions are very basic and simple at the surface but the hidden layer of "complexity" behind elemental combos is what I love the most in genshin, little things like e.g how electro-charge allows you to have 2 auras to coexist and proc vaporise and overloaded at the same time when pyro is applied etc...
Thank you, i have been playing since launch and am face rolling the abyss, but when i learned this mechanic it became a lot more easier, and surprisingly even non meta characters gets the job done.
Although it had nothing new information to me, it's an excelent guide with well considered build-up explanations and visuals. Have my sub!
I think you explained it as simple as it gets that anyone can understand it, nice work.
I already knew this but I still somehow understood it more clearly,great video.
Wow, I'm glad I gave this video a shot. I knew about ICD beforehand but clearly never REALLY understood it. Thanks for finally bringing some easily understood clarity to a topic that even we non-TC OG players only somewhat understand and appreciate.
Hmm. I've been playing raiden + nahida + yelan + kokomi hyperbloom and of course it destroys all the content in the game. But this video has now explained just how important the Kokomi component is in this team comp, and it's the main character I want sitting on the field proccing bloom/hyperbloom while raiden and nahida's lingering effects proc as they normally do. Thanks for explaining when ICD is ignored on certain characters depending on weapon types and whether mihoyo straight up removes the default ICD from their kit. Very nicely explained.
Been playing since day 1. Never knew a thing about ICD. Great vid. Thnx for the guide!
Please make more of this type of content!
Guides on snapshotting, elemental gauge consumption, damage uptime, and energy constraints would all be great.
It's so refreshing to see someone refrain from both 'repeat after me and get yourself a Hu Tao' and 'here is a 20-page spreadsheet I made, study it'.
Thank you for explaining the principle, and taking the time and effort to make all these mini-showcases!
i've always understanded that ICD was something that limits the amount of times you can trigger a reaction but this video helped me fully understand it. very simple to understand and detailed video!
This video was way more informative than i came in expecting. Keep up the good work!
For Xiangling, did you know if you run up and hug the enemy, her pyronado will attack more times? But you need a character that attacks moving forward like Raiden, Bennett, usually melee character.
For Xingqui and Barbara, the barrier around you can apply hydro and surprisingly often for Barbara's, so you wanna get close.
Good video, though it's good they don't reveal these things for casual players. They don't want to know these things. And people love testing, so it's probably better this way. People didn't know Xiangling's viability until quite a while later.
You covered the ICD topic so well. I finally understood what this is after 2 years and half of playing.
Best and most informative video about genshin I’ve ever seen. Thank you!
thank you for this video! you're right that the game didn't tell us about this important mechanic. it did make my genshin learning curve to be pretty steep. I thought now I've learned about ICD, but still there's new things I learned from your video. I like your explanation style, it's really easy to follow. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids!
I really like the way you describe everything in detail. It's very understandable. Keep it up, very nice video :D
Now why didn't YT did put this video on my feed? This is well explained and well documented. The saddest part is, I've been playing for almost 3 years now.😪
I already knew about icd, but this let me understand it a lot better. Definitely learned a lot from this, excellent work!
ok im verry knowing about icd but nobody ever mentioned this 3 attacks rule, thankyou so much
also, with proper animation canceling hu tao can apply pyro way faster than xingqiu can apply hydro so i have to chill a little
In short terms either try to work your way around the icd mechanic through mutli hits,well thought out teams or be xianling
While I didn't learn anything on this one, it was so well explained, I instantly sub to your channel. 🤘
God I wish this video existed two years ago. I generally understand ICDs nowadays, but I spent a lot of time feeling very confused and no explanations were good enough to paint the whole picture. There are some things in this video that I still had no idea about and no one had ever mentioned, like the 3-hit rule. Awesome job, I wish all Genshin content was like this.
Edit: The madlad even included the builds of every character he used in the video at the end because he knew people would ask. A lot of character/team showcases don't even do this for some reason. I like this guy.
I guess that most casual youtubers don't even know a thing about this, whereas the the more Theory Crafting centered channels already covered this mechanic long ago and their viewers knows so there's no need to talk about it, you gotta search specifically for how icd works to get videos talking in depth about it
After 3 years playing Genshin Impact. Now I fully understand about the ICD. That's why my favorite teams are Raiden national and Itto ZhongLi gank.
So in-depth analysis. Subscribed 😌
bro this explanation is genius.. You really did a great guides video..
This video is really interesting to watch even as someone who already knows and understands ICD...
Wow this has one of the most easy to understand video about ICD I have ever since seen you just earned yourself.
Thanks for explaining ICD so clearly and in easy to understand examples!😄
Thank you for making this!!
When gaming becomes a scientific endeavor LOL
tbh, I wanted to pass this video because usually, when they put "They don't want you to know this" it's usually a completely useless and groundless thing. But this video was actually super cool and I really enjoyed how to get to the point it was. Thanks!
You,deserved more likes and attention. Well edited,great and clear explanation,straight to the point no bullshit.
I hope this channel became big and we're hoping you keep doing this type of content,cause you are that guy who can make it big.
Something you should consider when talking about units like yanfei who has normal ICD in her normals. Because her main gameplay loop is to stack her sigils and vape her charged attacks, having normal ICD on her normals make sense since in actual scenario when you're using xing qiu on her you dont want the hydro to be immediately snuffed out or to be overridden by pyro right before she can perform her charged attacks. If there isnt any ICD tied to her normals, it kinda breaks her kit design and it'd be impossible to get any actual vapes onto her charged attacks. The same thing can be said for yoimiya who also follows the same idea as yanfei but in her case her normal attacks are a string of continuous pyro instances. Again if she doesnt follow the ICD rule, it'd be impossible to sustain the hydro aura on the enemy with just xing qiu or yelan and you kinda have the same issue with yanfei. Once the enemy gets a pyro aura on them its gg and it'd be impossible to get them back onto hydro.
Very informative. Great examples and visualisation. Thank you.
For the first time in 2 years I understood a genshin impact tricks video 😮
This is such a great video. very clear and easy to understand
thanks for explaining ICD's, great video!
This is literally education channel, good job!
Well explained, i always play 5 star characters. The only 4 star i play is Benneth. But now i understand it a little more. Thank you. I know now i will have more fun playing and testing with different characters. Thank you.
This is by far the best ICD explanation video on RUclips. You gave constant examples and slowed it down for us to see properly what was going on. I finally understand ICD properly. Thank you so much!
What a wonderful guide...I finally could sent some knowledge into mah tiny sized brain...
I tought its weird but I never knew this. Explains my Nahida/Kokomi/Raiden combo dealing so much damage even tought my stats suck.
Even though I already knew about ICD and how it works its always good to go back and make sure your understanding of the game's mechanics is correct as you never know when something might change or if you have forgotten/somewhat misunderstood a term and wanted more clarification on your understanding
also dendro cores with electro applied on them apply without icd the dendro element, wich makes new teams faster w/ reactions
So much quality goes into this. I thought i already knew pretty much about everything regarding ICD, but turns out i still miss something important.
Cant wait for your guide on elemental gauge!
God tier video, subbed!
Extremely helpful video. I am AR59 and have yet to learn about this game’s hidden mechanics until today.
well you caught my attention at elemental gauge, can you make a video on that please? i am still confused on how the auras are retained in the burning reaction
Nah bro this video is golden.
Simply amazing. Thank you.
I did not know the 3 hit rule until now and I've been watching most famous genshin content/guide creators for the past 2 years. Great video and great way delivering it! 🤘
This is such underrated channel
I had to deal with the ICD when my only water and cryo team wouldn't freeze enemies everytime as expected, so i got really frustrated. Thanks for explaining and give me another perspective!
great video that does help understand some more, wouldn't mind a more case-to-case basis one as well
What an awesome explanation. You have just made it very easy to understand. Salute.
It's a great video overall!
Kinda like how you explain things on ICD and the rule itself
I'm also kinda wondering how you will tackle/explain about Fischl and how she and some Electro characters are using Fischl's passive in Quicken team. Can't wait to see that, tho!
childe : what's icd ?
None I think
Thank you, that was comprehensive, with excellent demonstrations.
"They DON'T Want You to Know About" you can say that to every in game combat mechanics e.g Elemental Gauge Theory, HitLag extension, snapshotting, Elemental absorption priority etc.
When the TCG got released I questioned on why there is almost zero tutorial on combat mechanics but explained TCG in full detail. Hoyoverse really don't want you to know how fighting in this game works fr
Thanks, you Yelan put mine into Depression 2 (even with Aqua mine still has 4~5k Less HP, a bit high Rate and a difference of 30~40 in cDMG higher, and Almost the same ER... Now i need more Emblems
Awesome, I know of ICD but only at surface level. This video helps me get a deeper understanding
As a new player this is a great video informing me as to why so many people like my Benny, xiangling, xingqiu 4*s. I have newfound respect for the water blade burst.
Because of my RNG luck early on I got C2 Mona, this makes her normal attacks have a chance to trigger charged attack with no stamina cost. With her fast normals + charge + taunt pulses I find she's able to layer hydro really fast. After watching this I'll want to look into who can team up with her for rapid reactions. C6 Fischl is usually with her, might need to build some Dendro.
Me who spams all skills and Ult as much as possible: 👁️👄👁️
I’ve been playing Genshin since Klee’s 1st banner, but my friends have played since the first Venti banner,
We’re pretty much Day 1’s
HOW TF has this never been publicly established/explained by Mihoyo?? This feels wrong lmao like they knew it was put in place to stop us from progressing but I feel like it cheats you out of earned damage you worked hard to build characters for.
One of the best Genshin Impact videos I've ever seen. I already knew the mechanic, but the way you edited, scripted and explained in the video made me understand even more clearly about the mechanic. I am going to share this video with my friends!