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Ambush predator
The sports equivalent of posting "I can't beat this boss!" on a forum
Still with the stupid penalties though....
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No….the universe is far too clever for that one.
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Leafs also losing to the panthers is all the vibes I need for another year the last time Boston and Toronto faced each other I requested a double DQ so this is so much sweeter if it happens
So, after watching some people play with Baizhu and playing the Test Run version myself, there are a few updates here but the overall evaluation didn't really change.
-The Shield he gives was perhaps a bit overestimated. The fact that it constantly re-ups itself through the duration of his Burst is still good, but the delay between re-ups can be a wide enough window that makes it hard to recommend him as resistance interruption. It absolutely crumbles with a heavy attack, which means you are vulnerable in that window between when it crumbles and the next time it regenerates. In cases with a lot of enemies or perhaps just a couple really aggressive ones (Vishaps, Consecrated Beasts, Ruin enemies, etc.) this means you still have a very high chance of getting tossed around. That is pretty unfortunate, but it also seems to revolve around the shield's activation/re-upping time only, so that also means there will be instances where you get hit right when it's about to re-up, which means you get hit, it crumbles and then reforms, giving you another free hit. It's still not great and for being as constrained as he is elsewhere, though, they absolutely could have made that a bit better. The comparison to Thoma's shield was a bit short-sighted, since you have some control over his shield, where Baizhu's just cracks and re-ups according to a timer and nothing else.
-His healing is...stranger than expected. The amount is what we thought, but they seemed to balance the fact that his skill heals your whole party by putting a long delay on it. You use his skill, the snake sprite goes out and hits one enemy, then it goes and hits another enemy and a third before finally coming back and only /then/ do you get healed. So from the point where you use his skill and when you get the effect of it is longer than expected. This isn't exactly a deal-breaker so much as it's just a really weird design choice that you might have to work around. Where it gets a bit bad is where you pair it with the above issue. Actually using his skill has a little wind-up (probably along the lines of, like, Kuki or Kokomi's skill) before it's cast, which means you can get canceled out of it by getting hit without actually getting the effect out (which has happened to me with Kuki and Kokomi a lot lately) which is beyond frustrating. In comparison, there are characters like Xingqiu who use their skill immediately, but then can be interrupted or whatever directly after, but like....you got the damage/benefit and the particles already, so that doesn't feel as bad when you're playing it, usually. (I know it frustrates me when XQ freezes himself before I can use his Burst to self-funnel, but that's still not as bad as trying to put Kokomi's jellyfish down and getting uppercut into next week)
-Teams are still pretty much as expected. His application, in practice, is a little slower than it should be, so he isn't Cyno's dream support like he should be but he still works there. Spread and Aggravate still work pretty fine. Hyperbloom and Nilou Bloom work because they are just a bit overpowered as is. Dendro is still Dendro, he's still a Dendro catalyst, so that instantly means he is valuable, even if his Dendro application is slow/short-ranged.
So yeah, overall, Baizhu is still fine. If you're comparing him to Yaoyao, he's still better or worse depending on the scenario, but the fact remains, if you're using him /in place of/ Yaoyao, then that means your Yaoyao is free for another team, which is a win. And as stated, he's still Dendro, he's still a catalyst user, he's still incredibly easy to build so that's all good. There are plenty of reasons to pull for him if you want to, but you also should not feel as if you have to.
No, it's the 8th, that's Monday.
Ah, ok. Thanks!
No problem, anytime. Any search engine can help you with that, you know.
I'll make a note of it for next time.
This post has been brought to you by a passing curiosity and the exhaustion of a long week.
I hope they can pull a rabbit out of their hats and deliver something satisfying but I kind of expect it to fall short or be outright unpleasant at this point.
And apparently the answer is "a metric fuck ton," cause I cannot walk more than 10 feet in any town without stumbling into some new quest cutscene to unlock a random area/game mode/whatever that I had no idea existed. Currently prioritizing Archon quests, which have me exploring the aptly named Chasm to the west of Liyue. Hoping I get to Sumeru soonish, want to unlock Dendro MC and mess around with those reactions, and I don't feel like pulling for the green snake man (I have like 70 pulls and I'm 90% sure that I lost my last 50/50 before stopping last time, so I'd rather save for a future banner).
It only goes back 6 months I think. If he last played before Chasm, the history is empty.
One of the only characters I really "need" at this point for the teams I even remotely care about.
If you just want Dendro MC you can look for a cavern by a waypoint near the west end of the Chasm and walk on out. You're not going to get Sakoku Decree'd But It's Plants or anything and you can tag a Statue of the Seven just fine.
You will notice some own-brand Koroks when you do. That's the optional world quest part of tree.0 Sumeru, and it's a lulu.
Yeah, the last time I played was like
Raiden Release? Maybe a bit afterwards?
Kazuha is who I'd really like—he's cool as shit but I've managed to be on break/not actively playing the game whenever his banner shows up— but if Yae or maybe Shenhe showed up first I might go for them instead.
i'm still on stellar reunion break ;p
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Got distracted upgrading a bunch of random shit and, whoops, pulled a Mona
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Other than those 10 minutes, ottinger has been pretty good