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First Half: Lyney (5* pyro bow), Lynette(4* anemo sword), Yelan
Second half: Freminet (4* cryo claymore), Zhongli, Tartaglia
Everyone at AR25 will get Lynette for free as well.
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I am tempted to watch the first two seasons even though the novels cover most of it.
All those banners are easy skips for me… I can be strong to continue my quest for All Archons.
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can you fight an army that is like "LIGHT'S ON, SNUGGLE PILE GOLD, GO GO GO" tossing baby cats out the back of a plane
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The menus on the IT Crowd dvds are brilliant. Video game themed.
They do different things. Yelan is single target hydro+DPS, Kokomi is aoe hydro and tons of healing. Both are really good, but they support different teams.
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Which one for nahida? I'm still trying to figure out the 4th besides yelan and zhongli. Have it on Tighnari for now out of inertia, since I've been lazy about leveling up alhaitham
I'd probably choose based on whether it was one enemy or many tbh.
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The other area where she has a really good niche is Freeze Teams, whenever those end up being viable. If I'm not mistaken, the premier Freeze team is Ayaka, Shenhe, Kokomi, Kazuha simply because Kokomi has, again, that broad Hydro application that you want and can be swirled by Kazuha to keep enemies perma-frozen while Ayaka's Burst and Shenhe's skill/burst are up. But again, you can replace Kokomi with Mona because Mona has AoE hydro application with pulses (even if they're far less than Kokomi) and offers a good damage boost with her ult. If you /need/ healing, you can even run Mona with a Prototype Amber but generally you run a Freeze team because you're not planning on taking much damage.
Overall, I really like Kokomi. I pulled her on a whim during her last banner and have been using her a lot since. She lives in my Nilou team (Nilou, Nahida, Kokomi, Kirara/Collei depending), Freeze (Ayaka, Shenhe, Kokomi, Kazuha) and Aggra-bloom (Yae, Kuki, Kokomi, Nahida) teams pretty permanently and while I could switch her out depending on what I wanted to take those teams against, I just enjoy keeping her in those spots because it's easy and generally gets the job done.
All that being said, Yelan is a very powerful character. On the whole, she sits somewhere between "Comfort" Character and "Must-Pull" Character (with the caveat that Must-Pull is not something you should take as Gospel because a character should only be a Must-Pull for you if you really like them) because she's a Situationally Better Xingqiu and when she's not 'better', she's at least complementary, competitive and/or synergistic. For example, take Hu Tao, who is a very powerful Pyro character that scales off Attack and HP and wants quick Hydro Application and damage amplification. You used to just stick her with Xingqiu because he gave her hydro and stagger resistance and when Yelan came out, the community at large was arguing about who was 'better' to run with her: Xingqiu or Yelan. The answer turned out to be "Both". Because Yelan and Xingqiu together give you a lot more Hydro, but also Hydro resonance, which increases the entire team's HP. Which both Hu Tao and Yelan scale off of. Then if you add a fourth Pyro (Bennett if you want to over-heal and trade some extra Atk% for Hu Tao's A4, Yanfei C4 or Thoma as Shield options, or Xiangling because you really want to add as much damage as possible at the cost of potentially stealing some of Hu Tao's vapes) then you get the Pyro resonance for extra Attack as well. To a lesser extent, this holds true for Yoimiya as well, if only because running XQ /and/ Yelan means she's going to get more vapes, as opposed to just hitting her 'big' attacks. She doesn't benefit from the HP bonus (aside from that boosting Yelan's damage) but it's not negligible, considering double-hydro gives you more leeway in dodging and whatnot which is good for Yoimiya.
But honestly, Yelan's major strength comes from being a Xingqiu alternative. In any situation you can use Xingqiu, you can generally use Yelan so long as you understand 1) her Hydro application at C0 is slower than Xingqiu (especially higher Constellation XQ) and 2) she offers no interruption resistance or healing. This is offset by her generally dealing far more damage with her skill and Burst, as well as her A4 which gives you more damage for staying on-field with a single character. So in general, you're going to want to hit her burst last before you switch to your DPS/Driver to maximize what she's dealing. Yelan Rational (Raiden, Yelan, Xiangling, Bennett) is a team you see a lot in Abyss usage charts because of the damage output, not to mention she (and XQ) can also be used in Bloom teams with her arguably winning out because of her skill, though it's mostly a matter of preference there. Energy generation can be a concern, but if you run her with a Favonius Warbow, you can generally make up for the energy you're missing out from XQ and the Sacrificial Sword that's usually glued into his hands.
I'm not telling anyone to pull for one over the other. I have both and I use them both quite a bit. They're both really good for bloom teams and then have other areas where they do well and they're solid picks for different reasons. But they're also both characters that have easier-to-access alternatives for a trade-off, so it honestly just depends on what you want.
I'm now AR48, but I am really struggling to get relevant 4★ or 5★ artifacts. Especially when I am trying to bring a whole second team online...
Maybe this is just the real grind of the game finally hitting. But it's kinda sucky just spinning my wheels on like 5 characters I leveled up, their weapons too, and I keep getting Artifacts that aren't congruent to any of them even though ostensibly I am farming the right sets for them.
Thankfully the story quests and overworld exploration are easy enough, that I can just keep trudging on my original team having fun, with their totally piecemeal cobbled together horrible but leveled artifacts I guess.
It's seeming like it will be quite a while before I can actually online a second team and try the Spiral Abyss... despite my best efforts.
Enjoy the character creation screen.
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