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1 | Unit | Power* | Team Versatility | Situational Versatility | Best Archetypes | Noteworthy Strengths and Weaknesses | Outstanding 4* Constellation notes | Main Role | Secondary Role(s) | |||||||||||||||||||
2 | Unit's name | Meta means a character has strong meta teams. Viable means a character has meta teams, but is practically always a downgrade over other options. Subpar means a character struggles to have meta teams unless you put them in a wheelchair and use a 3 unit team to carry them. Evaluated with 4*s at C6 and 5*s at C0, with newer 4*s also being considered at lower Constellation | The amount of teams where this unit shines. | How well this units teams can adapt to different types of enemies and content. | Strongest Meta teams to use this unit in a synergistic manner (You can play Xinyan with Xiangling/Bennett/Xingqiu and call Xinyan a part of Xiangling vape but that's dumb so it won't be included) | Anything that this unit excels at or struggles with enough to be worth mentioning | Anything particularly strong or weak about a unit's constellations | Main Purpose to have a unit on the team, the main thing they bring to a team | Things they also bring to a team, even though it isn't necessarily their main role | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | Childe | Meta- | Low | Mid | Xiangling Vape | When enemies are close enough to one another, Childe's team has great AoE damage distribution. Multi-wave content can pose a problem because of Childe's strict and sometimes difficult rotations. Childe's teams are often similar in power if not worse to teams where he is replaced by other available characters, making it relatively difficult to justify spending primogems on him as a team upgrade despite him being somewhat strong. Can be used in Neuvillette teams for Hydro resonance+Normal Attack level in speedrunning situations where enemies die quickly enough that a fourth character's animations would slow down the clear. | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Xingqiu | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Vape, Taser, Freeze, Overvape, Burgeon | Xingqiu is the most defensive-focused of the potential available off-field Hydro applicators. As such, he can be used in any team that benefits from off-field Hydro and defensive utility. Unlike most other defensive-focused units, he also has quite reasonable offensive output. The long duration of his burst also allows for more flexibility in your rotations, whereas characters with abilities with shorter durations may need to be swapped into later within a rotation. | C2 and C6 are significant increases to his offensive output | Off-Field Elemental Application | Off-Field Damage, Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | Mona | Viable- | Low | Mid | Freeze | Mona's short duration buff unfortunately doesn't align very well with any strong carries. Her Omen buff's duration only starts ticking down when it explodes, and it explodes upon enemies taking poise damage (getting hit by an ability that can stagger). When enemies are Frozen, they are immune to poise damage until the Freeze is over, meaning her buff's duration can be extended in Freeze teams, giving her a team where she can be useful. | C1 is bugged and doesn't extend Freeze duration | Buff | Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
6 | Kokomi | Meta | Mid | High | Freeze, Taser, Hyperbloom, Bountiful Bloom, Mono-Hydro | Kokomi's healing is only to the active party member if you don't spend time on her during her burst, and to the whole team if you do. This means she can be used as a decent healer option in many teams, but she truly shines in teams where she can afford to spend field time. Her healing is quite potent, making her great at stacking Furina's fanfare stacks. On top of that, she has solid AoE for her albeit somewhat slow off-field Hydro application, making her perform quite well in AoE scenarios for dendro teams, especially Nilou's. | Off-Field Elemental Application | Defensive Utility | ||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Barbara | Subpar+ | Mid | Mid | Bountiful Bloom, Any Furina team if you don't have another good healer | Barbara's burst is almost always a full heal to the whole party, making her instantly stack a lot of Fanfare when played with Furina. However, her lack of any form of particle generation, paired with her 80 cost burst, makes her ER requirements in Furina teams very high. On top of that, in those teams, Barbara's Hydro application matters a lot less, since you already have Furina. However, she's still a fine option if you need a healer. She also does surprisingly well in Nilou teams if you make sure to stick close to the enemies. | C6's cooldown is too long to be reliably useful | Defensive Utility | Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Ayato | Meta- | High | High | Hyperbloom, Burgeon, Taser, Vape, Bountiful Bloom, Overvape, Freeze, Mono-Hydro | Ayato's biggest upsides are the size of his AoE and his versatility when it comes to team building. With Neuvillette's release, since he has arguably better AoE and can be played in most of Ayato's teams to greater effect, Ayato's pull value has plumetted. Despite this now abysmal pull value, Ayato's teams are still fairly strong, and he can still be used in many of them. | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application, Off-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Yelan | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Vape, Taser, Overvape, Burgeon | Often compared to Xingqiu, Yelan functions as a more offensive-focused version of him. She doesn't have any of his defensive utility and has slower Hydro application, but in exchange, she has the potential for higher damage and provides an offensive buff. Yelan took an indirect hit from Hoyoverse's recent attempts at designing characters that don't synergize well with Xingqiu, as those characters generally also don't synergize well with Yelan. However, the existence of characters that don't work with her does not invalidate the strong teams that do. Yelan tends to perform best in teams with two or three Hydro characters, where you can focus more on her damage. | Off-Field Elemental Application | Off-Field Damage, Buff | ||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Candace | Viable+ | Mid | Mid | Bountiful Bloom, Vape | Candace's kit isn't particularly strong, but many recent characters have been given strong enough base kits that running weaker supports with better synergy is often just as strong as running the usual good supports. Candace's normal attack buff and Hydro application have given her a strong niche position in Mualani teams, as she can help enable Hydro swirl/crystallize setups while also giving Hydro resonance and a normal attack buff. At C6, she can also be used as an off-field Hydro applicator for Arlecchino in AoE scenarios. | C1 significantly helps her uptime for all of her teams. C6 makes her stronger in Nilou teams, and unlocks the possibility of using her as an off-field Hydro applicator for Vape Arlecchino | Damage Buff | Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | Nilou | Meta | Low | Low | Bountiful Bloom | Nilou's teams are incredibly powerful in AoE scenarios. Bloom deals AoE damage, meaning that triggering bloom on multiple enemies at the same time deals that AoE damage to all those enemies multiple times. Bloom's damage is capped at 2 instances per source in short succession, so having a very large amount of targets doesn't make too much of a difference. However, the difference between one and two enemies is massive. Nilou's teams are significantly weaker in single target, and her inability to use characters of elements other than Hydro or Dendro can also be an issue against enemies that have special mechanics like cryo or geo shields. Despite all of this, the most difficult abyss chambers are often ones with a lot of AoE, and Nilou's ability to deal well with that, paired with how easily it is for her to carry over a rotation onto the next wave in multi-wave scenarios, make her quite strong | Off-Field Transforming your reactions into other reactions I guess | Off-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Hydro MC | Terrible | Low | Low | None | Hydro MC is the worst character in the game. They don't give any buffs, their skill does incredibly little damage, and their burst that has fine damage and a bit of off-field application just moves through enemies and stops hitting them. | None | None | None | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | Neuvillette | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Taser, Mono-Hydro*, Vaporize | Neuvillette is an abomination. Most carries that have powerful meta teams are balanced by having downsides other than their damage, such as Arlecchino's inability to heal and somewhat small AoE, Hu Tao's single target focused damage, Alhaitham's relatively low investment ceiling that prevents him from being that powerful at very high investment, etc. Neuvillette, on the other hand, got upsides instead of those downsides. He's an HP scaler, making him very tanky. He heals himself a LOT, making him even tankier. He can freely glide around while shooting enemies, making it easier to dodge incoming attacks and to position yourself well. His beam has incredible range, which paired with his ability to glide around makes him incredible at hitting enemies in AoE scenarios. He even has a passive that encourages you to have more elements in your team, which, since his best team doesn't max out this passive, bridges the gap between his best team and budget teams for those who don't have the best supports. Neuvillette is what happens when an intern designs a character and nobody checks their work until they make it to the live servers. K'sante looking ass character | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Furina | Meta | High | High | Quickbloom, Mono-Hydro, Taser, Noelle, Vape, Freeze | Furina can fulfil the Hydro application requirement for teams that don't use Normal attacks much, which rules out Xingqiu and Yelan as strong options. On top of that, her large teamwide buff makes her a stronger offensive option than either of them when you have a way to stack her fanfare and her relatively slower Hydro application isn't a problem. She can also be used in teams that don't care for Hydro application simply because her buff and damage are powerful enough to justify a slot in almost any team that has the healing to enable that buff. | Off-Field Elemental Application/Damage Buff | Off-Field Damage | ||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Sigewinne | Viable | Low | High | Mono-Hydro | Sigewinne's only real redeeming quality at C0 is her high amount of team-wide healing, letting her generate a large amount of Fanfare stacks for Furina faster than a character like Kokomi, who mostly heals the on-field character and whose party wide healing is slow instead of instant. | Defensive Utility | Off-Field Elemental Application, Damage Buff | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Mualani | Meta | Low | Mid | Forward Vape | Damage is split into 3 to 5 large damage instances per rotation, letting her nuke enemies pretty often as long as you're able to vaporize each hit. The amount of hits she gets from her skill (generally 2-4) depends on the amount of enemies as well as their movement and hitbox. Against a large number of clumped enemies, getting 4 hits is trivial, whereas against a single enemy with a janky hitbox or unpredictable movement like the Perpetual Mechanical Array, you'll often only find yourself getting 2. Mualani makes up for that potential inconsistency with great scaling with investment, allowing her to be one of the fastest characters for c0 speedrunning | On-Field Damage | None | ||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Xiao | Meta-* | Mid | High | Hyper (carry) | The most important factor to Xiao's strength by far is Faruzan. If you don't have Faruzan's C6, he hovers between Viable and Meta, but if you do, he's without a doubt a Meta character. Xiao generally performs best in AoE content due to his ability to hit most enemies with his large AoE from the plunges, but as long as you have C6 Faruzan, his output in single target will still be reasonable enough. This is especially true in his best team, as Xianyun's buff applies only to one target anyways. Xiao also benefits from his ability to carry over his damage in multi-wave scenarios, as the only relevent debuff in his teams tends to be Faruzan's, which can reapply itself without her having to be swapped back in. | On-Field Damage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Sucrose | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Vape, Taser, Overvape, Quicken | Sucrose's EM buff is quite big, which makes her a very strong VV option for carries of swirlable elements that benefit from EM. Her main competition in the VV slot tends to be Kazuha, who offers a DMG% buff of a similar value to Sucrose's EM buff. Compared to him, she has grouping that is generally harder to utilize well, and a buff that applies to a lower amount of carries. In exchange, in the right situations, due to her ability to carry TTDS, the value of her buff can be bigger, and her animations tend to be much faster than Kazuha's due to not having to plunge after her skill and being a 4* with a faster burst animation. | C1 helps with grouping and energy generation, C6 is a nice conditional damage bonus that bridges the gap between her and Kazuha in mono teams where you don't benefit from her EM | Damage Buff | Crowd Control, On-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | Venti | Viable | High | Low | Yes | Venti's biggest strength is that his grouping is by far the most potent of any character. However, him being balanced around the value of that grouping is also his biggest weakness. In chambers where his grouping doesn't help much, either because there's only one enemy or because the enemies are heavy, Venti tends to just be a strictly worse version of the other anemo characters. When his grouping does matter, he tends to be one of the most valuable characters in the game. However, the main form of difficult content in the game is Abyss, which always has 3 chambers. In order to keep Venti and other situational characters in check, Hoyo has generally not given us abysses where grouping matters in all 3 chambers, leading to situations where sacrificing a bit of grouping to get much more value in the chambers that don't require grouping tends to lead to better results. | Crowd Control | Battery, Damage Buff, Off-Field Damage | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Kazuha | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Vape, Taser, Overvape, Freeze, Burgeon, Quicken, Hyper (Support) | Kazuha's buffs and grouping are generally easier to use than other anemo characters', making him the general default anemo option for teams that want VV. His burst absorption lets him potentially be a source of off-field elemental application for any of the four swirlable elements, potentially letting him consolidate the role of buffer and off-field application. On top of that, in quicken teams, absorbing Electro on his burst lets him trigger aggravate both on the electro damage itself AND on the electro swirl's AoE damage. | Damage Buff | Off-Field Elemental Application, Crowd Control, Off-Field Damage | ||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Jean | Viable | Mid | Mid | Any Furina team that needs Anemo | Jean doesn't really provide anything other than healing, but as an anemo character, she becomes an option for VV in teams that need healing, whether it's for the defensive utility of the healing itself, or to enable Furina's fanfare stacks. Jean also has situational value because of her self anemo applicaation, possibly serving as a source of off-field application if paired with other characters that self-apply elements like Bennett, as well as because of her skill's ability to launch enemies in the air to inflict fall damage on them. | Defensive Utility | Crowd Control, Damage Buff, Off-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Anemo MC | Viable | High | Mid | None | Anemo MC's value comes exclusively from their ability to use VV. Compared to most other anemo characters, they don't tend to perform particularly well, but VV's value is high enough that Anemo MC is still a fine option in many teams for people who don't have the other good Anemo supports. Anemo MC is also very situationally useful to break Hydro shields in Freeze teams, as one of the few Anemo characters with a different absorption priority than most others, having Cryo as the highest priority elements instead of Pyro. | Pog they are free!!!!!! | Damage Buff | Crowd Control | |||||||||||||||||||
23 | Sayu | Viable | Mid | Mid | Any Furina team that needs Anemo | Sayu generally functions as a lesser version of Jean. While her skill doesn't launch the enemies back like Jean's does, which can be an upside if you don't want to ungroup enemies that are already somewhat close together, her longer animatinos, paired with her off-field healing being mostly only to the active character, tend to make her a weaker and clunkier option in most teams where you would otherwise use Jean. However, her skill still gives her some overworld value because of its movement. | Defensive Utility | On-Field Elemental Application, Damage Buff | ||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Heizou | Viable | Mid | Mid | None | Heizou is generally used as a sucrose downgrade in both teams where you would on-field her and teams where you would use her as a TTDS+EM buffer. His motion value scaling is higher than Sucrose's, but not high enough to make him a strong attack carry, and his weaker buffs, melee range and small AoE make him much clunkier and weaker than Sucrose in teams where you're using him for his elemental application. However, being weaker than Sucrose doesn't make him bad, and he's still a solid character in these teams. | On-Field Elemental Application, Damage Buff | Crowd Control | ||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Wanderer | Viable+* | Mid | Mid | Hyper (carry) | Wanderer, just like Xiao, is a character whose performance is heavily influenced by Faruzan. Having her at C6 makes him a fairly strong carry, but not having that C6 makes him somewhat lacking. Unlike Xiao, however, he doesn't tend to have great performance in AoE and is generally more reliant on sources of denfensive utility that provide resistance to interruption. In exchange for that, he gets the ability to hit mobile and flying enemies quite easily. | On-Field Damage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Faruzan | Meta* | Low | High | Hyper (support) | Faruzan is a character whose performance completely changes based on her constellations. Before C6, she's a Viable character, but C6 pushes her very strongly in the Meta category. Faruzan is single-handedly responsible for the power of the good Anemo hypercarries. | C6 changes her from a solid buff option to one of the strongest buffers in the game, by not only increasing the power of her buffs but also significantly reducing her ER requirements, providing more energy to the team, provide a bit of grouping, and providing a bit of off-field damage. | Damage Buff | (At C6) Battery, Off-Field Damage, Crowd Control | |||||||||||||||||||
27 | Lynette | Viable | High | Mid | None | Lynette is a functional middle ground between defensive-focused and offensive-focused Anemo characters. Her defensive utility being a taunt makes it much less valuable than if it were a shield or healing, but it's still useful for a character who isn't mainly focused on defensive utility. As a VV unit, she has fine damage and a small buff. | C6 enables Lynette as a carry. She can be used in plunge teams with Xianyun if you really want her to be the main source of a team's damage, or she can be used as a driver in teams that don't really have a particular on-fielder. It also enables weapon swirls, which can be used with Bennett's C6 to apply the VV debuff to enemies with innate auras, against which you wouldn't otherwise be able to trigger a Pyro swirl. | Damage Buff | Defensive Utility, (At C6) On-Field Damage Dealer | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | Xianyun | Meta | Mid | High | Vaporize, Xiao Hyper | Xianyun's ability to enable any character to plunge makes her a fine option as a way to make any bad melee unit a functional Vape plunge carry, but her main value lies in her ability to buff Xiao's teams, especially in single target, as well as a few other characters that synergize well with plunges, mainly Gaming, Hu Tao and Diluc. The reason why these 3 characters are some of the ones that benefit the most from her is because her healing allows you to generate a lot of Fanfare, giving her great inherent synergy with Furina. Once you already have Furina's application, and since plunges don't have ICD, carries that can vaporize those plunges benefit from her quite a lot. | Damage Buff | Healer | ||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Chasca | Meta | Low | Mid | Chasca teams man idk what to call them | Chasca's biggest strength, as well as her biggest weakness, is how well she synergizes with Mavuika. Her ability to make the most out of her own kit when you pair her with Cryo/Pyro/Hydro characters, as well as her synergy with both Bennett and Citlali, gives her a very strong team with Mavuika. However, replacing Chasca with a support that buffs Mavuika will lead to better results, making it difficult to really give chasca much of the credit for the team's performance. Unlike many other carries, however, Chasca actually is a solid option for a Mavuika team. Outside of Mavuika teams, Chasca is fairly solid but has very little flexibility in her teams | On-Field Damage Dealer | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Lan Yan | Meta | High | High | Yes | Lan Yan is arguably the best generic shielder in the game. However, as the character roster expands, more and more team-specific defensive characters get released, making generic shielders somewhat less valuable. Many recent characters have also gotten resistance to interruption as part of their base kit, lowering their reliance on shielders | Defensive Utility | Damage Buff | ||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Yumemizuki Mizuki | Subpar | Low | Low | Taser | Yumemizuki Mizuki doesn't really do a significant amount of damage, or buff your teams all that much. The only thing she really has going for her to set her apart from other anemo units in taser teams is her healing, but that healing isn't potent enough to be great at enabling Fanfare generation on Furina. As such, just play Sucrose | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Beidou | Viable | Mid | Low | Quicken, Taser, Chevreuse Overloaded | Reasonable damage output against 2-3 enemies, and a bit of defensive utility through damage reduction, resistance to interruption and a small shield. However, carries getting stronger and stronger with time reduces the value of off-field damage dealers that aren't keeping up with that increase in power, and Beidou's weak single target performance also makes her pretty underwhelming as a default option. | C2 is very good | Off-Field Damage | Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
33 | Raiden | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Overvape, Chevreuse Overloaded | Raiden is still the best Hyperbloom trigger, since she has 100% uptime on an ability that can trigger Hyperbloom seeds every second, without relying on her burst, letting her focus her build only on EM, and not on ER. That being said, she doesn't provide much else to hyperbloom teams, meaning a dedicated hyperbloom trigger could take her place in the future in those teams, and Kuki can already take her place when you want to get healing. In teams that use her burst, her utility with decently high particle generations from skill, and energy restoration from burst, makes her still somewhat strong despite relatively low numbers, but not quite strong enough to compete with more recent carries. She can also be used as the off-field Electro for Pyro carries in chevreuse teams. Her damage will be lower than alternatives like Fischl, but her very high uptime can make up for it in terms of ease of use. | Off-Field Damage (Hyperbloom) On-Field Damage (Other teams) | Damage Buff, Battery, Off-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Lisa | Viable | Low | Mid | Quicken, Neuvillette | Lisa's Defense Shred is a very rare debuff, meaning she can be used despite her low numbers in a few teams, especially ones that don't have access to many good buffs, like Neuvillette because of the lack of HP buffers, or Alhaitham because of the lack of buffers that work well in Spread teams. She's also a viable driver for Aggravate-focused Quicken teams. Her biggest drawback is potential energy issues, since her skill tap doesn't generate energy, and her skill hold has an incredibly slow animation, and is often not worth using. | Damage Buff | Off-Field Damage | ||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Fischl | Meta | High | High | Quicken, Taser, Overvape, Chevreuse Overloaded | Ascension 4 passive is VERY strong with electro or anemo on-fielders in Quicken. Her ability to snapshot makes her personal damage quite high in teams that use Bennett or Iansan, even ones that don't trigger her A4 passive much. | C6 is pretty good for uptime, energy and damage | Off-Field Damage | Battery, Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
36 | Electro MC | Subpar | Low | Mid | Hyperbloom | Generates a LOT of energy for one or even potentially two characters, but sometimes needs a battery themselves and doesn't do much else. Since there are no characters who need as much energy as Electro MC provides, there is noone who can capitalize on it. | Pog they are free!!!!!! | Battery | Battery, Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
37 | Keqing | Viable | Low | High | Quicken, Quickbloom | Applies a lot of electro which is good for Aggravate and for synergy with Fischl's Ascension 4. Generates a massive amount of energy if used with the Thundering Fury set. Overall numbers are somewhat low though | On-Field Damage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Razor | Viable | Low | Low | Curry | Traditional Physical Razor teams are very Subpar, but his burst giving his normal attacks electro damage without infusing them means he can work with Bennett's C6 to be used in Curry teams, and his self-electro application from his burst can synergize with Bennett's self-pyro application to trigger additional overloaded reactions. Can struggle a lot against non-heavy enemies | On-Field Damage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Sara | Viable | Low | Mid | Chevreuse Overloaded | Provides a fairly good buff to attack scaling electro carries at C6, but the low duration of that buff makes her teams often much more difficult to play than alternative teams that use other supports | C6 is very good | Damage Buff | Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
40 | Yae | Viable+ | Mid | Mid | Quicken, Taser, Chevreuse Overloaded | The recent shift in carries doing more and more personal damage has encouraged using supports that provide buffs rather than personal damage, and Yae, being a character that had pretty middle-of-the-road personal damage to begin with, has been shifted out of a lot of teams as a result. That being said, she's still a very viable option in many teams, whether you use her as a "carry" with fischl in Aggravate, Taser or Chevreuse teams, or you use her as a source of off-field electro with a bit of personal damage in Chevreuse teams or Spread teams | Off-Field Damage | Off-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Kuki | Meta | Low | High | Hyperbloom, Quicken | Very good consolidation of Hyperbloom trigger and healer for your Hyperbloom teams. Uptime can be somewhat difficult to play around in longer rotations | C2 is VERY good for Hyperbloom, C4 is good | Off-Field Elemental Application | Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
42 | Dori | Subpar* | Low | Mid | Hyperbloom, Quickbloom | Pretty bad before C6. Borders on Meta- at C6 when used as a "carry" for Quickbloom teams, as she allows you to replace your healer slot with Fischl. Outside of that, as an off-field Healer/elemental applicator, she just doesn't provide enough due to her low burst uptime | C6 lets her do funny on-field TF things | Off-Field Elemental Application | Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
43 | Cyno | Viable | Mid | Mid | Hyperbloom, Quicken, Quickbloom, Chevreuse Overloaded | Cyno is a character who has pretty good synergy with many of the dendro archetypes, because of his somewhat favorable ICD and EM buff/scaling, but his numbers are unfortunately a bit too low to say he's particularly good within those archetypes. | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Sethos | Viable+* | Low | Low | Quicken, Chevreuse Overloaded | Sethos is arguably the character that rewards perfect execution the most in the entire game. Whereas many character have potential to be difficult to play well, most of them only end up less reliable in the hands of a worse player, meaning you can make of for that by resetting until you get a good run. In Sethos' case, the mechanical difficulty makes your performance directly correlated to your execution, meaning no amount of resets will make an average player clear as fast as a great one. When played optimally, sethos is arguably Meta, but playing him perfectly is incredibly difficult | C2, C5 and C6 are all fairly impactful for him, especially C6 | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
45 | Clorinde | Meta | High | High | Chevreuse Overloaded, Quicken, Quickbloom | Clorinde's performance in the Dendro archetypes is heavily impacted by her ability to heal herself, allowing you to use Furina even without a dedicated healer. In Chevreuse teams, though, she's overall a pretty solid character, albeit not particularly outstanding | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | ||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Ororon | Meta- | Mid | Mid | Taser, Chevreuse | Ororon being a Natlan character means that, at his worst, you can use him with Cinder City to be a small damage buff on a character with a bit of personal damage. His biggest downside is his reliance on either a 2nd Natlan character or a Hydro character to make his kit function, but as long as you fulfil his requirements, he's a very functional unit. His biggest upside is that he deals with many enemy mechanics very well, especially tenebrous enemies. | C6 makes him better by giving him a buff | Off-Field Damage | Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
47 | Iansan | Meta | High | High | Any | Iansan at her best provides even more buffs than bennett does for attack-scaling carries. However, many carries struggle to make full use of her kit, and she's more reliant on her constellations than he is. Her very weak healing also often isn't really enough to matter. That being said, even when she isn't as good as bennett, she can be great with bennett or a completely fine alternative to him if you want him on your other team | Damage Buff | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Varesa | Meta | Mid | Mid | Chevereuse, Hyper | Varesa has very flexible rotations, which allow her to have good synergy with a lot of different units within her good archetypes, as she can shorten or extend her uptime to allow you to make good use of your buff uptime and cooldowns. Her ability to be swapped out at any point without losing anything also helps in that way. She's also quite easy to play, as even if you don't minmax your rotations, she still does quite well with her default gameplay loop | On-Field Damage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Ayaka | Meta* | Low | Low | Freeze, Hyperfridge | Freeze is broken but some enemies are immune to it. Lower than Meta against unfreezable enemies, but Freeze makes freezable enemies trivial | C2, C3 and C4 are very good | Off-Field Damage | On-Field Damage, Battery | |||||||||||||||||||
50 | Rosaria | Viable+ | Mid | Mid | Melt, Freeze, Hyperfridge | Decent cryo battery, E being a double hit helps with consistency on Favonius Lance, decent damage | C2, C3 and C5 are good for personal damage, C6 is good for Physical teams | Off-Field Damage | Off-Field Elemental Application, Damage Buff, Battery | |||||||||||||||||||
51 | Kaeya | Viable+ | Mid | Mid | Melt, Freeze, Hyperfridge | Decent cryo battery, ascension 4 talent makes him an amazing battery in Freeze teams, decent damage | C2, C5 and C6 are good | Off-Field Damage | Off-Field Elemental Application, Battery | |||||||||||||||||||
52 | Ganyu | Meta- | Mid | Mid | Freeze, Melt (ehhhh), Hyperfridge | Freeze teams are very good against multiple enemies because Ganyu's Q has a pseudo-quadratic scaling. Melt teams are fine, but generally outshined by other units | C1 is good, C6 is very good for Melt teams | Melt teams : On-Field Damage Freeze teams : Off-Field Damage | Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
53 | Eula | Viable | Low | Mid | Hyper (carry) | Damage is somewhat frontloaded in that most of it happens in the first half of your rotation, but also somewhat backloaded in that it happens on a big hit after about 10 seconds. A good portion of it being on a single hit can be an upside if it crits, or a downside if it doesn't, meaning you can cheat out more DPS if you're willing to retry when you don't crit. Damage without abusing this is very underwhelming | C1, C3 and C4 are decent, C6 is very good | On-Field Damage | Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
54 | Diona | Viable+ | Low | Mid | Freeze | Very good particle generation on a multi-hit, meaning you can get very good Favonius or Sacrificial Bow consistency. Shielding is okay, Healing is okay. Mostly used in Freeze teams, which are easier to play without a healer/shielder than other teams due to enemies being frozen, making her value more dependent on your need for a healer | C1 and C2 are good, C6 can be good but isn't too synergistic with teams where you want to use Diona | Battery | Defensive Utility, Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
55 | Qiqi | Subpar | High | Mid | No? | Healing is very good but everything else is bad. No particles, low damage, high burst cost. Only for players who really need the healing | I'm so sorry this happened to you | Defensive Utility | On-Field Damage | |||||||||||||||||||
56 | Chongyun | Subpar | Low | Mid | Melt, Freeze | Cryo infusion can be useful to break Hydro shields, and Cooldown Reduction on C2 is very good, but his output is so underwhelming that he's still mostly a pretty subpar unit | C2 is very good, C6 is fine | Off-Field Elemental Application | Cooldown Reduction, Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
57 | Shenhe | Meta- | Low | Mid | Melt, Freeze | Very good option for vertical (whale/dolphin) investment into Cryo focused teams. Generally not too good in Melt, but very strong in Freeze. Far from necessary because Rosaria or Kaeya aren't that far behind, but generally a better improvement on those teams than going for weapon refinements on your carry and other such things | C2 is good, C3 is good, C6 is very good both for the teams where you usually use her, and to make some funny teams with Chongyun where any character that can get their normal attacks infused by chongyun can be a decent carry | Damage Buff | Off-Field Damage, Battery | |||||||||||||||||||
58 | Aloy | Subpar | Low | Mid | Freeze | Infusion is unreliable because it relies on enemies having very big hitboxes or stepping on her grenades, decent battery but there are other battery options that do better than she does | :) | Horizon Zero Advertisement | ||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Layla | Viable+ | Mid | Mid | Freeze, Neuvillette, Wanderer | Good shield, but particle generation is reliant on the shield not breaking, meaning you almost have to play as if you didn't have a shield for her to be able to generate energy | C1 is very good for shield strength, C6 is good for damage | Defensive Utility | Battery, Off-Field Damage | |||||||||||||||||||
60 | Mika | Viable | Mid | Mid | Eula, Wanderer Hypercarry with Furina, Wriothesley with Furina | Generally just a downgrade in Eula teams unless C6, and even then he's only an upgrade in very specific situations. His buff doesn't work if you swap out of Eula to pop her burst early, which makes him pretty bad with C6 Eula or against very mobile enemies like whopperflowers | Bad at C6, very bad before C6 | Damage buff | Battery, Healer | |||||||||||||||||||
61 | Fréminet | Subpar | Mid | Mid | Hyperbloom | Bad | No | Emotional Support | On-Field Damage | |||||||||||||||||||
62 | Wriothesley | Meta- | High | Low | Bain-Marie, Reverse Melt, Freeze, Mono-Cryo, Hyperfridge | Gets significantly weaker when he's not above 50% HP, so you need to either run a fairly strong healer that keeps healing while he's on field, or be pretty good at dodging. AoE is fairly lacking | C1 is good and has good quality of life | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
63 | Charlotte | Viable | Mid | High | Freeze, Hyperfridge | She has good healing, especially at C1+, but her energy generation and application are pretty lacking | C1 is very good for healing, C4 is fine for energy generation | Defensive Utility | Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
64 | Citlali | Meta | Mid | High | Melt, Freeze | Citlali in Freeze teams is a pretty strong, albeit balanced, character. In Melt teams, however, the fact that she alone is enough application to enable most pyro carries played in Melt makes her consolidate way too much into one unit | Damage Buff, Off-Field Elementla Application | Defensive Utility | ||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Xiangling | Meta | Mid | High | Vape, Overvape, Melt, Mono-Pyro | Very good damage, and amazing performance, especially for a character given for free. Good enough to let you easily clear any content, meaning that her existence lets you focus on characters you like without being punished in the difficult content, because you can just temporarily use her instead of your favorite character to clear that content, and then put her back on the bench | C1 is good, C3 is good, C4 is very good | Most teams : Off-Field Damage Ganyu Melt : Off-Field Elemental Application | Off-Field Damage | |||||||||||||||||||
66 | Diluc | Viable | Low | Low | Vape | Skill and Burst are very bad (Animations are very long for the damage they deal) but good plunge multipliers make him good in Xianyun teams. He can also be played in Melt teams with proper setups, but dragonstrikes are generally too unreliable for me to include it in his best archetypes | C6 is fine I guess | On-Field Damage | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
67 | Bennett | Meta | High | High | Yes | Demand for him came down a bit with Dendro creating a lot of archetypes that don't necessarily need him, but he is still an insanely strong unit | C1 is very good, C5 is good, C6 can be good in some teams, but can be a downside in others. Generally worth activating, but you can't undo it so do so with caution | Most teams : Damage Buff Melt or TF teams : On-Field Damage | Defensive Utility, Battery, Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
68 | Hu Tao | Meta | Low | Mid | Vape | Very good performance in Single Target, while also being somewhat able to function in some AoE situations. Scales well with vertical investment | C1 is very good, C6 is good for speedrunning | On-Field Damage | Nuke, Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
69 | Xinyan | Subpar | Low | Low | Mono-Pyro | Not a very good physical carry, functional on-fielder for Mono-Pyro if you have C6 Bennett, but still not very good | C2 is fine for physical Xinyan, but physical Xinyan isn't very good. C4 is fine for Physical teams | Damage Buff | Battery, Nuke, Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
70 | Amber | Subpar | Low | Low | Vape (Hu Tao) | Her kit is pretty bad, but she has a multi-hit burst that can trigger the Elegy bow in some Hu Tao teams | C6 is decent | Off-Field Elemental Application | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
71 | Yoimiya | Meta- | Mid | Low | Vape, Hyper (carry), Overvape, Overloaded | Pretty good in single target, but basically useless in AoE. Her range lets her be a good option against flying bosses | C6 is pretty good | On-Field Damage | Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
72 | Klee | Meta- | Low | Mid | Mono-Pyro, Forward Vaporize with Furina | Fast pyro application and ICD makes her a pretty bad option in Vape teams. Performs okay in Mono-Pyro | C2 is good, C4 is fine | On-Field Damage | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
73 | Yanfei* | Subpar | Low | Mid | Vape | Yanfei wants to run closer to a 2:3 crit ratio than 1:2, because her charged attack deals additional damage when it crits, which almost functions like CRIT Damage. Overall not too strong of a carry, but can be used with her C4 to be a fine shield option, albeit with very high ER requirements | C4 is very useful, C6 is fine for damage | Yanfei teams : On-Field Damage Hu Tao teams : On-Field Elemental Application | Damage Buff, Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
74 | Thoma | Viable+ | Mid | Mid | Burgeon, Hyper (support) | Decent option for Hu Tao VV Vape teams, fine shielding option for some Hypercarries like Wanderer, surprisingly strong Burgeon trigger in Burgeon teams. Burgeon often struggles in Single Target, and can have issues with the self damage, but Thoma is generally the best off-field trigger for it | C2 is good, C4 is good, C6 is fine for Hyper teams | Off-Field Elemental Application | Off-Field Damage, Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
75 | Dehya | Subpar | Mid | Mid | Hyperbloom Neuvillette | Half her kit is geared towards a carry playstyle but her numbers are abysmal, making that half of her kit basically useless if you want to play her optimally. Defensive utility is good but has very little uptime, making her generally a downgrade over other defensive utility options | C1, C2, C3, C4 and C6 are all pretty solid, especially for a standard character, but other than C2 they focus on her damage, and because she's so weak to begin with, even at C6 she's basically comparable to a C0 Hu Tao | Defensive Utility | Off-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
76 | Lyney | Meta | Low | Low | Mono Pyro | Optimal teams have pretty strong damage output but are very reliant on not getting canceled during charged attack. Very squishy | Constallations are pretty decent across the board | On-Field Damage | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
77 | Chevreuse | Meta-* | Low | Mid | Overloaded | Her teams have solid output, but Overloaded can make some enemies much harder to group, which can hurt your ability to deal damage in AoE | C6 makes her Meta | Damage Buff | Healer | |||||||||||||||||||
78 | Gaming | Viable+* | Mid | Mid | Vape, Melt, Mono-Pyro | His small AoE, sustained particle generation instead of frontloaded and arguably difficult/ping dependant setups lead to situations where it's very easy to miss a significant portion of his damage, or to miss out on a large amount of particle generation. When everything goes right, he's arguably Meta- | C2, C3 and C4 are nice, C6 makes him Meta | On-Field Damage | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
79 | Arlecchino | Meta | High | High | Vape, Mono-Pyro, Overloaded | Overall very easy to play and quite strong, but power generally goes down when using defensive options, which is often almost necessary because of her inability to heal without using her burst and losing her bond of life. Even in teams with defensive options, she still performs at a meta level | C1, C2 and C3 are nice | On-Field Damage | N/A | |||||||||||||||||||
80 | Mavuika | Mavuika | Mavuika | Mavuika | Mavuika | Mavuika | Mavuika | Mavuika | ||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Zhongli | Meta* | High | High | Yes | Generally the best versatile defensive option. Will almost always be a decrease in team DPS compared to offensive options, but often not a major one, meaning that he can still be a very solid option for most players | C2 is good | Defensive Utility | Damage Buff, Crowd Control, Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
82 | Geo MC | Viable | Low | Mid | Navia | Significantly better in Navia teams than other teams. Provides decent damage for low field time, and synergizes well with Navia's ability to quickswap. | Pog they are free!!!!!! | Battery | Damage Buff, Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
83 | Albedo | Viable | Mid | High | Mono-Geo, Navia | Can always be slotted into a team for damage without having to use brain, but is pretty sub-optimal in teams that aren't mono-Geo. Pretty decent in Mono-Geo and Navia teams, but if the flower breaks he becomes much worse | C3 is decent, C4 is fine for Xiao teams | Off-Field Damage | Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
84 | Ningguang | Viable | Low | Low | Navia | Decent option for Navia teams at high constellation | C2 is good, C6 is good | On-Field Damage | Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
85 | Noelle | Viable+* | Low | High | Wet Rock (Geo+Hydro) with Furina | Very large AoE, but underwhelming damage. Higher than Viable+ with Gorou C6 | C5 is fine, C6 is good | On-Field Damage | Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
86 | Itto | Viable+* | Low | High | Mono-Geo | Overall best Geo carry, somewhat reliant on specific supports and their constellations, but uses supports that aren't needed in other teams, letting you have more options for your second side. Charged attacks before the final hit barely stagger, meaning he won't ungroup enemies while holding his charged attack. He won't get the flat DEF bonus from Gorou converted to ATK with his burst if you use it too soon after swapping into him. Play him in Korean. Higher than Viable+ with Gorou C6 | C6 is good | On-Field Damage | Nuke | |||||||||||||||||||
87 | Gorou | Viable* | Low | High | Mono-Geo | Very good buffing options for DEF scaling geo characters, but incredibly useless outside of this role | C4 is nice for a bit of healing, C6 is good | Damage Buff | Battery | |||||||||||||||||||
88 | Yunjin | Viable | Low | Low | Hyper (support) | Overall pretty weak option. Decent buff to normal attacks, but most normal attack focused units would rather run different supports or be played in teams where they aren't the main source of damage. High ER requirements and single-hit skill, paired with her not wanting CRIT to increase her damage, means you'll have to sacrifice DEF, and in turn her damage buff, to get good energy and Favonius Lance consistency | C2, C3, C4 and C6 are fine | Damage Buff | Battery | |||||||||||||||||||
89 | Navia | Meta | Low | Mid | Navia | Navia's two charges on her E allows for her to use 3 Es on her first rotation instead of 2, effectively borrowing damage from the next rotation, and helping her frontload her damage a lot. It makes her much stronger when you can kill enemies in a lower amount of rotations, i.e. at high investment | Quickswap Damage | Off-Field Damage | ||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Chiori | Meta- | High | Mid | Mono Geo, Navia | Always a decent option when using Zhongli even in non geo focused teams | Off-Field Damage | N/A | ||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Kachina | Viable | High | High | Any | Kachina herself is pretty worthless, but her ability to trigger the 4p Cinder City set allows her to function as a budget buffing option for any team that focuses on geo, hydro, pyro, electro or cryo damage | Damage Buff | Off-Field Damage | ||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Xilonen | Meta | High | High | Any | Xilonen's very versatile buffs and her healing allows her to be a very strong option for a lot of different teams. Outside of anemo carries and dendro carries, Xilonen is almost always a viable support option. That being said, her offensive utility being resistance shred means that teams that already have some form of shred benefit a lot less from her presence. However, even in teams where you stack a lot of shred, she's still at the very least a viable option. | Damage Buff | Defensive Utility | ||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Tighnari | Meta- | Low | Low | Quicken | Very good performance in Single Target quickswap Quicken teams, but pisspoor performance in AoE, both for damage and application | C4 is good, C6 is decent | Quickswap Damage | Quickswap Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
94 | Collei | Viable | High | High | Hyperbloom, Burgeon, Bountiful Bloom, Quicken | Frontloaded application with unreliable abilities, generally a downgrade to Dendro Main Character, but application without needing burst makes her a very comfortable for overworld dendro application | C1 is fine, C2 is good, C4 is good, C6 can be good but can prevent you from doing certain VV setups in Quicken teams | Off-Field Elemental Application | Off-Field Damage | |||||||||||||||||||
95 | Dendro MC | Viable | High | High | Hyperbloom, Burgeon, Bountiful Bloom, Quicken | Decent for Dendro teams, decent off-field Dendro application, very low damage, high ER requirements | Pog they are free!!!!!! | Off-Field Elemental Application | Off-Field Damage | |||||||||||||||||||
96 | Nahida | Meta | High | High | Hyperbloom, Burgeon, Bountiful Bloom, Quicken | Very good application, very large AoE with her hold E, good personal damage, good EM buffs | C2 is very good, C6 is good | On OR Off-Field Elemental Application | On OR Off-Field Damage, Damage Buff | |||||||||||||||||||
97 | Al Haitham | Meta | Mid | High | Hyperbloom, Quicken | Good damage output, good application, generally a downgrade to Nahida if played solo dendro, and better with Nahida in double dendro | C6 is good | On-Field Damage | On-Field Elemental Application | |||||||||||||||||||
98 | Yao Yao | Meta | High | Mid | Hyperbloom, Quicken, Bountiful Bloom, Burgeon | Very potent healing on burst, decent elemental application | C1 is good, C6 is fine | On OR Off-Field Elemental Application | Defensive Utility | |||||||||||||||||||
99 | Kaveh | Subpar | Mid | Mid | Hyperbloom, Burgeon | His Bloom/Rupture-focused teams are very bad, which makes his Bloom synergy either useless or an actual downside in his best teams. Overall very weak, can be used as a dendro driver if no other options are available but it will not be very good | No | On-Field Elemental Application | Teapot decoration | |||||||||||||||||||
100 | Baizhu | Meta | High | Mid | Hyperbloom, Quicken, Bountiful Bloom, Burgeon, Quickbloom, Bain-Marie | Fairly strong albeit delayed heal on skill, decent single-target elemental application, resistance to interruption. Generally close enough in power to Yao Yao that he can be described as a general sidegrade, being a slight upgrade in some teams and a slight downgrade in others | C2 is alright | On OR Off-Field Elemental Application | Defensive Utility |