He is tied with Xiao, Venti, and Childe for most reruns, with rumors that he might have another.
He is still meta because Hu Tao uses him, but a lot of other carries don't need him because they have built in interruption resistance so having a good healer is basically the same as Zhongli for them, but that healer might be providing better elemental application.
Considering encounters like triple kenki make 4* shields in general not viable, not really. He is good when you need to run extra sources of pyro damage for floors that have cryo shielded enemies though.
Hydro Resonance doesn't even help Kokomi outside of clam set and amount healed, since it boosts incoming healing and not healing bonus so she doesn't get an extra damage bonus from it.
Thats what they want you to think, but when Xeno 3 releases Genshin stops existing
Yeah, but Ventis actually holds enemies in place for easy kills. Like for Venti to hold a shield maiden up in the air for Ayakas super to just wreck them is so much more superior to what Kazuha does. Or just holding enemies in general. Kazuha groups ok I suppose but they all get knocked away immediately after.
Yeah she's C6, just never built her because Raiden isn't ready
Yeah, I've been using Xinyan on my overworld team the past couple months. She's fun but is thoroughly middling in all she does. I think there's been the odd Abyss floor or two where I wanted pyro on both sides and slotted her in somewhere when I didn't feel like basing one of my team's on Hu Tao, but otherwise I find myself ditching her for that and even domains.
Yeah, I got Keqing around the start of the year and found her a ton of fun. Being bored as hell of Ganyu after a year, I wound up making her the lead DPS on my overworld team and YOLO triple crowned her soon after. I stuck with her through Enkanomiya and the Chasm. Only recently backseated her when I picked up Yelan, and just benched her this week to run a more GAA-themed team with Kazuha. But unlike, say, Diluc, who I cycled through the year before and don't feel that compelled to revisit, I definitely intend to cycle her back in every now and then when I feel like using someone that's fun to spam normal attack with.So I'm really enjoying the Keqing I got form losing the 50/50 (which I didn't mean to hit in the first place, I was just chasing Heizou cons >.<) And I'm really enjoying her. Got her artifacts all levelled, a Jade sword, talents currently at 7 6 7 and lvl 80/80 and I've got her at 84.1 crit rate with 203 crit dmg which puts me juuuuuust under 100% crit rate after using her burst. ER on 133 too and it's so low cost. I'm really liking her. I think I'm glad I got her over C1 Kaz (LOVE Kaz, but In things like this I'd rather a new character to play with than a slightly better version of an already great character). Saying that though, I would rather C1 Kaz over Klee as I don't like her playstyle from the trial stuff (even though she is HYPER adorable and precious).
Looking at her cons they all seem really good too. Would much rather lose pity to Keqing than Qiqi or Mona. Just need Jean from the base 5* now. I was hoping for Jean if I lost my pity as another anemo support/healer/VV shredder etc would be nice and comfy for teams but Keqing is just fun.
Huh, wasn't aware.
Other than Raiden and Xingqiu, who has built in interruption resistance?
This is such a bad take, meta doesn't mean you forgo survivability in order to achieve the fastest clear time. There are plenty of meta teams that incorporate shielding or healing.
More and more meta teams have been removing healers or shielders lately.
Which new meta teams, and what meta teams have they replaced that are no longer meta?
Freeze teams, Kazuha teams that aren't using Bennett
Freeze teams never needed a healer, that was always an argument, but the meta hasn't shifted so much that a healer is unnecessary. The current meta places Ayaka, Shenhe, Kazuha, Kokomi at the top of the dpr list. "Kazuha teams that aren't using Bennett" is too vague.
If I listed every meta team that uses Kazuha I'd be here all day. 80% of all meta teams have Kazuha in them. Probably more. There are however an increasing number of Kazuha teams that don't use Bennett, usually because they're doing TTDS manipulations or Kazuha + Venti CC stuff.
They haven't replaced other meta teams, though. What's this argument about, that teams with healers and shielders are no longer meta? That just isn't the case.
Okay, that's a fair point.
I just want Geo to break shields rather than make them stronger. They need a niche and Crystallize ain't it.
Yeah, exactly. The "meta" is effectively about speedrunning a 36* Abyss since that's really the only endgame. Especially as more characters are added, it's becoming increasingly distanced from even what it takes for a comfortable 36* clear.
Man, seeing this is insane they didn't give it Yae, given her kit.
I only listed characters that would have it as some enhanced state for main DPSing. Yelan has it during her skill so yeah, they overlooked giving it to Yae.
I'm still grinding Venti artifacts, 2 years later.
