DPS SHOWDOWN! Itto vs Xiao vs Noelle! CRAZY UNEXPECTED results! Genshin Impact

hello and welcome to my channel i went to lose gaming i've got a treat for you guys this holiday season and it's my greatest dps showdown yet today's dps showdown will be between constellation zero ito constellation zero xiao and constellation vi noel [Music] it's actually been a really long time since my last actual dps showdown the last one was two months ago on october 25th and it was a dps slowdown with amber versus eloy verstiona and the perfect way to celebrate the return of dps showdowns is with today's sponsor another eden the cat beyond time and space the chrono cross crossover story complex dream is now available and was written by the legendary story writer of the chrono series xenogears and final fantasy xi masato kato described as the spiritual successor to chrono cross and chrono trigger which are jrpg classics from the 90s another eden provides literally the best modernized single-player classic jrpg experience ever chock full of endearing characters and riveting plot 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write-in now that it's been nearly three months since ryden's release it's high time we had an actual dps showdown instead of a dps slowdown in gentian impact also this is one of the only 8 dps showdowns of mine that features constellation 0 5 star characters as such in this video i will try to take a more free to play relatable approach by using constellation 0 5 star characters with free to play weapon options for most of this video however there will still be a couple sections showcasing some 5 star weapons next we need to talk about the methodology and some disclaimers as usual for my dps showdowns i put our contestants through many scenarios in the game i fight enemies that have different health pools different phases and different mechanics then after the overworld portion i take them through abyss 12 to see just how well they do in some of the hardest content in the game i also normalize damage potentials so that way none of the characters participating have a huge advantage due to their artifact quality and or or talent levels next let's talk about resonances geo-resonance is always assumed to be used with any geodps character as such it will always be active and is not factored in to damage potential calculations for geo characters similarly xiao will pretty much always have animal resonance and since every single good xiao team will have animal resonance it is also just assumed to be part of xiao's kit and not part of the damage potential calculations another thing to note is that i sometimes use child to help even out the damage potentials the next thing is if i use zhong li for one character i use him for all the characters tongli is here so that the contestants can just focus on doing damage and now for everyone's favorite part of the video and frankly one of the most important parts of the video the disclaimers all the showcase in this video are simply my best attempt within a reasonable amount of time i do each of these runs multiple times simply pick the best time there are most certainly other showcases of these characters that are faster than my times all these times can be improved just because character a better in a specific scenario than character b does not mean the character a is better than character b this video is to serve as just a single anecdote from some guy on the internet on how these characters compare to each other and my level of investment problem solving and skill please take everything with a giant grain of salt [Music] it's finally time to plunge into the introduction for today's contestants starting off with the one and only arataka ito arutaka ito isn't oni the biggest baddest one on the block he's also the shiny new dps in town sadly my husk of opulent dreams artifact set is comparatively dog poo and as such in order to properly normalize his damage potential to around 70 various crit rate foods will be used for most of this video he's using a refinement 5 white blind his talents are at 9 8 and 9 and he is at constitution 0. i do use my refinement 5 red horn stone thresher for a couple of showcases but i will clarify what weapons are used when the time comes i used many builds throughout this video for him and the bolded entries in this table were used in this video his damage potential ranges from a pathetic 62 percent to an impressive 80 across all these showcases the next character to jump into action is everyone's favorite emo edgelord hot topic employee adeptus yaksha of ligue xiao the motion sickness inducing mountain demon will be hopping up and down like the energizer bunny on steroids with a refinement 5 black cliff pole polearm [Music] he will also use a refinement 5 staff of houma for a couple of the showcases he'll be using the two-piece verdessen veneer as well as two-piece gladiators or two-piece human now is depending on how the stats ended up rounding themselves off his talents are the same as ito's at 9 8-9 and he is also at constellation zero throughout this entire video my show's damage potentials range from 73 percent to eighty percent throughout this video and last and potentially not the least we have the wannabe knight of evonius and current made of the knights of fevonius noel now we'll be using pretty much the same gear as arutaki ito such as the refinement five white blind as well as the red horn stone thresher she's also using the four piece husqvoin dreams her talents are at 9 12 and 12 and she's at constellation 6. nowell's damage potentials range from 66 percent to 80 percent throughout this dps showdown can noelle sweep away the competition and finally become an actual knight of fivonius or will she forever be stuck sweeping the floors of the knights of helonius's headquarters and with all that out of the way it's finally time for our three contestants to mercilessly murder everyone's favorite first volunteer the regis vines this first showcase will simply be um we can see here that ito started with no white blind stacks as well as no superlative super strength stacks and despite that ito was able to take out the regis fine convincingly the quickest i did do this specific combo to do just enough damage to take out the regis line [Music] and next we have our favorite pogo boy xiao for boss fights i'm using the awesomely named high plunge jet combo while xiao wasn't able to catch up to arutaki ito it was still absolutely trivial for xiao to murder the inner demon of our poor plant friend noel is next and despite some resources saying n3-cancel is better i personally found that for this specific fight n4-cancel save me some time again like ito noel started this fight with no stacks on the white blind this means that the 48 defense from the four stacks of white blind but not snapshotted by her burst nonetheless noel was also easily able to sweep away some old frozen lettuce on the ground [Music] so that was just a super simple ungubunka showcase what if we instead incorporated some creativity holy cow ito with his plunge attacks is monstrously powerful especially against a target where the plunge through hitbox can connect admittingly this didn't even save an entire second off of ito's time despite all the effort to dragon strike but the fact that ito saved any time at all by dragon striking was super interesting to me however it could also be attributed to the white blind stacks being built up looks like xiaoto came in second place in this plunging showdown next we have the plunger for life xiao xiao already has his built-in dragon strikes and he is using the black cliff as such i kill three monsters elsewhere in the overworld and then use the teleport waypoint next to the regis fine also by using low plunge jet combos near the regis line's face xiao is able to abuse the plunge through damage more reliably and thus finish off the cryo regis fine in a meager 5.85 seconds [Music] and i bet you're wondering how the heck did xiao al clutch this one ciao's constellation 4 causes her shield to explode when her shield expires combine this with the fact that xiao can also use her burst and then swap out xiao can buffer both her burst animation and her shield before knocking down the regis line then by timing the shield explosion while xiaol is mid-dragon strike she's able to sweep away the competition in just two plunge attacks while also bypassing her burst animation personally this is one of my favorite clips across all my dps showdowns let's give a round of applause to a residential maid xiaoel for clutching this one with some creativity and next we have my favorite character to beat to a pulp every week the one the only man child named child [Music] hmm [Music] this one was remarkably close between all three of the characters and honestly could have gone to any one of them you may have noticed that i used traveler's elemental skill and then ito's burst to gain a lot of additional energy ito was able to take out child's first and second form with just a single elemental burst all the extra energy from earlier then allowed ito to fill up his burst very quickly during the start of the third phase and it's just the usual crossing of fingers for the proper childish rng [Music] next we have xiao by using his two e's before his burst he's able to catch all the animal particles generated from those two e's then it's just xiao being shao as i spam some jet combos to finish off the first two forms of child in a single bane of all emos [Music] third form child could have saved some time had i not gotten so unlucky which only fuvonius proc but again you know we're talking like half a second or so and like i said this run could have gone to any of these characters xiao completed this in a still remarkable 35 seconds and 53 frames and last but not least we have noel sadly since noel needed zhongli and the geo battery i wasn't able to find a way to save time via dragon striking so it's back to mad gamer skills with unga bunga left click noel once second form child appeared noel's shield was ready to rudely explode in his face thus quickly bursting second phase child down then it was just a matter of spamming noelle's normals to collect our weekly lack of shadow drops from our least favorite snazaraya man in tavot so that was fun and all but what about a two-phase boss fight the magu can keep [Music] [Music] yes against our favorite puppet we can see here that ito managed to win again we're starting to see a pattern when it comes to single target dps by using the same rotation against child and by using his burst as soon as possible this allowed for ito's burst to be up for a second round faster than otherwise possible then in typical oni cow throwing club swinging fashion ito didn't allow our puppet friend to run away rip our puppet friend [Music] xiao is faced with a fellow edgy mask wearer and clearly demonstrated here that there is only room in tavot for one edgy mask wearing individual thanks to animal resonance unlike ito xiaomi's burst cooldown isn't the bottleneck for this fight [Music] you may have noticed here that i switched over to slowly spamming some high plunge attacks here this makes the mago kenki do his homing mask attack instead of dashing backwards this spot shall the time he needed to take out the magukenki without needing to chase it down as it flees for edgy mask wearing privilege ah yes the wannabe knight to fevonius is continuing to surprise us all thanks to this mango kenki being outside in the overworld i'm able to incorporate dragon strikes simply by having rosaria in the party after who knows how many tries this took i finally managed to do enough dragon strikes to look cool the entire time you also noticed that i timed noel shield explosion to help burst down the second form of makukenki before it could blink away yet another impressive showcase from our favorite dragon striking maid and gentian impact [Music] now you're all probably wondering how good are these characters in an aoe scenario this next fight will be in the husk of opulent dreams domain against all the doggos i allowed all three teams to utilize zhongli's meteor to mitigate some of the rng in this run [Music] with a meteor and some crafty positioning for ejo veto is now able to freely build up some stacks to snapshot for the white blind and then quickly wipe out the first wave of puppies this spawns in the four additional monsters for the second wave and by focusing down the big doggo ito was able to complete this entire domain during a single burst window thanks to xiao's monstrously large aoe around him his team's john way is able to bypass the necessity to scrunch up the doggos a bit thanks to petrification keeping the puppies in place xiao is able to wipe them all out very quickly then it became a simple situation of kill the big doggo which xiao is able to do without requiring a second burst is next and fortunately for her her spin to win hitbox is the perfect size to hit all the puppies at the beginning netting her a quick and convenient kill on all of them sadly the big doggo jumped backwards but this was by far the best dragon strike performance across all my attempts and why would i try hard for a faster run when i got this awesomely cool dragon strike run seriously though it's really hard for me to consistently dragon strike and this was by far my best time with it and last but not least we have one more single target showcase to unga bunga against the ninja doggo first the ninja doggo i used a higher crit rate build for all three characters but maintain roughly the same damage potential [Music] [Music] [Music] out of the three characters ito here was the only one able to take out the ninja doggo in a single burst window with a free-to-play setup however he was only able to accomplish this by first building four stacks on the white blind before using his burst due to his exclusive ability here to take it out in one burst cycle given the other restrictions in place ito handily dominated this fight as for our edgelord pogo master shout i started this by delaying jungle shield by just a tiny bit because otherwise xiao's e will hit the doggo while it's still invincible anyway that minor optimization aside this ninja doggo was hard to keep track of with xiao compared to the others because of his constant jumping up and down to obscure my vision of the doggo however i did manage to predict when it would do its replacement jutsu and chased it down since xiao wasn't able to take it out in a single burst a lot of time was lost filling up his energy for a second bane of all emos noel in this fight really took advantage of her ability to swap in and out of the battlefield and still maintain her burst this allowed for her to battery herself throughout the duration of her burst curing her of the waiting to catch slowly flying particles syndrome similar to xiao noel wasn't able to one cycle the ninja doggo and of course this added a lot of time to her run in comparison to ito's however with this simple unga bunga play style noel still did very well here [Music] and now for those whales and or or people with five star weapons curiosity this next fight against our ninja doggo friend has each of these characters using their best five-star weapons for the situation well now the time gap has closed tremendously all of them were able to easily take out our poor doggo friend in a single burst with ito still maintaining his dominance through out this dps showdown by just a few seconds with the red horn stone thresher icho saved time here by bypassing the need to build stacks on the white blind xiao on the other hand was under 50 hp to maintain the staff of homeless buff and with this major boost in his damage he was also able to take out her ninja doggo friend in a single bane of all emotes however keep in mind that xiao's burst actually lasts longer than ito's burst unless it took him a bit longer to output the same amount of single target damage nonetheless this was an effortless victory for our favorite pogo stick enthusiast xiao noel just did normal things in this fight and thanks to its duration she was able to effectively use her constellation force shield explosion and with the red horn stone thresher she was also able to one cycle surprisingly to me the ninja doggo unfortunately i did do this run prior to deciding that i would dragon strike for this video and thus it was too late to go back and redo the doggo fight with dragon strike [Music] and our last overworld showcase also with these five star weapons is to see who can do the biggest damage per thumbnail against our lego friend of course all three of these characters are not known for their explosive damage per thumbnails but i thought it would be interesting to try this out unfortunately albedo was needed in order for xiaoto to perform a high plunge attack fortunately though consolation 6 albedo with the freedom sworn provides a ton of bonus plunge damage xiaoto is able to perform a 234 778 damage plunge attack that's plungingly impressive xiao's plunge setup here was quite different from the other twos heavily favoring defense shred instead of bonus damage finally my entire team except for xiao all had level zero artifacts or no artifacts at all in ike's case xiao managed to achieve 216 648 damage in a single plunge attack xiaoel's setup here is identical to ito's with a minor difference being that chao gets a bit more attack with her birth as such xiao managed to eke out the largest plunge damage per thumbnail here at 238 747 damage [Music] and with that we are finally done with the overworld shenanigans so now it's time to take this fight to abyss 12. for best 12 i allow cards as well as decked out supports i decided on decked out supports because all my supports are constellation 6 so i may as well just properly build them and use them of course ito and xiao are both still at constellation 0 and all 3 of them are using free to play weapons xiao's team consists of xiao bennett jean and zhong li while noel and ito both get goro albedo and jungle in their teams i also decided in doing twelve one one twelve two two and twelve three one because the monsters are elementally neutral to both geo and animo across all these three chambers [Music] nintendo [Music] yes [Music] here [Music] highlighted some really interesting and subtle mechanical advantages that ended up making a huge difference in performance now it's super important to note that the current abyssal moon benefits ito the most but it's also important to note that my husk artifact set is much worse than my xiao's artifacts anyway ito's high mobility and overall low amounts of knockback allow him to keep up with the big doggos and still output a ton of damage then after chunking the doggos hugely with his burst his supports were able to nearly finish off the big doggos and ito is able to clean up the rats xiao's team's support characters actually have higher immediate burst damage than ito's team did with gene being able to completely wipe out the first wave of electro puppies then it was xiao's turn and unfortunately for xiao his plunge attacks make the big doggos flinch also while he's pogoing up and down the big doggos become confused and just stand there i decided to cut schausburg short by a bit to more quickly gain energy for the entire team this strategy actually cut off over six seconds or so in comparison to staying on field for xiao's entire burst duration thankfully with zomli's meteor and gene's big burst damage xiao is able to eventually finish off the big doggos [Music] now it's noelle's turn noelle was insanely close to ito in this run and is for an interesting reason both of them had nearly an identical start with them needing to finish off the last smidge health on the first wave however after this noel is able to fairly optimally damage the big doggos with absolutely no knockback at all the first three hits of her normal attacks do not knock back the wolves and as such they literally just stand there for ages getting slapped by noel's giant geo sword while having lower dps in ito the reliability of the strategy allowed both noelle's and albedo's aoe to hit both the big doggos for a long time this allowed noel to keep up with ito in this abyss chamber the triple mangu kinkys of 12 2 2 are next admittingly these runs were the most sloppy in comparison to the rest of the video and if you've been trying to speedrun 122 you may know the reason for this yes foreign [Music] to continue my earlier point twelve two two is sloppier than usual because first of all you need to clear 12 to one every time and second of all more importantly it's really rare for the cryomongo kenki to not do his dash across the entire world attack i'd say for my ping and hardware it's around a five to ten percent chance for the cryo mag of kenki to do its melee attacks immediately as such i took what i could get in terms of this chamber veto's higher dps during his shorter burst window was what allowed him to pull ahead by a couple of seconds against these three makukenkis this is a much better performance by xiao in comparison to the previous 121 chamber unlike the big doggos the mango kinkys don't get knocked back by xiao's plunge attacks there's also another unique advantage that this xiao team has over the geo teams and that is having bennett and gene bennet and jean both cleanse cryo off your characters and thus drastically speed up xiao's attacking animations if you aren't aware having cryo on your character significantly slows down their attacks after xiao is able to take them down to near death bennett jungli and jean were able to burst the remainder of their health bars into the abyss now we finally have a scenario where noelle struggled in comparison to the other two but to be completely honest this run was not bad necessarily because of noel but probably because of me and you'll see why in the next chamber in the entirety of this abyss showdown i believe that this specific run has the most room for improvement nonetheless at this point i was getting real tired of resetting for that five to ten percent chance for the cryomagwa kenki to not dash to the other side of the planet and decided to settle with his subpar but still good performance foreign [Music] speaking of the next chamber it's time for 12-3-1 12-3-1 has a couple of super beefy wolf boys you foreign didn't actually win this one the opening strategy is almost identical for all three teams setups only shield and use all the support abilities to nearly wipe out the first weight after that though it's ito's turn and while his kit isn't completely full of attacks that knock back the big wolves his kid still has enough knockback that ends up causing some issues however after a full second cycle of abilities nito's team was able to take out abyss 12-3-1 in 37.25 seconds [Music] and if you thought 1211 was painful for shell 1231 is even worse with much beefier big doggos and a beefier first wave crab robot as well having the same problem of constantly knocking the big goggles around which made it impossible for him to optimally damage them and by now you may have noticed one of xiao's biggest weaknesses in a full team his supports buffs wear off midway through his burst duration after bennett's burst and jeans burst wear off xiao is doing just half the damage as he was this leads to xiao's actual optimal dps window being much shorter than the actual duration of his burst after chasing down the big doggos and with the stars aligning them in the perfect position for chao to hit both of them continuously xiao's team was able to finish 12-3-1 in over 56 seconds and lo and behold somehow noel managed to clutch the victory here if you recall from my commentary on noelle's 12-2-2 run i said that she could probably have saved quite a bit of time and that's because in my earlier 12-2-2 run i didn't fully utilize what makes noelle unique her ability to swap in and out and still keep her burst up because my supports are heavily whaled across all three teams giving them the opportunity to use their abilities is a huge advantage and in a way this white blind noel becomes the gap filler for the team anyway i think this is an amazing performance which really capitalized on noelle's unique burst retention mechanic [Music] and there you go the compilation of all the runs i did with these characters over the last four days here is a summary of all the results of this video looking at the overworld performances we can see that ito won all but two of the times in this dps showdown and it was the ninja doggo that really pushed him ahead of the other two since he had just the right amount of damage to one cycle the ninja doggo whereas the other two couldn't pull it off with these damage potentials and thus had to battery up for a second burst however if we remove the outlier ninjago results we can see that the difference in times become much smaller so it's up to you if you want to eliminate the ninja taco outlier in your own assessment again i want to emphasize that ito did get a boost from the abyssal moon but again i want to emphasize that my husk of opulent dreams artifacts are much worse than the mishmash combination that xiao is using it's hard to say if this evened everything out but do keep all this in mind when formulating your own opinion as for abyss well that is where subtle mechanics like xiao's heavy stagger inducing plunges really hurt his performance as the big wolves would just constantly bounce at a range xiao also had the problem of his optimal dps window being much shorter than the other two due to the fact that he does not snapshot bennett's burst nor does he snapshot jeans buffs as well however once xiao had the opportunity to fight monsters that don't get ruined by stagger like the triple mago kinkies he was able to close the gap significantly so many of you may think that xiao performed poorly here but on the contrary i actually think he did very well with all things considered xiao is the only character in this dps showdown without an actual 4-piece artifact set a proper 4-piece set can boost his damage by a very significant amount similar to how the husk of oakland dreams boosted albedos and noel's damage also xiao's free-to-play weapon options are not great to say the least the black cliff pole arm has a problem of its passive being useless in a ton of scenarios while the other free-to-play pull-arms are pretty much terrible on him and last but not least geo resonance is literally the strongest resonance in the game while animal resonance is helpful for xiao it is far from the approximately 27 damage boost that geo characters gain from geo resonance and lastly xiao doesn't have a dedicated four-star support like goro is for geo with all those disadvantages that may change in the future like maybe mihoyo will release an actual artifact set for him and heck maybe they'll release a cinebar spindle equivalent for him for free to plays and with xiao being a really old dps character xiao has aged really well in genji impact's meta since he wasn't that far behind the brand new 5 star dps character arataka ito now especially surprising to me personally is noelle's performance remember noel is at constellation 6 while those two 5 stars are at constellation 0. so barring additional gear and support character upgrades nimal is near her peak performance but the fact that noel is keeping up with these two 5 star dps characters is really remarkable to me and demonstrates some impressive foresight for balancing on the part of mihoyo noah was able to clutch three victories in this dps showdown winning the creative regisline fight biz 1231 and even the highest damage for thumbnail what's really impressive about all this is that noel has been almost this strong since day one the white blind and bolide are both great on her and she's been a sleeper pick since the release of gentian impact so there you go this is perhaps the most time and effort i've invested in any of my dps showdowns and i hope you enjoyed it i still haven't decided what characters to have my soon to be constellation 6 are takito have a dps showdown against so please let me know who you'd like him to face off against down below i was considering a five-star claymore showdown with eula deluca ito or perhaps visiting a character who hasn't been in a dps showdown to mine yet like kokomi of course other characters like ryden gone you and any other five-star dps character is on the table for consideration so just let me know who you'd like to see also i regularly make gungeon impact videos ranging from caesar showcases dps showdowns guide videos and more so be sure to smash the subscribe button as it's the best and easiest way for you to support my work also don't forget to like the video and leave a comment for the youtube algorithm as always i appreciate every single 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Channel: IWinToLose Gaming

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Keywords: genshin impact itto build, genshin impact arataki itto, genshin impact arataki itto build, genshin impact dps showdown, genshin impact noelle, genshin impact noelle build, genshin impact noelle dps, genshin impact xiao build, genshin impact xiao rerun, genshin impact xiao gameplay, genshin impact xiao team, arataki itto gameplay, arataki itto genshin, noelle genshin, xiao, xiao genshin impact, ANOTHER EDEN: The Cat Beyond Time & Space

Id: RfQ1V2Q5C2Q

Length: 36min 30sec (2190 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 25 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/NotEvenAHumanAnymore]

Good comparison if you have a good eye for what is happening.

Most people just look at the final numbers and cry "Itto OP! Xiao powercreep!".

In reality, despite everything, Xiao is able to keep up. If Noelle C6 is able to keep up as well this is more a testament of the huge geo/def buffs these last patches got (Albedo buff, Husk, Gorou).

Here he also heavily optimized tech by dragonstriking with the two claymores. In reality, unless you specifically make a team for dragonstrike, you are not able to do it. Trust me, I'm a Razor main.

Also, I don't think Xiao was played optimally, some plunges were low others were too high and his team comps weren't the best.

But again, despite all of this, Xiao has proven to still be a solid choice.

Imagine all the players getting baited to skip him just because of a couple of seconds of difference in selected scenarios.

I agree however that Itto is more comfortable/easier to play. His kit is honestly very simple to use and his optimal combo is basically just one (Q -> E -> CA -> 4NA -> CA -> E). Other than dragonstrike (not completely viable) he doesn't really have any tech to optimize his damage. Xiao instead has different playstyles based on the situation (AoE spam or single target through jet combo).

But is Itto more fun than Xiao? Debatable. I think they are both fun in different ways and they are both attractive in different ways (no homo). If you like easy/mindless gameplay and extroverted characters go for Itto, if you like mechanic gameplay and introverted characters that say edgy stuff, go for Xiao.

So, as always, choose the character you like more because in the end they are all strong if built and used properly.

[u/AakashK12]

Yep, I feel it was fair and I'm happy he concluded that the only thing holding Xiao back is lack of dedicated supports and artifacts tailor-made for him.

I've been on hopium for a Anemo res/Def shred support for Xiao for too long. MHY pls

[u/Phanngle]

It's "fair" considering that he's using what he had based on he rules set in place.

What people who are crying in the comments section about "Xiao's so powercrept :(((" are not seeing is that Xiao is keeping up while:

- Having neither Geo nor Pyro Resonance

- Using a F2P weapon that is extremely lacking as opposed to Deathmatch which is not F2P, while Itto and Noelle are using their best case scenario F2P weapon

- Is on a team that does not benefit him nearly as much as a single Gorou benefits Itto and Noelle

- Is fighting in an Abyss cycle that is specifically catered to Itto

- Is more often than not being shown using a non-optimal rotation during his Burst while Noelle and Itto get to Dragon-strike (which very few people can actually pull off frequently, much less consistently)

Considering all of that, and the fact that Xiao has times quite close to the other two, the fact that people are using this to call Xiao bad, is a hilarious misunderstanding of what we're seeing here.

[u/thepleiad]

This is perfect example of how important dedicated supports, artifact set and weapon are. Also, this is a good demonstration of a buff Geo received (Albedo sword, Husk set, Gorou).

[u/Not_shaunjacob]

It stung. But he's clearly put alot of effort in the video and I guess it was more or less fair. It just hurts man. Xiao deserves everything itto got on release, there is no reason for him to be starved like this. I feel like a broken record but he needs his own artifact set and a 4 star anemo character that can buff him for the entirety of his bursts duration. The more I think about it the more upset I get so I just let it go. I'm still going to pull for him.

What pisses me off the most is the fact that freaking ganyu is getting a support before xiao is (shenhe) . WHY DOES SHE EVEN NEED ANOTHER ONE!? Mihoyo!??????

[u/Sil_Choco]

what I noticed the most is that sometimes Xiao took longer to get his burst up, which resulted in him being slower than Itto/Noelle. They have it easier since they have 2 geo supports and it's super easy to get their burst up even with disgusting er (my Itto has no er in his artifacts, but that's not an issue). This just shows well how much Xiao lacks a set and a good support, anyway despite the hardships he did good imo.

[u/Jazzlike_Estimate_54]

Aren’t those problems with Xiao himself? His burst not snapshotting and his plunges pushing enemies away?

[u/cesukeyamazaki]

Xiao still has a lot of room for improvement. Imagine that he's already OP without dedicated supports and artifacts then what more when/if he has them (hopium). Anyway this is why we should pull for the characters we love. Sooner or later they will be powercrept but the fun is still there.

[u/Smoke_Santa]

Apart from the huge resistance on the doggos, I think the comparison was mostly really fair and pretty well explained.