why Candace and Xingqiu are actually AMAZING together | Genshin Impact 3.1

hello dragonfly swarm uh so I've seen a lot of people say that Candace is a very average character right now because she has a very small pool of good teams currently and I do agree but but but but allow me to introduce the next installment of my God Duo series with Candace and sincho because I've been doing a lot of testing with the power these two have together and I genuinely believe I found one of the most fun and practical synergies that we've seen in a while and no it's not just because Candice gives singtel Hydro infusion as nice as that is I would not waste time making a video just for that so in today's video I'm gonna discuss everything you need to know about why Candice and singtel are so amazing together and how best to build them and their teams so that you can beat the out of this difficult new spiral Abyss era before I start though if this video helps you you should totally leave a like and hit subscribe to stay updated on my content because it very much helps my channel alrighty now Candace as I said a second ago has quickly gone at a reputation as a very average four star she's not good but she's not bad and that's mostly because her kit is currently very Niche and there aren't a lot of teams at all that desperately want her her Hydro infusion is very interesting for team comping and her personal damage buffing and enabling are all actually surprisingly nice but it's just that they're not necessary for most teams but one Synergy that a lot of people immediately wanted to try out was one in which Candace turned sincho into a full-on high domain DPS thanks to her infusion which even that hasn't seen too much buzz in the community because for the most part it's just a fun gimmick team for people that really like Saint Joe and or Candice but I did a bit of Last Hope testing myself even after I had come to the conclusion that singjo and Candace were just a fun Duo and I found godhood essentially all of my God Duo videos are my own attempts to explain very broken synergies between two specific characters but with this God Duo video I found it wasn't just about how strong singhtoba comes with Candace in the party it was also about the insane enabling that these two can do together for an entire archetype of teams some of which teams are the most budget-friendly and Powerful team Styles in the game currently and no that is not a sugar coat Candace has found her way into these teams thanks to singjo but how what exactly makes these two so strong together well to start Candace does provide Synchro with Hydro infusion which allows him to play as a full-on hydro DPS on the field and he'll end up dealing a pretty decent amount of extra personal damage especially if you factor in his C2 which shreds Hydro resistance anytime his burst hits enemies thus now he has yet another form of very high Hydro damage that benefits from his shred and his fourth Ascension passive making him especially valuable with this infusion buff but to take that a step further Candice is also buffing his normal attack damage with her fourth Ascension passive making it an actually decent investment if you choose to go down the route of a main DPS syncjo not that it's optimal but the option is there additionally in 3.0 Hydro resonance was changed to Grant the entire party a 25 HP bonus which is very valuable for canvas's buffing and damage and quite valuable for synchro's healing but as I'll discuss later there are some very interesting ways of even further leveraging this Hydro resonance bonus for some of the stronger teams that Candace and singjo fit into for example a double Hydro hyperbloom team with Candace cookie and sincho allows all three of them to benefit greatly from survivability increases whilst also allowing cookie and Candace to build entirely into their respective offensive roles meaning they're building entirely offensively and yet will still become capable of providing good survivability to an otherwise very difficult team comp in fact with most hyperbloom teams your typical strong buffers don't even add that much more damage to your team at the cost of survivability take for example this side by side in which I used the exact same Central hyperbloom team to fight Primo Geo Bishop only that one team used a C6 Castle Hill with freedom sworn and the other replaced kazuho with Candace but tons as you can see Candace's variant actually ended up defeating the Geo Bishop faster and has the benefit of significantly more survivability and even just more rotation flexibility and hyperbloom teams are already very well known for their strength and budget friendliness so having a variant in which you can enjoy so much comfort without sacrificing pretty much any of your offensive potential is very nice especially in the current spiral Abyss where I can generally clear each chamber of floor 12 in 60 seconds or less using this team it's also important to note that especially in teams where you're not specifically building around Sancho being the main Hydro DPS because of his C2 if you have it he's still going to enable every other teammate on your team since they're now all tied to hydro damage this Hydro damage will not only come from their normal attacks if you choose to weave those in between your swaps but also the initial blast of hydro damage that Candace applies when swapping through each character so for example inside of a quick swap or a budget freeze teams the damage output becomes a pretty even mix between hydro and cryo allowing for some very interesting new builds and very fun new play styles using these teams and they're actually quite strong in general and to summarize my first takes on Candace and Cinco's synergies I'd say it's not entirely unlike sincho's Synergy with yellon functionally speaking because these two create a very versatile and flexible team core that can be used effectively for a number of different strategies and they do so by bouncing off of one another's utility and enabling the entire team by doing so side note that was not at all a yellow in comparison I only mean that both of these Duo combos function somewhat similarly anyways the interesting yet slightly obvious thing is that synchro's access to this new strategy with Candace opens up his gear building options by quite a bit so in this next section I'm gonna run through the best gear to use in what situations for Candace and for shincho starting with sincho firstly emblem of severed Fate has and will always probably be his best artifact set since he's so energy hungry and his burst accounts for so much of his damage output and therefore you can still expect this to be synchro's best set in his teams with Candace however thanks to the fact that he now has access to more sources of personal Hydro damage there are other sets that actually come closer to emblem strength in certain teams for example 4-Piece Gladiators can help to sign significantly boosts his normal attack damage and the two-piece attack bonus is still nice for his burst and the more you're able to weave in his normal attacks the more valuable this set becomes for similar reasons four piece harder depths is another set that becomes more competitive than it was and it can even be slightly stronger than four piece glads for the set bonuses it provides but in general with both of these sets they will only be worthwhile and competitive with four piece emblem under one main condition if you're slotting Synchro in teams where his normal attack damage accounts for more of his total damage output than usual which realistically would only be in fun and quirky teams like Saint Joe main DPS and whatnot but there's still more considerable artifact sets than they once were and as for your weapon options any number of his General weapons work such as sacrificial sword if you have it at least R3 favonia's sword festering desire all three of which are good at supplying Central with the energy recharge that he needs to stay optimal and if your energy needs are already met which becomes a relatively common case with double Hydro Candace you can actually run with more offensive weapon options such as Jade cutter which happens to be his best in slot by quite a large margin when his energy is met especially with double Hydro resonance but miss splitter Skyward blade Summit shaper black sword etc etc all work as offensive options I bet I went more in depth with weapons in my central guide if you're still curious about the best options for you though as for Candace's build your goal with these teams is essentially to fill out her energy threshold and then stack a bunch of HP sub stats for her abilities which leaves quite a bit of room for buffing gear and as such you'll generally find the most value from a set such as four piece no Bliss for team white attack buffing and while generally this can prove to be less valuable in teams where reaction damage is centerfold synchro's presence does add quite a bit of value to the attack bonus either way even so you can instead opt to run 4-Piece instructors on Candace for team-wide Elemental Mastery buffing which obviously is quite useless in things like essential Candace freeze but for hyper Bloom teams it's quite a nice boost to your hyperbloom damage the only caveat with this set is that it will cost Candace stats since each artifact can only be leveled up to 16 and she literally quite enjoys HP and er stacking not that this poses a huge issue though since the trade-off does provide a crazy 120 em to your hyper problem carry but as for her weapons Candace simply enjoys HP or ER weapons the best of which options being black tassel for HP or favonia's lands for energy recharge but again many others can work and while you can opt to run Sancho with Candace together for the purposes of making Candace your DPS unit it is generally not worth doing so because she wasn't at all designed to Output High personal damage so I'm gonna skip over offensive weapon options now as for the best teams to slot this God Duo into there are quite a few that they can slot into for the purposes of comfort and practicality but the one I really wanted to focus on in this video is what I am stupidly referring to as candycho hyperbloom I'm focusing on this one because personally speaking it's the only one that we currently have access to that I think effectively makes use of Candace and singtel synergies to their fullest potential whilst allowing for some absolutely insane damage per second in this team you're gonna be sliding Candace in central with an electro unit and a dendro unit in order to create a hyperbloom team and your best options for the electro unit are Ryden Shogun or kukishinubu and personally I think that cookie shinobu works way better than riding in this team because of not only her insane practicality with hyperbloom which Ryden also has but also kooky's HP scaling so she enjoys Hydro resonance and for the dendro character dendro traveler is more enjoyable than Cola because they can Infuse with hydro and their dendro application lines up more comfortably with the team's rotations so once you have cookie and dindo traveler together with Candace and singsho the reason this team is so standout is because of first and foremost the insanely budget-friendly nature of the team but also the multiple synergies that they have with one another Candace and Synchro trigger Hydro resonance which not only allows Synchro more healing and Candace more damage but it also allows kuki to actually provide sufficient heals while she's building completely into Elemental Mastery meaning she is a support and a powerful main reaction carry at the same time further than that though Candace's ability to infuse everyone with hydro and buff their normal attack damage allows for a considerable increase in Hydro damage for the team especially when running kooky as your Electro unit thanks to her fast animations and as I showed earlier in a comparison hyperbloom teams are so heavily focused on hyperboom damage that there isn't much reason to instead opt for buffers like kazuha and Bennett and so forth over Candace making this a very budget-friendly and Powerful team for those who want to literally just turn their brain off and keyboard smash to clear the abyss in under 60 seconds like this stay away as you can see in that clip magukinki a boss that a lot of people have trouble defeating in spiral Abyss was absolutely shredded by this team and the only member of the team that even ended up without full HP was kooky and that's only because she takes her own HP to heal so while yes admittedly a lot of my God Duo videos focus on synergies that are special only because of giant damage increases this still felt extremely relevant to talk about especially as more and more players challenge the spiral Abyss casual or otherwise Candice and Sancho's Synergy allows for so much comfort without sacrificing damage in this hyperbloom team style and beyond that once you've lined up their bursts the team doesn't have any other crazy mechanical intensity so you can freely rotate in whatever way best suits the situation and I do want to mention virgin because while I can't showcase it in a flashy and fun way because I don't have the characters properly geared Candace and Central version teams likely perform very similarly because having good Hydro application prevents you from sabotaging your virgin reactions with pyro application so that's something to consider as well but I don't know enough about it but in general there is so much value that you can squeeze out of budget-friendly teams with Candace and zincho and while many of the ones I didn't mention in this video are mathematically weaker alternatives to Stronger teams they're still quite flexible and fun and I will stand by the fact that Candace and things will create one of the strongest variants of pure hyperbloom teams in the game I say pure hyperbloom because there are other hyperbloom teams that you could argue are stronger but those ones aren't strictly hyperbloom damage and therefore require noticeably more investment to function anyways if this video helped you in any way or you just like seeing sincho and Candace content please don't forget to like and consider subscribing because it would very much be appreciated I'll see you around bye

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Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 08 2022