Why EVERYONE Plays: Furina | Genshin Impact

arriving as a fifth playable archon in Gent impact finina represents a hydro element unanimously considered Far and Away the strongest and most ubiquitous among the seven even before the Advent of fonting the land of hydro posting an incredibly stacked roster of characters with several of them being metad defining as the Elder States woman of R kadra she is quite the standard to reach personally I'm not of the school of thought that archons have to be the strongest or most powerful character of their respective element rather they should aim to encapsulate the fundamental aspects of that element they should embody what the element is meant to be and engage an impact finina doesn't just pull that though she genuinely may be the strongest character of the strongest element I know it may come off a bit premature or presumptuous to make a why everyone plays City the literal day of a character's release but I speak with utmost confidence that alongside her gratuitous widespread appeal being an archon fer pushes the needle of genin's power scaling to new heights and her inclusion can and will have a huge influence on so much of the existing lineup of teams if not now then later on in the not so distant future so without further Ado we're going to be talking about why everyone will play fima while they aren't necessarily required to be the best character of the respect Dev elment there's a high likelihood for them to have these be in the operon even the weakest St conventi has a legendary reputation for being the answer to crowd control Jung Le Shogun and nahita are also some of if not the most sought after units or their Elemental Affinity as well with nahita being definitively the best dentro character likely Until the End of Time historically the archons have gotten stronger and stronger with each passing version much of that has to do with the underlying expectations imposed by the community seeing as how these characters represent their elements and by extension represent the entirey of genin Mythos on which the heavily invested in if not the Keystone of it all they're expectedly some of the most popular characters in the game ever since a fiasco with Jung Le over 3 years ago it's essentially become obligatory for the archons to have power of be fitting their status reception on finina as a character is kind of split in the Middle with one side adoring her refreshingly off the cuff personality and the other being justifiably annoyed that she behaves like a spoiled pretentious brat whose dad's a lawyer or in this case a judge I mean come on noet may as well be afraid his surrogate father with how the two act towards each other I digress whether you love her or find her insufferable finina just like the four archons that came before her attributes much of her widespread appeal to her station as an archon she's constantly shoved in your face throughout the story line in the same way venti Jong Le Shogun and Nita were before and with that much attention naturally comes with the player's desire to obtain and use a character this desire is further compounded by the nature of hydro in totality as mentioned earlier Hydro has quickly become the most integral element in the game involved in virtually every team composition outside of a niche view it's also known for sporting the highest number of tier zero units characters that Define the current meta while each element has one or at most two up and top TI such as animal having Taha dendro having Nita and alham Pyro having Shing and benett hydro has four noet Yan Shino and nilo potentially five with kokami while exceptional in their own right a contributing factor to their popularity stems from how necessary they are relative to other units which can be credited to how all-encompassing Hydro is in this game this sets an extremely high bar for finina one that has led many to actually believe she might be the first disappointment as there's already such an established goal standard for the element that even the Hydro archon may not be able to live up to at least not without egregiously power creeping the game well it appears that verina's Primadonna attitude is reflective by her gameplay because she did exactly that to say that she pushes the boundaries of acceptable balance and ging would be the understatement of the Year pardon me for abandoning composure for a moment but let me make something perfectly clear Vina is and I mean that in the most complimentary way possible it's almost ridiculous how ridiculous her Mo set is to the point where I would argue she unironically power creeps the entire game there was a lot of preliminary discussion over if she'll struggle to find a niche while with caming SH yine covering almost every aspect of hydro possible but the benefit of hydro that's almost exclusive to hydro is that it's the only element that not only allows for but actually incentivizes collaboration as demonstrated by discourse over whether Yan supersedes her fourstar competition only to find out that her best dual partner is her fourstar competition bina's another repeat of that situation but taken to levels I was not expecting let's start by going over what she did does her Elemental skill Salon soliter has two functions but we'll mostly be looking at the oia version since that's effectively the only one you'll care about finina summons three companions that behave almost identically to shling guba or official's o attacking nearby enemies at intervals while prioritizing the one you're actively hitting with each one dealing damage equal to a portion of re's Max Health seeing this how Hydro is all about using health as damage while with characters like kokami Yi nalite and nuu scaling off Health it only makes sense for Verina to do the same additionally she continues the trend of archons being very consistent as her Elemental skill has has overflow up time that is a duration of 30 seconds but a cool down of only 20 allowing you to have a salon members active indefinitely moreover whenever any of the members attack they will train a portion of your party's HP to increase their damage in proportion to the number of party members with 50% current health or more so all four your party members have 50% health or more F's companions can deal up to 40% more damage with each attack making her yet another character who sacrifices Health to fight in battle Salon solitar that's Su precedent for freeing this entire kit not just in terms of the aspects we talk about but in in terms of the strength of it I'm not much of a spey person which is why I don't see myself as a theory crafter but we must go over the numbers for a moment though they fluctuate notice the HP scaling of these attacks for reference we can compare them to Yan's death claring dice at Rank 10 yellan averages 8.77 * 3 for a total of 26.31% of her Max Health in damage per volley at Rank 10 fora Salon members deal fluctuating damage with the seahorse doing the least the octopus in the middle and the crap doing the most altogether that total is just over 31% but since they fire at their own pace the seahorse attack the fastest while the crab attacks slowest overall though Yen attacks faster but finina does more damage the reason I'm making such a big deal out of this is because yen is known for damage she has fantastic Hydro application as well albea not as much as she at base but she's more known for her incredible off field damage by the way I'm not using this dund manela she's still a fantastic unit I'm just using her as a reference point being verina's Elemental skill not her burst her skill does comparable DPS to yellen's Elemental burst all while having overflow of time no energy cost as is an elemental skill and it has no activation condition I mean you do have to attack something to focus targeting but this is insane F's Elemental skill does this much damage and has this much upti her skills basically the damage part of Shin's rain swords and yon's dice but attached to a summon system which honestly makes it better since they will attack even while you're swapping through characters or going through Skiller burst animations it's more consistent in terms of lafield tiro application she's better than kokami a bit worse than yellan and measurably worse than Shino that being said with damage like that she doesn't need to have the best H trap when she just kills everything far exceeding the damage of shino's rain swords and it's not even close unheard confession also increases the damage of her Salon members based on her Max Health in a very similar fashion to Neu for every 1,000 points of Max HP she increases the damage of her Salon members by 7% it also makes in Numa aspect of Steal heal faster but once again why would you ever use that compared to the oio version this bonus can cap out at 28% so you'll need at least 40K HP on finina for Max damage and since you are going to be stacking Health on her anyways this lines up perfectly at this point fina's damage is a lot stronger than yellan at base obviously Yan's dice get stronger with more investment but to reiterate this is only fina's skill not burst speaking of burst though let's talk about it let the people rejoice and you best believe that lives up to its name frina creates a large area that deals massive Hydro damage to nearby enemies and for the next 18 seconds whenever her party's Health increases or decreases a stack of fanf will be generated up to a cap of 300 for every stack of fan for accumulated she gives bonus total damage and increase healing to her entire party not the active character the the entire party so you basically don't have to worry about snapshotting she persistently grants these bonuses to all four members how much bonus do you ask at Rank 10 one stack of fanfare converts to 25% more damage with 300 Stacks divided by 4 that's a maximum of 75% 75% and let me repeat myself because I can't stress this enough to the entire party and this is total damage not Elemental damage not attack unconditional total damage that's broken what makes yellon so good aside from our own damage op is that she increases the total damage of the active character by up to 50% averaging at around 30% for the full duration at Max Fanfare Stacks Bina gives more than double that amount spread all throughout the entire party now of course she also has a stack of vanair so you're realistically not getting the full 75% for more than I would say half the duration but even so we're staring down an average of 50% bonus damage for 18 seconds that's insane assuming your entire party is at Max Health before she uses her ultimate her Elemental skill will actively drain your total health meanwhile you're also likely taking down Dage from enemy attacks which can expedite the process further if you have a Healer which you'll need and I'll touch on that a bit later you can expect to cap a fina's burst within 5 or 6 seconds but don't quote me on that in any case to Achieve 300 stacks of Fan Fair you need to accumulate a combined total of 300% Max Health worth of damage and healing which may seem difficult but again with proper setup beforehand it's very lenient for how staggering her bonus is and let not forget you also do get 30% healing bonus on the side she can also make the stacking more easy with endless Walts whenever the active character is healed by someone other than her and the healing overflows she will give a small amount of healing for another party member to the tune of 2% every 2 seconds so basically you get two stacks of fanfare every 2 seconds I mean hey whatever gets you to that cap faster works just as well numbers like these are just impeccable if it were just the active character that would have been comparatively mild but she gives that much damage bonus to the entire damn team whether they're on or off field considering one of kasa's greatest strengths is that his Elemental damage increase applies to the entire party that puts things into perspective just how powerful for dis burst This and like the skill and has 100 % up time with a duration of 18 seconds but a cool down of 15 technically recasting the burst means you have to restack Fan Fair and unless you have Gene getting a team back to full health fast so you can stack faner quickly again is a noticeable weakness for fena is very front-loaded even so 75% 75% 75% and that's just that base let's look at our constellations for a brief moment constellation 1 automatically grants you 150 fan for stacks on cast giving you 37.5% bonus damage right from the start but it also raises the cap from 300 to 400 allowing you to achieve a Max damage bonus of 100% you thought 75 was crazy now we're at 100 and it gets even better at C2 the rate at which you accumulate fanf Stacks is multiplied by 250% or 3.5 times which means the total amount of Max Health you need to cap out a damage Bonus Goes Down from 250 to like 70 in other words you get the 100% damage bonus pretty much instantaneously in addition extra fanf Stacks will carry over to increase in Max health and she can get up to 2.4 times that in m so if you go hyper HP on finina she can most likely break above 100,000 Health which at that point gives us some of the best off field damage mankind has ever had the privilege of experiencing and for your Rich boys out there constellation 3 increases your ultimate rank to level 13 do you want to know how much damage you get now 124% unconditional total damage across your entire party let that sink in 124% permanent uptime and with C2 getting 400 stacks of fanfit takes half a second 124% that's four times Yan's average damage boost at 1,200 Elemental Mastery C2 kataha he gets 48% Elemental damage bonus and only for the element SE swirls finina gives almost three times that amount unconditionally yellen's damage boost averages out at around 30 to 33% over the duration of declaring dice to only the active character even as C3 finina gives 124% power creep ladies and gentlemen finina is easily going to be one of the most widely used characters in the game disregarding numbers for a moment she has incredibly persistent all field damage through Elemental skill and being Hydro with serviceable application that automatically puts it in rotation with k yelan for hydro based teams if not for the application then just for her own damage op as I've gone over on top of that she can give your team a substantial a ludicrous boost in DPS under the sole condition that you bring a Healer which I mean you were going to do anyway since 90% of teams need a Healer these universally applicable functions can apply to so many teams especially since the damage boosts total damage and under a very Universal metric of Health going up or down this can allow it to fit into virtually any team composition that doesn't have all four putty slots delegated to a specific purpose I mean heck she fundamentally changes the dynamic of team building as we know it Reen is so broken that you can basically run her plus Jean and they will Solo Carry any party Jean's instant full party heal pairs famously with reena's party wide HP train so her inclusion makes getting Chene off Banner an actual good thing speaking of which that's the last part I want to go over before we end off the video since Bina has such allpurpose useability she's single-handedly changes a lot of teams for instance thanks to her Kut is once again the strongest onfield d dealer it's almost like Hut wants Hydro to get better not pyro to get better the strongest double Hydro team is now Hut yalan finina and G even though one would think any suance of healing is a bad thing on Hut the damage increased nfield DPS of Reena and yine compared to Shino and yine is just so much better that you can effectively disregard Hut's pyro damage bonus from being low Health since you get more from finina moreover with G instead of Jung Lee this team now has access to Viv shred although getting swirl on jeans a and have to do but the potential is there plus this means Hut can actually go in Elemental mastery weapon for Giga Chad numbers but of course if this one character who finina was practically made for it's net nalet finina Jee and fishal is arguably the strongest team in the game if we go by es of axis if you have noet please please just get finina you'll thank me later she also makes monoh Hydro competitively viable which I'd never imagine would be the next mono elopment team kok main DPS Shino yelan and finina this team straight up wins the sheer force of hydro damage so believe it or not finina is bringing us back to oaba she gives so much damage that she alone makes Brute Force damage a viable strategy again and that's not to say she doesn't help Elemental reaction teams what part of unconditional total damage do you not understand alhan can use finina freeze can use finina tacer can use finina hyper Bloom can use finina national teams can use finina for all the difference it makes Ula can use finina mono Geo teams can use finina every team can conceivably use finina I'm being dead ass by the way the best mono Geo team foro is nowo finina G yelan yes I'm pretty sure the best physical team right now is YULA finina di on a Shogun Fin's all field damage combined with her immense buffing capability allows you to say why the hell not and throw her into any team composition you can think of and she will at worst be good okay I'm exaggerating she's not a silver bullet for every team but she sure as hell comes close the main issue right now at the present moment is that Jean's the only healer who can instant heal the entire party to full health we do have kokami and Chi who can also full party heal but it's not fast enough it's incremental so for's main weakness is that she's not fully optimized at c0 yet SC C2 you're fine you can get away with healing one person and that person gaps out Fanfare in half a second but at c0 if you don't have Gene healing your party fast can be a challenge particularly if you need to refresh your burst but I mean that only underscores how broken she is she's this good before we even get optimal Synergy for her if there's a full party healer who's better than Jee forina is the best character in the game like definitively the best character in Gin impact at C2 1,000% the best character in the game C2 finina is probably stronger than any other C2 F star if we assess the total value of each unit this character changes genin impact finina allows any DPS character to run Marshall SE there is no other character who allows other units to run an entirely different artifact set it's ridiculous how overpowered she is she does crazy damage on her own and gives crazy damage to everyone else on the team slap on a golden troop set and festering desire on her and you're basically set for life I have not seen a unit this offensively powerful since nahita but I mean she is the god of the most powerful elements in the game all righty so that's going to be it for today more of the story get finina if you have money to spare get C2 finina or even C3 she will care she's the future the strongest potential unit in the game is a spoiled teenage brat with separation anxiety we have begun our descent into the anime degenerate Rabbit Hole my friends if you guys enjoyed this video I'd appreciate it if you could leave a like And subscribe don't forget to follow me on Twitter at barsam join my Discord server and check out my video on genin impacts future meta if you haven't yet but until next time thanks so much for watching and I look forward to seeing you again soon take care [Music]

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Length: 16min 22sec (982 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 08 2023