Why NO ONE Plays: Qiqi | Genshin Impact

hey guys welcome back to another episode of why no one plays the past two iterations were on xinyan and lisa to four star characters so we're going to go back and cover a five star unit for today let's dive into the character whose name is escaping me at the moment oh yeah i remember it's chichi sorry i couldn't help it i had to make that joke at least once if this is your first time watching a why no one plays episode on my channel to all the chichi means out there i'd like to make it very clear this video is not a personal attack i have no desire to admonish you or anyone for using her nor do i believe she's an objectively bad character the goal of the series is to discuss characters who aren't used very much by the general playerbase analyzing from the perspective of those who don't use her why she's unpopular and hopefully try to figure out what we can do to improve or fix their gameplay many people tend to not be aware of the actual gameplay flaws within a character that make them quote unquote bad they just get told by the community that the character is bad these videos are designed to help raise awareness of that and to see if players are willing to overcome those deficits to play them oh and yes i will be going over her synergy with the clam artifact set so don't worry but before we do i just want to give a quick shout out to our first sponsor on vars 2. it's from good old nordvpn as i'm sure many of you know by now nordvpn allows you to mask your ip address whenever online using proxies which can protect you against ddos attacks tracking or the like also if by chance you live in a country that restricts access to content like movies and games you can change your virtual location to somewhere that isn't to circumvent that this month actually marks nord's 10-year anniversary so they have a special gift for anyone interested by purchasing a two-year plan you receive an extra month free along with a special gift of an additional month year or two years on top 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plus animal cleanse she's very consistent at both too mona is more on the niche side but there's no one better at amplifying vaporized reactions than her then there's chichi who's also a healer to lay down some context on the gameplay faults i want to go through all of her talents in detail as they painfully illustrate why she's unpopular so let's begin with her elemental skill adeptis art herald of frost it conjures what appears to be a ball of ice dealing a small amount of cryo damage to nearby enemies before orbiting around the active character periodically swinging around dealing repeated cryo damage for 15 seconds during that time the active character regenerates health scaling based on chichi's attack if she's the active member her normal and charge attack steal her party and if you're in co-op nearby allied players with each hit the damage numbers aren't very substantial but the healing isn't the worst i've seen it's enough to keep most players topped off there's just one thing missing her skill produces no energy charge quite odd considering almost every other elemental skill gives you at least a few particles moreover it has an astounding 30 second cooldown sacrificial sword is the must on her unless you're one of the lucky few with the skyward blade it's not really the most amazing skill i've seen in fact there are a lot of four star units with far more impactful ones than hearse a recurring theme you may notice as we continue further adept to start preserver of fortune is their elemental burst a huge blast of cryo damage in an area that inflicts the talisman on anyone struck by it attacking a marked enemy heals the character who dealt the damage on a 1 second cooldown unlike her herald of frost the healing from remarks is nothing short of incredible you can easily regenerate several thousands of health with each hit as so the damage with this ability it's okay i guess and the cooldown is only 20 seconds the same as most of the supports okay so the elemental skill lets you heal people elemental burst lets you heal people what else we got life prolonging methods elemental reactions increase your incoming healing bonus by 20 while chi-chi's skill is active basically more healing a glimpse into arcanum chicha's auto attacks have a 50 chance to mark an enemy with a talisman every 30 seconds basically more healing healing that's all she does no buffs no debuffs just healing it's a lot of damn healing make no mistake but it's just healing besides periodically applying cryo damage to enemies chichi doesn't really do anything other than heal her party by looking at her base talents alone i'd be hard-pressed to even call her a five-star considering she's essentially barbara but for cryo instead of hydro she's the dedicated healer to end all dedicated healers her entire kit is predicated on health regeneration which if you remember my episode on kokomi is not in very high demand at the moment ganchin impact is not a test of endurance it's a dps race i sound like a broken record by now but the game's existing content does not necessitate healing to that extent in other words for a healing support to be worth considering they have to provide something that can either directly or indirectly augment a party's combat efficiency in some way shape or form at the very least serve as a battery for your team which chi chi can't even do as she doesn't generate particles with her skill or auto attacks perhaps their constellations can remedy this what do we have to work with aesthetics of frost gives chi-chi to energy whenever harold defrost hits a talisman marked enemy not the active character just her frozen to the bone increases her normal and charge attack damage against cryo-afflicted opponents by 15 just one thing she's not a damage dealer she's a support that would be as useful as zhong li getting a 15 attack boost divine suppression lowers the attack of marked targets by 20 finally our first somewhat useful non-healing buff except damage reduction pertains to your party's survivability which is redundant for her because she renders your active character virtually indestructible through all her different regenerations now rite of resurrection does have something that might be of use especially in spiral abyss where the usage of curatives is forbidden casting or ultimate revives all fallen party members and juices done to have health it's a 15 minute cooldown but that's quite game changing no other unit has a built-in revive i don't think oh wait no there's a max constellation barbara i forgot about that but once again despite how situationally amazing it would be to have that it's on a character who provides nothing but healing no boost to your damage no increases of elemental reactions no crowd control no super armor no elemental cleanse absolutely nothing but healing there is a plethora of 4 star characters well known for the supportive capabilities reason being is that they cover multiple bases thus increasing their consistency yes in a situation where survival is the x factor not dps chichi will undoubtedly outperform anyone she's literally the best healer in the game no question about that but therein lies why people would rather play anyone else but her healing at the moment is too situational it's kind of like buying a 200 piping bag to put icing on your cake it's a very handy tool if you enjoy baking but unless you run a bakery or catering service how often does the average person bake a cake that warrants them wanting to buy a 200 piping bag kokomi's shining virtue is that she's a battle healer while sustaining her party she can temporarily serve as a competent sub dps players who have her can attest to this does she carry the same power as child no but you can provide your team some much needed sustenance without sacrificing too much dps up time even as far as healing is concerned consistency becomes a problem notice how all of our different healing properties are contingent on damaging an opponent the important heals anyway unlike barbara or jean's burst which is a party-wide heel on cast chichi's fortune preserver doesn't actually choose supper team this means switching between your party members one by one and getting some damage in that's too much uptime lost she is only able to heal each member simultaneously if she's the one doing damage unlike kokomi though she doesn't do any damage at all to maintain your up time while using chichi the active member has to attack and there's a chance they're likely already at low hp putting them at risk of accidentally getting killed if you're not careful furthermore her elemental skill cooldown is too long both are past the talon and skill have a 30 second cooldown with neither aspect lasting even more than half that amount of time conversely if we were to look at jean her dandelion breeze is effectively a full party heal every 20 seconds much more consistent she can also regenerate token amounts of health with wing companion just by existing whereas chichi needs a skill active that and jean accumulates energy like a champ chichi doesn't even have the means to get her elemental burst back up after she uses it now if you're looking for cryoapplication support then dionna might as well just be a better version of her in that regard her signature mix is a lot like ben's fantastic voyage by standing in a drunken mist you continuously regenerate health and enemies who stand in and take repeated cryo damage her icy paws also give you a shield to protect yourself even further additionally what's funny is that drunkard's farce is essentially chi chi's fourth constellation it's ten percent less attack but you don't have to spend like eight hundred dollars for four constellations by no means am i implying diona can match chichi's level of healing but wearing genshin are you taking thirty thousand damage per second nowhere her heels and shields do the job just fine that's the same logic for every other support jean bennet shincho they don't heal as much as chichi but one they don't have to and two they make up for it by doing more damage in an action rpg hack and slash the best defense is a strong offense the faster you take down your opponents the less damage they'll do to you in total okay by now i'm sure many of you are pulling your hair out waiting for me to talk about her synergy with the clam set i'm just getting to that for the uninitiated ocean hued clam is an artifact set obtained in slumber and court which is located on sedai island where you fight the electro version of oceanid the two-piece set effect grants you a simple 15 healing bonus similar to made in beloved's two-piece as for the four-piece set bonus that's where things get really interesting when the character equipped with this set heals someone in the party a sea-dyed foam will appear for three seconds accumulating the amount of total healing so if you kill 2000 hp it will store 2 000 hp even if the character didn't heal for 2000 hp if that makes sense after 3 seconds the foam explodes dealing damage to nearby opponents based on 90 of the stored amount and it has a 3.5 second cooldown you can hold up to 30 000 health per sea dyed foam and the effect can be triggered without the equipped unit being the active member i don't know about you but that is chichi's name written all over it she has virtually no active healing her entire stick is off-field healing and as previously established when it comes to strictly healing there's no one better than her not unless you have a deckdown kokomi which i know very few people do as almost no one pulled for her to his credit ocean huge clam solved one of the crippling issues that plagues chichi being her non-existent damage output 30 000 damage isn't the most but for support it's enough to contribute several hundred thousand over the course of a drawn out fight i haven't used it myself but i definitely see the potential this set was able to unlock kokomi's potential drastically she's quite powerful as a sub dps now unfortunately there's a key difference between the two kokomi already had the potential to do good damage she just needed a bit more whereas chichi had no damage and now has a little you can think of it as a b student becoming an a student versus a d student becoming a c student this grading system might sound confusing to those not in north america but for the former going from an 85 percentile to a 95 makes a massive difference in their academic standing but if you average like a 65 and move up to 75 it's an improvement but hardly anyone will think of you that differently that's the mentality genji players have chichi's damage definitely went up but she had no damage to begin with that clamp set is just a crutch for her she needs it just to function in a lot of practical settings frankly speaking if we exclude eloy and travelers she's the worst five star in the game is she useless no but other characters just offer so much more then it gives you healing and an attack boost gene gives you healing crowd control and animal cleanse and if you manage to get her up to c4 you get bonus movement and attack speed as well as 40 animal resistance reduction that's pretty serious the iona gives you healing shielding more consistent cryo application and that's sweet sweet 200 elemental mastery kokomi has healing and damage output and i can't believe i'm about to say this but even barbara is better than chichi in a lot of instances she gets 15 bonus hydro damage on c2 and has the exact same revive mechanic that chichi does albeit to only one person but she's a four star you can max constellation her in a single banner as opposed to dumping a month's rent what released if only you could get her to that point people don't like getting chichi off banner because they know that she's only worth investing in if you get seven copies of her not two or three or four for all intents and purposes it's a dead pulse she doesn't get that much better from c1 to c5 though i feel like we as the community are spoiled by all the new five stars the original five stars have pretty lame constellations across the board in comparison to the new ones max constellation xiao breaks the game just by attacking two opponents to get a free use of lambda static wind cycling ganyu's c6 as well she gets an instant charge level 2 aim shot just by using her e hell their base forms are pretty broken let alone their constellations now i know what i said at the beginning of the video might come off as disingenuous after explaining all the reasons why there's almost no incentive to use her over any other support the goal of why no one plays is to encourage players to give them a try by laying out all their flaws and then letting you decide if you're willing to put up with it for a new experience as an answer to that there is one possible way we can see chichi's viability go up and that's enemy power creep from what we've seen so far in newer iterations of spiral abyss and the new areas like inazuma and ankanomia monsters are becoming more deadly we're starting to run into situations where small healers like bennett are not quite able to top off a team by themselves rift towns punish players for using only shields like john lee so we'll eventually get to a point where a dedicated healer will soon be a requirement i'm not sure if that'll bring chichi up to the same level of usefulness as jin or kokomi but the rise and concern for survivability might pose a way for dedicated healers to be future proof to some extent that said she's still blatantly underpowered and needs buffs there are three really major issues that should be addressed one her lack of any semblance of energy regeneration unacceptable for her support to not be self-sustaining two she has no offensive or even defensive benefit as an example of defensive even with the introduction of rift towns shields are still vastly better than healing since they also grant you super armor meaning you don't get knocked back or staggered from attacks thus indirectly boosting your damage up time as you don't need to dodge and three she has very unforgiving cooldowns problem one can be fixed by simply making her herald defrost generate energy on cast that's like a basic right all genqing characters have at this point i failed to understand why they thought chichi shouldn't be allowed to have that problem 3 is also an easy one and we can even incorporate some skill expression behind it perhaps have it so every time harold defrost damages an enemy on orbit her skill cooldown decreases by 1 second it swings twice 4 times for a total of 8. since the ability itself lasts 15 seconds and the cooldown is 30 by staying in combat for the whole duration the effective cooldown goes from 15 seconds to 7 much more manageable problem 2 will be a bit more complex to fix a lot of supports are overpowered because they do too much we don't want to create another bennett and we also don't want gt to be too similar to dionna so instead i'll leave it up to you guys if you were to give any extra buffs to chichi what would they be and where should they go should they passively be included in their base form or locked behind constellations let me know in the comments down below but i think we're going to end it off here for today if you enjoyed the video it would be awesome if you gave it a like and subscribed don't forget to follow me on twitter join my discord server and check out my previous by now on place episodes if you haven't yet but for now thank you all so much for watching and i look forward to seeing you again soon for the next episode take care [Music] [Applause] you

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Length: 15min 48sec (948 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 19 2022