It took me 2 hours to teach the BASICS of Genshin to my friend

[@Shiningfartie303]

How did she get to such a high level and didn't know what a reaction is

[@shychiori]

she likes quests and wishing , so its probably from mostly dialogue quests rather than damage dealing . also a lot of people dont read the tutorials (aka me) bc theyre not patient enough and just want to get through the game to artifact farm & wish (bc those r my fav parts)

[@Kelly-W]

@@shychiori This. It's this. 😅

[@persephonehades7547]

@@shychiori That and the tutorials are NOT good for the eyes. I swear something about the screen and the colors used makes my eyes hurt after a few seconds of reading the tutorials.

[@ef3001]

@@shychiori Still surprised she knows as little as she did about elemental reactions and still got to her current level. Even if she was just spamming left click, E and Q all this time she would've noticed reaction labels on screen like vaporize, melt, swirl, freeze, superconduct, etc. Is she simply not curious enough to search online about what these labels mean or how to play and output more damage?

[@noox13]

​@@persephonehades7547 That might just be you or a few ppl cuz I've never had that problem.

[@tizurl]

one thing that’s important: actually, in enemies like whopperflowers that aren’t immune to their element they take less dmg from it

[@racool911]

He completely forgot that different enemies have different elemental resistance

[@Ivy-jq6di]

yup, elemental resistance instead of outright immunity

[@alpha4935]

@@racool911 I mean, it's not information that's *immediately* relevant to a player who doesn't even know the basics of elemental reactions yet. You don't teach algebra to someone who can't count yet.

[@racool911]

@@alpha4935 Yea but the way he stressed how different elements don't matter when there's no shield is extremely misleading for new players.

[@fnln3011]

_laughs in hydro specter fighting hydro catalyst_

[@austinherring5897]

I would love to see the unedited version of this video, because it's great seeing someone genuinely excited about learning the fundamentals of genshin and talking about the different aspects of genshin. From the gacha to the gauge theory or even team comps i.e. national or sunfire jean

[@Solunerra]

Honestly, its mostly a more chaotic version of this video, where I go a bit more in depth and repeat showing Kelly a lot of things (for example, I included almost nothing of me talking about artifacts, or some nuances to specific kits of characters). But if yall are interested I can probably upload it unlisted

[@dawnspark9100]

@@Solunerra PLEASE WE NEED THAT VIDEO

[@stanleytandiono4857]

​@@dawnspark9100agree

[@ikiraetstrebor8105]

I'm surprised by how patient she was. When my friend used to play, once I started explaining, she just said it's too hard and stopped playing😔

[@le4ff144]

I mean i would stop playing if I'm getting hard too

[@mSantsnj]

I swear… this happened to a friend of mine also. She just got upset when I was explaining to them. But she’d also pass me her phone when she couldn’t beat something.. and I’d be like wtf, this is what I was trying to tell you 45 minutes ago. Like something simple like dashing 😅

[@Error403HRD]

Yeah, I had an ar 45 friend that i got to beat content for me, but when i graduated i had to actually bother learning how to do things and it's... it's so much more fun? Now that I know what I'm doing, I find min-maxing to be my favorite part of this game, and I skyrocketed to AR 50 so i could max everything and everyone i wanted to. I'm having so much more fun now that I know what I'm doing, and it's so satisfying to pull off a double swirl or a beidou parry.

[@Coeurlarme]

I feel like the best way would be to let the person voluntarily approach learning about the game meta instead of forcing them to listen. No one person was guiding me, I was the only player in my friends group and I learned by lurking the subreddit, and that made for a good experience. But I guess it requires being both motivated and independent enough to actually seek the answer when you're stuck, instead of giving up.

[@yukiandkanamekuran]

i dont understand how this can be hard to understand, besides artifacts and stats, most of the game is intuitive and easy to understand. there are literal tutorials in this case.

[@woahitsfranco5286]

as a genshin theorycrafter explaining how ICD works and elemental gauge units works would be super fun LMAO

[@J0rgstern]

Keep in mind that elemental enemies often take less dmg from their respective element even if other elements doesnt deal more

[@Solunerra]

I did explain to her that enemies have different resistances to different elements, but I probably cut it out. What was important for her to know was that its all individual enemy mechanics, not "thing is fire so water does more damage" as she had thought

[@superzzo6765]

@@Solunerra thx for clarifying, i was about to mention it

[@K0HAKU_97]

@@Solunerrahonestly I’m AR59 and I thought I was dealing more dmg to elemental beings by using an opposing element.

[@dididouglas8659]

I love explaining Genshins system to people 😂😂 like I get super excited.

[@facts.randomized]

Oh boy do I agree with that, hence been going to AR16+ worlds for last few months.

[@BulletSponge71436]

All names of the elements in game come from greek/ancient greek language (I don't remember exactly), so that's why Wind element called "Anemo". It comes from the word "Anemos".

[@tadytadynho]

it comes from ancient greek! we still use the words άνεμος (anemos), δέντρο (dendro) and κρύο (krio) meaning wind, tree and cold respectively, the other are now used only as the root of words related with it pyro - πυρετός (fever) ydro- υδραυλικός (plumber) elektro- ηλεκτρισμός (electricity)

[@kasuha]

This was super fun and super cute. It's nice to see someone realize Genshin is actually pretty good game.

[@milo4327]

I really like listening to you two just talking to each other about the game : ))

[@notshetko]

I have no words to describe how happy these videos make me, the time and patience it takes to explain to someone the basic fundamentals of something and how they can learn so much more than just the surface of it. It's magical and exciting to me. Being that I have no friends or people to teach this kind of stuff to, seeing it from this perspective makes me want to be able to teach someone to play in the future so they can enjoy a good experience without being overwhelmed by so much content and technicality, and see even beyond the thick layer that the general public has implanted on this wonderful love letter to the art, it's just wholesome to see someone new get so excited about what they don't tell you about it. Yes I would like to see the video again unedited, and thank you for taking the time to help a friend who has put her vision into this product we call the 3d waifus collector. Sorry if I went on too long, but genuinely this kind of thing makes me happy! It inspires me to do the same and be rewarded with a smile on behalf of those in need.

[@ShadowCrestCreations]

Somthing I do when I am bored is find low level players on Coop and try to help them. I have had some great experiences doing this and made a few friends too, I also get to use my unbuilt characters and have fun. It's a bit of a jump into the deep end, especially if you are on the European server, but google translate is your friend. Most people I have met are friendly enough, and will appreciate the help.

[@NakaharaChuuya_SKK]

this is like me at my gf. when u dont touch grass for too long u forget that its actually complicated for most ppl, i hope showing this video to my gf helps her understand better bc ur really good at explaining things😂

[@Lesterberne]

About whopperflowers, also they have higher resistance to their own element so if she used a cryo character vs a cryo whopperflower, she will have a harder time

[@yukiandkanamekuran]

i mean, that's literally common knowledge for all enemies who have the same element. you just need to create reactions to fix that. like i'll run into an electro enemy and ill just do hyperbloom and it works like a charm.

[@FluffyCloud4]

she just had to actually read the tutorials and then she would've understood what elemantal reactions were

[@raininess]

XD The Pokemon mindset hit so close to home. My first thought when faced with enemies also was "What element would be most effective here?" I wasn't even aware you could and should switch between characters mid battle so quickly for the first couple of battles. I've been playing for about 2 years now and I'm usually too lazy to look up the more complicated stuff, so I'll probably still learn a lot from this video. So thank you in advance.

[@firby7341]

basics of genshin: wasd movement see enemy? spam leftclick E Q. if enemy dead: good, if you dead: bad enjoy

[@astra8372]

how do I know that I dead sensei?

[@ef3001]

LOL 😆 basically what I do!

[@rax6667]

@@astra8372 don't worry the game will notify you 🤓

[@ericwitte53]

certainly one of the - if not THE - very best ànd most beautiful & entertaining 'explainatory Genshin- videos' I have seen ... SUCH fun too, to 'just sit and listen & watch you 2 go on in your "teaching & learning the basics" !!! Been playin'the game myself from the very beginning (and still do, daily lol ) ... but thanxx guyz for these hours! A biiig joy to watch!

[@gdspeedx8148]

running around that flower and not attacking gave me anxiety

[@Kekvin]

Here's a simplified version of this video. Hit Enemy = Enemy Die 😄

[@lol-ji2ni]

Except when u play Dehya...

[@Solunerra]

Did you learn anything this video Sir Kekvin?

[@zacredington4776]

@@lol-ji2ni my Dehya wud flick u in da forhead an u wud explode

[@DeIuIuu]

@@lol-ji2ni My Dehya can do this 🤭

[@Pelfmiester]

You're not true friends if you can't insult each other. Edit: The names of the elements come from Greek which is where Genshin's pulling its lore from. Pyro is fire in Greek. Anemo is wind in Greek.

[@noox13]

Genshin is pulling it's lore from A LOT more than just Greek.

[@iosis9324]

And if we are to say where more Genshin takes lore, then this is Gnosticism (But this is not the biggest source, rather one of the main ones), the Greek is far from in the first place, and not even in the second, and not the third and not so on, I can't even immediately remember anything except the names of the elements that are taken from the Greeks.

[@kiannea9101]

not him roasting the sweetest girl ever in the first like 3 seconds 😭

[@Solunerra]

I'm a terrible person

[@Samsamsam6969]

When I played Pokémon again, I was doing stuff like "wait isn't cryo good against pyro ?"

[@spark9_]

this was super wholesome to watch, we want more episodes of this! plus i watched the whole thing haha

[@lightishredgummi]

I think for new/casual players, genshin mechanics can be well learned through baby steps. that's how I learned, at least. I had a lot of trouble actually utilizing reactions at the start, but when I started using Razor, I heard about how superconduct is good for him. that was my start in using reactions consistently, although still sparingly. Rosaria E, Razor E, left click until the debuff arrows are gone, repeat. after getting kazuha, it was easy for me to introduce swirl. having that super basic but consistent habit made it a lot easier to use OTHER elements and reactions to my advantage, and I can finally handle event-provided trial teams better (although I'm still more used to raw elemental damage hypercarry teams [*cough*xiao*cough] than reaction focused quickswaps lol)

[@EliMaya4]

Yea when my brother was interested in opening a genshin account I was like yea lets tell his the basics.....butttt the basics were itself complicated for him. Then I realize how much brain I have used in genshin😢😂

[@Coeurlarme]

Help him if he's stuck, but otherwise he'll discover the basics by himself.

[@francofoohs2667]

Would love to see more of you explaining the mechanics to her! I've been playing since launch and its very nice to see people have that same astonishment to the game as I once had.

[@HaikuClover]

10:07 Regarding this conversation, enemies of an elemental type often have resistance towards their own element. Also, Fatui have a weakness to physical damage & Ruin Guards have a resistance to physical damage.

[@Yae_Miko.-simp]

My friends said:how,so,like pokemon!

[@laltrametadimarco]

I’ve been playing this game for 2.5 years and I just found out that the arrows above enemies indicate the debuff

[@rustymst5840]

this was a really pleasant video! ive been playing genshin since march 2022 and got 36 stars for the first time on the new 3.8 abyss, which was insanely gratifying and ive just been thinking about how much i really love this game, actually. ive been in a bit of a genshin slump for most of 2023 letting myself be bothered by things i could just ignore (most notably artifact minmaxxing but also i was very tired of eula being kept in jail (shes my favorite)) pondering whether i should just quit the game or push through and boy am i glad i pushed through. this video felt really good for many reasons, but most of all the deceptive simplicity of the basics + the nostalgia of going over them (again) and kellys very sincere sense of wonder at how well crafted this game is in so many ways are just so so nice, especially since ive been able to enjoy genshin a whole lot again lately. its nice to be reminded of how good this game can be. thank you for making this! your voice is nice, you explain things well & your patience feels natural. it was great to listen to you two! got yourself a sub, looking forward to more of your stuff o7

[@going2pluto]

Shes very funny i love how she talks a lot reminds me of jen from pat and jen

[@raimuu14]

man out here setting red flags

[@AA-cf4es]

​@@raimuu14men 🤡

[@mishima2.081]

I love your friend's personality and optimism. She sounds so puuure 💜🙏

[@Silshadnic]

There's also a domain in Mond that teaches you most of the basic reactions on each level. I think going through those one by one would help because they give you already made trial teams that work in those scenarios

[@gangachakraborty5908]

Honestly, it didn't take you that long. It took me an hour just to explain the limited character banner to my friend, then there was the weapon banner, artifacts, ICD, reaction aura and trigger etc.

[@Zahri8Alang]

Really reminds me of the 2 months of lessons Sarah Miller Cruz(Lumine's VA) on the basics with Zach Aguilar, Christian Banas and Christie Cate(Aether, Thoma and Qiqi VA)

[@karuiGaming]

Listening to someone learning Genshin WITH someone actually teaching is fascinating... Edit: As a Geo main I'm kinda insulted that you're not at least mentioning Crystallize properly ... I mean yea its shitty but at least mention the boi 😅

[@nikc-pg1xf]

Once u were describing the reactions, I felt like it was an exciting and interesting subject in school.

[@lawoo1411]

I love this series!! I’m ar56 but I was a very casual player, I started playing when it came out but not that much, it wasn’t until kokomi came out where I started playing A LOT more and she became my favorite but then I saw most content creators shit talking her so I stayed away from watching cc bc imo ppl care too much about “meta” especially when it’s not a pvp game but then when nahida’s rerun came out I started trying to learn more about the gam and even tho I’m Ar56 I also didn’t know that enemies didn’t have type weakness like Pokémon 😅

[@TheWayOfTheWott]

how was the shock of learning that kokomi has now become what most content creators now say is an amazing character now that Dendro exists? very great, i imagine

[@deadpanda647]

This is adorable I love their friendship

[@SweetNsour6]

The amounts of time I've had this exact same conversation with my casual friends... 😂

[@micasreynhamar6946]

So i just start playing like 3 days a go and honestly this video is both entertaining af and prity help full ty

[@bowesa1095]

As a new player this helped so much, thanks!

[@basil4047]

This entire video for an experienced Genshin player is like studying extremely hard for a midterm and getting like an 88% and then F-student Jimmy draws a smiley face on his Scantron and also gets an 88%.

[@briannitzschke2767]

Anemo comes from the Greek "Animus" which means breath, but has connotations of like "breath of life" or "soul" same root word as "Animate"

[@oienu]

Anemo is really complex x.x my Faruzan swirl is 4,3K but once she did a melt/vaporize going over 17k :,D is a caos when enemies have different elements. Yes, never underestimate the hability to break rocks. Btw you should use the elemental vision to literally show how is infused the element XD

[@Koutouhara]

It's interesting and baffling to me how people can go through the game and not pick up on things like reactions - the are everywhere and the game has tutorials for all of them lol I wonder if she's done the domain for reactions, to test them out herself?

[@Solunerra]

She definitely has not done that domain haha (to be fair I dont think I did either)

[@Koutouhara]

@@Solunerra lol! Very very funny, I hope you do more of these videos teaching her stuff :) it's neat to see her reactions 🤣

[@hayond656]

​@@SolunerraThe only reason I did that Domain was because I needed Mora, I didn't have Resin and I didn't want to do a Quest

[@jeremyr4964]

Left and Right brained are not a thing. We use our whole brains at different times for different things.

[@yuvx8516]

While explaining dendro: "it gets really complicated when you get into the weeds" It sure does

[@vneseboi4609]

1 thing very interesting about cryo and dendro, if the enemies have that two aura with it when you apply hydro, there will be 2 dendro core on the field whereas there is only 1 dendro core if you do dendro+ hydro alone.

[@astra8372]

Yeah, he kinda mentioned it at 28:06 without going into detail

[@Error403HRD]

Hyperfridge teams :3

[@ClaustroPasta]

That has nothing to do with cryo but more to do with the aura itself (gauge theory). Some skill apply thicker elements compared to others. This is why kaeya's ice bridge last longer than say, Diona. If you apply dendro first with DMC skill and apply hydro second with xingqiu you'll get 2 dendro cores too with or without cryo present.

[@vneseboi4609]

@@ClaustroPasta I don't know how thick dendro aura can be but xingqiu slash is 2 separate slashes, so it's make sense to get 1-2 dendro core

[@astra8372]

@@Error403HRD without cryo, you can make 2 blooms with one dendro application, with cryo, you can make 3. Of course, if you use Nahida's skill then you'll get more, but that happens with dendro traveler. That's the original concept of fridge, you can try yourself

[@Galaxure]

please upload the uncut ver as unlisted, loved watching this one

[@Solunerra]

Will try to get it uploaded soon, keep an eye on the description as I will probably link it there as an unlisted video

[@llGowll]

Now teach her about all the weird dendro teams like hyperfridge and airfryer. Edit: show her tf kazuha.

[@Solunerra]

Lol I probably won't do so unless she expresses interest in using a specific character she has/gets in a new way

[@llGowll]

@@Solunerra yeah, this video reminds me of when I taught 3 friends how to play smite (its a moba game, like lol); it was horrid to say the least.

[@starryskies0]

When I started genshin I was like: HEY THIS IS HUMAN POKEMON ROSA I DINT KNOW YOU LIKED POKEMON WOWO to my friend

[@geethenerd]

I honestly never really got anemo, so I have Sucrose and Venti lying around, so thanks!!!

[@amouramarie]

Ha! I didn't know you could make the dendro cube exit that phase!

[@drantino]

the only thing i can think of adding to this is specificlly saying most enemys have a 10% resistance to everything except the element it looks like they are part of and reduces genereally about halve the dmg, but the majority of them dont invalidate the element with the excepetions of things like slimes and the elemental beings that actually do have immune. and maybe saying res shred above 100% does increase it beyond doing more dmg, but halve the rate. not to simple or complicated, but lets someone have a grasp on how good VV set.

[@nawenyxar4378]

10:31 actually, monsters do have a base resistance to each element and the flowers have a higher resistance to their element (+ dendro if I remember correctly bcs they are plants in some way). That's one of the reason physical is non-meta, bcs almost every elite/boss have a high physical resistance.

[@blasianking4827]

What he meant is that, following the example, cryo whopperflowers are not innately weak to pyro, they're just resistant to cryo.

[@LolaLink]

When I'm fighting against waves of enemies with my Ayaka Freeze team and a shielded cryo slime joins the chat 👁👄👁

[@oussamaxd197]

36:21 yes , viridescent verenever , the one that you never get the main stat nor the substat you want.

[@thec0nch]

ur friend sounds awesome

[@lilsoftboy]

to simplify it, these are elemental reactions that are the most basics for building a team Cryo + Hydro = Freeze Hydro + Pyro = Vaporize Anemo + Pyro = Swirl Hydro + Electro = Electro Charged etc etc Basically think, "if I combine these two things this should give more damage" so for example, if an enemy gets wet, using cryo will freeze the water, while electro will electrify them. Basically apply real world thinking/logic to the game if an enemy is on fire, if you use anemo, it will cause the fire to spread, etc etc as for teams and types, use whatever you prefer for me I love freeze teams the most, so I use hydro + cryo characters the most with my second team mainly being a burn team with pyro + anemo characters I myself still do not understand Dendro soooo lmao

[@potatocat2445]

imagine if she gets into the lore of genshin

[@chronopolize_jp]

Genshin mechanics can be super dank for being a mostly super casual game

[@ReijiNRen]

Wow... I was in the same boat as she was... that makes me sad and I've played the game for a while now.

[@alexwatson6530]

Wait.. she knew something I didn't...I understand reactions, but I didn't realize I could use fire to destroy the electric rocks..........

[@Error403HRD]

It's honestly the same as memorizing type advantages and disadvantages in pokemon, and there are less of them to remember, so i'm always baffled when people tell me it's too complicated. Sure, ICD and Double Swirls are more complicated, but then we go back to the pokemon comparison and i mention abilities, type synergy (which matters more in pokemon because there are advantages and disadvantages), and non-damaging moves, no scratch that, move sets IN GENERAL

[@riahlexington]

She’s playing my Diluc vape team but Yanfei… Alright I respect it

[@Melody14-2]

(second) great video!!! i also love yaoyao's bells in her hair! 💘

[@Mightyscandare]

Ive learn some stuff. Now i understand why anemo is great

[@OmniMon94]

i used to think that elements also kinda worked in a weird pokemon way it kinda does though for melt and reverse melt in a way

[@TengouX]

Lol I genuinely didn't know you could knock the dendro cube out of cube mode with pyro. And I leveled my Nahida to 90

[@33melonpaws77]

Ooh that means you might have a few dendro cube hidden achievements to unlock. Mmm Primos..

[@umbreoniteUwU]

"What I know about energy recharge.... bennett needs it" is honestly better than I was, even after several months of playing the game. I didnt understand artifacts and their stats for an embarassingly long time. I had a full EM Berserkers set on my Diluc and was like, "I THINK thats good? Its a lot of SOMETHING" 😅

[@torogaming1959]

Bro I tried but when she couldn’t find the fucking while bar for what felt like 30 minutes long I lost it

[@Solunerra]

She was watching through discord with potential compression quality issues, to be fair, so it may have been hard to make out on her end

[@sclom5676]

I'd love for you to do reactions 102 and see her reaction to gauge theory and weird teams like sukokomon (although that one might be 103)

[@BellBOYd128]

Animo from the Greek root like the others, in this case meaning breath.

[@ClaustroPasta]

While his explanation is nothing special and his bias with the elements is not really unique compared to the most average of genshin players on Reddit, his PATIENCE in teaching her is the most admirable part of this video. She gets distracted so easily even I'm starting to get impatient (even this cropped convo is unbearable to follow personally), but dude sat through all that and managed to teach her the basics of the basics. Shout out to that in particular!

[@Solunerra]

Lol, we are both terribly good at distracting each other

[@riotangel4701]

Next lecture: elemental gauge theory

[@sherlocksvp5537]

Probably should tell her that enemies have resistance to their own element

[@putruples]

I thought that enemies have resistance tables and was like Pokemon.... (AR56 btw)

[@Solunerra]

Enemies can have their own resistance's, but almost always just in the superficial "this enemy takes less dmg from this element" I had to fix Kelly's misunderstanding that she HAD to use Water against the Fire flower. The nuances of specific enemies taking 10% less damage from an element were irrelevant to the goal of teaching her how reactions work.

[@blufire6704]

I’ve been playing for years and a sizeable chunk of this video still taught me stuff I didn’t know…

[@slyoperator7723]

Tbf I barely know anything about elemental reactions or what Elemental mastery is, so everytime I get it as a substat I'm just like: yay, i guess? You kno & I've been playing since release btw & i never bothered learning lmao

[@Yosh1az]

I hope you gave her some irl analogy on elemental reactions so she can understand it a little bit quickly

[@josueravena3464]

Try making her a special program since were gonna have fontaine soon. It'll be interesting to see her reaction to it.

[@Solunerra]

Kelly is now distracted by other games so she hasn't played Genshin for a bit, but there is a good chance she will play with the new area, so we will see!

[@RefusedYT]

Ar58 and i didnt even know that cryo and electro makes physical atks better

[@RefusedYT]

So thats why raidens continuous appkication of electro is good for eula

[@kuunaquyn]

Enemies really have different elemental resistances though, so ice plants take less damage from ice attacks (even though it's not show anywhere in-game)

[@kuunaquyn]

Also mechanical enemies have physical resistance and take more elemental damage for example

[@AzuthaAchumi123]

0:10 this is exactly the same team that i am using rn

[@blaze_burn]

I would love for you to teach her more, this was fun

[@Error403HRD]

Seeing an actual casual player.... i think i graduated to meta a while ago. A meta kaeya main, how novel

[@gintasasd]

I wish genshin was pokemon lol but sadly its not

[@ishleyro5457]

To be completely fair to your friend's Pokemon logic, there IS often a difference in damage based on using certain elements to deal that damage (not talking about shields) Many elemental enemies have unevenly distributed elemental resistance values, usually being strongest against their own element's damage and weaker to the other elements. It isn't wholly Pokemon in that using opposing elements doesn't deal super damage, but it is sorta Pokemon in the sense that dealing damage of the same elemental type as the enemy usually results in a bigger nerf to that hit's final damage value That said, you're still right overall... because the way Genshin's combat works, reactions are king and it's far more important to simply deal more damage faster overall than to deal damage from the correct type of elemental damage source Elemental resistance values can matter, like when you're trying to wipe out a Jadeplume Terrorshroom on floor 12 of Abyss with a spread team... but they overall mean little compared to the immortal principles of: 1. Deal big number 2. Deal more number more faster 3. Deal number to more enemy same time

[@Solunerra]

Yeah I don't remember if I cut it out of the video, but I did tell her that enemies can take more or less dmg to specific elements, but that it was always just enemy specific things, no universal "fire enemy takes more dmg from water"

[@ishleyro5457]

@@Solunerra Word ^-^ This was a fun video to watch. It's always enjoyable to see players helping friends & others deepen their knowledge & joy for the game, and to see newer players be into some of the same things I find particularly cool about Genshin In this case, your friend's appreciation for the developer attention paid to all the little thematic details was heartening. If you're familiar and she's not, you should point her toward Genshin Slime Theory. It's another fun one and it's neat to see that it still seems to hold up so far. I personally can't wait to see if it will work for Focalors, too

[@iosis9324]

​@@ishleyro5457How slime theory works with Nahida. As for me, this theory does not make sense, and it makes even less sense after Nahida.

[@ishleyro5457]

@@iosis9324 Similarly to how the large electro slimes come in a pair and thus potentially represent both Ei and Makoto's co-rulership of Inazuma, the large dendro slime is potentially representative of Greater Lord Rukkhadevata's co-rulership of Sumeru alongside King Deshret and the Goddess of Flowers The large dendro slime has the following traits which can be taken as metaphors to the previous archon's rulership: - Slime, itself, representing Rukkhadevata - Large flower, representing Goddess of Flowers - Scarlet coloration of that flower, representing Deshret (the Scarlet King) - Ability to create smaller dendro slimes, representing the process by which Rukkhadevata created Nahida... a juvenile almost-copy of herself If anything, Slime Theory is stronger with the large dendro slime than it is with the other three slimes we currently have playable archons for

[@iosis9324]

@@ishleyro5457 two electro slimes are a positive and a negative electron. Why do you single out the dendro in order to show this theory more plausible, all the elements have a small and a large slime, what does it mean with anemo, electro and geo slime? It's too far-fetched, a flower can just mean a dendro element, it's like saying that "Thunder Manifestation" is an Oceanid because they are similar, only even stupider because it's literally just a flower. This is not even the same process by which Nahida was created, dendro slimes cause seeds from themselves that germinate into a small dendro slime, after the death of a large dendro slime, the little ones also die (this is just the most obvious attack you can come up with with a plant element enemy), Rukhadevata created Nahida not from herself, but from a branch of the tree from which she also appeared, and after her death Nahida did not die. And what about the other dendro slime attacks, this one doesn't just have this attack, dendro slime can also heal enemies. where Nahida has this ability or where in lore it was said about this ability in Rukhadevata? (locking up forbidden knowledge is not a heal) Dendro slime can set mines that put poison on the player, where Nahida has this ability or Rukha? And why, for this theory, they selectively take their skills from slimes for some archons, and for some lore, but even if we take the skills from anemo and geo slimes, then these are the abilities of not only archons, geo slime can create a shield as well as the element itself through reaction, but also Noelle can, it turns out she is an geo archon, anemo can fly and launch projectiles in the air and Wanderer is more suitable here, because Venti cannot shoot in the air, it turns out Wanderer is a real archon who won the war of the archons. This theory is too unreliable and it can be applied even to geo Samachurl and other enemies.

[@goldenoodles6281]

me who started on the literal second day of release: i know reactions, I built team around reactions, I don't understand actual team comps. What the fucc is the meta now anyways. I come back to genshin after like a year or smth and what happened to the BIS and the best characters???? How did my girl keqing go from being meh to GOOD????? That would have been a dream maan.

[@Solunerra]

What happened is that Dendro comps made team options way more diverse lol. When there are so many more build options for characters to be used in different ways, it is much harder to say anything is "the best"

[@goldenoodles6281]

@@Solunerra yea but now like the 'designed' best in slot weapons are not even the actual BIS. Just kinda weird mihoyo tried to make a weapon specifically for 1 character and it still isn't the best for that char. I wish they just stuck with old weaponws where it wasn't so specifically catered.

[@cajunseasoning1846]

I used to say Viridescent Veneer lmao

[@vaiosskoufis2372]

8:42 . Aneo makes sense decouse all the elements are in greek ( derived from greek ) so in greek anemi is anemos , elektro is ilektro , piro is piro , and cryo is krio which literally means cold

[@Risu1177]

Bless her heart lol

[@patricialock1862]

RIP geo lmao

[@Solunerra]

I'd love if it were more interesting lol

[@reviewreaper8508]

Damn your friend there is really adorable and innocent, huh. Guess it just goes to show that playing Genshin carefree is a lot healthier than trying to put up with the abyss and gacha gambling. xd Still handy being brought up to speed as a returnee about what dendro even does.^^

[@anonakkor9503]

plaiyn since launch and still don’t know how dendro works hahaha… just pressing buttons

[@EmperorEcho]

Im surprised he didnt take her to the Monstadt Domain about elemental basics

[@Solunerra]

I forgot that existed lol

[@Dayluj32]

I... I genuinely thought that cryo was more effective agaisnt pyro and stuff... HOW DID I GET TO AR 47 THINKING IT WAS POKEMON??

[@ingang8817]

13:40 GI did not break any rules about elements and it even follows the rules logically :v That monster itself does not have elemental body, but their attack is elemental. Just like characters’ body is neutral but he can use hydro. Some elemental monster like slimes are created by element so it received more damage by elemental reaction.

[@thefinalday5858]

Anemo for the anemoi spirts