The ULTIMATE Reaction Guide! (Genshin Impact)

Today in Genshin Impact we're doing a comprehensive guide on reactions.
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0:00 Intro, Terminology
1:40 Main Element Reactions
4:10 Anemo/Geo Reactions
5:46 Dendro Reactions
8:53 Reactions Tier List

[@K9L_IA]

I wonder if this guide is excuse for Moga to finally learn reactions

[@yamrj4396]

trueee

[@thecoffeegod]

Pretty much

[@ayamii37]

i bet it is

[@sniperlizard4192]

😂😂😂

[@captnbluehat]

100%

[@thebooknerd5223]

I believe the reason that Spread has a higher multiplier is due to the fact that Dendro units have less access to external DMG buffs

[@krumi_hazuki1440]

Like swril and VV shred for example

[@JackRileck]

@@krumi_hazuki1440 They mean characters like kazuha who can give dmg bonus for the dendro char, for the shred, deepwood exist, but yeah it's not really a big deal, since most of them have direct dmg bonus of elemental mastery from their kit like alhaitham

[@goose3020]

Moga in his video about bones' nahida: "im gonna use a dendro potion to increase my bloom damage" Also moga: "heres a guide on how reactions work" I wonder who this tutorial is really for

[@captnbluehat]

Real

[@Cj1207]

That tier list was... Definitely something 👍🏻

[@Anime_for_life_0.0]

Something shitty to be honest

[@princiedv]

I was so clueless when I read this comment at first, but this tier list was definitely something. Freeze below Crystallize... yeah

[@alondraarrizon5472]

@@princiedv yeahhh lmao. The only reason I would put crystallize up at all would be just for it’s general useful for my friends during co-op. I’m fine with my Zhongli shield, but my buddies definitely need some protection lmao

[@yamrj4396]

moga giving genshin advice 💀💀

[@krumi_hazuki1440]

Adding some note: Bloom related reaction(especially hyperbloom and burgeon) has unique mechanic that only two seed that can damage same enemy at one time, you need to wait some time to make more damage

[@ladderlappen4585]

he forgot to mention that? really?? XDD

[@anyanP]

Overload has similar mechanic as well - it has global icd on damage

[@hupmem]

From all the genshin impact KZbinrs you're the last one I'll be taking his advice about reactions

[@skyreaper1994]

LMAOO

[@stebis8354]

why exacly?

[@suggagugkies]

@@stebis8354 watch his god mode alhaitham and youll understand

[@hupmem]

@Stebis like the person before me said And I've been watching his videos for over 2 years now without missing one and I can tell you this dude know nothing about reactions other than vap

[@proro_]

Truth has been spoken, i enjoy his Content but yea he barely knows any reactions

[@hannah10949]

Some (kind of) strong opinions about the tier list placements: (note: I included the effects of reaction-specific 4pc artifact buffs because they’re pretty much always going to be used if one were to utilise the reaction in a proper team setting) - Freeze is severely underrated here: Immobilising enemies means that you can save time having to 1) run after enemies ungrouping/running away from you; and 2) run away from/dodge enemies that are hitting you. Not to mention you’re able to take advantage of the 4pc Blizzard Strayer set giving you what’s equivalent to 80 crit value against frozen enemies. While the reaction itself doesn’t work on bosses and certain non-freezable enemies (e.g. enraged kairagi), I don’t think it’s fair to knock it down so significantly considering a lot of freezable mobs still do appear in high levels of the abyss, and a lot of them tend to be extremely aggressive (see: consecrated beasts). - Crystallise is overrated: the crystallise reaction itself does nothing, and the shielding provided by a crystallise shield is able to block the equivalent of a hilichurl’s rock’s worth of damage. There is some offensive utility in crystallise with the 4pc Archaic Petra set but utilising it requires the set holder to actually pick up the crystal, which is both troublesome and often not worth it when compared to other much more easily attainable buffs. - Superconduct is overrated: the reaction itself doesn’t do significant damage and while 40% Physical RES is significant, physical teams in general just require much more investment to match the damage dealt by reaction/mono element-based teams. - Swirl is slightly underrated: it’s able to provide the equivalent amount of RES debuff as superconduct can via the 4pc Viridescent Venerer set (which is a no-brainer artifact set to put on your anemo support anyways) AND do damage. That in itself should have it be rated higher than superconduct reactions. Swirls can also be used to trigger reactions and, since 1.6, scales extremely well with elemental mastery, allowing you to do significant damage on support anemo characters. - I personally think aggravate should be a bit more highly rated because of its ability to take advantage of buffs that spread can’t (VV on swirl, fischl A4 passive, 4pc Thundering Fury, etc.) - Bloom is overrated: definitely shouldn’t be on par with burgeon. It does nowhere near the same amount of damage. Nilou herself is carrying the entirety of the “bloom is meta” flag, with her bountiful core's near-instant eruption and enormous scaling (400% increase in damage). Not to mention it’s very easy to see who is popping the dendro cores in burgeon (and hyperbloom reactions) and therefore you know who you should be prioritising giving elemental mastery. That line is blurred when it comes to bloom teams. You don’t know who will trigger the bloom reaction and so you don’t have a clear idea of who you should be building EM on (it’s the same problem with electro-charged, where the unit triggering the reaction can vary and so the transformative reaction itself isn’t a reliable source of damage unless you build EM on everyone and end up sacrificing their personal damage). Sorry if this came off as rant-y I'm not quite sane in the head at the moment

[@Boricosa]

Sanest genshin player

[@louistreffel8710]

I agree with all of these 👍

[@Max15691]

You nailed it 👍

[@kat7659]

Great argument! I was surprised by freeze being so low on the tier list, considering it’s also viable outside of “classical” freeze teams. They may not always be the best choice, but fridge/hyperfridge comps are quite comfortable to use against freezable enemies 😉

[@louistreffel8710]

@@kat7659 hyperfridge is so fun with ayaka!

[@FeeIings]

Me knowing all the reactions and how they work: Hm yes interesting

[@thatguy2087]

It should be noted for hyperbloom and burgeon that while 5 burgeons/hyperblooms can occur only 2 are able to do damage at a time

[@blastzd]

yea every 0.5s

[@alfredolsson3819]

Aggravate and spread is not affected by atk, and I wouldn't really describe it as increasing your base damage. You can think of aggravate and spread as adding a separate damage instance on top of the damage from your talent multiplier. This added damage increases with character level and em, then gets multiplied with dmg% (electro dmg, etc.) and crit dmg if you crit. These reactions are sometimes referred to as "additive reactions"

[@ladderlappen4585]

to make it short: its called an additive dmg bonus.. the name speaks for it itself and the bonus works the same way, yun jins dmg buff does.

[@alfredolsson3819]

​@@ladderlappen4585 Yeah exactly, if you know how Shenhe and Yun Jin's damage buffing works, aggravate and spread is the same thing except it scales with character level and em instead of Shenhe's attack or Yun Jin's defence

[@drakeshadow7728]

@@alfredolsson3819 weirdly enough, it seems to me that Yun Jin and Shenhe might’ve been precursors to the quicken reaction. Hyv might’ve been using those two to test how well that kind of mechanic would be received. Just a theory, no concrete proof.

[@lucianojadur]

Both literally increase the base damage. That's exactly what Yun Jin and Shenhe do, which are the usual reference to compare with.

[@blastzd]

​@@lucianojadurno, its seperate

[@linus789]

bro just put crystalize higher than freeze

[@luvrqi]

fr like whats cristalize gon do when the only geos he will ever use is Itto (with zhongli) and zhongli wich has a good shield alr

[@mohammad-titan]

Moga please try hyperbloom Kuki I BEG YOU. She's really great now with dendro because her healing also scales with EM. And with hyperbloom you're not as confused on who to put paradise on. Really. Kuki is the only one triggering the hyperbloom.

[@ladderlappen4585]

everyone knows this allready. why would you want him, to try it? would that make his content more enjoyable?

[@mohammad-titan]

@@ladderlappen4585 so we can see more elemetal reaction in his account other than vape and bountiful core. also to justify the fact that he ranked hyperbloom so high but he never even tried it🤷‍♂.

[@anyanP]

I wouldn’t call it “ultimate” reaction guide, more like “extremely brief reaction guide” because it skips some important parts. Like electro and hydro being able to coexist on the enemy when they are affected by electro-charged, which in certain conditions allows to trigger both overload and vaporize. Underlying auras in quicken. Reaction priority for the situation when there are two auras (hydro reacting with cryo before dendro, pyro reacting with electro before hydro) Gauge theory, specifically with forward and reverse side for not just vape and melt, but for bloom (yes, really, bloom has forward and reverse side when in comes to aura consumption, but damage multipliers are the same). Like, I wouldn’t call this guide bad (mostly, aggravate/spread explanation is kind of wrong), but it’s extremely basic

[@retto1155]

even as a seasoned 1.0 player, it's nice to have these "back to basics" resources to strengthen your foundations. thank you for making this!

[@luvrqi]

pls dont take his advice

[@Jonny5Fails]

Should retitle this one to "Moga: Potential Unleashed." Also, I know you said you might save Gauge for a second video, but it explains the differences in multipliers you were confused about. Every reaction has a forward and reverse version. The reverse version has the lower multiplier because it removes less of the aura, allowing you to trigger more reactions, the forward has the higher multiplier because it removes more of the aura (more often than not, all of the aura), meaning you trigger less reactions. That's why the vape teams you play are reverse vape (pyro on a hydro aura) despite the reverse vape having a lower multiplier - you trigger more of them. It's easiest to see with amplifying reactions, but every reaction actually has this forward/reverse relationship with the elemental Guage, with exceptions of Anemo and Geo, but that's only because they don't exist as auras unless the enemy is already infused with the element. Anemo is always reverse, Geo is always forward. Fortunately, the way the game is designed, the element that applies slower typically serves as a reverse trigger. Meaning it's pretty simple to keep the aura you want on an enemy in most cases, and you end up doing it without having any idea what elemental gauge theory is. Specifically, for Moga, Dendro on Hydro is a forward reaction, meaning it ends up removing the hydro aura completely, causing you to generate less seeds - so it's typically better to make Dendro your aura, and Hydro your trigger, because you'll trigger more seeds. Since all transformative reactions care about is level and elemental mastery, you don't need to worry about the unit making seeds actually doing damage with their attacks; they're just there to hit the dendro with hydro and trigger seeds to do damage. So it's like the opposite of vaporize - you should focus on building your hydro units for the reaction, and your dendro units for their raw damage. Though it can be tough to control who has ownership of the seed generation without some practice, so it isn't terrible to also build your dendro units for the reaction, it's just not the best way to use them. It'd be like stacking EM on Yelan and Xingqui with HuTao or Yoimiya - the only way it's useful is if you're messing up the rotation.

[@sharr_na_v5794]

Yanfei's charge attacks are considered heavy attacks, so you can farm ores using her charged attacks. So imagine yanfei but cryo? Shatter will be the new meta. I guess we will see when Snezhnaya is out but thats so far away from now. I just want a cryo catalyst user pls

[@captnbluehat]

Same with klees CA

[@soulsinclair]

is this javathecups burner??

[@shinchan7446]

Tier list is fine except freeze spot. It's an S tier. Even tho it does no dmg, when the enemy is frozen that's already a huge dmg increase.

[@kawaiilone]

and they just dont move away and stay in place

[@akila3002]

You can't freeze bosses so it's value is situational. Melt+vape over Electro charge and Swirl is crazy.

[@arminivanics1916]

I agree its definitely not as low as Moga put it, but the fact that bosses can't be frozen really screw it over, so i'd say it's A at best

[@shinchan7446]

@@arminivanics1916 Yeah there's some setbacks,but still it is S tier because of the comfort it provides. So easy to play and have so many easily accessible options. Well atleast I have seen at most of the tier list, freeze is always S tier.

[@adeafeningdistance8539]

Bruh how is superconduct, crystalize, burning and overloaded are higher than freeze Those four reactions are the most useless right now (unless you play physical dps for superconduct)

[@KingMasteron1]

THANK YOU for re-posting the definitions of the type of reaction on each slide; it can be confusing to keep track, and it makes it easier to come back to these later

[@RoboNino]

Personally disagree with overloaded, as I make great use of it in the overworld when running my yoimiya team (kuki, nahida, yoi, zhongli) kuki's ring + yoimiya is a good way to stop smaller enemies from getting too close, i consider it a budget crowd control this tackling a bunch of enemies at once without an anemo very easy for me but overall very informative!! learned a lot in this one

[@kruup99]

This is more like simplified guide on reactions, it contains all the necessary explanation for each reactions. It's a good video, you managed to shorten things up to 8 mins with good explanation that easy to understand.

[@dmg937]

Hi Moga, thanks for this video. I like how you explain it in a slower tone, while other youtubers in general fast talk through their explanations😊

[@aimerrc2721]

This was so much needed. Thank you for the effort!

[@jellyfishing]

Melt n Vape over swirl is crazzzy

[@maldelicious5595]

*sees Freeze's tier* *leaves*

[@liyah5269]

tbh it doesn’t matter if i know most of this already !! if moga posts a vid i’ll always watch it bc somehow it’s ALWAYS entertaining, even when it’s a guide like this ! thanks moga

[@kaylafoxx41]

You should have also explained that forward and reverse reactions use more or less of the elemental guage. If you apply 2 units of pyro and then 1 unit of hydro, it uses all of the pyro, but if you do 2 units of hydro first, then 1 unit of pyro, it can cause vaporize 4 times before using up all of the hydro. This is why Hu Tao can vaporize every hit in N3C->N1C->N1C->etc can vaporize every hit on the N1C parts. And I know you said your tier list was opinion, but wow it really shows how little you paid attention to reactions before.

[@JohnHughesTR]

Lmao ya the video wasn't too bad untill he decided to add a tierlist

[@TheStickmanWithASmile]

Bro aint no way overloaded is higher than freeze omegalul

[@Anime_for_life_0.0]

Man put crystalize over frozen💀💀💀

[@francissanchez3759]

i'd switch Overload and Superconduct ranking because Overload should be A since it can be just as useful as Freeze is can stun large enemies like lawachurls, vishaps and especially consecrated beast but the main advantage the overload has over freeze it as bonus damage and best thing about overload it can coexist with multiple elements which allows you to do multiple reaction while freeze does not and Superconduct should be C if not the second worse reaction next to crystallize since all it does is shred enemies physical resistance you get way better results with Artifacts and character skills and passives the best way to fix this reaction is to make it similar to overload or quicken

[@D1VVA]

he doesnt know what hes talking about i swear 💀

[@tuallly9823]

Love your videos

[@shamandr4014]

This is the last thing I expected moga to post

[@stephenlee1108]

Great video!

[@autonator2360]

I just wanted to.ssy thank you for uploading all these bangers every day

[@SerialObsessor]

Putting crystalize over freeze is wild

[@lulubobu7614]

This entire video felt like a middle schooler doing a presentation, no hate tho I can see you've put a lot of energy into it 👍

[@ayanokomu1228]

THANKS MOGA!!!

[@Outis_48]

Guess temp reminded you then lmao

[@drantino]

only thing i can think of that could add to this is aoe reactions have instance limits that can effect 1 individual enemy in a short set piriod of time of 2 damage instances of a type of reaction, which is an advance knowladge kind of thing. overloaded is the exception if i recall being only 1 instance. this fundamentally does decrease how much damage you think you can do when you dont stack multiple elements for a soup team

[@ultimatefailz1890]

I think this is the most structured moga video i've ever seen, feels weird, but I don't hate it

[@adeafeningdistance8539]

I disagree with freeze, freeze is much better against small enemies than overload or crystallize which are both useless reactions Swirl should be S tier due to VV set reducing elemental resistance of enemies Superconduct is useless unless you play physical dps (S tier, otherwise D tier) imo PS: No hate tho, good guide

[@danielvicol3992]

I feel it's worth mentioning that: Enemies cannot be affected by Anemo or Geo making it so that they're always the ones that trigger their respective reactions. Only exceptions being Zhongli's burst and Jean applying Anemo to the active character, but I don't know much about how they interact with reactions. Using the element with 1.5× multiplier for Melt or Vaporize is better for a damage dealer because the enemy will loose a part of the original element where as the 2× side will remove all of the element Not all elemental attacks will apply an element to the enemy. This is because of a mechanic known as internal cooldown (ICD for short). Standard ICD makes it so that you can only apply an element once every 3 hits or once every 2.5 seconds. Most characters have standard ICD but a noteworthy example would be Yao Yao, who can only apply Dendro on a specific enemy once every 2 seconds, regardless of the amount of hits she does. If any entity, be it player or npc, touch another entity that is affected by burning, they will take the exact same ammount of dmg as the one affected by burning. Making it so that if a character with high em trigers burning on an enemy, they will take large ammounts of dmg in a miniscule ammount of time.

[@canibeaninja]

Hey moga, thank you so much for the guide. Would much appreciate it if you taught us how to calculate damage. Because till now I have been purely just been seeing what the build videos say and substitute similar stuff on my character. (F2P btw)

[@kaskimm2634]

Burgeon team is really good for the triple kenkis in spiral abyss, also thoma is perfect for it

[@alpha4935]

9:55 Electro-Charged is easily S Tier. People seriously underestimate just how powerful having both the Hydro and Electro auras coexist on the enemy truly is, especially when one of them is the best element in the game. It's one of the major factors that makes teams like Anemo driven Taser, Sukokomon (or Soup teams in general), Rational (or Overvape teams in general), and Hyperbloom so strong.

[@miyuna_k]

Generally very good guide but I‘d rank some reactions differently Imo you cannot completely separate a reaction from its character raster E.g. melt: melt Ganyu and Rosaria exists but even though the reaction has the same multipliers it‘s much less popular than vaporize since better vaporize enablers exist Around 12:04 taking all your stats into consideration doesn’t necessarily make a better reaction since you need more investment. But ig it generally scales better the more money you spend while reactions like hyperbloom are much cheaper to build while having lower maximum potential (C6R5and stuff like that) Idk about electro charged‘s placement. Nowadays you don‘t really run a team for the purpose to archive electro charged. The strong thing about it though is that you can use it together with vaporize and overloaded in teams like Raiden National and gets stronger depending on the number of enemies. Superconduct needs to be much lower, since there is no reason to use it over other reactions meta vise Physical units aren‘t really played anymore. Swirl is higher than electro charged even without counting the cc utility into consideration since you can enable stuff like electro charged through swirl as you said Maybe burgeon lower since there is no reason to use it over hyperbloom because of the risk of burning and the lack of a really good triggerer. Thoma is good but you need EM on him for high burgeon dmg but also a LOT of ER to maintain the burst that you definitely need while his shield scales off of HP. Kuki instead has no energy issues and has a passiv with which her heeling also scales off of EM. And freeze can situationally be really good because it‘s a strong utility reaction when it works so I‘d rank it higher

[@bhuviking18]

jeez that tier list was.... definitely one of the tier lists of all time

[@Dead_Hitori]

There's like hundreds of videos with the ultimate reaction guide title

[@Sham0605]

it hurts to see freeze at bottom most because it's comfiest team i play for me, even more when you see it even below crystallize -- crystalize!?

[@oskaras3218]

yall this is the same dude that used potions for bloom

[@adityasangeeth4255]

why do i feel that most of the things you said were given to you by temp or cap bluehat

[@hyeongpinkz]

bc they 100% were

[@JohnHughesTR]

I knew the comments would cook him when he troed to make a theory crafting/meta video

[@RR71311]

Oh fuck, I didn't know defense is ignored in transformative reactions, that means Razor's c4 doesn't work in thundering furry Razor

[@connerjessop8422]

Freeze is busted what do you mean D tier o.O

[@OrignalNewb]

Very good

[@ztyronhendricks7132]

Dendro has been out for how long seen near every explanation of it and still don't understand 😂 That or my mind is just trying to live in the simpler times of inazuma 😢

[@darkindinkaca7768]

FYI Klee's attack counts as heavy attack

[@danielvicol3992]

I'm surprised how Moga, the true whale level casual player, went ahead and made a reaction guide on top of the fact that it doesnt have a single mistake.

[@williamnicol8236]

Definitely one of the tier lists of all time.

[@LazyCatOnTheRoof]

That's a tierlist alright... 😂 Video was great, until a wild tierlist appeared.

[@x__alpha]

Moga after watching zy0x for 5 mins: Jenshin Gaid kreatar

[@vickiwong839]

am i the only one who's actually learning something new from this despite having played this game for over two years. how have i just learned that superconduct causes aoe cryo damage. I STARTED PLAYING GENSHIN IN 2020.

[@leonardomoneta6084]

I would love a gauge video

[@aninjame]

watch till the end for a 100% accurate reactions tierlist!!

[@akila3002]

Burgeon is ass because of burning. The reason hyperbloom is insane tho is because electro charge exists(Both hydro and electro aura exist at the same time.

[@mattbolopue6733]

10/14 reactions in S and A, is that really a tierlist

[@ebunobe5751]

If you have 0 em will you still do more damage in a reaction compared to no reaction?

[@Blizandrio]

Yes. It still would stretch the number but to a way lesser extent.

[@anotherrandomperson9174]

Crying when Frozen gets put in the same category as Burning and Overloaded. People put way too much emphasis on the fact it doesn’t work against bosses.

[@Axo.-]

You forget element priority for swirl which is : Pyro, Hydro, Electro and Cryo.

[@Lesterberne]

Idk why people are giving you such a hard time in the comments. I used to make guides for genshin and i’m heavy into TC and this guide was pretty cool (you recorded a lot of footage) Some pointed out the atk thing with aggravate/spread but other than that, nothing was wrong or anything ty for making this There are some things i wished you mentioned like how Burning has an AoE and can kill you (just like bloom but instead of taking 5% you take 100%) or why Reverse-Vaporize is used more than Forward-Vaporize (gauge units)

[@Jonny5Fails]

My heart breaks for you to see how much effort and learning went into this and for it not to be performing well. This is the type of video the algorithm will pick up after a while though. Other vids might pop off right from the start, but something like this will eventually just start getting steady views when new and more casual players start trying to learn about the game. Keep your chin up, bruh.

[@OriginalRockWolf]

well, i hope new players learn xd

[@voidgodazathoth666]

A guide from Moga??😅

[@martinSyaah]

How much unit is from natural water like rain, sea, etc?

[@hyeongpinkz]

1U iirc with no ICD

[@samehhh2023]

i thought this was gonna be some reaction video lol

[@timatoes9717]

As a WL8 player, I was ashamed to not know a thing abt spread and aggravate. But thanks Moga, I'm now more knowledgeable :D

[@liwaneloisezhougriffin3586]

Can relate I’m ar 58 and didn’t know that 😅

[@adippful]

TIL that transformative reaction ignore def, huh. And I've been abusing hyperbloom & burgeon since 3.0

[@offensivememers]

I thought Moga only knows crystallize reactions 😁😁😁

[@Hasbro083]

Moga, day 4 when?

[@Blizandrio]

He low key made this video for himself since he seems to have very casual knowledge about the game for a CC.

[@lordexplosionmurder502]

THE TIER LIST IS THE MOST INFURIATING THING IVE EVER SEEN JESUS

[@MJ-ft6ck]

nothing personal / but i laughed when i saw the list :D

[@LazyCatOnTheRoof]

So freeze is lower than overload, burning aaaaaaaaand even cristalize ... Superconduct in A.... That's some tierlist alright. LMAO.

[@drekhunter]

Ha tough it was a meme video since I come from the Eula potential video but it's actually an attempt at s serious guide. Yeah no thanks, I like your content but that also means I've seen you play.

[@andersberk632]

♥

[@prathamsapariya6270]

I need help . Do you do viewer abbys? I need around 30 stars but doesn't work can you try @Moga

[@yesyes3146]

Why is superconduct so high 💀

[@bossul_cailor3380]

Cap after this video *proud Cap noises*

[@CookieShinobuKawaii]

Hi!

[@Blubbleer]

Freeze lower than crystallize? Good vid anyways tho

[@mayureshjoshi4075]

No way super conduct is A and Freeze is low C or even lower than Crystallize

[@blastzd]

anyone can look all this up on wiki, like u did lmao

[@alora.faye_cos]

*Moga talks about gauge* *me cracking up* Cap has been teaching u huh? lmao /jk jk love ur content

[@optimistic.pessimist]

Dude said superconduct is better as freeze

[@theturtle8869]

Haha reactions go brrr

[@kyoga5714]

the comments kind of tearing your ass up huh

[@huyuzer-blyat]

Freeze is the worst reaction confirmed

[@Capinyo]

Sheesh

[@kingpolo1920]

Reactions…. So anyway I just started blasting my skill and hopes the enemy dies

[@zero-zl8ck]

Its eseyer to search uf you named the vid : Reactions guid in ginshen impact Sorry fir the very poor languge