Why NO ONE Plays: Jean | Genshin Impact

[@VarsII]

Download Empires & Puzzles here: pixly.go2cloud.org/SH3gQ Thanks to Empires & Puzzles for sponsoring! (EDIT) - Two minor errors in the video (ty to comments for pointing it out): 1 - Qiqi's healing also scales off ATK 2 - I said in the video Jean's burst does periodic anemo damage when I misunderstood that it only does damage to enemies who ENTER and EXIT the field as well as after it expires. My mistake! Will double check the details next time.

[@samuelcastillo5246]

I was going to tell you exactly what you clarified, excellent content man

[@kirin1230]

Easy mistakes to make, thanks for acknowledging them

[@braddl9442]

That weird competing infusion thing happens when jean is infused with any other element from another characters ability. Its just the most devastating with bennet. But barbras E skill, Candance burst, Chongyun E, Doris burst, etc can all do it to different degrees.

[@Gilthwixt1]

I made the same mistake at first. It just makes a mediocre burst even worst tbh. Feels bad man.

[@8niidle13]

you also made another kinda-error: according to zajef - who i trust bc as a tc he knows his numbers - xiao is actually better in most cases than wanderer. so either call both of them not-that-great or both not-half-bad

[@evotheevolutions]

Vars 2: Jean is better because unlike Barbara and Qiqi her healing scales off of attack Qiqi: also heals scale off of attack QiQi: am I a joke to you

[@Samswordst]

Vars 2 and the rest of the player base: yes, you are a joke QiQi: wha?

[@buttercup3030]

@@Samswordst but qiqi is the best hydro dps

[@bhavya5692]

Jeans cons are just stronger

[@lolosh99]

Qiqi is the best cryo battery

[@zhenhannlim2458]

@@buttercup3030 hydro?

[@periwinkle6676]

Correction: Jean's burst doesn't do periodic anemo damage, it only damages on cast and when enemies enter/exit the circle.

[@SandwichDoggy]

Which I guess is why Jean doesn't have the same kind of cc other anemo units have since you can use skill and CA to shove enemies in and out of the circle. Is that what the devs were thinking when they designed her kit?

[@fionaroni]

@@SandwichDoggy ok but who’s gunna spend time doin that

[@SandwichDoggy]

@@fionaroni exactly the point

[@SandwichDoggy]

@NyanJuice honestly now that I think about it anyone tried "sunfire" with Barbara instead of Bennett?

[@SandwichDoggy]

@NyanJuice more like seawater

[@Laerei]

Furina made this age like milk, now Jean's the most wanted for Furina teams, lol. Jean's team-wide healing, Viridescent Venerer def shred is great synergy with Furina's elemental skill, burst and overheal talent.

[@aakash202]

its res shred not def shred

[@emotional_st0rm]

Jean's worst problem is that she's just good. She's a great generalist. Slot her in wherever if you need a healer. Good personal DPS, good healing, good VV application. The biggest problem is that all of her peers (kazuha, venti, sucrose) are AMAZING. Outside of Sunfire and Xiao, no team actually WANTS Jean. Jean can work well in any a lot of teams, but she's never a first choice.

[@ameliasyifa4332]

​@@Wandathescarlet On early stages, just do whomever you want and build them so they can stay alive. On later stages, my advice is do whomever you like, as long as you can have fun

[@Elcoin]

@@ameliasyifa4332 your correct im ar 34 and im still using my starter team just because i like them and i've built each of them properly too

[@naunau311]

​@@Wandathescarletif you only care about meta value (which barely anyone actually does), then only heavily invest in Mona and upgrade jean a bit less. Otherwise just focus on whoever you like most tbh, jean is as stated above a great generalist, Mona is an insane buffer while qiqi is uh... well maybe leave qiqi alone unless you really like her/need a second healer

[@hurricaneb6243]

​@@Wandathescarlet+1 for Mona. Generally, you can choose any, and it won't have lasting "damage" to your account. Meta wise, she is still used today in popular freeze teams. Now putting that aside, her unique sprint, taunt, and layered burst mechamic is fun too play with and master. Jean yeeting enemies into water is a close 2nd though.

[@iloveshinobusengoku]

Always a bridesmaid never a bride

[@crablord7934]

Jean will always have a special place in my heart for carrying me through most of the content in my early days of playing. Super reassuring to have her on the team to this day.

[@MaximumCarnage-]

Man I just want her. Day 1 player and the only standard I don't have but was the one I wanted so bad when I started. Now the odds of getting her are worse with a 40% increase in the pool. I was lucky though and got Keqing on my first 10 pull and really liked her. She stayed my main after all this time.

[@jinminchoi838]

Jean carried me up to AR53 until I got Hutao on her first rerun and I still use her occasionally

[@mooseclamps]

That was Qiqi for me. I got her on my first 10 free pulls when I started playing. Qiqi was actually a godly character to level with. It took a long, sad time at late game for me to realize she was no longer any good and bench her.

[@DefensiveBalloons]

I just made a Jean/Klee comp just to have them together and is so much fun to use. Like you can combine Klee and Jean E to make a grenade launcher. My comp is Klee, JeanC1, Layla and XingqiuC6. Is quite nice to use and is supringly strong for a team that only have one top tier character(Xingqiu). Which is great because I can use Bennett, Zhongli, Kazuha and Xiangling in another comp.

[@DTRIGGS]

@@DefensiveBalloons Piggybacking off of this, you could do the same grenade launcher technique with Aloy. I've ran a team that had Aloy, Klee and Jean and their skills synergize surprisingly well to literally melt enemies *badum tish*.

[@anidolinteal3132]

Boy, Furina aged this video poorly…

[@kyubey8081]

Boy, Xianyun aged this comment poorly...

[@anidolinteal3132]

I haven't played for a couple weeks. She get powercrept again?

[@kyubey8081]

Yeah Xianyun does what Jean does but a little bit better. On top of that she enables plunge on all characters and gives additional anemo damage on plunge too. And on top of that, Xianyun gives overworld mobility utility. So unless you plan on running a carry in abyss that can't utilize plunge well (like Neuvillette) and have something like a C2 Jean, C0 Xianyun is just better.

[@lordzanthartehallen8963]

@@kyubey8081I didn’t know Xianyun heals

[@Goremize]

@@kyubey8081 Jean gives 40% reduced Anemo Res at C4, and Jeans heal is a LOT better then Bird lady. Jeans skill is also on a faster CD The only difference is pulling for Jean is next to impossible while bird lady has featured banners

[@luka9911]

I have her at c5, and I literally can not wait to make her my first c6 5 star. I love her.

[@faludacosmos820]

Fellow C6 Jean user here. You’re gonna love it, especially if you’re a Xiao user 👌🏽

[@emileeweir7773]

I'd love to get C2, but she is definitely my strongest healer/res shredder/sub-DPS at C1. Somehow managed to snag an Aquila Favonia when I first started wishing, so she's even more powerful.

[@clashcon11]

I don't have her, yet. And I'm angry about it.

[@emileeweir7773]

@faludacosmos Great pair with Xiao! One of my favorite teams these days (especially for the City of Gold artifact domain): - R1 Lv 90 PJWS/4P Vermillion/Lv 70 C0 Xiao - R5 Lv 60 White Tassel/4P Blizzard/Lv 80 C3 Rosaria - R1 Lv 80 Aquila/4P VV/Lv 80 C1 Jean - I have also replaced her with R5 Lv 70 TToDS/4P VV/Lv 60 C1 Sucrose for some CC - R1 Lv 90 Sac Sword (I've also used R5 Lv 90 Skyrider Sword when Xingqiu has Sac equipped)/4P TotM/Lv 80 C0 Layla To note, I'm F2P and wish I had some more cons, but Xiao still gets 20k+ burst plunges in the City of Gold domain (been farming it to get a decent FoPL set for Keqing). Though I don't know how much of an impact Jean's healing has on his Vermillion set, at least she keeps him alive!

[@icortell4882]

I just got her at C6 last patch! She’s my Wanderer’s support, and I loveeeee her!

[@n_nash_h]

Jean will always be the character that I had the most fun with. The character that made me continue to play Genshin, she's not even the first one I got but she's the first one I dedicated my time to. She's not the strongest, She's not the one I crowned, She's not the one with the best damage, She's not the one with the best artifacts. But She's the one I will forever consider to be my favorite.

[@manoharalisa5829]

Jean is my best healer and non mage damage dealer..

[@mrmeerkat6055]

She was the first 5 star I pulled in the game still one of my favourites and I still use her.

[@Jnxd184]

3:33 Qiqi doesn't build HP for anything lol, her damage and heals scale with attack, same as Jean

[@VarsII]

My mistake. Thank you for the correction!

[@Justakatto]

@@VarsII Not op but Issok, you're human too. ppl make mistakes. Almost every video. Consistently. Huh.

[@rabbss830]

@@VarsII you're a fool

[@AniMomo13]

I would argue Jean and Kokomi are the co-op queens. Unless you're playing with friends and coordinate well, healing with characters like Bennett, Barbara, and Diona can sometimes be difficult. Obviously playing Kokomi will ensure no one ever dies and that some good reactions occur, but you're dependent on reactions and do minimal damage beyond that. Jean can do decent damage (not game breaking) with her entire kit and heal teammates regardless of range. Obviously the video was not calling Jean weak or unusable, but I think there's something to be said about her co-op consistency!

[@Grievous-nx3iu]

I agree 100%. My jean was underlevelled with mediocre artifacts but she sustained my coop party in domains

[@paulanimator6307]

As a healer main in other games, I sometimes hop into co-op domains as Jean and Kokomi just to heal and keep people alive. I find some satisfaction in meeting an injured player and topping off their healthbar.

[@Moshmaru]

Agreed I even make qiqi if I cannot use Jean in coop

[@DhrithionVocals]

i wondered why i liked using kokomi so much and i remember i used to be a jean main when i was low Ar, i liked playing co op with my IRL friends and their yanfei and ningguang kept dying so i had to help em out 😂

[@timian210]

Oh Jean can do game breaking damage if you build her right. I run mine with a thrilling tales tenacity Koko and benny so sunfire Jean gets a nice buff. Literally cant die

[@jun_vt_fr]

3:34 A bit of correction: Qiqi's healing scales on ATK too.

[@ravageroosgamecorner543]

I am glad someone beat me to it.

[@ThorstenGowik]

@@ravageroosgamecorner543 was about to write the same 😀

[@davidm0355]

Sayu's healing also healing also scales on atk (and em with c6).

[@VarsII]

@@davidm0355 Sayu wasn't out in version 1

[@VarsII]

In my defense I haven't used Qiqi in over like a year I actually forgot which one she used LOL

[@Truck-kun11]

One advantage Genshin gains from not having content with extremely high difficulty: You can use whichever character you want. In many other Gachas I feel almost obligated to go after the characters considered "Meta" because they have content that is almost impossible to complete with just basic characters.

[@girishkumarpeddi6266]

It's not an issue with difficulty but rather the solution for everything is basically "hit it till it dies" or "hit it harder"

[@chenchen6150]

So basicaly In the long run this advantage is pretty much on set solid enough that even future new high diff content might become not too hard for most player that at least put little more invesment.

[@boyishdude1234]

In the overworld maybe, but in the Abyss you're not likely to be able to use.. Amber, to get a perfect clear, and at endgame in the overworld and elsewhere the scaling is so fucked that you need overpowered artifacts to have a decent experience, and that process of mandatory grinding is heavily time-gated by an insidious pay-to-win timed currency structure.

[@sluggie1018]

​@@boyishdude1234 even for max stars you can use amber up to f11, just not f12 so i dont feel like what you say apply. Tho granted you need meta supports

[@oienu]

:,D I feel that way on another game, they did somes updates, you dont get good weapons on gacha (you get weapons but at base stats while the crafted ones gain more stats), however you need to use reforges to improve the weapons for new content, that was a Shop Item and you could buy somes from another players by gold, now you can get it at somes NPC (limited weekly). But on Genshin you can clear using any char you want, will take more time but is possible. Not work on trials because the timer :,D.

[@soulsquest]

Jean's VA is amazing (Tamamo/Chloe, Homura!) A super safe pick for Co-op. Just unconditional healing as long as you attack; sorry Hu Tao. I had a lot of fun grabbing Whopper flowers and holding them in place while my friend's beat them like they owed us money. You can't run away if you are suspended in the air.

[@justsomeguywithlasereyes9920]

Saito Chiwa, she's been everywhere in this type of job.

[@WittyFalls]

Her voice is hot as Homura lol

[@actpianocover6329]

OMG i lost it when you said "like they owed us money" 😂😂

[@sundalosketch4769]

@@actpianocover6329 same lmao i couldn't help but imagine the scenario in a mobster au style. (Or that jo-jo meme)

[@JAMllostthegame]

I remember when people learned you can get two instances of fall damage on an enemy with her E. Pretty cool tech tbh and was considered useful because of 1.0 Abyss Whopperflowers lol

[@mr.international2778]

As someone who loves jeane as a character im happy that this video is gonna age like milk given who came out very recently

[@zalorc]

Yeah, Jim Carrey... I mean Jean carry for the win!!

[@dumbtch-lk5yr]

yh especially with furina

[@AevyCh]

Sunfire is pretty much her go to team now. It has the fastest Pyro application (even faster than Xiangling's Burst) and the damage is mostly based on Jean's EM (Bennett may steal it once a while). However, you are restricted to a very small radius in order for the interaction to work, immobilizing your movement entirely. People often call this type of interaction as "Circle Impact". Sunfire can also be used alongside Dendro to enable Burgeon (and with the right team, you may even Vaporize through the Burning Aura). I have an example run posted on this account if you're interested.

[@YellowPingouin]

You can also use sunfire for Melt Ganyu, You get enough pyro to melt her charge shots and her burst

[@DefinitelyNotAFerret]

“Sunfire” burgeon with Benny C6, Nahida, Xingqiu/Yelan, and Kazuha is CRAZY good. This team actually clears 2nd half of this current abyss in under a minute. Pretty crazy

[@FranciscoJG]

Wasn't Amber's burst the fastest Pyro application actually? Anyway, Jean+Bennett is more consistent.

[@BeaneChunz]

I'd like to use sunfire Jean for my melt Ganyu, but sadly, its duration is too short compared to my C6 Xiangling's burst

[@relax2413]

Her go-to is anything tbh. People need to stop being meta-slaves that's all ^^

[@CallMeRito]

She was amazing in the Abbys floors of the past, the ones with slowing water and engulfing storm, thanks to the cleansing and throwing enemies to the air and causing fall damage was pretty useful back then.

[@mulraf]

Wait. Didn't expect Jean in this series. She's great and a core part in most of my loadouts. and i see her being played well.. maybe i wouldn't say a lot but definitely sometimes.

[@xanderkai6353]

I never use her and I never see anyone else use her either. obviously *some* people use literally any character in the game, so I don’t think that’s enough of a reason to disclude her from this series. remember, it doesn’t mean she’s bad AT ALL, she’s just rarely used these days and this video explains why

[@RejectedInch]

@@xanderkai6353 Sunfire Jean. Look it up, then you will start to use her.

[@kiuhh1118]

@@RejectedInch , sunfire is situational "side grade" to most teams AT BEST. It's fun, but fun and meta, latter being the main topic of discussion here, are not the same.

[@rui12]

I stopped using her after some time, new characters came out and therefore, better options in team comps

[@mulraf]

@@xanderkai6353 besides the mentioned sunfire jean she fills both the healer role and the vv shred role. Other anemo characters like kazu, venti or sucrose of course have better grouping and damage buffing but you 'need' (well not need but probably you want) a healer or shielder in your team. She is just a good (anemo) flex overall. I use her in my keqing and tighnari teams e.g. And by i see her used sometimes i don't mean obscure just-for-fun teams like seeing xinyan or amber used but rather actual component of meta teams or spiral abyss speedruns. (of course rarely though admittedly)

[@caelum8160]

I think it's important to mention that Faruzan is very hard to use effectively without constellations and high ER investments, while Jean's talents basically makes her burst 60 cost and she can battery herself pretty easily, even without heavy ER investments. Also I think, as wierd as it sounds, that Jean is really meant to be a support for ranged characters, mainly Klee. Especially when you consider that Jean can pick up and throw Klee's bombs and aim them more precisely (also her C1 makes her skill do more 40% more damage when held), and she knockbacks enemies into the ideal range for Catalysts and Archers and a lot of her constellations are really good for keeping Bow and Catalyst Users alive longer. I feel like that's also a big thing holding her back since, most of the ranged DPSes in Genshin are outclassed by melee or they're sub dpses. I feel like her being Anemo is fine, but if her kit was more suited to support melee units she'd probably get a lot more play.

[@allisona.6605]

That's super-helpful to know, thanks!

[@relax2413]

She's not made for distant DPS initially. She's made to be versatile, polyvalent. Her C2 buff ATK speed clearly is amazing for melee characters for exemple. So no, she doing perefctly fine with melee carries, that's not the problem she has.

[@caelum8160]

@@relax2413 But I mean, Bows and Catalyst can benefit just as much from increased movement speed and attack speed, that's not a melee specific buff and nowhere in it's description does it say it only works for melee. And I was mainly referring to her base kit and C6 Damage mitigation which is much more useful on squishier characters. As well as her skill and burst both having a knockback effect, which is something that is much more useful for ranged DPSes than melee. Same with her charged attack and how it suspends enemies in mid-air. She's definitely a great unit for melee DPSes but my point is that if you want to utilize her entire kit and not just Swap, E ,Q , Swap, it makes it harder on your melee units since they have to burn stamina chasing down the enemies she's flinging around while ranged characters are put into thier best position when enemies are at a distance. If her burst, for example, sucked in enemies continuously that would be a great tool for melee carries (Especially Xiao) since you'd just have to stay still and let the enemies come to you while you attack, (even better with effects that follow your character like Xiangling burst and Kuki Skill). Or if Gale Blade, instead of flinging enemies you also had the option to instead trap in them in a small vortex of wind, like her charged attack but it keeps them on the ground.

[@Blackoutdmc]

But one big thing is that in order for Jean to be a competitive pick over Faruzan, she needs to be c4 for that juicy anemo Res shred. And believe it or not, not everyone has c4 Jean. Im a week 1 player and only have her at c1. Sure, thats not the same for everyone, but its still a tall order.

[@caelum8160]

@@Blackoutdmc Oh yeah definitely, but getting 4-star constellations can be just as hard if not harder, and the fact that you need Faruzan at C6 for her to be useful without huge energy investments is insane. Chances are you'll probably get C4 Jean before you max out Faruzan or maybe you get lucky idk 😂. Faruzan definitely is a great unit when built correctly but for most players who are casual and/or low-spenders I'd go Jean all the way. Even without C4 she's still very useful on many teams and isn't locked in at Anemo support. She's not the best at anything (except maybe burst healing) but she's definitely not the worst at anything. No other character is the game can do Damage, Cleansing, Swirl, Healing and Damage mitigation (With C5 though) all in the same burst.

[@buttermanaws4693]

Jean's biggest problem is that she is a gen 1 unit or a unit that built the foundation for what we would see in the future and for anemo she was not part of the group that because the standard for either general use or damage she is different (not just in height) she is a healer with supportive capabilities in the elements that became the damage support not the character support

[@L337N1NJ4L1NK]

One of the interesting niches Jean holds is her party wide, universal cleanse. It isn't a big deal now since hoYoVerse has basically abandoned debuffs of players but early in year 1 the Spiral Abyss was filled with stupidly annoying elemental based debuffs. You can still find them in the first few domains to this day in fact. People really hated that mechanic since if you didn't have the ability to self infuse an element, it meant you couldn't effectively deal with the debuffs.

[@Demopans5990]

Jean also has possibly infinite damage through drowning, and convenient fall damage as that scales off of enemy hp

[@OrkusReOrca]

I personally think Jean is the second best dedicated healer (after kokomi), with also ability to do high damage on herself too. I think with constellation, jean is really good in the meta.

[@daikikazumayt]

I use Jean every day for exploration, commissions and even bosses. She is amazing to play and even better with constellations. Sometimes, I even use her outside of Xiao teams and have some fun with her despite not fitting in the meta too much.

[@kingdoom5022]

In your dreams , Bennett and yaoyao are infinitely better units than jean

[@carpet498]

@@kingdoom5022 they uglier too 😜💅

[@nunaneto]

@@kingdoom5022not true, Jean healing is better than them, Bennett can’t heal the full party and his normal attacks doesn’t heals, sure for buffer he is better, but for healing he is not even close to jean

[@TheRealOtakuEdits]

@@nunaneto Ideally, you don't want to be auto attacking with your healer unless their name is Kokomi and she is in her elemental burst.

[@OrpheusV3]

I'm still using her to this day, Jean is a simply great character that can cover all sorts of playstyles.

[@pokinginpractice9108]

Now everybody is desperate for a jean

[@Patrick-mz5ph]

If we ever get something like "Limitbreak" for characters to reach Level100 and unlock a new Talent for them, maybe Jean's could give her an Anemo Infusion when using her burst and/or Skill.

[@bingleson]

dehya 100% going to be in this series 😭. not hating on her, just upset that the kit designers at mihoyo did NOT give her the respect she deserves. EDIT: this is for those who have seen the beta leaks.

[@norwa3518]

maybe she just sucks at fighting? So entitled to think that a character deserves to be OP based on, what? Her design? Her lore? You're simping for a character that is barely even out yet.

[@Odyssey__]

@@norwa3518 that's not what they were saying at all. Dehya's the worst 5* in the game. She could've been balanced like Ayato, but she was made deliberately bad. No one's asking for her to be op, just viable, which she isn't

[@bingleson]

my apologies yeh. Honestly I WANT to be proven wrong, and that perhaps she turns out to be AT LEAST fun to play. But based on beta info leaks for the past few weeks, BETA STUFF WARNING: I just cant help but feel hopeless. She doesn't provide even a unique/niche playstyle to compensate (they even said that she wont be effective in a burgeon comp apparently! Thoma would be better, and he's a 4-Star!). Again, I dont want to be correct here. Im hoping hoyoverse and the people getting Dehya will prove me wrong, and prove to me that SHE IS fun to play.

[@kurniawandelima]

Dehya isn't out yet... Looking at the livestream, she is looking nice for supporting Ganyu. And even if she turns out to be bad, the game is easy anyway.

[@bingleson]

@@kurniawandelima i should probably edit my comment that would let people know that im speaking to those who have seen beta leaks. Coz i can see how dumb my comment sounds for those that havent seen said leaks. Anyways, hopefully she DOES become a good support for Ganyu. as for the game being easy and all...yes Im aware but im talking about fun factor, and im not seeing anything fun in her kit (ER issues and ICD stuff that would *potentially* prevent her from doing reactions). I could be wrong. Hell, maybe she'll turned out to be good, and this whole situation could be just like what happened to Yoimiya's beta (people were not happy at Yoimiya's state at that time, but like she's doing well now so fingers crossed same thing happens to Dehya)

[@tsunderemerc2963]

I still use Jean somewhat regularly, especially after I got her C2 attack speed buff, which is super useful for characters that have slow attack speeds like Klee, and she can pull in Klee's bombs, so the two synergize fairly well in that regard.

[@munteanurodica2252]

Oh boy. If one is Jeanless. Well, I got her recently and now I am building her for Xiao. I think I will play with her alot. One of the top tier standard characters imo.

[@Tulip0305]

For xiao?

[@daikikazumayt]

Nice ^^

[@korinthian7313]

I built a physical Jean that pretty much hard carried me all the way up to halfway through Inazuma. A bit slow, but with Aquila Favonius she just refuses to die.

[@Stilllife04]

this is why i use her in hyperbloom team as a physical onfield driver 🙂👍

[@stonezsprivateacc8413]

2 months later: Why EVERYONE plays Jean

[@waryth4475]

meanwhile I'm trying to get Jean 🥺

[@anyanP]

Ummm, Qiqi's healing also scales off of her attack. And Jean's Q field itself doesn't deal damage, only if enemies passing from/into it or via self-swirls.

[@edgarsarsanedas6592]

The Q is really helpful in this abyss 12, Jean sunfire is a meta team based on Jean's Q Swirl.

[@Unwebonnn]

you must've only played her in TCG, but Jean's Q field deals A LOT of dmg, it's shown in the video

[@anyanP]

@@Unwebonnn Q initial cast deals damage, entering/exiting field does damage, but the field itself doesn’t. I used to play Jean a lot, so I do know what I’m talking about

[@Unwebonnn]

@@anyanP nevermind, I thought you meant the initial hit

[@relax2413]

@@Unwebonnn "you mudt've only played her in TGG" BRUH....

[@nishshredder]

Started genshin in October. Jean was my first 5 star and her skin was the only reason i bought crystals. Shes on a lot of my teams. Shes awesome!😁

[@Bullminator]

One main problem with Jean is that her Q pushes monsters away and out of circle. However there is a a weird team that works: Zhongli (resistance shred) + Bennet (for sunfire) + Nahida (applys burn) + Jean (higher cons the better)

[@calvinwilson3617]

You actually want to push them out as her burst doesnt trigger periodically, but when the enemy enters or leaves the burst area

[@traincore1955]

I don't understand what's going on and why she needs constellations in this party

[@purp1e200]

You don't need sunfire for a burning team wth? Remove Jean and put Sucrose there instead. Now it is infinitely better.

[@Galladion]

I got her and she was my 1st 5 star. I haven’t stopped using her since bc she is just so GOOD

[@Frazzled_Chameleon]

Jean was clutch during the first Theater Mechanicus event. Maybe even the second one. Yeeting entire waves of enemies over the age to their deaths. It's also fun using her in co-op to yeet other players. They don't see the animation, which is a pity, but it's still fun to watch Zhongli get launched off-screen. She got me through the abyss in the very early stages. My Jean is currently C4 and the "Jean particle" really speeds everyone up.

[@Nat-mr2lp]

How the tables have turned...

[@amndas]

I love playing c2 jean with yoimiya, c6 fischl and c6 yunjin, it's literally a machine gun and yoi attacks SO fast with this team its insane

[@Shindy117]

Jean is my first 5 star. She and Raiden have been carrying me in this game

[@schooldude1000]

Jean is one of my go-to healers (along with Kokomi) and basically one of the core party members of my Xiao and Raiden Sunfire teams! Love her so much, but I understand why she's one of the more underutilized Anemo units out there.

[@lokenontherange]

She's not an Anemo DPS. She's a support healer. I wouldn't take Venti over her if what I wanted was healing.

[@Galaxy_241]

While not many players play Jean right now cause they most likely have stronger characters but for players who are starting off Jean is a solid character to get and build if you manage to get her early in the game because you can get all of her ascension materials in mondstadt compare to the other characters plus a descent artifact set for her as well and she can keep your team alive as long as she can.

[@kawaiimika7974]

I play Jean now that she's C6 And people don't use Jean because Kazuha exists and he does pretty much the same thing she does. Uses Bennett's self infusion to apply off field Pyro. Also, isn't Jean Sunfire litteraly a variant of Raiden national??? Why is national out of the question for Jean???

[@chaosinfernoid9008]

Way to expensive for a stationary character.

[@Venom-uv5fw]

Ive mained jean ever since I got her on my 1st pull. For the longest time I played her Anemo dps. But i only did like 200k with her skill and burst. I had trouble 36 starring. But once i built her EM sunfire, I cleared it with Raiden sunfire overvape. Best decision. I 36 starred with raiden, xingqui, jean and bennet on the 2nd half.

[@kawaiimika7974]

​@@chaosinfernoid9008 Don't know ehat is that supposed to mean but ok

[@Exhausted905]

National is made up of a hydro applier, Bennet, Xiangling, and a flex slot. Jean burst would interfere with Xiangling’s vapes cuz of the sunfire mechanic. Besides Jean doesn’t offer much besides vv shred and healing. Healing is redundant becuz the team already has Bennet so it’d be better to go for an offensive option like Sucrose, Kazuha, or Raiden.

[@kawaiimika7974]

​​​@@Venom-uv5fwood for you. I'm yet to 36 star with her because I haven't really used her in Abbys all that much yet. Pretty much because I don't play national to clear Abbys. I usually run Cyno Quickbloom, Keqing Aggravate, Ayaka+Ganyu freeze, Kokomi tazer, Thoma Burgeon(on field Al Haitham) and my favorite Yoimiya overvape

[@zeFanciestBard]

Jean has one thing on every other anemo which is role consolidation. It's well known venti isn't super useful on boss floors and while kazhuha and sucrose bring more damage only Jean can act as vv shred, healer, and sometimes enabler. This allows you to use dps combinations you wouldn't otherwise be able to use. It's also worth noting that sunfire ganyu is the only way to make ganyu's burst not a dps loss as it is able to melt both your ult and arrows. This allows melt ganyu to have good aoe and single target damage while being very durable. The Pyro damage also scales with her EM so the damage is pretty high if you invest into her. The real issue is that ganyu isn't popular either despite being very good.

[@Yuuerin]

Jean was my first 5 star and ironically my first C6 5 star. I can honestly say she is an amazing support with the freedom sworn and 4 piece vaner set. Her burst does swirl and her C6 functions as a mini sheild I always use her in the Abby’s. Not a broken unit but a damn good reliable character very defensive and helps survivability while buffing anemo DPS

[@zachtemoro2116]

This is probably the biggest stretch for “why nobody plays”. She heals, increases atk speed, and she decreases resistances. Succrose and Kazuha increase dmg through their em and also can decrease Resistances. However they also require a lot of investment through artifact farming. Pre-Faruzan too she was the only person to be able to decrease Anemo Res, and would therefore be a main stay in Xiao comps.

[@mayapeeterson2589]

Love getting this reccomended post furina, she gave us EXACTLY what jean needed to be good and none of us expected this to be the solution.

[@therranolleo468]

one thing I'll reminisce fondly of Jean is that fall damage strat using Gale Blade is legit my 1st ever Abyss clear, since back then no amount of damage I output with my under leveled characters/weapons can beat the %based damage that u get simply by launching the Cicin mage/Fatui agents in the Abysss

[@wienbloom]

I use Jean to explore Teyvat, along with Scaramouche equipped with Lost Prayer, and Rosaria, sometimes with Diona or Yelan. Pure bliss, max efficiency.

[@termina2737]

Maybe only thing missing is a way to farm ore!

[@xLuis89x]

@@termina2737 jean with plunging attack spam could get that done

[@kurniawandelima]

I used Jean for exploration team too in the past, but Sayu replace her now. Sayu can break ores and doesn't startled the animals. More efficiency!

[@meganekkoi3282]

She is a great team healer and even at C0 quite under-rated. And her field does heal everyone in one flash, grants swirls and also keeps on healing the active character.

[@luzie4785]

I don't use Jean because of her element, I just love how she can be every role at once. You need a healer? Jean. You need a support? Jean. You want a really easy to build DPS? Jean. And the great thing about her is that she fits every single one of these roles at once. You don't have to have other artifacts for every role, one set is enough

[@duncan_of_hallback857]

I just got jean for the first time and messed around with this freeze team where I gave her alhaitham's weapon and artifact set and paired her with chongyun, Yelan and Sayu. It was weird but fun. Use chongyun to activate the foliar incision's passive and Sayu burst combined with jeans means you can't die

[@komgoo4974]

I feel like when they release the monstadt expansion of dorman port there could be an artifact set that pays tribute to Jean more since VV is somewhat annoying to use on her.

[@czolus]

Had to double-check for myself, but Jean's Dandelion Field doesn't do ticking damage: Only on placement, and if a target enters or leaves the field do they take damage. It *does* however, trigger swirl periodically while it's up (w/o doing standalone anemo damage).

[@stevenviljoen160]

With Bennet Sunfire the swirls basically do so but yes on its own it doesn't do so.

[@barbararebocho6729]

Didn't expect jean in this series woah I meet so many people playing jean in co op??? She was my first 5 star and carried me through the game, still today she's the responsible one that keeps everyone alive

[@Kikizilla101]

3:08 Actually small correction here, Qiqi’s healing scales off of Attack as well, which is one of the reasons I love qiqi so much.

[@kidtornado0228]

Jean is my favorite character and I got really nervous when I saw this video, but I have watched it and it makes sense, I am gonna use her still, but that's because I prefer fun over meta, and jean is crazy fun! I'm sad she doesn't fit into more teams😭 Great video!! 😁

[@sonofdeleniel007]

​@@fzhs7030 Jean user here. She still has meta relevant teams. Sunfire, Lightning Rod (Jean, Dori, Fischl, Nahida), Wanderer Hypercarry (she's better than Faruzan and people can just fight me on it because Jean doesn't have Faruzan's 340% ER crippling energy problems), Jean Taser (though specifically with Thundering Kazuha), Overvape, etc. Vars is right that the top of the Anemo cast is LUDICROUSLY overpowered, but she's still phenomenal to use and does get the work done. S tier unit being compared to SSSSSSSSS tier units.

[@sonofdeleniel007]

@@fzhs7030 Faruzan is not better if you can't use her burst, and you can't use her burst optimally unless you have 340% ER. I know. I've tried. It doesn't work. And yes, if you consider what reactions are driving the meta (Quicken, Hyperbloom, Vaporize), she can facilitate all three with the right comp, such as Sunfire or Lightning Rod, and she allows for higher damage in the other tram slots since you can afford to run much more aggressive DPS to drive the team. This gives her a place in the meta. Not a gold prize winning position, perhaps, but a place nonetheless.

[@sonofdeleniel007]

@@fzhs7030 have you tried running those teams yourself?

[@sonofdeleniel007]

@@fzhs7030 and how did *you* use those teams? Do they work for you? Do they do the job as intended? If so, they do the same thing other meta teams do in the context of achieving a set goal, so while it's not award winning, it does *fall into the meta* by accomplishing the same things that Raiden National, or Aggravate Keqing, or Quickbloom, or Shinobu Hyperbloom, accomplish. Just takes a bit more effort.

[@sonofdeleniel007]

@@fzhs7030 fair. You won me over. Jean is a D tier unit that should forever be benched because she's #AlwaysTerribleForever. New content is specifically released to nerf her to the ground. No weapon works well on her. She's clunky. Her healing is terrible.and her battery is nonexistant.

[@lordbobby198]

I have c4 Jean. I use her with my xiao for the anemo res and energy recharge and heal. She's nice

[@alexguzman230]

She might feel outdated with her E and overall kit. But she’s been a staple for me since the beginning of the game. C2 jean is all I’m asking for 😭😭. First 5* and will always be on my teams. Plus her outfit is just beautiful.

[@blenderrender793]

For anyone watching in 2024 - Jean is a fantastic party-wide healer for Furina teams.

[@luvindempandas6339]

This is so true but so sad at the same time. I love how Jean heals and her kit is very interesting, but I don't have room to use her since I use Kazuha. I wish she was a different element or if there was another chracter with similar healing. Also since Faruzan came out, she kinda got benched on my Xiao team.. sadge

[@Quinns_lightning_power]

My first ever 5* and main before I got Xiao. Jean carried me throughout my lower AR days. I'm sad she isn't used as often in 2021 but I kinda understand powercreep

[@deonardomendez9426]

I love Jean. As someone who not to long started, i want her soo much. Sustain is so useful to me,, cuz lets face it, constantly cooking is soo tideous😭

[@Hadeshi.]

I play with Jean since Sept. 28, 2020. 10 pulls on Noelle's Banner she was the 1st thing that popped on my screen, even before a 3 stars weapon

[@kwayke9]

I think she's going to get a lot better once we get reliable cleanses that aren't Bennett. Sunfire+XL enables stuff like vape Mona/Barbara already. Imagine self swirling electro in quicken teams, or cryo in reverse melt For anemo teams, she only gets really good at c4, unfortunately. And if you're into anemo teams, you probably have Faruzan already, probably above c2 as well... plus, you'd rather want Venti, Kazuha or Sucrose for off field pressure if you wanna go triple anemo, not another healer Also, anyone has a spare Jean? She keeps dodging my primos (Sep 5th 2023 edit: Not anymore, lost Zhongli to her)

[@dewianjani8021]

I lost my 50/50 on her when I pulled for Wanderer.

[@CritsVG]

Jean used to be a staple unit on my Xiao team, but of course that's out the window now that we have Faruzan. I still very much do love her, but before she reaches C4 I really don't see myself slotting her in very much.

[@christopher6600]

Jean was my go-to Anemo support for Xiao for the longest time. Now that I have C6 Faruzan I doubt I'll ever have a use for Jean again, lol. Kind of a shame.

[@samiam7327]

Jean has always been a character that I never took much interest in, but maybe one day I might decide to level her up more, because she’s actually a decent support.

[@germanml8599]

Following this channel since the begging, I love this videos but this is the first time I'm surprised with the content. She's a very consistent healer who heals the whole team, perfect to reduce resistances and a plus of damage and crowd control. Didn't thought she was unpopular.

[@lstsoul4376]

Because she is easily replace by more specialist character. Only advantage that I see of using her is that she can cover many roles.

[@KyOgReE]

Raiden sunvape is my favorite team because I get to use Jean

[@Rayhaku808]

Jean is probably going to see a significant increase in use again with Bennett when we get the Cryo Abyss Herald. Sunfire is absolutely going to destroy that thing.

[@sofitssofi]

I have been a Jean main since December 2020, so this video made me so happy. She saved my ass in Dragonspine, which convinced me to build her. I wasn't fond of her character in the story nor of her playstyle, but I have grown so attached to her after 3 years of exploring nations, fighting for my life in domains, trying her out with different supports, weapons and artifacts, she has become my go-to for most content. Absolute favorite unit to play with! She's still not in my top 10 Genshin characters non-meta wise, but keep in mind I started negatively due to harassment of Jeanluc fans.

[@vulpesfawkes5863]

I’ve enjoyed slapping her ult down with Ayato’s in taser teams, but yeah, she’s harder to work with. Still love her, though. I was so happy when I finally got her. I’d love to have more constellations too, but Qiqi keeps haunting me instead.

[@Tylercx3]

Can’t wait for the “Why no one plays Dehya” video…

[@gustykraken]

I defeated raiden in the story using Physical Jean. She hasn't left my team since. I also use the jean bennet burst combo to consistently apply pyro (when im not using xianling) and acheive massive vape/overoad with xinqui and razor

[@PaulHofreiter]

This one is a little weird - I think plenty of use Jean for Sunfire but the only argument was “why do that when Kazuha exists”. And then “Jean doesn’t fit on Raiden National” when you have Raiden Sunfire. Idk if maybe it’s harder to find characters to do these videos on but Jean doesn’t come off as a “why no one plays” candidate at all compared to some of the others featured like Amber, Xinyan etc.

[@xxx_lolidestroyer69_xxxuwu58]

True tbh. It's not like Jean has fundamental problems to begin with. Even units like Ganyu & Hu Tao has one. The only problem about Jean is "there are better options". The same goes to Albedo as well.

[@sleeplessnarcolept6541]

I usually run her with Aloy, Yanfei, and Venti. She's great forcing enemies to hit the ice bombs! Great for repositioning and healing

[@danielraaa9265]

Mother Jean making a comeback after Furina, I KNOW THATS RIGHT

[@kamma44]

I love the block channel addon for Firefox!

[@christopher6600]

12:38 Idk why people consider Xiao "average." Not burning you at the stake, I just genuinely don't get it. You're gonna need to make a Xiao video to explain. He's always been my go-to DPS despite having hyper invested into Hu Tao, Ganyu, Ayaka, etc... He's always felt competitive while being braindead easy to play. And now with C6 Faruzan he feels absolutely cracked.

[@lstsoul4376]

Because he is average at c0 at least.

[@christopher6600]

@@lstsoul4376 At c0 he can output 100k+ plunges in a wide AoE with an additional 40k+ collision on primary target. How is that "average"? That's competitive with the top DPS units for both single target and AoE.

[@DarkeshiDraws]

I think the only thing Jean need to be broken is a support unit that infuse anemo on weapon (like benneth, chongyung or candance), we already have the desert pavilion set, Faruzan that decrease anemo res and own Jean C2 and C4 alongside his high and fast charge attack multipliers, add a weapon like the skyward blade or even the black sword and thats gonna be pretty nutty

[@Karmaaa5]

This video didn't age too well

[@lemons5026]

she was my first 5 star, i love her so much i got her skin and 2 5 star weapons 4 her, favonious and freedom sworn 🕺🏻

[@danielgomez-om9zd]

Now the video: why everyone plays Jean XD

[@Rui-mika-001]

I have to give credit where credit is due and say that jean carried me in the early days as she's the first character i ever pulled and even after pulling kazuha,maxing out sucrose and getting wanderer i still use her wether as scara support or main dps she's just so fun

[@Volair]

Using Jean in this last abyss made it a lot more doable. There's better for DPS, but she's still a fantastic pick.

[@CuriusGorg]

"Anemo is a very competitive element as you never want to have 2 in one party" friendship exp: 😐

[@Niixaltro]

indeed.

[@lesavonval]

This series is awesome, I find it really interesting to listen to these analysis videos. I first discovered this channel after thinking to myself, “huh, I never see anyone play Klee, I wonder why.” So I looked it up and have been watching since! I was wonder, will you be making a video on Candace someday? I feel like when she came out a lot of people forgot about her- myself included. She seems to have some problems utility-wise, too. Anyway, have a great day!

[@anyaaa2801]

I'm confused about Candace's role? Like is she an Ayato support or something?

[@dikcheeez6303]

Jean is a great unit for mono element teams that aren't pyro or for aggravate, she's meant to be a VV applier and healer. I got my Jean with raiden c3, sara c6, nahida c0 and i clear super fast their half of f12.

[@MidinVal]

Furina: "Are you sure about that?"

[@paulyvii]

I found her very strong in the early days before we had Rational, Dendro teams in general, and Ayaka. I can use her for fun whether it be in Abyss or easy open world, but overall other characters do way more damage or provide more for the team I'm running.

[@colorlessguard]

before i got Kazuha i would use sunfire Jean with my Raiden in abyss and it was SO much fun!! so glad you mentioned it bc i think it’s a highly underrated play style for Jean

[@stevenviljoen160]

Kazuha has just made my jean even better, he didn't replace her. Use him and rozarias bursts to apply cryo fast and Sunfire jean to melt it. When fighting tiny enemies I replace Kazuha for venti.

[@elfst.]

i think you only need well build sucrose and kazuha as an anemo character while hydro has so much to offer with so many different characters so i dont know where the idea of anemo being the strongest element in the game came from

[@FatuiHarbingerNo3]

3:33 forgive me if im wrong, but doesnt qiqis healing also scale off atk?

[@mlkywine6852]

Yeah Qiqi does

[@Sinder-StinkyLlama]

the fact that he metions that jean be hard to get had me dying. since i have that exact issue with keqing and my jean is C3(f2p)

[@xycamore2721]

Good thing Furina saved her

[@Lance-fx9rg]

Jean is my first 5 star character when I get her on Noelle's banner. She greatly helped me during my first few months playing.

[@MrSharkswith]

The combo of C2 Jean and Yun Jin with any auto attack dps (Hu Tao, Wanderer, Yoimia, Eula, etc) is a lot of fun and works well since those are mostly focused on single target DPS, meaning Jean's lack of CC isn't noticeable. I still run her in most of my exploration teams and she sees a lot of use in Spiral Abyss for me. (but I may be bad at the game so...)

[@napkinx4341]

this video aged terribly 😭😭

[@RHDYTstudio]

Why?

[@TheDarkZoren]

@@RHDYTstudio Jean is the best healer to pair with Furina while giving resistance shred.

[@janthateclair3937]

IKR

[@NeverGonnaGiveyuCheese]

I got jean at 86 pity while pulling for kazuha But she still carried me as a dps back in my low ar days

[@VQ5V2]

What happened to Jean video when?

[@dragold456]

When you sit down and think about Jean in way wants a bit of what sayu has and vice versa, sayu and Jean are the exact same charecter however they are both missing something the other has. For example sayu has the ability to swirl off her skill and burst while Jean can’t swirl as good but can crowd control anemo cleanse and better energy generation while as anem res shread. Sayu also gets benefits from an em build but jean barely does.