Why NO ONE Plays Natasha // Honkai Star Rail

Why does no one play Natasha? She's a free, four star abundance unit, surely she has some players... right? Well, watch this video to find out more!
- Aidads ;)

[@NotAlejoZen]

I...have to agree. Natasha is just a healer with nothing extra on the sides. A good one for the start of the game, where mobs have physical weakness and only hit one of your units per turn, but in the boss fights on the Luofu, especially Phantylia and her debuffs, you can see how she would start lacking. And I don't even want to remember the suffering I went through with the Swarm King. That being said, she will always have a special place in my personal MVPs, just like Barbara. As someone who started in 2.0, she was my only sustain available. I got Clara in standard at a moment where my only options in promotional were DPS and buffers, and I was too dumb to maximize M7's taunt mechanics. I also couldn't get Lynx because I had no second team for Pure Fiction, so she basically carried my entire playthrough until the end of 2.1. Thankfully right now I have both Aventurine and Fu Xuan, because if Swarm and Gold taught me something, is that Preservation units are the superior sustainers.

[@blackadder5346]

I never got to use Nat because I obtained lynx before I got her (I have Gallagher now and there's basically no other abundance I want other than Luocha), but I do agree with this video completely

[@Aidadsgaming]

Yeah, I never built Natasha bc I got lucky with Bailu and Gepard at the time. And then I built Lynx when she came out. Gallagher and Luocha is all you need for abundance tbh

[@blackadder5346]

@@Aidadsgaming Yeah, and she has even less value now that i'm using a break effect team, it's a shame because as a character I think she's really cool but Hoyo undercooked her so hard.

[@Aidadsgaming]

@@blackadder5346 fr she’s so fun in the story, I wish she was better

[@AmuletRebel]

My annual report for HSR was almost all Natasha. She has almost 9K HP and her Ultimate saved me way too many times. Yes and I did have Gepard but Natasha's gameplay was a lot better for me since her skill healed alongside her burst. Unlike Gepard who only gave a shield with his Ultimate. ....Though I did retire her once Adventurine and his cracked shields came out.

[@blackadder5346]

Wait, you have both Gepard and Aventurine in a team?

[@Aidadsgaming]

Damn your Natasha sounds cracked. I feel that though, I retired Gepard once Aventurine came out 😅

[@dominickhubred4376]

I beat Sam by out-healing his damage when everyone else was dead

[@saix_unicorn]

because i have Gallagher and he manage to keep my baby cowboy alive

[@testaccrun4830]

honestly they did natasha so dirty in hsr. in hi3rd natasha is my ranged fire support for HoF

[@wongo6828]

I remember fighting the Abundance Deer for the first time all the way back in 1.0, Natasha was still my only healer and I wasn't a huge fan of shields that time and that deer was able to wipe out the entire team with its charge attack except for Natasha. I just found it really funny that she was lowkey my strongest built unit at that point despite obtaining Seele and Himeko who can easily kill the deer. Edit: Her E1 was definitely the reason why she survived the attack

[@symzae]

As someone who played a lot at launch, and then stopped playing much as time went on but recently came back with the release of Penacony, I still use Natasha just cus she’s one of the few characters I had built 😭

[@Lordjunimon]

I like Natasha, she is a healer I used until I reached the 300 standard pull and picked Bailu (yes I did that but I literally had no healer outside her), I don't consider preservation characters healers and prefer to avoid using them (at one point I used both Fire MC with Nat lmao). Of course, I no longer use her due to getting broken midgets (Fu Xuan and Huo Huo) but I'd say she is still solid for newer players. For the people that started playing the game on the first month of release, yeah maybe you will drop Nat because you pulled something better but for newer players she will be clutch as she was for all of us at one point.

[@Aidadsgaming]

That’s a good point! I think her heals are competent enough for new players and will def be good for them until they get a better one tbh.

[@Jg-928]

Great video! Really fun editing, and the music was really good. And yeah, Natasha is really suspicious as a healer especially when compared to the just-as-accessible competition :( I’d personally love to see an Arlan video though!!

[@Heshu-i2t]

She's that one healer who's supposed to cure her team once all are on the verge of death

[@swiftiesy]

this was a great video. honestly can tell that there was a lot of effort into this. u earned a sub

[@Aidadsgaming]

Thank you!!

[@arandomfan2]

Yea so i main nat and now firefly i use nat and gallegher she is usefull bc ner ulti has only 90 cost wich is actualy usefull and break efect is also pretty good (she removes debufs too) im in penacony she is still one of my favorite units

[@virtue3664]

8:32 [setting: Luofu, with Mr. Coffin-Bearer in the background] nails in the coffin…. who’s that blonde!? *lynx jumpscare*

[@Diana03656]

I didn't knew that nobody uses her until now. She is my main somehow, and my only kind of build character.

[@its_dark_girl9811]

natasha definitely carried my team far(like to phantylia) until the game told me to use geppy by giving him to me 3 times in a row(dhil banner + 20 standard pulls). the only other sustains i switch to are luocha(debuff team), gallagher(debuff, bad break team, or right element type) or sometimes bailu(right element type). i just havent properly built lynx yet lmao

[@akarifuyuki9763]

She is my most used character. She is the most suitable healer for my teams.

[@angeldiaz762]

Ever since Phantylia I've been reluctant to use her, and now that I have Bailu and Gallagher, I just run them. The Game8 tier list puts Natasha at A right now, but she should be in B.

[@GabrielMichaelDels]

I still use Natasha, like she was a life saver for me during the entire Belebog & Xianzhou sagas. And even more so on Penacony. I refuse to drop her. I refuse!!

[@kjriwoutube]

I used nataxha until last week when got bailu from standard banner

[@MatheusWuz]

yeah, Natasha is just a free basic character that gets outclassed by every other abundance type later, the only reasn I kept using her was bacousa she was already build and I didn't wanted to build Lynx lol

[@AdrianArmbruster]

I mean, she's Barbara in an environment where that role is much more regimented and less able to exceed with weird team comps and synergies. She heals. She'll do that quite well actually. She can even cleanse, giving her a leg up on Bailu. But it's just that's all she'll do. FWIW my Nat ults freakishly quick and so hasn't really had trouble keeping other characters alive. It's just that all other sustainers, tank or healer, are naturally going to have some niche that allows for better synergy than the designated bare-bones healer.

[@Heshu-i2t]

I used her as a DoT healer back then

[@soulfulhuman8724]

There should be a feature to hide chracter on the characters section. I just dont want to see my retired character being there whenever i open the characters screen and felt bad that they are powercreeped and is no longer usable in most contents now. Also its waste of money bcz people used real money to acquire them.

[@rektarduno9153]

When lynx and huohuo came out, everyone knew she’s fucked 😂

[@loushia16]

Nat carried me for the first few months of the game, especially in early SU. Her debuff cleanse and self-res clutched out so many battles for me. It was her and Bailu for a long time. But then Fu Xuan changed the very definition of "sustain" for me and I never looked back. Nat is a strong starter healer with good utility for a free 4*, but even the few recent 4* sustains we've gotten since her have been better. I love everything about her but there's just no way she can keep up.

[@Aidadsgaming]

Nat is def a good early-mid game unit for sure… I just wish she was more competitive with the other 4 stars 🙂‍↕️

[@codycallaway9057]

I still use her bc she's the only good healer I have at the moment

[@kjriwoutube]

Until recently i only had a e0 lynx but a E6 natasha with best in slot LC and top 10 % relics for here so she better

[@LaxerGD]

i used to rely on her all the time since shes the only healer i got. now i got like gallagher, who heals so much better than natasha, and plus i need him for my firefly team. natasha does like, a shitty 400 hp heal while my gallagher does over 1k heal, plus his ult heals himself to almost full hp or just full hp.

[@OlexiVR]

One day we will receive a set working with overheal. It will buff her

[@akasui]

The curse of being the starting characters, they didn't even have main stat and force to use every stat. I think it's after Lynx that healers starting to using only hp as their main status.

[@Ahloveyafuhso]

Despite everything you said .. .my team would be literally dead without her so No I have worked really hard on mine and she always heals everyone with over 2000 hp especially when we need it the most. May I suggest you put a shield on Natasha when you are in battle to make the most to keep her surviving along with the team. Also so long as you are NOT competing with someone else.. Meta that term.. does not exist or count. This isn't yugioh or some other tcg.. so meta.. doesn't matter in this case.

[@oscarflorez1518]

I am one of those people that use her i pray one day she gets buffed or something

[@Asfwgutxi]

Unfortunately Hoyo isn’t well known for going back and buffing old characters, especially 4 stars. Natasha is definitely usable, but I would recommend to either build up the 300 warps on standard and choose Bailu, or wait and pull for a limited 5 star abundance/preservation character 😊

[@oscarflorez1518]

I refuse natasha wont leave my team

[@peterjutsu]

great analysis! i just wish you went with a different series name since this series is known to be a Vars' series. overall a great analysis thooo!

[@Aidadsgaming]

@@peterjutsu Ohhh? I honestly didn’t know tbh

[@BitsTheBest]

I’ve been using Natasha for 8 months

[@homeostasis1103]

She's just straight up bad, that's it. It was my most used character because i didn't have any sustainers for like 7 months except her. As soon as i got lynx/gepard i never used natasha again

[@boyonceknowles]

came to say i am genuinely probably the only 0.3% because i left the game for quite some time 😭

[@bryansonriemas3052]

Nope, I still use her to this day, and she is my main healer to this day, and I don't plan to change that 😃

[@LLBB1021]

She's a bad unit, but i really do like the esthetics, va, and lore of Natasha. HSR is such a great game

[@irena4929]

Vars alt?💀

[@blazingunicorn4035]

I saw this video and was intrigued I don’t play Honkai But I unfortunately know who she is… she’s an underworld doctor… unskippable for months… So I’m gonna take a guess that the final answer is “People were traumatized by the ads”

[@Aidadsgaming]

Nice to meet you, I’m Natasha, an underworld doctor. Feeling sick? 😷

[@blazingunicorn4035]

@@Aidadsgaming NO I AM NOT SICK, NATASHA THE UNDERWORLD DOCTOR

[@ninjacharlie7729]

girl u aint vars

[@ML-kb7il]

If 3 star characters were a thing it would only have Natasha 😂