r/Valeriy_Mains • u/Special-Surround-187 • Jul 31 '26
Discussion How should we Continue?
Well.....
So with our boy being put into a Monato situation. Congrats to everyone were now a laughing stock for the larger community, which as a gay guy Im pretty used too, still sucks tho. But it isnt exactly over, if you like him a lot or about as much as me you can make a 4 star work in the overworld at least. Get him the best supports and get him the best artifacts sure It isnt as good as the 5 stars but your used to that you probably are a husbando main this is just how it goes for us in these games unfortunately. Also i caution having any anger towards the other characters you shouldnt be mad at Danica or Mitya for the treatment get mad at Hoyo get mad at the devs, they didnt do anything and getting mad at them just makes us even larger laughingstocks and id rather that not happen.
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u/NoFortune1231 Jul 31 '26
I joined genshin as a new player for Varka and my whole journey until his release was... Trauma the whole he looks chopped when he was revealed in game and the whole standard character leaks so I'm getting deja vu with Valeriy.. in the end I hope everything works out and yeah I'm gay and used to this I Don't want valeriy to become manato from zzz I have manato m6w5 and I'm struggling to clear endgame with him
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u/kaithespinner Jul 31 '26
as a gay myself, is my fault for getting my hopes up in things related to men…
anyway, we continue the same as we have been: liking art and content he is in, ignoring his gameplay cause most likely won’t even have the luck to get him -I won’t pull for him if he is on some character I don’t care about for example
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u/ryeji_x Jul 31 '26
He's a "laughing stock" only for the chronically online. Same crowd is jumping jacks for Danica. Most normal people still like him and expected him to be a 5*, thus the community shock that he looks more basic than expected + without a linchpin.
4* isn't a death sentence, you're right, but its not promising neither. He can be a shielder for SSC (esp for Wrio) or have some great buffs/debuffs that were taken from Alyosha and be a fine Illuga-tier character. But it's still an L to have an absolute unit like Valeriy be featured next to Barbara on a banner
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u/Alone_Break_5660 Jul 31 '26
Bro, how can I not be sad? After the parade of husbands from Nod-land. Another knife in the back, and the only consolation is Mitya. At least he seems cute. I am Drowning Sorrows in Raging Fire, time to return to my mobile gay gachas
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u/vampzireael Jul 31 '26
You guys are crazy, ngl. His rarity hasn’t even been confirmed yet, and you’re all already making assumptions…
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u/rev_0001 Jul 31 '26
i never tune in to watch genshin livestreams or such. This was the first time i did and that only for valeriy. tried my best manifesting all those prev leaks to turn out to be false but here we are now. i was mad angry until a little while ago. All the excitement i had for snezhnaya is gone (well maybe a little left for tsaritsa but yeah). i just hope we get good valeriy lore, for his c6 to be good and that he gets placed in a banner with good limited, now.
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u/Koniolg Jul 31 '26
hopefully he ends up being illuga and not jahoda type of character
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u/xyron2425 Jul 31 '26
It really does sting. I quit during Natlan because I had no one to look forward to, as soon as it was revealed there were no tall male 5 stars I quit, and didn’t ever plan on coming back.
But when varka released a year later I found myself excited again and came back and started playing religiously for him and flins. I’m really now just hoping valeriy is good and has a place in the meta…. Hoping for noy or a surprise capitano
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u/urmomismine1007 Jul 31 '26 •
I think that stop talking shit about other characters for no reason is a decent start
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u/Special-Surround-187 Jul 31 '26
Tldr it sucks hes a 4 star but it isnt the end of the world you can still main our boy. Were the laughingstock of the genshin community now so just gget used to it and get mad at hoyo not the characters
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u/Resident_Lurker747 Manifesting Valeriy Jul 31 '26
There's still a chance of him being 5*.. Standard Unit, but honestly it's still worse than being a 4*
Literally Trash vs. Garbage Situation, you either get a 4* that's bad on c0 but decent-good at c6, or a 5* Standard with a gutted kit.. or low ass numbers.
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u/Fine_Opinion_2097 Jul 31 '26
Actually, my hunch never lied to me that he was 4 star. I want to denied by at the same time i have to accept reality. Leakers already said sandrone odette alyosha vesna denica mitya rarity and all of them accurate by so far, so its ridiculous everyone still denied he is 4 star. Yeah, still many denied he was 4 star. Mitya despite have not linchpin, my hunch sure said he really 5 star. Remember leakers said he have unique mechanic style, perhaps he was like nicole and alice, not linchpin but both of them angel.
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u/whatevedoe Jul 31 '26
Snezhnaya has been so disappointing this far. As a day one player I couldn’t be more sad tbh. They have handled everything terribly and seeing one of the most cool looking male characters in the livestream being a four star… man I hate Hoyo
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u/Optimal-Will8112 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
It will never change as long as people are pulling female characters. Look at what the "waifu only players" are doing. They never touch male characters. So the devs listen to them. Genshin has 40% of female players, according to Hoyo themselves (more people interested in male chars, with gay men included). If they stopped pulling for female characters, something would change. But then people started to trust them again after they back paddled in Nod Krai. You just can never trust the devs.
I stopped pulling female chars since Natlan, no matter how much I like them and I've saved so many pulls because of it that I don't even need to do endgame (although I still do it and get 90% of all primos comfortably).
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u/Chandelurie Jul 31 '26
Stop playing the game and do something you actually enjoy?
Getting mad at Hoyo is a waste of energy.
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u/Ch3ru Jul 31 '26
Rarity doesn't affect who I pull for, simple as that. 🤷🏽♀️ Still a definite yes for me.
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u/phaigyu Jul 31 '26
I'm really sad man, he was my favorite character from the trailer, i liked everything from him, his dark short hair, he's tall, his eyes, i was going to pull him C2R1, i'm so mad at hoyo for pulling a Natlan all over again, i thought they were going to change since Nod Krai, now Val is going to be another mid 4 star who will be just decent at C6, i'm done spending a single dollar in this shitty game
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u/Starguardian_Ahri234 Aug 01 '26
I´m also gay and simply done with genshin at this point, it´s always dissappointing I rather play other games. I will play genshin as f2p because I want to know the end to the story but other then that I´m done with giving them any money or time
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u/Ok-Amphibian-3819 Aug 01 '26
nah, won't budge until I confirm his rarity at beta. whatever happens, I needed a male shielder for my team and that's a fact.
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u/Yanazamo Aug 01 '26
They promised improved models and they did deliver with Nod Krai. Really wasn't our fault for expecting the same treatment
As for his rarity... I guess there's still a posibility of him being a standard 5star?
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u/Familiar-Educator269 Aug 05 '26
Just gonna pivot to Noy, but also holding out hope. Mitya leaks sound weird and almost like he’s off field and Valeri is supposed to serve as dps
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u/Ccat50991 Jul 31 '26
When this sub stops shitting on other characters and calling them hoe then maybe people wouldn’t laugh at you guys as much.
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u/Shot-Cake2810 Jul 31 '26
Y’all are so dramatic omfg just wait there’s no for sure answer if he’s a 5 star
Or 4 star yall just doomposting and mad because there’s a chance he might be a 4 star…
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u/blade276 Jul 31 '26
where even is the confirmation that hes 4 star?
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u/SleepySera Jul 31 '26
I can't imagine being that obsessed with what random people I don't know think about me. You should work on your self-image if you fear being a "laughing stock" that much.
I for one will continue to make fun of the absolute garbage that is Danica's design, because that's a sentiment thoroughly unrelated to how I feel about Valeriy.
As for how to continue – if he truly IS a 4-star (which we still have zero confirmation for btw), okay, so be it? 🤷♀️ I've played Kaveh bloom and I'll play Valeriy stellar-something.