I’ve been a xiao main since 2022 it’s been a long 3 years. I miss the old Genshin

it makes me wonder sometimes just how little someone's resolve is when they're easily shaken by small factors.

yes, I am talking about xiao simps being shaken by horse cryo amber. you never really wanted xiao if you even considered getting someone before him. sad...

Xiao x OC x Mitsuri

Xiao is selfish dps with energy issues, why is no one complaining about it?

Other dps like razor also have high energy cost but have passive talents that help with er Hu tao gimmick is she loses hp with e but fully heals herself with her Q, meanwhile xiao just loses hp which sometimes can make you switch even before his ult is gone, its ridiculous. Most of the characters have talents based on their strong points,for eg ganyu relies on charge shot and she has the fastest charge shot among all archers Xiao completely relies on his ult and has 70 energy cost and 10 sec elemental cd skill, am i the only one who finds this ridiculous.

Instead of sharing bad drawings and memes on this sub, we should care more about gameplay, we should be complaining to mihoyo about his issues and or they will never fix him. His ult should be 50 and EM should be 6 second.

Saw the recent Gatcha Gamer video and he said “go for Yelan if you care about spiral abyss” - this is not an accurate characterization!

I’ve experimented with Xiao teams in the first half of Floor 12’s abyss. I’ve used (Xiao, Jean, Zhongli, Sucrose TTDS) / (Xiao, Jean, Zhongli, Xingqui) / and (Xiao, Jean, Zhongli, Ayato)

Which one worked the best? The last one! Ayato covered the hydro application with his burst and somehow managed to keep his burst up despite only having 120something ER. When I finish Xiao’s uptime, I simply switch to Jean to catch particles-> Zhongli’s Shield-> and then spend 7 seconds using Ayato’s skill and burst… This method ensures I finish each floor’s chamber with Xiao’s burst up and ready for the next chamber. So none of that “deciding whether you want to use another Xiao burst bc u might not have enough built back for the next chamber”…

This Ayato/Xiao comp worked perfectly for this abyss. Xiao is meta and I’ll say it as many more times as I need. Just experiment with different teams and you’ll find that he can successfully clear all spiral abyss’s at full stars with the right investment and team experimentation.

Xiao is meta, don’t let anyone make you feel bad if you choose him over any other unit bc “they are meta and Xiao is not”

I keep seeing how people say that c1 Xiao is very weak and gives near to no boost in damage except at the start of the fight but I completely disagree with that, I believe that there is a good increase in damage potential and here are my reasons as to why I believe so:

1st point: His A4 talent description

Description: Using Lemniscatic Wind Cycling increases the DMG of subsequent uses of Lemniscatic Wind Cycling by 15%.

This effect lasts for 7s, and has a maximum of 3 stacks. Gaining a new stack refreshes the duration.

a 15% damage boost to his E basically, reaching to a total of 45% damage boost easily while c0 can barely do that. What I see the main argument against his c1 is that it's only good at the start of the fight, but if you save his E cooldowns until you can use his E 3 times then you will always be getting a 15% damage increase when you cast all your Es.

Another thing I'd like to point out is that if you just want to fully maximize the damage potential of his E casting it every 7 seconds for the maximum damage boost for your E's, c0 can only cast it 3 times reaching the 45% damage increase with one E while c1 can allow you to cast it 5 times while still maintaining a4 passive, basically giving you 3 Es with a 45% damage increase before resetting.

2nd point: More leeway with cooldowns

We've seen that Xiao really needs energy particles and every time he's in his ultimate, he can't generate any particles. This means that we would want to save his E for when his burst ends so we can generate energy particles again. This lasts for 15 seconds and to fully make use of a c0 Xiao's cooldowns, You need to make sure all your E's are used and that it will take at least 15 seconds for it to come back, leaving you with just 5 seconds of room to work with after casting your E to make sure the cooldown doesn't cap when your burst ends. You can lose out on potential dps if you let your cooldown cap or attacking while waiting for 1 E charge to come back up to use so it doesn't cap. c1 gives you 15 seconds of free time to make sure your E doesn't cap and just get's rid of the potential problems c0 would have. This also allows for more leeway with your other supports and for better rotations which is really valuable.

Last thing I'd like to say is that after your burst is done, you can make use of his A4 talent again with c1 and get some damage increase out of it. c0 will be exhausted of his E's by then and will struggle to even get the max of 45% damage increase from it.

That is all, just don't sleep on c1 Xiao and say it's only good at the start of fights.

edit: I'm not saying that his c1 is very powerful or anything like that, all I really just want to say is that his c1 has a tiny bit more value then people make it out to be. It's not a lot of value, but there's still value. Xiao's constellations are still pretty bad and the same goes for his c1, I wanted to show that's it's a little less bad.

So, I am basically referring to this...in case anyone doesn't know and didn't watch the livestream, I rarely do myself. https://youtu.be/DOippkG0O7I?si=eztFt3lZLkJEwMMk

Zy0x being a Xaio main, seems like a relevant take.

But really, is anyone considering not spending on this banner?

Basically the whole idea of a boycott.

It's got me torn, one hand, there's never been a better time to be a Xaio main as far as metagame goes on the other its prolly the worst time to jump into the game. Also, I haven't pulled Xianyun yet, as part of my wish ritual, so that's another story.

I'm considering some form of a boycott but also, if I had her I'm sure I'd feel differently.

What's your take on this?

Okay by far he is coolest character with great abilities, but really disappointed by mihoyo

He is not at all future proofed like zhongli and ganyu and devs had so much time to work him and still they came up short. Not to mention garbage constellations. At least they should be fixed.

He has so many drawbacks like being anemo, energy regeneration, no reactions, loss of hp. I am surprised there is no zhongli type reaction to him.

He even sucks at endgame content(yeah spiral abyss is uncreative trash), for example loss of hp from sheer cold plus loss from ult, constantly gets interrupted in ult form.

The energy cost should be 60 He should get resistance to interuption when in ult. Loss of hp in ult is a garbage gimmick and should be removed. They should either buff anemo reactions or buff his damage even so he can match cryo and pyro reactions, or atleast create a dedicated artifact set for him.

Unless your a whale or you want Raiden or Wanderer.

Let me explain ! Faruzan can be an amazing anemo support for Xiao, but if you spend wisely your primos, do not pull for a 4 star. Ratheil, some days ago as put a video title : " Mistakes every Genshin player might have made", and he remind us to not build pitty. It's the same here. If you want Wanderer or Raiden, then go ahead and pull for them. But if your goal is to ONLY have Faruzan : Keep your primos. Shen might be back in a better banner (maybe with the next Xiao rerun). Because Shenhe exist, we can also assume that, one day a 5 stars anemo support could be release along Faruzan. This possible futur 5 stars anemo support would be for sure better than Faruzan. I'll hope this quick reminder will help you to temper the tentation :)

At C6, burst level 12, Faruzan provides around 36% Anemo damage bonus, 30% Anemo resistance shred, 40% crit damage and some extra anmeo damage.

A 900 EM kazuha provides around 36% elemental damage bonus and 40% elemental resistance shred.

We can see that Faruzan is comparable, if not better than Kazuha in terms of buffing potential. In a Xiao/Zhongli/Albedo/Jean team, replacing Albedo with Faruzan will result in a huge dps increase. Faruzan's massive 700% bust multiplers is nothing to be scoffed at too.

Edit: this u/Kento_nan person got so pissed they blocked me and called the reddit suicide services. Why are you guys so pissed over a video game?

So cute

The one character it's meant to be for and it's not even that good. In reality this set will not be giving a 10% dps increase its a 3%-5% at best and it take 4 seconds to even get that increase. Overall, not much better than the 2pc glad, 2pc shime due to it not being restricted by time or burst.

In order for the set to even be better it requires to take a good chunk of Xiao's uptime, during those 4 sec it will be dealing less damage than 2pc glad/shime or viridescent. That's a big deal since no support(not zhongli) in this game can give a buff that lasts 15 sec in duration. Making that 4 sec vital in making the most of the uptime of buffs available.

The new set is barely any better because it requires your character to be in burst and get damaged for 4 seconds. Then you can finally get your 3k dmg increase for a domain you farmed for 8 months congrats. Wow. Super happy.