everyone plays Raiden , because Raiden makes almost every unit better, she gives energy, elemental burst damage, consistent electro application and off field damage, PLUS her owm damage is competitive on every level f2p or whale, and she has the most busted early constellation in the game "C2". not to mention she is one hot mama
the thing i value most about Raiden is her her ability to recharge the whole party and her kit all build into ER is great design as well. At first people don't realize how valuable her ability as a party battery can be and until now a lot of people i met still don't, they only care about her big pp dmg number from c2
I legit dont understand why people didnt think she was good during her release, were people so caught up on overworld solo burst crit numbers they actually dismissed her strength within abyss scenarios
like I love this game but I've never seen such a massive portion of any gaming community have such incredibly out of touch perspectives of character strength, like people ranking bennet as amongst the worst characters during 1.0
@@renzbolado153 the thing is even at C0 when build decent she still can hit for 100-200k on initial burst in the abyss with proper team rotations, I 100% agree with you. I have C2 now but C0 Raiden impressed me from day 1. Also the last 3 abyss’s, another hated character Kokomi has been amazing for me as a DPS on Ocean clam set. She has been clearing abyss with ease, and her ability to quickly heal and not get staggered in her ult is so valuable. This community hates everyone on release and it’s sad.
My biggest issue with her is her not having any use outside the national team. In Eulas team it's better to just have diona + Yae for batterying and electro application and TTODS buff. A sub dps for Yoimiya? Childe dishes out more dmg while utilizing Yunjin's buff during Yoimiya DownTime and this whole team doesn't need any energy with Yunjin using favonius and bennet being built with energy recharge from the start. She doesn't even fit in a freeze time because superconduct unfreezes the enemies. Honestly, just being a battery always makes me think of her as nothing necessary because very few teams have a desperate need for burst without having a support that is just as effective as raiden while having more utility than her outside the battery work.
@@renzbolado153 i don't think people did think she was weak, there was just a loud minority of people and content creators who were saying it. i''m someone with kazuha, someone who pulled for kazuha despite saving for another character specifically BECAUSE of how good he was and how good everyone was saying he was as a buffer. something like a 5 star bennett was what they were calling him during his banner, at least in the places i frequented. same story with raiden. even to this day i keep hearing people parrot the talking points against raiden during her banner, the biggest one being she "only" refills 24 energy or something... lol yeah she refills 24 energy, per enemy hit... just make sure you hit multiple enemies during your burst window and she will refill her own burst before the cooldown is up. i realized this day one of her first banner, and its amazing people still don't understand how she works... i'm always confused when i hear people talking about all the characters who they thought were weak and skipped them, but here i am with all of those characters for the exact opposite reason. did people literally not pay attention or read their kits? the only characters that are now considered good after their banners that i had initially skipped were the ones that got buffed later, (zhongli, albedo, kokomi i might get at some point but i'm still not super convinced she's worth getting for me personally) i also skipped venti the first time cause i didn't want him at the time, since it was early on and didn't understand limited banners, and i missed his second rerun because i didn't have enough wishes saved up when he was announced. got him on the current rerun simply because i skipped a bunch of banners to save up specifically for him.
we all know she's great in the game itself but i like how you take her splendid marketing in trailers and godly powerful appearances in archon quests into account too
@ The only problem I have with Ei is you'd think she'd sound more like the Shogun than Baal since she is the warrior twin but its more of a nitpick than anything.
@ how was it her "doom?" Her sales are still sky-high, she tops every tier list, and remains a well-loved character in the community. That's like saying Venti being a worthless drunk bard somehow "ruins" his character.
As a F2P, I always had the mentality that getting more 5 star characters is better than constellations until I got Raiden during her rerun. She's so fun, versatile, and powerful even at C0. I went from struggling in floor 10 to reaching floor 12-3 for the first time after I got her. Farming artifacts for her has never felt like a waste either because I got some great pieces for my other characters in the process. Overall, Raiden drastically improved my entire account. I'm honestly thinking about saving for her C2 after getting Kazuha because she's convinced me that she deserves it.
More character the better, because abyss meta will change, just like the current abyss, u can see her usage go down because of rational can't handle small mobs because of overload, u can still 36 star with her, but u get better clear time if u replace her with anemo unit like sucrose
As someone who broke his Genshin Budget to make sure Shogun had C2 and Engulfing Lightning...it is absolutely worth it. I spent WAY too much money during that banner, but I do not regret investing in Shogun. Every time her burst kicks off and she absolutely CHUNKS whatever giant monster I'm fighting...it's just the best. Boss monsters either get one-shot or lose 85%+ health in the opening blast. She's an absolute queen.
C2 is great since Raiden goes from a sub-dps to pretty much a main dps. I love using her so much I got her all the way to C3 (I didn’t want engulfing as weapon banner is evil and it is with the useless Kokomi doughnut).
She carried me so hard in abyss & did 130k initial slash (fullstack) despite my crap build. She was amazing so imagine how shocked i was when i found out people thought she was bad when she was released Update: thanks to the new event, she hit 179k 🎉
@@alchemy-the-animated-series my build is 78:101 with 1.7k atk & 250% ER. I got the big number while in bennett's circle & with mona's ult since my xingqiu's busy with hutao. Raw full stack without buff than yeah, pretty similar to your resultd
"compared to other batteries, Shogun is a nuclear reactor - including the nukes" This is the most on point analogy in the history of analogies, lol. Really enjoyable video, keep it up - and hail to the all mighty Shogun!
Litteraly that line made me want to pull for her. To see if its actually true As an owner of a F2P obtained C2 Raiden, she does live up to batterying teams whilst still obliterating anything she sees
As a joke or not, maybe later we get to see NPCs dressing as Ei as an aspiration of who the inazumans wants to be. I mean, we can see a cheap knock-off Yae in Ritou plaza during the current event. Think of it like when Jorah sees a prostitute dressing like the Khaleesi in season 5.
Tbf at the very first model leak she did look similar to Ying'er But eh what do I care I've been hot and crazy about her ever since I heard she's a mommy way before her model was even leaked
I remember when she was released and people were still saying, meh, underrated. I had gone ahead and pulled for her anyway and was like, oh no, did I really make a mistake after skipping all these other characters that were similarly marked as unnecessary? Nope, she's great, and now everyone wants her.
@@riverajustinmarks. yes i agree, thats also more reason for this communities to judge a characters after a couple of days, and be more carefull in the future, especially for the content creators
@@jellomello984 I mean he IS 5 a star sucrose, everyone was just dumb and underestimated sucrose, especially at that time EM just got buffed, and before that sucrose was a mediocre character so that sentence means completely different now and then. Sucrose is one of the strongest 4-star characters with high damage (especially against 2 or more enemies), easy to build, and great at buffing on top of decent CC which is exactly what Kazuha does too just slightly differently. The difference is each has their own team where they shine brighter than others. Sucrose taser is cracked even against single target even though it is specialized against group, and kazuha mono element team buffing is insane or double swirl childe international etc
I still at laugh when she was released people were saying she's "underwhelming" lmao that's one of the many times I realized that the genshin community don't know wtf they're talking about
Pretty sure they said it was underwhelming as an archon Was like a solid A level until the buff +players experimenting found better teams I could be wrong for the first statement but there was definitely a buff to Raiden after the first banner
I also heard that they were dissapointed in Zhongli because he wasn't good at dealing DPS, I could be wrong about this since I wasn't into genshin community at that time. But yeah genshin community is always ready to jump to conclusions most of the time so I stopped listening to them.
@@eraba661 I think that was because his shield was weak or something so they buffed the shield until it was op from what I heard Gonna have to dig up old news for info._.
I'll never forget the feeling of beating Spiral Abyss for the first time ever with only Raiden Shogun and Bennett being the only ones alive - I never have a team without the two of them on it for their respective utility purposes
yea they are cracked, only recently did I get enough 5 stars and resource to invest on teams without them, usually, I use Geo for the second team but now I have Morgana, Taser, and Eula team as well
Uri Bové yeah but that’s c1she goes from having a 90 cost burst to 66 so obviously she’s not going to have energy issues. But with a c0 miko not focused on er needs raiden or at least a fischl
Still love the little detail of shogun's puppet being the one to speak to you in the teapot if you haven't cleared the archon quest all the way up to the abolishment of the decree
Raiden is so good because you can pair her up with legit, any other character. The fact she can turn amber into an overloading explosive arrow machine, make Zhongli pillars teslas, be the best superconducter and electro charger. She just doesn't have a weakness in her kit
She also struggles against shielded enemies apart from a lack of self sustain. Which is why this week's abyss is the first time her usage plummeted by quite a lot since she has no usage against the Abyss lectors. Though next abyss she will no doubt climb to the top again.
@@Gadottinho I do agree she has a few easy to bypass weaknesses, but no Raiden works with every character we have in the game. Heck, even Beidou can benefit from her Ei
@@Gadottinho Lmao yes you can hahaha. With her loaded and universal kit and how easy the game you can definitely use her in every team even if it's weird it will work.
I’m a new player, and I get in right in time when Raiden banner rerun last month and when I met her 1st time in the archon quest I literally got goosebumps, and I’m so lucky to got her on last day of her banner 😢 and she officially became my 1st and only 5star ❤
As a recent player, she was my first 5* character (got lucky on her pity), and she has carried my team ever since. Quickswap burst rotations are made easy peasy with her batterying. Edit: also, it's really fun to imagine her saying "be deleted." during her burst's 1st strike
I totally agree, when we first come to Inazuma and realize what's going on there and see Raiden Shogun's power in full display. You start to think, "Who will help us this time?" and you realize that no one really can, you start to ask if Ayaka or Kokomi can even help us. The only person I can think up that could stand up against Ei was Yae Miko but then begs the question if she would.
Even by the end individually Ei is the strongest person in inazuma. traveler only managed ANYTHING because of their celestial power and cooperation from yae, the person that knows the most about yae and is likely second strongest in the nation.
One of the reasons why she is so popular is because of her beautiful aesthetic design as shown through numerous fan arts, cosplay, fan made stories, etc. She's even in some memes with her inability to cook. She also pairs with Yae's aesthetics.
I still remember that most people, myself included called her only decent at release, which was incredibly stupid in hindsight and it only took a few weeks to understand just how over powered she really is. At first most people probably thought she would be a good battery but little more, as she is an electro unit her dps while doing her burst can't beat real main dps and most already had working rotations. But not only is her damage on par with the strongest characters, only losing to the most broken ones like Hu Tao, her energy recharge for other characters is so insanely strong that even with little to no ER on them they can spam burst with almost no down time at all, which in turn can make almost every other character stronger.
if you mean characters who have their ults at the cost of like 40-60 then yes. Or if you have Raiden's signature weapon. If not - then bullshit, you have to invest in ER to have 100% uptime. If we are talking about the national team all of your units better have at least 180 ER.
@@ryzhik9608 Yeah saying little to no ER is going too far, she makes them morea achievable tho, Xiangling eats energy like no one else and with Raiden I have to funel only one Bennett E to get her to burst again but yeah they're all above 180 ER.
I've thought that raiden needed a buff for her duration of her isshin state but after pulling for her because of her cool animation and building her, her normal attacks and charged deal insane damage and there wasn't a need for a duration buff, plus it would make her more overpowered than she already is due to the energy regen she provides
Looking back, evaluating characters on release is flawed to hell and back. Most of us didn't have her BiS set stats yet, we didn't have her talents maxed, and of course we didn't quite have her teams figured out.
@@drakensgreed2350 I mostly pull for characters I like but when they seem strong I make sure I'll get them. I liked Raiden and I was a bit underwhelmed at the start but once I saw how she reduced my Eula battery to pretty much one Diona cast at worse I figured she might be good on other teams, never had I imagined that she would be my go to choice for one team in almost every abyss (not this one, this one doesn't want anything to do with her). Kokomi is the character I trashed and I stand by it, you don't need Kokomi, she makes things easier but I wouldn't advertise her as a "must" as most of the people say today. Short story, if I like the character I'll try to get him/her, I can 36 abyss with ease anyway, unless they come in Yae state then I'll riot.
Dang, it feels like all the Raiden controversy happened for nothing since wow when she came out she got so much backlash, definitely not as much as Kokomi but alot of people didn't find her to be good before and after release
@@maraisfan4life517 Beidou is the best DPS at c2 (better than raiden) so using Raiden with her is logical, raiden fills up beidou's burst, raiden buffs beidou's burst, Beidou's burst buffs raiden's burst, and Raiden can be on field doing damage and energy filling up while Beidou does off field damage.
@@maraisfan4life517 you don't need beidou but if it works she will be the most efficient character to pair with raiden shogun at the time and you know how it is with genshin players they want the biggest dps ever.
I still remember when she was first released. I wished on her banner despite people saying she's "bad" and "not good enough" and I'm glad I did. It was my luckiest pull session ever, as I got Raiden C2 with one copy of Keqing, Diluc and Qiqi each within 150 wishes. I double crowned her on the first day itself and took her for a spin in the abyss with my Eula, and boy she absolutely destroyed everything in sight. I was using Skyward Spine on her at the time and still her damage and utility was off the charts. Only people who hated her at her release were those who had misconceptions about her kit even before anything about her was released/leaked, most popular amongst them was her ability(or inability) to work with Beidou. And people were so mad about this that they started to downplay everything about Raiden just to satisfy their petty agendas. They blamed everyone from Mihoyo to the players who genuinely wanted her except themselves. Those number crunchers can never understand the value of the utility a character like Raiden brings to the team. It was so satisfying to see these same people pulling for her on her rerun.
Imagine speaking so high about utility when you're abusing c2 which is arguably the best constellation in the game. People were rightfully mad about the nonexistent interaction with Beidou as first, it was working in beta and was obviously made to not work and even the description changed for bs greedy reasons, and second, without her Raiden could only be run with Eula, a pretty niche and not exactly universally owned character. The discovery of Raiden national (which didn't happen in the first two weeks of the banner BTW) was literally her saving grace, without it she at c0 had no place in the meta.
I really love the way you talk in these videos. You sound very professional but also have room for some jokes and funny words. The informations in the video are also very easy to understand too. Looking forward to more content from you :)
I loved her even when she was just announced bcs raiden mei herrscher of thunder (honkai impact 3rd) is my favorite playable char on that game. And I promised to myself that no matter how bad she is, I'm gonna main shogun ⚡⚡⚡
Hot/Attractive. Check Archon. Check God-tier voice acting in all languages. Check Has amazing theme music. Check Is a fightable boss. Check Nearly broke sales records twice. Check Can be used in most teams. Check Can battery teams to spam bursts. Check Decent teams, damage and support at C0. Check Early cons to shred enemies. Check Farmable weapon for F2P, at the cost of sanity. Check BiS Artifact 4pc, from resin efficient domain. Check Simple kit mechanics. Check Beautiful attack/idle animations. Check Normal and spicy artwork. Check What else is there not to love about Raiden? Edit: Broke sales records TWICE. Check.
Marketed as a support character but deals damage like a main DPS, because this is Raiden Shogun in the game's lore. She supported her sister (first electro archon) from the shadows, and fought in her stead during battles. Everything about Shogun ties so perfectly!
Omg, you just reminded me of Scaramouche. Scaramouche is Ei's clone and he has the Electro gnosis with him and he's just running loose. Now I'm worried 0_0 On the other hand, if he becomes a playable character, I believe he SHOULD be almost on par with his mom/creator
I hadn't been really convinced until I finished her story. The character has so many facets interpreted by such a great voice actress that I used thousands of crystals to get her. And she's been in my team ever since.
@@TheElino In German the currency for "Gebete" ( = prayers, but it's wishes in the English version I think) is called "Urkristall", which can be translated as ancient crystal, first crystal or sth like that. Never played Honkai because my phone is too old for games like that, which is why I play Genshin on my PS4. 😃
@@MaskedBishop Ohhhhhhh so that's where you got that analogy from I'm actually German aswell lmao Since I never talk to anyone about the game in German cause of my rl friends noone plays genshin I only use the English name aka primogems even tho my game is also in German
Another thing to mention is that her trailer is single handedly the best one to ever release. Sorry Zhongli fans, But Nightmare is probably the best characterization in all of the game It conveys so much without speaking a word. It basically tells us the story of Ei with her speaking less than the traveler. A story of progress, grief, and the passage of time. Her friends died, and so did her sister. It's no wonder she wants to keep Inazuma in it's place forever, but she can't do that, as much as she tries. I'm personally a firm believer that she is the best part of the Archon quests along with Signora, but the mishandling of other aspects of the story (Resistance, Kokomi, other Fatui and Yae Miko) caused the story to fall apart. Regardless, I think her story is one of the best of the game Her story quests are some of the best in the game since in the first one she realizes how she can't keep the world forever is stasis because Inazuma kept changing even with how much she tried, and then she rectifies her mistake of being an observer and allowing Inazuma to go down into despair. In the second quest, she has to face the past in the form of Ley Lines and what happened 500 years ago, and then fight her old self (Raiden bot) in a battle for eternity. After that, she can finally talk to her sister one last time, before saying goodbye forever. It gives me chills every time I think about it
I loved her playstyle and character soo much that when I ran out of premogems and found all the chest I could (100% all the areas at the time) I went to grinded in this new area called outside, and got this new premium currency called cash by this event called a part time job that can be converted to primogems just to c6 her
Absolutely god-tier character. Rolled on her re-run and I don't regret it in the slightest. It's just a shame that she's one of, if not the most, questionably written character in the game.
Yea, inazuma was such a shame. I don't know who thought this was a good idea. Heck, look at how it affects the current event. Kokomi joining the festival, or Kazuha, would put them at odds with a person who killed their comrades. Its kinda sad that they never got justice, just a "Oh, I was wrong, nvm".
@@amanpingle1497 Boo hooo people in a war died knowing the consequences. She she is an immortal god that has lived longer than every non-archon character and will continue living long after Kokomi and Kazuha are maggot food. Be thankful she showed mercy when she can apparently disable visions and cause calamities at will.
My second favorite character behind Kazuha just because he's my personal favorite. I almost skipped her but she looked cool so I didn't care. Glad I listened to myself.
I think the main reason shes so great is that she has NO downsides. She doesnt need to be on the field to constantly be dealing damage AND giving your characters bursts a damage boost. Then when shes stored up enough she comes out, deals huge damage and gives the rest of ur party their bursts back. She has NO downsides, theres no reason not to use her and unlike Zhongli, her burst is engaging enough to keep her fun to use
Late as fuck comment, but he didn't get replace by any means. If anything, they're often ran together in teams that allow double hydro like hyperbloom.
I really love the fact that they did f2p weapon specificly designed for her. I mean, sure, Xianling can use it pretty good too, but with Shougun The Catch is shining, and if you did not get her signature that's ok, because you have a really good option anyways, what indeed makes her one of the most f2p friendly characters in the game, and you don't even need billets for this one
I also like the fact her gameplay design is not a burden for future characters and enemies, Venti is a looming threat for enemy designs, since he trivializes every interaction if they are ccable, Zhongli has basically killed any new shielder unless they bring more utility in super specific niches or they rework shields. Shogun doesn't invade or invalidate game mechanics, she just delivers where she can. At the same time is impossible to nerf her since she offers too many things that are core to many characters, enemies that drain energy actually makes her better, making enemies resistant to electro? That takes the whole element down, enemies that take overflowing energy particles to buff themselves? Not like every other character generates particles. Antiburst? More elemental shields? None target her exclusively.
I'm extremely grateful to have gotten her. It feels like a full circle moment, because I started Genshin when she came out in September 2021, and now to have her as part of my team is amazing. Ever since I've added her to some of teams, Baal has added so much damage and support to my team, haha
The one thing I will say about the Archons is that they're super fun to use together - usually while exploring, I'll use Venti's burst to round up enemies together, then Zhongli's burst to petrify them, and then Raiden Shogun's to finish off (with the added damage boost from the other two's bursts) - it really makes me excited to see what happens with the Dendro Archon playstyle
raiden was my first 5 star and she carried me through for a really long time until i got hutao. she wasnt even properly built back then and i was still able to clear most enemies with her. and the fact that she deals damage alongside another character is so useful especially if youre bad at building chars like me. its free extra damage.
She became my favorite character because of her character design, attack animations, role in the story, and voice. She was also the first Archon I got back in her first banner. At that time, I didn’t really know her benefits in a team. All I kept hearing from all content creators is that “she doesn’t work with Beidou so she suck”
Remember when everyone thought she was hot garbage because her burst isn't compatible with beidou's or xingqiu's, and because of that she's not a "universal" support and lacks synergy with party members?
still get teary-eyed seeing the shogun being a complete badass 💯 one of my fav characters and along with Kazuha a mainstay on my teams when I really want to see numbers fly.
got her on her rerun on 11 pity (won 50/50). i wasn’t going to pull for her at all because i needed to save for ayaka. i’m very glad i did pull for her. she is amazing and works really well with my eula
I've been saving for 5 months.. had upto 250 fates and pulled for her.. Thank you Vars II, it was this video that made me want to pull for Shogun.. i got her to C2 after 250 fulls. Also got a C6 Sara.. and i got to agree with you she is extremely OP at C2, thank you once again.. I'm new to gaming, Genshin is my very first video game. And i watch every video you make.. keep up the amazing work..
Now, months later, in the time of Dendro, Raiden is at her peak performance. She is capable of so much more than her release. Best idea I ever had to pull both her and Nahida. Now I slay everything I’m my path, thanks to our lovely goddesses.
I’m a Hu Tao main. I pulled for her because of a few reasons: 1. The main reason, I loved her design. 2. I liked her storyline. 3. I liked her voice. 4. I watched a UA-camr who put out insane Dmg numbers with her. But I never really understood why she was so good other than she was meta and did big damage to bosses. Is there anything specific about her gameplay or play style of sorts that makes her so good? If the next “Why everyone plays *blank* “ is on Hu Tao, that would be amazing!
When she first released everyone said she was bad and not worth it as a character. I've never interacted with raiden shogun before since I haven't been to Inazuma. I had my doubts but I'm glad I stuck to my plan of collecting all the archons. I love raiden now and I've poured a lot of hours grinding for artifacts, personally fishing all the nasty little creatures in multiple people's worlds and got her the catch R5. She looks so awesome and is very effective for every team comp out there. Love you Eiii!!!
She’s my first 5 star character, and i love everything about her kit. A year and a half later I own her C2 along with the engulfing lightning (as a f2p) and have double crowned her. Love the Shogun ❤
I started farming for my raiden despite everyone calling her bad on release, not because I thought she was good, because I loved the character. she will and always will be my favourite character
There's something poetic about someone who initially scoffed at ambition eventually become a playable character that empowers those ambitions which, in return, empowers herself even further.
Raiden remains, to this day, my luckiest pull. I got 2 of her with a 9 and 11 wish pity, getting a Diluc before and after. I hadn't needed the 80 wishes I'd saved for her in the end because she came home within so few pulls; my only banner 5 star with a constellation! Maybe on her 2nd rerun I'll try for C2. Initially when I found out she was a polearm user, I was kind of upset because swords are my preference hands down, but her burst more than made up for it. I absolutely love playing as her! She's almost always on my main team. I was even recently blessed with her signature weapon; I needed stardust for the shop so I pulled 1 time on weapon and BOOM, got her polearm. I love her design, her power, her play style... she's excellent! If they ever work on the flaws of electro, she'll be a force to reckon with, no doubt.
As someone who got raiden at c0 and the engulfing lighting in 3.3 as an f2p I felt like I could destroy everything in my path she works in so many teams she can recharge everyone's burst while also dealing good damage and with elemental skill always making a coordinaded dmg was pretty fun plus the fact that I got such an insane feather before her banner and ever since I got yelan using her with raiden in a team felt amazing she was also the first to ever deal over 200k damage like I just love playing her so much.
Thanks for mentioning scaramouch, i was doing archon quest on my 2nd account , when i saw him again it felt like we haven't seen him for forever ,him and kujo sara disapeared from all quests . Nobody even talks about em anymore
Why everyone uses Raiden: NOW YOU SHALL PERISH Everybody Stand Back I Will Have Order You Can Run But You Can't Hide INAZUMA SHINES ETERNAL Teamwork is Dreamwork Raincutter Guoba HIYAAA
I couldn't agree more with your points. She's a all-rounded unit eg. battery, electro reaction enabler, increasing party's burst damage and also probably has the best burst animation of all the 5 stars!
i have a c2 r1 raiden so i may be biased but shes so much fun to play and gives great utility to the team, hyper raiden is my second fav team after mono geo
Btw, how about making Genshin versus videos, like you do on your league channel? Yet we have characters with similar playstyles and/or purposes, like Venti vs Kazuha, Ayaka vs Ganyu, Tartaglia vs Ayato, or some obscure like Itto vs Noelle.
I've been using her since her first banner and overall she is the best battery. Especially helpful for high energy team comps. Hence why everyone plays her 💀
Also pairing her with zhong li is just so freaking good lmao (atleast for me cuz y'know you cant die + you got a battery 5x better than electro traveler)
Totally agree with the notion that you immediately come to rely upon her, I got her during the rerun and I don't even remember what things were like before. I only have two other units that are similarly reliable, Kokomi and Zhongli.
Imo that's a wrong way to look at Raiden. She is both dps and support, and is only really good when both her roles fit the team, not only one of them. Plus, being electro limits which comps she fits in reaction-wise. Overvape, taser, physical or (VV-amplified) raw damage. She'll never fit in a melt or freeze team. So, yes, she has several strong teams, but by no means is she a insert-into-any-team character.
She is my female first crush when I play this game. I got her C0 and I use The Catch and she made everything more easier for abyss. She literally nuke everything with Kazuha (my love), Mona, and Diona. I never feel regret pull on her. In exploration team especially inazuma, it feels easy as long as having Kazuha, Zhongli, and Ayato/Diona
Her Character design, Raiden Shogun persona combat prowess/abilities and badass storyline made her the best character in the game easily. When the day comes that I no longer play Genshin impact she'll be a fond memory for a good while.
Its crazy. The way you explain a character its just beautiful, it makes me look at them like I never have before. Absolutely love your videos! gl future raiden havers!
6:28 @Vars but there's Beidou c2 with her Disgusting burst multiplier when there's more enemies and damage reduction plus a shield at c1 all throughout the duration of the burst, Fischl's OZ who is disgustingly strong but even stronger at c6 due to synergy with attacks of you main carry. Raiden's strength is that her energy regen for the entire party is a flat 25 energy (it's a lot but not that necessary) and her burst synergies well with a lot of characters. Except Beidou which was the main controversy as people wanted to play tazer with Raiden. The other controversy was regarding ICD as well as the burst cost which go hand in hand. Prior to International raiden, childe national was used and is still very strong to this day. Raiden national only is strong in terms of Single Target as even though you have CC area damage with a snapshotted Xianling burst. You still mainly do singletarget due to Riaden burst and Xingqu burst as they all synergise off each other in the singletarget department. Unlike both standard national and childe national as you have quadratic scaling due to riptide if you use childe, CC coverage due to anemo support (sucrose or kazuha) on top of res shred by VV set and high singletarget due to Vapourise reactions from Xingqu and Xianling's 0 ICD bursts, all in one team. Also most of Raiden's damage is locked behind c2 unless if you have a well invested 4p Emblem set on raiden as well as a R5 Catch as it can make up the difference however the issue is getting the RNG necessary for your artifacts to reach that damage ceiling without having her Weapon. Some players farmed that emblem and shimenawa domain since it's release and still haven't gotten the pieces necessary to reach that damage ceiling. So the damage disparity is very huge. Especially when you compare a c0 Raiden to a C2+ Raiden Also a C0 Raiden in a Eula team composition is barely an upgrade without c2 and a well invested 4p emblem due to the original team composition is more Friendly to F2p's low spenders and mid spenders. Eula Raiden Fischl Diona is barely a upgrade over Eula Beidou Fischl Diona. Sure the counter argument is that you need to invest in 4 stars and have high constellations. But they are 4 stars. You can and will get more copies of them due to the rarity of them. Beidou only needs c2 and fischl is perfectly fine at c3. C6 fischl is a hard task for some players however most players who started since games launch and before Eula rerun should have 1 copy of Fischl already. Raiden is a great unit but Dismissing the other great units in the Electro element is a Huge disservice to the absolute monsters they are. There's a reason why Sucrose Tazer comp is BUSTED. Beidou and Fischl are monsters. Electro is weak when you look at it from a specific lens of damage from reactions. However Tazer teams are crazy strong, sucrose tazer is a notable example as you don't need that much of an investment in the 4 stars as they do too much. Beidou fischl are 2 Electro units you should NEVER underestimate as the damage and utility is there.
There are many languages in the world but you have chosen today to speak in a language of facts.... Well, what most people don't want to admit, is that Raiden's teams gameplay (mostly Rational) is just way easier than playing Taser Beidou + Fischl comps or International, the energy recharge for these teams is quite tricky, proper rotation is key. With Raiden it's just ungabunga with easy energy regeneration and results in current abyss are almost the same. Most people are just lazy and Raiden is like the archon of lazy gameplay. So they praise her like she is something precious.
I skiped her on her first banner just because of the hype lol i wanted to be more oryginal with my characters, and i went with Yoimiya insted, but i also had Eula and later on i realized my mistake, i wished on her on rerun, and now my Eula team feels complete and super strong. And yeah i end up going for c2 on her, am currently raising sara (c3) to try maining my Raiden, so far am really happy with 275k burst and 50k charged atk in perfect rotation. 10/10 would recommend.
"Hype argument" hit me sometimes. Generally i don't like use popular characters, specially if they are meta. Except if i like them before become overpopular or i like their personality, or funny meme. Hutao,Ganyu,Ayaka,XL=No Kazuha...meh (not NO only because he help Yoimiya, but is too abused Kazu) Xingqiu GIGA No (but XQ is the only characters that i hate) Bennet Yes (i like him as character👍) Zhongli...how don't like Zhong? And Yoimiya needs a strong shield But i pulled Raiden because she is Archon, and i thought that i must pull her, after my love Yoimiya (i started genshin with and for Yoimiya)
@@SuperKevinho1 i also pull chars i like and enjoy, thats why i Pulled Eula on the first day of her original banner, when everyone was saying that phisical is bad, before they new about her burst, same was with Yoimiya, i dont regret it, she helped me 36* abyss for the first time, and shes mega cute, but her kit is preaty bad and i dont play her so often anymore. I pulled radien mostly for Eula (3 crowned), but now i see how cool Ei is, and i like her as a character as well!
I wish you made this one earlier because i just started genshin with raiden on the banner. And if you lighten me back then i will definitely find all mondstadt chest just to get her.
everyone plays Raiden , because Raiden makes almost every unit better, she gives energy, elemental burst damage, consistent electro application and off field damage, PLUS her owm damage is competitive on every level f2p or whale, and she has the most busted early constellation in the game "C2". not to mention she is one hot mama
Everything you said is true but for me the main reason i play raiden is because shes an hot mama
Her c2 is on par with other dps c6 lmao
@@alth18 that's why her c2 is the most busted constellation in the game
@@tama5380 i was about to say yae also has 60% def shred but i forgot its c6 💀
@@tama5380 thanks rngsus i have her c2 and EL 😭 (+c6 sara, n kazu)
It's the cyclical design.
Her skill improves everyone else's bursts, which improve her bursts, which get everyone else's bursts faster.
Perfection.
Cyclical??? Eternal???!
I thought people didn't like her when she was first released? Were meta slaves wrong yet AGAIN?
@@rooks9430 they didn't like it because her ult didn't work with Beidou's
@@vaughnalexander31 as both a beidou and Raiden main, I’m still pissed off about that. Would make my venti-xinqqiu-beidou taser team a lot stronger.
@@launchsoulsteel7971 she is the god of eternity after all
the thing i value most about Raiden is her her ability to recharge the whole party and her kit all build into ER is great design as well. At first people don't realize how valuable her ability as a party battery can be and until now a lot of people i met still don't, they only care about her big pp dmg number from c2
I legit dont understand why people didnt think she was good during her release, were people so caught up on overworld solo burst crit numbers they actually dismissed her strength within abyss scenarios
like I love this game but I've never seen such a massive portion of any gaming community have such incredibly out of touch perspectives of character strength, like people ranking bennet as amongst the worst characters during 1.0
@@renzbolado153 the thing is even at C0 when build decent she still can hit for 100-200k on initial burst in the abyss with proper team rotations, I 100% agree with you. I have C2 now but C0 Raiden impressed me from day 1.
Also the last 3 abyss’s, another hated character Kokomi has been amazing for me as a DPS on Ocean clam set. She has been clearing abyss with ease, and her ability to quickly heal and not get staggered in her ult is so valuable. This community hates everyone on release and it’s sad.
My biggest issue with her is her not having any use outside the national team.
In Eulas team it's better to just have diona + Yae for batterying and electro application and TTODS buff.
A sub dps for Yoimiya? Childe dishes out more dmg while utilizing Yunjin's buff during Yoimiya DownTime and this whole team doesn't need any energy with Yunjin using favonius and bennet being built with energy recharge from the start. She doesn't even fit in a freeze time because superconduct unfreezes the enemies.
Honestly, just being a battery always makes me think of her as nothing necessary because very few teams have a desperate need for burst without having a support that is just as effective as raiden while having more utility than her outside the battery work.
@@renzbolado153 i don't think people did think she was weak, there was just a loud minority of people and content creators who were saying it.
i''m someone with kazuha, someone who pulled for kazuha despite saving for another character specifically BECAUSE of how good he was and how good everyone was saying he was as a buffer. something like a 5 star bennett was what they were calling him during his banner, at least in the places i frequented.
same story with raiden. even to this day i keep hearing people parrot the talking points against raiden during her banner, the biggest one being she "only" refills 24 energy or something... lol
yeah she refills 24 energy, per enemy hit... just make sure you hit multiple enemies during your burst window and she will refill her own burst before the cooldown is up. i realized this day one of her first banner, and its amazing people still don't understand how she works...
i'm always confused when i hear people talking about all the characters who they thought were weak and skipped them, but here i am with all of those characters for the exact opposite reason. did people literally not pay attention or read their kits?
the only characters that are now considered good after their banners that i had initially skipped were the ones that got buffed later, (zhongli, albedo, kokomi i might get at some point but i'm still not super convinced she's worth getting for me personally)
i also skipped venti the first time cause i didn't want him at the time, since it was early on and didn't understand limited banners, and i missed his second rerun because i didn't have enough wishes saved up when he was announced. got him on the current rerun simply because i skipped a bunch of banners to save up specifically for him.
we all know she's great in the game itself but i like how you take her splendid marketing in trailers and godly powerful appearances in archon quests into account too
@ I mean Miko wasn't wrong Ei was acting rather childish. The loss of her sister broke her after all.
@ Venti drinks to forget his pain, Zhongli shops, and Ei COMPLETELY SHUTS DOWN
@ The only problem I have with Ei is you'd think she'd sound more like the Shogun than Baal since she is the warrior twin but its more of a nitpick than anything.
@ how was it her "doom?" Her sales are still sky-high, she tops every tier list, and remains a well-loved character in the community. That's like saying Venti being a worthless drunk bard somehow "ruins" his character.
@ I'm looking, and I can't find this mythic dog pile. Maybe you should stop making up scenarios in your own head and enjoy the game?
How to fix electro: you don’t, just do big number and charge up the other elements users for even bigger number.
Lmao yeah but in all honesty electro should be either speed or energy recharges.
you legit just described raiden 💀
her e adds so much bonus dmg for characters like miko and eula heck
@@clive... Atk speed boost would be nice, yeah.
I wish Overload just staggers ALL units instead blowing away small units :/
@@digivagrant ikr and hopefully even a damage increase or maybe defense shred lmao even if its just 10% it'll help
Vars : "I love Keqing. She is and always be my best girl."
Editor : "I'm not saving this, bye."
Based editor
Keqing and Yoimiya can share top 1 with Ayaka in my heart
Very based
@@vicca4671 no love for Amber?
@@orangeyellow9695 Not on my top 1, but she's wholesome as well
Zhongli - ultimate shield
Shogun - ultimate spear
Venti - ultimate slacker
Ultimate alcoholic
Nahida: ultimate deal maker
Venti is the ultimate sucker , as in he's kinda sucks in other archon's perspective personality and character wise, and also his burst sucks hard
Nah. Venti’s the ultimate trash compactor.
I read "slacker" In Kaeya's voice-
- Super high dps
- Burst charging/amping support
- Crazy versatility
- Killer constellations
- Mega waifu
Shogun checks off every single box.
Also legendary JP voice actress
I picker here cuz of mega waifu not other stats.
She is also Baal which means she is Satan.
But can she cook?
Super meta character but they didn't write her so well :(
As a F2P, I always had the mentality that getting more 5 star characters is better than constellations until I got Raiden during her rerun. She's so fun, versatile, and powerful even at C0. I went from struggling in floor 10 to reaching floor 12-3 for the first time after I got her. Farming artifacts for her has never felt like a waste either because I got some great pieces for my other characters in the process. Overall, Raiden drastically improved my entire account. I'm honestly thinking about saving for her C2 after getting Kazuha because she's convinced me that she deserves it.
For me she was the first character I didnt even think twice about double crowning
More character the better, because abyss meta will change, just like the current abyss, u can see her usage go down because of rational can't handle small mobs because of overload, u can still 36 star with her, but u get better clear time if u replace her with anemo unit like sucrose
As someone who broke his Genshin Budget to make sure Shogun had C2 and Engulfing Lightning...it is absolutely worth it. I spent WAY too much money during that banner, but I do not regret investing in Shogun. Every time her burst kicks off and she absolutely CHUNKS whatever giant monster I'm fighting...it's just the best. Boss monsters either get one-shot or lose 85%+ health in the opening blast. She's an absolute queen.
C2 is great since Raiden goes from a sub-dps to pretty much a main dps. I love using her so much I got her all the way to C3 (I didn’t want engulfing as weapon banner is evil and it is with the useless Kokomi doughnut).
Unpopular opinion(?): C2 Raiden is overrated, it makes the enemies die too fast so she can't battery her team as much lol
She carried me so hard in abyss & did 130k initial slash (fullstack) despite my crap build. She was amazing so imagine how shocked i was when i found out people thought she was bad when she was released
Update: thanks to the new event, she hit 179k 🎉
What’s your build because with my build of 58/168 with catch the highest damage my raiden did with full stacks is 88k
@@alchemy-the-animated-series crit is not the only indicator of damage, how much is your ATK and ER? and also the team comp that you use?
@@alchemy-the-animated-series my build is 78:101 with 1.7k atk & 250% ER. I got the big number while in bennett's circle & with mona's ult since my xingqiu's busy with hutao. Raw full stack without buff than yeah, pretty similar to your resultd
@@alchemy-the-animated-series talent lvl?
bro how tf did u comment this 13 hours ago💀
"compared to other batteries, Shogun is a nuclear reactor - including the nukes"
This is the most on point analogy in the history of analogies, lol.
Really enjoyable video, keep it up - and hail to the all mighty Shogun!
True
Glory to the shogun and her everlasting reign
Another high-tier analogy would be calling her a power grid.
TL;DR: A Ballistic Missile Submarine.
Litteraly that line made me want to pull for her. To see if its actually true
As an owner of a F2P obtained C2 Raiden, she does live up to batterying teams whilst still obliterating anything she sees
i remember when raiden's model got leaked and everyone said she looked like an npc and wouldn't be pulling for her 😭😭
yeah, and as soon as she pulled a sword from her chest everyone got crazy to get her
What on earth? Raiden has one of the best designs. Those people be smoking the good shit
As a joke or not, maybe later we get to see NPCs dressing as Ei as an aspiration of who the inazumans wants to be. I mean, we can see a cheap knock-off Yae in Ritou plaza during the current event.
Think of it like when Jorah sees a prostitute dressing like the Khaleesi in season 5.
@@ceizhore4498 ita genshin community at all
Tbf at the very first model leak she did look similar to Ying'er
But eh what do I care I've been hot and crazy about her ever since I heard she's a mommy way before her model was even leaked
I remember when she was released and people were still saying, meh, underrated. I had gone ahead and pulled for her anyway and was like, oh no, did I really make a mistake after skipping all these other characters that were similarly marked as unnecessary?
Nope, she's great, and now everyone wants her.
No one usually has the perfect build immediately when a new character drops so it's just obvious no one should listen to immediate ratings.
@@riverajustinmarks. yes i agree, thats also more reason for this communities to judge a characters after a couple of days, and be more carefull in the future, especially for the content creators
the SAME happened with kazuha, he was called 5* sucrose but now literally everyone is waiting for his rerun
@@jellomello984 I mean he IS 5 a star sucrose, everyone was just dumb and underestimated sucrose, especially at that time EM just got buffed, and before that sucrose was a mediocre character so that sentence means completely different now and then. Sucrose is one of the strongest 4-star characters with high damage (especially against 2 or more enemies), easy to build, and great at buffing on top of decent CC which is exactly what Kazuha does too just slightly differently. The difference is each has their own team where they shine brighter than others. Sucrose taser is cracked even against single target even though it is specialized against group, and kazuha mono element team buffing is insane or double swirl childe international etc
@@zeromailss I'm talking about the things at the time ofc, sucrose wasn't as popular as now
I still at laugh when she was released people were saying she's "underwhelming" lmao that's one of the many times I realized that the genshin community don't know wtf they're talking about
Pretty sure they said it was underwhelming as an archon
Was like a solid A level until the buff +players experimenting found better teams
I could be wrong for the first statement but there was definitely a buff to Raiden after the first banner
I also heard that they were dissapointed in Zhongli because he wasn't good at dealing DPS, I could be wrong about this since I wasn't into genshin community at that time. But yeah genshin community is always ready to jump to conclusions most of the time so I stopped listening to them.
@@eraba661 I think that was because his shield was weak or something so they buffed the shield until it was op from what I heard
Gonna have to dig up old news for info._.
@@whereisaim4022 tf buff you talking about
@@dakkuro2466 my bad it was a buff during beta
I'm SO GLAD I finally got her. Her rerun was about to end and she literally dropped in my VERY LAST WISH. Truly a goddess who answered my prayers.
Samee i had just enough primos for one final pull on the last day and with hard pity she came home :’)
But can she cook?
@@kintaro9246 no
@@kintaro9246 no one cares about that
I lost her 50/50 to Jean.
*i already c6 Jean before*
I'll never forget the feeling of beating Spiral Abyss for the first time ever with only Raiden Shogun and Bennett being the only ones alive - I never have a team without the two of them on it for their respective utility purposes
yea they are cracked, only recently did I get enough 5 stars and resource to invest on teams without them, usually, I use Geo for the second team but now I have Morgana, Taser, and Eula team as well
she makes rotations so easy even with the energy hungry miko i always have bursts up
C1 Miko with a Kokomi or Xingqui has 0 energy issues, speaking from experience
Uri Bové yeah but that’s c1she goes from having a 90 cost burst to 66 so obviously she’s not going to have energy issues. But with a c0 miko not focused on er needs raiden or at least a fischl
Still love the little detail of shogun's puppet being the one to speak to you in the teapot if you haven't cleared the archon quest all the way up to the abolishment of the decree
Raiden is so good because you can pair her up with legit, any other character. The fact she can turn amber into an overloading explosive arrow machine, make Zhongli pillars teslas, be the best superconducter and electro charger. She just doesn't have a weakness in her kit
She also struggles against shielded enemies apart from a lack of self sustain.
Which is why this week's abyss is the first time her usage plummeted by quite a lot since she has no usage against the Abyss lectors.
Though next abyss she will no doubt climb to the top again.
@@ReconCrusader when the game barely needs any healing in a character skillset thanks to the abundance of food, that's a pretty minor setback.
she have quite a lot of weakness... and no, you cant pair her in any team...
@@Gadottinho I do agree she has a few easy to bypass weaknesses, but no Raiden works with every character we have in the game. Heck, even Beidou can benefit from her Ei
@@Gadottinho Lmao yes you can hahaha. With her loaded and universal kit and how easy the game you can definitely use her in every team even if it's weird it will work.
I’m a new player, and I get in right in time when Raiden banner rerun last month and when I met her 1st time in the archon quest I literally got goosebumps, and I’m so lucky to got her on last day of her banner 😢 and she officially became my 1st and only 5star ❤
As a recent player, she was my first 5* character (got lucky on her pity), and she has carried my team ever since. Quickswap burst rotations are made easy peasy with her batterying.
Edit: also, it's really fun to imagine her saying "be deleted." during her burst's 1st strike
I totally agree, when we first come to Inazuma and realize what's going on there and see Raiden Shogun's power in full display. You start to think, "Who will help us this time?" and you realize that no one really can, you start to ask if Ayaka or Kokomi can even help us. The only person I can think up that could stand up against Ei was Yae Miko but then begs the question if she would.
Even by the end individually Ei is the strongest person in inazuma. traveler only managed ANYTHING because of their celestial power and cooperation from yae, the person that knows the most about yae and is likely second strongest in the nation.
One of the reasons why she is so popular is because of her beautiful aesthetic design as shown through numerous fan arts, cosplay, fan made stories, etc. She's even in some memes with her inability to cook. She also pairs with Yae's aesthetics.
I still remember that most people, myself included called her only decent at release, which was incredibly stupid in hindsight and it only took a few weeks to understand just how over powered she really is.
At first most people probably thought she would be a good battery but little more, as she is an electro unit her dps while doing her burst can't beat real main dps and most already had working rotations. But not only is her damage on par with the strongest characters, only losing to the most broken ones like Hu Tao, her energy recharge for other characters is so insanely strong that even with little to no ER on them they can spam burst with almost no down time at all, which in turn can make almost every other character stronger.
if you mean characters who have their ults at the cost of like 40-60 then yes. Or if you have Raiden's signature weapon. If not - then bullshit, you have to invest in ER to have 100% uptime. If we are talking about the national team all of your units better have at least 180 ER.
@@ryzhik9608 Yeah saying little to no ER is going too far, she makes them morea achievable tho, Xiangling eats energy like no one else and with Raiden I have to funel only one Bennett E to get her to burst again but yeah they're all above 180 ER.
I've thought that raiden needed a buff for her duration of her isshin state but after pulling for her because of her cool animation and building her, her normal attacks and charged deal insane damage and there wasn't a need for a duration buff, plus it would make her more overpowered than she already is due to the energy regen she provides
Looking back, evaluating characters on release is flawed to hell and back. Most of us didn't have her BiS set stats yet, we didn't have her talents maxed, and of course we didn't quite have her teams figured out.
@@drakensgreed2350 I mostly pull for characters I like but when they seem strong I make sure I'll get them.
I liked Raiden and I was a bit underwhelmed at the start but once I saw how she reduced my Eula battery to pretty much one Diona cast at worse I figured she might be good on other teams, never had I imagined that she would be my go to choice for one team in almost every abyss (not this one, this one doesn't want anything to do with her).
Kokomi is the character I trashed and I stand by it, you don't need Kokomi, she makes things easier but I wouldn't advertise her as a "must" as most of the people say today.
Short story, if I like the character I'll try to get him/her, I can 36 abyss with ease anyway, unless they come in Yae state then I'll riot.
Dang, it feels like all the Raiden controversy happened for nothing since wow when she came out she got so much backlash, definitely not as much as Kokomi but alot of people didn't find her to be good before and after release
IIRC most of that was because she didn't work with Beidou.
@@MrHav1k she doesn’t even need Beidou to shine. What on earth were people thinking?? Lmao
@@maraisfan4life517 Beidou is the best DPS at c2 (better than raiden) so using Raiden with her is logical, raiden fills up beidou's burst, raiden buffs beidou's burst, Beidou's burst buffs raiden's burst, and Raiden can be on field doing damage and energy filling up while Beidou does off field damage.
@@maraisfan4life517 what im saying is Beidou + Raiden is like a wet dream, its just too good
@@maraisfan4life517 you don't need beidou but if it works she will be the most efficient character to pair with raiden shogun at the time and you know how it is with genshin players they want the biggest dps ever.
I still remember when she was first released. I wished on her banner despite people saying she's "bad" and "not good enough" and I'm glad I did. It was my luckiest pull session ever, as I got Raiden C2 with one copy of Keqing, Diluc and Qiqi each within 150 wishes. I double crowned her on the first day itself and took her for a spin in the abyss with my Eula, and boy she absolutely destroyed everything in sight. I was using Skyward Spine on her at the time and still her damage and utility was off the charts. Only people who hated her at her release were those who had misconceptions about her kit even before anything about her was released/leaked, most popular amongst them was her ability(or inability) to work with Beidou. And people were so mad about this that they started to downplay everything about Raiden just to satisfy their petty agendas. They blamed everyone from Mihoyo to the players who genuinely wanted her except themselves. Those number crunchers can never understand the value of the utility a character like Raiden brings to the team. It was so satisfying to see these same people pulling for her on her rerun.
Imagine speaking so high about utility when you're abusing c2 which is arguably the best constellation in the game. People were rightfully mad about the nonexistent interaction with Beidou as first, it was working in beta and was obviously made to not work and even the description changed for bs greedy reasons, and second, without her Raiden could only be run with Eula, a pretty niche and not exactly universally owned character. The discovery of Raiden national (which didn't happen in the first two weeks of the banner BTW) was literally her saving grace, without it she at c0 had no place in the meta.
@@Soundwave1900 Who cares about meta?
@@lolagagginw812lol7 the guy i answered to, it seems.
@@Soundwave1900 Idk man. I have her at c0 with r5 the catch and I can deal 150k+ damage in Raiden National, not even Hypercarry.
@@Soundwave1900 My stats are 70/140, 2k attack, and 220 ER.
I really love the way you talk in these videos. You sound very professional but also have room for some jokes and funny words. The informations in the video are also very easy to understand too. Looking forward to more content from you :)
I loved her even when she was just announced bcs raiden mei herrscher of thunder (honkai impact 3rd) is my favorite playable char on that game. And I promised to myself that no matter how bad she is, I'm gonna main shogun ⚡⚡⚡
Hot/Attractive. Check
Archon. Check
God-tier voice acting in all languages. Check
Has amazing theme music. Check
Is a fightable boss. Check
Nearly broke sales records twice. Check
Can be used in most teams. Check
Can battery teams to spam bursts. Check
Decent teams, damage and support at C0. Check
Early cons to shred enemies. Check
Farmable weapon for F2P, at the cost of sanity. Check
BiS Artifact 4pc, from resin efficient domain. Check
Simple kit mechanics. Check
Beautiful attack/idle animations. Check
Normal and spicy artwork. Check
What else is there not to love about Raiden?
Edit: Broke sales records TWICE. Check.
i am sure at least one person will come and say 'sHe CaNt COok'
@@elfst. She has a lot of time to learn, after all... Will eternity be enough?
@@elfst. sad, But true. But it doesn't detract her qualities.
@@elfst. That or what a PoS she is, letting her nation almost crumble coz she couldnt stop being a hikkikomori.
but who cares? BOOBA SWORD!!
@@HdF-Nota why would she should learn to cook anyway she probably have servants to cook for her
pulled for her on her first banner bc of her whole aesthetic ended up with one of the best units in the game
I remember people saying her design look like Npc or very simple
Then the Booba sword trailer scene happen
Then every one started to praise/want her
Marketed as a support character but deals damage like a main DPS, because this is Raiden Shogun in the game's lore. She supported her sister (first electro archon) from the shadows, and fought in her stead during battles. Everything about Shogun ties so perfectly!
Omg, you just reminded me of Scaramouche. Scaramouche is Ei's clone and he has the Electro gnosis with him and he's just running loose. Now I'm worried 0_0
On the other hand, if he becomes a playable character, I believe he SHOULD be almost on par with his mom/creator
*Y E S*
I think Scaramouche will become a main DPS if released
Nah 😂
He’s probably gonna be a strict electro catalyst DPS. I’m expecting him to be like Yae but not as clunky
@@vjukz4427 Welp, he do be out now, and he's Anemo
I hadn't been really convinced until I finished her story. The character has so many facets interpreted by such a great voice actress that I used thousands of crystals to get her. And she's been in my team ever since.
"Crystals"
Played too much honkai have we?
@@TheElino In German the currency for "Gebete" ( = prayers, but it's wishes in the English version I think) is called "Urkristall", which can be translated as ancient crystal, first crystal or sth like that. Never played Honkai because my phone is too old for games like that, which is why I play Genshin on my PS4. 😃
@@MaskedBishop Ohhhhhhh so that's where you got that analogy from
I'm actually German aswell lmao
Since I never talk to anyone about the game in German cause of my rl friends noone plays genshin I only use the English name aka primogems even tho my game is also in German
Another thing to mention is that her trailer is single handedly the best one to ever release. Sorry Zhongli fans, But Nightmare is probably the best characterization in all of the game
It conveys so much without speaking a word. It basically tells us the story of Ei with her speaking less than the traveler. A story of progress, grief, and the passage of time. Her friends died, and so did her sister. It's no wonder she wants to keep Inazuma in it's place forever, but she can't do that, as much as she tries.
I'm personally a firm believer that she is the best part of the Archon quests along with Signora, but the mishandling of other aspects of the story (Resistance, Kokomi, other Fatui and Yae Miko) caused the story to fall apart. Regardless, I think her story is one of the best of the game
Her story quests are some of the best in the game since in the first one she realizes how she can't keep the world forever is stasis because Inazuma kept changing even with how much she tried, and then she rectifies her mistake of being an observer and allowing Inazuma to go down into despair.
In the second quest, she has to face the past in the form of Ley Lines and what happened 500 years ago, and then fight her old self (Raiden bot) in a battle for eternity. After that, she can finally talk to her sister one last time, before saying goodbye forever.
It gives me chills every time I think about it
Ei : don't worry traveler I'll support you UwU
Raiden : yeah supporting by killing all the enemies for you
Thats ei and shogun
I loved her playstyle and character soo much that when I ran out of premogems and found all the chest I could (100% all the areas at the time) I went to grinded in this new area called outside, and got this new premium currency called cash by this event called a part time job that can be converted to primogems just to c6 her
lool
🤣
Bro that's insane, I still don't have access to that new area and that "job" feature. Is it something you unlock at AR60?
Damn bro
Crazy
Absolutely god-tier character. Rolled on her re-run and I don't regret it in the slightest. It's just a shame that she's one of, if not the most, questionably written character in the game.
she's a god tier character literally
Yea, inazuma was such a shame. I don't know who thought this was a good idea. Heck, look at how it affects the current event.
Kokomi joining the festival, or Kazuha, would put them at odds with a person who killed their comrades. Its kinda sad that they never got justice, just a "Oh, I was wrong, nvm".
@@amanpingle1497 Boo hooo people in a war died knowing the consequences. She she is an immortal god that has lived longer than every non-archon character and will continue living long after Kokomi and Kazuha are maggot food. Be thankful she showed mercy when she can apparently disable visions and cause calamities at will.
@@cocogoat1111 is this comment the result of a man so down bad he starts insulting his ''waifu's'' enemies?
My second favorite character behind Kazuha just because he's my personal favorite. I almost skipped her but she looked cool so I didn't care. Glad I listened to myself.
No need to watch because ans is
1) her c2 is broken
2)she has an excellent f2p weapon available,"the catch"
3)she is electro archon"duh"
4th her party variety are pretty cheap investment
the fact that she is an archon doesn't changes a shit. most players I know couldn't care less whether they have Venti or not.
bro was spot on at 14:00, coincidentally, yelan also buffs works well with raiden and xiangling
yess I have been waiting for this!
I think the main reason shes so great is that she has NO downsides. She doesnt need to be on the field to constantly be dealing damage AND giving your characters bursts a damage boost. Then when shes stored up enough she comes out, deals huge damage and gives the rest of ur party their bursts back. She has NO downsides, theres no reason not to use her and unlike Zhongli, her burst is engaging enough to keep her fun to use
“Xingqiu will be replaced the moment we find another hydro support with better hydro application and damage “
Yelan: Well, that didn’t age well….
Late as fuck comment, but he didn't get replace by any means. If anything, they're often ran together in teams that allow double hydro like hyperbloom.
@@shemage5932i love how they work together not against each other 😭
I really love the fact that they did f2p weapon specificly designed for her. I mean, sure, Xianling can use it pretty good too, but with Shougun The Catch is shining, and if you did not get her signature that's ok, because you have a really good option anyways, what indeed makes her one of the most f2p friendly characters in the game, and you don't even need billets for this one
My heart still aches - lost the 50/50 on her first banner to Diluc and then the 50/50 on her 2nd banner to C2 Mona...
I also like the fact her gameplay design is not a burden for future characters and enemies, Venti is a looming threat for enemy designs, since he trivializes every interaction if they are ccable, Zhongli has basically killed any new shielder unless they bring more utility in super specific niches or they rework shields. Shogun doesn't invade or invalidate game mechanics, she just delivers where she can.
At the same time is impossible to nerf her since she offers too many things that are core to many characters, enemies that drain energy actually makes her better, making enemies resistant to electro? That takes the whole element down, enemies that take overflowing energy particles to buff themselves? Not like every other character generates particles. Antiburst? More elemental shields? None target her exclusively.
I'm extremely grateful to have gotten her. It feels like a full circle moment, because I started Genshin when she came out in September 2021, and now to have her as part of my team is amazing. Ever since I've added her to some of teams, Baal has added so much damage and support to my team, haha
The one thing I will say about the Archons is that they're super fun to use together - usually while exploring, I'll use Venti's burst to round up enemies together, then Zhongli's burst to petrify them, and then Raiden Shogun's to finish off (with the added damage boost from the other two's bursts) - it really makes me excited to see what happens with the Dendro Archon playstyle
Her value will also grow with the addition of more off-field burst characters. Even more if their burst cost is high.
raiden was my first 5 star and she carried me through for a really long time until i got hutao. she wasnt even properly built back then and i was still able to clear most enemies with her. and the fact that she deals damage alongside another character is so useful especially if youre bad at building chars like me. its free extra damage.
She became my favorite character because of her character design, attack animations, role in the story, and voice. She was also the first Archon I got back in her first banner. At that time, I didn’t really know her benefits in a team. All I kept hearing from all content creators is that “she doesn’t work with Beidou so she suck”
13:50 "Not like there's a clone of her wandering around or anything ha ha ha-"
Venti: "Hold my wine."
Remember when everyone thought she was hot garbage because her burst isn't compatible with beidou's or xingqiu's, and because of that she's not a "universal" support and lacks synergy with party members?
still get teary-eyed seeing the shogun being a complete badass 💯 one of my fav characters and along with Kazuha a mainstay on my teams when I really want to see numbers fly.
I just rolled for her due to Honkaiface. Was really surprised that she's that good honestly
the stroytelling gets better and i love it.
got her on her rerun on 11 pity (won 50/50). i wasn’t going to pull for her at all because i needed to save for ayaka. i’m very glad i did pull for her. she is amazing and works really well with my eula
I've been saving for 5 months.. had upto 250 fates and pulled for her.. Thank you Vars II, it was this video that made me want to pull for Shogun.. i got her to C2 after 250 fulls. Also got a C6 Sara.. and i got to agree with you she is extremely OP at C2, thank you once again.. I'm new to gaming, Genshin is my very first video game. And i watch every video you make.. keep up the amazing work..
quick question has anyone noticed a glitch with Raiden's bust animation where she tilts her head as she pulls her sword?
That happens when the enemies are hitting you.
this is a very well done video, compact information about raiden that by all means is very easy to understand
Now, months later, in the time of Dendro, Raiden is at her peak performance. She is capable of so much more than her release. Best idea I ever had to pull both her and Nahida. Now I slay everything I’m my path, thanks to our lovely goddesses.
I’m a Hu Tao main. I pulled for her because of a few reasons:
1. The main reason, I loved her design.
2. I liked her storyline.
3. I liked her voice.
4. I watched a UA-camr who put out insane Dmg numbers with her.
But I never really understood why she was so good other than she was meta and did big damage to bosses. Is there anything specific about her gameplay or play style of sorts that makes her so good? If the next “Why everyone plays *blank* “ is on Hu Tao, that would be amazing!
But can she cook?
Successfully claimed C2 on rerun as a small-spender.
The Archon trio team is basically
Vortex spam, Meteor spam, boo-
I mean, Musou no hitotachi spam
AND I LOVE IT
Shes an amazing character, great kit and feels great to play. My first crowned character and will give her the best I can give her.
When she first released everyone said she was bad and not worth it as a character. I've never interacted with raiden shogun before since I haven't been to Inazuma. I had my doubts but I'm glad I stuck to my plan of collecting all the archons. I love raiden now and I've poured a lot of hours grinding for artifacts, personally fishing all the nasty little creatures in multiple people's worlds and got her the catch R5. She looks so awesome and is very effective for every team comp out there. Love you Eiii!!!
She is just everything: From Lore to Character Execution. 💜💜💜💜
She’s my first 5 star character, and i love everything about her kit.
A year and a half later I own her C2 along with the engulfing lightning (as a f2p) and have double crowned her.
Love the Shogun ❤
I started farming for my raiden despite everyone calling her bad on release, not because I thought she was good, because I loved the character. she will and always will be my favourite character
You probably won't see this but this video still is missing from the Why Everyone Plays playlist.
Raiden was the perfect addition to my account. I love burst spam, and Raiden’s entire kit is basically made for that
There's something poetic about someone who initially scoffed at ambition eventually become a playable character that empowers those ambitions which, in return, empowers herself even further.
Raiden remains, to this day, my luckiest pull. I got 2 of her with a 9 and 11 wish pity, getting a Diluc before and after. I hadn't needed the 80 wishes I'd saved for her in the end because she came home within so few pulls; my only banner 5 star with a constellation! Maybe on her 2nd rerun I'll try for C2.
Initially when I found out she was a polearm user, I was kind of upset because swords are my preference hands down, but her burst more than made up for it. I absolutely love playing as her! She's almost always on my main team. I was even recently blessed with her signature weapon; I needed stardust for the shop so I pulled 1 time on weapon and BOOM, got her polearm. I love her design, her power, her play style... she's excellent!
If they ever work on the flaws of electro, she'll be a force to reckon with, no doubt.
As someone who got raiden at c0 and the engulfing lighting in 3.3 as an f2p I felt like I could destroy everything in my path she works in so many teams she can recharge everyone's burst while also dealing good damage and with elemental skill always making a coordinaded dmg was pretty fun plus the fact that I got such an insane feather before her banner and ever since I got yelan using her with raiden in a team felt amazing she was also the first to ever deal over 200k damage like I just love playing her so much.
She is the best marketed char in all of genshin! really love everything about her
Thanks for mentioning scaramouch, i was doing archon quest on my 2nd account , when i saw him again it felt like we haven't seen him for forever ,him and kujo sara disapeared from all quests . Nobody even talks about em anymore
Raiden makes me excited for the other Archons and how their kits will look 👍🏾
“Xingqiu will be replaced the moment we find another hydro support-“
Yelan would like to know your location
Glory to the Shogun and her everlasting reign
07:16 well put and dramatic just to the right amount, that is the bit that pushed this video into the next level! Great job!
Why everyone uses Raiden:
NOW YOU SHALL PERISH
Everybody Stand Back
I Will Have Order
You Can Run But You Can't Hide
INAZUMA SHINES ETERNAL
Teamwork is Dreamwork
Raincutter
Guoba HIYAAA
Hyper raiden is better tho
I couldn't agree more with your points. She's a all-rounded unit eg. battery, electro reaction enabler, increasing party's burst damage and also probably has the best burst animation of all the 5 stars!
Dps too
i have a c2 r1 raiden so i may be biased but shes so much fun to play and gives great utility to the team, hyper raiden is my second fav team after mono geo
may i ask what characters does hyper raiden use ?
@@yuritarded222 kazuha, bennett, and sara c6 usually
@@yuritarded222 c6 sara, benny, and kazuha/sucrose
Btw, how about making Genshin versus videos, like you do on your league channel? Yet we have characters with similar playstyles and/or purposes, like Venti vs Kazuha, Ayaka vs Ganyu, Tartaglia vs Ayato, or some obscure like Itto vs Noelle.
I've been using her since her first banner and overall she is the best battery. Especially helpful for high energy team comps. Hence why everyone plays her 💀
don’t be a smartass
Also pairing her with zhong li is just so freaking good lmao (atleast for me cuz y'know you cant die + you got a battery 5x better than electro traveler)
Totally agree with the notion that you immediately come to rely upon her, I got her during the rerun and I don't even remember what things were like before. I only have two other units that are similarly reliable, Kokomi and Zhongli.
she slays shes a queen shes a mother and she IS the moment thats why!
Imo that's a wrong way to look at Raiden. She is both dps and support, and is only really good when both her roles fit the team, not only one of them.
Plus, being electro limits which comps she fits in reaction-wise. Overvape, taser, physical or (VV-amplified) raw damage. She'll never fit in a melt or freeze team.
So, yes, she has several strong teams, but by no means is she a insert-into-any-team character.
because everyones a meta slave
13:45 aaaand that copy just switched visions to Anemo 💀
Well I dont have her in party because of that FUCKING RING ITS SO ANNOYING DAMNIT
WALKING AROUND IT WONT GO
She is my female first crush when I play this game. I got her C0 and I use The Catch and she made everything more easier for abyss. She literally nuke everything with Kazuha (my love), Mona, and Diona. I never feel regret pull on her.
In exploration team especially inazuma, it feels easy as long as having Kazuha, Zhongli, and Ayato/Diona
But can she cook?
Her Character design, Raiden Shogun persona combat prowess/abilities and badass storyline made her the best character in the game easily.
When the day comes that I no longer play Genshin impact she'll be a fond memory for a good while.
Its crazy. The way you explain a character its just beautiful, it makes me look at them like I never have before. Absolutely love your videos!
gl future raiden havers!
6:28 @Vars but there's Beidou c2 with her Disgusting burst multiplier when there's more enemies and damage reduction plus a shield at c1 all throughout the duration of the burst, Fischl's OZ who is disgustingly strong but even stronger at c6 due to synergy with attacks of you main carry.
Raiden's strength is that her energy regen for the entire party is a flat 25 energy (it's a lot but not that necessary) and her burst synergies well with a lot of characters.
Except Beidou which was the main controversy as people wanted to play tazer with Raiden. The other controversy was regarding ICD as well as the burst cost which go hand in hand. Prior to International raiden, childe national was used and is still very strong to this day.
Raiden national only is strong in terms of Single Target as even though you have CC area damage with a snapshotted Xianling burst. You still mainly do singletarget due to Riaden burst and Xingqu burst as they all synergise off each other in the singletarget department.
Unlike both standard national and childe national as you have quadratic scaling due to riptide if you use childe, CC coverage due to anemo support (sucrose or kazuha) on top of res shred by VV set and high singletarget due to Vapourise reactions from Xingqu and Xianling's 0 ICD bursts, all in one team.
Also most of Raiden's damage is locked behind c2 unless if you have a well invested 4p Emblem set on raiden as well as a R5 Catch as it can make up the difference however the issue is getting the RNG necessary for your artifacts to reach that damage ceiling without having her Weapon. Some players farmed that emblem and shimenawa domain since it's release and still haven't gotten the pieces necessary to reach that damage ceiling. So the damage disparity is very huge. Especially when you compare a c0 Raiden to a C2+ Raiden
Also a C0 Raiden in a Eula team composition is barely an upgrade without c2 and a well invested 4p emblem due to the original team composition is more Friendly to F2p's low spenders and mid spenders.
Eula Raiden Fischl Diona is barely a upgrade over Eula Beidou Fischl Diona.
Sure the counter argument is that you need to invest in 4 stars and have high constellations. But they are 4 stars. You can and will get more copies of them due to the rarity of them.
Beidou only needs c2 and fischl is perfectly fine at c3. C6 fischl is a hard task for some players however most players who started since games launch and before Eula rerun should have 1 copy of Fischl already.
Raiden is a great unit but Dismissing the other great units in the Electro element is a Huge disservice to the absolute monsters they are.
There's a reason why Sucrose Tazer comp is BUSTED. Beidou and Fischl are monsters.
Electro is weak when you look at it from a specific lens of damage from reactions. However Tazer teams are crazy strong, sucrose tazer is a notable example as you don't need that much of an investment in the 4 stars as they do too much. Beidou fischl are 2 Electro units you should NEVER underestimate as the damage and utility is there.
Pffftt
There are many languages in the world but you have chosen today to speak in a language of facts.... Well, what most people don't want to admit, is that Raiden's teams gameplay (mostly Rational) is just way easier than playing Taser Beidou + Fischl comps or International, the energy recharge for these teams is quite tricky, proper rotation is key. With Raiden it's just ungabunga with easy energy regeneration and results in current abyss are almost the same. Most people are just lazy and Raiden is like the archon of lazy gameplay. So they praise her like she is something precious.
@@ginichimaruan3572 nobody asked soyboy
@@ginichimaruan3572 you know all the archons actually seem to to be archons of lazy gameplay
The editing in this video! *Chef kiss*
I skiped her on her first banner just because of the hype lol i wanted to be more oryginal with my characters, and i went with Yoimiya insted, but i also had Eula and later on i realized my mistake, i wished on her on rerun, and now my Eula team feels complete and super strong.
And yeah i end up going for c2 on her, am currently raising sara (c3) to try maining my Raiden, so far am really happy with 275k burst and 50k charged atk in perfect rotation. 10/10 would recommend.
Btw is 201% er good enought on sara?
"Hype argument" hit me sometimes. Generally i don't like use popular characters, specially if they are meta. Except if i like them before become overpopular or i like their personality, or funny meme.
Hutao,Ganyu,Ayaka,XL=No
Kazuha...meh (not NO only because he help Yoimiya, but is too abused Kazu)
Xingqiu GIGA No (but XQ is the only characters that i hate)
Bennet Yes (i like him as character👍)
Zhongli...how don't like Zhong? And Yoimiya needs a strong shield
But i pulled Raiden because she is Archon, and i thought that i must pull her, after my love Yoimiya (i started genshin with and for Yoimiya)
@@SuperKevinho1 i also pull chars i like and enjoy, thats why i Pulled Eula on the first day of her original banner, when everyone was saying that phisical is bad, before they new about her burst, same was with Yoimiya, i dont regret it, she helped me 36* abyss for the first time, and shes mega cute, but her kit is preaty bad and i dont play her so often anymore. I pulled radien mostly for Eula (3 crowned), but now i see how cool Ei is, and i like her as a character as well!
I wish you made this one earlier because i just started genshin with raiden on the banner. And if you lighten me back then i will definitely find all mondstadt chest just to get her.
short answer: mommy
long answer: mommy but a thousand times
i started genshin last year just for her and mained her ever since i got her she carried me through so much in early game and now in late game too :)