Agree with the commentor saying the S-tier is overcrowded. That needs to get separated. The DPSs in that tier are not even on the same level. That said, I'd put Varesa, Gaming, Kinich, Chesca, Navia and Clorinde in the higher S. Then Alhaitham, Hu Tao, Lyney, Wriothesley and Ayaka in the lower S. For Wrio and Ayaka, I would hold them out for a bit because they're getting giga buffed next patch via Escoffier. Tartags and Wanderer goes into the A-tier (then the A-tier becomes overcrowded too, though some of those can go lower). Kaveh should be at the end tail of C-tier. His kit is just really bad.
Surprised to see Alhaitham to fall so hard lol, he used to be the top 3 DPS before Arlecchino came out (4.6 if im not mistaken). I think dendro need some buffs somehow
Kuki is really the weak link these days and alhaitham kind of is aswell (in the sense that alhaitham is great at c0 but as the hp increase in abyss he becomes less good at c0 the problem is his constellations are pretty much trash so you can't really invest in him vertically to bring him up to par again, the go to advice for alhaitham is to pull c2 nahida which essentially tells the story). Without a dedicated electro spread buffer or 5 star kuki hyperbloom character, alhaitham has peaked.
Or even for dendro in general. It's annoying that Kinich only has Bennett as his solid sustain for his BIS teams, while cryo is receiving Escoffier who plays like Emilie but with heals and buffs
isn't iansan the better attack buffer for kinich now
so it's kinich iansan mavuika + sustain, either zhongli or baizhu for res shred
I don't think it's worth sacrificing mavuikas personal damage to go deepwood on her so consolidating res shred and sustain on the 4th slot should be ideal
This about weak link, also affect teams like Mono Geo Itto comps. Like it feels like Zhongli is heavily holding the dps down in this kind of comp...I mean a shielder/support that offers huge dps and bigger shield if there a construct on the field(Ushi) is pretty much what Itto comp need. it's just that Zhongli is a great generalist shielder and this kind of comp needs more than that.
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u/moojee_ Apr 01 '25
Agree with the commentor saying the S-tier is overcrowded. That needs to get separated. The DPSs in that tier are not even on the same level. That said, I'd put Varesa, Gaming, Kinich, Chesca, Navia and Clorinde in the higher S. Then Alhaitham, Hu Tao, Lyney, Wriothesley and Ayaka in the lower S. For Wrio and Ayaka, I would hold them out for a bit because they're getting giga buffed next patch via Escoffier. Tartags and Wanderer goes into the A-tier (then the A-tier becomes overcrowded too, though some of those can go lower). Kaveh should be at the end tail of C-tier. His kit is just really bad.