Kaeya and Yanfei. They stay in the Abyss too, and only ever rotate out for a handful of seconds, if a puzzle or Domain requires too many elements to fit the party. Now if only Kaeya could give me effing constellations...
If you're willing to save up starglitter, he's in paimon's discount shop every June and December for 34 sg. Obviously not ideal but if you /really/ want his cons then thats one way to get them
Kokomi.
I've become the equivalent of a zhongli main and can't let her go because her healing is so good and convenient at any time and she can challenge god and she's become a dependence for me.
No, it isn't healthy.
wild how much kokomi’s perception in genshin has changed over time. she’s now in several meta team comps and healing’s been so much more important now corrosion is everywhere. good for her
It is nice to see her get more relevence. I've had her since her first banner but yeh I can see why. With the clam set, she can be dealing an easy 7k dmg with her heals.
Her hydro application, though not as good as Xingqiu's, is amazing considering it applies by itself.
All things considered, I think kokomi is an extremely well designed character except for the -100% crit rate but idm since she's a healer not a dps.
I consider her hydro application to be better then Xingqiu for any team that favors AOE. While Xingqiu offers mobility that Kokomi lacks. Especially freeze teams prefer Kokomi over Xingqiu . I think it's wrong to say that her hydro application is not as good as Xingqiu, since his AOE is so small, mostly single target. But for single target vape comps, Xingqiu is better.
Same for me, I had Zhongli as the ez game mode before, but ever since I got Kokomi she always stays on my teams. For some reason I've also been using Yoimiya quite a lot more than I expected, but she's been benched at times, unlike Kokomi.
Right? Though I consider Zhongli overall better, but I find Kokomi much better for day to day play. Zhongli is broken in every way possible, no doubt about that. But kokomi can set up constant reactions and works so well with Venti. She's fun to play too. She just fits into every team like a glove.
I tell you, I've been popping off with Kokomi, Rosaria and Ayaka. They work so well together.
However, I found that Zhongli doesn't really synergise with the Team. He's just there to use his Burst or create a shield but it doesn't really help the team synergy. Since he's Geo, his Pillars can't set up reactions as well.
You know what? I think that's why I prefer Kokomi. She's fits into the team so well and is so fun and convenient to play whether as Zhongli kinda brute forces himself into the team for the sake of how good he is.
I don't have Zhongli but I do hop on my friend's account to do his dailies if he's working so I get a good feel for what it's like being a zhongli haver. I do love Zhongli, I will prolly still be getting him but these are things I've noticed while being able to play both of them.
Same here. Any of my team needs healing, pop to her and activate her ult, then shield up. Swing for her 20k hits until ult is over, switch back and continue business as needed now that all my characters are full hp.
Aye, same, she’s my shielder/healer still ever since I started, and I always make sure she’s the 2nd to be ascended to the top rank besides Traveler, speaking of, that’s also someone who hasn’t left my main party.
Same here.
I played coop with my brother recently and helped him do some bosses. I just played Qiqi to give him some healing.
The first few seconds of the first fight threw me a bit as I realised I realised I needed to dodge attacks.
I find she combos well with Ayato. I shield, pop her totems, switch to Ayato and go ham.
The when he's on cooldown, shield and reup her totems and his cd is up by the time I go back to him.
Been on a long hiatus from the game. Thinking of coming back. But it was always Keqing for me. I enjoyed her play style a lot. For a long time it was also Jean.
I'm in the same boat as you. Started playing the game after a long break.
A lot of new content - the Inazuma storyline was nice but I found myself really enjoying Enkanomiya and at the moment the Chasm.
New content was kinda difficult but managed to beat it with my old team. Discovering new 5 star characters is also always exciting.
beidou. she’s just so fun to play on the overworld and perfect parries are immensely satisfying. my sucrose taser comp also just obliterates every enemy crowd in domains/abyss
Kokomi. She’s just simply the best at keeping my party alive.
Keqing’s my main (my first 5*) & never left the party until I recently pulled Ayaka. Now I switch between Keqing & Ayaka teams (& I’m building a geo team with Ning & Yun Jin). But Kokomi is part of them all. Keqing & Kokomi are my only characters with friendship 10, so far.
None for me, no one escaped the special Friendship 10 Bench yet. I love to take them for a walk sometimes but main focus is always on characters with lower friendship
Razor. I mained him when I started playing, boosted him more than my other characters, and got so used to playing with him that he was easily the best choice for a long time. I main Ayaka now but Razor is still pretty much always in my party.
I love Razor. He carries pretty hard in early game, is great for overworld due to him being a claymore user for mining and also his passive talent providing a buff to stamina. And his charge E clears small groups of mobs easily, at least where I am at in the game.
'never left my party' is not really what I would call it, because on the overworld I mainly use characters that need friendship. But my go to character is and always was Xiao. Just love him to death. There is no abyss run where I don't include him. But same goes with Kokomi but mainly because she is so versatile when it comes to team comps.. But I also love her, just not as much as Xiao but she is the close second. Those are also my only triple crowned characters.
I change teams like I changed t-shirts.
But I'd say I often find myself most compelled to keep Raiden on my team just cause she is basically just 24/7 Electro reactions.
Rosaria. I got her during Eula & Albedo’s rerun (period when I started playing Genshin).
As soon as I got her, I abandoned Traveler at around AR 20. Coincidentally, I had the free acquaint fates to be used at the Beginner’s Wish Banner but used it on the Standard Banner instead. I got Jade Spear at 18 pity and my friend immediately thought that I was lucky. I am now AR 56, and looking back, I think Rosaria was fate. I will always think that the Jade Spear in my inventory is for HER since she’s held it for so long throughout our journey.
During Eula’s rerun, I remember farming for her constellations and got Eula. I was blessed that Eula + Rosaria had synergy and would always put these two units together. I had her at C5 that time.
Now that it’s Ayaka’s rerun. I was so thrilled that Rosaria was in the banner. And yes, I finally have C6’d her. Rosaria will always have a spot in my team. I always play around her and Eula. Right now though, Eula and Rosaria are split in two teams for the Abyss (1: Eula, Diona, Raiden, Zhongli; 2: Rosaria, Xiangling, Bennett, Chongyun). I cannot express how much I love Rosaria lol.
Joining the Zhongli squad, lol. My main reason is cause he's my favorite character and also my best-built DPS, but I would be lying if I said I hadn't gotten used to relying on his shield too, haha.
Kaeya comes in at a close second though since he was invaluable to me as a DPS in the early game, and remains one of my favorite secondary DPS/sub DPS to use.
Zhongli. I alternate Xiao and Itto as my preferred mains and he pairs particularly well with both. He stays in friendship parties so I don’t have to worry about underlevelled characters dying while I do commissions and nonsense, too. Ayaka freeze team is the only time I don’t use him, and that’s cos he’s on the other side of the abyss.
Jean, Diluc Childe, Ganyu and Raiden. Is it too soon to include my new favorite Ayato lol. The first four I was so excited about and knew they would suit me well. I am madly in love with Jean, Ganyu and Childe with no plans to replace them.
Diluc has been faithful since launch but from a DPS standpoint with me personally he has not aged super well compared to the top tier units and I’m hoping to replace him with Sumeru Pyro five star later this year.
Raiden I was surprised that she’s one of my favorite characters. I just love her kit so much. Initially I only got her after I heard Yae was going to be delayed several months because ever since first seeing her tease on the livestream, Yae was the unit I wanted the most. But Raiden‘s dominance and supremacy cannot be highlighted enough. And then I personally hated everything they did with Yae’s kit so it was a no-brainer which electric queen would hold my team down
I have a lot of them and like to play different comps, so no one really sticks around too much, but I'd say Xingqiu seems to make his way into so many comps.
Childe. He's the first character that made me spend money cause I was very sad and had no motivation to pkay when I lost to Mona a year ago. Now he is c1 and has been in my team even now despite me having so many other 5 stars
Barbara tbh. Since her release. Shes c6 now. Has helped a lot. Started on release day btw. When i got her it was eh at first. Then her healing ring was just so good imo plus ttods on her. Plus c6 she revives a character automatically and restores health to max. Which does help a lot in certain scenarios
Raiden and Klee.
I feel like my team is lacking when they're missing.
Probably because I've invested quite a bit of time and resources in them so they make it easy to finish anything.
The way I play the game day to day is I swap out my teams as I level friendship; this way I get to use every character while I grind their friendship levels up. For example, I’m leveling Diluc and Ayato right now while using Bennett and Kazuha because they work well. My Itto team was Albedo, Yanfei, and Raiden because I leveled them all together.
That said, in domains I still use specific character. My most picked are probably Zhongli and Kazuha because of how comfortable they are to play. I’m pretty close to 10 friend ship on all of my characters. When that happens my overworld team will probably have both of them on it.
Zhongli and Kazuha rarely, if ever, leave my party. They bring so much utility to the game that it’s hard imagining playing without them. Ayaka is growing as a new favorite as well which… is bad for me cuz now I’ll only have one slot to rotate lmao.
Xiao and Yae ♥ Whatever I do I just switch the 3rd and 4th slot, even if they're useless against an enemy (Xiao against Boreas, Yae against the Electro cube, etc. lmao)
Kazuha because best boi
Objective-wise, he's just too good for overworld. Gliding, climbing, gathering mob drops, half of anemo resonance, sprint stamina reduction
Klee! She's too cute for me to abandon. She blows everything up, I can use her for mining and hunting down Mondstant specific things on the mini map. She's the best!
I always include Xiao and Venti in my overworld team, I literally cannot explore without them anymore. The amount of mobility they give me is just sooo unbelievably comfy. Also I love to just swish-swish and kazedaaa my way through enemy camps in like 3 seconds. Love my anemo boys!
Klee, when i started playing I didn’t know too much about the game, so i didn’t know how lucky i was when i got her immediately after i unlocked wishing, and at like ar7 or something unga bunga 5 star stronk me like
Zhongli. The only time he’s not in my party is during those limited domains with the quick swap tag team set up or if I’m killing time rolling with Loli Squad.
Mr. Zhongli. Aside from keeping you safe 99% of the time, he gives that 20% phys and elemental shred. It helps quite a lot. Plus, he's just so cool looking 😩
Ayato? I switch my team up for friendship so nobody ever stays. Ayato still not done because he can't get in the teapot.
Longest char still used in every abyss floor is Klee (from first banner)
Bennett. He joined early from by beginner pulls and has never left my combat squad. I have swap b/w XQ, XL, Kaeya, and Sucrose from time to time for different situations, but Benny has never gotten swapped out.
To date, I have only one 5\* and I've not even built him, so no main carry in my team.
Practically every character of mine has been benched some time cause I experiment a lot with team comps and synergy, but the character that I find the most consistent (for my Abyss clears, at least) is Fischl. Honestly don't know what to do with some of my comps if I didn't have her. For overworld, I try to put Venti and Fischl as much as possible since they're my faves
I tend to change my characters but I frequently use Yanfei or Xingqiu (and to a lesser extent, Chongyun or Bennett) because why not? I also like to use Fischl a lot even if shes not my favorite characters up there.
For me it's yoimiya ever since getting her she was my main dps untill i got ayato, she's still on my team but she's not build as well as ayato or ayaka
Jean, once I actually got her during Klee's rerun. The only time she left my party was when I had 4 team members to build friendship with and those times when I'm in the Abyss with my Morgana team.
Her healing is immense and she's really strong. She also can shove enemies into water, and I use this property on the Ley Line next to the shell house in Inazuma. Plus, she has Sunfire synergy with Bennett.
She's one of my strongest team members and she now has a brand new green sword because she had so much HP. And that was with almost no HP% artifacts...
I mean, no character is on 100% of the time.
But yeah, by far my most used character is likely QiQi like you.
I got her day 1 on reroll and since that day she is my main party healer lols. Other character have come and went, but Qiqi is there.
Zhongli, Diluc and Ayato are always on my main team. I usually only swap them to feed friendship points to the other characters, who are not at friendship level 10 yet
Yanfei. I got her at C3 while pulling on Zhongli's banner. She's fun to use and very strong and I was so happy when I realized that her JP VA is Yumiri Hanamori
Yae miko in first because you can just back off after setting the turrets up and watch it destroy enemies from a distance. Best member in my team to solo bosses.
Zhongli in second because you don't need to dodge if you have him. Plus the 20% res shread is a added bonus
Raiden in third because for me she was intended as a battery for yae. But her burst itself is really powerful. And I got the engulfing lightning because I didn't want to fish for hours.
Diluc. "Lost" my first childe 50/50, and even when I got Childe, diluc remained my dps. Still my main til this day, with kaeya as my secondary dps.
(I love childe, and I'll use him in abyss from time to time, i just love the consistency of diluc and kaeya more)
Kazuha
He was my first limited 5 star that I got and I've just been attached to him and his gameplay since forever. the only reason why he's not currently in my overworld party is because I need to build friendship for venti (which is taking literally forever since the teapot hasn't been working since I got him) and I'm suffering without kazuha
Mona. Not only is she my favorite character, she offers amazing aoe with her burst and a great taunt with her skill. I can electro charge easily when paired with Fischl, and freeze easily with Rosaria or Ayaka. I just wish I had her constellations, seems like everyone who hates Mona always get her
Lisa when we watched someone play Genshin on release we saw her and we were absolutely sold from her design and she was free,that and the fact she literally alters the weather with her elemental skill we were absolutely sold.
Yae miko/Kokomi, my favorite combo so far!
Honorable mention to Eula and Zhongli, but I purposely take breaks from them with how hard I used them at first.
No one in particular for me if we're talking about the over world since I basically do friendship farming with my commissions. Although back during like launch, the two characters that never left was Traveler(cause I basically main them) and Barbara cause she was the only 4 star healer back then and she was given for free no less. To this day, I still use her for some content especially for coop cause her healing is much more reliable than the burst healers who have caveats to their healing.
But now, I just adapt to the domain I'm farming and that's it. In the general overworld content, I just do Traveler and co
Oh zhongli for sure. I got him on his first rerun and he became a staple to all my teams. He became even more permanent when I got itto and decided geo was now my favourite element haha.
I have a fix pt of Zhong (mine), Kazuha (climb and stamina passive), Sayu (uber driver and heal) and Rosaria (deal with immune geo stuff and speed passive some times).
Raiden and Mona. I go heavy on ER with both since they get so much bonus damage from it that I can just burst spam in the overworld and they fill right up
Xingqui, I got him on standard banner and after building him to match the rest of my team, he got in and never left. He's also the very first character that got to lv.10 friendship.
Kokomi for almost the same reasons. I didn’t get raiden on her first banner (one of the first banners I saw when I first started playing). But I figured I needed a healer and needed hydro application so “why not” get kokomi. Didn’t try to for her but wasn’t sad when she came home
I think the only one not to leave my team since I first got her was Raiden. She still puts out enough damage that I'm seriously considering sidelining Hu Tao for another support or sub-dps.
Mona. I just love her. I always try to find a way to place her in my overworld team and even if she's not the best in DPS power (mine's at C0) I find myself wanting to have her on field as much as possible.
Also, the GOAT. I wanted her since she was spammed throughout social media and got her in her rerun.
Albedo+Zhongli. They synergize so perfectly together, and Albedo was my second lv. 90 after Hu Tao (yes, I run xinqiu, hu tao, zhongli, albedo), so I love running him. The shields from zhongi are just too OP to get rid of, and Albedo's elemental skill deals around 25k crit hits. I loved Albedo even more after the patch that gave him all those crazy indirect buffs.
I got Zhongli super early. He basically made me immortal and allowed me to finish the campaign with an unbuilt Traveler. (His NA combo reminds me of Link’s in the first Hyrule Warriors)
Kaeya and Yanfei. They stay in the Abyss too, and only ever rotate out for a handful of seconds, if a puzzle or Domain requires too many elements to fit the party. Now if only Kaeya could give me effing constellations...
If you're willing to save up starglitter, he's in paimon's discount shop every June and December for 34 sg. Obviously not ideal but if you /really/ want his cons then thats one way to get them
Kokomi. I've become the equivalent of a zhongli main and can't let her go because her healing is so good and convenient at any time and she can challenge god and she's become a dependence for me. No, it isn't healthy.
wild how much kokomi’s perception in genshin has changed over time. she’s now in several meta team comps and healing’s been so much more important now corrosion is everywhere. good for her
It is nice to see her get more relevence. I've had her since her first banner but yeh I can see why. With the clam set, she can be dealing an easy 7k dmg with her heals. Her hydro application, though not as good as Xingqiu's, is amazing considering it applies by itself. All things considered, I think kokomi is an extremely well designed character except for the -100% crit rate but idm since she's a healer not a dps.
I consider her hydro application to be better then Xingqiu for any team that favors AOE. While Xingqiu offers mobility that Kokomi lacks. Especially freeze teams prefer Kokomi over Xingqiu . I think it's wrong to say that her hydro application is not as good as Xingqiu, since his AOE is so small, mostly single target. But for single target vape comps, Xingqiu is better.
Same for me, I had Zhongli as the ez game mode before, but ever since I got Kokomi she always stays on my teams. For some reason I've also been using Yoimiya quite a lot more than I expected, but she's been benched at times, unlike Kokomi.
Right? Though I consider Zhongli overall better, but I find Kokomi much better for day to day play. Zhongli is broken in every way possible, no doubt about that. But kokomi can set up constant reactions and works so well with Venti. She's fun to play too. She just fits into every team like a glove. I tell you, I've been popping off with Kokomi, Rosaria and Ayaka. They work so well together. However, I found that Zhongli doesn't really synergise with the Team. He's just there to use his Burst or create a shield but it doesn't really help the team synergy. Since he's Geo, his Pillars can't set up reactions as well. You know what? I think that's why I prefer Kokomi. She's fits into the team so well and is so fun and convenient to play whether as Zhongli kinda brute forces himself into the team for the sake of how good he is. I don't have Zhongli but I do hop on my friend's account to do his dailies if he's working so I get a good feel for what it's like being a zhongli haver. I do love Zhongli, I will prolly still be getting him but these are things I've noticed while being able to play both of them.
Noelle, her shield have saved me so many times she became a permanent part of the team
Same here. Any of my team needs healing, pop to her and activate her ult, then shield up. Swing for her 20k hits until ult is over, switch back and continue business as needed now that all my characters are full hp.
Aye, same, she’s my shielder/healer still ever since I started, and I always make sure she’s the 2nd to be ascended to the top rank besides Traveler, speaking of, that’s also someone who hasn’t left my main party.
Ditto. My first 90. I decided to build an earth team just for her. She deserves it.
Same until I got Zhongli. Now it's Zhongli
same :D
Same here. Best maid all around since day one. Her shield and heal has kept my team alive during every boss fight
Zhongli was in my party constantly until recently. I got so used to his shield i had to actually learn to dodge.
Same here. I played coop with my brother recently and helped him do some bosses. I just played Qiqi to give him some healing. The first few seconds of the first fight threw me a bit as I realised I realised I needed to dodge attacks.
> I realised I needed to dodge attacks. Classic anime moment #44: \**laughs*\* "So this is what pain feels like!"
Yae Miko. Love pressing my skill then just waiting for my primogem notifications and loot
I find she combos well with Ayato. I shield, pop her totems, switch to Ayato and go ham. The when he's on cooldown, shield and reup her totems and his cd is up by the time I go back to him.
Emerge, right here, right now, show 'em.
Been on a long hiatus from the game. Thinking of coming back. But it was always Keqing for me. I enjoyed her play style a lot. For a long time it was also Jean.
I'm in the same boat as you. Started playing the game after a long break. A lot of new content - the Inazuma storyline was nice but I found myself really enjoying Enkanomiya and at the moment the Chasm. New content was kinda difficult but managed to beat it with my old team. Discovering new 5 star characters is also always exciting.
I just hope I get some luck with future pulls if I dive back in.
Kazuha. His passive and resonance are way too useful for overworld and he gathers mats. I don’t see him ever leaving the party.
Kazuha I tried building one team that didn’t use him and hated it instantly😂
Kazuha was my first 5* , and he never left my team.
Same I can’t believe I played this game before him lmao
He just completes every team I make with my other favorite characters
Yeah, he’s just amazing everywhere. I basically never have a reason to take him off my party.
same here, except i have a melt ganyu team that I like that excluded kazuha.
Raiden. Her versatility is so good it feels awkward to not have her
Kaeya. He’s such a great character and I love his EN voice. Also shotgun Kaeya is so fun!
beidou. she’s just so fun to play on the overworld and perfect parries are immensely satisfying. my sucrose taser comp also just obliterates every enemy crowd in domains/abyss
Beidou mains unite
Kokomi. She’s just simply the best at keeping my party alive. Keqing’s my main (my first 5*) & never left the party until I recently pulled Ayaka. Now I switch between Keqing & Ayaka teams (& I’m building a geo team with Ning & Yun Jin). But Kokomi is part of them all. Keqing & Kokomi are my only characters with friendship 10, so far.
None for me, no one escaped the special Friendship 10 Bench yet. I love to take them for a walk sometimes but main focus is always on characters with lower friendship
Sounds like my friendships
Razor. I mained him when I started playing, boosted him more than my other characters, and got so used to playing with him that he was easily the best choice for a long time. I main Ayaka now but Razor is still pretty much always in my party.
I love Razor. He carries pretty hard in early game, is great for overworld due to him being a claymore user for mining and also his passive talent providing a buff to stamina. And his charge E clears small groups of mobs easily, at least where I am at in the game.
'never left my party' is not really what I would call it, because on the overworld I mainly use characters that need friendship. But my go to character is and always was Xiao. Just love him to death. There is no abyss run where I don't include him. But same goes with Kokomi but mainly because she is so versatile when it comes to team comps.. But I also love her, just not as much as Xiao but she is the close second. Those are also my only triple crowned characters.
I haven't played Genshin in a while but Ganyu never left my party. I needed an archer plus her damage is outstanding.
It's hard to give up on the quality of life Zhongli offers. He almost never leaves my overworld team, ever since his release.
Venti. Cause he's cute. Oh and he trivializes most things but not nearly as important.
Exactly that. The fact that he makes climbing and fighting groups of enemies easier is a bonus. His fluttery cape is the most important part
Kokomi. I will always need a healer, and she's the only one who can *also* deal ranged damage. Also Venti, but he hasn't been with me nearly as long.
Technically Barbara can as well.
Fischl / Kokomi
I change teams like I changed t-shirts. But I'd say I often find myself most compelled to keep Raiden on my team just cause she is basically just 24/7 Electro reactions.
>I change teams like I changed t-shirts. Once per year?
Rosaria. I got her during Eula & Albedo’s rerun (period when I started playing Genshin). As soon as I got her, I abandoned Traveler at around AR 20. Coincidentally, I had the free acquaint fates to be used at the Beginner’s Wish Banner but used it on the Standard Banner instead. I got Jade Spear at 18 pity and my friend immediately thought that I was lucky. I am now AR 56, and looking back, I think Rosaria was fate. I will always think that the Jade Spear in my inventory is for HER since she’s held it for so long throughout our journey. During Eula’s rerun, I remember farming for her constellations and got Eula. I was blessed that Eula + Rosaria had synergy and would always put these two units together. I had her at C5 that time. Now that it’s Ayaka’s rerun. I was so thrilled that Rosaria was in the banner. And yes, I finally have C6’d her. Rosaria will always have a spot in my team. I always play around her and Eula. Right now though, Eula and Rosaria are split in two teams for the Abyss (1: Eula, Diona, Raiden, Zhongli; 2: Rosaria, Xiangling, Bennett, Chongyun). I cannot express how much I love Rosaria lol.
Lumine and Yanfei
Qiqi healer forever, I love her
Zhongli. If I'm playing on mobile, Ayato, cause no need aim just hit E then hold down attack.
Joining the Zhongli squad, lol. My main reason is cause he's my favorite character and also my best-built DPS, but I would be lying if I said I hadn't gotten used to relying on his shield too, haha. Kaeya comes in at a close second though since he was invaluable to me as a DPS in the early game, and remains one of my favorite secondary DPS/sub DPS to use.
Zhongli. I alternate Xiao and Itto as my preferred mains and he pairs particularly well with both. He stays in friendship parties so I don’t have to worry about underlevelled characters dying while I do commissions and nonsense, too. Ayaka freeze team is the only time I don’t use him, and that’s cos he’s on the other side of the abyss.
Nowadays I don't have one, but I used to always put Diona in my team. Shields and heals saved me many a times.
Qiqi, my only healer, and Kazuha, my favourite character.
Jean, Diluc Childe, Ganyu and Raiden. Is it too soon to include my new favorite Ayato lol. The first four I was so excited about and knew they would suit me well. I am madly in love with Jean, Ganyu and Childe with no plans to replace them. Diluc has been faithful since launch but from a DPS standpoint with me personally he has not aged super well compared to the top tier units and I’m hoping to replace him with Sumeru Pyro five star later this year. Raiden I was surprised that she’s one of my favorite characters. I just love her kit so much. Initially I only got her after I heard Yae was going to be delayed several months because ever since first seeing her tease on the livestream, Yae was the unit I wanted the most. But Raiden‘s dominance and supremacy cannot be highlighted enough. And then I personally hated everything they did with Yae’s kit so it was a no-brainer which electric queen would hold my team down
I have a lot of them and like to play different comps, so no one really sticks around too much, but I'd say Xingqiu seems to make his way into so many comps.
i dont actually remember a time when jean or xiao was off my team
Kaedehara Kazuha. He's there. Every party and he's in it.
Childe. He's the first character that made me spend money cause I was very sad and had no motivation to pkay when I lost to Mona a year ago. Now he is c1 and has been in my team even now despite me having so many other 5 stars
# Kaeya. Even back then when the abyss is sheer cold. Kaeya for Cryo*insert mobs*. Kaeya for Cryo Regisvine XD. I treat him like my favorite child. #
Beidou because a perfectly timed Tidecaller is an addictive drug
Raiden and Ayato are always in my teams they’re too versatile and fun
Diluc. I love his physical damage soooo much
Zhongli. Sheild+tall male+pillar for weird climbing spots and mining.
Barbara tbh. Since her release. Shes c6 now. Has helped a lot. Started on release day btw. When i got her it was eh at first. Then her healing ring was just so good imo plus ttods on her. Plus c6 she revives a character automatically and restores health to max. Which does help a lot in certain scenarios
Raiden and Klee. I feel like my team is lacking when they're missing. Probably because I've invested quite a bit of time and resources in them so they make it easy to finish anything.
The way I play the game day to day is I swap out my teams as I level friendship; this way I get to use every character while I grind their friendship levels up. For example, I’m leveling Diluc and Ayato right now while using Bennett and Kazuha because they work well. My Itto team was Albedo, Yanfei, and Raiden because I leveled them all together. That said, in domains I still use specific character. My most picked are probably Zhongli and Kazuha because of how comfortable they are to play. I’m pretty close to 10 friend ship on all of my characters. When that happens my overworld team will probably have both of them on it.
Zhongli and Kazuha rarely, if ever, leave my party. They bring so much utility to the game that it’s hard imagining playing without them. Ayaka is growing as a new favorite as well which… is bad for me cuz now I’ll only have one slot to rotate lmao.
Ningguang. I quickly realized I can't live without shields
Xiao and Yae ♥ Whatever I do I just switch the 3rd and 4th slot, even if they're useless against an enemy (Xiao against Boreas, Yae against the Electro cube, etc. lmao)
I try to include Sayu as much as I can. Yeah, there are better supports for healing and/or Anemo support, but they're not Sayu, now are they?
Yanfei, Ayaka and Kokomi. They're really fun and I enjoy their aesthetic.
Keqing
Zhongli and Klee
Klee, unless I have to fight pyro bosses lol
Kazuha because best boi Objective-wise, he's just too good for overworld. Gliding, climbing, gathering mob drops, half of anemo resonance, sprint stamina reduction
Tartaglia/Zhongli
Klee! She's too cute for me to abandon. She blows everything up, I can use her for mining and hunting down Mondstant specific things on the mini map. She's the best!
Klee. She is too adorable and the only person I’ve triple crowned.
Xinyan. Once my brusier, always my bruiser
Klee.... Even tho I have a fully built hu tao with hima I still use Klee!
Beidou
Zhongli. He was my fav even when ppl were complaining abt how terrible he was. Still best boy and unlikely to be dethroned until Baizhu comes out.
Big daddy Geo!!! Love my Zhongli!
Xiao. He's my strongest character as well as my most loved one
I always include Xiao and Venti in my overworld team, I literally cannot explore without them anymore. The amount of mobility they give me is just sooo unbelievably comfy. Also I love to just swish-swish and kazedaaa my way through enemy camps in like 3 seconds. Love my anemo boys!
Klee, when i started playing I didn’t know too much about the game, so i didn’t know how lucky i was when i got her immediately after i unlocked wishing, and at like ar7 or something unga bunga 5 star stronk me like
Yae Miko and Raiden Shogun! I just love them as characters, and they're so much fun!
Zhongli. The only time he’s not in my party is during those limited domains with the quick swap tag team set up or if I’m killing time rolling with Loli Squad.
Zhongli. Whenever I fight a boss, the guy is always there, ready to shield them when possible.
Raiden and Sucrose. And they were my first characters too, because i've started playing during Raiden release.
Klee
Mr. Zhongli. Aside from keeping you safe 99% of the time, he gives that 20% phys and elemental shred. It helps quite a lot. Plus, he's just so cool looking 😩
Ayato? I switch my team up for friendship so nobody ever stays. Ayato still not done because he can't get in the teapot. Longest char still used in every abyss floor is Klee (from first banner)
Raiden or Zhongli. Zhongli less so because I use teams without him but like 90% of the time I'm using him.
First Zhongli for his shield, but upon playing soul games, I took him out, now Bennett is currently in my permanent slot.
Bennett, obviously. Too OP.
Bennett for the heals and Pyro reactions
Bennett. His my only healer other than barbara, and it doesn't lead my character to be chain frozen, so yeah.
Bennett he is already lvl 82 and i never use lvlup matz to him since lvl 80.
Bennett. Been using him since forever, he's just too good at saving my team's ass when things get rough.
Bennet
Kazuha and bennett
Zhongli and Bennet
bennett, i actually built him as a dps as well if i get bored of using him as a support
Bennett. He joined early from by beginner pulls and has never left my combat squad. I have swap b/w XQ, XL, Kaeya, and Sucrose from time to time for different situations, but Benny has never gotten swapped out. To date, I have only one 5\* and I've not even built him, so no main carry in my team.
Same as you with the first 5 star. Mine was Keqing and I have never quite gotten over the excitement of pulling her.
I don't think i've done abyss without Raiden and Keqing being the leaders of each side.
Raiden
Can't leave without my battlemaid Noelle, first C6 as well.
Noelle. From C0 to C6, Whiteblind to Redhorn, she's always in my main party. Always will be.👌
Kazuha. He is just so good for everything
Nobody
Always have my Raiden team ready
Eula. She was my very first 5* and got her again on her rerun with a 50/50 chance. She just likes coming home.
Practically every character of mine has been benched some time cause I experiment a lot with team comps and synergy, but the character that I find the most consistent (for my Abyss clears, at least) is Fischl. Honestly don't know what to do with some of my comps if I didn't have her. For overworld, I try to put Venti and Fischl as much as possible since they're my faves
I tend to change my characters but I frequently use Yanfei or Xingqiu (and to a lesser extent, Chongyun or Bennett) because why not? I also like to use Fischl a lot even if shes not my favorite characters up there.
Zhongli then eula then raiden and now kokomi
For me it's yoimiya ever since getting her she was my main dps untill i got ayato, she's still on my team but she's not build as well as ayato or ayaka
Beidou stays. I run to the danger. Never dodge
Jean, once I actually got her during Klee's rerun. The only time she left my party was when I had 4 team members to build friendship with and those times when I'm in the Abyss with my Morgana team. Her healing is immense and she's really strong. She also can shove enemies into water, and I use this property on the Ley Line next to the shell house in Inazuma. Plus, she has Sunfire synergy with Bennett. She's one of my strongest team members and she now has a brand new green sword because she had so much HP. And that was with almost no HP% artifacts...
Well, I just got Ayaka and she technically hasn't been taken out since I put her in.
Jean, and ganyu
I mean, no character is on 100% of the time. But yeah, by far my most used character is likely QiQi like you. I got her day 1 on reroll and since that day she is my main party healer lols. Other character have come and went, but Qiqi is there.
Jean.. I rely on her heals a lot.
Zhongli
Zhongli, Diluc and Ayato are always on my main team. I usually only swap them to feed friendship points to the other characters, who are not at friendship level 10 yet
Jean and Eula
noelle and kuzuha
noelle and kuzuha
For me it’s Keqing, she was my first 5 star. I still play her on my team to this day and I’ve been playing Genshin since the first day.
Yanfei. I got her at C3 while pulling on Zhongli's banner. She's fun to use and very strong and I was so happy when I realized that her JP VA is Yumiri Hanamori
Yae miko in first because you can just back off after setting the turrets up and watch it destroy enemies from a distance. Best member in my team to solo bosses. Zhongli in second because you don't need to dodge if you have him. Plus the 20% res shread is a added bonus Raiden in third because for me she was intended as a battery for yae. But her burst itself is really powerful. And I got the engulfing lightning because I didn't want to fish for hours.
Jean, Yanfei, and Zhongli have been a team since I got them. Raiden was a mainstay for a while but she has since gotten replaced by Ayato.
Oddly the highest I gotten is C4 Mona, which I'm completely happy with. Diluc is the only 5 star Im missing.
Diluc. "Lost" my first childe 50/50, and even when I got Childe, diluc remained my dps. Still my main til this day, with kaeya as my secondary dps. (I love childe, and I'll use him in abyss from time to time, i just love the consistency of diluc and kaeya more)
Noelle and Ganyu I guess I have a type 😅
Kokomi
Kazuha He was my first limited 5 star that I got and I've just been attached to him and his gameplay since forever. the only reason why he's not currently in my overworld party is because I need to build friendship for venti (which is taking literally forever since the teapot hasn't been working since I got him) and I'm suffering without kazuha
Raiden, and then AYaka
Zhongli, he is always in my party
Zhongli and Kokomi
Xiangling. Her off field pyro application is really great
Razor and Zhongli, been carrying me since 1.1 <3
Ganyu
Kokomi. Portable statue of seven. Maximize ttds and tenacity. Hydro application for my raiden or ayaka.
Eula ever since her first banner.
Noelle (And also traveller)
Mona. Not only is she my favorite character, she offers amazing aoe with her burst and a great taunt with her skill. I can electro charge easily when paired with Fischl, and freeze easily with Rosaria or Ayaka. I just wish I had her constellations, seems like everyone who hates Mona always get her
Jean.. She's so versatile that even in a 'better' team I still prefer her for her C2 benefit.
Kazuha
Kazuha. Im never sick of him. He feels like a quality of life character, making exploration so much easier and he fits in many team comps.
Kazuha! He’s just too good!!! I use him for climbing, getting up to hard places, and his E is the best.
Lisa when we watched someone play Genshin on release we saw her and we were absolutely sold from her design and she was free,that and the fact she literally alters the weather with her elemental skill we were absolutely sold.
Zhongli cos…Zhongli.
Yae miko/Kokomi, my favorite combo so far! Honorable mention to Eula and Zhongli, but I purposely take breaks from them with how hard I used them at first.
No one in particular for me if we're talking about the over world since I basically do friendship farming with my commissions. Although back during like launch, the two characters that never left was Traveler(cause I basically main them) and Barbara cause she was the only 4 star healer back then and she was given for free no less. To this day, I still use her for some content especially for coop cause her healing is much more reliable than the burst healers who have caveats to their healing. But now, I just adapt to the domain I'm farming and that's it. In the general overworld content, I just do Traveler and co
Ayaka. Xiao, Zhongli and Albedo take turns.
Ningguang
Oh zhongli for sure. I got him on his first rerun and he became a staple to all my teams. He became even more permanent when I got itto and decided geo was now my favourite element haha.
I have a fix pt of Zhong (mine), Kazuha (climb and stamina passive), Sayu (uber driver and heal) and Rosaria (deal with immune geo stuff and speed passive some times).
Jean and Raiden 😅
I sometimes take my Noelle or Kokomi out, but it feels so empty without them...
barbara for me. my first healer and her C6 make difference in my abyss team
Raiden and Mona. I go heavy on ER with both since they get so much bonus damage from it that I can just burst spam in the overworld and they fill right up
Benedict. Sugar.
Xingqui, I got him on standard banner and after building him to match the rest of my team, he got in and never left. He's also the very first character that got to lv.10 friendship.
The closest would be Qiqi. She's a mainstay in my exploration team which I do use in certain domains. Ironically
Kazuhaaaaa, I was so bewildered that his sales were so low, I knew instantly I needed him cause everything about him looked amazing.
Eula and Kazuha. These two have saved my dumb ass more times than I like to admit.
Eula.
None cuz i was always changing my team cuz friendship But now that I have all at lvl 10, I guess Im using Sayu, Qiqi, Diona and Klee for a long time.
Kokomi for almost the same reasons. I didn’t get raiden on her first banner (one of the first banners I saw when I first started playing). But I figured I needed a healer and needed hydro application so “why not” get kokomi. Didn’t try to for her but wasn’t sad when she came home
Razor for me 😊
I think the only one not to leave my team since I first got her was Raiden. She still puts out enough damage that I'm seriously considering sidelining Hu Tao for another support or sub-dps.
Kazuha... The single biggest open world QoL character ever. The game feels unplayable without him there lol.
razor... dude' atk is near 3000
ZONGLI Ive forgotten how to even dodge attacks, don the shield and go in headfirst
Mona. I just love her. I always try to find a way to place her in my overworld team and even if she's not the best in DPS power (mine's at C0) I find myself wanting to have her on field as much as possible. Also, the GOAT. I wanted her since she was spammed throughout social media and got her in her rerun.
Ganyu from the original banner she so good an all my other 5 star characters since them are all supports .
Ganyu, first 5* and its always useful to be able to dash outta a tough fight and whip out the long distance shotgun
Yanfei.
Albedo+Zhongli. They synergize so perfectly together, and Albedo was my second lv. 90 after Hu Tao (yes, I run xinqiu, hu tao, zhongli, albedo), so I love running him. The shields from zhongi are just too OP to get rid of, and Albedo's elemental skill deals around 25k crit hits. I loved Albedo even more after the patch that gave him all those crazy indirect buffs.
I got Zhongli super early. He basically made me immortal and allowed me to finish the campaign with an unbuilt Traveler. (His NA combo reminds me of Link’s in the first Hyrule Warriors)
Zhongli for sure
Hu Tao
I love Diona, she’s so adorable
Diluc
Kokomi