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Genshin Impact 2.8 Leaks: Shikanoin Heizou Skills & Elemental Burst

Genshin Impact 2.8 Leaks: Shikanoin Heizou Skills & Elemental Burst

Even though characters of other Elements usually end up taking the spotlight, it's the Hydro characters in Genshin Impact that enable other Elements to perform so well. This is simply due to how powerful all of Hydro's Elemental Reactions are. Hydro's reactions are the strongest in the game, due to either damage or utility. Hydro is needed for most of the game's best reactions: Vaporize, Freeze, and Electro-charged. Vaporize is Pyro's best reaction, Freeze is Cryo's, and Electro-charged is Electro's. In short, other Elements in Genshin Impact would not be as powerful as they are now without Hydro. It's why the meta in a large majority of Genshin Impact 's team compositions need a good Hydro applier, like Kokomi and Xing

Raiden Shogun is an Electro polearm user that was first debuted in Version 2.1 of Genshin Impact . Her Elemental Skill places a buff onto the active character that will deal Electro damage along with their attacks. This buff also helps the team recharge their Energy faster. Her Elemental Burst deals a large amount of damage to enemies around her and leaves her with greatly enhanced Normal and Charged attacks for the Burst's durat

Genshin Impact _ recently announced Shikanoin Heizou, a new character coming to the 2.8 update, whose abilities and Elemental Burst may have been leaked. Like many live-service games, _Genshin Impact is riddled with players that hack or utilize company connections to obtain and circulate information. Some leaks feature upcoming character Banners, allowing players to budget their in-game currency better, but others can feature images, damage output, or videos of abilities, weapons, and more. While Shikanoin Heizou likely won't join the game until July since Genshin Impact 2.7 was delayed , the leaked information can help players adjust their parties ahead of Heizou's arri

A great thing about the Raiden Shogun is that she can work with a lot of Genshin Impact 's characters. She can fill both a supportive and main-DPS role, making filling out teams for her simple, even with F2P teams. A great first candidate for a F2P Raiden Shogun team would be Xiangling, who can be obtained for free by completing floor 3 of the Spiral Abyss. Xiangling is a character that wants to consistently cast her Burst on cooldown, which in turn helps boost the Raiden Shogun's own Burst damage. With Xiangling's Burst on the field, the Raiden Shogun can attack during her Burst to consistently apply the Overload reaction, which will greatly increase the player's dam

The Electro Archon is an outstanding character in Genshin Impact and does not require other 5-stars on her team to excel in her damage output. She can benefit other teams by providing them with off-field damage and Energy Recharge or could play the role of main DPS on quick-swap teams, able to quickly proc many Elemental Reactions during the uptime of her Elemental Burst. Perhaps surprisingly, she works well with a lot of characters that are free in Genshin Impa

The Raiden Shogun is probably _Genshin Impact _ 's most popular playable character, having the highest sales on both of her Banners. The Electro Archon is a satisfying fix of sub and main DPS, able to benefit her team in multiple ways. And since she also can fit into a variety of teams, it's worth noting that Raiden Shogun actually works great on a free-to-play (F2P) account, Wuthering Waves gacha guide|https://wutheringwavesguide.com/ and goes well with several F2P charact

Heizou is several of Genshin Impact 's firsts when it comes to character design. Since he is Anemo, he is Genshin Impact 's first male Anemo 4-star character . Yet, maybe even more importantly, he is also Genshin Impact 's first male catalyst user. Fans have wanted a male catalyst user for some time and Heizou is finally delivering on that type of character. Since there is no other male catalyst user, it is likely that all of Heizou's animations will be unique, such as the animation when previewing his weapon on the character screen. He has also been leaked to be fairly short, which will likely also affect his animations. Players will just have to wait and see just how unique he moves in comparison to other charact

The Anemo Traveler in Genshin Impact can also fit into this team since the player can equip them with the Viridescent Venerer Artifact set to swirl both Pyro and Electro, and increase the damage both Elements deal. The Traveler's Elemental Skill can also keep enemies pulled inside Lisa's Burst, forcing the DEF drop on them. Barbara is a good alternative since she can be obtained for free at Adventure Rank 18 or higher after players have completed the quest "A Long Shot." So instead of having a swirl support to increase damage, players can use Barbara for the healing, and she can even help apply Electro-charged and Vaporize on enemies as well with her own atta

all-male-female-character-models-v0-ebm0b71on0mc1.jpg?format=2500wHydro's reaction with Dendro has recently been leaked as well. As of now, this leaked reaction is called "Overgrown," which spawns mushrooms that explode and deal damage. While nothing is confirmed, this will likely be Dendro's strongest reaction and will give Hydro yet another reason to be essential on so many of Genshin Impact 's teams. Since Hydro doesn't have many main DPS characters, it is usually the Element that makes sure everything goes smoothly from the back lines. Despite having the fewest characters in the game, Hydro is needed for a lot of other characters to shine. It has never been a secret how strong Hydro is, and it will likely hold its reputation in _Genshin Impact _ for the game's entire lifet

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