Originally uploaded to Bilibili.tv

Boy was it. You'll see why at the end of this video lol

Anyway we have two new characters this time and they are both awesome. Naturally the Archon is powerful. Her motorcycle mode is so fun. Combine that with Mona and you basically run through all of Teyvat at high speed. As for fighting you really want to use Mavuika's motorcycle in battle. Her normal fighting style is pretty average. That being said the point is if you don't want to use motorcycle mode then she's meant to be a Support Character like all the other Archons. Motorcycle mode gives her true offensive power and of course it's always nice to see bike-fu. The livestream and the supposed experts on game mechanics made it sound like Mavuika's Burst would be very hard to rely on but I actually found it's far easier to rely on. Everybody else's Bursts cost energy and energy isn't very reliable to build. Mavuika? She builds her Burst from fighting. As you attack she builds up points and if you want her as a support then just make sure you tap her skill before doing anything else. As long as her skill is up she'll build Burst from anybody that's attacking. And this process only speeds up if you use Natlan characters. (You really notice how good this is when you fight the Raiden Shogun because her thing is reducing your energy meaning everybody else will lose their Bursts. Mavuika won't. It's glorious lol)

Ok so Citlali. Citlali is a pure Support Character. She shields. Her shield applies Cryo. Life is good. Well for everybody except Layla who was the previous Cryo Shield Character. I think Citlali does everything Layla does only better. She also uses a Catalyst weapon so that means she can apply Cryo even if her shield isn't up. And of course as a Master of the Night-Wind she has this unique ability to super jump so you can get to high places easily with her. The same was true of Ororon. Also all her animations are just so cute.

Besides them you have the oldies. Bennett is still as good as ever. Just Burst and switch him out. Sometimes you can use his skill for a little extra Pyro but mostly it's just the Burst and that's more than enough. Diona on the other hand is another Cryo Shielder but she also heals. It would have been nice if either did anything actually useful but from my experience Layla is the far better shielder so Citlali has them both beat now and there are so many better healers than Diona. Shinobu for example also applies wonderful amounts of Electro and of course you can't beat out the dedicated healers like Kokomi or the Hydro Archon Furina. And so lastly we have the newest oldy, Kachina. They didn't even give us a Trial for her. Anyway she's not really that useful. Her wall climbing thing is good in Natlan because you have Phlogiston so she can climb farther than anybody else but that still isn't infinite climbing so Kazuha despite taking longer will still climb farther. (I found that out the hard way when I trying to get this one Teleport Waypoint at the top of cliff last patch.) Besides that she's not really good for anything else. Her attacks are pretty weak and she's Geo so all she can do with that is get some shields that are the most fragile in the game. Xilonen has her beat just because she can weaken enemy defenses. Even she's not really good for anything else though for many people that lowering defense function is good enough. (just like Bennett)

Of course I still went for these banners because it's the Archon and Citlali's really really cute so I also ended up getting 6 Kachinas which max out her Constellations so my Kachina is at her fullest potential. Thanks to some New Year's luck (technically more like year's end luck since this all happened yesterday) I got them both by winning 50/50s which is rare. I mean I tend to win one after I've lost the previous one but it's once a year I get to win 2 in a row and I had already gotten my annual 2-win streak with Kinich and Raiden Shogun. (coincidentally this one also involved an Archon and in fact an Archon that kinda parallels Raiden) Even better. I had planned for losing both 50/50s because I knew these two characters were pretty popular so it wouldn't be unexpected for miHoYo to skew the odds a little more. Anyway I planned to lose them so I had double the gacha pulls I ended up needing. What that means is I now have enough to guarantee the next character I go for even if I lose the 50/50. That's a happy new year right there haha

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