Why Genshin Impact's Archons Are Perfectly Designed

1:35 Nitpick, the Gnosis isn't the source of their power. Zhongli, Raiden and Nahida gave up their Gnoses and they still have their powers.

I think one thing that you could have touched on is that to prevent excessive powercreep, genshin designs the archons with supportive capabilities in mind. There are lots of big dmg dealers in anemo, geo, dendro, hydro, but the archons have a recurring utility aspect that helps ensure they're uncontested in the situations demanded of them. Even if some of them have very generous multipliers on their attacks, all of their elemental bursts aim to provide something to the party, whether thats energy, durability, crowd control and reaction or damage buffs. On a sidenote, they all also offer off-field elemental application in some form, hence the current "afk" archon team. I feel like even with the pyro archon, she'll be similar to raiden shogun by dealing high damage but also giving off-field buffs/off field pyro application. Similarly, the tsaritsa will almost certainly provide crit rate buffs given its ubiquity with cryo artifacts and resonance.

With so many Pyro on-fielders I can see Murata being a 5* Xiangling since there aren't many off-field Pyro characters. As for Tsaritsa I think it would be so interesting if she could amplify Freeze by being able to freeze bosses, changing the rules of the game established at the start

I have one nitpick about this video, and it's the fact that Venti would be the strongest character in the game by a wide margin. Him being playable means that Hoyo needs to put enemies in abyss that can't be lifted up or staggered easely in order to make him feel balanced. If they still put enemies in abyss like those, or new enemies that are easely lifted up, he would be the most used and strongest character.

That's why "you can always choose who to pull" is always true, until the archon banners lol

I'll just always find it funny that at the start of this game, Venti was so much more powerful then any other character by far that everyone wanted him. He also made abyss possible, not just doable you basically needed/required him specifically. He also gave an updraft, no other character could. He was too powerful too early, they skipped the whole power creep thing and just gave us someone whose a lot stronger then you should need that early on in the games life. So much so they have to design enemies to be not effected by his attacks just to remove his relevance. They had to alter the game because of his existence. Meanwhile Zhongli gets released in a state that was so bad he was terrible to own before his buffs, and from what I am reading, he is the only character release to ever be buffed? And instead of just being strong, they go and design a boss around his kit to make him a "requirement" when the boss itself was just extremely terribly designed.

I always like to think that the Archons were all designed to fix the biggest problem at the time. Venti for grouping, Zhong gor survival, Ei for energy demand, Nahida for sustaining reactions, Furina for filling roles (healer, buffer, dps and hydro applications all rolled into 1). So I think the next Archons will fix the longest problems we're still dealing with with cryo and pyro

Archons in a nutshell: Venti: best cc (when it works) Zhongli: hold e and you gonna forgot what dodge means Nahida: broken but green Furina: broken but blue (also you need a healer)

Sorry, Vars, but when you make lore statements, you need to check them. Archons neither choose who receive a vision, nor do they choose to stop giving Visions. EI herself was surprised that no new Electro Visions were given to mortals since Vision Hunt Decree And Neuvillette's character details explicitely state that it's Celestia who decides. Archons have ZERO control on Vision destribution system. Also, Ei became a NEET right after constructing Raiden Shogun at some unspecified time in the past. Vision Hunt Decree was put up a year before Traveler's arrival to Liyue, Zhongli stated that.

The greatest measure of how powerful venti is is how Hoyo literally changed how they designed enemies so he would destroy everything

Mihoyo gonna cook a really broken pyro archon because of xiangling and Bennett lol

Because they represent the entire element and are meant to be the best character of that respective element is the short and simple answer Edit: Well guys I said they were meant to be doesn't mean that they successfully made that true, but they did kinda managed to do it to a certain extent, especially the later archons

I like how the ability that trascends human understanding are reserve on the archons. Like Zhongli who literally summons a meteor that no one can immitate, literally an ability worthy of a god. Raiden Ei musou no hitotachi that is like a dimensional slash and Venti who summons a vortex that seems like a block hole. These old folks wield the heavenly powers.

My guess is that Natlans characters will be centered around a high-risk, high-reward mechanic ("burn bright or be snuffed out") a bit like how Fontaine characters have a health-centered mechanic which Murata will take to a whole new level, being in essence a Support-DPS like Raiden who gets rewarded when you do risky stuff with your team.

I find it funny through the Archon quests currently (of the playable) only Nahida and Ei are the only Archons that are the recognized archons of their lands while Venti (having hidden in plain sight), Zhongli (morax officially is “dead) and Furina (having passed on her authority and gnosis-yes I know Furina never actually had the gnosis but she was the recognized face of Fontaine) are just choking an doing what they please as mortals (albeit Venti and Zhongli possibly still have their long life spans)

gotta say, venti holding up his position while being the first banner character of the game is very impressive

There are archons and then there's that man a dragon sovereign .

Fontaine is unique because we also got the Hydro Sovereign along with the Archon. It felt like a 2 for 1 type of deal. How many of you think Mihoyo will introduce other Dragon Sovereigns?

Very great video ! Thats what i love so much about archons ,they the best representation of their respective element . I think something makes also Archons great is how synergistic they are with other units of the same role or element.

It would be cool if the fire Archon had an ability, that sets your teammates ablaze, causing burn damage. Would play nicely into the theme of war, how it hurts everyone. Not to mention how well it would synergise with the healers who got back into the spotlight again