The Powercreep Truth about Chiori! 4★ Weapon C0 Chiori Showcase (Genshin Impact)

So, Chiori has finally arrived and after playing with her for a while…

I gotta say, this showcase video is going to be full of twists because I’ve tested

her with 4 different weapons and the results shocked me but what surprised me even more

was the comparison between Chiori and Albedo – two units that are very similar but tell

a different story when you actually see their performance.

So, strap in boys, girls and gacha gamers, because I wanna show you everything about

this Inazuma fashion designer, so you can see for yourself how good is constellation

0 Chiori.

But first..

So, Chiori is the new 5-star Geo Sword unit who specializes in off-field damage while

you’re busy playing with your main damage dealer.

She’s a fairly simple unit when it comes to her playstyle but there are a couple of

things that make her unique, so let’s first take a look at her personal damage.

For now, she’s equipped with a fully refined Harbinger of Dawn sword but later on it will

be compared to Cinnabar Spindle, Festering Desire and her Signature sword while her main

artifact set for this showcase is going to be Golden Troupe but honestly, Husk of Opulant

Dreams is not that far behind and I just used Golden Troupe because of stronger substats.

Also, keep in mind all of her talents are dual scaling with ATK and DEF, so that’s

why she has DEF Sands because it’s a bit better stat for her.

And finally, all of her talents are max level 10 and she’s constellation 0.

Now just to quickly show her solo potential, her burst deals a single AoE attack which

results in about 33,000 DMG and it costs 50-energy, so pretty cheap but probably the best thing

about it is that it’s really pretty, subjectively speaking.

Still, the majority of her damage comes from the skill – just like with Keqing or Alhaitham,

you can select where you want to teleport and then she does this 25K DMG slash attack

and more importantly this doll called Tamoto shows up.

Every 3.6 seconds it will deal about 13,700 DMG and this will happen for a total of 5

times over 16 second duration.

So, taking into consideration all the other 5-stars released in the past, her own solo

potential without team mates is pretty much what you would expect and she does possess

decent raw damage potential.

But here’s where things get interesting.

Thanks to her 1st passive talent when Chiori uses her skill, she has a small timing window

where you can decide to either press the attack button or skill.

If you press attack – she gains Geo infusion for 5 seconds and then… proceeds to hit

like a wet noodle, because nothing else in her kit amplifies her normal attacks, so forget

about it.

But if you instead press the skill again, she will immediately switch to the next character

AND now a 2nd doll can potentially be deployed.

You see, this will only happen if there’s another Geo construct on the field or if one

is created when the 1st doll is active but most important of all – when you switch

to the next character, no matter who attacks afterwards, for 8 seconds, the dolls can unleash

a coordinated attack every 2 seconds but only for a total of 2 times.

However, the damage is pretty good, not gonna lie and all you gotta do is make sure to hit

with Normal/Charged/Plunging Attack with anyone to trigger the coordinated attack.

Oh, and more thing – because of her 2nd passive talent, she gains 20% GEO DMG for

buff for 20 seconds when anyone creates a Geo Construct, so expect this to be always

s active on her when playing in Geo teams.

But that’s pretty much her entire rotation – do the burst then skill and switch out

to let her do dolls do the rest of work.

In a fully built Geo team with C6 Gorou buffs, it takes about 4.5 seconds of Chiori’s field

time to setup the whole rotation and then for the next 16 seconds while the Dolls last,

she will unleash a total of 486,000 DMG.

I wish my Gorou was C0 so his C6 wouldn’t provide a huge critical damage buff but it

is what it is, however, Chiori’s damage is still pretty good for a Geo unit.

Now if we take a look at her damage breakdown, you can see here that her Dolls make up a

total of 50% of her entire damage, while the 2 coordinated attacks make up 22% percent

and then the burst is responsible for 16% and skill slash attack for 12% of her entire

damage output.

Basically, her skill when fully utilized makes up the majority of her damage output.

It’s her entire identity and no matter what your opinion is about playing with dollies,

they are her lifeline.

In fact, let me tell you everything about these dolls.

And starting with energy generation – it’s pretty random.

The dolls will generate particles up to 5 times and usually it will be 1 particle, maybe

sometimes 2 but it’s a pretty low chance, so expect on average 5 to 7 particles.

And there’s also a cooldown between particles, so even if there’s 2 dolls hitting the enemy

at the same time – it’s just hardcoded to provide particles every 3.6 seconds.

Next – targeting.

It’s pretty easy – you don’t need to hit the enemy, the dolls have a mind of their

own and will just attack anybody who gets close to them.

Which brings us to range – it’s not big, I would say medium at best, you can see me

even pushing the doll to find the maximum range, which is pretty funny that they can

be moved around.

And speaking of being a pushover – durability is good.

The dolls DO NOT count as constructs which means the stupid 3-construct limit does not

apply to them and compared to Albedo’s Flower – they will not get destroyed by enemy attacks,

at least Maguu Kenki wasn’t able to do it and… you can even summon them on Oceanid’s

floor no problemo.

I mean look at poor Albedo trying to do the same and instead he just generates 1 more

doll for Chiori.

That’s foreshadowing of what’s to come later in this video.

Now AoE… is pretty bad, basically non-existant.

I tried forcing these big hunks of junk to stay together and one time it worked – you

can see here both of them getting hit with 1 single Doll attack but the enemies will

need to be almost on top of each other for this to happen….

Unless you use Anemo units for grouping… which I suspect won’t be a popular choice.

But yeah, in a nutshell – these dolls are super chill, they will do their job and they

won’t disappoint you, the damage is good and it scales well with other buffs.

However, one important thing to mention would be the fact that her skill DOES NOT SNAPSHOT.

To me that was a pretty shocking discovery because this means she will not be able to

utilize Gorou’s DEF and Geo boost buff from the skill when she’s off-field, not to mention

Benny’s circle also fizzles out in potential, since now only her burst and initial skill

hit will be boosted.

However, Gorou still remains her best buffer because his passive when burst is activated

still provides DEF boost and of course, his C6 still remains active even when she’s

off-field.

Overall, when looking at her personal potential with just the Harbinger of Dawn, she’s a

low complexity unit that can deliver decent amount of supportive damage – but the big

question is – how good is she with other weapons and is she better than Albedo?

Well, let’s find out.

Ok, here’s the plan – Harbinger of Dawn’s baseline damage has been already established,

so we’re going to compare it to three other options – Festering Desire, Cinnabar Spindle

and the new 5-star signature weapon – Uraku Misugiri…?

I don’t know…

And starting off with good old Festering Desire – surprisingly, the majority of its damage

is about the same as Harbinger of Dawn’s but if we take into account that you’ll

need more Critical Rate substats, it ends up about dealing 10% less DMG, HOWEVER, it

does provide Energy Recharge from the substat which means Chiori will be able to very easily

burst every rotation.

Overall, this old event weapon is not something to worry about if you don’t have it because

Harbinger of Dawn will be better in most cases, unless you run into those Rifthounds.

Now Cinnabar Spindle – that’s a different story.

This weapon gave me a headache when I was trying to understand it’s passive’s logic

because it states that it will provide 80% DEF buff for elemental skill DMG every 1.5

seconds but the thing is – it felt so random.

Sometimes, both doll hits would benefit from the buff, other times just 1 doll, so it was

pretty random but ultimately, it ended up beating both previous weapons with a chunky

21% overall DMG increase.

I dunno, my methods of testing might be flawed here because I just repeated the rotation

with roughly the same loadout.

But brace yourselves because the signature weapon completely demolishes its competition

and ends up dealing about 45% better damage than Harbinger.

Again, I tried my best to just record a scenario where all hits count as critical attacks and

this was the result – don’t quote me as a reliable source, this was field testing

data so the crits wouldn’t be as consistent as with Harbinger of Dawn, however…

I mean jeez, this damage gap is pretty disgusting not gonna lie.

I tell ya – this weapon is tailor made for Chiori if you know what I mean.

But should you pull for it – nah, the weapon banner is a scam but it’s a really nice

vertical investment, at least from my own experience.

Overall, this testing with all 4 weapons was done with a full Geo team with C6 Gorou and

some of the buffs for her do wear off before the 2 final hits from each doll, so it’s

very possible a better rotation could be found for the weapons to beat Signature’s big

advantage… and of course, it’s still just early impressions that I am providing you

guys here with, so take everything you saw here with a grain of salt.

I just found this to be very interesting and wanted to share with you all.

Also, there are other weapons that Chiori can definitely utilize, like Fontaine’s

craftable and Battle Pass swords or any of the 5-star stat sticks but to my knowledge

– all of them fall within the same range between Cinnabar and Harbinger of Dawn, so

it’s more like which stats do you need more.

But… you know what else ticked my curiosity.

My sweet Albedo.

I mean look, it’s no secret if you watch my channel I feature him in a lot of shots

and I have the best memories about him thanks to amazing Dragonspine storyline during Christmas…

but I’ll be honest – things are not looking great for him.

And you know why?

When I recorded Chiori’s footage with trusty old Drake here, everything went smooth.

Then I went ahead and wanted to compare Albedo’s damage to Chiori’s.

And guess what happened?

His flower got destroyed.

Showcase over.

Ok, seriously I had to go ASIMON so he wouldn’t crush Albedos flower.

And his damage with Harbinger was… well how should I say this… decent but about

ended up being 18% worse than Chiori’s.

And here’s the big plot twist – my Albedo is constellation 2.

So, this means, when his burst deals damage, it also scales with DEF because at C0, the

dude is a split scaler.

Also, keep in mind Albedo’s flower DMG becomes way better when the enemy is below 50% HP,

so he would catch up to Chiori’s potential if that’s the case but in Abyss – you

still start fights with enemies who have full health.

But even then, even with the very similar critical stats they both had, he still ended

up losing.

Now to be fair, damage is not the only thing here I am comparing.

Albedo unlike Chiori, is not completely selfish, he can provide 125 Elemental Mastery boost

after using his burst, although a lot of team comps don’t even want him to use his burst

to have faster rotations.

Then of course, the fragility of flower comes up – dolls stay no matter what, flower decays

when the boss sneezes.

And to add insult to injury – Chiori obtains 19% Critical Rate from her ascension, while

Albedo gains 29% Geo DMG bonus… and I probably don’t have to tell you how Critical Rate

is much more valuable and makes it easier to achieve better builds.

Not to mention the fact Chiori can literally gain 20% Geo DMG bonus from her 2nd passive.

However, Albedo can snapshot all the buffs with his skill and it does last 30 seconds

compared to Chiori’s dolls who only stay on the field for 16 seconds and of top of

that, his flower has a much better AoE range than Chiori’s dolls so there is a silver

lining… but overall, I feel kinda weird about this.

I am not ready to declare that Chiori is powercreeping Albedo but I also cannot ignore what I just

witnessed…

so all in all – I wanna say that Chiori is better in single target while Albedo could

potentially be as good as her when in AoE scenario.

I dunno maybe I need to make a separate video with more in-depth comparison of all the pros

and cons of the two because I don’t wanna be that guy whose COPING.

At least they both suck when it comes to the fact that the enemies can move away from their

skill’s range.

Although I will say this – in my previous video I pondered about Albedo’s and Chiori’s

potential to be together, because initially I thought they might have problems with the

3-construct limit, however, seeing now that Chiori’s dolls do not count as a construct

– I did build a team with both of team.

In fact, I built several strong teams – so let’s talk about this in the next part.

Essentially, there’s 3 team archetypes I found Chiori to be good at.

First one is obviously a Mono Geo comp with either Itto or Noelle.

The tricky part here is that if you play with Noelle and you don’t bring someone else

who can create a construct since Gorou, Noelle and Chiori do not have constructs, the 2nd

doll will not be generated unless… you shell out your primogems for her 1st constellation

because now if you use her skill, it’s enough to just have another Geo unit for the doll

to appear immediately.

Sure, it also provides 50% bigger AoE for the dolls but the big selling point here if

you want to pull for C1 is that she can deploy 2nd doll without relying on constructs.

Otherwise, if you just play her in Itto Geo comp, she will provide a good amount of off-field

Geo damage and you can of course mix in 1 other element unit like Mona, Benny or Furina

just to name a few, while Gorou, Itto and Chiori remain in the team.

But going with Zhongli for extra resistance shred and reliable shielding is going to do

wonders both for Chiori and either Itto or Noelle, well especially Noelle since now the

pillar can help summon a 2nd doll.

I mean in the end – it’s Mono Geo comp that does pretty well in the current abyss.

Now another variation would be Double Geo with either Navia or Geo Traveler.

Obviously, Navia is the stronger choice, however, again if Chiori doesn’t have the 1st constellation

enabled, Navia will not be able to help Chiori generate 2nd doll, while Geo Traveler can

easily do that with one of those chunky boulders or even burst, since they all count as constructs.

And on top of that – Chiori’s 2nd passive will not activate with Navia because well…

her gunbrella does not generate constructs, just pure pain for enemies.

Also, Double Geo Albedo and Chiori can work pretty nicely, like in a similar manner how

Yelan and Xingqiu work together just not as powerful, so it’s pretty cool to see this

new archetype.

Finally, you could also just use Chiori as a solo Geo unit in any team comp where you

want additional off-field damage support.

It will be only 1 doll and she will be missing out on a bunch of buffs she could otherwise

utilize in Geo comps, so take that into consideration.

At the end of the day – she’s an off-field damage unit that shines best with other Geo

units, especially if they can create constructs, so more or less you want her to be in Geo

centric teams if you want to get the best Primobuck out of her.

So, what do I think about Chiori?

I think that she’s in a pretty bad situation right now – Arlecchino just got announced

as the upcoming 4.6 unit, I asked you guys if you’re pulling for her and well… the

results speak for themselves I mean, we even have Neuvilette and Kazuha coming up in the

2nd phase, so she’s really in a tough spot.

And look – I personally love her playstyle and that mostly has to do with the fact that

I love Albedo, in a platonic way, of course.

I am not gonna beat around the bush and pretend they don’t share a lot of similarities.

But as I said before – I am also not ready yet to declare that Albedo is powercrept by

Chiori because if you haven’t noticed – she kinda depends on other Geo units, while Albedo

can just chill out by himself and deal pretty much the same damage no matter who you’re

playing with, unless of course we’re talking about Gorou who boosts both of them really

well, especially at C6.

And sure, Albedo still wants that Geo resonance to function well but at least half of his

damage potential isn’t locked behind the requirement for someone to produce a construct.

And here’s the thing - I don’t like Chiori’s first constellation at all.

Feels a bit of a bait that she can’t have 2 dolls when playing in Double Geo Navia team

but on the other hand – this also kinda makes her look not that ridiculous when compared

to Albedo.

But for what it’s worth – I think she’s a fun character and again, subjectively speaking,

she has one of the best burst animations in the game, in my humble opinion.

But there’s definitely some questionable things happening with her and I will most

likely make a follow-up video in the future to share my post-release thoughts.

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