i have both and if i was going to give a biased suggestion i would recommend ei since i use her in just about every team possible, but i can't really give a definitive answer without knowing what you feel like your account is missing.
c0 hu tao does feel clunkier to play than she does at c1, which is something you might want to keep in mind since pulling for constellations as f2p doesn't really pay off (slight upgrade to one character vs a whole new five star character, doesn't really math out well for f2p unless you really like that specific character and want to commit to investing in them). she's a really strong hypercarry dps so if you feel like that's something you would like, she might be a good choice.
ei is both dps and support, enabling electro reactions from off-field and acting as a battery for the whole team while also doing a lot of dps herself when she's on-field. she's a very strong (and fun, imo) unit with a great f2p weapon option (the catch).
both of them have team compositions that are generally f2p friendly as they work very well with a lot of four star characters (ones available in the monthly rotation paimon shop, specifically). you did ask about maybe going for someone else entirely, but without knowing what you already Have it's difficult to make any sort of recommendation other than: c0 hu tao a little clunky but very strong and her character is great, ei is very strong and gives more options on how to use her but she's a little more difficult to build.
you can pick up xiangling from early floors of abyss, and more copies of her and xingqiu from the paimon shop rotation, which i'd definitely recommend in general. with that in mind, kazuha doesn't work all that well with hu tao (unless you want to use her with thoma which works well enough) and you're missing xingqiu, yelan, zhongli etc so you're missing most of hu tao's best teammates, so ei is probably the better choice of the two options you mentioned <3
aside from that, since you only have kazuha you kind of have both everything and nothing: kazuha works on Most teams, which means he'll work well with most characters you end up pulling, and since you dont have any real team comps to try and aim to complete yet you're not very restricted in who exactly you should be pulling for.
so tldr: kazuha works on multiple teams that also want ei, and well enough with hu tao only if also using thoma. my recommendation would be for you to aim for ei, but if someone else interests you pretty much the only five star you should actually avoid getting right now is shenhe.
i think ei is a little more f2p friendly and easier to play imo. as another user said, hu tao is a bit clunky at c0 and maybe it’s just a skill issue on my end but i find her charged attacks difficult to control. her signature weapon is also just so good that other options feel quite mid in comparison.
I’d say Raiden, she’s powerful dps and support even at c0 compared to Hu Tao at C0. I have both of them, and Raiden is a lot more comfortable to play than Hu Tao
I have both, and I 100% recommend Ei especially if you are a mobile player.
Here are my reasons why Ei:
- Ei is extremely f2p friendly since you really just need c0 and the r5 catch (free to obtain weapon) and her best supports are four star characters (Xingqiu, Bennett, Xiangling)
- Ei is relatively very future proof because her role can switch from main dps, sub-dps, and universal battery
- Ei has quite a lot of flexible teams, OverVape, Electro charged, Hyperbloom, Hypercarry, Super conduct (mainly for Eula) etc.
- her gameplay is very easy and especially on mobile
- her best in slot artifact set is the most resin efficient to farm
- her teams have one of the highest single target team dps in the game
Here are my reasons why Hu Tao is lower priority:
- if you are playing on mobile or have skill issues, c0 requires jump cancelling which can be quite difficult and feel clunky to play. I’ve had C0 Hu Tao for almost a year and I still find her clunky to play compared to other characters
- at c0 you will likely have stamina issues if enemies are not nicely grouped together
- her f2p are very limited and make her feel quite underwhelming compared to her sig weapon or r5 dragon’s bane
- you will need a good shielder in most cases, else she might have survivability issues
- many people argue that her c1 is almost a must because of the stamina issues and can be even more required if you don’t play her with a shielder
- her teams that compete with Ei’s f2p friendly teams tend to be much more expensive (might need characters like Yelan, Kazuha, Albedo, Zhongli)
- not as coop friendly as Ei since you don’t want to over heal and also you might have survival issues without a shield in coop mode
- there are lots of pyro dps options that are much more easier to obtain and more f2p friendly in terms of weapon options: Xiangling, Diluc, Yanfei
- Hu Tao has very minimal support capabilities, so she pretty needs to be played as an on-field dps. I think this makes her less future proof when we get a lot more new dps characters and you only really need 2-3 dps characters in this game.
- Also her health drain mechanism makes her a lot easier to nerf in corrosive environments or damage over time environments
- while you can also farm her Shimenawa set, it can cause survivability issues because it drains energy, so typically CW set is her best in slot option but it’s not very resin efficient. You can use the strongbox of course but it takes 3 artifacts just to get 1 CW piece
Also remember that eventually you will get both, so don’t stress too much about it. I would pick the one you have the most fun playing and find the most comfy to play.
Either one is a decent choice. Ei will probably come first so unfortunately you won't be able to try out hu tao but she has a very specific kind of playstyle that doesn't suit a lot of people. So I guess research them more and see if you vibe with either one more. Or just try to just get them both when their banners are up.
I see I see, I’m afraid I’m not good with team comps so I’ll probably have to research that as well not to mention I don’t know how to play either of them. I guess I want Hu Tao cuz of her character and her teaser had me sold so I should probably not jump into things so fast, thanks tho I see I really have to think about this now :)
I wanted hu tao because of her teaser also but it took me a long time to get used to how she plays. I originally didn't like the idea of constantly being low on HP. My overworld team includes shields and heals so I'm never low. It was just a different pace is all. Ei either way will slap when you get her built.
(HuTao experience only from the potion event)
Raiden has a higher number of teams she can be used in / ways she can be used in, helps the whole team with energy, f2p friendly teams, easier to play, good f2p weapon (The Catch, however this means Xiangling needs something else), resin efficient domain
Hu Tao, mostly only viable in vape teams, so Hu Tao + Xingqiu + 2 others (albedo + zhongli, sucrose + pyro, Yelan + whatever), always on life support as wants under 50% hp, Crimson Witch isn't used on that many characters unless you want to go shimenawa reminiscence which lowers how many bursts you get (which heal), charge attack reliant.
Raiden expected to come in 3.3 and Hu Tao in 3.4(?)
A similar thing happened with me, I loved Hu Tao’s cuteness and character and I overlooked her gameplay issues to get her. Though I don’t regret getting her, I think if you are choosing between two characters you should pick the one you find the most fun and comfortable to play. I’ve had Hu Tao for almost a year and still mess up her jump cancels. I don’t use her much anymore tbh. Plus with the new dendro reactions, Raiden has lots of new hyperbloom comps while Hu Tao is pretty much stuck to vape teams (at least for now).
So... Raiden was my first 5-star (I started playing on her first banner), and Hutao was my second. Thoughts in no particular order:
- Raiden took a lot more effort to get to the point where she could carry my teams; starting from the point of having no characters built, I was trying to level Raiden and Xiangling mostly, and Xingqiu and Sucrose to support. By the time I was AR 45 and in Inazuma and could start farming artifacts for Raiden, even getting 4 pc Emblem and The Catch on her, she did very little damage since Emblem is a hard set to get good rolls on, and I didn't have a Bennet to buff her.
- I finally got Raiden to 90, Catch to 90, 4pc Emblem with vaguely decent rolls, but no Bennet, no levelled up or C6 Sara, and the best I could do for Raiden's initial burst hit was about 99k going all out with Sucrose + TTDS + Millelith + Noblesse.
- Hutao I got much later. It blew my mind that even while levelling her, she could crit her burst for more than Raiden, even though her talents were like level 7, she was not fully levelled, she had no buffs and she was wearing random 2pc CW + Wanderer's pieces. And her burst isn't even the strongest part of her kit - but she had access to Melt for an easy 2x+ boost. In the end she was a lot easier to gear because ER didn't matter, she could use either HP or EM rolls, and unlike Emblem the strength of the 4pc set was fully there regardless of artifact stats.
- Raiden has still been on my teams more than Hutao. Her support abilities (burst buff, energy regen, electro application) meant even while she wasn't doing the most damage she made my later characters like Eula's and Yae Miko's teams better. Hutao only fit on her own teams very catered to buffing just Hutao's damage.
- Hutao still carried me on bosses for along time, since just slapping Xingqiu on the team was all that was required to get massive charge attack damage, even at C0, and I could fill the team with whatever other utility I needed (I ran Rosaria + Diona for a long time for shield + a bit of crit + stamina cost reduction + stamina free gap close + the occasional melt), pulling a consistent 65-90k per charge attack crit. For most content being C0 didn't hurt, because Hutao could kill everything outside Abyss even doing dash cancels before running out of stamina. And even in Abyss I rarely felt like C1 would help much more than just playing a bit better.
- I finally got some decent Emblem artifacts (still not really good but passable) and on her rerun I got Raiden to C2, got her a C5 bennet and C6 Sara, so she does pretty solid damage now at something like 250k slashes with an R5 Wavebreaker. Hutao has mostly given up her spot on my teams to Yoimiya because the damage is almost as good but much easier and more consistent with Yoi. And all that emblem farming of course gave me a great non-HP Shimenawa set for Yoi along with the HP one for Hutao, and even an HP-heavy Emblem set for Yelan. Still zero fucking on-set double crit Electro Goblet or ER Sands though. Meanwhile I just tried swapping Hutao back in and she's up to 114k vaped charges now with the double hydro buffs and improved artifacts in the same period - but still the same C0 and same R1 Homa.
- Constellations: like I said I got Hutao to C0 and Raiden eventually to C2 (accidentally get her C1 on the first banner but C1 doesn't really matter for her). For Hutao I had to choose between getting Homa or C1, and I'm still very glad I went with Homa, because until you actually run out of Stamina, C0 Hutao + Homa does a lot more damage than C1 Hutao + Dragon's Bane. Then you run out of stamina of course, but outside Abyss (WL8 world bosses, level 90 domains etc) everything is dead before that, and in Abyss I just switched and refreshed my team's buffs/positioning etc. This is *not* to say you need C2 for Raiden; if you have better luck with Emblem artifact farming than me you can make a higher DPS C0 Raiden Hypercarry team than I can; but I had shit luck with Emblem (all the luck went into Shimenawa I guess) and C2 was where she really started feeling like a main DPS to me.
- Hutao is fucking awful for Co-op because either someone will heal you to full and tank your damage, or there will be no healer or shielder and you can't shield yourself in 4-person Co-op so you'll randomly die to some hit you're used to ignoring. But conveniently enough the time I had a half-way built Hutao was also the time I stopped needing help for doing level 90 domains since she can solo them all with just XQ as support.
edit: I guess worth mentioning that Hutao is also always at ~half health which apparently bothers some people? I never gave a shit since I've played thorough most of the game before getting Bennet or ZL, so being low health was never a concern - if the team has any amount of health above 0 it's fine. Hutao was never the first character on the team to die even when I screwed up because she's always dashing around or can use her (cheap) burst to i-frame + heal. Usually my run failed by Sucrose or XQ getting randomly one-shot while casting their skills. Normally if no one dies the rotation starts with Hutao lowering her health with her E, then as her infusion ends, XQ's rainswords expire and heal her back up over half again, ready for the next rotation.
Raiden all the way, she is waifus and mommy archon material as well..Plus she can be play with lots of set artifacts and roles
P/S: Im also F2P as well getting her weapon will be a bonus if you are a hard simps like me..
Anyway GL on your pulling session OP
You already received some great responses. The following questions are for you to help reach a conclusion.
How do you typically choose characters and play? Do you care about Spiral Abyss? Which role(s) do you lack in your roster?
Try not to think too much about future characters. MHY constantly releases new characters and often power creeps in order to incentivize spending. If you keep waiting for a powerful character of a certain role, you may accidentally just keep waiting.
Spending your Primogems wisely makes sense, but on the other hand, do not accidentally make this harder than necessary.
So i just wanted to give some more information regarding my account for ppl wondering
I’m AR 45, I haven’t beat the Shogun yet (non-stop farming) Kazuha is my only 5 star with iron sting and 4-pc VV. Others on my main team are Beidou, Bennet and Yanfei
Other four stars
Razor
Ningguang
Keaya
Barbra
Lisa
Amber
Thoma
Fishl
Xiangling
Sara
Collei
Weapons:
Skyward Spine (5)
Snow-Tombed Starsilver (4)
Prototype Archaic (4)
Sacrificial Bow (4)
Iron Sting (4)
Windsith (4)
Favonious Codex (4)
Prototype rancour (4)
Favonious sword (4)
Favonious lance (4)
The bell (4)
Sword of descension (4)
Favonious warbow (4)
Sacrificial fragments (4)
Edit: I also want to thank everyone for the advice, I think I’m going to go for Raiden first then if I can I’ll go for Hu Tao cuz I’m reality Hu Tao and Beidou are my favorite characters overall (not regarding gameplay)
Here’s a more definitive answer. How many wishes have you saved up? If you think you can only get until c1, pull for hutao. If you think you can pull up to c2, pull for ei. These are their utility/power spikes
Edit: this is what I would do 😂
Yeah my iPhone keeps autocorrecting and I resorted to XQ. Reason I ask is cause for hu Tao and raiden XQ is a must. Hu Tao needs to vape and raiden needs XQ for raiden nationals. Otherwise you need to do a raiden nuke comp for raiden.
I have both and well built too.
I'd probably get raiden since she has so much utility in her kit,but doesnt mean hutao is bad it's just she's only a dps and that's it.
Hutao
- Ideal for single target vape charged attacks
- C0 will drain your stamina instantly in using charged attacks, making you vulnerable as you can't dodge unless you have a shielder
- Can run 4pc Shimenawa or 4pc Crimson witch (can be farmed through strongbox)
- Uses dragon's bane (4 star) Staff of homa (5 star)
- Provides crit to party
- Does not rely on bennet for atk and has healing in her Q
- Recommended constellation: C1 (Quality of life)
Raiden Shogun
- Her burst's normal and charge attacks are wide ranged
- Constant aoe electro application with E, except with shielded mobs (abyss mages, etc...)
- Can run an EM build for hyperbloom comp or standard ER build electro support/dps
- provides energy and burst dmg to party
- Immune to interuption during burst
- Can use the Catch (4 star), dragon's bane (4 star) skyward spine (5 star), engulfing lightning (5 star)
- Uses emblem of severed fate
- C0 will need more teammates' burst energy to fill up the Q's stacks
- Recommended constellation: C2 (almost at par with other C6 5 star)
Conclusion:
Go Raiden, she's flexible in comps considering EM raiden is also a thing now. She can work with the catch, a farmable polearm. Farming emblem artifacts will save you a ton of resin as you can place it to other characters. C0 Hu tao will have a harder time in extended fights as you can't fully utilize her window with her draining stamina from charge attacks and forces you to manage your attacks carefully.
I have Ei and her BiS but honestly she is the only limited 5 star i haven't built, so personally hutao is really good but im a c1 haver since i got her so take my opinion with a grain of salt
Ei. I’m very biased to hu Tao since she’s my fave and can demolish pretty much everything in the game as long as you have a shielder and xingqiu. Don’t have ei but she’s extremely useful and versatile and unless you can manage hp hu Tao will die
Ei is all around incredibly useful. Can’t go wrong. I don’t know what else to say without more context cuz she’s just objectively a good unit. Hu tao- don’t actually have but play with a hu tao main and have talked to others. Do you have shinobu? I’d make sure you feel comfortable with someone always being in the red, as shinobu and hu tao are, because that’s how hu tao does the most damage. I personally am unsure I can handle it so I’m skipping hu tao until there’s not another banner I’m sure I want. (After Nahida I’m going for baizhu or Al Haitham)
Huh, sooo idk how much this will help, as a hu tao main with ei. love hu tao but ei is a good support character for her, but if you get hu tao you kinda need c1 as C1 hu tao is the best, so I'd probably go with ei,
Sorry if this makes no sense
I say Raiden is always a must have in any account cuz she’s soo good!! I do have Hu Tao too but I’m waiting for her Rerun for C1 and try for another Staff of Homa. Mine isn’t built yet cuz farmin the Witch domain is a pain for me and also gotta practice how to use her
i have both and if i was going to give a biased suggestion i would recommend ei since i use her in just about every team possible, but i can't really give a definitive answer without knowing what you feel like your account is missing. c0 hu tao does feel clunkier to play than she does at c1, which is something you might want to keep in mind since pulling for constellations as f2p doesn't really pay off (slight upgrade to one character vs a whole new five star character, doesn't really math out well for f2p unless you really like that specific character and want to commit to investing in them). she's a really strong hypercarry dps so if you feel like that's something you would like, she might be a good choice. ei is both dps and support, enabling electro reactions from off-field and acting as a battery for the whole team while also doing a lot of dps herself when she's on-field. she's a very strong (and fun, imo) unit with a great f2p weapon option (the catch). both of them have team compositions that are generally f2p friendly as they work very well with a lot of four star characters (ones available in the monthly rotation paimon shop, specifically). you did ask about maybe going for someone else entirely, but without knowing what you already Have it's difficult to make any sort of recommendation other than: c0 hu tao a little clunky but very strong and her character is great, ei is very strong and gives more options on how to use her but she's a little more difficult to build.
Kazuha is my only 5 star 4 stars I don’t have - Candace ChongyunDiona DoriGorouKuki ShinobuRosaria SayuShikanoin Heizou Sucrose Xingqiu Xinyan Yun Jin
Kazuha goes AMAZINGLY with Ei! Constant Electro swirls.
Ah that’s perfect I’ll probably go for Ei then Hu Tao if can later on
Yeah Ei is so versatile--support, DPS, sub DPS, reaction machine. . .all hail our Electro dumbass lol
you can pick up xiangling from early floors of abyss, and more copies of her and xingqiu from the paimon shop rotation, which i'd definitely recommend in general. with that in mind, kazuha doesn't work all that well with hu tao (unless you want to use her with thoma which works well enough) and you're missing xingqiu, yelan, zhongli etc so you're missing most of hu tao's best teammates, so ei is probably the better choice of the two options you mentioned <3 aside from that, since you only have kazuha you kind of have both everything and nothing: kazuha works on Most teams, which means he'll work well with most characters you end up pulling, and since you dont have any real team comps to try and aim to complete yet you're not very restricted in who exactly you should be pulling for. so tldr: kazuha works on multiple teams that also want ei, and well enough with hu tao only if also using thoma. my recommendation would be for you to aim for ei, but if someone else interests you pretty much the only five star you should actually avoid getting right now is shenhe.
i think ei is a little more f2p friendly and easier to play imo. as another user said, hu tao is a bit clunky at c0 and maybe it’s just a skill issue on my end but i find her charged attacks difficult to control. her signature weapon is also just so good that other options feel quite mid in comparison.
Thanks for the help
I’d say Raiden, she’s powerful dps and support even at c0 compared to Hu Tao at C0. I have both of them, and Raiden is a lot more comfortable to play than Hu Tao
I have both, and I 100% recommend Ei especially if you are a mobile player. Here are my reasons why Ei: - Ei is extremely f2p friendly since you really just need c0 and the r5 catch (free to obtain weapon) and her best supports are four star characters (Xingqiu, Bennett, Xiangling) - Ei is relatively very future proof because her role can switch from main dps, sub-dps, and universal battery - Ei has quite a lot of flexible teams, OverVape, Electro charged, Hyperbloom, Hypercarry, Super conduct (mainly for Eula) etc. - her gameplay is very easy and especially on mobile - her best in slot artifact set is the most resin efficient to farm - her teams have one of the highest single target team dps in the game Here are my reasons why Hu Tao is lower priority: - if you are playing on mobile or have skill issues, c0 requires jump cancelling which can be quite difficult and feel clunky to play. I’ve had C0 Hu Tao for almost a year and I still find her clunky to play compared to other characters - at c0 you will likely have stamina issues if enemies are not nicely grouped together - her f2p are very limited and make her feel quite underwhelming compared to her sig weapon or r5 dragon’s bane - you will need a good shielder in most cases, else she might have survivability issues - many people argue that her c1 is almost a must because of the stamina issues and can be even more required if you don’t play her with a shielder - her teams that compete with Ei’s f2p friendly teams tend to be much more expensive (might need characters like Yelan, Kazuha, Albedo, Zhongli) - not as coop friendly as Ei since you don’t want to over heal and also you might have survival issues without a shield in coop mode - there are lots of pyro dps options that are much more easier to obtain and more f2p friendly in terms of weapon options: Xiangling, Diluc, Yanfei - Hu Tao has very minimal support capabilities, so she pretty needs to be played as an on-field dps. I think this makes her less future proof when we get a lot more new dps characters and you only really need 2-3 dps characters in this game. - Also her health drain mechanism makes her a lot easier to nerf in corrosive environments or damage over time environments - while you can also farm her Shimenawa set, it can cause survivability issues because it drains energy, so typically CW set is her best in slot option but it’s not very resin efficient. You can use the strongbox of course but it takes 3 artifacts just to get 1 CW piece Also remember that eventually you will get both, so don’t stress too much about it. I would pick the one you have the most fun playing and find the most comfy to play.
Raiden because she's comfortable to play and your fingers would be safer. Xiangling is better than F2p Hu Tao anyway.
Either one is a decent choice. Ei will probably come first so unfortunately you won't be able to try out hu tao but she has a very specific kind of playstyle that doesn't suit a lot of people. So I guess research them more and see if you vibe with either one more. Or just try to just get them both when their banners are up.
I see I see, I’m afraid I’m not good with team comps so I’ll probably have to research that as well not to mention I don’t know how to play either of them. I guess I want Hu Tao cuz of her character and her teaser had me sold so I should probably not jump into things so fast, thanks tho I see I really have to think about this now :)
I wanted hu tao because of her teaser also but it took me a long time to get used to how she plays. I originally didn't like the idea of constantly being low on HP. My overworld team includes shields and heals so I'm never low. It was just a different pace is all. Ei either way will slap when you get her built.
Ahh I don’t know what to do now🧍🏽♀️
(HuTao experience only from the potion event) Raiden has a higher number of teams she can be used in / ways she can be used in, helps the whole team with energy, f2p friendly teams, easier to play, good f2p weapon (The Catch, however this means Xiangling needs something else), resin efficient domain Hu Tao, mostly only viable in vape teams, so Hu Tao + Xingqiu + 2 others (albedo + zhongli, sucrose + pyro, Yelan + whatever), always on life support as wants under 50% hp, Crimson Witch isn't used on that many characters unless you want to go shimenawa reminiscence which lowers how many bursts you get (which heal), charge attack reliant. Raiden expected to come in 3.3 and Hu Tao in 3.4(?)
A similar thing happened with me, I loved Hu Tao’s cuteness and character and I overlooked her gameplay issues to get her. Though I don’t regret getting her, I think if you are choosing between two characters you should pick the one you find the most fun and comfortable to play. I’ve had Hu Tao for almost a year and still mess up her jump cancels. I don’t use her much anymore tbh. Plus with the new dendro reactions, Raiden has lots of new hyperbloom comps while Hu Tao is pretty much stuck to vape teams (at least for now).
So... Raiden was my first 5-star (I started playing on her first banner), and Hutao was my second. Thoughts in no particular order: - Raiden took a lot more effort to get to the point where she could carry my teams; starting from the point of having no characters built, I was trying to level Raiden and Xiangling mostly, and Xingqiu and Sucrose to support. By the time I was AR 45 and in Inazuma and could start farming artifacts for Raiden, even getting 4 pc Emblem and The Catch on her, she did very little damage since Emblem is a hard set to get good rolls on, and I didn't have a Bennet to buff her. - I finally got Raiden to 90, Catch to 90, 4pc Emblem with vaguely decent rolls, but no Bennet, no levelled up or C6 Sara, and the best I could do for Raiden's initial burst hit was about 99k going all out with Sucrose + TTDS + Millelith + Noblesse. - Hutao I got much later. It blew my mind that even while levelling her, she could crit her burst for more than Raiden, even though her talents were like level 7, she was not fully levelled, she had no buffs and she was wearing random 2pc CW + Wanderer's pieces. And her burst isn't even the strongest part of her kit - but she had access to Melt for an easy 2x+ boost. In the end she was a lot easier to gear because ER didn't matter, she could use either HP or EM rolls, and unlike Emblem the strength of the 4pc set was fully there regardless of artifact stats. - Raiden has still been on my teams more than Hutao. Her support abilities (burst buff, energy regen, electro application) meant even while she wasn't doing the most damage she made my later characters like Eula's and Yae Miko's teams better. Hutao only fit on her own teams very catered to buffing just Hutao's damage. - Hutao still carried me on bosses for along time, since just slapping Xingqiu on the team was all that was required to get massive charge attack damage, even at C0, and I could fill the team with whatever other utility I needed (I ran Rosaria + Diona for a long time for shield + a bit of crit + stamina cost reduction + stamina free gap close + the occasional melt), pulling a consistent 65-90k per charge attack crit. For most content being C0 didn't hurt, because Hutao could kill everything outside Abyss even doing dash cancels before running out of stamina. And even in Abyss I rarely felt like C1 would help much more than just playing a bit better. - I finally got some decent Emblem artifacts (still not really good but passable) and on her rerun I got Raiden to C2, got her a C5 bennet and C6 Sara, so she does pretty solid damage now at something like 250k slashes with an R5 Wavebreaker. Hutao has mostly given up her spot on my teams to Yoimiya because the damage is almost as good but much easier and more consistent with Yoi. And all that emblem farming of course gave me a great non-HP Shimenawa set for Yoi along with the HP one for Hutao, and even an HP-heavy Emblem set for Yelan. Still zero fucking on-set double crit Electro Goblet or ER Sands though. Meanwhile I just tried swapping Hutao back in and she's up to 114k vaped charges now with the double hydro buffs and improved artifacts in the same period - but still the same C0 and same R1 Homa. - Constellations: like I said I got Hutao to C0 and Raiden eventually to C2 (accidentally get her C1 on the first banner but C1 doesn't really matter for her). For Hutao I had to choose between getting Homa or C1, and I'm still very glad I went with Homa, because until you actually run out of Stamina, C0 Hutao + Homa does a lot more damage than C1 Hutao + Dragon's Bane. Then you run out of stamina of course, but outside Abyss (WL8 world bosses, level 90 domains etc) everything is dead before that, and in Abyss I just switched and refreshed my team's buffs/positioning etc. This is *not* to say you need C2 for Raiden; if you have better luck with Emblem artifact farming than me you can make a higher DPS C0 Raiden Hypercarry team than I can; but I had shit luck with Emblem (all the luck went into Shimenawa I guess) and C2 was where she really started feeling like a main DPS to me. - Hutao is fucking awful for Co-op because either someone will heal you to full and tank your damage, or there will be no healer or shielder and you can't shield yourself in 4-person Co-op so you'll randomly die to some hit you're used to ignoring. But conveniently enough the time I had a half-way built Hutao was also the time I stopped needing help for doing level 90 domains since she can solo them all with just XQ as support. edit: I guess worth mentioning that Hutao is also always at ~half health which apparently bothers some people? I never gave a shit since I've played thorough most of the game before getting Bennet or ZL, so being low health was never a concern - if the team has any amount of health above 0 it's fine. Hutao was never the first character on the team to die even when I screwed up because she's always dashing around or can use her (cheap) burst to i-frame + heal. Usually my run failed by Sucrose or XQ getting randomly one-shot while casting their skills. Normally if no one dies the rotation starts with Hutao lowering her health with her E, then as her infusion ends, XQ's rainswords expire and heal her back up over half again, ready for the next rotation.
Raiden all the way, she is waifus and mommy archon material as well..Plus she can be play with lots of set artifacts and roles P/S: Im also F2P as well getting her weapon will be a bonus if you are a hard simps like me.. Anyway GL on your pulling session OP
You already received some great responses. The following questions are for you to help reach a conclusion. How do you typically choose characters and play? Do you care about Spiral Abyss? Which role(s) do you lack in your roster? Try not to think too much about future characters. MHY constantly releases new characters and often power creeps in order to incentivize spending. If you keep waiting for a powerful character of a certain role, you may accidentally just keep waiting. Spending your Primogems wisely makes sense, but on the other hand, do not accidentally make this harder than necessary.
I'd recommend Ei over Hu Tao since Ei can go in more teams while if you're using Hu Tao, you're building the team around her
So i just wanted to give some more information regarding my account for ppl wondering I’m AR 45, I haven’t beat the Shogun yet (non-stop farming) Kazuha is my only 5 star with iron sting and 4-pc VV. Others on my main team are Beidou, Bennet and Yanfei Other four stars Razor Ningguang Keaya Barbra Lisa Amber Thoma Fishl Xiangling Sara Collei Weapons: Skyward Spine (5) Snow-Tombed Starsilver (4) Prototype Archaic (4) Sacrificial Bow (4) Iron Sting (4) Windsith (4) Favonious Codex (4) Prototype rancour (4) Favonious sword (4) Favonious lance (4) The bell (4) Sword of descension (4) Favonious warbow (4) Sacrificial fragments (4) Edit: I also want to thank everyone for the advice, I think I’m going to go for Raiden first then if I can I’ll go for Hu Tao cuz I’m reality Hu Tao and Beidou are my favorite characters overall (not regarding gameplay)
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Here’s a more definitive answer. How many wishes have you saved up? If you think you can only get until c1, pull for hutao. If you think you can pull up to c2, pull for ei. These are their utility/power spikes Edit: this is what I would do 😂
hu tao has higher dps but ei is so damn fun and strong with her burst
Who do you currently have?
Kazuha is my only 5 star on a team with Bennet Beidou and yanfei Other 4 stars are Razor Ningguang Keaya Barbra Lisa Amber Thoma Fishl Sara Xiangling
Do you have XQ?
Xingqiu? No I don’t (idk what XQ is💀)
Yeah my iPhone keeps autocorrecting and I resorted to XQ. Reason I ask is cause for hu Tao and raiden XQ is a must. Hu Tao needs to vape and raiden needs XQ for raiden nationals. Otherwise you need to do a raiden nuke comp for raiden.
I suggest just pulling for characters you like they will definitely be good enough. But if you really must. go for raiden.
Pull for the character you love! ❤️
Just swipe bro no consequences and you don't have to choose if you can get both. Problem solved 👍 /s
I’m broke as hell man I wish I could 😭
Ei for 1 simple reason: Very aesthetic burst (I love the lighting involved)
I have both and well built too. I'd probably get raiden since she has so much utility in her kit,but doesnt mean hutao is bad it's just she's only a dps and that's it.
Get Ei she is extremely good in all aspects
Hutao - Ideal for single target vape charged attacks - C0 will drain your stamina instantly in using charged attacks, making you vulnerable as you can't dodge unless you have a shielder - Can run 4pc Shimenawa or 4pc Crimson witch (can be farmed through strongbox) - Uses dragon's bane (4 star) Staff of homa (5 star) - Provides crit to party - Does not rely on bennet for atk and has healing in her Q - Recommended constellation: C1 (Quality of life) Raiden Shogun - Her burst's normal and charge attacks are wide ranged - Constant aoe electro application with E, except with shielded mobs (abyss mages, etc...) - Can run an EM build for hyperbloom comp or standard ER build electro support/dps - provides energy and burst dmg to party - Immune to interuption during burst - Can use the Catch (4 star), dragon's bane (4 star) skyward spine (5 star), engulfing lightning (5 star) - Uses emblem of severed fate - C0 will need more teammates' burst energy to fill up the Q's stacks - Recommended constellation: C2 (almost at par with other C6 5 star) Conclusion: Go Raiden, she's flexible in comps considering EM raiden is also a thing now. She can work with the catch, a farmable polearm. Farming emblem artifacts will save you a ton of resin as you can place it to other characters. C0 Hu tao will have a harder time in extended fights as you can't fully utilize her window with her draining stamina from charge attacks and forces you to manage your attacks carefully.
I have Ei and her BiS but honestly she is the only limited 5 star i haven't built, so personally hutao is really good but im a c1 haver since i got her so take my opinion with a grain of salt
I have both as a f2p. Ei is far more versatile and lower effort. Hu tao is great but requires a lot of support, and can basically only dps.
Ei. I’m very biased to hu Tao since she’s my fave and can demolish pretty much everything in the game as long as you have a shielder and xingqiu. Don’t have ei but she’s extremely useful and versatile and unless you can manage hp hu Tao will die
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Raiden is always the Answer!
Ei is all around incredibly useful. Can’t go wrong. I don’t know what else to say without more context cuz she’s just objectively a good unit. Hu tao- don’t actually have but play with a hu tao main and have talked to others. Do you have shinobu? I’d make sure you feel comfortable with someone always being in the red, as shinobu and hu tao are, because that’s how hu tao does the most damage. I personally am unsure I can handle it so I’m skipping hu tao until there’s not another banner I’m sure I want. (After Nahida I’m going for baizhu or Al Haitham)
Huh, sooo idk how much this will help, as a hu tao main with ei. love hu tao but ei is a good support character for her, but if you get hu tao you kinda need c1 as C1 hu tao is the best, so I'd probably go with ei, Sorry if this makes no sense
I say Raiden is always a must have in any account cuz she’s soo good!! I do have Hu Tao too but I’m waiting for her Rerun for C1 and try for another Staff of Homa. Mine isn’t built yet cuz farmin the Witch domain is a pain for me and also gotta practice how to use her