Now that the dust has settled over Kokomi and I'm over the ridiculousness of the whole negative crit rate thing, she's a decent pick up for permafreeze teams. You get a healer and constant aoe hydro application all in one character. Which means you can run Shenhe or other cryos instead of Diona too.
It's still dumb because kokomi isnt strong enough to justify not being able to crit and if you built her for dmg she would heal less anyway. Like, barbara isnt a good dps but she CAN be bruteforced into a vape dps because,
for some reason, Barbara's charge atk has higher scaling than klee and yanfei.
The only comp where Kokomi plays field dps is electrocharge sucrose/beidou/fishcl where sucrose feeds EM and beidou is the one who kills things. Otherwise, she can cover the water/healer role in freeze teams which is only "great" because the game has a severe lack of hydro appliers.
The real appeal of kokomi is that she's an easy to build tank healer. You literally cant build crit so simply stack hp/healing bonus and throw that jellyfish to get value. Now she even has an artifact set that gives her free AoE dmg, compensating for her low dmg and no AoE. Her main weakness is needing field time during burst, which isnt the case in coop, thus why i see very often when i coop domains.
It might not sound that great of a benefit, but consider how time consuming farming artifacts can be in this game. I want kazuha or venti but i'm already dreading the dozens of hours i'll spend farming a full VV set with elemental mastery. Like, my brother legit spent +30 fragile resins there and still doesnt have a 5* em vv hat. Having a new character that doesnt take that much effort would be welcome.
Kokomi wasnt not good going to speedrun abyss but that's fine. They're not gonna create every single characters towards abyss. She was designed to work that way and she and does it. I never seen a fandom want powercreep as much as genshin's, it's like an eternal sea of bad takes.
If ayato doesnt end up being support and i dont get mona by the time kokomi reruns, i'll consider rolling her, if only so i can have a functional freeze team that lets me trade diona for another dps.
that's why I always said misty dungeon is a better character demo than a 20 second trial you just burst through.
still a bit bummed I got spooked by diluc on the kokomi banner, and at least would farming the domain not a 50% waste (for now).
I still dont know how they didnt update the trials yet since many of them are pretty badly designed.
Albedo's trial was you realizing he sucks against shields so he has to rely on xiangling to kill slimes and mages. On the other side, Eula's trial was her alone against a bunch of hoarders so you cant even proc superconduct and have to chase them 1 by 1 wasting your burst. They look lame as fuck there and give you no idea how they play on practice.
It's so bad compared to misty dungeon where that feels like an actual tool to sell 5* and how well they work together. Like "Oh childe and raiden synergize because she can burst during his CD and their AoE is great for clusters", or "ayaka and mona can keep enemies frozen forever while their combined bursts does insane dmg" etc. That made me want childe and raiden much more than their trials.
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. At least the axoloxololoxloxlots are cute but why limit some animals like this? Maybe they'll change it later if i spam it on every survey from now on...
