Barbara is Genshin’s Strongest Character: How I Learned to Ignore the Meta & Have Fun Again

To say it with Zhonglis Words: "One man's stone is another man's gem"

Barbara is the elemental trigger in my Nilou team. Therefore, technically, she is one of my best DPS characters

So glad there's people out there who just love to play with the characters they want because I feel like it's so clear that if you try to min max prioritize the "objective" best in a game where it's more than just stats you're gonna burn out insanely fast and blame things that aren't always the problem.

YAY FOR PUTTING SOME RESPECT ON BARBARA'S NAME 🎉🎉🎉 i love love love my hydro girlies, it made me so happy to see you talking about them in such an amazing manner

As a Heizou main, I can confidently say that playing your favourite character as a main dps improves the gaming experience much more than playing a big numbers main dps does :3

32:52 i started playing this game specifically for xinyan— a character i ADORED and could talk about for hours nonstop— and used her as a dps consistently for the first year i played the game, i got her to C6, I pulled Itto AND Eula’s weapons for her, farmed pale flame and shimenawa domains for ages until she had the best pieces on my account, she was even the first character i would triple crown!! Then my boyfriend was on my account and C6ed my Bennett (Who i mainly used to support her as a physical DPS), and it effectively ruined her team in my eyes— I didn’t want to farm to build a character as a substitute and so I tossed her to the side and ended up playing another character instead. I’m blanking on who it was but I loved them less than Xinyan for sure. And it was around that time that Lyney came out, and it was love at first sight with his gameplay, personality, design, character demo— everything about him! and the fact that he had such high scaling, was meta, and runs best on a mono team of my favorite element didnt hurt. So with some pain to my wallet I secured him with yelan’s signature bow to kinda sorta match! And his artifact domain would give me a hard time, but i didnt even need to go through the trouble because even without a 4-pc set he was doing double, TRIPLE the numbers that I had bent over backwards to get Xinyan to do— I loved Xinyan but Lyney made the game so easy… too easy arguably. Sure its cool watching Lyney do 300k and killing everything instantly, but I miss the fun it was reaching new milestones with Xinyan, running around teyvat hearing her little drums jiggling, proving the people that called her the worst character in this game wrong!! And as much as I do like Lyney I dont have the same joy I had for Xinyan about him— it stings knowing I forsook my favorite character who was all about rejecting the status quo and being herself for a character that i s the status quo, is the easiest option for when i need things to die quickly. This video reminded me of the joy Xinyan brought me, meta be damned! ❤🎸

felt this video as an albedo main. he got recently, directly powercrep by chiori, had a locked event weapon, etc. feelsbad. yet i run him as an on-field dps anyway (getting chiori's weapon and his c2 was a great upgrade!), bc I love him and im willing to invest to make it work. i just wish it wasn't such a struggle sometimes when it feels like there are characters left behind by hoyo and the community

One of my favorite teams is aggressively off meta, it's hyperburgeon with Kirara, Barbra, kuki, and xiangling because running into shit as the box cat is just really fun

"Cryo is far more effective in the rain" is my favorite quote.

"The strongest character you get early game is Barbara" Proven two times. CN world records abyss 36* speedrun on new account. Barbara Nilou - 6 days. Barbara Raiden - 4 days. Speaks for itself.

1:54 I think what a lot of people I've seen recently do is get meta supports and use them to boost their, let's say, "meme" / "off-meta" dps characters. Aloy, Dori, Barbara, Amber, Dehya, even anemo traveler can perform well with the right supports (and sometimes weapons...)

I come from years of playing MMORPGs like WOW and having a dedicated healer on the team is something I value very much. When all hope is lost, the cool DDs are all either dead or low on HP, Barbara sings her song and instantly everyone is good to go again. Adding hydro to your enemies is also quite a benefit.

Barbara was the entire reason I started playing Genshin Impact. My friends had been urging me for months, but I finally caved when they showed me a list of characters and I got to see Barbara for the first time. Sure, it helped that we share a birthday, but I was in love with her character design and her personality. I felt like I could relate to her and she inspired me to play Genshin even after all my friends had given up on it. Barbara was my first character to 90, my first character with a full five star artifact set, my first C6, and my first triple crowned character. Perhaps I don't use her as much as I did that first year of playing but Barbara has a very special place in my heart. Thank you for this video.

Qiqi is unironically my favorite character since day one, her trailer was what first brought my attention to Genshin Impact. I knew I wanted her on my team since before I even pulled her, and although I'm frequently subjected to all the memes and scorn she gets: "most useless 5 star" "the face of lost pity" ect, each one only solidified my resolve to make her my primary DPS. The community may look down upon her, but I'll show them even Qiqi can go the whole nine yards with enough care and love put into her

I can relate to this feeling of playing who I like. My main lineup is Electro Lumine, Ganyu, Barbara, and Thoma. I don't care for the meta, but I just love Ganyu's design, voice, and gameplay style. I saved up for months to get her during her first rerun and got her on my final pull. To me, there's always merit in doing something for the love of it.

"I think the real fun from this game comes from the freedom to play and enjoy it however you want." Those words are why i decide to try other characters as time goes by.

I like Barbara too. I have less use for her recently, but I still call her when it's about breaking pyro shield of the pyro flower or the pyro cube. But her greatest time to shine was when I got Nilou and Nahida and started playing Nilou bloom team still not having Kokomi. Even on healing build and only equipped with sacrificial fragments (and leveled up to 90) she was my driver in that team and seeing her emerge from a pile of dissolving enemy remains was absolutely hilarious. For me, that was second game changing moment with the first being getting Zhongli and experiencing the game in Easy mode for the first time. And yes, I am clearing one half of Abyss with Nilou bloom ever since then. When it comes to Abyss, it seems to me you're about in the phase where I was about a year ago. Could beat it to 36 stars but it was hard and I needed to switch teams for floor 12 more often than not. Give it another year and I'm sure your characters will be good enough to even have fun clearing it. I have a lot of favorite characters. In fact I think the list of those that are not my favorite would be shorter. And with it comes another problem. I have too many characters I like to play. With regards to Meta, I did pay attention to it when I was not good enough to beat Abyss and when I still had problems with it. Paying attention to which characters to prioritize, how to build them and how to use them in battle really paid off. I am now strong enough that I can afford to neglect it and still succeed but that first phase was very important in my opinion. And finally a note about healers. I like to help other people in the game when I run out of things to do for me. And I realized that absolute majority of people who need help totally neglect the sustainability part of the game, collecting and building DPS characters only and then struggling in combat. Kokomi is my single most used character whenever I am helping them.

Don't forget that Xianyun's healing is for the entire party at once, not just the on-field character, which gives her great synergy with Furina's stack mechanic.

I’m sorry I called you Dragon slacker ❤

Im a big lover Xinyan and Aloy. Ive made build that make them really shine and im so proud that i did. They both deserve so much more love from the community!