Genshin Impact: Raiden Boss Fight - Solo Ganyu [No Food, No Damage*]

*Except for the unavoidable 1 point of damage. You could also say it’s just "No Hit" instead.
Ganyu is also C6, Triple Crowned, Good artifact set, and has Amos Bow R1 - All obtained as F2P!
In particular, I don’t think this fight is possible Solo Ganyu without C6 if you go to Phase 2...
This new boss fight is easily the best in the game, and I hope the trend in quality is kept consistent for future ones. It is actually challenging the first few times before you learn it.
Most of the 1st phase can be hard, but self-explanatory and with practice it shouldn’t cause too many issues. The real meat of this fight is on phase 2.
In particular the 2:04 attack, and this is a big deal- since I suspect a lot of Solo Runs are invalidated just by this attack alone.
You have to destroy the orb, otherwise you will get hit by Raiden’s instakill attack.
No amount of Shield, HP or iframes can save you from it. The only thing that will save you is destroying the orb in time.
The thing is, your character needs to be able to deal enough elemental damage in this brief period of time the orb spawns, but before Raiden strikes. You can’t rely on your burst because it is constantly drained as soon as phase 2 starts, and while there might be some ways around it with multiple characters, if you are Solo, there is literally no way to recover your burst reliably.
So in the end, it all comes down to whenever your character can break the orb with their elemental skill alone. If they can’t do it? They get instakilled and your run ends, no ways around it.
And this is why I believe Ganyu Solo isn’t possible if you trigger phase 2 at all. It is possible to kill her before even getting to phase 2 with powerful enough gear/stats and thus completely avoid this issue, but such gear is unrealistic for most of the playerbase.
It is, however, just barely possible to do it with Ganyu C6, because of the 2 extra quick charged shots she gets when deploying the flowers, as seen in 2:09.
You also take 1 point of damage even if you do break the orb, but I don’t count this as real damage, since it’s unavoidable.
Honestly, I am kinda glad I am not able to just straight up end the fight at phase 1, I think it’s better if I show off how to deal with most of the attacks rather than just speedkilling the whole thing with brute force.
2:42
PLEASE jump the rings. Please.
I co-op this fight a lot, and at least 8 out of 10 players die to this attack
Every
Dang
Time
Even with otherwise borderline unkilleable characters like Kokomi or Zhongli.
You could also alternatively dash iframe them, but I would rather jump, because:
For the last set of rings 2:53; I find it better if you just jump over them at the very center like I do.
I don’t think dashing works with these, you HAVE to jump this last trio of rings.
Depending on whenever Raiden’s electro shield is down or not, you may be able to use your burst. If so, I recommend to use it for these last rings; if the electro shield is down, you will recover your burst soon enough anyway (You automatically get 100% Energy as soon as the attack ends and Raiden gets "stunned"). There is little reason to not use your burst in this scenario.

[@opulent3203]

f2p... is Ganyu literally your only five star?

[@flariz4824]

Not quite my only five star, but I am pretty sure I have less than most F2P that started to play around the same time as me.
My wish story is quite simple:
1) Ganyu’s Banner: 28K Primos spent
2) Klee’s rerun: I think it was also around 25K Primos spent
3) Yoimiya Banner: 12K Primos or so
4) Ganyu’s rerun Banner: 50K Primos (But in reality I used a bit less since I stopped once I got her to C6)
Actual 5 stars:
Ganyu (C6)
Diluc and Klee (C1)
Jean, Qiqi, Yoimiya (C0)
I think that is about it. It’s very rare that I wish, but when I do, it is a massive wishing spree.
I have been playing since early 1.1 IIRC, and did almost all the events that give primos, and got all codes, and such. Been clearing the Abyss 36 stars since around a year or so as well. All areas are 100% explored so all those chests with primos add up.
Even got like 95% of the achivements in the game... all of these primos for Ganyu!
And tbh, I also got lucky with getting multiple Ganyus in the banners. It’s even recorded in my other video, but basically I got double Ganyu more or less.

[@jibreelhughes]

@Flariz Oh you got Yoimiya! I wanted her so bad, but I was unable to top up during that time

[@flariz4824]

@@jibreelhughes I went for her because she is cute lol.
And yeah that Inazuma period had a lot of cool characters. Hopefully now that reruns are becoming more common it won’t take as long for Yoimiya to show up again.