i think they need to swap his current E2 into his base kit like they did with FF, there's no reason for him to not work with dots when Black swan and Guinafen already have a ''special dot''
he would be too OP though. Theres a reason why Wind and Lightning are the only 5 star DoTs they have been releasing in a while. Its because Fire and Physical DoTs are stronger than wind and lightning. Luka is only single target for that reason and Guinaifen is more on a debuffer than a DoT unit
@@ngm6541 you're right but he's a 5 star and it would be ''broken'' only in DoT teams, plus to make it really broken you would need at least either kafka or black swan in your team so that would already require a lot of investment
@@luciel98 but the difference is that unlike black swan who is mainly a dps, jiaoqiu is a support. If he had the dot in his kit, then he would be an OP version of black swan... He would have a crazy 40% dmg amp AND dot. I would just think of jiaoqiu as 5* version of pela.
@@Xcharge83 pretty much that, E0 Jiaoqiu would just be a debuffer that also helps Arcana stacking at E0, and at E2 become an actual third DoT DPS. seems like the most elegant solution, really
I was hoping for a nihility healer given his character description but he seems like basically a better Pela. Nice for Acheron team but he doesn’t occupy the sustain slot so he doesn’t free up Acheron team building the way I hoped. If he were to heal he’d have massive value in enabling Acheron teams to use a Harmony with sacrificing the sustain slot but as it is his value is meh compared to what I expected from his character description.
Ehh more like guinafen than pela. I think we will see the numbers showing pela with resolution is better or on par with Jiaoqiu. Hot take: HSR starting to fall off
@danomaly8943 That's not a hot take, that's a burnt take lol, honestly HSR is only getting better. The story is doing great and only getting better every update, the new characters make more and more unique playstyles meta. Newest update added alot of content with new endgame and QoL. Game's just getting better lol. But I guess that's subjective at the end of the day...
@@SpyralKing Lmao no it’s not. Bro people are playing the game LESS and it’s only going to get worse when other games come out. Boothill and the new game mode didn’t save the HUNT path. Jiaoqiu is uninspired garbage from a 5 star value perspective and the last few events have been TRASH. Bartending and I can’t even remember the last one because I didn’t do it. I get that HSR is the new Genshin but come on
@@danomaly8943 I dont know who you talk to but literally everyone in the space is loving everything with this new patch. HSR is even doing better than genshin financially in recent months in revenue charts. They have been top 1 or 2 for months. Bartending was a fun gamemode and well put together. Not for everyone sure, if its not your cup of tea (or alcohol lol) I get that, but to say that the events are bad is just plain wrong. This patch's event is super fun for example and has multiplayer. Also, the last patch's combat event was really well made and had quite a bit of depth and unique mechanics. It just seems to me that you personally have something against the game, or perhaps your group of friends isnt enjoying it anymore so now "people" are playing less, but I assure you, statistics beg to differ. I'd also like to point out that new character releases have recently been nothing but fresh and unique for the past couple months, all introducing new mechanics for the most part. Jiaoqiu is the first one in months to be more conservative in that sense, and he's not even officially out yet. They could still change him.
i love dot nihility, and i love acheron's dps style, but it's a shame that the debuff-focused nihility units just... aren't as good as harmony units. their debuffs are way lower than harmony's buffs and they don't do enough damage on their own to make up for it. great for acheron, but there's pretty much no other case where you'd swap out your sparkle or your ruan mei for jiaoqiu
man, with the description they gave of him, was hoping for a DOT healer. Interesting kit nothenless, though 35% max debuffand only 15% ult dmg increase sounds kinda underwhelming.
Actually its a 40% vulnerability, and he should be able to mantain that debuff value almost the entire battle with his ult, he sounds like a good alternative as debuffer than Sw, considering his Signature Lc too
In my opinion, if he was going to output “decent” healing then they made the right choice removing it. Sounds too broken at e0 along with his kit. That being said if the healing amount was low even at max level I can understand why people would pull for him just to free up a slot. Regardless I’ll most likely be pulling for him unless they make some major changes to his kit.
3:47 lowering enemies effect hit rate means the enemies will have lower chance to inflict debuffs on you, not the other way around as that would be with lowering effect res.
1) e4 moved into base kit. 2) needs healing moved back into kit or e2 into base kit. Preferably healing, make e2 worth chasing on a way better kit. 3) ehr debuff needs to changed to toughness dmg increase 50%.
I was just thinking this. Every time an enemy takes the stage black swan debuffs them. Same with him. If that’s the case then I should pull for firefly or the other upcoming physical dps as I already have black swan.
@@unknownteddykdfwell, if you lack physical dps, go for Yunli, if you lack fire dps Firefly is the solution, and if you lack a fire character and want another debuffer he is the best
4:39 Feels like they decided to make Jiaoqiu a Black Swan for Acheron. I think it’s a waste because she already does a lot of damage so I can’t see this making a difference. Also damage vulnerability falls off after a certain point l. Basically enemy resistances are so strong that 55% is very little help for enemies like sam compared to def shred. Especially on modes like Gold and Gears.
i think it really helps with ult frequency more than damage. it will be pretty good to buff acheron performance on pure fiction i think. wich is my weak spot right now
I feel like he might end up being kinda like the Shenhe of this game(both released in 2.4 of their respective game as a bonus)amazing for one DPS in their cases Ayaka and Acheron and ok for 2-3 other teams if you don't have the proper characters for example, Shenhe and Ganyu and Jiaoqiu and Dr.Ratio both of the DPS's have better teams but can clear the content with these supports.
About the universal LC stuff: Videos on the beta test say otherwise. A shielder with universal LC + jiao action debuff actually gave acheron 2 stacks. It's two difference instances: Turn start and attack. Trends require the enemy to hit your preservation which can be unreliable. Unless they patched this, that info is incorrect.
I plan on pulling for him! I'm just debating if I want to go so far as to do something like e2s1 for him or not. We'll see how I'm sitting financially since I just got a new job and I'm not sure if I can whale or not as much.
I mean my Nihility option is Luka and Sampo I think Jioqiu would be quite an improvement. Best case is getting him, 2nd best is losing 50 50 to Welt, or Bronya.
Stacks for Acheron is ok but nothing crazy. I can do the same with a preservation with trend lc and high taunt lmao. His would be a bit more consistent but that's it. And his debuffs are kinda weak tbh. Like compared to acheron with pela in the team and him, is not like you would say yeah I would take jiaoqiu 100% which is bad considering jiaoqiu is a 5 star.
Agreed. There isn’t anything unique enough in his kit to motivate me to use him over my e6 4* units (one of whom is fire and applies DOT so it more flexible for me). I don’t think that they will add the healing back into his kit, but he would need DOT in his base kit for me to even consider pulling him.
Compared to harmony units, he is still not good tbh unless you pair him with Acheron. The harmony units we have rn ruan mei, robin, sparkle are just too good at buffing units (given the fact that all of them are sp pos, amplifies dmg, advance AP) I think the only harmony unit he can defeat is bronya but I personally think bronya is still more flexible than he is.
@@jammed_yam we are talking abt flexibility and utility here compared to harmony units. You literally just prove us right lol that he can only be paired with Acheron . The only good thing abt him as of his current kit at V1 is his vulnerability debuff and that's just it and in order to get his ult you need to 2-3 basic and 1 skill so he isn't SP+ unlike bronya which majority of the people have at least her E1 or E2 and/or her lc which makes her SP+ and given that she provides buff and advance forward for the whole team. Also, his current kit is useless with his attack and requires investment to work at E0 since his traces requires massive amount of EHR which converts it to attack to work. Yes, he is good but if you compare him to a Harmony unit he is average af. It's also funny that you compare him with a standard 5 star lol
I don't care , I still want him! I'm skipping out on Firefly. I'm saving all of my Jade and gold passes for him. I'm gonna experiment with putting him with my character. I currently have Imaginary+ plus Backup Dancer.
Haven't watched the vid. But whether he'd be good or not, I am desperate for any playable guys in star rail, and he just so happens to be a playable foxian male. I don't care he is hot and I'll definitely pull for him. Skipping firefly for him🤞
the most important part about his kit: he gives vulnerability to the enemies (increased the dmg taken) this is already enough for him to be useful in practically any formation im also pulling for him, so know he wont only be pretty, he will also be useful!
Yeah lol the meta guys are only IL rn I guess? Aven if you're using sustain, for example in AS and MoC, but I don't need him for the rest of the contents. The rest of my lineup are mostly filled with the girls.... There's sampo in acrn's team but he's just a copium option 😩
@@literallyjiaoqiu yep I've watch the vid, and he seems to just be a solid debuffer that can slip up to any teams as a filler. I myself only have one limited 5 star support, so having him could definitely be very useful
DHIL , Blade , Argenti , Dr. Ratio , Aventurine , Loucha , Gallagher these are some pretty good male 5 star characters if you missed and bud is not that good looking too
@@NoName-kg4veluocha and blade fell off hard unfortunately but the rest r good. The meta is full of women tho. I don’t hate women I love my Kafka and Acheron but I would love to see some more meta males come out
Hes really good for Acheron which is the main character I want him to be good with. I already have Premium Followup team and Firefly Superbreak but Acheron doesn't really have ideal supports other than Pela. Having to depend on Trend LC for stacks is kinda annoying when its pretty bad lightcone for your sustain otherwise. Hopefully they buff him though and make him as broken as they make Harmony characters.
Very underwhelming, especially if your Acheron is already in a Pela + Silverwolf + Trend team, why wasting so many jades on a character that only offers some stats increase in a already OP team, and eventually when u are tired of Acheron switch to other teams he is just gonna sit on the bench forever, I would def pull for him if he is actually a Nihility healer tho, cos in that case he unlocks new team comps for E0 Acheron, only in that situation i would consider him worth it.
Yeah, I'm using that exact same team with E1 SW and she can ult every 2 turn (pair with wind set and 150 spd, and boi she's fast), so she can give acheron 3 stack per 2 turn with SP neutral gameplay. Pela E6 SP+ can also stacking def shred with SW and pearls LC (Luka) up to 111%. So yeah I don't think I will replace SW or Pela. And yeah I agree, if he's a also a healer then it will be another story.
Seems like even less reason to pull for him if you have e2 Acheron since a marginally better Pela isn’t a strong enough case to outright pull for. How much of an improvement is he to Pela?
his kit is 4.5* guinaifen at best. such a shame they butchered his kit. it was unique before. e2 is the only thing that might be worth a pull IF it was baseline.
In my case I have all nihility characters except for SW. My most used teams are Boothill break team, but especially my Kafka, black Swan, Ruan Mei and Hueee Hueee (huo huo lol) team and Acheron with Pela, Gepard and then I dont really have a good enough nihility for her team without taking Black Swan or Kafka (more often Black Swan because def reduce) from my Kafka dot team. So I will most likely pull for him, but I also hope that I could play him in dot or my Dr. Ratio teams depending on the weakness.
Can switch Pela with Jiaoqui.. Vulnerability will definitely bring more dmg to Acheron compared to def shred.. Plus you can get the stack much more faster from his kit.. Everytime enemy moving will give stack to Acheron, imagine Ulti every turn lol
Since Kafka's best team rn is Kafka, Blackswan, RuanMei, Huohuo, would Jiaoqiu be an okay replacement for Ruanmei? Since I kinda wanna put my Ruanmei in my boothill team
So I have every 5 star harmony character in HSR so I'm unsure if I really NEED Jiaoqiu. I don't have any nihility 5 stars like acheron, black swan, kafka, etc, nor am I interested in building a DOT team with those characters. I like Jiaoqiu as a character and just want to have him for the sake of liking his design, but is he worth it? My limited 5 stars: Argenti, Boothill, Aventurine, Topaz, Ratio, Robin, Ruan Mei, Sparkle, Huo Huo I have all the standard 5 stars and all the current 4 stars. Are there any teams anyone could recommend with the characters I have for Jiaoqiu? Or is Jiaoqiu just not worth it if I don't plan on getting Acheron?
@@DT-yw4ob i guess but for pure fiction he already has himeko herta and argenti teams so right now he doesnt really have a need. mi recomendation is either get eidolons or get whatever he likes
Would it be still necessary to get him if i use pela+gui and aventurine with trend lc because it still gets acheron ultimate fairly quickly im just not sure
Jiaoqiu will replace gui's role in your team. And he will give 55% vulnerability ult dmg increase for acheron, so... i guess its necessary, especially if your acheron is e0s0
@@nidhoggcrowley I’m pretty sure its gonna be huohuo in phase 1 with yunli and Seele with him but i think I’m gonna just take the l and skip huohuo and go for him no matter what
would of been cool for my acheron team but aventurine took it all from me when wishing for firefly and ruan mei lost 2 50/50 but prevailed and got both in the end even tho i did want firefly's lc but luck was bad.
My question is: Is he worth it over Silver Wolf and/or Pela? I use both on my Acheron team and I'm debating his worth vs a soon to be E2|S1 Silver Wolf (Currently E0|S5 Tutorial) Thanks for the video!
He got nerfed but is he still good for acheron after the nerf? I only wanna pull him for acheron.. In he's no better than guin or pela at applying debutf i'll honestly pass
Kinda conflicted about this. On one hand, I would like to make my Acheron team stronger (him being a foxian male is also a plus haha). On the other hand, I just pulled on both Firefly and Ruan Mei's banner. I was hoping I could take a break from pulling. 😅😅 Maybe Guinaifen is good enough
Underwhelming? Nahhh its op currently my acheron can only deal abt 130k-170k dmg to a si gle opponent with sig lc of a cv of 70/200, 130k with no debuffs,170k with welt's 20 vuln, my pela' def shred of both -20% def and -40% def just what would happen if they were have the vulnerability of 55%?
@@TheodorePierro w be, fua, and acheron/dhil teams still viable on the meta i think im still getting him to me his the universal debuffer i wanted (aside from pela she alr used in my acheron/dr. Ratio team) also isn't his passive basically the same w firekiss so it can be used to increase dot dmg? Idk i just need a universal ddbuffer :) tho im not sure abt yunli yet
@@I_love_arbiter you do you bro, I'll wait for his V3 for now before pulling him because none of his kit seems appealing to me compared to harmony units. Good luck with the pulls!!!
People really underselling the value of Damage Vuln in the comments here, when we have so few sources of Vuln in the game xD It's another element of the damage formula that benefits every form of damage, including DoTs and Break/Superbreak. Meaning he amps the damage of literally every team, with zero exceptions. And that's why he's slotting into my Acheron team next to Pela, and my Ratio team next to Robin. Stacking multipliers, people!
@@DeezNuts94Bms she's one of the characters they tease for the new xianzhou story in 2.4 but apparently in terms of leaks she might come out in 2.5 she's a wind hunt dps with follow up and some break effect too apparently
Its a shame his kit feels so restrictive cause he looks cool af to me. For me, someone who doesn't care about playing characters optimally, i would make him work with whoever even if its not optimal. However, the more restrictive a kit, the less viable ways to play him making him less fun to use.
I think his light cone+e2 makes him worth it, but only if you're married to Acheron for good. It's a nice upgrade, but also pretty skippable. Also, rejoice, players who dont have Silver Wolf's event cone!
I hope they rework his E2 and E4 or at least only his E4 cause it sucks ass. Like I wouldn't complain if it can also apply 20% EFFRES reduction to enemies and maybe some EHR for you and your team, but no the only thing it does is to apply 15% ATK reduction to enemies. If they want to have people be pulling for him I think they should really rework his E4 eidolon or just add something more rewarding and valuable other than ATK reduction. But over all I think he'll be a top tier debuffer in the future just like Ruan Mei now cause I remember people disregarding her value and saying that she is just an easy skip and well look at her now. When it comes to supports especially Nihility and Harmony characters, you should REALLY do some serious theory crafting, calculation, and speculations with their kit cause you'll never know their true value until a future top tier DPS gets released that suits well with their kit.
Mid character I know he replaced acheron sub DPS but cmon SW+pela still slap all content right? Why i need better support for acheron?😂 I wish he can apply debuff that when you hit an enemy you gain heal/shield😢
@@Catboloni perhaps perhaps but this is a good sign Since penacony arrived..the meta keep changing..this patch is a good sign to stop continuous powercreep
i think they need to swap his current E2 into his base kit like they did with FF, there's no reason for him to not work with dots when Black swan and Guinafen already have a ''special dot''
he would be too OP though. Theres a reason why Wind and Lightning are the only 5 star DoTs they have been releasing in a while. Its because Fire and Physical DoTs are stronger than wind and lightning. Luka is only single target for that reason and Guinaifen is more on a debuffer than a DoT unit
@@ngm6541 you're right but he's a 5 star and it would be ''broken'' only in DoT teams, plus to make it really broken you would need at least either kafka or black swan in your team so that would already require a lot of investment
@@luciel98 but the difference is that unlike black swan who is mainly a dps, jiaoqiu is a support. If he had the dot in his kit, then he would be an OP version of black swan... He would have a crazy 40% dmg amp AND dot. I would just think of jiaoqiu as 5* version of pela.
@@ngm6541I think it could be balanced if they make the burn in his normal kit rly low damage and make the e2 greatly increase the damage
@@Xcharge83 pretty much that, E0 Jiaoqiu would just be a debuffer that also helps Arcana stacking at E0, and at E2 become an actual third DoT DPS. seems like the most elegant solution, really
I was hoping for a nihility healer given his character description but he seems like basically a better Pela. Nice for Acheron team but he doesn’t occupy the sustain slot so he doesn’t free up Acheron team building the way I hoped. If he were to heal he’d have massive value in enabling Acheron teams to use a Harmony with sacrificing the sustain slot but as it is his value is meh compared to what I expected from his character description.
Ehh more like guinafen than pela. I think we will see the numbers showing pela with resolution is better or on par with Jiaoqiu. Hot take: HSR starting to fall off
@danomaly8943 That's not a hot take, that's a burnt take lol, honestly HSR is only getting better. The story is doing great and only getting better every update, the new characters make more and more unique playstyles meta. Newest update added alot of content with new endgame and QoL. Game's just getting better lol. But I guess that's subjective at the end of the day...
Same, I really hope they bring back the healing somehow. It was not only unique but opened up alot of opportunities for teambuilding with acheron.
@@SpyralKing Lmao no it’s not. Bro people are playing the game LESS and it’s only going to get worse when other games come out. Boothill and the new game mode didn’t save the HUNT path. Jiaoqiu is uninspired garbage from a 5 star value perspective and the last few events have been TRASH. Bartending and I can’t even remember the last one because I didn’t do it. I get that HSR is the new Genshin but come on
@@danomaly8943 I dont know who you talk to but literally everyone in the space is loving everything with this new patch. HSR is even doing better than genshin financially in recent months in revenue charts. They have been top 1 or 2 for months. Bartending was a fun gamemode and well put together. Not for everyone sure, if its not your cup of tea (or alcohol lol) I get that, but to say that the events are bad is just plain wrong. This patch's event is super fun for example and has multiplayer. Also, the last patch's combat event was really well made and had quite a bit of depth and unique mechanics. It just seems to me that you personally have something against the game, or perhaps your group of friends isnt enjoying it anymore so now "people" are playing less, but I assure you, statistics beg to differ.
I'd also like to point out that new character releases have recently been nothing but fresh and unique for the past couple months, all introducing new mechanics for the most part. Jiaoqiu is the first one in months to be more conservative in that sense, and he's not even officially out yet. They could still change him.
i love dot nihility, and i love acheron's dps style, but it's a shame that the debuff-focused nihility units just... aren't as good as harmony units. their debuffs are way lower than harmony's buffs and they don't do enough damage on their own to make up for it. great for acheron, but there's pretty much no other case where you'd swap out your sparkle or your ruan mei for jiaoqiu
i mean yeah buffers and debuffers are different but i get what you mean
man, with the description they gave of him, was hoping for a DOT healer. Interesting kit nothenless, though 35% max debuffand only 15% ult dmg increase sounds kinda underwhelming.
Actually its a 40% vulnerability, and he should be able to mantain that debuff value almost the entire battle with his ult, he sounds like a good alternative as debuffer than Sw, considering his Signature Lc too
Kafka don’t work with him, she cant burn his dot
In my opinion, if he was going to output “decent” healing then they made the right choice removing it. Sounds too broken at e0 along with his kit. That being said if the healing amount was low even at max level I can understand why people would pull for him just to free up a slot. Regardless I’ll most likely be pulling for him unless they make some major changes to his kit.
The fact that black swan can get almost 100% def shred and has a nuke of an aoe is a crime against this man
I hope v3 changes him better 😭😭😭
3:47 lowering enemies effect hit rate means the enemies will have lower chance to inflict debuffs on you, not the other way around as that would be with lowering effect res.
Yeah i got it wrong 🥹
1) e4 moved into base kit.
2) needs healing moved back into kit or e2 into base kit. Preferably healing, make e2 worth chasing on a way better kit.
3) ehr debuff needs to changed to toughness dmg increase 50%.
aside from husbando purpose, he just does what E1 Black Swan does
I was just thinking this. Every time an enemy takes the stage black swan debuffs them. Same with him. If that’s the case then I should pull for firefly or the other upcoming physical dps as I already have black swan.
@@unknownteddykdfwell, if you lack physical dps, go for Yunli, if you lack fire dps Firefly is the solution, and if you lack a fire character and want another debuffer he is the best
So who is more worth pulling? E1 Black Swan, E0 Kafka or Jiaoqiu?
4:39 Feels like they decided to make Jiaoqiu a Black Swan for Acheron. I think it’s a waste because she already does a lot of damage so I can’t see this making a difference. Also damage vulnerability falls off after a certain point l. Basically enemy resistances are so strong that 55% is very little help for enemies like sam compared to def shred. Especially on modes like Gold and Gears.
i think it really helps with ult frequency more than damage.
it will be pretty good to buff acheron performance on pure fiction i think. wich is my weak spot right now
@@bandi642 Yeah stack generation helps a lot in PF woth acheron
I feel like he might end up being kinda like the Shenhe of this game(both released in 2.4 of their respective game as a bonus)amazing for one DPS in their cases Ayaka and Acheron and ok for 2-3 other teams if you don't have the proper characters for example, Shenhe and Ganyu and Jiaoqiu and Dr.Ratio both of the DPS's have better teams but can clear the content with these supports.
Does that mean we might get “Jiaoqiu how big is the gyatt?”
@@kikkomori13667 WE BETTER
@@kikkomori13667the brainrot is real with this one😭
About the universal LC stuff:
Videos on the beta test say otherwise. A shielder with universal LC + jiao action debuff actually gave acheron 2 stacks. It's two difference instances: Turn start and attack. Trends require the enemy to hit your preservation which can be unreliable.
Unless they patched this, that info is incorrect.
Was gonna say this too. this guide is full of misinformation
Hope he gets a huge rework in v3...
Maybe in his field he could turn 1% dot damage to party wide heal?
Honestly he's just so boring
I plan on pulling for him! I'm just debating if I want to go so far as to do something like e2s1 for him or not. We'll see how I'm sitting financially since I just got a new job and I'm not sure if I can whale or not as much.
So basically get E1 , and build effect hit rate so his passive converts it into Atk?
I mean my Nihility option is Luka and Sampo I think Jioqiu would be quite an improvement. Best case is getting him, 2nd best is losing 50 50 to Welt, or Bronya.
Stacks for Acheron is ok but nothing crazy. I can do the same with a preservation with trend lc and high taunt lmao. His would be a bit more consistent but that's it. And his debuffs are kinda weak tbh. Like compared to acheron with pela in the team and him, is not like you would say yeah I would take jiaoqiu 100% which is bad considering jiaoqiu is a 5 star.
I’m glad someone sees it that way. If this game was new he would be good but we have other options we can use to get similar value.
Agreed. There isn’t anything unique enough in his kit to motivate me to use him over my e6 4* units (one of whom is fire and applies DOT so it more flexible for me). I don’t think that they will add the healing back into his kit, but he would need DOT in his base kit for me to even consider pulling him.
What's his performance compared to harmony units? Like comparing Robin to Jiaoqiu.
Compared to harmony units, he is still not good tbh unless you pair him with Acheron. The harmony units we have rn ruan mei, robin, sparkle are just too good at buffing units (given the fact that all of them are sp pos, amplifies dmg, advance AP) I think the only harmony unit he can defeat is bronya but I personally think bronya is still more flexible than he is.
Bronya, Robin, or Sparkle are way better than him smh. For Acheron, SW and Pela work just fine. I don't rly see his value for a limited 5*
these comments are braindead. Bronya is not even close to his dmg amplification, esp for acheron the best dps in the game rn.
@@jammed_yam we are talking abt flexibility and utility here compared to harmony units. You literally just prove us right lol that he can only be paired with Acheron . The only good thing abt him as of his current kit at V1 is his vulnerability debuff and that's just it and in order to get his ult you need to 2-3 basic and 1 skill so he isn't SP+ unlike bronya which majority of the people have at least her E1 or E2 and/or her lc which makes her SP+ and given that she provides buff and advance forward for the whole team. Also, his current kit is useless with his attack and requires investment to work at E0 since his traces requires massive amount of EHR which converts it to attack to work. Yes, he is good but if you compare him to a Harmony unit he is average af.
It's also funny that you compare him with a standard 5 star lol
hes only 10.7% more ult damage than pela for e2 acheron. given that he cant heal anymore i dont think he is worth the jades.
I don't care , I still want him! I'm skipping out on Firefly. I'm saving all of my Jade and gold passes for him. I'm gonna experiment with putting him with my character. I currently have Imaginary+ plus Backup Dancer.
He'll be my FF at home :D
That E2 is really stupid tho, I was thinking of making him the main dps for a new DoT team.
Haven't watched the vid. But whether he'd be good or not, I am desperate for any playable guys in star rail, and he just so happens to be a playable foxian male. I don't care he is hot and I'll definitely pull for him. Skipping firefly for him🤞
the most important part about his kit:
he gives vulnerability to the enemies (increased the dmg taken)
this is already enough for him to be useful in practically any formation
im also pulling for him, so know he wont only be pretty, he will also be useful!
Yeah lol the meta guys are only IL rn I guess? Aven if you're using sustain, for example in AS and MoC, but I don't need him for the rest of the contents. The rest of my lineup are mostly filled with the girls.... There's sampo in acrn's team but he's just a copium option 😩
@@literallyjiaoqiu yep I've watch the vid, and he seems to just be a solid debuffer that can slip up to any teams as a filler. I myself only have one limited 5 star support, so having him could definitely be very useful
DHIL , Blade , Argenti , Dr. Ratio , Aventurine , Loucha , Gallagher these are some pretty good male 5 star characters if you missed and bud is not that good looking too
@@NoName-kg4veluocha and blade fell off hard unfortunately but the rest r good. The meta is full of women tho. I don’t hate women I love my Kafka and Acheron but I would love to see some more meta males come out
So sad…they should bring his healing back at least….im probably gonna pull for him even if he is underwhelming tho LOL
Hes really good for Acheron which is the main character I want him to be good with. I already have Premium Followup team and Firefly Superbreak but Acheron doesn't really have ideal supports other than Pela. Having to depend on Trend LC for stacks is kinda annoying when its pretty bad lightcone for your sustain otherwise.
Hopefully they buff him though and make him as broken as they make Harmony characters.
@@kennethyoung7457 thats great and all but it would be better if he worked well with more units besides acheron…also i dont have acheron lollll
Yes agree. Making Jiaoqiu able to heal so that acheron's team comp can consist of 3 nihility + 1 harmony 🥲
@@Catboloni that would be so so so so worth it
Very underwhelming, especially if your Acheron is already in a Pela + Silverwolf + Trend team, why wasting so many jades on a character that only offers some stats increase in a already OP team, and eventually when u are tired of Acheron switch to other teams he is just gonna sit on the bench forever, I would def pull for him if he is actually a Nihility healer tho, cos in that case he unlocks new team comps for E0 Acheron, only in that situation i would consider him worth it.
Exactly, I have E6 Pela and E1 Black Swan and they always manage to stack acherons ult while def shredding.
I’m kinda of thinking of getting e1 swan instead of him lmao
Yeah, I'm using that exact same team with E1 SW and she can ult every 2 turn (pair with wind set and 150 spd, and boi she's fast), so she can give acheron 3 stack per 2 turn with SP neutral gameplay. Pela E6 SP+ can also stacking def shred with SW and pearls LC (Luka) up to 111%.
So yeah I don't think I will replace SW or Pela. And yeah I agree, if he's a also a healer then it will be another story.
Seems like even less reason to pull for him if you have e2 Acheron since a marginally better Pela isn’t a strong enough case to outright pull for. How much of an improvement is he to Pela?
10.7% ult damage over pela. loss vs pela for non ult damage but made up for by his own damage over pela.
@@nidhoggcrowley That actually pretty good. Especially since he speeds up ults by quite a bit.
much better than pela, especially if you have def shred coverage from other sources.
his kit is 4.5* guinaifen at best. such a shame they butchered his kit. it was unique before. e2 is the only thing that might be worth a pull IF it was baseline.
In my case I have all nihility characters except for SW.
My most used teams are Boothill break team, but especially my Kafka, black Swan, Ruan Mei and Hueee Hueee (huo huo lol) team and Acheron with Pela, Gepard and then I dont really have a good enough nihility for her team without taking Black Swan or Kafka (more often Black Swan because def reduce) from my Kafka dot team.
So I will most likely pull for him, but I also hope that I could play him in dot or my Dr. Ratio teams depending on the weakness.
what increases stack generation more. jiaoqiu with acheron e0s1. or acheron e2s1?
Thoughts on how he'd be a good substitute for Pela in a E2 Acheron team?
OG Team
Sparkle
Aventurine
Pela
E2S1 Acheron
Around a 25% ult damage increase but also more debuffs, it's pretty good
not worth it in my eyes as hie is right now. I have e2s1 too with sparkle e0s1 and pela but if his kit doesn't get major buffs he is an easy skip.
Can switch Pela with Jiaoqui.. Vulnerability will definitely bring more dmg to Acheron compared to def shred.. Plus you can get the stack much more faster from his kit.. Everytime enemy moving will give stack to Acheron, imagine Ulti every turn lol
I will get him S1/E1 and bench Pela.
Btw very good for this team is S1/E2 Aventurine.
@@zyestes9786 thanks i hope i get him 😭 its sad that he doesnt have def shred in his kit though. Tutorial LC would be so good on him
Since Kafka's best team rn is Kafka, Blackswan, RuanMei, Huohuo, would Jiaoqiu be an okay replacement for Ruanmei? Since I kinda wanna put my Ruanmei in my boothill team
he is kinda meh on dot as he himself doesnt inflict dots unless u get e2, robin is better and he will not be much of an upgrade compared to guinaifen.
So I have every 5 star harmony character in HSR so I'm unsure if I really NEED Jiaoqiu. I don't have any nihility 5 stars like acheron, black swan, kafka, etc, nor am I interested in building a DOT team with those characters. I like Jiaoqiu as a character and just want to have him for the sake of liking his design, but is he worth it?
My limited 5 stars: Argenti, Boothill, Aventurine, Topaz, Ratio, Robin, Ruan Mei, Sparkle, Huo Huo
I have all the standard 5 stars and all the current 4 stars. Are there any teams anyone could recommend with the characters I have for Jiaoqiu? Or is Jiaoqiu just not worth it if I don't plan on getting Acheron?
You should definetly try to get Firefly to get a 2nd good team besides FuA , since you have Ruan Mei she's cracked
@@DT-yw4ob he already has boothill partner
@@bandi642 yes, but Firefly would let him use the same core (HMC, Gallagher, RM) also to clear pure fiction on top of being better in some MoC and AS
@@DT-yw4ob i guess but for pure fiction he already has himeko herta and argenti teams so right now he doesnt really have a need. mi recomendation is either get eidolons or get whatever he likes
Will he be good for other hypercarry team like Jing Yuan, Argenti, Blade, etc if I already have a E6 Pela?
maybe but not needed, as far as I see only Acheron users have the highest benefit of pulling him
Is he still worth it with E2S1 Acheron?
E1 is the best stopping point for boosting acheron dmge
should I try to go for his signature or E1 for Acheron team?
Signature i guess. You get 60 EHR bonus and more chance of winning
When is the rerun date of Acheron?
Still not confirmed yet
She won’t be rerunning for a long time
@@Lazermachi999 😢
ima skip and wait for blackswan to build dotchron team.
is acheron better with sparkle or pela with Jiaoqiu?
I think Sparkle if she has 161 speed
Would it be still necessary to get him if i use pela+gui and aventurine with trend lc because it still gets acheron ultimate fairly quickly im just not sure
Jiaoqiu will replace gui's role in your team. And he will give 55% vulnerability ult dmg increase for acheron, so... i guess its necessary, especially if your acheron is e0s0
Ratio and Acheron Team.
The only way i won’t use my garuntee for him is if huohuo or another nihility person reruns on the phase before him which isn’t likely i don’t think
huohuo rerun on the banner after him
@@nidhoggcrowley I’m pretty sure its gonna be huohuo in phase 1 with yunli and Seele with him but i think I’m gonna just take the l and skip huohuo and go for him no matter what
would of been cool for my acheron team but aventurine took it all from me when wishing for firefly and ruan mei lost 2 50/50 but prevailed and got both in the end even tho i did want firefly's lc but luck was bad.
ashen roast should just be a burn dot bruh, eidolon 2 should be apart of the base kit.
My question is: Is he worth it over Silver Wolf and/or Pela? I use both on my Acheron team and I'm debating his worth vs a soon to be E2|S1 Silver Wolf (Currently E0|S5 Tutorial) Thanks for the video!
He got nerfed but is he still good for acheron after the nerf? I only wanna pull him for acheron.. In he's no better than guin or pela at applying debutf i'll honestly pass
Kinda conflicted about this. On one hand, I would like to make my Acheron team stronger (him being a foxian male is also a plus haha). On the other hand, I just pulled on both Firefly and Ruan Mei's banner. I was hoping I could take a break from pulling. 😅😅 Maybe Guinaifen is good enough
can he work with firefly tho
Underwhelming? Nahhh its op currently my acheron can only deal abt 130k-170k dmg to a si gle opponent with sig lc of a cv of 70/200, 130k with no debuffs,170k with welt's 20 vuln, my pela' def shred of both -20% def and -40% def just what would happen if they were have the vulnerability of 55%?
@@TheodorePierro w be, fua, and acheron/dhil teams still viable on the meta i think im still getting him to me his the universal debuffer i wanted (aside from pela she alr used in my acheron/dr. Ratio team) also isn't his passive basically the same w firekiss so it can be used to increase dot dmg? Idk i just need a universal ddbuffer :) tho im not sure abt yunli yet
@@I_love_arbiter you do you bro, I'll wait for his V3 for now before pulling him because none of his kit seems appealing to me compared to harmony units. Good luck with the pulls!!!
@@TheodorePierro thx, mate u too!
This means his best friend is black swan
i already have black swan and acheron, i rather pull for kafka him not being a dot unit till e2 seems strange
People really underselling the value of Damage Vuln in the comments here, when we have so few sources of Vuln in the game xD It's another element of the damage formula that benefits every form of damage, including DoTs and Break/Superbreak. Meaning he amps the damage of literally every team, with zero exceptions. And that's why he's slotting into my Acheron team next to Pela, and my Ratio team next to Robin. Stacking multipliers, people!
Even though he is good is it really necessary to get him just because of acheron because I really wanted to save for feixiao instead
Who's feixiao ? And yeah the same question...I want the best support for Acheron but I don't wanna pull this guy...
@@DeezNuts94Bms she's one of the characters they tease for the new xianzhou story in 2.4 but apparently in terms of leaks she might come out in 2.5 she's a wind hunt dps with follow up and some break effect too apparently
Its a shame his kit feels so restrictive cause he looks cool af to me.
For me, someone who doesn't care about playing characters optimally, i would make him work with whoever even if its not optimal. However, the more restrictive a kit, the less viable ways to play him making him less fun to use.
I think his light cone+e2 makes him worth it, but only if you're married to Acheron for good. It's a nice upgrade, but also pretty skippable. Also, rejoice, players who dont have Silver Wolf's event cone!
Will his E2 can turn him to some kind of dps or sub-dps with maybe Black Swan?
I guess so! His E2 makes him an enabler for dot. probably good with kafka, or (kafka + jioaqiu + BS + sustain )
I hope they rework his E2 and E4 or at least only his E4 cause it sucks ass. Like I wouldn't complain if it can also apply 20% EFFRES reduction to enemies and maybe some EHR for you and your team, but no the only thing it does is to apply 15% ATK reduction to enemies. If they want to have people be pulling for him I think they should really rework his E4 eidolon or just add something more rewarding and valuable other than ATK reduction. But over all I think he'll be a top tier debuffer in the future just like Ruan Mei now cause I remember people disregarding her value and saying that she is just an easy skip and well look at her now. When it comes to supports especially Nihility and Harmony characters, you should REALLY do some serious theory crafting, calculation, and speculations with their kit cause you'll never know their true value until a future top tier DPS gets released that suits well with their kit.
Husbando bait I'll still slap a crit or break build on
Nice
Mid character
I know he replaced acheron sub DPS but cmon SW+pela still slap all content right?
Why i need better support for acheron?😂
I wish he can apply debuff that when you hit an enemy you gain heal/shield😢
Probably his kit will have some drastic changes in V3
@@Catboloni perhaps perhaps but this is a good sign
Since penacony arrived..the meta keep changing..this patch is a good sign to stop continuous powercreep
Acheron herself don't need him. She got dot gang
2.4 keeps getting better, look at all those jades I'm saving ❤❤🎉
Jq + sw = stripping pants off enemies 😂😂😂😂
Dont care if ppl are still stunlocked at sw weakness implant xD and ignore 99% her kit
Low rating for this guide because pearls was not mentioned at all.
Speed 1.25
Seems like a trash pull to me -_- Just use GOONifen
He can also replace HR MC or Galla on the Fireflay team
Please Hoyo don't make him insanely good so that I can pull on Yunli with a peace of mind
Disappointing. Design subpar, now the kit is subpar too.
🥲
Now the kit matches his looks.
@@Kspice9000 yea. He's a pink haired cook with a tail, of course his mid, lol.
he could have def a better outfit buuut y'all not hating on that hair, tail and ears no no no
@@emranao nah not really hating on the design. It's the kit I don't like.
ezzzzzz skip skip skip, boring banners coming up
Until his V3 comes and he becomes insanely op just like FF 😂 the hoyo cycle.
@@OldSchoolMindeddoesn’t happen for male characters
@@OldSchoolMindedit doesn't happen to male characters unfortunately the reason ff got buff is because she is the love child of mihoyo lol
@@TheodorePierromore like "Balanced" than "Buffed" in Firefly's case
@@JMike-bq6rl I see, so removing super break in the 2 gears is also a balance which she is the only unit who can use?