Since its launch, Genshin Impact has captured the hearts of countless players with its rich character settings and exquisite world view, and each version update has given the game new vitality. Especially in version 5.5, not only two new characters, Varesha and Ianshan, were added, but also a new relic system was introduced, providing players with more tactical options, greatly enriching the depth and strategy of the game. In this update, we will witness how new characters and relics can further enhance the player’s gaming experience by changing the character’s combat style and skill combination.
Varesha: A warrior full of impulse and enthusiasm
Varesha, as one of the five-star characters in version 5.5, has a very distinctive personality and characteristics. She is not only a powerful warrior, but also a “big eater” who doesn’t care about details. In the background story, Varesha became a local “legend” because of her amazing appetite, and she could even eat 80 meals in the big eater competition without showing any fatigue. This trait of “being born with a huge appetite” seems to be reflected in her fighting style.
Varesa’s skill design perfectly matches her passionate and violent personality. Her elemental burst “Fiery Passion” allows her to greatly enhance her output and release powerful energy in a short period of time. At the same time, her elemental combat skills and falling attacks are also carefully designed, with extremely high damage and explosive power as the core. Especially when her “Night Soul Points” accumulate to the maximum, Varesa can release a wave of fierce attacks and has strong anti-interruption ability. Through this design, Varesa’s fighting style is both direct and full of impact, and players can quickly defeat the enemy with her explosive power.
Compared with other characters, Varesa’s gameplay does not require too much strategic arrangement. Players can quickly enter the “Fiery Passion” state and give the enemy a fatal blow through simple and direct attack methods. This “impulsive” character will undoubtedly excite players who like high-burst, high-tempo battles. Every attack of hers is full of power and passion.
Ianshan: A Calm and Rational Tactician
In sharp contrast to Varesha’s “explosive” combat style, Ianshan represents another rational and strategic combat style. As a four-star thunder attribute character, Ianshan does not rely on simple attack output, but rather relies on the cooperation of teammates and precise skill operations to complete the battle. Her skill system revolves around the “kinetic energy scale”, which allows her to gradually enhance the attack power of teammates according to the changes in the “night soul points”, thereby improving the combat efficiency of the entire team.
In battle, Ianshan can provide teammates with precise buff effects through reasonable skill release and position control. Her “kinetic energy scale” can restore her own “night soul points” according to each character’s combat behavior and provide corresponding buffs, which makes her not only a simple output player, but also a strategic character who can influence the battle situation. Her skill combination depends on the player’s precise control of the battle rhythm. Far from relying on violent output to win the battle like Varesha, she achieves advantages more through rational thinking and teamwork.
The appearance of Ianshan undoubtedly brings new choices for players who pursue strategy and precise operation. In her skill mechanism, meticulous time management and space scheduling are particularly important. Only by properly arranging the timing of skill use can she provide teammates with fatal buffs at critical moments. Through this combat method that relies heavily on collaboration and calculation, Ianshan has become a “wise man” in the hearts of many players. Her calmness and rationality provide indispensable support for the combat strategy of the entire team.
New Relics: Enhanced Combat Depth and Strategic Choice
In addition to the two new characters, the 5.5 version update also brings two new sets of relic sets – “Long Night Oath” and “Deep Corridor Finale”. The design of these two sets of relics not only improves the combat effectiveness of the characters, but also provides players with more tactical options, greatly enhancing the diversity of character matching.
Long Night Oath is a set of relics that focuses on falling attack damage, suitable for those characters who rely on high burst, especially powerful output characters like Varesa. After equipping “Long Night Oath”, the character’s falling attack will cause higher damage, and can accumulate the “Eternal Flowing Glory” effect when hitting the enemy, making the output of the falling attack further enhanced. For Varesha, this equipment can greatly improve her output ability and help her quickly weaken the enemy’s combat effectiveness.
In contrast, Deep Corridor Finale is a set of holy relics suitable for ice element characters. It can increase the damage of normal attacks and elemental bursts when the character’s elemental energy is zero. This set of holy relics is very suitable for characters who rely on normal attacks and elemental bursts, and can significantly improve their output effects. For ice element characters, this set of holy relics can still maintain efficient combat output without elemental energy, allowing these characters to maximize their effectiveness in different combat environments.
Tactical Fusion: Comparison and Choice between Varesha and Ianshan
Varesha and Ianshan are two completely different types of characters. The former emphasizes violence and impulse, while the latter advocates calmness and rationality. In the 5.5 version update, these two new characters provide players with two completely different combat methods. Players can choose suitable characters to deal with different combat challenges according to their own tactical needs.
For players who like high burst and quick resolution of battles, Varesha is undoubtedly an ideal choice. She can quickly defeat the enemy through powerful falling attacks and elemental bursts, and the battle rhythm is very intense. For players who pursue fine operation and team cooperation, Ianshan is more suitable. Her skill mechanism requires players to accurately control every detail in the battle, and help teammates improve combat efficiency through teamwork and the timing of skill release.
In actual combat, Varesha and Ianshan not only represent different character types, but also reveal two different game philosophies-one is the “fast attack” combat style, and the other is the “foresight” strategic layout. The choice between the two depends on the player’s gaming habits and combat needs, and also adds more layers and depth to the entire world of “Genshin Impact”.