Why EVERYONE Plays: Bennett | Genshin Impact

Back with another Why EVERYONE Plays after not making one in a long time! Today we're gonna talk about the unluckiest character in all of Genshin Impact: Bennett!

~Editor (TSM Sylar)~

~Contact Links~

#GenshinImpact #WhyEveryonePlays #Bennett

[JohnDiggle]

I find it funny that at the start of the game people thought bennett was bad. I remember watching some streamers play and they got bennett and asked if he was good and her friend said he was meh.

[albertofrederickimana]

Cheap to build, efficient to optimize. That's honestly how I would define Bennett. He literally can make do with the dregs of whatever leftover resources you can throw at him, but if you ever take the moment to focus on him and optimize his build, Bennett is bouken de broken.

Seriously, there's no loss in investing in Bennett. A support Bennett with barely any artifacts, a leveled weapon, and a somewhat invested Burst talent is serviceable, yeah, but once you move on the part of the game where you have the excess Mora and mats to throw around, you can build your Bennett into a DPS and benefit from it even if you don't play him any differently.

[ShiraFuyu]

Accidents gone right
Basically Bennett's entire existence

[shakirmorgan]

Bennett In the Lore: *No one wants to be on his team*

Bennett In the Game: *I can't build a team without Bennett*

[_L]

Bennett is just an overall well built character that will NEVER get powercrept. His energy generation, with healing, and massive attack buffing paired with his non negligible damage makes him a staple in gameplay. Also he's got a great personality and funny backstory to boot. Giving him a thumbs up, just like he does!👍🔥

[ZyrusTyrax]

I have a head cannon that Bennett buffs the entire team not because it has the ability to do so. But they just find his positivity endearing and a joy to be around with, so when he cheers everyone on it's like they have to do it or else it'll feel like they let good ol' Benny Boi down.

[bletwort]

Let’s be honest and just say that Bennett has the entire Genshin meta dancing in the palm of his hand. Calling him game breaking is an understatement.

[variables]

If there was a new 5* who did the exact same things for same investment, my first thought wouldn't be to ditch him for the new character. It would be that I can now have two of him in Abyss at once.

[alexliu]

The reason why Bennett is so widely used is because of the many things he is capable of. Firstly, he can heal, which is helpful in game, especially in floor 12 where the enemies have the power to one shot you. Secondly, he buffs your attack which basically means he buffs your damage. Buffing damage is unique in Genshin (at the time of this comment being written). There aren’t many characters who can buff damage in this game, and it is a very valuable component in a team to have. Thirdly, he can battery. Pyro carries such as Diluc could use some energy to get his burst on CD every rotation, and Bennett can help create that energy. Bennett’s elemental skill has a short cooldown already, but inside his burst, it’s even shorter, allowing you to funnel energy CONSISTENTLY. Lastly, he does good damage. His scalings aren’t bad for a support character, allowing him to potentially be a Sub DPS. Bennett is also immune to power creep as he has a unique kit. Hoyo can’t really make a better Bennett, because we will always love you, Benny Boi.

[Blckperalta]

Every time he goes "I won't hold you back..." I'm just like "-Dude, you are the best character on this game!" Sometimes I even say it out loud lol

[freemelons]

Bennett's existence does makes me curious on how they will ever top him off, specifically the pyro archon. I know the memes of Bennett basically being the pyro archon, imagine if the pyro archon ends up being worst than Bennett, it doesn't even have to be a bad kit, just maybe worst supportive or lesser DPS potential, she'd be mocked the hell. I told a non genshin player friend of Bennet's kit and tell them that the character who owns it is a god in game and they believe it just from the sheer power. Murata might need to watch her back when she comes along.

[sanjeethmahendrakar]

Bennett will most probably never get powercrept but I'm pretty sure hoyo will keep going forward with making him less required or something to that effect. Niche supports like gorou is one good example since he's basically a Bennett for anyone who scales purely on defence like albedo. Another way as mentioned are characters like Yelan who don't scale of ATK. So yeah you can use Bennett with Yelan and albedo but its definitely much better to use someone else with them and put Bennett on the other half/second team of we are talking abyss.

[hexgleam]

"Imagine if we had 2 Bennetts"- Bennett and Sara do exactly that for electro team comps! Raiden and Raiden/Yae teams love her, although snapshot mechanics make other Electro DPS prefer Bennett just a tiny bit more if they had to pick one.

[rickypedia]

When the game came put I heard he was "unlucky" and had a hard time keeping friends. I decided to adopt him because uwu, but didnt manage to pull him until the first time he was in the shop. It wasn't until then I also learned he was OP.

[gss]

If you look at his kit. Hoyoverse design him to be a sub DPS with decent support abilities. But accidently makes make him overpowered support because underestimated how much base atk scaling does. Is pretty funny.

Hoyoverse design him to be 4 star sub DPS with some atk and heal support.

End up being an overpowered energy battery, moderate healing, sub-dps, pyro infuse and increase, extremely high damage boosting one man party.

[cryognic_]

Here's an initial reception story from myself: I remember playing my first week of Genshin and going to the subreddit for information like: "I got all the guaranteed ones + Bennett and Ningguang, so... how screwed am I?".

Little did I know I had gotten a ticket to the finish line.

[sonofdeleniel]

His only problem is when you get him late.

I didn't get Benny until after I got several other units that facilitated different playstyles. Ningguang, Gorou, Yun Jin, Yelan, Kazuha, Beidou all came before I got Benny, which meant I ended up with a Tazer team and a Geo Hypercarry *BEFORE* I had the time to invest into Benny, which meant by the time I got him . . . //I didn't need him?//

[Abyss-Will]

There's the alley flash 4 stars sword that gives 620 attack, that's more than some 5 stars so it works great on him as long as you stack a lot of ER on his artifacts

[brithebean]

I remember back in 1.2 when I first played and got Bennett, I rlly loved how adorable he looked and I immediately placed him on my team without understanding his kit lol
But man when I found out how useful and op he actually was, i was so happy 😭💛

[therranolleo]

as Dendro rolls in in the upcoming months all we need is a single unit which self-infuses the active character with Dendro (Tighnari and Collei both have Dendro field effects but it is unknown if they self-inflict Dendro or not) and we can have the Vermillion dream alive with Bennet self-burning the DPS for atk buff, now everyone can be Xiao