What Happened To Ayaka? | Genshin Impact

Ayaka was one of the most beloved characters in Genshin Impact during the early days. But with how much the game has changed in recent years, specifically not in favor of Cryo, has she lost her time in the spotlight or is she still a fan favorite? Today we'll find out in What Happened To Ayaka.

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[devam]

Hoyo saw freeze reaction and were like "nah, too broken. Let's make this reaction irrelevant by adding unfreezable enemies."

[JuicyPants]

To save you 15 minutes: Coppelia and Coppelius happened

[willgraves]

Fontaine abyss try not to contain cryo resistant or freeze resistant enemies (impossible)

[crimsonECHDNA]

Everything changed when Coppellia attacked.

[ronnieketchum]

Ah yes. The Dancing Duo.


Literally on the abyss for 11 WHOLE CYCLES NOW.

[itsmeliska]

Ayaka was my first favourite character. She is the reason I own Kazuha, Kokomi, Shenhe and Furina. I'm really disappointed that a lot of the times the abyss doesn't suit her, but whenever I can use her I will. Her snowstorm is just too satisfying to forgo ^^

[TheDarkZoren]

Freeze reaction needs to provide bonus damage against enemies who cant be frozen so it's not a useless reaction in most of the abyss.

[enricotabungar]

It's crazy to me how summer of 2022 she was the best DPS in the whole game (topping Hu Tao vape) having a 2000%+ scaling ult and a skill that generates tons of cryo particles to now being one of the most unideal DPS's with freeze being out of the meta. It's just genuinely crazy to me..

[AfterAFashionASMR]

She will make a comeback. Hoyo just wants freeze and cryo related stuff to feel fresh again once we hit schneznya. They are obviously purposely benching cryo rn but the land of the eternal freeze is coming - soon to be just a year away. Hoyo is thinking ahead imo too. I’m excited to see where they take us.

[kafkafkafk]

A lot of the people saying Coppelius/Coppelia happened are severely undermining the changes of what made Ayaka fall off. Don't forget there are TWO sides of the Abyss. They added the Hydro Tulpa on one side yet Neuvillette's usage rate was still high as usual. There are definitely multiple factors that contributed to Ayaka's downfall, not just the Icewind Suite.

[pokefan]

As someone who has taken Ayaka into every abyss that I can manage, Hoyo has NOT made it easy for Freeze teams. A couple times I literally just had to use other teams because they made it outright impossible for a freeze team to function in either chamber (Unless you happened to C6R5 every character in the party, which I haven't) They've literally made enemies that are ALWAYS applied with Hydro, immune to freeze. Additionally almost every new enemy or boss since late version 4 has been A. very element specific, and B. either having a very high reistance to cryo if not just outright immune to it.

[buttermanaws]

I think it's mostly the fact that 2.0 was the era where the devs tried to stop certain characters from working and one of those things the games tried to stop was freeze, and while they stopped trying to stop shields and burst spam they kinda killed freeze by process of most enemies now either being immune, having a way to cleanse or being immune in a second "phase"

[little_blackwinged_crow]

I honesty think what hurts Ayaka most right now is how little relevance she has in melt teams. I'm a Wriothesly main and I'm currently playing him in burn melt and he's absolutely killing it. I hope she can come back, because even if she's far from my favorite character its sad to see her fall off

[Tiepo]

I will say this: Freeze is really darn good with the new artifact domain. The shield lawachurls are a nightmare cause they dash away from you and have that annoying shield. Freeze bypasses that :D

[kawaiimika]

Nothing. We got more DPS characters that are not locked behind freezable enemies. Her playstyle is still fun but because the Abbys is never perfect for her and we've been getting a lot of new characters to play with people just forgot about her.

[dabugger_]

Maybe they should implement HSR's effect hit rate mechanic on freeze. (High freeze res bosses will be frozen less often but it will still be possible to freeze them)

[sirnotawholelot]

Nothing happened to Ayaka, but things happened to Freeze.

[KinG-xsuu]

I farmed her artifact for more than year 321/42 as f2p and now i rarely use her, my whole account was built around her

[pika]

I remember pulling ayaka during her eternal banner. But I have not really used her since

[mohammedbaig]

They did the same thing with Venti by spamming the abyss with ungroupable and/or solo enemies. And people argue that he's still worth pulling over Kazuha. Maybe he trivializes the overworld but literally who doesn't? Kazoo just does everything he can but better. Shame they did the same thing with Nilou and Kuki hyperbloom teams by always having at least 1 small mob immune to dendro, or the stupid arkhe shield system