Why Bennett Can NEVER Be Replaced (Genshin Impact Gameplay Design Analysis)

A video essay explaining why Bennett's strengths are so compatible with Genshin's combat mechanics to the point where he is going to be a top tier character probably forever.

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Intro: 0:00
Bennett’s Strengths: 1:20
Unnerfable (Indirectly Through Content): 2:31
Attack Buffing Abilities: 5:12
Xingqiu Being “Replaced: by Yelan: 7:35
The Implications of Being Irreplaceable: 8:43
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[kaiser]

Friendly Reminder: All positives qualities of Bennett's kit are justified by his lore.

[silverhawkscape]

I don't think Bennett will be replaced. He's kit is so good that he'll always have a Role to play.

Powercreep Bennett exist? Just use Bennett as the Second Buffer in Spiral Abyss.

[slimslimonstar]

Characters not relying on ATK stat for damage seems the way to go for getting Bennett out of the meta and having said characters being good.

[normal]

Fun fact: Bennett learned how to do damage, heal and buff because no one joined his team and needed to do everything alone

[baquithemonkey]

Just wanted to further add that Bennett's burst circle being stationary, although it is one of its weaknesses, there's a thing called snapshot that basically throws that idea away. Xiangling being the most prevalent example of a character who couldn't cares less about staying in Bennett's circle

[Everdistance]

'if you created enemies that just continuously ran away from you, it would be unfun'

you should have told them that before they made hydro specters

[oscarthedog]

Although he isn’t being fully replaced, Hoyoverse is slowly phasing him out of specific team comps or making characters that are niche, but work so much better in their niche- eg: Gorou being overall better in Geo teams, especially with constellations- Sara being the same with Electro teams and Shenhe (although being a 5 star) with Cryo teams. Sure they only really work the best in these specific teams, the thing is that you only *need* 2 teams for Abyss, so Bennet doesn’t end up being used.

[leojustice]

It's not just his atk boost and healing. He has so many small things going for him. From being the best and really only pyro battery, to constantly applying pyro to yourself thus cleansing and giving you access to Sunfire with Jean, to the fact that he actually deals pretty good damage if you build him for it in the right team. It's amazing the amount of things they missed while building him

[monsterdonutkid]

Bennett’s kit is kind of overtuned and I’m pretty sure it’s because the devs didn’t fully understand their own game mechanics in the beginning. If Bennett was released now, his ATK buff would be 70% or less of what it currently is, his C1 would be scrapped and replaced with something completely inconsequential, he would have at least 80 energy cost, his cooldowns would be at least 25% longer, and his ascension stat would be something contradictory to his main support utility like ATK%.

He would still be a highly contested healer/buffer but more balanced relative to the current state of the game.

[PurplexxInuxBokuSS]

2:54 Venti also has energy refund passive which is highly overlooked, not just the VV shred.

Having more energy for the DPS means more bursts, which leads to more damage.

[Randomperson-ensh]

so its kinda like Azure Empyrea from honkai where she is the most universal buffer (and one of the best) but as the game progress more and more supports that are element specific do things so cant she has slowly been being phased out

[frozenflava]

I see alot of people saying yelan exists....the reason why she can't scale off attack is EXACTLY because of Bennett, any character with those scalings would be busted if they can benefit from him. Mihoyo releasing pure HP(and afterwards pure DEF) scaling characters is not just because it brings about more team comps but because anyone too compatible with Bennett will further push the contents of the game to be more difficult.

[rirururu]

Keep in mind that Gorou is a Defense version of Bennett but Gorou's buff scalings and healing are no where near as crazy as Bennett's. Hoyo has learned to make characters like Bennett a lot more balanced so any character like him that's released in the future (let's say an HP Bennett for example) will probably be just like Gorou-- so no where near as game breaking.

[Hlebuwk]

6:08 you are missing Shenhe from this chart, although she is only for cryo, her damage boosting is for cryo only, it can be better than bennet

[apleb]

Designing Bennett’s kit was a huge mistake on Hoyoverse part and I think is one of the reasons why the recent 4 stars are either super niche or underpowered.

[bluezebra]

Maybe not replaced but I see him becoming less relevant. With how common characters who scale off of different stats are, plus dedicated attack supports, plus the new intensified reaction which seems like a massive attack boost for Dendro/Electro if leaks are to be believed.

[angelicanosoul]

"Yelan supposedly replacing Xingqiu"
First the hair. Then the job.

[jy-exe]

I’ve been maining Bennet since basically day one. I got him with the free standard banner 10 pull you get at the beginning of the game, and started building him like mad just because I wanted a “fire sword character.” He’s currently at lvl 90 and my team’s main DPS, main support, and main healer. I have emotional attachment to this Bennett.

[theobserver]

I don't think this is true. With Yelan release (damage scales based on HP). I can already see to many new characters scaling solely with non ATK stats (DEF, HP, EM, etc...) and each 5 star having it's own "bennet" (like gorou and Itto)

[boba]

There was a video I watched which said, "For better or for worse, the entire game is balanced around Bennett's existence." or something around those lines. I believe it was from IWinToLoseGaming. And a comment under it had said 'It was one of the most rawest lines one can say about something.'

I'll say this. I started using Bennett without knowing that he was such a busted character, it was all because of his hangout event I did. Before that he was sitting at level 1 at the back.

Turns out he is one of the, if not the best, character in the game. He buffs, heals, provides particles (I main Diluc), resonance and so much more. I ended up crowning his burst and giving him the Aquila Favonia.

Nowadays, his playstyle has gotten a bit boring for me. I still use him to clear abyss because there is no way I would be able to without him, but besides that, I'm trying to use different team comps to make it more interesting. Like Yun Jin with Diluc and Ayaka etc.

So, my point is, while I might experiment here and there with different characters because I got bored of Bennett's playstyle, at the end of the day I still go back to him if I need to clear the challenging part of the game aka Spiral Abyss.

(I know some people will say they cleared abyss without Bennett, but I am an f2p who hasn't built much characters cause it's tiring. I just want to enjoy the game and get as many rewards from the events as I can.)