How I Beat Genshin Impact Without Wishing A Single Time

This was a pretty fun challenge and I plan on doing more like this in the future!

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tnbee - Alhaitham Theme Music EXTENDED - Think Before You Act (tnbee mix) | Genshin Impact

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[ej]

Having the trio of Xingqiu, Bennett, Xiangling is a game changer.

[mailee]

I appreciate the Layla love! She’s definitely on par with zhongli with enough investment. The only caveat is that her shield is too short for long rotations. But she works just fine with shorter rotations.

[Ocean_bIvd]

Bennet was an angel coming from the sky for these no-wishing accounts

[persephonehades]

Honestly I appreciate this video so much. I understand that when people fine tune broken characters that they start thinking the abyss is a joke, but it's only a joke because of the amount of effort and saving they've done to ensure success. You take away a core part of the system and it quickly becomes a very hard challenge.

[LittleMsJester]

I love this. I’ve always been a believer that any character can be used for the game with enough investment. Which means you can use your favourite characters. Sadly a lot of people I’ve met always use the same characters and don’t like it when you use something different. My Lisa for example can hit massive damage…but if people see me with her? They go raiden or yae (even though yae is barely different from Lisa) then demand I swap. It’s kinda sad. I miss the first year of genshin when people used a huge variety because we were all still learning.

[vermillionorange]

This is quite an achievement
This is a flex because you know that half of the effort is thru using your skills as a player, not soley relying to your characters' power
Mad respect 👍

[zat--fury]

This is funny because I actually almost did this on accident because there was a time I did not know about wishing I got to around lvl 35 before I did my first wish…

[philtkaswahl]

No wishing means Noelle is forever locked behind the Beginner's Wish banner.

Now _that_ for me is a nightmare.

[rellikai]

This reminds me of when dehya first came out and I had to actually think and work in order to make her viable, rather than just melt everything around me while sleepwalking through the game with my hyperbloom team. It made the game a lot more fun since I had to actually engage with it on an intellectual and mechanical level rather than just 'unga bunga big numbers hit bigger'.

[ubemvuossas]

Now THIS is a genshin impact challenge.

[TheZoobZoobs]

this actually makes me appreciate hoyo a tad bit more too, considering you don't really lose much not being able to farm floor 12 and immense amount of content the game has with stories, world quests and world puzzles and treasure hunting. Any other publisher/dev with a gacha game I know would have made it nigh impossible to make progress in the game's late game content without whaling

[tomboy]

My first time clearing (not even 36 star-ing) abyss was the beginning half of September. I've been playing since July 2022, just hit ar 58, and I'm f2p but every 5 star character I've managed to get is pretty broken (I have all the archons + kazuha). This video just put into perspective how much of a skill issue I have that I've been working on my "broken" characters nonstop and still only just managed to succeed after 14 months. That being said, I'm weirdly motivated after this? Yes I clearly have a skill issue but if you can do this literally anything is possible. So, in a roundabout way, thank you! Hopefully it won't be too long until both of us manage to get 36 stars lol

[enesjei]

My toxic trait is thinking i can do this too.... lol
Congratulations, man!

[atomotron]

The fact that Genshin "unlocks" all 4 party members for you very early is really nice thing. I remember how I used to play Borderlands where you have your 4 weapon slots initially locked, and that means you need to re-learn every time you unlock new slot. Which, in my opinion, happens too late in the game. I'm happy Genshin decided against that.

[SquishyFletcher]

Layla is amazing for "just a shielder", especially when she's teamed up with a decent hydro (not Barbara) character (I mostly use Ayato for the AOE burst combo).
Collei is not bad for 4* Dendro, her boomerang is surprisingly useful, and while her AOE isn't as big as Traveller's, it does fire off faster, which is great for hyperbloom.

[ohshctrash]

Having high level well built characters really does make all the difference in the world. I remember when I had just started playing Genshin, I was about AR 15, and ruin guards were my worst nightmare. It would take me like twenty minutes to fight one and I would be hiding somewhere shooting at them as Amber and dodging the whole time cause she's really squishy. But then my AR 60 boyfriend came onto my world for co-op and we ran around the Sumeru desert with him one-shotting everything in sight. It was so fun to get to explore without worrying about getting my ass handed to me by some hilichurl camp.
Now I'm AR 45 and while there's a lot of content in the game I do still struggle with, it doesn't take me an insane amount of time to beat any one enemy now. Plus I know what my characters are strong enough to fight and what I need help on.

[ldyc]

I'M SO PROUD OF YOU~~~! This was so cool to watch and see you accomplish. I now wanna see if I can improve the characters that I have so that they're all useable with decreased suffering on my part when I'm farming for friendship. Thank you so, so much for this video.

[MellowGirl]

I absolutely love Layla, her skills are so pretty and her shield is one of the best besides Zhongli obviously. My main team currently is Layla, Yanfei, Rosaria and Koko, I just got Zhongli so sometimes he gets swapped in when I'm doing boss fights or facing scarier enemies. I somehow got c4 Bennett from that banner and the free copy we got (I didn't have him prior.)

[RaspberyLemonade]

You can't just put Hopes and Dreams in and not expect me to jam out! Amazing video, you truly are DETERMINED!

[edancore]

Im doing the same challenge but I only wished once on Noelle’s banner to obtain her because I consider her to be a “starter” character.