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BEST RAIDEN SHOGUN BUILD! Updated Raiden Guide - Best Weapons, Teams, Artifacts (Genshin Impact) - YouTube
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This video covers everything you need to know
about Raiden Shogun who is now getting her
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1st rerun banner and since she’s been out for a
while, I’ve been using her almost on a daily basis
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and have cleared many Abyss rotations with this
character. So, in this video I will show you
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how to get the best value out of Raiden,
how to play her optimally and of course,
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show you how to build her with
every weapon ranking included.
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So the first thing that’s important to look
at is Raiden’s playstyle and talents. Now her
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elemental skill isn’t going to be amazing
when it comes to dealing damage, however,
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it’s the utility and support that you need to
care about. After activating it, anyone else,
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including Raiden herself, will have their burst
damage multiplier increased, depending on how much
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energy it costs. This bonus can be improved
by raising the skill all the way to level 9
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and here’s an example of damage you can gain from
it when using someone like Yae with 90 energy and
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Albedo with 40 energy burst costs. You usually
want to always start every fight by activating
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her skill but keep in mind because of the way
Internal Cooldowns and Elemental Gauges work,
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you might want to actually avoid hitting the
enemies with the initial skill attack. A good
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example is running Raiden in a team with Vaporize
– if you use Raiden’s skill, then Bennett’s burst,
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you’ll notice the enemy ends up with Electro
status on them and this is not ideal if your
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next followup attack comes from someone like
Childe who won’t be able to Vaporize his burst.
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So instead, use Raiden’s skill but make sure it
doesn’t hit the enemy, then use Benny’s burst
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and now the enemy has Pyro aura and you’re able to
Vaporize them. But otherwise, I highly recommend
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to always start fights with Raiden’s skill so
that her team mates can boost their burst damage.
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Now when it comes to her burst, the majority
of its damage comes from the initial slash
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but with the right combos you can also dish out
a lot of damage. My own personal favorite that
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I’ve been using for a long time is just spamming
one Normal hit followed by a charged attack or
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simply called N1C and I can do this about 6 times
before her burst ends. There are however better
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ways of doing it but the difference in damage is
marginal, although you might sometimes need it,
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so a combo like the one shown here has been known
to be pretty strong when trying to squeeze out
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her damage. Still, what I do not recommend
doing is just spamming her Normal attacks
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because adding up all of it leads to significantly
less damage that you could otherwise do with my
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other previously mentioned combos. Just remember
– Raiden gains insane stagger resistance
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so no one can interrupt her when she’s doing
her charged attacks and it’s really easy to
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get into the flow of chaining combos together.
Finally, regarding the Resolve mechanic – this
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ring around her basically indicates how strong her
burst is going to be when unleashed and you build
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her Resolve by using other party member’s bursts.
The amount of resolve she gains depends on how
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expensive their burst was, so in a scenario when
using her popular Rational team, you can expect
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to see about 44 Resolve out of 60 which is the
maximum but thanks to her 2nd passive, it’s going
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to end up somewhere around 48-50 Resolve. And
remember how I said you want to start fights with
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her skill? Well, that’s the whole idea – by first
unleashing everyone’s bursts besides Raiden, they
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provide her with Resolve and then her own burst in
return becomes much stronger. So in almost every
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rotation you start fights with Raiden’s skill,
then keep switching to everyone else before
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getting back to her and then activating her burst.
Also, I’ll talk about her energy generation in a
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few moments but for now, just keep in mind that
you want to hit enemies with her burst attacks to
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restore energy, which can be done up to 5 times.
Oh and one last thing – when it comes to talent
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leveling priority, make sure to first focus
getting her burst as high as possible,
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then raise her skill to at least level 6 but don’t
bother with her normal attacks because they do not
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contribute damage to her burst and ideally,
you want to end up first maxing out burst and
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then skill afterwards at around level 9 so they
both provide the best value for the whole team.
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Making certain artifact choices for Raiden is
extremely important and there’s a lot popular
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questions I want to cover quickly, so let’s just
start with the first one: how much Energy Recharge
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does she need? Now the reason why a lot of
people ask this is because of her passive talent
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that for every additional 1% Energy Recharge,
Raiden will restore more energy for the team when
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using her burst and increase her own Electro DMG
Bonus. Without getting too much into the details,
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I highly recommend to aim for 200% Energy
Recharge which will translate to 20 Total
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Energy you will restore for the team when using
her burst and 40% additional Electro DMG bonus
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that she will gain. Also keep in mind this is
flat energy she gives to the team, so their own
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Energy Recharge won’t increase it further. Now
going past this breakpoint is only recommended
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if you have Engulfing Lightning on her and that
would still be about 250% before you’d have to
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stop and focus on other stats. In fact, I would
say that because of this passive, Energy Recharge
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for Raiden is like a nice to have until a certain
breakpoint stat and when you’re using her with
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other good characters that provide energy, well,
you can even go lower than 200% as long as Raiden
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is able to get that burst ready off-cooldown.
And I think this is the perfect time to mention
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the other big thing players worry about – should
you go for Energy Recharge or ATK Sands? Well, as
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I’ve already told you, it’s all about that certain
break point in Energy Recharge that you want to
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reach for Raiden, so if ER Sands helps you do that
– it’s worth going for but generally speaking,
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most end-game players tend to go for ATK Sands
just because this stat scales better with damage
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boosting characters or team weapons but again,
if you have Engulfing Lightning, ER Sands will
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provide about roughly the same value as ATK.
Lastly, regarding Goblet and Circlet – just
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go with Electro DMG Bonus on Goblet and
either Critical Rate or DMG on Circlet,
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no questions asked. The only time you should
consider ATK over Electro DMG Bonus goblet is
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when it has really good substats and you literally
have no decent Electro Goblet to show for.
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Speaking of artifacts, Emblem of Severed Fate
4-set is hands down best in slot for her,
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there’s nothing else that comes close and the
only time you should look for alternatives
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is when you’re still working towards Emblem
set which in that case, a combination of
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2-sets that provide either ATK, Electro DMG
Bonus and or Burst DMG are your best bet.
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But to summarize everything, these are
all the recommendations I’ve mentioned
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about artifacts with a special note about
substat priority, which as you can see,
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it’s nothing special, basically as usual, just
go for the highest value Critical Rate or Damage,
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followed by ATK, then Energy Recharge and anything
else afterwards. The biggest takeaway about
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Raiden’s artifacts is to be mindful about her
effective Energy Recharge breakpoint and to have
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a healthy 2:1 ratio so you can see those beautiful
purple numbers fly off in all directions.
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I think it’s about time we get into weapon
rankings for Raiden. But before we begin,
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I want to let you know that it takes only few
seconds for anyone, especially a content creator
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to just search up the numbers about Raiden’s
weapons and present them as it is, which is
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fine but since you’re watching my video, I’ll
be honest to you about some of the choices and
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rankings that I’ve seen so far floating around.
First, we need to draw the line where the
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comparisons begin and for this job, the baseline
weapon is going to be a fully refined Catch since
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you can obtain it for free at any time in
the game and the only thing it costs are
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10 hours of sucking out the fun out of you.
But it’s definitely worth grinding for this
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polearm because the passive is tailor made
for Raiden and not only will it boost her
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overall burst damage but it will also increase her
burst critical rate by 12% which makes it so much
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easier at closing the gap towards that golden
2:1 ratio. Now the Energy Recharge substat is
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also nice but the base ATK is a bit low and it’s
crucial to understand that to see her swing for
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at least 80,000 damage will require some team
mates who can boost her ATK. See, the thing is,
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I’ve seen a lot of players in the community
underestimate ATK and a lot of people tend
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to get blinded by this obsession of getting
that perfect Critical Rate and Damage ratio
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when in fact, for something like The Catch, you
really benefit a lot from ATK, which is why having
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ATK Sands is a great idea as well as bringing
more team mates that can boost ATK as well.
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But this is where I want to talk about 2
other 4-star options that kind of address
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this situation. First we have Deathmatch, a
polearm that you mainly use as a stat stick,
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while the passive is a nice to have thing but I
would only recommend using it if you severely lack
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Critical Rate or you have it at fully refined,
otherwise, in almost every other scenario The
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Catch is better unless you want to give it
someone else in the team like, this chef here.
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Now the other 4-star is Wavebreaker’s Fin. This
is definitely a strong gacha weapon for Raiden
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but only after about 3rd refinement I would
say it gets on the same level as The Catch
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but if the team you’re using have really
high burst costs and you can get some DMG
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boosts for Raiden – the results will speak
for themselves and at full refinement,
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it’s almost as strong as unrefined Staff of Homa.
Now moving onto 5-star options, Skyward Spine
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is actually an interesting weapon because
while you cannot utilize the whole passive,
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she still benefits from ATK Speed and Critical
Rate increase, which some would argue are worse
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than the Catch and it is kind of true, however,
the base ATK is good and if you are especially
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interested in learning more of her burst
combos, gaining that ATK Speed boost does
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open to few new ones that you can do but I would
say that the best benefit is actually just having
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an faster and easier time doing the combos you
already know as you will notice the difference.
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Another quick mention goes out to Calamity
Queller – it’s better than the Catch but again,
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I would only recommend this if you have
strong artifacts with good critical stats.
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Now Primodial Jade Winged Spear is
a slightly better option but it’s
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mainly thanks to big 22% Crit Rate you
get from the substat while the passive,
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kind of works but because you cannot build the
stacks with her skill when she’s off-field,
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her initial slash won’t benefit from the weapon
passive, although further burst attacks will do.
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Staff of Homa is also in a similar situation
– Raiden will rarely fall below 50%
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health, especially if you use a healer
but even then, that massive Crit DMG
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and sizeable ATK boost puts it into second
best place in overall weapon ranking.
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Finally, we have Engulfing Lighting which
is obviously her best in slot weapon,
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although, something that I don’t see a lot
of content creators talk about is that this
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weapon is primarily designed for end-game
players who have really strong artifacts
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and can reach good critical rate and
damage ratio because otherwise, you’re
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better off with something like good old Homa.
But these are basically my weapon rankings and
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thoughts about them, you can look at a quick graph
here and just soak it all in but overall – if you
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can, just use a fully refined Catch if you
don’t have any other 5-star alternatives,
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while Wavebreakers Fin is only really worth
going for if you have it fully refined. And
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if you do end up getting Engulfing Lighting,
well, have fun using her best in slot weapon!
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So with everything that’s been covered so far,
it’s time we take a look at Ei’s team building
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options. First of all, it’s important to
understand that she doesn’t really have a
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specific role because of the way her entire
kit works but a good way to describe would
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be that she’s an on-field hyper carry but only
when she’s using her burst mode. You could say
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that’s exactly what Hu Tao or Xiao can do as well
but the key difference here would be that Raiden
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also provides support for her allies through her
elemental skill and burst, so think of her as a
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support that basically becomes your main damage
dealer for about 7 seconds after using the burst.
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But what does it mean for you? Well, in almost
all cases, you want to build a team around
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Raiden even if she is sort of considered to be a
support character but think of it like this – the
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remaining team mates scratches Ei’s back and she
scratches them back with her energy generation.
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Now aside from this horrible idiom, there’s
actually a pretty basic core team foundation you
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can follow when building any team with Raiden.
You first want to always start with an Anemo
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character with Viridescent artifact set –
almost anyone here is a great choice but the
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ones that stand out is Kazuha who provides
the best damage boosting for her as well as
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some really good enemy grouping, then Venti who
helps her charged attacks reach all the small
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enemies in his vortex and then Sucrose who even
though doesn’t have the best grouping, she can
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help Raiden with Thrilling Tales. Also, if your
team ends up without a healer, you can use Jean.
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Anemo has always been strong in many team comps
but with Raiden, it really helps with her bursts’
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initial slash and attacks, so if you want to
push her damage to the limits, you’re going
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to want to stick with these green characters.
As for the remaining two positions, grabbing a
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healer or shielder is highly recommended, even
better if they can also provide damage boosting
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for her or the team, since Raiden’s sword mode
let’s her completely ignore stagger from enemy
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attacks and you’ll want to focus on just dealing
as much damage as possible without, well dying,
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so bringing a support that can keep her alive is
essential. Finally, a sub damage dealer that can
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deploy a skill or burst when using Raiden is
your best bet because she does take about 7-9
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seconds of field time and a deployed skill
that can create reactions is recommended.
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And remember – team mates with high burst costs
help Raiden build her Resolve faster which in
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return ends up boosting her overall burst damage.
So with all of that said, an example team could
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be Lisa, Raiden, Jean and Xingqiu. You open up
with Raiden’s skill, switch to Xingqiu and use
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his skill and burst, go to Jean and activate
her burst to shred the enemies’ resistance,
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followed by Lisa’s burst and then finally
going back to Raiden and unleashing her burst.
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It’s a pretty simple rotation that maximizes on
Viridescent Venerer, a top meta unit like Xingqiu
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and Lisa. In fact, what I really like about
this librarian is that she provides a ton of
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value for Raiden, since you can equip her with
Thrilling Tales, give her a Noblesse 4-set and
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if that’s not enough – her passive will enable
her burst to shred away 15% of enemy’s DEF,
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which is almost half of what Raiden’s second
constellation offers. I think people have been
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sleeping on Lisa for far too long and I hope that
if you do decide to build a strong Raiden team,
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Lisa is actually a really good choice for her.
And yeah, she does have an expensive 80 burst cost
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but guess what – this only helps Raiden build more
Resolve and in return, she helps reduce Lisa’s
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burst cost with the flat energy she provides.
But enough shilling for Lisa, as I want to just
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quickly run down some of the best
meta teams you can use right now.
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Now the first one is, of course, Rational
which is the highly popular National team
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renamed with Raiden and it’s made up of Xingqiu,
Xiangling and Benny boy. Previously, the biggest
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problem with National was Xiangling’s high burst
cost which made meta players go for more Energy
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Recharge substats but thanks to Raiden, you can
now have an easier time building Xiangling with
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more offensive stats and in result – this is
the easiest and one of the most powerful meta
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team comps currently available in the game.
The second meta team is called Hyper Raiden
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and it’s made up of Kazuha, Benny boy and C6
Sara. You don’t need to have Constellation 6
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Sara but it’s highly recommended to at least have
her 2nd constellation unlocked but even then,
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the calculations have shown that you’re
then better off running Lisa with previously
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mentioned loadout instead of Sara and you can
also swap out Kazuha with Sucrose but it’s going
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to reduce Raiden’s overall damage potential.
Finally, there’s Electro-charged comp that
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doesn’t really have one set in stone team but
with Yae Miko’s arrival, the foxy lady and
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Raiden have become a common duo, while Xingqiu
or Kokomi and either Kazuha or Sucrose or even
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sometimes Venti are the remaining choices.
Personally, I’ve been running Raiden, Yae,
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Sucrose and Kokomi so that I can leave Kazuha
and Xingqiu available for my 2nd abyss team.
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As an honorable mention, Eula with Raiden also
work really well since Raiden’s elemental skill
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provides excellent Electro application and the
most popular variation currently used in Abyss
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is made up of Eula, Raiden, Benny and Rosaria.
But that’s pretty much all you need to know
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about team building. The key takeaway here
would be to utilize team mates with expensive
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bursts costs who can also support Raiden when
she goes into her burst mode so that she in
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return provides flat energy for them and this
creates a powerful and easy to use rotation.
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Overall, I believe Raiden is one of the best
units you can get right now because not only
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does she offer amazing damage but also works as
a top choice for restoring your team’s energy.
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And I think with the way Hoyoverse have been
releasing new characters with expensive burst
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costs and enemies that steal energy away, well,
you’ll definitely want to have her if that’s
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an issue for you. Finally, I want to quickly
address the whole debate around C2 Raiden – yes,
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this is a powerful upgrade that puts her in the
same league with almost any other C6 character,
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so if you really like her, getting her second
or even third constellation is worth it and I
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personally have these constellations but just
to be clear – I managed to beat several Abyss
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rotations with just C0 Raiden so it’s not
a must have upgrade in order to play her.
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In the end, it’s the team mates and artifacts
that matter the most and I really hope you first
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consider your financial situation before
trying to push for more copies of Raiden.
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Anyway, I hope this video helped you. I’d
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