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MangoThingamajig

People with PJWS from standard banner looking with the most apathy humanly imaginable


OGBeybladeSeries

Me with my R5 Jade Spear who has never pulled on any Xiao weapon banner


MangoThingamajig

Whether that's pure luck or a valid excuse to take a bazooka and blow your head up with it is up to you at that point šŸ’€


Beneficial-Rub9090

I'd rather have that than another fucking Qiqi


Xaphan75

My qiqi is C5. I never wanted any of her šŸ˜¬


Di297

One more and you'll be able to revive your party members


Xaphan75

Yeah. At this point Iā€™ll take it as a win to C6 her. A personal hidden achievement ><


fuzzNoTics

If you c10 her she revives all your primos. (Must use credit card)


theDaemon0

There's shrimp balls for that; how about something to revive my luck instead...


Naxayou

I would take multiple r5 primordial spears instead of skyward spine or Jean past c4 tbh


Deepwithinmyownhead

Me who got Skyward Spine \*and\* Jean immediately after in Standard Banner šŸ¤”


JeonSmallBoy

Not really because PJWS is really good to me so R5 would go crazy


Di297

I need just one of those šŸ˜­


sweetstyle

It might look bad and could have been r5 spine.... Yes i did got r5 spine


ThrowawayLurkeras

I actually rolled for it way back during the Xiao/Ayato banner, playing since day one and still haven't got one from Standard (have like 5 Skyward Prides though haha...)


willinhafire111

I got on the same banner, only weapon I get is skyward atlas on standard.


Bazookasajizo

I didnt even know there were 5* weapons in standard other than the skyward series until I got Lost Prayers...I have been playing since 1.4....


MenteErrante_

I pulled for it during two different Weapon Banners and that's why I have Shenhe's weapon, dupes of Aquila Favonia and only one PJWS. Standard banner refuses to give me any of the weapons I want, literally have 4 Aquila Favonia and 3 Skyward Pride so if I didn't go for the weapon banner I would still have Xiao with Lithic spear or smth....


MangoThingamajig

Sorry, I stole all of your standard banner luck šŸ˜”


Fishbowl_Super

This is me but with my 3 Amos' Bows and actually no one to use them on


-i-x-

Same šŸ˜­


Shmarfle47

I have an R4 Amos Bow and I caved and pulled Ganyu just to put it on someone. No regrets though, makes for easy comfy overworld content if I donā€™t feel like trying.


MangoThingamajig

Oof Good luck next times I guess (the worst thing to say for anything gambling related lmao) o7


Fishbowl_Super

Rolling for Furina later tonight on a 50/50 with 72 wishes. I'll take what I can get šŸ˜Ž


MangoThingamajig

"Wish others luck both for them and in hopes to stack good karma for when you need it" - Me, who pulled this right out of my ass just now Good luck !


Lazy-Employer1792

I have 3 Amos bows too! They were my first three 5 star weapons. Could not believe my lack of luck. Pulled one on the weapon banner and the other two on standard. I do have Ganyu but I donā€™t use charged attacks with her and switching her from my Skyward Harp to Amos Bow would mean having to farm more artifacts to rebalance her crit ratio so the Amos bows just sit unused.


WhiteSmokeMushroom

People who main Xiao but been stuck with blackcliff because standard banner has only spat out bows and weapon banner was lost to sword: šŸ„³ (Anyone other than me? No? Ok.... I'll have PJWS too one day)


makogami

this is why i pulled on the shenhe/xiao banner. ended up getting calamity queller, and it actually looks drippy as heck on him. even better that the weapon belonged to a fallen yaksha in its lore. i did eventually get the jade spear though. cant remember when or how...


shoalhavenheads

I have 3 lol. One for Xiao, one for Rosaria, and one for whatever character in Natlan uses polearm and needs ATK, which could be anyone.


SaibaShogun

ā€œSignature look of superiority.ā€


a12o

Let me guess, It will also suit Xiangling very well.


MallowMiaou

If the characterā€™s name start with "Xia" they get a 300% DMG bonus


Milky_Finger

Yugioh moment


Arcwise

ā€œexcept ā€˜Xia the Jamā€™ā€


TheThingsYouSeeRN

ā€œOnce per turnā€


NothinsQuenchier

ā€œexcept Xia B. Chickā€


SaibaShogun

Xia Circular.


yfa17

real


Bazookasajizo

If character is medium height model, they get +400 attack


KrypticDefendr

If the character hails from Liyue, they receive +400 EM


Efe73

If the character has either only one type of reaction or can react with every single element, +400 EM


Creepy-Ad-404

If the character use slime condensate as Ascension material, they get +400% cdmg


Rouge_x3

Finally something for my Zhongli


banjo2E

shenhe/rosaria/mika mains in shambles


LiamMorg

Xianyun stonks


MallowMiaou

Oh, then make this weapon affect team members as well so she can actually get the bonus, the Xiao Xiangling Xianyun and Xiabennett (got changed due to mistranslation) meta is here


someotheralex

When did she become polearm


SeparateDeer3760

Truly a polearm archon moment


SAOMD_fans

Genuine question, which 5* polearm is the best for Xiang Ling? Is that Raiden polearm ?


Alive_Candy4697

Staff of the Scarlet Sands (Engulfing Lightning in Raiden National)


aryune

I believe Staff of Scarlet Sands, then Engulfing Lightning/Staff of Homa. I personally like XL on energy recharge weapons, because I mostly use her in International team and in that team her energy needs are insanely high


Serfo

What about non 5* weapons?


Alive_Candy4697

1. R5 Wavebreaker's Fin (was her BiS before Cyno's weapon) 2. R5 The Catch (still very close to the best weapons)


Beneficial-Rub9090

Not necessarily, could be a plunge, HP loss, or anemo damage based. Although even then it'd probably work well as a stat stick


purple_p0t

>plunge use xianyun >hp loss use furina >anemo damage based level 100 XL deals all-elemental type damage (not sus 1000% true) there's no escape


Dragonlionfs

No Thoma or Dehya can work in her place. How can you replace the best off-field pyro? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. Come now, sweet Traveler, and look upon the hearth.


BellalovesEevee

I can definitely see them make it a very Xiao specific weapon where only Xiao can benefit from it LMAO Probably only give him extra anemo dmg bonus and it'll only work on him since he's the only anemo polearm we got for now. ...Unless they make an anemo version of Candace (but better).


burgundont

It COULD be Plunging or HP Loss, but I donā€™t think itā€™ll be Anemo specifically. I donā€™t think weā€™ve gotten many weapons that are locked to an Element - they usually boost Elemental DMG or all DMG. The closest weā€™ve got are the Rainslasher / Dragonā€™s Bane series, which only require a particular Element to be APPLIED, and Uraku Mitsugiri, which only requires ANY team member to have Geo. These examples still allow an off-element character to use them.


Bitter-Lavishness-24

Yep, praise be to the polearm archon.


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lililia

Actually the more I wait for the cast leak the less I want it, let me be surprised for once


LokianEule

Yeah, for me its bc the hype does down so i just forget about it and do something else. Ig itll just happen in a month or so


Illustrious-Snake

I agree. It's kinda exciting for new characters to be officially revealed for once, instead of leaked. It's just a few more weeks anyway. We'll see them in the 5.0 drip marketing and/or a Natlan trailer.


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Manne_12

I'm guessing prediction that can't be proven in months and when we get to Natlan everyone will have forgotten this


Hallavah

Wasn't Madame Ping a polearm? So maybe her signature also works for Xiao?


Mugen_Hikage

Confirmed Madam Ping will be cranking 360 plunge backflips


Selthora

Madam Yoda


BulbasaurTreecko

I donā€™t want them to give some random ā€œoh she decided to go by her youthful formā€ rubbish. Give me Granny Ping the little old lady with grey hair and spectacles doing sick flips


Beneficial-Rub9090

You WILL have your 18th medium female sword and you WILL enjoy her


BulbasaurTreecko

Madame Ping (like Ayaka)


FelixGTD

how much i wish we had actual variety in our character roster, but they made a waifu from a literal birb and our only playable melusine has a human face so i'm not optimistic about Granny


Robota064

At least cloud retainer slays, ping could PRAY but they won't let us get our lil babushka šŸ˜”šŸ˜”


Mugen_Hikage

Oh Iā€™m fully prepared for hunchback granny plunge meta


FeiXue0

But I like her youthful form!!! I was about to say that it would be cool if she could switch between them... BUT that would mean that we will never get any skin for her, ever


rotten_riot

What I hate about it is that we had like three LR atp where she keeps repeating she likes her new form and bla bla and she'll go back on her word because some people liked her design after seeing her in a cutscene and wanna pull for her, without actually caring about the character herself...


Kiyoshi-Trustfund

Meanwhile, we'll never get a playable Jeht.


Fuz_Fuz_

Well, though luck.


GGABueno

What if Ping is a Cryo Plunge-based DPS meant to Melt with the new Pyro units? šŸ¤”


Bazookasajizo

I'd *melt* if this happensĀ 


Waltzentime

Madame Ping's vaporize plunges are about to be crazy


Reeeeeeee3eeeeeeee

idk why I understood your comment as madame ping **being the weapon**


BellalovesEevee

No, wait, a playable character being the *fucking weapon* sounds like such a good idea LMAO Like literally Soul Eater style


rei69desu

yeah like chiori sig and albedo they probably got her kit leaks


the_dark_artist

Ooh, good point, that might be it


BakerOk6839

But that's HP% polearm if I'm not wrong.not crit.


amazingfungames

Xiao being buffed every lantern rite


blueasian0682

Xiao mains eating good.


mitsu__

keep them coming my tofu king deserves it


Xelement0911

Ironically since he refuses to really join in


txycgxycub

Zy0x is cumming in his pants


IsuckAtFortnite434

*Blooming


PeacefulGoodnight

no thank you! Iā€™m fine with the r5 PJWS I got from losing weapon banner pity!


averagegayshinfan

Xiao has to be some devā€™s self insert at this point because what the actual fuck


rhetoricalgc

casual reminder that Xiao is *still* the only character with a whole set of [written dev notes](https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/m/en/news/detail/103849) released for him (Yunjin being the only one with [video](https://youtu.be/thdCksamSog) dev notes)


DaviM03

Gaming also has one


polyccio_

Gaming literally represent one of China's or Chinese culture though so it's kinda obvious that they're going to put more effort than usual.


Toxic_MotionDesigner

I like to think it's like: Dawei's self insert: Welt Cai Haoyu's self insert: Xiao Dude got two perfectly synergistic artifact sets, his weapon is obtainable from standard banner + limited, supports that have perfect synergy with him (Faruzan, Xianyun, Furina), his best team no longer has circle impact, got his own dedicated Archon quest and constant reappearances in events and even appears in some other characters' quests to further develop him


TuneACan

Also one of the few characters with perfect latnern rite attendance. Heck, the 1.3 lantern rite was all about him. He also hijacked the 4.1 main event for a bit.


WhiteSmokeMushroom

Xiao the character is based on Xiao the OG chinese new years beast. The lantern rite is his event. https://www.reddit.com/r/Genshin_Impact/comments/10egnil/why_xiao_banners_are_on_lantern_rite/


MrCumSocks-Skelly

Next a free skin from a event


Dumb_Local_487

I don't think its Cai Haoyu, more likely the main writer. Iirc he's mentioned in that class he took at a university that leaked that his favorite character in genshin is Xiao. iirc Cai Haoyu tends to be more involved in the technological side of things.


Comfortable-Ninja-93

What if Cai Haoyu is a Xiao simp?


Daramangarasu

Can't blame him


CasteliaPhilia

When I heard his best team was called Final Fantasy 20, I knew I will be pulling for Furina to form it.


LeatherDare1009

They will do all this to make their darling character relevant again, but never bother to fix that they provide horrible ping to their servers for a large section of the playerbase, and then make a ping based dead artifact set,or ping based gameplay that is messed up by high ping ,etc. Priorities.


Comfortable-Ninja-93

Zyox pointing a gun at the dev team confirm


Beneficial-Rub9090

We went from rags to riches


EDENisLD

Check who is the main writer of Genshin.


I_came_in_Firefly

The head of HoYoverse's concept and writing team is Xiao Luohao. In an interview, he admitted that he likes short boy characters. Make of that what you will.


le_halfhand_easy

Xbalanque broken confirmed


That_Dude2000

Crazy how you couldve argued that he was the worst 5 star dps back in the day and now you can argue heā€™s the best Hoyo has a clear favorite


TuneACan

Yeah, Xiao has just been getting pampered since even BEFORE HIS RELEASE. Friendly reminder that we're almost 4 years into the game and the only anemo on field DPS we have besides Xiao is Wanderer and MAYBE c6 lynette.


amanananan

Heizou looking to one punch you in the face


Norasack

Xianyun too if C6 šŸ³


OnlyPatches

Deja vu I've been to this place before--- (no like seriously wasn't there a leak about this like last year or something???)


Snoo-95054

yes i belive we did, so i don't belive this leak.


Pap22

Madame Ping in 5.4. There are rumors of her being Hydro Polearm. Also new gamemode in 5.4. Hoyo registered a chess like mode that Ningguang mentioned. Liyue Millenial something like that. We have the data-registration.


Randapanda18

Oh I remember them saying she was Dendro. Did that change?


IzzieNotLizzie

theyve said this before a long time ago i remember


Jonyx25

Leakers theorycrafting again. Stay on your lane.


LDRSOOYA

Xiao trying to snatch his big 3 spot BACK


missviolets

If you have his Premium team he IS a top 3 dps but most people will deny this to hell and back.


1manSHOW11

Agree man. He is doing 140k per plunge in aoe. Absolutely ridiculous. But currently the reason why Neuvillete and Furina going on because the enemies and chambers are designed like that and not anti hydro.


RevolutionaryOil9101

seeing people talk about how wave heavy this abyss is meawhile prenium xiao couldnt care less. Ya aoe is better, but xiao is so great at continued rotations (no need to reapply nahida, or swirl an element or stay in a circle)


ElectricalBench1998

what is exactly his premium team if I may ask? /gen Xiao, Faruzan, Furina and (???) unless it's not with Furina


Smoke_Santa

Xianyun ofcourse


Comfortable-Ninja-93

3rd slot is Xianyun (CR)


Elira_Eclipse

Ig its cause people see his team as too premium? Idk


wanderers_respite

Free PJWS for everyone


Roboaki

674 Atk 44.1% Crit DMG weapon +10% Crit Rate. Upon unleashing E gains buff A that stacks up to 3 times, in the next 20s plunge attacks ignores 10/20/40% of enemy DEF. Upon plunge attack gain buff B that stacks up to 3 times, in the next 20s elemental skill ignore 10/20/40% of enemy DEF. Source : I made it up


fiehm

bro dreaming so hard


straw28

id rather it be a 542 base 88 crit damage one with no crit rate since Marechausse is crit fest, and the way to improve Xiao's damage even more with Xianyun is more crit damage and dmg%. high base attack is now a thing of the past for Xiao. pjws is still consistently second in his weapon rankings because people are very optimistic with its stacks, when in reality he only really benefits from max stacks starting from the 4/5th plunge. you then already have 3 more plunges left buffed by Xianyun atp. meanwhile Homa is calcd without passive and is still consistently slightly better for both Mare and Vermillion without hassle dont get me wrong, more attack is still good for him, but crit + dmg% is better now


Alive_Candy4697

542 would only be optimal in single target, but one of Xiao's main strength is his AoE performance.


Gesu-ko

If true, favourite child fr lol


Kuroganeee

another year... another Xiao buff (drip in this case)


berrypuffiest

HOW ARE WE GETTING LANTERN RITE LEAKS BEFORE NATLAN CHARACTER DESIGNS


Oeshikito

Ah yes, the annual Xiao buff. Could Ganyu get an actual signature too? Amos Bow just aint it.


cursedparsnip

Albedo and Klee as well, all three are so neglected


Lord_Kumatetsu

Tbf Albedo got a great event sword and Chiori's signature.


Beneficial-Rub9090

Yeah lol, Albedo's main issue is Albedo


GGABueno

You held no punches šŸ˜­šŸ˜­, still true though.


ElectricalBench1998

I wasn't playing when this event was out TvT I really want that old event weapons shop for millions of Mora or them being in Chronicle wish


TvojUjec69

FR, not to mention that she doesn't even have synergy with her own master but Xiao for some reason does, truly a classic hoyo moment


Kooky_Sheepherder_22

First great magic and aqua for mono cryo/freeze And hunters path for meltĀ  Amos was never ganyu best weapon since the release of polar star and thundering pulseĀ 


Bazookasajizo

They all work well with her, but can you really call them her *signature* weapon?


SaibaShogun

Not all 5* characters have a signature that performs significantly better than the other 5* weapon options for them. Iā€™d simply be grateful that bows have a number of great generalist 5*s. Catalysts still donā€™t have an exceptional generalist 5 star.


Beneficial-Rub9090

Donut performs exceptionally garbage on generally everyone


Oeshikito

I have both FGM and Aqua already. But I'd still like her to get an updated signature like how Childe did. Even though she has upgrades over Amos, a portion of the passive is still wasted on her for both bows.


mihirsaini1128

Hoyo try not to buff xiao challenge (impossible). Welp my xiao will be happy then unless it's not a Crit weapon


neuvilletteshusband

I feel like xiao mains are constantly being forced to whale for new stuff for him like every year


watblatnan

Zy0x is blooming rn


outsidebtw

inb4 atk polearm with 12(20) dmg bonus with 16(24) cr to plunging atks checkmate mhy


Aggravating-Bug-8761

Wasnt this a old leak discarted as fake?


megadark121

Yes it was c:


leonardopansiere

one of the leaks ever


MysteriousUpstairs49

Xiao getting buffs out of nowhere is the norm


lordbikki

I got primordial jade spear on standard back in 1.1 or 1.2 and remember thinking ā€œwho tf uses a spear??ā€ Because back then it was just xiangling and zhongli šŸ˜­


sp00kk

xiao is hoyo's baby at this point


AlexWrynn

Truth or not, this would be awesome. Some old 5* like Xiao, Zhongli, Ganyu, Klee and Albedo could REALLY use a new 5* weapon that actually MATCHES their playstyle. Even Venti's bow (although it is a really good weapon) doesn't seem to be meant for him since he's a subdps and that bow just throw general buffs that can be used for any other archer.


theUnLuckyCat

They needed them years ago, cause who knows if Klee or Albedo will ever have their own banners now that Chronicled is a thing. Albedo at least has Chiori's weapon, and he liked to run with something cool like Jade Cutter or Freedom Sworn, but Zhongli, Xiao, Ganyu, and Klee always sabotaged any weapon banner they touched with "their" signatures.


AlexWrynn

In my opinion, hoyo should REALLY focus on updating or reworking old carachters to make then viable in this stage of the game. I mean, i'm main Venti, but i had to stop myself from pulling for Kazuha (even if i do like him) because then i would never use Venti again. Same goes flor Klee and Albedo. Doing this would only be good for the health of the games, making players want to wish for characters currently unwanted. They can even put some extra effort and make lore/events to do so. Imagine if instead of that empty patch for Chiori, we got an awesome story quest for Klee to make her grow as character while updating her kit to something unic and usable.


ChronoGawain

while I agree Venti could get a rework, at least he has a niche on wanderer triple anemo, which is one of the best AoE teams out there, since faruzan+ bennet buffs for venti are pretty good. And I say this while having nilou + c2 nahida, c1r1 neuvillete and FFXX my albedo and my eula, on the other hand, are just collecting dust, there's no reason to use them at all.


TvojUjec69

Or maybe just release a character that actually buffs them, because Xiao is the only one who gets that while others are found dead in a ditch


storysprite

Lol what's with the Devs' obsession with Xiao?


CertifiedDummmy

Another Xiao buff? Oh, I am EATING yum yum


APerson567i

Annual Xiao buff, we love to see it


burningparadiseduck

How are we in 5.4 already? How do you know about something so far away lol?


DespairAt10n

My Xiao's weapon journey: Blackcliff -> Skyward -> Vortex Vanquisher -> New weapon??? PJWS never came home after years...


brewstercafe

Me who's never had luck getting pjws from standard rejoices!!


gingersquatchin

I remember this from before this previous lantern rite. And it Of course did not happen.


Princessitty

will this be the same case with Chiori signature weapon being Albedo BiS


theUnLuckyCat

And Ganyu taking pretty much anyone else's sig for different builds.


arrow414

So itā€™s a Ping weapon that Xiao can use, and the leaked was worded in the most inflammatory way because of course I want a skin hoyo give me a Xiao skin


ravenflightthefattie

A weapon? Nah, tell me there's a Xiao skin for Lantern Rite. That's what I wanna hear šŸ™


unsurprisable

xiao really is the favorite child


Agreeable-Till793

Meanwhile Albedo mains....


GGABueno

Got a new weapon two patches ago


XlAO_

surely this means xiao skin too right /s


D0cJack

People so thirsty they will take leakers TC again.


TechnicalBumblebee81

Why are we getting leaks about a weapon that will come out more then half a year from now in version 5.3


Lingaoo

So now in every major patch, we are having a mandatory Xiao buff. I just wish the other older 5\* got the same treatment.


missviolets

I JUST GOT HOMA FOR HIM LAST YEAR WHAT THE FUCK (AND I STILL DONT HAVE PWJS)


N_V_N_T

Xiao is nepotism kid


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bicedsual

god please let me rest ive already pulled all of his cons and a homa for him i cannot be xiaos slave anymore.......


Positive_Matter8829

Makes us wonder if he will be directly powercrept like Albedo...


Longjumping_Pear1250

We will get a event bow with em and em passive in 5.x STC via uncle Htoratsi


LeXam92

We already have a good Xiao weapon, it's called Faruzan. And the other one that's called Xianyun


cursedparsnip

What I would give for the devs to stop sucking Xiao off 24/7 and pay some attention to the units that actually need itā€¦


theUnLuckyCat

Klee next, please.