Zhongli is the real star of the Genshin Impact 3.0 banner

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If you’re planning to roll for a new character in the Genshin Impact 3.0 banner, you’re probably wondering if it should be Tighnari or Zhongli. And the answer is, almost unequivocally, Zhongli – assuming you don’t have him in your team yet already. Sure, the reclusive founder of Liyue’s biggest funeral home has been around the banner block a few times already and doesn’t have that new update flash like Tighnari, but if you think you’ll use the new Dendro element in any capacity, Zhongli is essential to your team in a way Tighnari cant quite match.

Tighnari’s big appeal is he’s the first five-star Dendro character, and appropriately, he even has Dendro damage as his secondary stat. That’s impressive, but there’s one significant limitation HoYoverse hasn’t really touched on yet. You can’t Swirl Dendro. 

That means your usual strategy of using an Anemo character with a Viridescent Venerer Artifact set to reduce enemy resistance to Swirled elements just won’t work with Tighnari. It’s not a significant issue in normal play, but with the higher levels of the Spiral Abyss, any advantage you can get in battle to help shorten your completion time is welcome. 

That goes double if HoYoverse continues their trend from the 2.0 updates, where they added powerful bosses to the montlhy Abyss roster.

Into this gap steps Zhongli, the only character in Genshin Impact’s current roster whose abilities reduce enemy resistance to all elements right out of the box, so to speak. The 20% reduction that Zhongli’s Jade Shield triggers is only half of what you get from Viridescent Venerer, but again, that set won’t work with Dendro anyway. Zhongli’s 20% debuff is something at least.

You may ask, why not both Tighnari and Zhongli? And there’s a