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Sure, a 4 star that can mimic another 5 star makes pulling that 5 star seem less worth it. Whether people consider if having a second Xingqiu on their account is worth it is up to them. At C6, Yelan is hitting 20-40k per hit of her burst and has considerably better energy cost and generation. Xingqiu struggles to barely reaches 10k per sword at C6 with Kazuha. There's really no debate on who's better at C6 given that Yelan becomes another broken 5 star at that point. In the very worst case scenario, Yelan will only be as good as Xingqiu at C0 and will have situations where you'd prefer to use Xingqiu over her and vice versa. It's like they're super hesitant to let water boy give up his throne. So I'm just trying to make sense of this "Yelan is mid" argument some of the community is giving. Yelan's passive passive and higher scaling burst will be preferred. Freeze doesn't need fast hydro application. For those that actually like running Xingqiu with Ayaka, Yelan will be better. Diluc doesn't apply pyro fast enough for it to matter. Electro-charged teams have a long decay, so Yelan will be preferred for her passive and elegy. It'll prefer Yelan for the passive and elegy.
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Raiden national has electro-charged for Xiangling to over-vape, so the long decay of the reaction will make Yelan's hydro application more than enough. Yoimiya doesn't need fast Hydro application. Yoimiya has long ICD, so she'll prefer Yelan. But even Xingqiu can't keep up with Klee. Klee is the only Pyro main DPS that definitely won't benefit form Yelan aside from her passive.
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Even there we're still not sure if he'll actually still be better until Yelan is out and tested. I'm trying to think of every single situation where Xingqiu actually needs his extremely quick Hydro application and Hu Tao is literally the only one I can think of. Because I guess people are experts on game design and how badly her "nerf" impacted her viability. How good requires testing, but Yelan went from being "hyped" to "trash" in literally a day. Honestly, I feel like a veteran player has enough experience to know when a character will at the very be very good just by looking at their kit.