The 77th Wangsheng Funeral Parlour Director, Hutao, bursts onto the scene! She comes with 4-stars Xiangling, Xingqiu and Chongyun. Her banner will last till 14 March, 2021.
Hutao is a Pyro DPS Polearm unit, who uses her Elemental Skill to buff her ATK by a % of her max HP. The lower her health, the more damage she does.
Hutao's normal attacks deal physical damage while not under effects of her skill, and Pyro when her skill is activated. Her charge attacks are also faster while her skill is activated.
Her Elemental Skill, Guide to Afterlife, takes her into the Paramita Papilio state, which takes 30% of her current HP to activate. This buffs her ATK by a massive amount, converts her attacks to Pyro, and allows her charge attack to place a Blood Blossom debuff on enemies, dealing one tick of Pyro damage every 4s for 8s.
(left is high HP, right is low HP)
Her Elemental Burst does Pyro AoE damage, and a self-heal to counteract the damage taken from her Elemental Skill. It does different amounts of damage when she is above or below 50% HP.
Hutao's Ascension 1 Talent buffs her team after her Elemental Skill ends, allowing you to switch off her to cast some support Skills.
Her Ascension 4 Talent further increases the benefit of playing her below 50% HP, which is less dangerous than it sounds given that Hutao has around 30k HP fully built at LV80.
Lastly, her utility Talent, befitting of her nature, allows you to get more value, albeit suspicious, out of your cooking.
Hutao's C1 allows her powerful Charge attacks to be used without restraint, enabling dash cancels without depleting your stamina quickly.
Hutao's C2 increases her Blood Blossom DMG significantly, while also allowing her Burst to apply Blood Blossom as well
Constellations 3 and 5 are generic Elemental Skill and Burst level increases.
Constellation 4 increases Hutao's utility, but we do find that after casting buffs and other support skills, Hutao's Skill CD is almost done.
A failsafe for Hutao; this allows you to play without worries of dying. Be careful of burning grass though!
Thoughts on Hutao
While at first her reliance on her Elemental Skill to even do damage seems like a huge drawback, the fact is that after switching her in and out to cast shields, use Xingqiu's Burst, and other such Skills, her cooldowns will be mostly over. This allows her to have minimal downtime if you weave in support skills when her buffs finish.
If you do not have Diluc or Klee (read: Pyro DPS), Hutao is one that does well or even better than those two.
Stay tuned for her artifacts and weapons!
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