LogFAQs > #967121820

Irony posted...

Childe shall always be at level 1. No reason to use him over Yelan anyways.

They don't really fill similar roles.

Childe is the best on-field enabler DPS in the game, by a wide margin. He applies hydro so quickly that basically any off field elemental SUB DPS gets 100% reaction coverage with hydro (which is why he's idiotically good with Xiangling, whose pyronado also has no internal cooldown for vape). He also has an unusually strong and cheap Ult.

The funny thing is that everyone was convinced Ayato power crept him because his on-field DPS (without reactions) is slightly higher. The problem is that Ayato kinda sucks as an enabler and his team synergy is mediocre. His ult is just crap, too. So Ayato winds up having Xiao Syndrome, where their on-field damage is great, but they just aren't all that great in the actual meta because that's now how Genshin is designed.