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Mormaurd posted...

they went overboard with launch units like her, xingqiu, and bennet and are scared of that kind of goodness for 4 stars ever since.

Added to that, they clearly didn't understand what a lack of internal cooldown on elemental application would do for characters like Tartaglia and Xiangling. To be fair, the player base didn't really understand it for about a year either.

But you'll notice they haven't made any characters with similar mechanics ever since then. They deliberately made Ayato's hydro application much slower (he would be so busted otherwise), and Sub DPS characters in particular tend to have less off-field elemental application than before. Hell, Xingqiu applies hydro more frequently than Yelan until her C2, and it's debatable as to whether or not Yelan is actually better than C6 Xingqiu as a support unit (she has better DPS for sure, though).