LogFAQs > #973809090

Okay, so, if you're interested in playing and willing to get on it right now, there's a guy who's in the "shop" -- which is a monthly rotation of things you can buy with one of the currencies. It's normally a total afterthought for anyone who's played the game for a while, but for the month of May, you can pick up Bennett. He pairs with Xingqiu (blue-haired water guy) and Chongyun (pale blue cryo guy), plus a fourth character you'll get for free later as one of the gold standard early meta teams...if meta matters to you. Problem is, Bennett's available for May and won't rotate back into the shop for another 5 months. (The June characters are not anything to worry about.) You'd have to rush a little over the next two days to get him that way and I always believe you should play this game on your own terms, so it might not be worth it.

Assuming you even care at all. People generally go waifu > meta or meta > waifu. Neither is right or wrong. Personally, I don't really like the characters in this meta team ("National Team") very much, and I didn't find the team very enjoyable to play at low levels when I started an alt account. By contrast, I love Beidou, your eyepatch chick, even if she's not on the same level as Xingqiu for power.

TLDR: 3 options

• Play with a decent level of intensity today and tomorrow in order to buy Bennett out of the shop, and for the "national team"
• Don't do that, but keep the account. Xingqiu is a great late-game character. However, due to his long cooldown and energy issues, you need to understand the game's mechanics to make him shine. Ideally, you also have a sacrificial sword (4-star gacha weapon).
• Start fresh

Worth noting is that as you play through the story and explore the game world, you will get currency for the gacha. In fact, I'm pretty sure you get another ten-pull for free just by playing the introduction up to about level 8, so you will most definitely have more characters than just Chongyun, Xingqiu, and Beidou.

If you want to plan and save for (or swipe for) the five-star characters you listed, two of them are very good. The third, sadly, is a total flop in terms of in-game power...but the thing about Genshin is that unlike other gachas, there's no power creep. If anything, the reverse is true, TBH. And you can genuinely play through the game with any hodgepodge of four characters and succeed at mostly all of the content. So if you decide you want to play with a particular team, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

edit: I have no idea how much you'll need to work at the Bennett plan if you want to go that route. Maybe you even start with enough of that currency to grab him straight away. If this sounds like the direction you want to take, I'll explain further. I just don't want to overwhelm you with stuff you don't need to hear.