As you know, there are a lot of characters in Genshin Impact that can be your partners in battle, and in fact, this team is constantly expanding, as Genshin Impact regularly introduces new characters to ensure that the game can stay fresh.
As for what kind of characters are suitable to be your teammates, this requires you to decide according to your needs after fully understanding their specialties. Some characters are excellent DPS and can output a lot of damage to enemies, such as Neuvillette; others have excellent defensive abilities and can even heal, deal damage, and even enhance allies through their own defensive attributes.
So among all these powerful defensive characters, which ones can be compared with the best ATK or HP hoarding characters and provide you with enough help? Based on this, we will select 8 of them and introduce them to you according to their ranking.
8. Xinyan
Xinyan’s usage rate is not low among Genshin Impact players, but this does not mean that she is a good enough defensive character. Her shield will change according to the attack and defense situation, but the final damage output is all based on attack. Although Xinyan’s C6 increases the damage on defense, it is not enough to solve this problem.
There are also some factors that determine Xinyan’s bottom position in this DEF character ranking. For example, although she enhances the physical damage of allies, because she is a Pyro, Xinyan ultimately cannot provide the elements that teammates really need. So if your Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals are not enough, you might as well leave them for other DEF characters.
7. Noelle
First of all, it is worth mentioning that Noelle is a Genshin Impact character with a good background story. She has always wanted to join Knights of Favonius, but because she is too selfless and overqualified, people are worried that she will sacrifice herself out of kindness and reject her.
In terms of playability, it can be said that Noelle can be self-sufficient. On the one hand, her shield allows her to heal the entire team, and on the other hand, as a four-star carry, her DPS is also very strong, and even has auxiliary functions. In fact, if it isn’t because she needs a lot of energy to recharge in battle, she would have a chance to become one of the best four-star characters in Genshin Impact.
6. Itto
In a sense, you can think of Itto as a 5-star upgrade of Noelle. He focuses on damage and offense by giving up the team-wide defense function, and can have a good synergy with the existing Geo support, allowing you to deal a lot of damage to the enemy at a lower level.
However, because of the elemental function of Geo, Itto is currently not comparable to top characters such as Hu Tao or Arlecchino, and if you want to get him to a level close to other excellent DPS characters, you need to get Itto’s signature weapon and C6 Gorou, which are difficult to access. So the above reasons lead to Itto’s ceiling being relatively low.
5. Albedo
In fact, not long ago, Albedo’s position in the game was awkward. Because on the one hand, he has strong off-field damage, but on the other hand, because of the lack of defense buffs in Genshin Impact, you can’t improve his defense.
Fortunately, Genshin Impact later added some exclusive items to the game to improve this situation, including Albedo’s signature sword and Cinnabar Spindle to solve his defense needs, while even enhancing his elemental skill damage. In addition, Husk of Opulent Dreams artifact set can also enhance his defense.
4. Kachina
Kachina is not a good enough DEF character. It can even be said that as the first four-star character you get for free after unlocking Natlan, she is the most average in combat performance among all Natlan characters. Because as a four-star support based on defense, Kachina has no practical skills.
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However, despite this, why is she not ranked low? Because her origin from Natlan allows her to use Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City, one of the best artifact sets in Genshin Impact at present. In this way, you can provide amazing DMG bonuses to the carry on the field through Kachina.
3. Gorou
If you plan to form a strong team that includes DEF characters, then Gorou can be said to be an indispensable member. Because his elemental skills provide a fixed DEF bonus on the field, and do not require any good artifacts to work.
In fact, Gorou’s independence from artifacts and attributes also means that compared to characters that require specific attributes, Gorou can hold weapons and artifact sets that these characters cannot hold, allowing Gorou to fully demonstrate the power of many four-star artifacts, such as Favonius Bow and The Exile.
2. Chiori
Chiori is a bit like an upgraded version of Albedo. Both of them cause continuous off-field Geo damage by casting an elemental skill, but Chiori will eventually cause more actual damage to the enemy than Albedo. However, this extraordinary performance is conditional. You need to provide Chiori with another Geo structure, so it is best to equip Zhongli, Itto, Kachina, or even Albedo in your team.
1. Xilonen
For a long time, some Genshin Impact characters have been in a monopoly on providing buffs, such as Bennett providing attack buffs, Furina providing conditional buffs, and Kazuha providing elemental damage, which made it impossible for other characters to replace them for a long time, until Xilonen appeared and challenged Kazuha’s position first.
Xilonen’s disadvantage is that her DEF scaling is only used for damage, which is not her strong point. But on the other hand, even if there is no defense at all, Xilonen’s unchanged buff makes her like she has 3,000 defense, which is why she ranked first in the end.
After our introduction, have you decided who to choose as your DEF teammate on the future journey of Genshin Impact? Anyway, I hope you can have fun!
