Is Geo The Worst Element In Genshin Impact?

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I don’t know what mihoyo was thinking with geo it could use another buff but I think it’s found a weird niche where it’s bassically physical that does elemental damage, most geo characters have been supports like goro yun Jin Noelle, zhongli, then you have just flat damage increases or doers like albedo, itto and ninguang

Doing shields as reaction is not fun at all. The first time I played genshin I thought geo plus anemo was going to create a sand storm and then I tried it and I was heartbroken. I started playing since release.

Electro still the worst tho

GEO is a debuff element…🗿

we also need a geo character like scara. Absorbing elements to buff himself as dps.

i have itto c6, and my friend has scara c6.
Man i envy how scara shreds abyss shields than geo. even when theres only 1 herald anemo shreds.

Taking azhdaha as a base model, wouldn't it be nice for other geo characters to store and release other elements? Or buffing characters shielded by crystallized shields to be buffed depending on the type of shield similar to elemental resonance without having to put two chars of the same element?

This is probably Hoyo being lazy.

Imagine how different Zhongly and Albedo could be, if their geo constructs can remain on field, be "Indistructible". The fact they can be easility destroyed is just terrible, especially for albedo, whose damage enterily comes from his skill.
Zhognly should have a constellation to make his pillars like that. You place them and they simply stay there; maybe not making them climbable if they could seem too OP like that, but for sure, make them as they should be. Or again, not invincible? ok but very very tanky, and not destroyed after 1 boss atk, wtf... this way even 4 set tenacity is just useless for zhongly

I think you are conflating least versatile with worst.

One of the things I always have to say about Geo, Zhongli's ult debuff, the petrify effect? That could've been a Geo reaction. It would've been great if the crystalize shield also goes to you the moment it was produced instead walking to pick it up. Better yet, make it so the shield grants some other form of buffs, but of course that would make shielders who grants buff become redundant.

I kind of agree on you opinion, but I have another one. Geo is a defensive element, but most of the challenge, take for example the Abyss, go over time.
I'm sure a geo comp can tank a lot, but when you're faced againstost of the mechanism of this game, which require you to fastly kill the enemy, you are left with little options. If the game had more "resist"-mechanics, I think it would be more used.
For example imagine an Abyss level which they start throwing you random enemies, like a huge amount, and the objective is to resist around 5 minutes without dying, this could make Geo character perhaps better.

What if Crystalize shields blocked application of the element was used to create it. For example say a cryo crystalize shield was made, now your character can not be afflicted with Cryo which could prevent frozen until the shield is removed. Crystalize shields usually break before other shields and shields don't block elemental application, so this would be a nice change to keep leaning into Geo's defensive nature and give a niche that shield characters of other elements can't pull off.

Sandrone coming to revive these flops 🧡😘

Just get more people to request mihoyo fix geo

Geo advantage is that it is easy to use like elemental damage without need needing difficulty of reactions and most people forget how easy it is

What if attacking crystals created by crystallize caused them to explode and deal damage? Maybe that would make the reaction worthwhile.

The crystalize reaction has so much potential like instead of creating a shield it can be used to hold a charge of w.e element its infused with and once it either gets hit by a physical attack or absorbs enough energy it bursts and does damage of the given element, like when you use Pyro on the Electro stones in Mondstat

I think a cool idea would be to add a geo reaction with a frozen enemy (enemy effected by Hydro and cryo reaction) creating a effect called "Fissure" that would be an AOE that would add up 3 damages that made the reaction (so the Hydro damage, the cryo damage and then the geo damage would all be added up and combined into one damage during the fissure reaction. The size of the aoe effect would depend on how much that combined damage is , the larger the damage the larger the AOE and the longer the stun effect so like the dendro hyperbloom or bludgeon effects it would be a three part reaction but this one would favor one time burst damage attacks or any high damage one time attack since it takes only the initial attacks that caused the freezing and then the geos attack, so having small damage but reoccurring damage doing this would make for a small fissure reaction overall while you could get multiple fissures going for those big one time damage attacks would be the most time efficient while giving you the most damage, and this would also give certain characters more importance while not completely side lining meta characters or builds.

Maybe they could update Crystalize instead of it just giving a temporary shield have it that you also get a stat boost as well as stack up to a certain amount.