Mihoyo has another bit of a Zhongli situation on its hands. The Genshin Impact developer just introduced its Yoimiya banner to the five-star rotation, and fans are ill over her kit.
The Queen of the Summer Festival is no longer quite so beloved. In the lead up to her launch, Yoimiya's introduction during the Inazuma story quest had earned her quite the fan base. Her stunning fireworks displays aren't enough to redeem bad stats though, as fanmade tier lists have her dead last in every iteration.
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As spotted by PC Gamer, Redditor Party Confetti outlined just how bad the latest five-star character really is. In a detailed dive into Yoimiya's kit, they highlighted a lengthy list of gripes that included low stagger values, poor survivability, messy auto-targeting, and a reliance on too many support characters. If all of the theorycrafting is accurate, Yoimiya demands a lot of setup to play, and even then, she's a mediocre DPS who doesn't even scale well with duplicate pulls. And regardless of how you feel on buffs, plenty of comments agree that poor controls and targeting aren't a great look.
Redditor Ayatori penned a lengthy letter to the community, stressing that the core of the complaints have "nothing to do with how weak she is" and instead takes aim at how "undeveloped and broken her kit is." Genshin Impact's community in China is mad too, as Ayatori highlighted in a link to angry comments on Weibo over Yoimiya's gameplay. Mihoyo hasn't acknowledged either community yet, but this has happened before.
If you weren't playing Genshin Impact the first time Zhongli launched, then you missed the RPG's first messy character launch. Zhongli's complaints were kind of different when compared to Yoimiya, as folks were upset with how weak he and the Geo element as a whole were, but it took Mihoyo a while to respond.
After Mihoyo did note he wasn't quite as beefy as it had intended, Zhongli got a buff that still didn't do much for him or Geo. Since everything wasn't fixed in 1.2, it took Mihoyo until patch 1.3 to get Zhongli in a place where he felt playable. The process wasn't painless, and it took a lot of fan backlash to urge the developer into addressing the issue.
Genshin Impact is free-to-play, but it's not a cheap game to play if you're chasing characters. The community seems to be having a rough go of it lately, as players also recently voiced concerns over stingy anniversary rewards.
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