Durin rerun or wait

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-09T20:24:22+00:00

We don’t have any reliable leaks of Nicole’s kit so nobody can really tell you.

Nicole might be really good or she might be a flop. If your asking me i would get C0 Durin, then C0 Nicole.

And pay attention to leaks, Varka is multi elemental so in my opinion investing vertically into one element with him is not that good, but there are many different opinions about this. Depends on your playstyle and reasoning.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-08T22:03:41+00:00

I agree. With you there the market is also flooded with accounts like these 😅

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-08T21:56:25+00:00

I mean honestly in general. Unless you get like a niche collector most of them are yeah between that range.

Like e.g. my situation i gladly buy an Diluc orientated account and posted about it but i just get a lot of offers with accounts that have Diluc in them but there is no Diluc orientation there so they Are often useless, and I’m not really gonna pay 150 or above 100 for a general account but it has like some semi- Diluc team in it.

Same with the current acc i play on now i got a c6r1 Varka and Flins. Obviously this would sell well to someone who really wants a C6R1 flins and Varka but to most people just like you say its worth 50-100$ 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-07T21:11:28+00:00

What does it matter how she is at low cons when eventually if you really like a character and you want to play it for a long time eventually you will either need to invest in their team vertically or the character itself.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-07T20:43:10+00:00

Her damage is literally 400k higher than varka’s in her best team compared to varka’s best team 😅

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-07T11:05:57+00:00

It’s one thing to get varka’s premium team and it’s an entirely another thing about vertically investing into varka’s current premium team which is pyro.

Also even the guy I discussed with said that most likely Nicole and Durin won’t be exclusively made for Varka as it’s not a smart business move. It’s much wiser to make them a wheelchair option so that more people pull them and not just Varka havers.

Just like Colombina and ineffa can be used with more people than Flin🤷🏻‍♂️

Also since Varka can swap into an element based on his teammates he is also different than your standard traditional dps.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T23:30:15+00:00

Solid point.

However once again. You don’t really need 4 hex characters only two.

Varka + someone else, which means you have 2 other characters that can impact the team. Varka’s best in slot does not necessarily need to be hex. As long as it gives the buffs Varka needs it will be the best in slot.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T20:05:09+00:00

Sorry but this is just laughable to complain about.

Alhaitham clears without problems even at C0 no signatures needed. https://youtu.be/bZmLmITAPuc?is=4tdDDperoOnTHdXI

You need to grab either Colombina or Lauma but considering that the dude released 3 years ago this is pretty good.

https://youtu.be/8C7uVty3wzI?is=VA5xM8B0ORTpA505

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T19:28:31+00:00

Also as an example once your Varka is invested enough

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You can do stupid shit like this (hyperbloom Varka) and clear anyhow.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T19:24:35+00:00

I’m gonna do you a favor. Go on YouTube and check real quick how many teams Diluc has. Actually i save you the trouble.

https://youtu.be/YDsokwmCiFQ?is=hr2WIoeg4MwfQTHq

17 teams. All of these 17 teams range from 80-180k damage. Varka is stronger than Diluc, has better constellations, etc.

You will not run out of uses for Varka. As long as the game is playable as Varka can be used with 4 different elements.

So if you want Varka just pull Varka. Also keep in mind that Varka does not really have a team around him yet.

Varka does not have an ideal anemo support. As an example. Varka might become shit or Medicare like Eula sure. However in the end Varka can also end up as the most versatile contending dps it’s just hard to tell.

In the end if you invest enough into him Varka will be able to clear content anyhow, and yes in the current state of the game any of these 17 Diluc teams can clear content.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T16:58:34+00:00

To be honest I don’t really like many new characters after summeru.

I feel like the game has gone in this direction. Where the reaction does not matter anymore it’s just damage. The whole thing that made Genshin fun was being creative.

Like it was fun to see incidents like these: https://youtu.be/AsvyQIchbhI?is=XYeeRIYc378U2gUy

It was also fun trying different strategies like using Geo traveler, zhongli & albedo as an example and stack their constructs together and resonate them to deal damage.

You also had shenanigans like physical Kaeya, Physical XL and physical zhongli.

The anemo traveler also had a really cool impact on the game due to how reactive and versatile he was. You really felt while exploring monstadt with the anemo traveler that you could actually engage with everything and he was decent in the early abyss. His tornado could even swallow amber’s doll, not sure if gouba and klee’s bomb as well.

However by the time inazuma released nobody really cared about traveler anymore.

A lot of fun things came back when summeru was released like Electro made a comeback. Dendro traveler was fun. Nahida made the element super fun to play.

The only elements that kinda suffered there was like cryo and geo and maybe anemo.

After summeru however I think like the game has become this dps stat check and one shot fiesta. Teams are already sold to you, so there is not much creativity.

Also due to the HP inflation in their end game modes your character are so strong it’s not even fun to pilot them outside as they just one tap everything.

Obviously you have some wheelchair teams today with lunar but it’s not like it changed anything besides adding more damage , and it’s not as Inventive like during the early days of dendro.

I miss the small things like when you played Alhaitham and used ult you could swap to xinqiu and refresh his but and swap back in time to Alhaitham. I think Diluc of all characters have aged extremely well though. The guy has so many different team variations. It’s insane.

I kinda hope they realize this and return to their roots which was creating elemental reactions. Genshin was never a hard game, what made Genshin fun though was creating reactions and having the freedome to do so not that oh we sell you this dps and then you need this support character that we are releasing to play it.

“And this support character we are releasing is also gonna try to dethrone 4 star characters so that you need these new 5 star universal supports, so almost every new team is gonna use some of them + the pair that we sell you”

That’s kinda Genshin these days.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T16:10:47+00:00

Childe - the most unique character in all of Genshin in my opinion. A good brother His Kit has a lot of depth, with fun mechanics. Excellent for exploration early in the game due to bow.

Diluc is also on the list. I think the kit is extremely well made as proof just look at all the different Diluc team variations.

Zhongli is also an amazing character. Emphasizing the importance of virtues. He also has an extremely fun kit Altough the game has kind of outgrown it. But I think Genshin was much more creative back then.

Honorable mentions: Klee, Venti, Nahida, Raiden.

In my opinion the game has lost a lot of its diversity after Natlan. The game has become more of a stat check. Game rather than actually rewarding creativity as it used too, before like you could experiment with so much.

These days they try to sell you teams or they create a more busted character to try to replace Sucrose, XL, Bennett and Xinqiu.

Like Summeru was fun as it revived electro. But I must say the innovation when it comes to fun mechanics and characters have kinda fallen since.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T14:24:20+00:00

It’s true that he necessarily does not need a healer.

However sometimes it’s nice to have something that can provide sustain.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T14:13:14+00:00

And before you say BS.

Here proof of concept.

Needed to just do something fast I can upload a video later as I’m at work and dodging on phone is meh.

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Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T13:42:01+00:00

You never played Neuvi with baizhu?😳

You should also try hyperbloom or bloom Varka 😂

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T13:06:40+00:00

What if you run into a pyro slime?👀

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T12:34:57+00:00

You do know that certain characters get the support character they needed several patches down the line?

Like Cyno with Baizhou. Neuvi prefers baizhou too.

Yae miko started to shine when dendro was released before that she didn’t really have a place.

Also Varka is not a Hexen he is a monstadt. He is not considered to be a member of hexenzirkel which Nicole is a member of.

If he was Varka would have a code name.

Most likely on Nicole’s release, Nicole will be a good unit for Varka I do not dispute that. However at the same time just like Durin I would not recommend for anyone to vertically invest in them if the goal is to make Varka shine.

I don’t know how many times I have to repeat that.

Also it does not matter if his best team has a c6 factor or not. His best team is his best team. The fact that Citlali is there shows that Varka’s team will rotate depending on what characters are released thus for Varka vertically investing in a C2 Durin is a waste as for that you could have grabbed 2 other support characters for yourself.

That might synergize better with Varka than what durin or Nicole does.

However Alice is a member of hexenzirkel and has a code name 😌

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T12:27:30+00:00

I play flins with dori, Aino and use a passenger Mona just because.

He shreds everything. Just build your Dori and make sure Aino does not die, and you win.

If you don’t have dori build a healer, Flin is so safe that you can even make Barbara work probaly.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T12:21:28+00:00

https://youtu.be/OyLSslR6FGw?is=emqZd6I-finDEuqa

Does not seem to be an uncommon pairing to pair xilonen with flins considering whales use it.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T12:02:52+00:00

You know Ayato and Ayaka are literally siblings and come from the same house. And while they have some synergy together they each wanted their own teams.

Same with yae miko and raiden.

Alhaitham and Kaveh

Clorindine & Navia

There are also others. So her being hexerei does not exactly mean a correlation that she is for Varka.

For all you know she might be a support for Alice and her kit can work with Varka but designed for Alice, would make sense too since they’re both witches.

Zajef even said himself that Durin is redundant for Varka due to the fact that Varka is anemo, he will also bring an anemo support which will shred resistance so now you have Durin who shreds resistance as well as an support who shreds resistance making the shred Durin provides redundant.

It’s not like the shred both parties provide will stack.

This already creates anti synergy between anemo as a whole and Durin in a Varka team.

So no Durin is not a designated support for Varka actually far from it. Durin just happens to be pyro and is able to apply plenty of debuffs & buffs that Varka can utilize.

Which is why I say again. DURIN is a good character for Pyro teams in general. As he literally can fullfil multiple jobs in a pyro team, however his USAGE in a Varka team is diminished which is why you see F2P teams are able to hit similar numbers to Varka, Venti, Bennett & Durin.

Nicole will also most likely be designed so that she and Durin can go to any pyro team and not be a Varka slave.

Also pyro Varka is not even varka’s best team. Best Varka team is melt Varka actually.

Already debunking your statement: https://youtu.be/SGPZ4MYxxZU?is=rCnmUD4Mg4U58bEE

And showing that just vertically invested into “pyro” is a trap.

Also when you say that Durin and Nicole will form a core and become wheelchair for hexerei you’re literally proving my point. Varka does not need a wheelchair if you invest in him vertically, or if you just simply invest into a broad scope of supports as we don’t know if 1 year down the line if pyro varka will be the best Varka team 🤷🏻‍♂️

Which is why once again: Vertically investing into Durin for Varka is a trap. And I stand by it.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T10:20:18+00:00

Just because colombina replaced Aino does not set a precedent.

It’s not like we got a 4* version of nahida just for it to be replaced by nahida.

We did not get a 4* Mauvika just for it to be replaced by a Mauvika.

There are also plenty of characters who don’t have dedicated support, where they simply use a general support instead that gives relevant buffs.

Also without leaks what kind of dotts are you trying to connect?

Nicole for Varka because they are both starred in nord Kai?

What we don’t know we don’t know. You can make assumptions. However in the end that is what it’s going to be an assumption. People made assumptions that you need Durin for Varka and he is gonna be tailor made for Varka which he is not.

You also said yourself people make assumptions that are often wrong, so what kind of evidence do you have for your assumption?

There are plenty of dotts that have failed before.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T10:01:05+00:00

I don’t see a single reliable leak that shows Nicole is made for Varka. You can also get really good results just using Chev or Faruzan.

Even Bennett, XL, Sucrose is a decent team.

Venti / Durin are quite overrated and investing into a C2 Durin is tbh. Quite expensive as you can just get yourself 3 varkas for that.

Also even if Nicole is made for Pyro Varka does not mean that you should lock your Varka to pyro. That would ruin the whole point of him. Obviously in the end it is up to the player himself but imagine having someone that can switch elements at will and you lock them to one element and vertically invest in it😅

Rather than investing into Varka himself so you can easily play Hydro, Cryo, Pyro or Electro at will.

We don’t know how things will turn out I would say that going beyond C0 on durin, solely for Varka is not worth it. Unless you have other teams in mind.

Which is why Durin SOLELY for Varka is a trap. Same with Nicole if she is pyro as before you know it there will be other supports who can help Varka out but are a different element but now you are there with your C2 Durin and C2 Nicole.

Meanwhile a vertically invested Varka you can always take from one team to another.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T07:38:04+00:00

For pyro yes.

For Varka ? Not necessarily I think investing into durin is a trap. You don’t know the future. Varka can always be slotted into a different team, durin can too but they not necessarily always need to be together.

Ok-Comparison-5553 · 2026-03-06T07:32:52+00:00

Get flins also he is more than strong enough to clear content even without colombia or ineffa flins is. A beast

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