I could not stand Furina when we first met her. She was infuriating, and while she felt like a real person from the start, I simply could not stand her personality.
Which meant I had a bit of a problem.
Archons tend to be some of the most useful and powerful characters, and up until that point I had all of them, so I kinda wanted to get her… but the thing I care about most is playing as characters I actually like — if I dislike someone, then I skip them.
And so I might have come close to skipping the hydro archon, but, thankfully, Furina changed my mind.
Two weeks in Fontaine:
https://youtu.be/kpQrrIF_1S0
Fontaine Archon Quest Review:
https://youtu.be/zbTMpMcJiXk
Furina & Aloy:
https://youtu.be/feBscciTEU0
00:00 Intro
00:31 First impressions
01:47 Pulls
02:14 Character growth
03:11 Kit explanation • Normal attack
03:53 Kit explanation • Skill
05:01 Kit explanation • Burst
06:32 Kit explanation • Constellations
07:23 Build • Requirements
07:47 Build • Weapon
08:38 Build • Artifacts
09:16 Build • Priorities
10:05 Synergy • Flexibility
10:53 Synergy • Healers
11:47 Synergy • HP fluctuations
12:55 Synergy • Marechaussee
13:14 Niche teams • Healer driven
13:54 Niche teams • Quickbloom
14:50 Niche teams • Plunge
15:40 Sub-optimal teams • Mono hydro
16:11 Sub-optimal teams • Vapourise
16:38 Sub-optimal teams • Freeze
17:05 Conclusion
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I wish we could re-play past events and story quests – Roses and Muskets story was perfection, and Clorinde's was just as good… please, Hoyo 🥺
We stan Furina
I love the fine print at the start – this is a moment where I feel the lack of saurusnessDisguise hard 😎
I was so sad to lose my 50/50 when she first ran and I am sooooo ready to have her in my team rotation, thank you Clorinde for giving me a guarantee instead of coming home. I've seen how powerful and what a great help she can be to teams in the abyss and I am so very excited to wish for her and get her into my rotations! My pipe sword is waiting for her!
Thank you for a wonderful video as always! 🥰
We love character growth, we love Furina, & we love yooouwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwuwu! FIRST!!!❤❤❤
Amazing analysis as usual! I love the way u are narrating sounds because its very authentic and soothing 😇💙 Furina really did a 180° on me and im glad to say that i really resonate with her story. Lets hope for a second story quest so we can finally get the missing Focalor & Egeria lore which was disappointingly absent in the archon quest!
Furina honestly saved my account because her universal buff allows the lesser popular long on field hyper carries like Cyno, Xiao and Itto to play without needing to switch out to recast their skills. Also, Furina will be relevant for the long run because every new healer synergises with her, so she also makes healers relevant again!
When I finished the archon quest, Furina became instantly my new favorite character in Genshin, and one of my favorites overall. Perfect design, vc, kit, personality, EVERYTHING.
Right now I have a total of 150 wishes + 30 pity just for her, and I'm ready to triple crown her and beat the sh*t out of Celestia.
Furina might not be the archon we all thought she was, but she sure deserves the praise and recognition of one.
Bday gurl posted a vid about babygurl!!! Can't be more excited ❤🎉
Furina is the only character I've ever regretted skipping, so now that I have guaranteed (and finally my new shiny Jean) I'm throwing everything i have at her. I'm ready to explore the desert if I have to lol
Your guides are always so helpful, you give enough options and explanations to really make sure we know which built or team might fit our playstyle the best. Once I build her, I'm going to try her out with Neuvi, Xianyun (and Gaming cause Diluc didn't bother to come home yet), and I think if I manage to get Sigewinne I'll add her to Neuvi's permanent team and switch Baizhu to Furina's. I can't wait to play around with her
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Thanks for the video and happy birthday!
I just wished for her in 36 pity in a new account I did a 10 pull but in the first wish I got qiqi. I was disapointed thinking about the farming but then 3 wishes after Furina came home then in another 4 wishes tighnari appeared.🎉🎉😊
I have figured out Furina is putting on a mask and is in fact insecure and desperate inside pretty soon after we first met her and I am proud of it. I also love her voice acting that did not make it obvious instantly but made it obvious as soon as you noticed that all the silly stuff she's coming up with is not actually from her head but someone has to mention it first. All in all, the Fontaine Archon quest chain did make things clear enough to let me enjoy that I did figure out some things while still being huge surprise on how all the loose ends got tied at the end. That makes this story my favorite in all of Genshin so far. But I agree that in general she as a character comes up behind Nahida, not ahead of her.
i adored Furina at the very start. I like Fischl and her imaginative, dramatic, flamboyant persona. And Furina was in the same ballpark. Not like, say, the dreary, serious and self-important Archons of certain other regions.
ps: Furina didn't come across as bratty to me. The Electro Archon was the real brat. Throwing a tantrum and locking herself in her room and saying "screw you" to the vision holders.
Dudeeeeee i loved furina since day 1, her voice actress is going down in history as the most perfect casting of genshin history
I hope one day the Hell Divers will liberate Teyvat from The Heavenly Principles 🎉🎉🎉
Already watched this on repeat so many times today to build my newly obtained Furina! Also, laughed soooo hard as the disclaimer. Thanks for another great video!!!
New saurus vid just dropped. We eatin good tonight.
Honestly, story is opposite to me. It appeared a bit silly and amusing in the start, in just a bit negative way, But after all quests was done i was deeply disappointed in it. I have not bought "sacrifice" or "suffering" narrative. I see this unit more like a well made robot or homunculi who just performed the task she was made for. Focalors is a real tragic figure, Nvlt is a well made character. furina is just a jester. Subjective ofc, but this is how i see it. Forever in a skip list.
Furina never had to change my mind I always loved her when I got to know more about her I only loved her more
Speaking of, will we get an update video of all the Aloy + Furina teams? 👀
A new video on my Genshin main! ❤
I love, love your analysis! The whole time I keep nodding to myself agreeing to what u say on your vid! I admit during the early phases of the Fontaine AQ I didn't like her much but she's grown on me as time goes on, much more so when I finally played her SQ. And who would've thought that I got her at early pity of 54 on her first banner lol xD And ever since then she's been a mainstay on my team. Gameplay wise her buffs are amazing like I enjoy Mademoiselle Crabaletta going at dem enemies :3
I legit have 0 of the combos or weapons you say she should have equipped lol
I’ve barely started watching so i probably shouldn’t comment yet, but i couldn’t help it, when i heard “she comes across as a bit of an infuriating brat” all i could think was infurinarating brat 😎 i’ll see myself out
I was already excited to finally get furina after losing my 5050 on her debut, but this video has made me even more excited 😊 i particularly enjoyed the team comp section ❤
I had a similar situation with Wanderer back in the days, I couldn't for the life of me stand his utterly bratty demeanor despite how much I liked his gameplay. But by the end of Sumeru I have warmed up to him and he's sitting now on C3 😂
Your video is really well made!
I didn’t like that annoying brat persona she was forced to adopt thanks to those diva Fontainians.
I’m glad she’s truly a wonderful, sweet person not to mention a superior Archon than the likes of Raiden Shogun and that’s without even an ounce of power
It's amazing what the writing team managed to achieve with Furina's arc!
Making us think she was just a pompous brat, only to later subvert that first impression to make us love her, was definitely their plan all along (although a lot of people seemingly liked her selfish ridiculousness act for its own sake). I knew they'd have to make her genuinely likeable by the end, but they pulled this off far better than I expected.
Like Xianyun, she can enable a lot of teams that would otherwise be kind of terrible; my current favorite is C6 Faruzan + Furina + Zhongli/Layla + Sayu/Jean.
Love your videos very informative and fun 👏, grabbing Furina myself this time around, can't wait
Agree, her personality really threw us all off. She was so bratty that there was no lead in to how she would be likeable, what a well written character.