Is Nilou strong in her niche? | Nilou Pre-Release Analysis



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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:06 Disclaimer
0:52 Base Stats
0:57 Normal Attacks
1:09 Ascension 1 Passive
3:16 Ascension 4 Passive
3:45 Design Choice for Nilou
5:51 Elemental Skill
7:30 Burst
7:39 Constellations
11:18 HP/DMG/CRIT VS HPx3
12:42 Bloom dmg in AoE
13:20 Support Weapons can be better
14:26 Hydro and Dendro application
16:13 2 Hydro 2 Dendro – Dendro Trigger
17:52 On-Field Nahida
19:48 Level 90 is important
20:05 On-Field Dendro Triple Hydro & Disclaimer
22:00 On-Field Nahida Triple Hydro
26:55 Team Archetypes Options
30:48 Weapons – Key
30:55 Mistsplitter
31:03 Jade cutter
31:14 Energy Generation
31:38 Freedom sworn
32:09 Xiphos
32:54 Sapwood
33:29 Festering
33:38 Iron sting
33:46 Sacrificial sword
33:53 Favonius
34:13 Harbinger
34:27 Weapon Ranking
37:02 Artifact Sets
38:40 Artifact stats
39:30 Teams – Bloom
39:50 Teams – Vape
42:19 Taser
42:27 Teams Verdict
42:55 Strenght and Pull Value
44:37 Conclusion
44:54 Outro

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50 thoughts on “Is Nilou strong in her niche? | Nilou Pre-Release Analysis”

  1. Okay, we found out that Nilou is extremaly niche. But is there any use for Candace? She has pretty slow hydro application and is not constrained with only Dendro and Hydro teammates. Any burgeon shenaningans?

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  2. 37:10 Thank you! I feel so stupid for not thinking of using Deepwood on Nilou lol
    I've had such bad luck with EM stats that I basically gave up on giving DW to Nahida and decided to use no DW and just Gilded Dreams on her, but this totally solves that problem.

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  3. Having control over who triggers the reactions is gonna be the most chaotic part in these teams. I bet this is why Nilou's weapon and Nahida's kit both buff the EM of your entire team or your active character, so that by pulling on those 5 stars you don't have to care as much about who is triggering the reactions. Nilou's kit and these bloom teams are just a big whale trap.

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  4. -If you don't have the primos for Nilou and other pieces, get her teammates first and then Nilou on her rerun.'

    That's the worst advice I have ever heard.

    It's like: if you don't have primos for Ayaka and Shenhe, get Shenhe. kekw

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  5. In conclusion, pull for Nahida and skip lol The niche novelty is going to get old and even if there is a character that can cc that is hydro/dendro, that character will be better on other teams than Nilou's teams

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  6. I’m gonna go em kokomi.
    Nilou goes full hp
    And kokonut goes nuts on em.
    Maybe Nahida would work better with infinite em

    Or I could go mega nilou and just slap her with yelan, Kazuha and bennet

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  7. Its very scummy that nahida comes right after nilou so f2ps will either be forced to swipe or skip. A lot of people might even consider C2 Nahida as it allows Nilou blooms to crit…

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  8. I'm still very optimistic towards a bloom focused artifact set.
    We got hyperbloom, aggravate,… added to some older sets, and the new ones focusing strongly on dendro and EM, obviously due to dendro, which just released…
    And even then: It is a niche, but it is also an absolutely unique playstyle. If you are going for bloom, she will eventually lead the strongest team comps.

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  9. I just want a off field hydro applicator but failed to get Kokomi on her banner. Mona has also yet to come home. Do you think I could still pull for her just for the hydro application? All I need is consistent hydro, damage doesn’t matter that much.

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  10. I was playing Tighnari Mona Dendro mc and kuki and it gave me a brilliant idea.

    Mona, Nahida, Kuki, Kazuha/Sucrose would be a good team with Mona on field hydro applicator

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  11. TL;DR : Nahida changes mean you might wanna consider EM xingqiu/yelan/off-field ayato as the third hydro unit in your Nahida teams

    With the latest beta update, Nahida applies dendro on each E proc rather than with standard ICD, which significantly increases her dendro application. This means that while there's still an incentive to build a lot of EM on her (because her kit converts EM to crit and dmg%), her ownership of bloom reactions will be a lot lower than I anticipated in this video, because she'll apply enough Dendro to be Aura instead of trigger pretty often. Since her E applies 1.5u, and only triggers on reactions, you're basically guaranteed to have enough dendro for 3 Blooms triggered by your Hydro characters. This means there might be some value in building your Hydro characters with a lot of EM as well, not just your Nahida. It's hard to tell exactly which characters would favor EM over their usual builds, but I definitely do expect it to happen often enough to correct myself in a pinned comment. With the previous ICD, the mechanic would still have been the same, but it wouldn't happen often enough for me to consider it necessarily worth to build full EM on your characters.

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  12. I really want Nilou, i collect Hydro units. And since i will also pull for Nahida no matter what (already have Kokomi) i will also pull for her.

    My only issue is that i dont know the best artefact sets to use on Kokomi and Nahida on bloom teams. I am using Deepwood on traveller as the 4th slot and my Kokomi is currently ToM full Hp. Very confused of what would be better to use on her on a bloom team.

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  13. I already have Kokomi, and I haven´t even finished raising Tighnari, my 2 abyss teams still need some more farming, and now I want to raise Candace too but I don´t have the time or resources lmao so Idk… I think I´ll go for Nilou and maybe get Nahida in a rerun. Or the same thing but the other way around, I like them both a lot.

    My fave characters from Sumeru are Nilou, Nahida, Tighnari and Candace so I guess I don´t have to rush getting them anytime soon.

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  14. I swear I have such a toxic relationship with this game and Nilou now, because every video is like, she basically sucks explained in like a 20 minute video, but then I'm like, she's cute AF with her animations and she looks fun, so fuck it lol (I have myself lol, because I was saving for Eula and then they throw her in and messed up my plan, but yolo). Also, good luck if you're pulling for her or the Archon, I'll 100% miss the Archon, but I can live with that

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  15. Yeah, I don't really like the triple hydro for now. Nilou, Nahida, DMC, Kokomi have +140 EM for having DMC (resonance and passive buff) and the team comp allows you to spend more time on Kokomi and less time on Nahida (they share the driver role afaik), which is nice, because Kokomi is much tankier than paper-weight grass loli, who is prone to getting oneshot. And this team has virtually no struggle with EM, especially with Nilou's signature. My Nilou is 65k HP (with resonance) and can still get better, that's extra 130 EM for the team from her weapon (and extra damage from Nilou HP) and with 1000 EM Nahida that's another 250 EM for the team. Building DMC for EM is fine, they benefit, building Nahida for EM is recommended and if you slap Sac frags on Kokomi and single EM artifact and two HP/HB/ER artifacts, she should get around 450 EM base and that's whopping 970 with team buffs (1000+ with decent substats), while still keeping some of her scaling stats. Current hydro characters just don't "optimally" fit. Would be cool if we got some AOE hydro character (EM scaling ideally) at some point in the future … worst case … Nilou, Nahida, Kokomi, hydro Archon 1 year from now, lol 😀

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