Since his release, Sethos seems to have been completely forgotten by pretty much everyone …myself included.
There was a little interest during his first banner, but despite his unique kit, he was overshadowed by a certain other character who was released at the same time, and then Natlan came around and completely took over everyone’s attention.
Now that he’s back on another banner, I’ve finally taken the time to give him a proper build and test him out.
And when it comes to playstyle, he’s been so different from what I expected — four stars are often a little rough around the edges, and one character having two playstyles could easily have gone badly wrong.
Thankfully, in this case, it didn’t.
00:00 Intro
00:34 First impressions
01:29 Kit explanation • Normal attacks
01:51 Kit explanation • Skill
02:11 Kit explanation • Charged attacks
03:36 Kit explanation • Burst
04:01 Kit explanation • Constellations
04:44 Dual playstyles
05:43 Wishing
06:46 Build • Priorities
07:46 Build • Weapon
08:46 Build • Artifact stats
09:18 Build • Artifact sets
10:02 Build • Talents
10:15 Burst playstyle problems
11:22 Team archetypes • Catalyse
12:28 Team archetypes • Hyperbloom
12:54 Team archetypes • Quickbloom
13:16 Team archetypes • Hyperfridge
13:43 Team archetypes • Electrocharged & Overloaded
14:05 Favourite teams • Premium supports
14:27 Favourite teams • Maximum damage
14:49 Favourite teams • F2P friendly
15:13 Conclusion
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Absolutely love this guide. I actually did build both my Clorinde and Sethos at the same time, but with no one making any guides for Sethos at the time I basically just swapped the two in and out of my teams which naturally made Clorinde feel way better. The Diona hyperfridge team looks like a lot of fun and gives Diona's EM boost an actual purpose, so I'm gonna try that one out later!
I am so guilty of having such a blast~ with Clorinde too that I ignored him – I’m still not such a fan of bow characters yet love his personality, great motivation to re-explore and build!
Your reviews are always thoughtful, recognizing and exploring character’s as the nuanced individuals that they are and I like how you provide a critique while giving them merit where possible, it’s so refreshing to see how you make characters shine and present them instead of writing them off due to either be less damage heavy than desired or the bane of being “not top META”
sethos is what i tough the general gameplay of inazuma's characthers would be before the 2.0
"forgotten by pretty much everyone" NOT ME!!!
I love Sethos as a character, but sadly I already have Cyno, Raiden and a C3 Keqing, and since he's not upgrade over any of them and I don't Need more veriety, he'll unfortunately remain unused on my account.
I love everything about him. I wish he could be played as both bow and polearm user like Childe (that cutscene of sethos vs cyno was so cool), but that's asking too much since he's just a 4 star
Good news: if you have a fully built Tighnari you already have Sethos weapon and gear ready, besides the Goblet.
Bad news: if you want to play them both in a duo carry setup then you still gotta farm and upgrade a 2nd set.
I completely ignored him on his first banner when I got Clorinde (funnily enough I don't even need her, I pulled because I am a man of culture).
On his rerun I was blown away by his trial and I was lucky enough to get a copy.
One of the most satisfying characters to play, he can trigger Kirara's c4 with the CA, and those charged shots are spectacular, and that hair!
I might keep him at 70 because I found myself enjoying prolonged fights much more with him in the overworld.
Yah he’s pretty useless with his horrible dmg. Just use keqing.
Great video! The guide is concise and easy to understand and even though I already (mostly) built Sethos months ago and know all the info you mentioned, I watched the whole thing because your voice and delivery is so engaging.
I, unlike you, did not manage to get Clorinde 🙁 but I did get Sethos C2 on her banner so I've been slowly building him since. I still need to crown his talents and optimize his artifacts but I also finally got his c6 on Nahida banner and got Nahida too so I'll be able to give him better teams too. I hope more people give him a try! For me, he's definitely one of the most fun characters to play. I hope to be able to clear Abyss with him in the future :3
Already built him, got him c6 at Clorinde banner. On TF (to get the time reduction on skill) with focus on EM and ER. The idea is to burst and then shoot the charged shots once it is over. at level 80 him and Slingshot and talents only at lvl 5 and he already carries the dendro cube on his own with a little help from Yae.
There is technically a 3rd playstyle where you ignore 90% of his kit.
It's his CA playstyle, but you only use Lv1 Charged Shot instead of the Lv2.
His Lv1 CA consumes 50% less energy so you can trigger 2x more Aggravate than usual. It deals more damage than his intended playstyle but at the cost of having no AoE. It's also a bit harder to use due to its strict timing.
he's definitely one of my favorite 4* to play, i love when characters have 2 different playstyles to chose from or mix and match to the best of your ability (i was super obsessed with freminet being able to control his cryo or phys ratio and if you wanted pure phys or cryo skill spam). i never get bored playing sethos, it feels engaging and rewarding every time =) i use hunter's path bow on him because it matches his eyes
I too like my fair share of Sethos, I managed to get him C6 and got Nahida too, he’a pretty strong for a 4-star, him and Gaming at C6
I didn't forget about Sethos, I was lucky enough to get C6 on his debut banner so I built him, and have been using him whenever I can. 😊
With Xilonen in game, Keqing aggrevate completly forced Sethos out of the meta. Keqing, Fischl, Xilonen, Nahida is just way stronger and easier to play. I would love to have some strong 4* dps other than 1.0 overbuffed characters, sadly, there are not characters like that in game.
When i compare him with dmg output and similar teams, Tighnari is in question …. and if i compare these two, i would much rather use Tighnari.
I didnt forget Sethos, i dont like hate or love him, he is just there and hes meh :/
Outsanding video
I've already built him at c0 but I really want to get his c6. The current nahida banner only gave me 2 dupes so far…
This video is sooooo good. The best character guide I've ever seen, and I've seen 200+ of them.
I was pulling for his cons and got chlorinde lol. I hit him c4 on his rerun and still use him
I wasnt playing when he and Clorinde came out, but i managed to get him at random on either a standard banner pull or a limited off-banner pull (i dont recall which now) and i IMMEDIATELY fell in love with him and his playstyle! (Was that partially because i was a brand new player who only had Lisa as an electro character at that point? …maybe 😅 But i think i would have loved him regardless!) So you can imagine my excitement when he turned out to be one of the 4 stars on Nahida's banner alongside two other characters that work fantastically with him (and of course Nahida herself)! Now ive got him at c2, my beloved Radish Archon, AND a bonus Kuki and Xingqiu (who will eventually alternate with Barbara as his hydro applicator/pseudohealer… At least until i get Childe lmao) for a truly fantastic team combo! Next up: get the Scion in the next battle pass because as much as i enjoy having the Stringless's EM boost, my boy deserves to have what essentially looks like a signature weapon on him (and an ability to actually crit more than once a century rip)
nice!! i was just hoping you would make a video about him. i got him off the clorinde banner and i was wondering what to do with him. though, my main question when he appeared was what i should know him from. i expected him to show up in some event storyline, but didn’t find any. not even where the temple should be that he was apparently connected to. turns out i had to do cyno’s quests.
actually you can both use playstyle in one rotation.. just by adding one character.. dori… use burst first.. then after your burst you have a full energy again to charge shot.
Doesn't play enough TCG
Considering Kuki is the only four star I'm missing and I hit the 50/50 and got Qiqi super early, and I'm now 50$ in with a c4 Sethos from c0, one c7+ Xingqiu and one c7+ Yanfei, and soon probably C2 Nahida and C6 Sethos, I really need to build this little bastard so his c6 isn't just a waste for Hoyo to taunt me. The fact he's electro too so I keep almost thinking he could be Kuki… also I'd love Kuki cons so not even being able to get c0 after almost two years of playing with every other four star, it is pain 🙁
They owe me c6 Chevreuse on the Mavuika banner since they didn't put her on with Clorinde for me to get any cons but even her I got c0 right at the end of her debut, since they also didn't put her with the hot new Fontaine character so I couldn't pull for her really.
I was genuinely confused when he was released and people were calling him a 3 star like there are far far worse characters. These content creators are so damn dramatic
This is good to hear. I have a bunch of him. Not sure how many, but one day I will focus building him. I remember when I used to get excited about a new character I wasn't expecting. Now it's like when parents accidentally get pregnant for the 4th time and primarily think about how much the new kid will cost 😂
Sethos is the third strongest DPS in my account just next to Neuvillate and Alhaitham. I use Elemental Mastery build with mostly Hyperbloom teams.
I would like to try him with Ororon and some hydro characters tomorrow, if I am lucky.
I have him, built him, max friendship him, but really have no situation where I want to use him 💀
I genuinely wish I liked playing charge-attack style DPS units. It's one of the reasons why I haven't pulled for Lyney and Ganyu, and it's why I haven't built Sethos. That style of gameplay just feels so…Clunky . And that's a shame for me cause I do like Sethos a lot 😅
sethos weapon….i can NEVER get his weapon since im f2p… 🙁 and i am actualy building him
I built him (lv 90 with decent artifacts) but he's still not that good in abyss. Overworld would be fine but the glowing hour glass always bothers me. I love his design but I wish he'd been a 5 star and didn't have that hourglass outside of combat.
It's worth mentioning his bust gameplay gets significantly better in terms of both damage output and fun if you movement cancel or dash cancel after the second shot of his burst. I've found dashing helps me to maintain maximum damage during his burst while also positioning myself to line enemies up.
You can just press the attack button twice while holding walk in any direction, and that will automatically movement cancel and let you continue firing without the lengthy jump animation of his 3rd shot.
As someone who's f2p and just started playing 5 months ago, I just love him
The fact that his best build is a gacha 3* weapon and wanderer's troupe AND he's an EM scaler, genuinely makes him the F2P saving grace.
On an Experiment account (to reconnect with the pure newbie F2P experience, lol) I got him, and I was flabbergasted at how much he carried the account.
Admittedly it's because I have pre-existing game knowledge and I know how to make full use of his kit, while a newbie wouldn't. But still !!!
i triple crowned him the moment i got him, and got his C6. one of my favorite characters and he's so fun
I got a couple cons and he is actually really fun to play with! I was pleasantly surprised!
I actually 36 star with him rhis morning wasnt even paying attention to him just wanted to try a new character but i was surprised hes good i actually like him😅
My c6, Hunter's Path Sethos out dps's my R1, C0 Lyney😅
@5:57 wait WHAT?!?!? WHY ALOY?!?!?
He is male character, wasn't gonna use him anyway, even if he was thr most broken character in the game 😂
I remember enjoying sethos in his trial on his debut, but of course as i was pulling for clorinde he did indeed get forgotten 😅 i also only did cyno’s 2nd story quest at the start of nahida’s birthday event, so i had well and truly forgotten him. This makes me excited to eventually build him though!
I recently built him due to a sudden obsession. His playstyle is so refreshing, I love it. And I typically don't like bow characters…