100 responses to “Varka”

1. I pulled for Varka on his release and I absolutely love this character. I enjoy the fact that he is an early-middled-aged man (I’m guessing he is in his late 30s to early 40s based on his artwork, in-game model, comments from other characters in the archon and story quests). As a middled aged man myself (I turn 40 in the 2nd half of 2026) I feel that I can relate to him in a manner that I just don’t have with other characters. I also think his look and combat style is bad-ass looking. Much more appealing that any other character to me, and I have played Genshin Impact since day 1

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   Of course, I have been following along Varka’s beta, and the overwhelming sentiment during the beta and since release is that he is a disappointing character. Now that he is out, I got the chance to try him out. I did various (albeit crude) DPS tests with the popular Miliastra Wonderland DPS dummy map, and here is what I found.

   On all of the tests I had Varka on the Hexerei set (a Day Carved from Rising Winds) with an ATK/ATK/Crit DMG set up.
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   Free to Play:

   I tried out Varka at CORO (with a R5 Prototype Archaic as I didn’t want to craft a Tidal Shadow just for testing) with his debut banner team, (all at C6): Bennett (swapped in Sapwood Blade as that is his best FTP option), Sucrose with TTDS, and Xiangling with R5 The Catch. I got around 60K DPS, which I found to be really disappointing. At free to play investment with 4 stars he is probably worst than every 5* main DPS character released in 4.X (Fontaine). As much as I enjoy Varka, I couldn’t recommend him at this level.

   If you give him his best premium team (Venti, Durin, and Bennett) he is much better as expected. My Durin is C2 but I gave him the HOD, and I got around 77K DPS (quite low but I probably wasn’t playing optimally at the time and the stats are a little miffed.. I believe from what I seen from what other players have shared, it’s around 100k DPS he can get at C0RO on his best team.

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   “Dolphin” Investment (C2/R1)

   I then decided to pull Varka’s signature and pull for him twice more for his first 2 constellations. I feel at this level Varka starts to feel like a “complete” character rather than a gimped one. Signature gave the biggest boost, while C1 and C2 were about equal. I did more intensive testing, so here is what I found:

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   Debut Banner 4 Stars: (C6 Sucrose, C6 Benett, and C6 Xiangling)

   I updated Bennet back to his Aquila Favonia but everything else was the same. I got around 115 DPS on the first rotation. Pretty nice, althrough Xingliang still has energy issues. It’s probably would make since to use Favonius Lance as her weapon and try to stack as much energy charge as possible to ensure she can burst every rotation with Bennett’s help.

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   Premium Pyro Team (Venti C0R1 [Daybreak Chronicles], Durin C2R1, Bennet C6 with Aquila Favonia

   An rather eyepopping 190K damage. Would have been higher had I farmed a Hexrei artifact set for Durin, instead of using Nobless)

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   Electro Team (Venti COR1, C6 Sara with Favonius Warbow, C6 Iansan with Tamayuratei no Ohanashi)

   108K damage. Worse than the 4* banner team. It’s very difficult to move enough for Iasan’s attack buff, and Sara’s attack buff only last for 6 seconds. Also there is no good sustain option, as Iansan’s healing is poor. Electro is the worst element for Varka with the current roster.

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   Cyro Team (Venti COR1, Shenhe C1RO (Favonius Lance), Escoffier C2R1

   115K damage. Impressive because this similar in damage to my proper freeze team with Ganyu (C2R1) and Furina (C2RO [Festering Desire]). Clearly Ganyu is showing her age.

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   Hydro Team (C1 Venti, C5 Mona with Prototype Amber, C5 Jean with Amenoma Kageuchi, Furina C2R0 [Festering Desire])

   132K Damage. 2nd best after the premium fire team, and would have been even a little better if I had used TTDS for Mona instead for Prototype Amber. I will admit it’s a bit skewed due to the C5 standard 5 stars.
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   Summary:

   In conclusion, it is very clear that Varka is NOT a character to be pulled for meta on release, as he is quite lackluster at free to play investment. The need for his signature weapon and early constellations makes him a poor value compared to the Moonsign DPS characters that have released in 6.x/Luna.

   However, provided that he does have some investment then he can become a decent to even good character. I also fully expect for Varka (and the other Hexerei units) to buffed when Nicole is released.

   Anyone who really likes Varka should be prepared to at least go for his signature weapon, and have fun!

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   • Its clear they made him lose some talents activations to not make him compete for same positions with Nod Krai onfielders for Columbina-Ineffa- whatever else teams. But its quite nice that he can be played there comfortably and it is quite fun, even if his input is not the biggest on the team, whatever worls.

     But what sucks is this anemo archetype and niche persists throught all of the games history. An anemo unit that is there just to do swirls &/or to activate VV and onfield through swirls, which was sucrose/heizou way back when.

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     • Instead of being a main driving force of the team and a monolith, but why does it matter as long as it passess the stygians, abysses and whatever else. WE take all Ws we get. (still gonna complain where it counts XD)

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2. There might be a new set of hexerei artifact for suporting comes out in 6.6, together with Nicole. So i’m not worried about Varka’s damage at all.

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3. c6 r1 varka (c6 durin/bennet/c2 venti) vs c6 r1 zibai (c6 columbina c6 illuga c6 gorou)

   440k dps vs 500k dps on average

   I am actually OK with this. Varka can slide into hydro/cryo/electro teams too don’t forget. With the right supports (present and future) you can make him work in a lot of different ways. Flexibility means something in this very inflexible meta we are in.
   Scales really well with attack speed buffs so there might be some interesting builds come out

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4. Watch and learn kids, Hoyo are masters of the art called: “Fumbling the bag for a badass/edgy & powerful archatype & its audience”

   Sorry nobody lifts in China, the 0.1% that does seems to just eat roids & looses braincells and the rest 99% are femboys so they dont know how to produce, design and sell a strong character that is built in their 20s to 30s or uses any level of armor (Dehya, Varka, Itto noodle arms.) Also East didn’t believed you could sell a game without bland, spineless selfinsert soy young boy MC before Jin from Ghost of Tsushima popped off there. (At least FFXVI got the memo) and we know how corporate and safe HOYO plays and operates, of course they didnt had the balls.

   Meanwhile the most popualar worldwide consumed genres are still Shonen and Seinen (Kaisen, dragonz bawls, Berserk, dandadan, CSM etc, with MC ALWAYS having some muscle monster or jacked man install/form) – RIDDLE ME FUCKING THIS, JOKER. These stupid ahh mfs are allergic to income… They have immense uncaptured audience of women that would thirst over it and if you make the kits cool enough the drip cool enough and wfx and lore cool enough the people would FIND a reason to make it work themselves. & Wold pull & play that too, i dont get it. If pros outweight the cons why not.

   First his design was mediocre, with ASSymetric half armor leftowers with somehow light brown/orange colors for an anemo, then his element is not fitting the idea at all, and the nail is his kit and VFX aint shit either, so what do we have, a not cool enough looking character to capture the audience that likes the archetype. And not strong enough to grab a wider pulling audience, or meta slaves.

   Story and characterisation are fine, but bro he aint allat in practice.

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   • They should just make only cute and lesbian women honestly.

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     • Indeed. They prove time after time they cannot do anything ironclad or strong correctly. (Seed, Varka, whatever else) One fucking Phainon W, and dosens of Ls.

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   • Some popular characters aren’t really that cool or visually impressive but sell a lot because they are the centerpiece of the story and carried by lore. On the other hand in terms of meta some players may pull for a NPC looking character if its game breaking enough. We will see, only time will tell.

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     • You read what i said, and understood it, impressive! ❤️😁😂 Time to have something like that while being a Capitano looking design. LMAOOO (i love edge)

       I do like him and all others i named and pulled for every single one but it annoys me how the muscle/iron perosonas gets some kind of “short end of the stick” every time hoyo makes them.

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5. Off-topic question. Should I get Varka or just wait for Chasca rerun, last anemo on-fielder I got is Wanderer and I don’t have Xiao, and I want something different, especially when taking Imagnarium Theatre in mind.

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   • Even Chasca wont doing too impressive without cons/ weapon investment. If you seeking a “meta” Anemo, there is none atm. Skip both & borrow c6 dps from whale in Theater 😅

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6. he is male char guys, gender equality exists in teyvat, the fact is there if u can see read and think

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7. I have been playing Genshin Impact since Day 1, and Varka will be the first character I pull for purely based on appeal (a rare opportunity to play as a middle-aged man in an anime-inspired video game, as someone middle-aged myself).

   Obviously I have a bias towards him, but after following the discourse on him, I don’t believe that he is “bad” character. The only 5* characters that I personally viewed as “bad” upon their initial release were Dehya, Hydro Traveler, and Mizuki.

   I acknowledge that at a base level, he seems like a “mediocre” character. Sigewinne is the closest comparison I can think of to Varka in his initial state.

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   His biggest issue at C0 seems to be his lack of a good free-to-play weapon and very limited team options. His best teams at C0R0 is looking to be Columbina/Ineffa Wheelchair or Anemo/Pyro with Bennett, Durin, and Venti being all mandatory teammates to do acceptable damage in end game content. He can’t reliably use Tidal Shadow because Bennett cannot overheal, and none of the other free to play weapons seem to be any good.

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   However, it does seem that investment does solve many of his issues. His signature weapon is looking like to be the biggest increase in damage (relative to free to play options) for any character so far, and his C1 and C2 seem to further bolster his damage numbers.

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   At C2R1, Varka seems to finally become a complete character. He starts to scale alot better from offensive buffs from his teammates. This makes Hydro, Electro, and Cyro teams more viable while giving more flexibility teammate options for Pyro teams. Ultimately we need to see if there are any changes done to Varka before he hits the live server, but I’m going to guess that his power level will be around late Fontaine/early Natlan.

   This is all before we get future characters that will help support Varka. For example:

   I am guessing that Nicole will be both a shielder and a Hexerei damage buffer. Flat bonus damage (like Shenhe quills) being the best since all of the Hexerei main DPS character do many small hits in their rotation. It’s possible other characters could open

   If Lohen is a Hexerei character he could be a much needed Cyro option for Varka.

   And possibly others.
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   Needless to say, Varka will still be poor pull value when compared against the Moonsign DPS characters (especially Zibai who does better damage than C2R1 Varka when she is at C0R0 with only 4* teammates). However poor value does not equate to being a bad character.

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   I’m looking forward to when we start getting footage from content creators who have access to the preview servers, and how much those findings match what we have been seeing throughout the beta.

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   • i have no life: i invest emotionally in anime character pretending this is “love”, because im too pathetic to understand my condition and seek a therapist

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   • “However poor value does not equate to being a bad character.”

     This litteraly DOES mean that.
     The definition is in value.

     Dont get me wrong, Varka is a pull on my end too. Yet I have no illusion.
     His kit on all fronts is underwelming to any other new 5* in the patch. Making him in general “a bad character”
     The problem is, people think Nicole or another character will “save him”, guess who had the same vibe? xiao and look at what happend back then who no one plays now.

     RN, its wiser to just skip him and “IF” Nicole or a 6.x character fixes his issue’s. Get him on the rerun..
     But yea.. its a massive dissapointment for me.

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     • Value does not equate to power level, though there can be a correlation. Most carries by default aren’t high value, but they can be very strong. One example is how in Nod Krai you can get just the supports and have pretty good teams that don’t rely on an extra pull. Another example would be if you already have a Nod Krai carry, which makes the other carries’ value drop further.

       Not to speak on Varka’s power level, everyone’s views on him can be slightly different. Someone might view him as plain bad, someone else as just okay, it’s all in the eye of the beholder since everyone has different standards. His value is most definitely particularly low for a carry, however.

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   • Glad for you. I like the Dante archetype but, daaaamn… Just DAAAAAAMN… I know all and any gachaslop devs/companies play favourites with their characters, but still not having an ironclad character, and the one to closely being the one in a FK FANTASY SET GAME, is this dude teased since 1.0, however cool he is, with THAT kit. I can’t tell i’m positive.

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8. Well he is worse than I thight lol. To bad they ruined one of the coolest chaaracters. Pretty much just basic normal attack spammer with low numbers.
   At least Mavuika can hot over a Mill on Burst and be an crazy on and off field DPS. Really sad to see such a cool character being this bad in the current Meta. Yes you can
   use him in the Spirla Abyss (good luck with 12) and Stygian is pretty much over for him, low numbers, low dmg…

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   • And now that he’s arrive a lot of people can clear the lunar shill abyss with him even without the signature, just learn to play the game kiddo

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