Genshin Impact: Is it worth spending your time on Zhongli and Ganyu?

Patch 2.4 of Genshin Impact moves to the 2nd banner phase tonight, January 25th, bringing back familiar faces for 3 weeks: Zhongli and Ganyu. But is it even worth spending your valuable saved veteran for the two of them? MyMMO will tell you.

Zhongli and Ganyu are among the top characters in Genshin Impact that are available to you in all sorts of teams. In addition, both are among the top 10 most used heroes in the Winding Abyss, the game’s endgame dungeon (via spiralabyss.org).

In addition, the Lantern Festival starts today, which welcomes you with a number of events. This gives you valuable, additional bedrock.

The extra rock might come in handy if you’re interested in Ganyu, Zhongli, or any of the future characters.

Zhongli is a great support with the strongest shield

Why is Zhongli worth it? Despite the almost 50 characters in Genshin Impact, Zhongli is still considered the best support and especially Shielder in the game.

Using his own health points, he creates a shield that protects the team’s active character from damage. Zhongli’s shield is the best in Genshin to date in terms of its duration and strength.

If you already own Zhongli, its constellations can also be worthwhile. You unlock this as soon as you draw a copy of him. To do more passive damage, Constellation 1 could already pay off, since it allows you to summon one more pillar with its elemental ability.

The 2nd constellation even grants all characters on the field a protective shield from Zhongli once he uses his special ability. This makes him even more valuable in co-op.

Ganyu is one of the best archers

Why is Ganyu worth it? The Cryo Archer deals high damage at long range. Whether you’re a good marksman or not, Ganyu’s fully charged shot will hit anyway, as several icicles will rain down from the targeted spot afterwards.

This ability also works well against multiple enemies at once. With her elemental ability, Ganyu can distract enemies while continuing to fire arrows at them. In addition, her special ability also causes high damage over a large area.

Ganyu is considered one of the strongest archers and will certainly not disappoint you as a strong main DPS in the team. Their constellations further expand their damage potential.

If you only started playing after January 2021, you now have the opportunity to get this 5-star character for the first time. Because she’s the character who hasn’t received a rerun for the longest time. So when she next appears in the game is uncertain.

The 4-star characters in both rerun banners are also tough

Who else is coming? In addition to the two 5-Stars, there are of course, as always, three 4-Stars that you can get from the banners. They can also be really worthwhile.

Especially the 4-star character Xingqiu is one of the best sub-DPS in the game. With his rain swords, he can not only injure enemies in between, but also heal you when they disappear. Ganyu can continuously freeze enemies with him, preventing them from advancing or attacking.

Beidou and Yanfei are also strong main DPS units that can deal a lot of damage in certain teams. While Beidou needs some help from other heroes, Yanfei can rivet down the enemies on her own with her powerful pyro attacks.

When do you better save your veteran? If you already have Ganyu and/or Zhongli and are not looking for constellations, it can definitely be worth saving. Because with patch 2.5 Genshin Impact has already announced the character Yae Miko as a new playable character.

In addition, there will soon be a new hero that might be interesting for you. We have summarized everything for you in this article: Genshin Impact: Leaks reveal a new 5-star character in patch 2.6