AGenshin Impactchart shows the sales difference between the two five-star characters, Yelan and Hu Tao, that were featured in the previous Limited Character Banner. As the game’s roster keeps getting larger with every new update, the double banner mechanic has become very common, and it seems like every update offers four different limited five-star characters, two for each banner cycle.
Over the last couple of months, developer HoYoverse has also introduced a pattern of featuring one new five-star character and three re-runs within one update. The first part of the previousGenshin Impactupdate 3.4 introduced two new Dendro characters, Alhaitham and Yaoyao.
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Previous revenue reports revealed that the Yelan and Hu Tao double banner managed tobreakGenshin Impactoverall revenue recordwhen it comes to banner sales. A Reddit user by the name TimocaSamJa has shared an interesting chart that shows the difference in sales between the two featured five-star characters. According to the post, Yelan’s sales amount to 60% of the banner’s total revenue. This came as a surprise to many fans considering that there was more hype around Hu Tao’s re-run in the community since she skipped 10 consecutive updates before receiving a re-run. Her previous banner appearance was during version 2.2 which arrived in November 2021.
Hu Tao is an S-teir Pyro DPS characterwith a specific playstyle that can take some time to get used to as it includes some interesting animation cancel techniques. Players also need to constantly keep track of their HP as Hu Tao receives significant damage buffs whenever her health is under 50%. This means that players need to surround her with supports that provide strong shields like the Geo Archon Zhongli.
Many players claim that one of the reasons why Yelan managed to outsell Hu Tao is the fact thatthe recent introduction of the Dendro elemental reactionshas made Hydro probably the strongest element inGenshin Impact.At the time of Yelan’s release, a big part of the community did not like her kit with many fans claiming that she’s just a slightly stronger five-star version of Xingqiu.
Since then, Yelan has proven to be one of themost powerful Hydro characters inGenshin Impact. Even though she has the potential to deal tons of damage, Yelan’s go-to position is probably sub-DPS since her kit can do the job even when she gets swapped out.
Genshin Impactis available to play on mobile, PC, PS4, and PS5. A Switch version is currently in development.
