Mu Yang stared at Chuychu who had suddenly appeared on the screen, his mouth corners uncontrollably curving upward.
"Hahaha, even leakers flip the car sometimes!"
The depression from earlier was swept away in an instant, replaced by a refreshing sense of elation and vindication.
[Where are the leakers? Come out for a walk?]
[LOL, they boasted for so long about knowing everything, but they were dumbfounded when they saw Chuychu!]
[How do you leakers do your jobs? You didn't mention a single word about such a big original character!]
[miHoYo hid it deep enough.]
Mu Yang was in a great mood, crossing his legs, his fingers lightly tapping on the desktop with a cheerful rhythm, ready to properly check out what this "fish that slipped through the net" was really capable of.
The preview live stream first introduced the Normal Attack.
Chuychu's Normal Attack gracefully swung the Catalyst, flames flowing at her fingertips, forming three thin arcs of fire.
But the damage multipliers were average, and the attack range wasn't large either, so it didn't seem to serve much purpose.
When hitting a few Hilichurls standing together, it could only hit the closest one, and the Hilichurls standing nearby didn't take any damage.
"Mm, nothing special about the Normal Attack."
Mu Yang nodded, not surprised at all.
After all, the Normal Attacks of most Genshin characters were just filler; the focus was still on the skills.
The barrage started to have people making jokes.
[Feels not as cute as Klee...]
[Feels not as lively as Yanfei...]
[It's a doctor, after all; not being good at combat is understandable.]
[No one will use her on-field anyway.]
Mu Yang smiled and continued watching.
Next up was the introduction of the Elemental Skill.
The screen switched, and Chuychu raised her hand to summon a small, entirely crimson, Qucusaurus, which was introduced as a Qucusaurus.
After being summoned, the Qucusaurus hovered in the combat area, spewing flames at intervals, while at the same time, healing glows lit up on all party members.
"Oh? Full-party healing?" Mu Yang raised an eyebrow, "That's interesting."
Currently, the character with the highest Abyss usage rate in Genshin was Furina, and her Elemental Skill caused the entire party to lose HP, while her Elemental Burst required HP fluctuations from teammates to increase the party's damage.
If there was an Elemental Skill-activated full-party heal, then most players with Furina would be in luck.
Currently, the characters with full-party healing functions weren't very compatible with Furina.
Qiqi had short range, Barbara and Yaoyao needed to be on-field, and Charlotte was Elemental Burst-activated.
Baizhu was an Elemental Skill-activated full-party heal, but he was five-star and expensive to build.
And Chuychu seemed to be an Elemental Skill-activated full-party heal, which would heal the party after the Qucusaurus attacked the target.
If the Qucusauruss attack range wasn't too short, then Chuychu would simply be the healer most compatible with Furina.
Mu Yang carefully stared at the screen and found that this Qucusaurus' attack range was not small, almost covering the entire battlefield, and the flame spew interval was very short, visually about once per second.
The barrage also reacted after seeing the demonstration of Chuychu's Elemental Skill:
[Isn't this just a Pyro version of the Princess?]
[Pyro Princess + Pyro Yaoyao.]
[Four-stars are too intense now; one person has to do the workload of two.]
[I just drew C2 Baizhu; is he about to be benched?]
[Wait, doesn't this thing also apply Pyro off-field?]
Mu Yang also thought of the key point: "Yeah, if this dragon can stay on-field and apply Pyro after Chuychu switches out, then wouldn't that mean..."
Before he could finish his words, the demonstration screen switched to a real combat scenario. After Chuychu was switched out, the Qucusaurus still remained on-field.
The newly switched-in Barbara let out a "Heya," and her Hydro Elemental attack hit the Pyro-applied Hilichurl, triggering a Vaporize reaction.
"It really can apply Pyro off-field!" Mu Yang suddenly sat up straight.
"Kids, the Guoba era is over."
"From now on, off-field Pyro application will all rely on the Qucusaurus!"
Before Chuychu, the characters that could apply Pyro off-field were few and far between.
Xiangling's Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst could both apply Pyro, but the former's Guoba was too clumsy, and the latter was an 80 Energy Burst that wasn't easy to cycle.
The other character was Dehya, whose Elemental Skill created a field that could apply Pyro, but it only applied once every 2.5 seconds, which was too low frequency, and it was prone to locking the character in place.
But Chuychu's Pyro application was different; it had target-seeking like Oz, and didn't require locking in place, making it much better than the previous two characters.
Genshin was a world centered on Elemental Reactions; even if a character's numbers weren't high, as long as it could apply an Element, it would be ridiculously strong.
After seeing Chuychu's off-field Pyro application ability, Mu Yang immediately thought of many powerful pairings.
Ganyu Melt team, civilian Dragonlord team, Lyney double circulation team, Furina 100% Vaporize team...
Oh right, and the perfumer's Burning team; that woman also needed someone to apply Pyro.
The Genshin pairings that had already selected the optimal solutions suddenly had a bunch of new recipes popping up, making people unable to resist wanting to try them all one by one.
Next, the preview live stream introduced Chuychu's Elemental Burst.
After releasing the Burst, Chuychu clasped her hands together, blazing flames igniting around her body as she entered the "Nightsoul's Blessing" state and launched attacks toward the surrounding enemies.
At the same time, until exiting the "Nightsoul's Blessing" state, Chuychu would continuously heal the entire party.
In the character demonstration, green numbers representing healing kept popping up, each jump as high as 500+, and the frequency so fast that the intervals between numbers were almost invisible.
"This..." Mu Yang's eyes widened, "The Burst is also full-party healing?"
The barrage instantly boiled over.
[Off-field continuous Pyro application + E and Q full-party healing?]
[Even Baizhu can't do full-party healing with E and Q.]
[What's wrong with Mihoyo? Designing a four-star this overpowered.]
[Barbara: Hello, I'm the launch four-star character, and I'm also a four-star full-party healer oh.]
[Furina: Family, takeoff! Finally waiting for a suitable healer!]
[Dragonlord team's new dad is here!]
[What new dad, call her mom!]
Mu Yang looked at the rowdy barrage and suddenly realized a problem.
What the heck was the "Nightsoul's Blessing" state?
Could it be that this was a state unique to Natlan characters?
While Mu Yang was puzzled, the official introduction moved on to Chuychu's combat talents.
Talent 1: Blazing Medical Principles
Chuychu's Healing Bonus will increase based on her own Pyro DMG Bonus.
"This—" Mu Yang drew in a cold breath, "With a Pyro DMG Goblet, the healing output can still go up?"
Including the Healing Bonus Circlet and Sacred Relic bonuses, Chuychu's Healing Bonus would approach or even exceed 100%.
Even if her base healing was only 5000 per instance, after calculating the bonuses, it would be 10,000.
Next up was Talent 2: Emergency Treatment
When any character's HP in the party decreases, Chuychu's Qucusaurus will immediately launch an attack, healing the entire party; this can trigger even if the Qucusaurus is not on-field.
"Off-field healing again?!" Mu Yang's eyes widened.
He racked his brain over all of Chuychu's mechanics, and over and over, he only saw two words: healing.
This character was almost entirely focused on healing from head to toe.
Mu Yang took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
"Brothers, this character... might really change the existing team comps," he said slowly. "Dragonlord team, Furina team, even Hyperbloom teams—she can fit into all of them!"
The barrage went completely crazy:
[This TM is a four-star?]
[Mihoyo's gone mad?]
[Draw her hard! Must draw her hard!]
Mu Yang looked at the screen full of shocked barrage and couldn't help but laugh.
"Damn it, why look at leakers!"
"Not knowing anything and discovering a new character is what feels good!"
In his heart, he had already made up his mind.
For this character Chuychu, he was definitely drawing her!