Heads up for those curious about Rosaria and Walnut’s viabilities. And reasons to want these characters.
Rosaria is a cryo polearm user who has a life drain E. Her ult is a grounded version of Ganyu’s ult but it lashes out at enemies with shadowy ice vines.
She’s got a high crit rate as a cryo character (Jade Spear plus CR artifacts get her up to about 65% crit rate) but her passive is beyond useless.
Her passive gives the team 25% (iirc) faster move speed at night in game. ~8 minutes worth of extra speed...
Hu Tao is a pyro polearm user who has a self sustaining berserker play style. Think Xiao but on every kind of steroid imaginable.
She has a life drain E like Rosaria but it has a catch, you need to kill an enemy for some health gain. Not that great but she mows down mobs like no other. Lvl 10 E gets 8.67% health per kill.
Her ult is stupidly overpowered, she becomes ethereal and can pass through enemies and barriers they create. During Butterfly mode, her damage output skyrockets in response to the difference in current health to max health at time of ult.
Her passive is technically pointless, it allows you to cook suspicious versions of food as a 12% extra.
However, Hu Tao’s C6 makes her unkillable. She lives through oneshots and lethal damage every 30 seconds and immediately ults in response. Unbelievably broken, but C6 5*s should be.
Ayaka seems to be getting nerfs, but she’s no longer the cryo sword Mona, ie really dumb combo potential and extreme CC capabilities.