In this guide, I will rate all the characters in Genshin Impact 4.3, namely Navia, Ayaka, Raiden Shogun, and Yoimiya, out of 10.

With this guide, you’ll know which character is best for your Genshin Impact Account. Without further ado, let’s get started!

Rating All The Characters

First, we start with Archon, which is Raiden Shogun.

Raiden Shogun

As we all know, Raiden is a powerful unit. She provides insane energy generation to the team, allowing your secondary DPS characters like Yelan, Xingqiu or Xiangling to run with fewer energy refills and more offensive stats.

Also, she provides an amazing burst damage bonus, since we mainly used Raiden with other low DPS characters. She is a great damage dealer at C0. She has high front loading damage and has AOE attacks, making her an amazing choice in both AOE and single target situations.

Since her rotation time is shorter, it can make your rotation more flexible and refresh your buffs in time.

She’s also great for a free build, as the completely free R5 Catch is powerful for her if you’ve had enough of the pain of fishing.

However, I wouldn’t recommend using her as a secondary DPS, as her off-field damage is extremely low. And Fischl tends to do this job better. We can also use her as a hyperbloom bot with a full EM build. But I don’t emphasize this because it would make Raiden mainline really insane.

Personally, I like this variant because it delivers high damage with minimal effort. I also want to mention Raiden’s C2. It is completely broken and annihilates any enemy except enemies immune to the electro.

So if you have Primogem to spend but don’t know where to use it, you can try her C2. However, don’t pull her C1 as it’s not worth your Primogem. If you already have her C1, then I recommend trying to get her C2.

To be clear, this Constellation is not required to make Raiden a good DPS. She’s already an amazing DPS, and this Constellation will only make her even stronger.

For her pull value, since she’s primarily a DPS, this means she’s not as versatile as other supports. I would give her a 9/10 rating.

Ayaka

Turn to Ayaka. She is a burst-focused AOE DPS. Her burst deals a lot of damage because it scales well and can hit multiple times.

However, if her burst misses, her DPS drops a lot. This happens many times. This is why she is preferred in Freeze teams, as enemies cannot move and are easily hit by Ayaka’s bursts.

It’s a disadvantage for her if you can’t freeze the boss enemy. The boss can stay away from her burst, thus completely wasting yours. But she works really well against bosses that don’t move much due to their high burst damage.

She’s also free because her best 4-Stars weapon is craftable, which is Amenoma Kageuchi. Even if you don’t have Amenoma, Kagotsurube Isshin from Kazuha’s Story Quest is very effective against her.

Overall, Ayaka is an excellent AOE DPS, but it mainly limited her teams to Freeze teams. Her best team consists of all premium characters, namely Kokomi, Shenhe and Kazuha. Furina, Shenhe, and Jean are also a great team, but I prefer Kazuha’s Crowd Control because Ayaka’s auto-aim can be very annoying.

Although Ayaka excels in AOE scenarios, she also does well against single enemies due to her high damage. For her pull value, I would give her an 8/10.

Yoimiya

Move to Yoimiya. Despite her cute appearance, she’s an absolute monster in a single-target situation. However, this is her biggest problem. She only works towards a single target, which is why she gets so much hate.

Her elemental skills have a downtime of 8 seconds, but the impact is not significant. You can use these 8 seconds to refresh her buffs.

Yoimiya also has a great craftable weapon, Hamayumi. She has a lot of great 4-Star supports you can use, such as Xingqiu, Bennett, Yunjin and Layla.

Overall, Yoimiya is an amazing single-target DPS, but her performance becomes worse when facing multiple enemies. Therefore, it is difficult for us to compare her with Ayaka, as both are excellent in their respective jobs. So if I had to rate Yoimiya, I would give her 8/10 for pull value.

Navia

Finally, we have Navia. Navia is a new character that will be released in 4.3. So we don’t have much information about her and have never tried her. This makes it extremely difficult to evaluate her pulling value.

But let’s look at her gear. She has a multiplier that will be decent if not high DPS. She also has a unique play style. We’ll know more about her when she comes out.

I recommend you wait 3-4 days after her banner drops to see how she’s doing, so you’ll be ready for her when she arrives.

Overall

So overall, the best character to play in Genshin Impact 4.3 is Raiden Shogun because she is very flexible and overall a powerful character.

Ayaka and Yoimiya both have their own caveats, but are both great DPS. We can’t say much about Navia, but I can assure you she’ll be a dominant character, and she’s also incredibly cute, which makes it even more worth pulling.

Skipping The Patch?

Also, I’d like to mention that if you don’t need any of the characters in this build, don’t be forced to pull. Since Nahida will return soon, it’s best to use your Primogems on her if you don’t have Nahida. Because she is the best character in Dendro Elemental, and Dendro Elemental is one of the best elements in the game right now.

Also, Clorinde and Arlecchino, which are not yet confirmed to be playable, may be released sooner than you expect. So if you can control yourself, you could consider skipping this patch because the characters you pull in this patch are not mandatory.