Since its release, Genshin Impact has attracted the love of many players around the world with its rich character settings, huge open world, and deep combat system. With each version update, the game content has gradually become richer, and players are constantly exploring and challenging new gameplay. The 2025 version 5.5 update is undoubtedly an important innovation. It not only introduces two new characters, Varesha and Ianshan, but also makes significant changes to the relic system. These changes have added more challenges and possibilities to Genshin Impact, both in terms of the depth of combat strategies and the diversity of player operations.
Varesha’s settings and combat style: powerful output and explosive gameplay
Varesha, as one of the new characters in this update, has quickly become the focus of players’ attention with its unique settings and powerful output capabilities. Varesha’s background setting is very interesting. She comes from Teteokan and is remembered as a “big eater”. Not only can she eat super-large portions of food, but she can also transform this endless appetite into powerful combat power. This setting not only adds to the fun of her character, but also provides unique inspiration for her skill design.
In the game, Varesha is a thunder attribute magic weapon character, focusing on high burst output. Her skill design revolves around “Night Soul Points”, and players can activate her powerful skills by accumulating these points. In particular, her core skill, “Fiery Passion”, not only increases attack power, but also causes huge lightning damage when released, breaking the enemy’s defense. After accumulating a large number of Night Soul Points in a short period of time, Varesha can burst out amazing output and quickly weaken the enemy.
Varesha’s fighting style tends to be fast and efficient killing. Her skill operation is not complicated, but her explosive damage makes her the absolute main force in single enemy battles. As a thunder attribute character, Varesha can also cooperate with other elemental reactions to enhance her output effect. Therefore, her positioning in battle is very clear-focused on quickly solving enemies, suitable for players who like efficient and fast killing.
Ianshan: Character Design of Buff and Strategy
Unlike Varesa, Ianshan is a completely different type of character. As a four-star thunder attribute long-handled weapon character, Ianshan does not focus on her own output, but pays more attention to providing buffs to teammates. Her skill system revolves around the “kinetic energy scale”. By accumulating “night soul points”, she can provide additional attack power and elemental energy recovery to teammates. Ianshan’s design emphasizes the strategic and cooperative nature of the character. Players need to accurately control the timing of her skill release in battle to maximize the buff effect.
Ianshan’s core skill “kinetic activation” allows her to provide continuous buff effects to the entire team, so that teammates’ attack power is improved and the recovery speed of elemental energy is increased. In teamwork, Ianshan’s role plays a vital auxiliary role. Through clever use of skills, she can greatly improve the output efficiency of teammates and keep the battle running efficiently. Her design is very suitable for players who like strategic thinking and teamwork. Through reasonable skill timing and operation, players can give full play to Ianshan’s buff effect and help teammates win in complex combat environments.
Relic system update: new relic matching and character optimization
In addition to the addition of new characters, version 5.5 also made comprehensive improvements to the relic system. In the updated relic system, players can choose more relic sets to better improve the character’s attributes and optimize combat strategies. The two new sets of relics, “Long Night’s Oath” and “Deep Corridor Finale”, provide powerful buffs for different types of characters.
The design of the Long Night’s Oath set is particularly suitable for characters who rely on falling attacks. The two-piece effect can increase the damage of falling attacks, while the four-piece effect can increase additional Night Soul points when hitting the enemy, allowing the character to continuously output more damage. As a burst-type output character, Varesa can greatly improve her output efficiency with this set of relics, especially when she is in fierce confrontation with the enemy, this set of relics can help her quickly suppress the enemy’s counterattack.
Another new set of relics, Deep Corridor Finale, is more suitable for characters who rely on normal attacks and elemental bursts. The two-piece set effect increases ice damage, while the four-piece set effect can provide additional output bonus when the elemental energy is zero. For a buff-type character like Ianshan, using this set of relics can allow her to maintain a high output in battle, and by increasing the attack power and elemental burst of teammates, the combat effectiveness of the entire team is greatly enhanced.
The addition of these new relics not only improves the basic attributes of the character, but also provides players with more tactical options. Players can flexibly match the relics according to their own character characteristics and combat needs to provide more powerful support for the character and improve combat efficiency.
Character matching and tactical optimization: the complementarity of Varesha and Ianshan
The character matching in “Genshin Impact” has always been the focus of players. The addition of two new characters, Varesha and Ianshan, provides players with more combination strategies. Varesha’s high burst output and Ianshan’s buff effect complement each other. Players can flexibly switch characters according to the enemy situation and achieve the best combat effect through reasonable matching.
For example, at the beginning of the battle, players can use Ianshan’s skills to provide buffs to teammates, and then quickly switch to Varesa to quickly break the enemy’s defenses with her explosive skills. Ianshan’s buff effect can maximize Varesa’s output, while Varesa’s powerful attacks can provide Ianshan with enough output space. The cooperation between the two not only improves the overall output capacity of the team, but also provides players with higher operating space and strategic choices.
This tactical complementarity makes the combination of Varesa and Ianshan a highlight in version 5.5. Players can adjust the combination of characters and relics according to different combat needs, making the battle more diverse and challenging.
Game Depth and Player Experience: Double Improvement of Strategy and Operation
The update of version 5.5 has further enriched the combat system of “Genshin Impact”. Players can not only optimize their combat lineup by choosing different characters and relics, but also overcome more challenging enemies through flexible operations and strategic adjustments. This multi-level game design requires players to have not only high operating skills, but also excellent strategic thinking to win in battle.
Every battle is full of changes and challenges. Players need to constantly adjust their tactics and think about how to improve overall combat efficiency through the cooperation between different characters and the selection of holy relics. This high degree of freedom design increases the depth of the game and makes every battle full of new possibilities. Players can find the most suitable tactical combination for themselves through multiple attempts and get a better experience in the game.
Conclusion: Diverse characters and tactical choices inject new vitality into “Genshin Impact”
The update of “Genshin Impact” version 5.5 is undoubtedly a comprehensive improvement. It not only brings two new characters with different styles-Varesa and Ianshan, but also innovates the holy relic system to provide players with more tactical options. These updates not only improve the diversity of characters, but also give players more room to play in terms of strategy and operability in battle. In future versions, with the addition of more new characters and new gameplay, players will be able to explore more tactical combinations and experience richer game fun.