Would /gig/ pissy If I were to say Citlali is the actual Archon-level character of 5.x? Because I find her a lot more useful than Mav. Big damage is the only thing that Mav does exceptionally well (remember when we expected her to be the BIS teammate for Mualani and Kinich the way that Nahida was for Nilou?). But Citlali is super flexible and useful for lots of characters, and is a great reaction buffer/enabler which makes her more comparable to previous Archons. As in, Mav is like the Neuvillette/Alhaitham/Ayaka of her nation, and Citlali is like the Furina/Nahida/Raiden of her nation.

I'm silently watching three friends talk about gacha builds in general while comparing their respective games to Genshin (which they've all played or still play) and I'm starting to wonder how much theorycrafter discourse and spreadsheetfaggotry actually negatively affects the playerbase's perception of the game
I see people sincerely and wholeheartedly argue about how 'C2 bait' characters are 'unplayable' at C0 in the sense that they seem to genuinely believe you won't even be able to clear anything if you don't paypig for constellations
Meanwhile I'm still going strong with my C0 and (rare) C0R1 f2poor teams