What if the archons’ elements actually matched the characters from that region?

There’s this odd little quirk about Genshin’s character balancing that has always felt out of place to me, and I’ve seen a ton of people mention it too.

Each nation is explicitly associated with one of the elements. Mondstadt is the nation of Anemo, Liyue is the nation of Geo, Inazuma is Electro, and so on. This association touches almost everything: the culture of the people who live there, the themes and emotions that each archon quest is intended to explore, even the landscape itself and the emotions it’s designed to evoke.

But one detail doesn’t match the nation’s element, and it always trips me up: which visions are given to the characters from that region.

This happens almost every time. When we went to Fontaine, I couldn’t help but imagine all the unique and interesting hydro characters we were going to get. When Natlan came around, everyone was so excited to finally have a new pyro off-fielder who would free us from Xiangling. I couldn’t help it, even though Mondstadt and Liyue should have shown us that this was not the way it worked.

But this got me wondering.

What would each archon bring to the table if we kept their kit the same, but changed their element to match the most common in their nation?

00:00 Intro
01:04 Mondstadt characters
01:35 Venti • Cryo crowd control
02:17 Venti • Cryo support
03:09 Venti • Constellations, build, & team example
04:10 Venti • Verdict
04:37 Liyue characters
05:12 Zhongli • Pyro shielder
06:14 Zhongli • Constellations, build, & team example
07:10 Zhongli • Verdict
07:33 Inazuma characters
08:03 Raiden • Geo DPS
08:27 Raiden • Anemo DPS
09:02 Raiden • Constellations, build, & team example
09:57 Raiden • Verdict
10:20 Sumeru characters
10:46 Nahida • Electro support
11:28 Nahida • Constellations, build, & team example
12:33 Nahida • Verdict
12:48 Fontaine characters
13:13 Furina • Cryo support
14:07 Furina • Constellations, build, & team example
14:56 Furina • Verdict
15:10 Natlan
15:33 Conclusion

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