Players are already enchanted with Nilou’s beautiful cutscene in Act II of the Sumeru Archon Quest titled “The Morn a Thousand Roses Brings”. Nilou’s also been confirmed to be releasing in Version 3.1 as Genshin Impact has already begun her drip-marketing by releasing her official splash art a few weeks ago. Her kit and constellations have also been leaked so in this article we’re going to discuss how she feels in the hands of veteran players who are in the Genshin Impact Version 3.1 Beta testing.
Nilou Early Impressions from Genshin Impact Version 3.1 Beta
Nilou is a Hydro DPS scaling off of HP just like Yelan. This does indeed make it easy to build her due to HP stats coming in abundance in the artifact stat pool. That said, she’s different from other Hydro DPS units in the sense that Nilou only apparently works in Bloom or Rupture teams.
She’s thus limited by her niche playstyle and isn’t a flexible unit by any means despite her background as a dancer. When we say Bloom teams we aren’t accounting for Bloom sub-reactions like Burgeon or Hyperbloom either because she doesn’t work in those teams either. She’s limited to Bloom teams only.
Bloom is best used against mob enemies or simply to do AoE damage and thus in relation Nilou suffers against single target enemies which would mean she’s a bad unit to use against world and weekly bosses. Since Bloom Cores can be sucked up by Anemo, chances are she’ll synergise well with Anemo units that have powerful crowd control utilities.
As of now she’s looking like a very niche unit with limited use in the ever-changing Abyss Floors- especially against enemies like Abyss Lecters and Abyss Heralds. Leakers speculate she’ll likely be more viable when more Dendro characters are released.
