Genshin Impact Version 3.0 Special Program Livestream let players know a lot of things about the upcoming updates and one of them confirmed a recent leak we heard about Tighnari. Tighnari will indeed be added to the Standard Banner 5-star pool after Version 3.1.
Tighnari’s Addition to the Standard Banner
Tighnari will be the first 5-star Dendro unit and he’s getting his own event banner in Version 3.0. The fact that he’ll be added to the Standard Banner pool after Version 3.1 might discourage some players from pulling for him in the upcoming 3.0 update. Hoyoverse knows what they are doing announcing this and with that in mind, we can safely predict that Tighnari won’t be a “broken” unit by any means.
He’ll certainly be a decent or strong unit because Genshin Impact now needs its players to want Dendro characters and units. But he won’t be meta-defining since he’ll be added to the standard pool soon anyway. As of now, the best we can hope is for him to be a good unit like Diluc or Jean.
Hit kit and gameplay according to the Livestream will likely be that of a sub-DPS who you can switch to, cast his E skill, do your charged shots, cast your burst and then move on. Players predict Tighnari will be centered around the Quicken and Spread reactions both of which involve the Electro element which we can expect Kuki to be the applier of.
It’s a good thing he’s being added to the Standard Banner soon as new players may pull him early and be prepared for the Dendro element beforehand. When they finally enter Sumeru they will already have a Dendro unit to build and use. This also gives F2P players a chance to obtain him in the future if they are out of Primogems for the next patch or if they are saving up for other upcoming characters.