QUOTE(valho @ Mar 16 2021, 10:42 AM)
TBH I am not sure how redditor are playing Hu Tao, but she is not as hard to play as they say she is. I have her using Deathmatch before I got Homa, it works fine. Of course she will be doing lower damage compare to Homa, but Homa is a 5 stars weapon. Gives any character a good 5 stars weapon and it will beat 4 stars weapon as well. So no she doesn't need Homa to be exceptional, it's just as with any character with their BIS weapon, you will get substantial increase in DPS, but that doesn't means other spears beside Homa sucks in terms of clearing current content.
My Hu Tao at 50% HP is 15k that's the same as my Ganyu HP, if you play smart you can keep her HP at around there or with 1 E it will drop below 50% so you can always have her 50% HP buff up. HP too low? Just use her Q after E and instantly heals up. I don't know, it's pretty simple and easy to keep her HP at 50% and heals up as needed. I feel sometimes ppl just makes things more complicated than it needs to be, especially youtuber.
Just my 2 cents.
She definitely worth if you dont have diluc like me
I always pair her with Geo Boss Zhong Li, because her HP tend to go below 10-20 % very often if you use more E than Q,
Her C1 if a must if you a mass spam dodge like me

, i always run out of stamina after dodge, end up only use normal attack instead of charge attack.
Her charge attack is powerful with E, but hard to control...sometime it would charge outside the mobs and i need to manually adjust the direction, and waste E time.
She is powerful, but too much rely on member (For me la, not for whales)
I pretty much limited by Xingqiu (Vapour), Zhong Li (Shield) and another Healer, in case her Q cant heal enough for Spiral Abyss.
And because of this, my Team 2 Ganyu survivability drop because no Zhong Li Shield...(Noela havent train, plus her cooldown high

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