Many Genshin Impact players are upset with how five-star new character Dehya turned out, taking to Twitter to express their displeasure. The community is using the hashtag ‘#FixDehya’ to share their favorite buffs along with clips and images demonstrating the character’s current uselessness. That might sound extreme, but in his defense, Dehya is considered the worst five-star character in game anime to date, and for good reason.
It’s definitely a little confusing how HoYoverse managed to fumble the release of one of Sumeru’s most beloved characters. One of Dehya’s trailers even inspired players to donate thousands of dollars to a children’s charity in China. But, at this point, he’s only making players benefit through his actions and the design of the game.
When it comes to gameplay, one of the main issues is that Dehya is a tank in a game where there are already nearly invincible protectors like Zhongli alongside metachange healers like Kokomi and Bennett. Usually teams only want to use one character slot for a healer or protector to increase survivability.
As it stands, if you choose to execute Dehya, you’ll likely also need a healer to keep her alive in tough fights. He can only mitigate a certain amount of team damage, and his self-heal has a 20 second cooldown, which is too much if he wants to keep tanking. Wasting two gear slots on survivability will reduce your team’s DPS potential, which Dehya doesn’t help either.
Players shared the following image whenever they could with the #RepararDehya hashtag to make your voice heard.
It’s unclear if HoYoverse will even feature a single Dehya buff, but players still intend to be heard.
If you are one of the fans who intend to support her no matter what, you can always do so in the first half of Genshin Impact version 3.5, until Ayaka and Shenhe arrive in the second half.