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Genshin Impact’s Chevreuse is here, and she finally resolves one of the free-to-play mobile and PC game’s oldest problems. Elemental reactions are one of the things that sets Genshin Impact’s take on action-RPG battles apart, a system that encourages experimentation in party setup to see how different characters work together, but one of them never had much use: Overload. Other reactions have clear benefits. Vaporize deals extra damage. Superconduct lowers enemy defenses. Freeze, well, you can guess that one for yourself. Overload creates an explosion that pushes enemies away and also damages you. It’s not great in the open world, and it’s even worse in the Spiral Abyss endgame challenges, where grouping enemies together – not blowing them away – makes clearing battles easier. Overload still hurts you and makes trouble, but Chevreuse’s talents add a silver lining to the cloud of annoyance. Her skill powers up when an Overload reaction happens nearby, and her second talent reduces enemy Pyro and Electro resis

This article first appeared on Video Games on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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