**Clearing up misconceptions about Xingqiu in Nilou bloom**

* **He is not bad in AoE.** My Xingqiu cleared this AoE chamber just two seconds slower than Kokomi.
* **Full EM build is much better than DPS build** in both single target and AoE.

**Why I like Xingqiu**

* **His team has a fixed rotation.** I don't have to keep track of cooldowns and uptimes unlike in Kokomi teams.

>Tip: Use Nahida's charged attack and then swap cancel into Xingqiu's skill to maintain the Dendro aura.  You can see the swap cancel at 00:27. I didn't do it in the first rotation because I would have been interrupted, and that caused a Hydro aura on the enemies.

* **His team has a proper healer.** Baizhu uses a dedicated healing build and building him with EM main stats is a DPS loss from Ocean Hued Clam.
* **He is better than Kokomi in single target.**

**Problems**

* **He has a high \~200% ER requirement**. On a triple EM Flower of Paradise Lost, this is only achievable with either Xiphos' Moonlight or god rolls on your substats. If you don't have those, you'll have to use an ER sword or ER sands, which will result in slightly lower DPS. Even so, it will still outperform Xingqiu on a DPS build.

* **With the release of Lauma**
   * **Baizhu will have to hold Deepwood Memories**. Since he isn't as good as Nahida at applying its res shred in AoE, I think that would make the gap between the Kokomi and Xingqiu teams bigger.
   * **Baizhu applies dendro slower than Nahida.** This might make the single target DPS of Xingqiu lower than Kokomi, but we'll have to wait and see. I still believe in my boy Xingqiu.

Glazing Xingqiu Bloom