No Sethos or Ifa — Are They Worth Investing in If I Pull Them?

Ifa is pretty nice as a driver for tazer teams. He functions similarly to Yumemizuki. Not really worth investing in if you have a well developed account, but great if your account is lacking.


Sethos is in a pretty similar place he is nice in an underdeveloped account, but pretty useless for a developed account. Sethos' situation is a bit more precarious since he doesn't really have GREAT teams.


That said, Sethos has very interesting gameplay so if he seems fun play him anyway the game doesn't really need so that much optimization.

Sethos is technical, but can be quite potent if played right at C6. He can be worth building if you get enough cons.

Ifa is fun, but kinda weak compared to other options (however I only have him at C0).

Sethos. You can play Sethos in many teams, even lunar charge if you have Ineffa or Columbina. If you search abyss 4 star clear you will see alot of Sethos. I think he is second best after Gaming as a 4star DPS. Building him is also easy since he use 4pc wanderer's and can use 3 star weapon. You do have to learn his dash cancel for his full potential but it's not that hard honestly. You'll get used to it. His cons is he is a single target DPS, but the abyss usually only have 1 boss anyway. The only time the abyss will be aoe focus is when Venti got a rerun lol.

Ifa on the other hand is not that good, even as a healer. He's more like a driver like sucrose, heck I think sucrose is better than him. But if you like him you can also play him as lunar charge/electro charge since it's his kit. He works with Furina since he can heal.

Sethos is the most technically demanding character to play optimally and he still won’t out damage any normal 5star dps, and Ifa’s best case scenario is still sucrose side grade. They can be fun and rewarding for certain scenarios, but it won’t be endgame level.

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Ifa is *okay*. He can hold Cinder City or VV, which makes him good enough for Theater. He's worth taking to 70 if you need more characters. Don't invest more than that unless you're swimming in resources. Skipable overall.

Sethos is ass. Main DPS 4 Stars are almost always terrible. Sethos has bad gameplay, low damage, and requires valuable supports to be functional. Only build him if you LOVE his character based on the 1 event and 5 minutes of screentime he's had.

Both of them are really fun over world characters, and it's nice having a character that doesn't immediately just nuke anything you run into so you can actually play them. That being said, aside from unique circumstances they are not great end game characters.

I have built both of mine for main DPS and I love using them for exploration especially ifa.

Good investment for IT

I've built both and used both. I really like playing Ifa, I find his playstyle very comfy. He also works very well with Ineffa, so I'll be running him with his bro, Ineffa, and Columbina for some nice spicy damage. He's certainly not the best by any means, but I really like playing him.

Sethos is, as others have said, very technical. I like his kit and find it interesting, but he's very difficult for me to play personally. I do love that one of his best teams is all 4 stars (Fischl, Sucrose, Kirara). Maybe I'll like him more if/when I get him to c6, right now I think I've only got c2.

Both are horrendous

Honest brutal response: don't waste your time and resources

I have Ifa C6, he's cool and all, but I definitely won't pick him for any serious content. I enjoyed to lvl up friendship to lvl 10 tho, he's fun. I probably will use him in wheelchair team with Columbina and Ineffa, but he's not main DPS and require very little investments

Sethos is main DPS and, trust me, you don't want to waste tons of resources on a 4* main DPS in 2026. Back in 1.x-3.x it was fine, but now, when we have teams with 150k DPS... Just no. If you have too much resources, then you can do whatever you want, but 4* clears are almost a history now. Forget it. Too much investments needed

Ofc I'm day one player and have almost all characters, but if you don't have a lot of characters - get Columbina and Ineffa and spend resources to upgrade them. You probably won't get C6 Sethos anyway at that point

4* DPS is a myth now

(Yeah, yeah, I see you, that one hyperinvested Gaming with R5 banner weapon. You're cool! Sad that Ineffa + Columbina can do more damage from offield)

If you like them, yes

Sethos easiest piloted one is with Ineffa


Aggravate i think is his highest personal damage dealing ome but thing is, its not really his gameplay thats hard he like alot of characters hates getting interrupted.

I found Sethos to be a great character and very fun to play, but you have to cancel some of his attacks to get reasonable damage out of him.
Ifa is...okayish? He is noch and there are more generalist supports that perform better than him even in his niche. Namely Sucrose and Lan Yan. He doesn't really heal enough for stacking fanfare for Furina. He's just meh unless you really like him, I wouldn't encourage you to invest in him.

I can't say anything about Sethos, because I only have him on C0 (hoping for more cons, because I would love to build him), but my Ifa is C4 and he is soooo fun to play, especially together with Ororon. I hope that I'll get his C5 and C6.
In the end, you should always build the ones you want. No real reason in GI not to, especially because we have the Theatre!

Depends on how you feel about them, they aren't meta breaking or anything however they can be fun to play and more importantly if you like the way they look then you should try and pull for them.

Please keep in mind that 4 stars are not guaranteed and you can get very unlucky, I've personally gotten 5 stars I wasn't planning on getting and never ending up with the 4 star I was chasing lol

Ifa is a fun and pretty easy to use unit that heals, swirls, and flys which can be nice. If you don't have any movement characters I would recommend him just for that alone.

Sethos can be hard to master but there's some good tutorials on YouTube to learn about his different play styles. Once you get the hang of him he can be very fun since his kit is more involved than a lot of others (especially other 4 stars)

not the best units in term of performance but both fun to play. Ifa can fly for quite long too.

I don't have Ifa, but I'll speak of Sethos, since I can beat the Baptist on Fearless with him.




To begin with, one of his best weapons is Slingshot, a 3 stars weapon. May as well be better than all 4 stars weapons. Why is that the case? Well, because the secondary stat is CR, allowing you to give him a CD Circlet, and the passive greatly enhances his damage. What would be a balancing factor, such as the low base ATK of a 3 stars weapon, is essentially a non-issue, as he scales far more out of EM than ATK anyway. He's built with EM + DMG + CD. Get a lot of ER substats btw. Also, it's ridiculously easy to farm his artifacts, as you get it passively just by beating random bosses, as his best set is Wanderer's Troupe.

if you have no Chasca or Wanda, C6 Ifa is a great exploration buddy AND driver.

If you need characters for IT, then yes

I can't speak for Sethos because I never properly built him, but Ifa is an absolute blast to play on Lunar Charged teams. I've been playing a team of Furina/Ineffa/Ororon/Ifa with Ifa as the on field driver and I have found it to be a stupidly strong team while being very easy to play. It's been my go to team for most content recently.

Imma go out on a limb and say this...but Ifa might end up being an amazing support for Varka. Initial Varka kit leaks point to that.

I have C6 ifa and I love playing him...but I benched him after getting chasca...she just did everything he does...only better. Ifa has one advantage...he can hold TTDS

Ifa is so absurdly fun, I used him in Abyss and he did pretty well. He was with Ororon, Ineffa, and Xingqiu.

Ifa Columbina Ineffa Ororon is probably gonna be an insane team

Fun units to mess around but not the units you’d pick for harder content.

If you don't have an Electro DPS yet, Sethos is pretty good. The hardest aspect to building him is farming for his ascension materials. But then all you have to do to gear him is equip a 3* bow (Slingshot) and put EM + Crit artifacts on him. He also synergises really well with Lunar Charge because he wants EM more than ATK, which is probably why he's on banner atm, isn't locked to only one kind of Electro based reaction (great for IT), and is also not dependent on a specific type of unit to unlock his full potential (see Razor with Hexenzirkel buffs).

Other people keep comparing him to new 5* DPS options, but he's good enough to clear any endgame content that isn't Dire Stygian. His playstyle requires some thought but he has quite a few techs that let's you have some choice and creativity in how you play him.

My Ifa has only 1 con so I haven't used him much but he's a usable exploration unit, really good with Lunar/Electro Charge since he likes EM as well, and can use TTDS and Cinder City as to be a quick buffer if you don't care to on-field him for long.