No Gatha?

Hello, I’m doing a no gacha run ( no real reason why I just find it fun ) I am just about to fight the dragon and started doing some thinking about my team and remembered that atm the game has some free characters, I’m not very knowledgeable in this game as my main account is just a heizou simp account and was wondering what character would be the best to pick in the long run?

Any suggestions / ideas would be appreciated and thank you for reading.

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MofoPro2026-01-18 00:00

Is No Gatha a new character I wasn't aware of

Greedy-Delay29012026-01-18 00:01

Just noticed that XD

Genshin_DeepDive2026-01-18 00:04

Hey, a challenge account, nothing wrong with that! I have a few, such as Locals Only, Catalysts Only, and a speedrun account.

So you're relying exclusively on free characters given to you as part of the game's natural progression? That means Traveler, Amber, Lisa, Kaeya, Barbara, Xianling, Collei, Lynette, and Kachina if I recall correctly.

You're wondering what team you can make from that selection? Well, since you're still in Mondstadt you're a bit hard-limited to the first four or five in that list until you can complete the Spiral Abyss enough to unlock Xianling and Collei. Once you have them, you can more or less pull your way through the game with any combination of four. I feel as though Amber/Lisa is your best option since Overload is powerful, but Barbara+Kaeya freeze plus Lisa Overcharge or Xianling Met is decent. Collei would be better served to helping another Dendro, but in the absence of options, you can still use her to trigger bloom and then more advanced Dendro reactions. As you progress, you could use Traveler in their stronger elements such as Anemo, Dendro, Hydro, or Pyro.

Disclaimer: I'm not a meta player, so these are opinions, not facts. But if I were in your shoes, that's what I'd try. Feel free to disregard; I'm sure you'll get some comments from more experienced team builders with other ideas. :)

Greedy-Delay29012026-01-18 00:06

Thank you so much, still don’t know what character to choose out of the 8 free characters they let you choose from atm as I feel like it could completely change my team dynamics

Genshin_DeepDive2026-01-18 00:11

Honestly, my impression of the character options makes me lean towards Elemental-Mastery elemental damage "rainbow" teams with an even mix of elements and playstyles. Focusing on any one meta could be a bit challenging. I will say, though, that if you're focused you can still build almost any set of characters to be devastating enough to get you through the higher World Level difficulties.

My personal team choice would probably be Barbara, Anemo Traveler, Lisa, and Kaeya. A bit of crowd control, decent off-fields, decent healing. Build Traveler as your pseudo-dps, rely on the others for elemental reactions and swirl when you can with short skill cooldowns and cheap bursts.

Dyzinel2026-01-18 00:07

Helping this topic, the free units are: Traveler, Amber, Noelle (guaranteed to come in the first multi in the beginner banner), Kaeya, Lisa, Barbara, Xiangling, Collei, Lynette, Kachina, Aino, Manekin & Manekina and Fischl or Sucrose or Razor depending on who you choose in the Witch quest.

Genshin_DeepDive2026-01-18 00:12

Forgot about Aino and the Manekin(a) and the Hexirei characters. Thanks for this comment. u/Greedy-Delay2901 check this, too.

Greedy-Delay29012026-01-18 00:17

There is also dehya, keqing, mona, jean, qiqi, tighnari and diluc at the moment as well as a free consultation for certain 5 stars

liam210152026-01-18 00:37

Upcoming liyue selector will be good too

The_Cheeseman832026-01-18 01:58

I did something similar back in 2.0, and in my experience, Xiangling with Crescent Pike is a great carry up to AR45 when you can start farming real sets to build good teams. Granted, there are way more options available these days, but keep that in your back pocket, because I can attest that it works.

I eventually got bored with the concept, because it wasn’t particularly challenging, and using the same handful of characters forever just didn’t appeal to me.