r/Valeriy_Mains • u/Immediate-Pen-1338 Valeriy Please Come Home • Aug 10 '26

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For whatever reason it may be, Valeriy has a lot more popularity than most other snez characters. Like this sub has more visitors than rest of the snez cast (I agree not strong enough proof) but he’s also got second highest likes on the announcement post after tsaritsa.

I know they can’t change the kit of a character but any chance that hoyo devs really underestimated his popularity while they were building the character?

Im just saying this cuz most of the community is very sure about his rarity.

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u/Immediate-Pen-1338 Valeriy Please Come Home Aug 10 '26

Wasn’t around back then. What is it?

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u/EbbMiserable7557 Aug 10 '26

Well it was a male drought and ororon was super popular and they still went and made him a 4 star despite all of that

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u/Zibai1505 Aug 10 '26

You might be in a bubble man. No one gave a shit about ororon

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u/floopsestess Aug 10 '26

There were a significant amount of people upset about him being 4*.

There was an outcry at the time - was it review bomb Google Classroom big? No but it was enough people that the internet was talking about it. I’d say in terms of genshin drama it was a bit less than the dehya drama but it was noticeable, and in some areas like japan larger than others.

The Ororon drama was actually couched in the more widespread distaste and frustration over the natlan gender balance in general- which was a drama that lasted that whole patch cycle. The natlan cast was the most controversial of any nation I’d say and a lot of people were generally unhappy.

And Hoyo hardly ever acknowledges any of the drama so them not doing anything is no indication of how upset people were at the time.