Yes, I know I'm LONG overdue for a new blog post. Playing with three Genshin Impact accounts on top of getting more and more tired of teaching English has taken a huge toll on the time and energy I have. But this time, I got a rare burst of motivation.
This spreadsheet was originally the idea of my good INTP friend Alevius though once she shared the spreadsheet with me, I went crazy with adding formulae and my own details. I basically turned it into a sequel to my Co-Op Simping spreadsheet.
By the way, I'm an INTP too. We edited this spreadsheet like we're peas in a pod.
This spreadsheet compiles the MBTI types of every Genshin Impact playable character.
They're mostly from Personality Database (PDB) though if we disagreed with a certain character's type, we put our own instead. For example, we think Alhaitham is an ENTJ because thanks to his "Book learning is not enough to cultivate intelligence." quote, he does not have the same aversion to the outside world as an INTJ would.
This spreadsheet and this blog post assume that the reader knows what MBTI is. If you don't, I suggest starting with Mistype Investigator's 5-part series about self-typing.
Who's Alevius?
Alevius is a friend I met on PDB. I replied to a comment where she advised an ENFJ how to properly communicate with an INTP and I added to her advice with my own ideas. In typical high Ne fashion, I branched off her original idea of talking about an INTP's interests into what we realized we both really enjoy: Genshin Impact. We both love Sucrose's personality and don't relate to the huge number of Kazuha superfans out there. Don't worry—we used that tangent to prove her point that deep-diving is something an INTP loves.
On Discord, we regularly discuss a lot of things in paragraphs including but not limited to Genshin Impact lore, our work, headcanons with our OCs, and our studies.
We share a lot of the same values in life like intelligence and defending the weak, hence why we think one is the other's alter ego in another country and gender. My annoying English-learning students, for example, are analogous to her annoying coworkers and customers at Pizza Hut, hence why I like to imagine I have the attention to detail of a Pizza Hut server while she has the flexibility of an English teacher. (Now, if only I could use my martial arts to give her the power and durability of a Destruction character. Alevius is an Erudition-following accountant.)
What's up with the "Model", "Ratheil Poll Rank", and "Abyss Usage Rate" columns? They have nothing to do with MBTI!
Not gonna lie, this is mostly for my own research, not Alevius's. A lot of factors contribute to a character's popularity, after all, and compiling these data helps me understand the general interests of players better.
MBTI isn't everything, after all—you'll see in the sheet that there are many characters with the same type but wildly different usage rates. Tartaglia (tall male, #9 in Ratheil's poll, 21% usage rate) and Arataki Itto (tall male, #5, 10.9%) are both ESTPs, for example. Nahida is significantly more popular than Xingqiu despite both being powerful INFJs in the meta.
ENTP seems to have the strongest correlation between MBTI and meta thanks to Lyney, Yae Miko, and Yelan being heavy hitters.
Alevius also found a bit of a correlation between model and MBTI. For example, Eula, the Raiden Shogun, Yae Miko, and Yelan are all tall female thinking types with high popularity. The popular medium males tend to be sensors. The popular tall males tend to be extroverted perceivers.
ENFPs and ENTJs tend to be popular among the community. ISFPs are quite wild with both the most and least popular characters.
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