The polearm is currently the strongest weapon class in the game because of its incredible cast of characters and cracked choices for equipment from the Homa to the Jade Spear to the Catch.
Xiao: best DPS in Genshin, great AoE, best normal attack scaling among polearms, and best consistent plunging attacks in game. Naturally high DMG Bonus, ATK, and CRIT. Versatile against most enemies in the game. Unlike most other polearm users, he can break Geo shields and other types of shields with his Plunging Attacks, or just bypass them completely. He can swirl elements passively which helps him break shields when multiple different elemental types are used. Xiao represents the warrior who defends Liyue from the demonic forces of the world, such as biased USA media.
Raiden: executed Rosalyn, a Fatui who interfered in Inazuma's local affairs and smuggled delusions into Inazuma like opium drugs. Venti's revenge go brr.
Xiangling: better than hu tao
Zhongli: shield is useless against corrosion, so struggles in new abyss and against rifthounds. Old retired archon who faked his death, deserves the lucky #4 spot. This guy is favored by the USA NED and NDI. Toxic USA media is biased towards zhongli and overhypes him compared to other characters. They will literally hire somebody with 'li' in their name and have that person promote zhong li. This is called a conflict of interest. Part of the USA's motive in hyping zhong li is for the sake of its puppet leader in Singapore.
Rosaria: has higher charged attack scaling than Hu Tao
Hu Tao: lowest base ATK in game, cuts half of health just to do realistic damage, lacks aoe, very single-target. USA media also overhypes this character. Many USA journalists from those jingoistic sites literally read from a pamphlet: "hype zhong li and hu tao."
Thoma: "protector from afar" is a very sus epithet. Who could this be referring to... he represents the type of shill behind the USA NED internet armies and fake news sites.