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okay so in baby terms:
main dps: your character that you bring on field to do all the attacking for a longer period of time, examples of this would be characters like Diluc, Varka, Arlecchino, Chlorine, Neuvillette, Zibai, Wanderer, Alhaitham, Hu Tao, Mavuika as examples.
SUB (or burst) DPS characters are ones you bring onto the field for a short period of time, mostly to mostly use their skill and ultimate powers for a short period of time, to help with damage, but in a much shorter time frame than you would with a main dps character. IE: Raiden Shogun - you use her burst to do big amounts of damage then swap off of her once it ends, tighnari - burst for a good amount of damage then use his skill to do 3 attacks, rinse and repeat, Durin - skill, then burst and his attacks will apply fire (pyro) attacks off field, same with Xiangling, Yelan and Xingiu, use skill then burst and they will do water (hydro) attacks off field.
Supports are characters that typically BUFF your other characters, whether it's giving negative status effects to the enemies such as lowering their resistance to whichever element is applied to them when using their attacks; such as venti/kazuha/sucrose using the viridescent artifact set, allowing whichever element - fire/water/lightning/ice - that has already been applied to the enemy by another character by attacking with whichever attack that causes the "swirl" reaction to show up on screen (ventis and kazuhas are his skill and burst, sucrose is normal attack, skill and burst). or characters like xilonen, who automatically applies these negative buffs to the enemy by attacking them after triggering her skill, as long as you have at least 2 characters with any of the 4 elements stated above, on your team, can be same or different from each other. zhongli, who applies a 20% defense lowering to enemies in general when you have his shield applied.
then there are characters that BUFF your team, whether it's things by applying a base number to your stats, such as getting attack, defense, or elemental mastery.
examples of this are: Bennett, Iansan, Furina, Durin and the upcoming Nicole, adding to your ATTACK stat via various conditions met in
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