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As a new 5-star character in Genshin Impact 5.1, Xilonen is designed as an extremely powerful Support. She is a renowned blacksmith as well as a hero in Natlan.

Xilonen is designed as a Geo character with a Sword weapon. The kit she equips is available to decrease Elemental Resistance on enemies based on the elements of allies.

If you are desperate to build her in Genshin Impact, you have to know the specific materials that are in need. This article will detail the materials which are required to build Xilonen. If you are not familiar with the specific steps, you can try to get Genshin Impact Accounts to embrace Xilonen directly.

Materials Are Needed For Build Xilonen

Ascension Materials

• 420k Mora
• 1 Prithiva Topaz Sliver
• 168 Brilliant Chrysanthemum
• 18 Sentry’s Wooden Whistle
• 9 Prithiva Topaz Fragment
• 46 Gold-Inscribed Secret Source Core
• 30 Warrior’s Metal Whistle
• 9 Prithiva Topaz Chunk
• 36 Saurian-Crowned Warrior’s Golden Whistle
• 6 Prithiva Topaz Gemstone

Talent Materials

• 1653k Mora
• 3 Teachings of Kindling
• 6 Sentry’s Wooden Whistle
• 21 Guide to Kindling
• 22 Warrior’s Metal Whistle
• 38 Philosophies of Kindling
• 31 Saurian-Crowned Warrior’s Golden Whistle
• 6 Mirror of Mushin
• 1 Crown of Insight

Xilonen Materials Farming Guide

Most of Xilonen’s materials could be found in Natlan, except for Trounce Domain, which can only be gotten in Sumeru. Here lies a complete guide on all Xilonen material locations and the way to farm to make sure you can get Xilonen best build in Genshin Impact 5.1.

Brilliant Chrysanthemum Farming Strategy

There are totally 71 Brilliant Chrysanthemums surrounding Stadium of the Sacred Flame and Huitztli Hill. Since there are only 71 Brilliant Chrysanthemums at a time, you will need to wait for the materials to reset before you can collect the required amount. Of course, to save more time, collecting materials from your friends’ worlds could be counted as a wise choice.

Whistle Drops Farming Strategy

Whistle Drops include the types of Sentry’s Wooden Whistle, Warrior’s Metal Whistle, and Saurian-Crowned Warrior’s Golden Whistle, which can be obtained by defeating Sauroform Tribal Warriors in Pyro Nation Natlan. And you can find them around Natlan. By the way, the best method to track down them is to use Adventurer’s Handbook and find out the concrete direction on the map.

Gold-Inscribed Secret Source Core Farming Strategy

Gold-Inscribed Secret Source Core serves as a drop of the new normal boss Secret Source Automaton: Configuration Device. You can find this boss in Toyac Springs in Natlan, east of People of the Springs tribe. Adventure handbook will show you specific location and navigate to it. Slay him and this valuable material is available.

Prithiva Topaz Farming Strategy

Prithiva Topaz is also obtained as an enemy drop and is typically used by Geo characters. Moreover, you can also use higher-rarity Prithiva Topaz materials to farm more of it with lower rarity. Below lies the bosses who will award players this material:

• Geo Hypostasis
• Ruin Serpent
• Primo Geovishap
• Golden Wolflord
• Experimental Field Generator
• Wolf of the North
• Beneath the Dragon Queller

Guide To Kindling Farming Strategy

Guide to Kindling is available in Blazing Ruins Mastery Domain, which nestles in south of Tepeacac Rise in Natlan. And it can only be farmed on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Mirror Of Mushin Farming Strategy

There are totally three methods to claim Mirror Of Mushin. First, it serves as a random reward from Joururi Workshop Tounce Domain in Sumeru. Or you can also embrace it by defeating Everlasting Lord of Arcane Wisdom boss. Besides that, the combination of Puppet Strings and Dream Solvent or Daka’s Bell and Dream Solvent also can be used to craft Mirror of Mushin.

Notices About Xilonen

When it comes to support characters, the first impression that comes to your mind would be Kazuha or even Furina, and Geo characters may not be usually given much attention. But in Genshin Impact 5.1, Xilonen surprisingly rivals Kazuha in the aspects of support. Because she can heal the entire team while providing a ton of support and make her a solid option for a variety of teams.

As a Natlan character, Xilonen’s kit always surrounds heavily around Nightsoul Points. Fortunately, she can spawn Nightsoul Points independently because of her passive talent, which promises additional points for attacking those powerful enemies.

Another thing to note is that it is crucial to equip Xilonen with Right Artifacts. It bears similarity with how Viridescent Venerer makes Anemo units excellent support characters. So be sure to pay attention to the choice of Artifacts. Pay extra attention to the role of the team to achieve the best synergy.

Especially for Xilonen, paying much attention to your team’s elemental constitution goes beyond just Elemental Reactions. This fundamentally determines Xilonen’s role.

That’s all about the materials and ways to get the new 5-star character Xilonen in Genshin Impact 5.1. Hope you can embrace Xilonen and wield her power early. Thanks for reading.

After a special live broadcast on HoYoverse about Genshin Impact, most of the details in Genshin Impact 5.0 have been fully revealed, including new Natlan characters Mualani, Kinich, and Kachina with unique abilities and play styles.

With Genshin Impact 5.0, players will end their exploration in Fontaine and start a new journey with a Nation of Pyro Natlan. This means you will be exposed to a whole new set of main story quests, as well as Natlan characters in Genshin Impact.

These new characters will be divided into different patches, and what we can know so far is that you can get in touch with three new characters in Natlan. In addition, you will participate in some special limited-time events in Version 5.0 and get rewards. Can’t wait? This guide will list some new things that will appear in Version 5.0, but before that, please prepare your Genshin Impact Accounts so that you can get ahead of the official version.

Release Date

Currently, Genshin Impact 5.0 will be officially released starting from August 27th, US time. Because of time zones, the release time of each country is slightly different, but it won’t be too different. You can wait patiently.

New Characters

As mentioned earlier, three new Natlan playable characters will be introduced in Genshin Impact 5.0, namely: Mualani, Kinich, and Kachina. Now let’s get to know them.

Mualani is a 5-star Hydro character. When she fights, she can use a catalyst to make her normal attack deal elemental Hydro DMG to the enemy. In addition, her attack power is proportional to her HP. The higher HP, the stronger the attack power, so she is considered the main DPS on the team.

Besides Mualani’s own powerful attack power, she can also summon a shark-shaped mount, which can increase her movement speed and change her normal attack. On top of that, this shark-shaped mount can also ram marked targets and even fire missiles.

For Kinich, he’s a 5-star Dendro DPS with a claymore, and he also has a mobility skill that allows him to dodge and attack with a grappling hook while in combat. When used outside of combat, he can reach new heights and dash forward with this skill.

Back in combat, Kinich can hook an enemy with that hook and spin it around, then continue to attack the target. Plus, his bomb skill can connect the target enemy with the surrounding enemies, which is very effective against some group enemies. In addition, he can use his Burst skill to summon a pixel-dragon creature Ajaw and deal AOE Dendro DMG to nearby enemies.

The last one is Kachina. She is a 4-star Geo unit with a polearm. She also has a summon skill that summons a drill to help her finish the battle. If placed in the arena, it can also cause periodic AOE Geo DMG. If Kachina uses the drill as a mount, her normal attacks will change to also deal with AOE Geo DMG.

Since the drill will still be around after she leaves the arena after the fight, Kachina can be used as a DPS or sub-DPS in Genshin Impact 5.0.

New Banners

Next up is the banner order. Mualani will be the first new Natlan 5-star character to debut and will appear in Phase 1 banners, which will last from the official release date until September 17. During this time, Mualani’s banner will appear along with the return of Kaedehara Kazuha.

In addition, both of their 5-star weapons can be claimed in the weapons banner. Besides Mualani, Kachina will also make her debut in Phase 1 banners. And in Genshin Impact 5.0, you can also get a copy of Kachina for free.

In Phase 2 character banners, Kinich will make his debut as a 5-star limited character, and Raiden Shogun will also return. This phase will last from September 17 to October 8, and you can also draw the iconic weapons of these three characters in the weapons banner.

New Story And Mechanics In Natlan

In Genshin Impact 5.0, you’ll enter the region of Natlan. While the size of Nation of Pyro will definitely grow in future updates, the initial area is already large, so you can explore it to your heart’s content.

This new region will have unique gameplay mechanics, such as the ability to use Saurians as a means of traversal. In Genshin Impact 5.0, Saurians are dragon-like creatures that are incorporated into some of Natlan’s social structures, with some tribes worshipping different types of Saurians based on different elements, such as Dendro Saurian tribe and Hydro Saurian tribe you’ll encounter in version 5.0.

In addition, Natlan has a new combat mechanic called Nightsoul’s Blessing. There are three aspects to this, and each aspect plays a different role in how certain Natlan characters work. For example, some units can gain some benefits by collecting Nightsoul points, while others will unlock certain special effects when in Nightsoul’s Blessing state. On top of that, Nightsoul’s Blessing also affects your quest, as you may trigger special movement effects when swapping between certain characters, which can speed up or slow down your quest progress.

In Genshin Impact 5.0, you’ll also be taking part in a new Archon Quests, which means the primary campaign of following Traveler in search of his lost siblings isn’t over yet. After you enter Natlan, you’ll see a sign that the tournament is about to begin, and you might think it’s hosted by Mavuika of the Pyro Archon.

But there’s more to it than that, as Mavuika seems to be hiding the true Pyro Archon or Pyro Sovereign, and Fatui Harbinger, known in the game as Capitano, has also taken an interest in Warring States. The exact ending of these stories will be gradually revealed in the next few patches, so you can wait and see.

In addition to the main story content, this new country also adds several side quests for you to explore. During this update, you can also participate in some limited-time events, such as celebrating the fourth anniversary of Genshin Impact, where you can get a variety of rewards, including some upcoming character and weapons banners.

The above is some information about Genshin Impact 5.0. I hope you can have fun with the new country, new main and side quests and limited-time events, and look forward to more new content from Natlan.

Emilie is a brand new 5-star Dendro character coming in Genshin Impact 4.8.

In this build guide, I’ll cover her kit, the best Artifacts, including Deepwood Memories, Unfinished Reverie, and Golden Troupe. Then Stats you should look for, Attack or Elemental Mastery. And finally, the weapons she can use.

Keep in mind that Emilie is still in beta, and the information we cover here may change by the time of the official release. Without further ado, let’s get started with her kit.

Kit

Emilie is a 5-star Dendro damage dealer that can be used off-site. She wields a Polearm when attacking and has a Critical Damage Boost bonus.

Emilie’s normal attacks deal 4 physical damage, with little impact on other skills. Unleashing elemental skills deals AoE Dendro damage and creates a Lumidouce Case. Lumidouce Case is a turret, similar to Yae Miko’s ability. This Lumidouce Case will periodically deal Dendro damage to opponents within a large radius.

When nearby opponents are currently affected by Burning, they will generate scents every 2 seconds. These scents can be collected by Lumidouce Case, and every 2 scents will cause Case to upgrade, increasing its damage and radius.

Lumidouce Cases start at level 1 and can be upgraded up to level 2. However, please note that only 1 Lumidouce Case can exist at a time.

Emilie’s Elemental Burst creates a level 3 Lumidouce Case that deals Dendro damage within a certain radius, similar to Ganyu’s Burst.

Level 3 Elemental Burst does not collect any scents. Once the duration expires, a level 1 Lumidouce Case will be created. If there is an existing Lumidouce Case before Emilie’s Burst is used, Case will be recreated and its duration reset. This Burst has an energy cost of 50.

Passive

Speaking of her Passives, Emilie’s first Passive will trigger once a level 2 Lumidouce Case has collected 2 scents. Once triggered, Lumidouce Case will release a stream of Cleardew Cologne that deals AoE Dendro damage equal to 600% of Emilie’s attack power. It’s worth noting that this damage is not considered elemental skill damage.

Her second Passive will increase the damage dealt by burning to the opponent. Emilie will increase her damage by 15% for every 1,000 attack power she has, up to a maximum of 36% damage this way.

To get the most out of this Passive, you’ll need 3,000 or more attack power, which can be achieved by using an attack buffer like Bennett in your Genshin Impact Account and activating Pyro Resonance.

Finally, in lieu of a Utility Passive or Exploration Passive, Emilie has another Passive that protects your teammates from burning damage. When Lumidouce Case is present, all teammates will gain 85% Pyro resistance to resist burning damage.

Talent Priority

Before introducing Artifacts, we need to understand Emilie’s Talent priority: upgrade skills first, then Burst. Because level 1 and 2 Lumidouce Case will create scale according to skills, and her Burst will do good damage. But Emilie’s normal attacks don’t contribute much. You don’t have to upgrade them.

Artifacts

Speaking of Artifacts, the new Burning Set, Unfinished Reverie, will be her best choice.

Unfinished Reverie

The 2 piece bonus of this equipment increases attack power, and the 4 piece bonus increases damage by up to 50% when there are burning enemies nearby. If there are no burning enemies for 6 seconds, the damage bonus will be reduced until it reaches 0.

This equipment set is very suitable for Emilie because both require nearby enemies to be affected by burning to work. When this set was first announced, I thought it might be designed for a future character, and that future character turned out to be Emilie.

Deepwood Memories

Deepwood Memories is also a good choice if there are no other current party members. This set provides a Dendro damage bonus, and when the user’s skill or Burst hits the opponent, their Dendro resistance is reduced by 30%.

Deepwood Memories is good choice for Emilie, but it is a better choice for other party members. Any party member can use Deepwood, and simply hitting the enemy with a Burst or skill will provide a Dendro resistance reduction.

Golden Troupe

Golden Troupe does not perform as well as the other two sets because it only provides an elemental skill damage bonus. While Emilie is able to deal a lot of elemental skill damage, her first Passive accounts for a large portion of her damage, and the damage caused by her Passive does not count as elemental skill damage.

Although Golden Troupe provides the most elemental skill damage, the other sets perform better because of the increased damage of Passives.

Stats

Before discussing stats, let’s talk about Energy Recharge. Emilie’s Burst creates a level 3 Lumidouce Case, deals quite a bit of damage, and then creates a level 1 Lumidouce Case. So it’s even possible to rely on her Burst alone to create a Lumidouce Case.

Overall, her Burst is useful, but Energy Recharge required can be a bit high. Since Emilie has a 50 Energy cost and is off the field without a second Dendro unit on the team, Emilie needs about 160% to 180% Energy Recharge to sustain Burst. If you add another Dendro unit, Energy Recharge drops by 30% to 40%. However, I wouldn’t recommend charging Emilie that much, as you might start to lose damage.

While her Burst still deals decent damage, sacrificing skill damage to sustain Burst isn’t worth it. However, these are just estimates and don’t take into account the fact that multiple waves of enemies.

Therefore, for the main stats, it is not worth choosing Elemental Mastery to increase her burning damage. Ideally, choose Dendro damage, which you can use if your attack goblet has better substats and allows you to get extra stacks for her passive.

Weapons

When it comes to weapons, Emilie doesn’t have the most outstanding choices.

So, as always, her signature weapon, Lumidouce Elegy, will be her best weapon. The weapon has base attack damage of 608 and a 33% increase in critical strike rate.

As for its effects, it increases attack damage by 15%, and when the wielding character triggers burning or deals Dendro damage to a burning opponent, the damage dealt will be increased by 18%, up to 2 stacks.

Once 2 stacks are reached, 12 energy will be restored, which can be triggered every 12 seconds. These effects can also be triggered off-field. This weapon provides Emilie with many powerful properties. It can even reduce your energy consumption by about 30% because it will provide additional energy.

The other 5-star weapons are pretty good too, and not too far off from her signature weapon. Calamity Queller, Staff of Homa, and Staff of the Scarlet Sands are all good choices.

Overall, Emilie does have some options available, including multiple 5-star weapons and some 4-star weapons, but seems to lack a strong free option.

That’s all for this guide. Keep in mind that Emilie is still in beta, so the information in this guide may differ from the final version. Regardless, let’s look forward to her arrival!

Recently, we discovered that Arlecchino's kit will undergo some changes in Genshin Impact 4.6, both in the form of buffs and nerfs. Here we’ll summarize some of her key changes, and with this guide you’ll find out if she’s been buffed, and if her best teams and rotations have changed as a result.

Kit Changes

Before starting teams with her, I would do a quick review of her kit changes and try to keep it as simple as possible so you’re not clueless.

Earlier, we could only get 85% Bond of Life with Arlecchino in a single target situation. Of this, 70% comes from marks imposed by her abilities and 15% comes from her burst.

But right now, Arlecchino’s Elemental Burst doesn’t offer 15% Bond of Life. In return, it resets the cooldown of elemental skills. This is a great addition, since elemental skills are her primary way of gaining Bond of Life. This means you can get at least two casts in one rotation.

Not only that, but the way she once obtained Bond of Life has also changed. Now, if you perform a charged attack after applying the mark from her skill within 5 seconds, you will gain 40% Bond of Life. If you wait 5 seconds, you’ll get 70%.

So this means if you get 70% from the first skill cast, and 70% from the next skill cast, you’ll get 140% Bond of Life.

Also, since healing is transferred to her burst, the second skill cast will not clear her Bond of Life.

And the base multiplier of her red death state has been increased. Her elemental skill cooldowns have been doubled from 15 seconds to 30 seconds, but each basic attack reduces her skill cooldowns by 0.8 seconds. Therefore, about 19 normal attacks will reduce the skill cooling time by about 15 seconds. And Bond of Life reduction rate of her normal attacks has been increased to 6.5%.

In short, she can now get more Bond of Life with an increased multiplier, and in exchange, Bond of Life reduction rate has been increased to 6.5%. Although there were many buffs and nerfs in her kit, she ended up getting a significant buff. So now is definitely a good time to buy a Genshin Impact Account and try out Arlecchino!

General Rotation

Regarding her rotation, I have to remind you that you need to cast at least 2 skills per rotation to get the most out of her kit.

You may want to get 110% of Bond of Life or 140%, depending on how long you want to rotate. You can start with her skill and wait 3-4 seconds. During this time, you can switch to your support. Then use Arlecchino’s burst and a charged attack.

It should be noted that do not perform a charged attack before the burst, because her burst will clear Bond of Life. After using burst, use her skill again, then you can attack normally for 5 seconds or switch back to other supports.

Next, switch to Arlecchino again and perform a charged attack. This will give you the maximum Bond of Life, which is 140%. Or you can use the ability at the beginning for a shorter rotation, then cast her burst, and a charged attack.

Use the skill again and switch to support, then switch back to Arlecchino after 5 seconds and perform a charged attack, then continue sending your normal attacks.

Please note that this rotation will vary depending on your team, but this will be the general rotation.

Which Is The Best Choice For Arlecchino Team?

As Arlecchino’s rotation gets longer, it makes her harder to use with characters like Bennett or Yelan, as those characters have shorter buff durations and don’t fit into her rotation.

Of course, you can still use her with Bennett, but the character in the spotlight right now is Chevreuse. Because Chevreuse has long-lasting buffs, Arlecchino can easily take advantage of them.

Therefore, the best team to go with Arlecchino right now would be Chevreuse Overload team.

For the next two slots, you need to adapt to these long-rotating roles. The perfect characters for these two slots are Fischl and Yae Miko, as you can easily get 100% uptime on their elemental skills.

A quick swap team like this will make playing Arlecchino easier for you, as you can easily swap back to Chevreuse, Fischl, or Yae Miko to refresh buffs and skills.

But if you don’t have Yae Miko, you can also use any other Electro Sub-DPS like Beidou, Kuki Shinobu, Lisa or Raiden Shogun. Alternatively, you can use Pyro Buffer or another Sub-DPS like Bennett or Xiangling in her place.

But I don’t recommend using Bennett against light enemies, because overload can push them back, meaning you can easily get out of Bennett’s circle.

Regardless, this is her best team lineup. Of course, you can still use her on other teams, such as Mono-Pyro team with Xiangling, Bennett, and Kazuha. Or you can use her in a Vaporize team with Yelan or Xingqiu and Bennett.

But for now, Arlecchino is a perfect fit for Chevreuse. Therefore, I hope she will be added to Arlecchino’s banner so that every Arlecchino main can have her. Please let me know what your Arlecchino team is. See you next time!

With Kazuha a rerun in Genshin Impact 4.5, it’s the perfect opportunity to explore and refine a outstanding build tailored specifically for him, maximizing your damage potential every step of the way. So, let’s dive right in how to build the ultimate Kazuha!

Passive Talents

Starting off with his talents, since Kazuha is a character whose buffs mainly scale from Elemental Mastery, leveling him up is actually very essential. Normal attacks for Kazuha are standard stuff, nothing too important. If you're interested in playing this character, get a Genshin Impact Account with Kazuha!

However, leveling up this normal attack will result in more damage from the A1 passive Elemental skill, the main source of his crowd control. He lunges up in the air, pulling enemies in, and with a normal click, he does a plunge damage dealing damage to the enemies.

Elemental Skill

He also has 2 variations of Elemental Skill: Tap and Hold versions. In different scenarios, Tap and Hold versions have their own use cases. Ascension Passive, which is by far the most important Ascension Passive that Kazuha has. Also, a key thing to remember is that Kazuha can swirl 2 different elements in this manner, thus providing the elemental damage bonus to 2 elements.

Elemental Burst

Moving on to his Elemental Burst. Apart from making us completely blind for its entire duration, here's what else his Elemental Burst, the Kazuha Slash, does: It deals with an instance of Slash damage which scales from Attack, and then it creates an elemental field which observes a certain element. It can swirl an element from an enemy, which gives you the A4 passive. It can consistently swirl enemies, and the absorption priorities are based on Pyro > Hydro > Electro > Cryo.

Weapons

The weapons for Kazuha can be divided into 2 broad categories: ER and EM weapons:

Freedom-Sworn: Freedom-Sworn stands out as Kazuha's signature weapon and his best option. However, it's worth noting that Freedom-Sworn is the only weapon among the mentioned options that lacks ER, necessitating the use of an ER Sands to meet the energy requirement for Kazuha's burst cooldown.

Sacrificial Sword: The Sacrificial Sword offers Kazuha the ability to reset his skill cooldown when the passive is triggered. While this weapon can be beneficial for Kazuha, it's often considered more suitable for characters like Xingqiu. However, if you possess 2 R5 Sacrificial Swords, you can allocate one to Kazuha.

Constellations

Now, let's move on to the constellations for Kazuha. Kazuha is a character who is absolutely great at C0. However, his constellations do bring him some value.

• C1 reduces the cooldown of his skill by 10%, and after using his burst, his skill cooldown is reset, so you can actually go and execute a combo.
• C2 gives Kazuha 200 additional EM inside the burst radius and increases the EM of every party member by an overall 200, a great damage buff to the entire team. Should be an excellent stopping point if you are a die-hard Kazuha fan.
• C3 increases the skill level by 3 levels.
• C4 allows Kazuha to run a slightly low amount of ER, and also, whenever you glide with the C4, you also regenerate particles for your burst, so that's a really nice handy quality of life upgrade.
• C5 increases the burst level by 3 levels.
• C6 gives Kazuha 5 seconds of Anemo Infusion on his normal attacks after you use his skill or burst, a great DPS constellation.

Artifacts

Moving on to his artifacts, 4-piece set of Viridescent Venerer. That's the artifacts that you should aim for, be it a DPS build or an EM support build. 4-piece Viridescent Venerer is the best value, providing resistance shred and increasing swirl damage, benefiting Kazuha's entire kit a lot. So, 4-piece Viridescent Venerer provides you 60% extra Swirl damage and 40% elemental resistance shred on the infused element.

With the reappearance of Yae Miko’s Banner, now it’s perfect time to provide an enhanced and user-friendly Genshin Impact build guide for optimizing Yae Miko's potential. I will cover weapons choices, artifact sets and more you need to know about. So let's dive in.

If you are interested in Yae Miko, you can get a Genshin Impact Account with this character.

Weapons

For weapons, choosing the right one is crucial. The Kagura's Verity is obviously her signature weapon and is tailor made for Yae Miko. Even the buffs stack 3 times every time you cast an elemental skill, which is perfect for Yae Miko because she casts her elemental skill 3 times. So, if you have this, obviously pick this one.

If you’re looking for alternatives, A Thousand Floating Dreams is actually a good pick for Yae Miko, especially if you’re trying to run a dendro team. Other viable options include the Skyward Atlas, Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds, and Memory of Dust for 5-star weapons.

Among 4-star options, the Widsith stands out as the best choice. It’s technically her best four-star weapon, so if you have the opportunity to obtain it, you should pick it. While the Solar Pearl can be a good pick, especially if you weave in normal attacks with your charge combos, the Widsith remains the preferred option.

Considering the recent Fontaine content update, the Flowing Purity emerges as a viable weapon choice for Yae Miko. It enhances elemental damage, making it a favorable option. However, it comes with a caveat - you’ll need a healer capable of clearing the 1,000 HP Bond of Life effect triggered when casting an elemental skill with Flowing Purity. Despite this requirement, it’s still a solid pick and currently stands as the best free-to-play weapon for Yae Miko.

Artifact Sets

When it comes to artifact sets, I recommend focusing on 2 specific sets: the Gilded Dream set and the Golden Troupe set. Avoid selecting any other sets if your goal is to optimize Yae Miko’s off-field damage output. The Golden Troupe set proves to be highly effective, offering significant viability, especially if Yae Miko isn’t frequently kept on the field.

For those aiming to build Elemental Mastery teams or dendro-focused setups, the Gilded Dream set remains an excellent choice. This set provides valuable buffs to both attack and Elemental Mastery, enhancing Yae Miko’s performance in such team compositions.

Stats

When selecting artifact main stats for Yae Miko, consider prioritizing either attack percentage or Elemental Mastery for the Sands slot. In the Goblet slot, opt for Electro Damage to maximize her elemental capabilities. For the Circlet slot, choose either CRIT Rate or CRIT Damage based on your team’s needs.

In terms of substats, prioritize crit rate and crit damage for optimal damage output. As a secondary priority, focus on attack percentage and Elemental Mastery, ensuring that your team has sufficient Energy Recharge to sustain Yae Miko’s abilities.

Constellations & Talents

If you’re not aiming for Constellation 6 (C6), Constellation 2 (C2) serves as the ideal stopping point for Yae Miko. This constellation enhances her turrets by increasing their level and extending their range to cover a significant portion of the Abyss Floor, allowing her to effectively target enemies across various distances.

When developing the talents of the Yae Miko, priority is given to Elemental Mastery talents, followed by burst ability. Finally is her normal attack. You can afford to neglect her normal attack in favor of maximizing the effectiveness of her Elemental Skill and burst damage.

Team Compositions

When forming teams for Yae Miko, it’s important to note that she excels as an off-field damage dealer, primarily deploying turrets to deal damage. Therefore, she functions well as a sub DPS alongside various teammates. Here are some of my team composition recommendations:

• Raiden Shogun Team: This team mirrors the national team composition, but with the addition of 2 pyro characters: Bennett and Xiangling. Include Yae Miko and Raiden Shogun in the lineup. Yae Miko serves as the sub DPS, while Raiden Shogun acts as the main DPS, utilizing overloads with Xiangling and benefiting from Bennett’s buffs and healing.
• Aggro-Based Team: Construct a team featuring Zhongli, Nahayaiko, and Thoma. The flexibility of this team allows for interchangeability based on your roster. Nahida, Yae Miko can be substituted with Yaoyao, and Thoma with Albedo. Zhongli functions as the primary shielder, while Yae Miko deploys turrets and synergizes with Thoma, Nahida and Yae Miko for quicken and aggro reactions.
• Chevreuse Team: This team centers around overloads, leveraging Chevreuse Ascension 4 passive to enhance damage for both Electro and Pyro characters. Include Chevreuse, Yae Miko, and Bennett for added healing. While overload reactions may occur frequently, survivability is generally not a concern, making this team effective against bosses.

Here's a comprehensive breakdown of all the attacks executed by the Solitary Suanni deer boss, along with a demonstration of how to earn the associated achievement in Genshin Impact. Apart from these, don't forget to farm Cloudseam Scales while you're in the boss fight.

Where To Find?

The new deer boss appears is in Northern Leeway, a new area in Genshin Impact. Just take the teleporter to the south of the boss, and you don’t need to do any quest or story to unlock it. You can just run there and take these little flying things to reach the boss.

How To Defeat?

Hydro

This boss can be made super easy by having a Cryo unit on the team. I will take this phase with Level 1 Charlotte as a example. You can use a Genshin Impact Account with other characters, I believe the boss fight will be more exciting. That doesn’t have any gear just to show that any Cryo will do.

After a little, the boss will enter a Hydro phase. Hit it with Cryo to freeze it. After freezing it, hit it with something that reacts with a frozen unit like Pyro or Electro, or even Claymore or Geo. This will stun the boss for a long time and make it take more damage. Hitting it with Geo or Claymore while it’s frozen is also how you get the achievement.

Anemo

The second unique attack is an Anemo phase where it summons 3 Anemo orbs, and you need to hit those with one of the 4 key Elements to react to it and make them blow up. Having a catalyst user is the fastest way, but you can also use Elemental skills or charge shots from your archers.

Here’s what happens when you don’t have a Cryo unit: the boss will not get interrupted during the eruptions, and it’s very hard to dodge all the attacks. The last slam does a lot of damage too. To properly avoid the last slam, use your burst at the right time or iFrame dash properly, but the timing can be pretty tight.

The Anemo is similar, where there’s a slam at the end, and for me, the Anemo version is harder to dodge. The Anemo version also creates tornadoes that slow you down and damage you if you’re near it.

Wind Water Combo

Outside of those 2 unique transitions, the boss has very few attacks. There’s the wind-water combo where it does an AOE Anemo followed by a Hydrocodone attack. The Anemo part is simply to dodge and has a very long startup. It’s hard to iFrame through the cone, so I found it easier to dash to the side or diagonal towards the boss so you can get through the cone.

Hydro Tail

Next attack is 2 tail slashes. They are very easy to dodge. You might actually dodge too early and get hit by the second slash. Another tail slash is the Anemo version where it shoots homing missiles. It only does this when you’re far away, and the best approach is to iFrame towards the boss. You can also dash to the side, but I prefer going towards.

Wind Water Slam

The last 2 attacks are an Anemo and Hydro slam. There are 2 versions: the Anemo is very fast, and the Hydro is very slow. The Anemo can be hard to dodge since it’s pretty quick, but it doesn’t do much damage, while the Hydro has a pretty long tail, and it gives you a lot of time to avoid that blue circle on the ground. And that’s all the attacks.

This boss is very easy if you bring a Cryo unit to avoid the water phase, and with a strong team, you can just ignore the Cryo and skip all the mechanics since you’ll kill the boss before it even gets to the water phase. But later on in the spiral, when this eventually gets there, you’re going to need to bring a Cryo in order to stop it from doing all that damage.

Hello, gamers! The complete details of Chiori Kit have been unveiled nowadays in Genshin Impact. It has been confirmed that Chiori possesses a Geo Vision. Chiori’s Geo Vision was obtained in Inazuma, so it does not have Fontaine’s casing. As such, it is unlikely that Chiori will have an Ary system alignment.

If you find interest in Chiori, you have the option to purchase a Genshin Impact Accounts with this character upon her release.

Introduction

Chiori has been leaked to be a sword user. Uncle PPs leak also details Chiori’s alleged Elemental Burst. According to them, Chiori has a short animation in which she wields a scissor. After that, 3 scissors spawn around her, rotating around her before opening. The nearby enemies will then explode. After this, 3 scissor symbols appear behind the character. White’s leak mentions that Chiori’s burst deals damage to nearby enemies, thus sustaining the previous leak, while also mentioning that it provides a buff to the active character on field. According to the leaker in a Reddit post, the scissor symbols created behind the active character will support normal attacks. This buff may be what her burst provides.

One of Chiori’s alleged passive talents will boost the entire team’s Geo DMGs. Whenever the scissor is active, another leaked passive talent highlights a coordinated attack in Genshin Impact. When there is one active scissor, it will open, and when there are 2 or 3 active scissors, the coordination attack will see the scissor close.This coordination attack scissors are said to last 6 seconds, up to 3.

Gameplay

Analyzing Chiori’s alleged gameplay kit leaks, it does seem like version 4.5 leaks about her being a support and sub-DPS unit seem accurate, with her Elemental skills’ ability to gather opponents and deal damage, probably Geo DMG. This could be a way of gathering opponents together in a similar way that Kazuha regularly does it.

It does, however, seem like Chiori’s Elemental burst is the star of her kit. The leaks imply that Chiori will start dealing damage but then activate a series of effects that can be beneficial to the team comp in Genshin Impact. The reported Elemental Burst generates petite scissor symbols, offering a buff to the current character's normal attacks. This is envisioned as a means to bolster the main DPS character within the party. In addition to that, Chiori’s leaked passive talent further indicates her role as a support, as having the scissor symbols active can grant the team a Geo DMG buff.

Final Thought

With these 2 pieces of information, it can be interpreted that Chiori will be a Geo support unit, empowering Geo DPS heroes that rely on normal attacks for damage output, such as Arataki Ito or Ningguang. In Genshin Impact, what may indicate that Chiori can also operate as a sub-DPS is the fact that the leaks mention coordinated attacks.

According to Uncle PP, Chiori's scissor symbols generated by her Elemental Burst can initiate coordinated attacks resembling scissors. Typically, these coordinated attacks take place even when the triggering character is not on the field, making them particularly suitable for support and sub-DPS roles. Raiden Shogun, Xingqiu, and Yanfei are some of the characters that provide the best and most consistent coordinated attacks in Genshin Impact, dealing damage and spreading their elements while off-field.

The second phase character banner for 4.3 patch has been released. However, is this banner really worth the pull? Without wasting time, let’s discuss it together. If you are interested in these characters, purchase a Genshin Impact Accounts is absolutely a good idea.

5-Star Characters

It's good to see that we have Raiden Shotgun and Yoimiya rerun!

Yoimiya

First, we discuss Yoimiya. She’s a Pyro main DPS that focuses on single-target enemies, famous for her hyper carry and overload teams. Yoimiya is also very suitable for fighting enemies that don’t want to stand still, for example, like the Thunder Manifestation in the Spira Bas. Plus, her normal attack range is far, and she has a really fun play style. Yoimiya is also a character with a simple play style that is very newbie-friendly, suitable for casual players too.

Raiden Shotgun

Next is the 5-star character, the one who receives the spotlight in the second phase Banner – it’s the Raiden Shotgun or known as the Electro Archon. She has a role as a battery sub DPS and can even be a main DPS, especially since the release of Dandro. Raiden Shotgun’s value has increased even more and has become one of the best choices as an Electro applier and battery in several team comps. Electro battery sub DPS makes her very flexible in a lot of team comps.

4-Star Characters

So far, the 2 5-star characters look tempting, but what about these 4 stars?

Kujou Sara

The first 4-star is Kujou Sara, one of the 4-star support characters that is very good, especially for your Electro DPS. Kujou Sara can give additional Electro crate damage and a high attack buff, perfectly fitting with the 5-star that is currently on the rate up – the Raiden Shotgun. If you already have Sara, I recommend C6 for her for even more Electro damage.

Bennett

The second 4-star is Bennett. There is no doubt about this 4-star – Bennett is one of the best supports in Genshin Impact. Bennett’s ultimate can provide massive heal and attack buffs, making him a very flexible support for many DPS. If you have Bennett, I recommend C1 for the maximum attack buffs. C2 is also good for increasing energy recharge, and if you want to go all in, I recommend pulling his C5 for additional ultimate talent level, which means more buffs and heals.

Chevreuse

The last 4-star is Chevreuse, the new 4-star character in this patch. Chevreuse is a special support character for Overload Reactions. This might be the time for you to use an overload teamcomp, because this elemental reaction is rarely used by Genshin Impact players. But the arrival of Chevreuse will change that because she will make overload meta.

Additionally, Chevreuse can provide a little heal from her skill. If you want to get her constellation, I recommend at least taking her C1 because it can give more energy regeneration to the team. If you want to go all in for her, take her C6, which is also very good for adding heal and buffs from Chevreuse!

Final Thought

That’s the discussion for banner characters in the second phase of 4.3 Genshin Impact. It can be concluded that this second patch banner is very worth the pull. They got a great single-target DPS and the most flexible Electro characters as the 5-star. We also have 3 4-star characters who have a support role and are perfect for complementing your party. If you combine all of them, then you got yourself a full Cyber team.

I will compare 3 DPS characters in Genshin Impact by doing some boss fights - Yoimiya, Ayaka and Raiden Shogun. So, let’s find out who’s the strongest. I am sure that the results may surprise you! Now all of them are at C0. None of them have their signature weapon. So this showdown is completely fair. But in all seriousness, this showdown is going to be really close.

Yoimiya

Yoimiya may have her signature weapon, but she doesn’t have her best in-slot artifacts. Because even after farming the emblem domain for months, I didn’t get a good piece. And for the same reason, Raiden has mediocre artifacts. And she is using a mediocre weapon, so her C2 just makes up for that.

Ayaka

Now that leaves Ayaka, she doesn’t have her signature weapon, and she is at C0, but, she got the support of Shenhe with her signature weapon. So this showdown is gonna be an interesting one.

And on that note, Ayaka’s banner is ending soon, so if you want to get her or her weapon, you need to get a Genshin Impact Account with this character quickly or you will not have an incrediable experience.

Raiden Shogun

The last one I want to compare with is the Raiden Shogun. She is considered to be one of the best sub-DPS characters in the game. Thanks to her Elemental Skill, which creates an eye that deals periodic Electro Damage to enemies. Her weapon is

Boss Fight

1. Inazuama Boss

Let’s start with an Inazuama boss, because all of them are from Inazuama. Here is the side-by-side comparison.

Starting off with Ayaka. Ayaka finishes off the 1st part of this boss battle within 6s, and completed the rest in 5s. So in-total, she took 11s to finish off this boss.

Next-up, we have Raiden Shogun. In comparison, Raiden shogun has done the 1st phase in just 4s, and then it was an instant kill. So let’s say, she took about 5s to kill this boss.

Now it’s Yoimiya’s turn. When it comes to Yoimiya, she took 6s for the 1st part, and 5s for the rest. Which means, in-total, she also took 11s like Ayaka to kill this boss. So the winner of the 1st round is Raiden Shogun.

2. Matrix Boss

Now a similar thing happened while fighting the Matrix boss. Here is the side-by-side comparison. You must have guessed that Raiden Shogun has won the next round as well. And that’s exactly what happened.

This time, Raiden Shogun took 6 seconds, while Ayaka and Yoimiya has taken 8 seconds respectively, to defeat this boss. So again, the winner is Raiden Shogun.The Raiden Shogun took the lead again. While Ayaka and Yoimiya have fallen behind, and took the same amount of time to defeat this boss. So the winner of this round is also Raiden Shogun. 

Which means, Raiden Shogun is the winner of this showdown. But honestly, 2-3 seconds difference is not huge. So all of them are great DPS, and you can choose for anyone you like.