Popular chef Xiangling not only kindles a fire under her stove: The 4-star character from Liyue is one of the best Sub-DPS characters in Genshin Impact and is available for free, making her a widely recommended option to build a team around. How to equip and use the Pyro attacker ideally is explained in this build guide to Xiangling.
Genshin Impact Xiangling: Best Weapons
Both of Xiangling’s abilities continue to work when she is switched out. Her role is therefore mainly that of an off-field Sub-DPS character: she comes onto the field, triggers her skills, and then makes way for the star of the show. Accordingly, the damage of her reactions and skills, as well as her Energy Recharge, are the primary focus of a strong build.
To this end, the Engulfing Lightning, a 5-star polearm, is a perfect fit. It increases Energy Recharge, ensuring that her Elemental Burst is readily available once its cooldown ends.
Alternative weapon options for Xiangling include:
- Staff Of Homa (5-star polearm) – increases Critical Damage, HP, Attack.
- The Catch (4-star polearm) – increases Energy Recharge, Ability Damage.
- Wavebreaker’s Fin (4-star polearm) – increases Attack, Ability Damage.
- Skyward Spine (5-star polearm) – increases Energy Recharge, Critical Hit Rate, Attack Speed.
- Calamity Queller (5-star polearm) – increases Attack, Elemental Damage.
- Dragon’s Bane (4-star polearm) – increases Elemental Mastery, damage against targets affected by Hydro or Pyro effects.
Genshin Impact Xiangling: Best Artifacts
Among all the artifact sets in the game, Emblem of Severed Fate best supports the aspects important to Xiangling: A complete set increases Energy Recharge by 20 percent and provides a bonus to Ability Damage based on Energy Recharge to boot. This allows Xiangling to use her special abilities as often as possible to inflict maximum damage.
If you don’t have a suitable set, Crimson Witch Of Flames is a suitable alternative. It improves Pyro Damage as well as the damage of Pyro reactions.
Pay attention to the following distribution of attributes:
- Plume: Attack (main stat), Critical Hit Rate, Critical Damage, Attack %, Energy Recharge (sub stats).
- Flower: HP (main stat), Critical Hit Rate, Critical Damage, Attack %, Elemental Mastery (sub stats).
- Sands: Attack % or Energy Recharge (in case you have problems charging your burst) (main stat), Critical Hit Rate, Critical Damage, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge (sub stats).
- Goblet: Pyro Damage % (main stat), Critical Hit Rate, Critical Damage, Attack %, Energy Recharge (sub stats).
- Circlet: Critical Damage (main stat), Critical Hit Rate, Critical Damage, Attack %, Elemental Mastery (sub stats).
Genshin Impact Xiangling: Best Teams
Xiangling works very well with Main DPS characters of the Hydro and Cryo elements to unleash devastating reactions.
Ayato, or an alternative like Tartaglia, acts as the Main-DPS and uses his Hydro attacks to process Xiangling’s off-field effects into powerful elemental reactions. Bennett not only provides healing in the process, but generates Pyro Resonance and boosts Xiangling’s damage. Kazuha or his alternatives Sucrose or Venti reduce enemies’ Elemental Resistance and group them up for devastating combos. Kokomi and Xingqiu are also excellent Hydro companions for Xiangling.
- Ganyu (Main DPS), Xiangling (Sub DPS), Kazuha (Support), Diona (Support).
A Cryo composition with Xiangling works on the same principle as the Hydro squad. However, these are not the only configurations in which Xiangling is effective – she is an exceedingly flexible character.
- Raiden Shogun (Main DPS), Xiangling (Sub DPS), Xingqiu (Sub DPS), Bennett (Support).
The classic ‘Raiden National Team’ takes advantage of the dynamic between Xiangling and Bennett described earlier, and adds to it the off-field effects of Xingqiu and the great damage of Raiden Shogun – one of the most proven and reliable compositions in the game that will serve you well.
Written by Marco Wutz on behalf of GLHF.
