Genshin Impact Character Tier List

I’ve been playing Genshin Impact since day 1one and have obtained plenty of characters on different servers. While some characters have massive crowd-control abilities, others specialize in DPS roles.

The game emphasizes team play, where we must build optimal team compositions to clear the content. Featuring a luxuriant roster of characters in Genshin Impact, it may be tough to decide which characters you should wish for.

With unique elements, reactions, and characters in the game, players need to strike a balance between gameplay and play style to ace through challenging content.

Promoted banners re-run characters and feature new ones, which makes players search for characters’ worth before wishing. To solve that problem, Tier lists are handy as they rank characters on various scales and help players make a judgment call.

To emphasize the same, in this Genshin Impact Character Tier List, I will rank all the characters in the game to suit the needs of free-to-play players. I will gauge these characters on various parameters and justify their ranking in the meta.

While I do love some characters unconditionally, I won’t let it cloud my judgment. I will group these characters into different tiers by sharing my unbiased opinions on the Tier list. Without further ado, amass your primogems, and let’s go through this tier list so that you can make an informed call on your next wishing session.

Tierlist Criteria

Players can have innumerable opinions on tier lists. Some people rank their favorite characters higher on the list, while others rank some to Amber’s level.

Depending on your experience with the game, and the availability of weapons, some characters might outperform others in niche roles. That’s why, Before going through the Tier List’s infographic, I will walk you through some parameters that I considered curating this Tier list.

• The Tierlist ranks the characters without considering any extra constellations; all the characters are considered C0.
• Only 4-star weapons ( excluding battle pass ones) are considered available to the players to keep the list free-to-play friendly.
• There is no ranking order from left to right in a row. Characters are listed in a group rather than a ranking based on a specific row.
• Characters are listed according to their value to the team and grouped based on how many supporting characters they would require. The lower rank, the higher the number of supporting characters.
• Higher-tier characters have more flexibility in roles ( DPS, Support, or Burst) and power level and yield the best results overall.

Character Roles

Just one more thing before I deliver my views on characters. Let’s talk about some roles that are prominent in the game. I won’t delve into niche roles like Hypercarries, Enablers, Cleansers, etc.. Rather, I will give a general overview of which major roles I have categorized the characters mentioned above.

DPS: Covers Burst DPS, Main DPS, and Quickswap DPS roles. These characters take most of the field time and utilize external buffs to enhance their damage output. These characters are responsible for most of the team’s damage and utilize their abilities to damage enemies severely. 

Sub-DPS: These characters deploy their elemental skill or bursts to help out DPS characters with off-field damage. All you need to do is to activate their abilities and switch to DPS characters.

Support: These characters provide utility, heals, shields, taunting effects, and other buffs to characters. You will use these characters to benefit from team-wide bonuses or help other teammates debuff enemies. Supporting characters are essential to a team.

Most of the characters can come under multiple roles; however, to keep the Tier list easy to digest, I won’t dive into the technicalities of their kits and present a general notion of their roles.

SS Tier Characters: An Unstoppable Force

Raiden Shogun

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: The Catch, Favonius Lance, Wavebreaker’s Fin

Raiden Shogun is one of the best hypercarry DPS in the game that you can use to recharge teammates’ elemental bursts. She can do burst damage and grants off-field damage with her elemental skill. Her flexibility in any team composition makes her one of the best Burst DPS in the game.

Ganyu

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Hamayumi, Prototype Crescent, Blackcliff Warbow

Ganyu can deal massive amounts of damage with her charged attacks. Her immense Cryo application with elemental burst allows her to cover a vast area and taunt enemies with her elemental skill. You can also dodge an incoming attack with her elemental skill.

Kamisato Ayaka

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Blackcliff Longsword, Amenoma Kageuchi, The Flute

Kamisato Ayaka’s elemental burst is an insane powerhouse of damage. She gets a Cryo infusion after using her alternate sprint and can easily counter enemies with Hydro shields. You can use her burst to shred through enemies by funnel energy particles to her.

Sangonomiya Kokomi

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Codex, Hakushin Ring, Prototype Amber

Kokomi is one of the best healers in the game. Her on-field and off-field Hydro applications benefit Bloom, Hyperbloom, Freeze, Vaporize, and Electro-charged teams. Her HP scaling helps her to tank incoming damage and avoid getting one-shot. You can deploy her Bake-Kurage on the field for the Hydro application.

Nahida

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Dendro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Mappa Mare, Wandering Evenstar

Nahida is an outstanding character in Dendro teams. Her elemental skill can provide insane off-field Dendro damage and application. You can use her burst to cover a vast area and benefit from additional buffs on her elemental skill. Likewise, you can use her as an on-field Dendro enabler to initiate reactions.

Hu Tao

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Dragon’s Bane, Blackcliff Pole, Missive Windspear

Hu Tao is a single-target damage dealer whose Pyro application helps her to trigger Vaporize reactions to deal high reaction damage. You can use her with Anemo characters to maximize Pyro damage output and even use her burst to wipe out enemies around her. She gets bonus Pyro damage on low health, so her gameplay revolves around maintaining her health below a certain percentage.

Yae Miko

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Hakushin Ring, Mappa Mare

Yae Miko helps to provide both on-field and off-field Electro damage and application. Her elemental burst can be used to deplete enemies’ health bars in an instant. You can deploy her elemental skill and move around the area to position yourself.

Kaedehara Kazuha

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Sacrificial Sword, Favonius Sword, Iron Sting

Kazuha can crowd-control enemies and provide an elemental damage bonus to his teammates. By swirling multiple elements in his burst, he can grant a damage bonus that scales off his Elemental mastery. One of the best-supporting characters in the game.

Kamisato Ayato

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Amenoma Kageuchi, Blackcliff longsword, Festering Desire

Kamisato Ayato’s Hydro infusion allows him to output high Hydro damage. You can use his elemental burst to get off-field Hydro application for elemental reaction teams and use his skill to trigger Vaporize reactions. With increased resistance to interruption, he can face tank enemies.

Zhongli

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Lance, Blackcliff Pole, The Catch

Zhongli can be a Burst DPS and Sub-DPS with his skills’ pillars and elemental bursts. You can deploy his pillars and make them resonate with other Geo constructs. Zhongli’s shield is one of the strongest in the game, so you can easily contest against tough opponents.

Alhaitham

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Dendro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Sapwood Blade, Iron Sting, Toukabou Shigure

Alhaitham’s a technical character and requires the player to utilize all external buffs before switching to him. As an on-field DPS character, Alhaitham specializes in dealing Dendro damage and aces in teams where Dendro-reactions like Spread are predominant.

Yelan

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Warbow, Fading Twilight, Mouun’s Moon

Yelan’s kit helps to boost other characters’ damage. You can pair her with a hypercarry like Raiden Shogun and free Xingqiu for another team. Her burst provides immense off-field damage, and elemental skill helps to travel faster on the battlefield.

Eula Lawrence

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Akuoumaru, Blackcliff Slasher, Luxurious Sea-Lord

Eula is a Physical hyper carry DPS who specializes in dealing massive physical damage with her burst. You can use her with another Cryo character to benefit from the Cryo resonance to increase her CRIT rate. Remember to get her Grimheart stacks to maximize damage output and benefit from increased resistance to interruption.

Arataki Itto

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Prototype Archaic, Whiteblind, Blackcliff Slasher

Arataki Itto is a Geo hypercarry DPS character who can deal an immense amount of Geo damage. His superlative strength stacks and resistance to interruption help him to push through enemies. His defense scaling kits help him to build on DEF% artifacts and utilize his maximum potential.

Venti

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Stringless, Favonius Warbow, Windblume Ode

Venti can solo some abyss chambers, all thanks to his vortex-like elemental burst that can crowd-control enemies. You can freeze some enemies to suck them into the vortex and benefit from the Viridescent Venerer artifact to shred their elemental resistance.

Nilou

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Sacrificial Sword, Iron Sting, Favonius Sword

Nilou’s kit focuses on Bloom reactions that can deal AoE Dendro damage to nearby enemies. You can pair her up with other Hydro and Dendro characters to summon multiple Bloom seeds. Once their count exceeds the limit or the timer expires, they will deal severe Dendro damage.

S-Tier Characters

Jean

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Amenoma Kageuchi, Festering Desire

Jean can cleanse and burst-heal your entire team in one go. Being an Anemo character, she can benefit from the Viridescent Venerer artifact set. You can use her elemental skill to stagger lightweight enemies or hold the skill to crowd control and throw them away. You can use her in niche teams like Sunfire Jean comp to deal AoE damage to enemies by swirling elements.

Bennett

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Festering Desire, Sacrificial Sword

Bennett is one of the best-supporting characters in the game. He can heal, cleanse and provide attack bonuses to your characters. I suggest building him to the maximum level and equipping him with a sword with a high-base attack.

Xingqiu

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Sacrificial Sword, Favonius Sword, Festering Desire

Xingqiu specializes in providing off-field Hydro damage, healing, and damage reduction to an active character. His unique kit helps the main DPS character, and additional constellations give him a massive damage boost.

Xiao

 

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Blackcliff Pole, Lithic Spear, Missive Windspear

Xiao is an Anemo DPS character who can deal massive bursts of damage in an area. Unlike other Anemo characters, Xiao prefers offensive artifact sets to maximize his personal damage and doesn’t rely on the Viridescent Venerer artifact set. You can use Faruzan to give him an Anemo damage bonus.

Xiangling

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: The Catch, Favonius Lance, Wavebreaker’s Fin

Xiangling provides massive off-field Pyro damage and has no internal cooldown on her elemental burst. She’s immensely valuable in team compositions where the main source of damage comes from reactions like Vaporize or Melt. You can also summon Gouba to help with an off-field Pyro application.

Klee

• Role: DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Dodoco Tales, Blackcliff Agate

Klee can utilize her normal attacks to trigger reactions like Vaporize or Melt. Her skills allow her to recharge some energy for her teammates and help them get their bursts back. That’s why you can use her as a supporting character in some teams.

Cyno

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Kitain Cross Spear, Missive Windspear, Moonpiercer

Cyno is another technical character who utilizes his elemental skill to extend his burst duration. He’s an Electro hypercarry character who can deal consistent burst damage. You will notice a visual eye-like indicator during his elemental burst; once you press the elemental skill in that window, you will deal extra damage.

Dendro Traveler

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Dendro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Sacrificial Sword, Iron Sting

Dendro Traveler can fit in almost all Dendro-related team compositions. You can deploy their elemental burst to benefit from the Lea-Lotus Transfiguration and supplement your main DPS with extra off-field damage. Equipping them with the Deepwood Memories artifact set will shred the Dendro resistance from enemies.

Tighnari

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Dendro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Stringless, Blackcliff Warbow, Prototype Crescent

Tighnari’s low burst cost allows him to consistently utilize his elemental burst. He’s a really good character with a massive Dendro application. You can use him as a burst DPS to hit enemies and switch to your main DPS character.

Mona Megistus

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Favonius Codex, Prototype Amber

Mona can grant your character a damage bonus with her elemental burst. She is a really good supporting character in teams for screenshot damage. She’s flexible enough to fit in Vaporize team compositions to provide enough Hydro application. You can also use her elemental skill to taunt enemies and have additional off-field Hydro application.

Scaramouche / Wanderer

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Mappa Mare, Dodoco Tales

You need to have Faruzan to maximize Scaramouche’s Anemo damage. Even without her, you can pair him with other supporting characters like Xingqiu, Fischl, or Xiangling and benefit from his Anemo DPS abilities. With his elemental skill, he can easily position himself on the battlefield and avoid enemies’ attacks.

Sucrose

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: Mappa Mare, Sacrificial Fragments, Favonius Codex

Sucrose has immense utility in team compositions whose main source of damage comes from reactions. She can buff the Elemental mastery of all team members and enhance the reaction damage. With the help of the Viridescent Venerer artifact set, she can also shred elemental resistance.

A-Tier Characters

Albedo

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Cinnabar Spindle, Festering Desire, Prototype Rancour

Albedo can provide your characters with off-field Geo damage and help them to reach higher elevations in the overworld with his elemental skill. You can easily equip him with DEF artifacts and benefit from his defense scaling abilities’ damage.

Chongyun

• Role: DPS / Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Greatsword, Blackcliff Slasher, Lithic Blade

Chongyun’s elemental skill grants Cryo infusion to other characters and is really helpful in breaking Hydro shields. If you face Hydro Abyss Heralds, you can deploy his skill to deplete their shields. He’s also a strong contender in Melt and Freeze team compositions.

Keqing

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Lion’r Roar, Amenoma Kageuchi, Blackcliff Longsword

Keqing can be used either as a Physical or Electro DPS in teams. You can tweak the user of her elemental skill to stick to a specific playstyle and use her as a main DPS or a Burst DPS. With new Dendro reactions, she can benefit from Aggravate damage bonus.

Rosaria

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Lance, The Catch, Crescent Pike

Rosaria is a versatile character who can provide off-field Cryo application or act as a Physical damage dealer. I won’t suggest building her as a Physical damage dealer, as some enemies like Ruin guards have quite high Physical resistance in the abyss.

Childe / Tartaglia

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Stringless, Blackcliff Warbow, Prototype Crescent

Childe is a technical character whose immense Hydro application enables other characters to trigger reactions. You have to manage his cooldown to benefit from his elemental skill. With two types of elemental bursts, Childe is capable of one-shotting enemies in an optimal team setup.

Beidou

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Prototype Archaic, Favonius Greatsword, Luxurious Sea-Lord

Beidou is an amazing off-field Electro Sub-DPS character who can grant you damage reduction with her shield. Her elemental burst bounces off enemies to provide extra Electro damage allowing the main DPS to benefit from complementary Electro application.

Yoimiya

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Prototype Crescent, Rust, Hamayumi

A single-target DPS character who’s capable of triggering massive Vaporize reactions. You can pair her with an Anemo and Hydro character and deplete enemies’ HP bars in a short amount of time.

Faruzan

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Warbow, Sacrificial Bow, Fading Twilight

Faruzan is a good supporting character who can grant Anemo damage bonus with her abilities and simultaneously equip the Viridescent Venerer artifact. She can shred elemental resistance and buff Xiao, Heizou, and Scaramouche’s Anemo damage.

Kuki Shinobu

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Iron Sting, Amenoma Kageuchi

Kuki Shinobu can use her skill to heal your active character and enable your main DPS to trigger reactions. She has amazing synergy with Alhaitham and Nahida.

Her elemental skill can enable the Quicken aura on enemies, allowing Dendro or Electro characters to trigger Spread or Aggravate reactions, respectively. I suggest using the Tenacity of the Millelith artifacts set on her to benefit from a team-wide attack bonus.

Fischl

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Stringless, Fading Twilight, Prototype Crescent

Fischl can summon Oz on the field to deal off-field Electro damage. She’s an amazing off-field supporting character who excels in single-target damage.

Yanfei

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Mappa Mare, Dodoco Tales

Yanfei is a Pyro DPS character who can trigger Vaporize or Melt reactions to churn out severe damage. With a character like Sucrose, who can buff EM, Yanfei can trigger potent reactions.

Ningguang

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: Dodoco Tales, The Widsith, Blackcliff Agate

Ningguang excels in dealing Geo damage to enemies. You use her as a Burst DPS in your team and benefit from her low energy cost elemental burst.

Shikanoin Heizou

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: Dodoco Tales, The Widsith, Mappa Mare

You can either use Heizou as a pure Anemo DPS character or in elemental teams with the Viridescent Venerer artifact set. His low burst cost enables him to deal AoE damage to enemies.

Diluc

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Prototype Archaic, Blackcliff Slasher, Makhaira Aquamarine

Diluc shines in teams where Vaporize and Melt reactions are prevalent. You can benefit from the Crimson Witch of Flames artifact set and maximize his Pyro and reaction damage at the same time.

B-Tier Characters

Barbara

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Codex, Sacrificial Fragments, Prototype Amber

Barbara can heal all of your characters at the same time, and her elemental skill helps to heal an active character. You can use her normal attacks to apply Hydro on enemies. You can also equip her with the Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers to give an attack buff to the switched character.

Kujou Sara

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Sacrificial Bow, Favonius Warbow, End of the Line

Sara can buff your team members with an attack bonus that scales off her attack. You can use her in teams with the Raiden Shogun to benefit from the Electro resonance and attack bonus.

Diona

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Warbow, Sacrificial Bow, End of the Line

Diona provides shielding and healing to her teammates. Her passive helps to reduce stamina consumption and increases movement speed. You can use her burst to heal an active character; however, you have to position yourself properly before using it.

Thoma

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Lance, The Catch, Prototype Starglitter

Thoma provides a shield with a stacking mechanism and helps the main DPS character with off-field Pyro damage. You can use him in elemental reaction teams, but his off-field Pyro application might interfere and steal some reactions.

Shenhe

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Missive Windspear, Wavebreaker’s Fin, Lithic Spear

Shenhe can buff your character’s Cryo damage with her abilities. You have to stack the attack percentage on her to benefit from the Cryo damage bonus. She’s a really good character in teams dominated by Cryo DPS characters.

Gorou

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Warbow, Sacrificial Bow, Fading Twilight

Gorou is a niche supporting character for Geo teams. You can use him with Arataki Itto, Albedo, Noelle, or Xinyan. His abilities scale off the defense, providing a defense boost to other team members.

Kaeya

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Sacrificial Sword, Festering Desire

Kaeya can be used to break Hydro heralds shields. You can use his skill to self-heal him and deploy his elemental burst around you to apply Cryo on enemies with Hydro status. You can deal damage to them in an immobilized state.

Candace

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Hydro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Lance, The Catch, Prototype Starglitter

Candace provides Hydro infusion to her teammates and is suitable for teams that benefit from Hydro damage. Her abilities scale off HP % and deal Hydro damage with her shield. You can use her with Kamisato Ayato or Nilou and benefit from the Hydro resonance.

Lisa

• Role: DPS / Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Catalyst
• 4-star weapons: The Widsith, Favonius Codex, Mappa Mare

Lisa can provide an off-field Electro application with her elemental burst and act as a main DPS character. You can easily break enemies’ shields with Overloaded reactions with a combination of Pyro and Lisa’s normal attacks’ Electro.

Yun Jin

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Lance, The Catch, Prototype Starglitter

Yun Jin is a niche supporting character who helps to increase the normal attack damage. With her defense scaling kit, she synergizes perfectly with Geo characters like Arataki Itto, Gorou, or Noelle. You can also use her in other teams where you require a damage bonus on normal attacks.

Dori

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Greatsword, Sacrificial Greatsword, Katsuragikiri Nagamasa

Dori is a healer who can summon a lamp on the field to heal, generate energy and apply Electro on your active character. Her abilities scale off with HP, which makes her pretty easy to build.

Noelle

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Geo
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Greatsword, Whiteblind, Prototype Archaic

Noelle has a solid shield that can protect you from incoming damage. She is a supporting character who can heal your character and can use Defense-based artifacts.

Layla

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Sacrificial Sword, Festering Desire

Layla can provide off-field Cryo application with her elemental burst and shield your characters with her elemental skill.

Razor

• Role: DPS
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Electro
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Rainslasher, Prototype Archaic, Snow-Tombed Starsilver

Razor is a decent Physical DPS character who can also deal Electro damage at the same time. Using his sigil mechanic, you can get some energy back for your elemental burst. His increased resistance to interruption makes him a good choice for the early game.

Sayu

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Anemo
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Greatsword, Sacrificial Greatsword, Rainslasher

You can equip Sayu with the Viridescent Venerer artifact set to shred enemies’ elemental resistance. She’s also good in the overworld, where you can use her elemental skill to travel faster.

Yaoyao

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Dendro
• Weapon type: Polearm
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Lance, Prototype Starglitter, The Catch

Yaoyao can heal your active character with her elemental skill, and her burst can heal your overall party. She’s a decent character in Dendro teams and can provide off-field Dendro application for some time.

Collei

• Role: Sub-DPS, Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Dendro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Warbow, Sacrificial Bow, Fading Twilight

Collei can help you with off-field Dendro application with her elemental burst and quickly deal Dendro damage to enemies in front of her.

Traveler

• Role: Sub-DPS / Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Anemo, Geo, or Electro
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Sacrificial Sword, Festering Desire

The Traveler’s’ abilities are quite beneficial in specific team compositions. You will eventually obtain all of their constellations. Depending on your team composition, you can switch their element and use them accordingly. However, there are better alternatives than the Traveler.

C-Tier Characters

Aloy

• Role: Sub-DPS
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Bow, Sacrificial Bow, Fading Twilight

Aloy can be used as a Burst DPS in some teams. You can use her elemental skill for some Cryo application. Currently, she has no extra constellations in the game, and she can only be gauged on a C0 Tier list.

Amber

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Bow
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Bow, Fading Twilight, Prototype Crescent

Amber can be used in some team compositions where you need to swirl Pyro. One example would be Hu Tao, Xingqiu, Amber, and Sucrose. You can apply Pyro on an enemy and swirl with Sucrose to reduce their Pyro resistance with the Viridescent Venerer artifact set. You can also throw her Baron Bunny on the field to taunt enemies for a short while until it explodes.

Xinyan

• Role: DPS / Support
• Rarity: 4-star
• Element: Pyro
• Weapon type: Claymore
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Greatsword, Sacrificial Greatsword, Whiteblind

Xinyan’s abilities scale off her defense attributes and can be used as a Physical damage dealer. However, some enemies have high Physical resistance, and you would need to invest a lot in her and need outstanding supporting characters to ace through the content.

Qiqi

• Role: Support
• Rarity: 5-star
• Element: Cryo
• Weapon type: Sword
• 4-star weapons: Favonius Sword, Sacrificial Sword, Festering Desire

Qiqi’s elemental skill can be used to heal an active character. Though she can heal all your characters with her normal attacks, her kit doesn’t feature any additional buffs. If you are unlucky like me, you might end up with a C5 Qiqi. All I’m waiting for is a C6 Qiqi.

Frequently Asked Questions

Meta is Transient; Love is Eternal

I always advocate for playing characters you love. There’s no use in playing a character just because they are good in the meta and you don’t cherish them. Do what your heart says.

If your favorite character is ranked low on the Tier list, it doesn’t mean they’re trash. The rankings will change once you access constellations, and your favorite characters might be the best characters on your account.

All you need to do is to invest appropriately in those characters and pair them with good supporting characters. Even Sucrose is outstanding when paired with Xingqiu, Xiangling, and Fischl.

That is why you shouldn’t take Tier List to heart but use them as a source of reference and decide how much investment you’d need to make on a character.

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