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The best Genshin Impact Xinyan buildLearn how to put together the best possible Xinyan build in Genshin Impact.
Learn how to put together the best possible Xinyan build in Genshin Impact.
Want to learn how to create the best build for Xinyan in Genshin Impact?Rock-and-roll musician and Pyro Claymore wielder Xinyan is at her happiest when she’s performing to a huge audience. Appropriately enough, she does well in yourGenshin Impactparty as a DPS character, dealing area-of-effect damage to a crowd of enemies with every attack. She’s also possessed of good shielding capabilities, meaning that she’s versatile enough to play a support role as well… if she can handle stepping out of the limelight, that is. Read on for everything you need to know about putting together the best possible build for Xinyan.
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How to build Xinyan for shield support in Genshin Impact
For this build, we’re going to focus primarily on Xinyan’s potential as a shield support character, though we’ll give details on how to build into her damage-dealing abilities as well. Simply put, Pyro DPS characters aren’t a rarity in Genshin Impact, and frankly Xinyan isn’t the best choice to fill that role if you have almost any other candidates; but Pyro shields are more or less Xinyan’s unique selling point, and Pyro support is a fairly rare specialisation as well.
Best weapon: Prototype Archaic
Alternative:Sacrificial Greatsword
When putting together your Xinyan build, her elemental abilities should be the star of the show. Therefore, you want to equip her with a weapon that deals a decent chunk of damage so she can pull her weight and protect herself, but perhaps don’t want to focus on obtaining a 5-star Claymore for a character who won’t make the best use of it.
Since Xinyan makes for such a good crowd control character, I recommend giving her thePrototype Archaicto slash away with between elemental attacks. With this weapon, there’s a 50% chance that her normal and charged attacks will deal a huge (minimum 240%) additional attack damage to enemies within a small radius.
While it may be a fairly pedestrian alternative, theSacrificial Greatswordis also a good choice of weapon for Xinyan, especially if you’re really leaning in to her elemental attacks. While wielding this weapon, there’s a minimum 40% chance that Xinyan’s Elemental Skill cooldown will end itself, allowing her to activate her Pyro powers more often.
Best artifacts: 2 pieces each from Gladiator’s Finale and Noblesse Oblige
Alternative:2 pieces each from Bloodstained Chivalry and Noblesse Oblige
The three best Artifact sets to mix-and-match for Xinyan areGladiator’s Finale,Bloodstained Chivalry, andNoblesse Oblige. Equipping two items each from any two of these sets will grant Xinyan a hefty increase to, respectively, her attack damage, physical damage, or Elemental Burst damage (basically, pick the one you want to cut loose and focus on the other two, though I recommend keeping Elemental Burst Damage in the mix somewhere).
For shield support, it’s best to lean heavily into DEF bonuses for Xinyan’s artifact stats and substats. Try to go for a combination along the following lines:
Talent priority: Sweeping Fervor (Elemental Skill)
Secondary:Riff Revolution (Elemental Burst)
Both of Xinyan’s Elemental Talents should be priority in her build, though which you put first depends on exactly how you want to deploy her within your party. HerSweeping FervorElemental Skill creates a shield that’s most useful in her support capacity, while herRiff RevolutionElemental Burst is a more purely offensive move if you have Xinyan focusing on DPS.
Xinyan’s full list of Talents is as follows:
Party composition
5-star alternative:Eula replacing Kaeya as Cryo DPS
Like most support characters with a specialised role, Xinycan can prove very useful in many different team combinations. We’ve listed her here as the team’s shield support character, but really the benefit of this particular composition is that every character gets the chance to do both DPS and support activities that play to their strengths. It’s a party built around itselemental resonances and reactions, but every character is more than capable of pulling off some powerful normal attacks, too.
Finally, round off the team with an Electro DPS/support-capable character, likeFischl. Activating the Super-Conduct reaction between Cryo and Electro will reduce foes' defences and allow Xinyan’s Elemental Burst to spread across a wider area, increasing the damage she can deal when she switches to DPS mode around her shield duties.
How to level up Xinyan in Genshin Impact
Ascension Materials
In order to fully ascend Xinyan, you’ll need the following materials:
Talents
To fully level up one of Xinyan’s talents, you’ll need:
Constellations
Below is a full list of Xinyan’s Constellations:
How to get Xinyan in Genshin Impact
Since her introduction in Version 1.2, Xinyan has been available to pull from the gacha any time youWishon the Wanderlust Invocationbanner(standard wish). She’s also included in the wish pool of all Character Event Wishes and Weapon Event Wishes, and will sometimes feature on the former with a boosted drop rate.
Whether you choose to put her centre-stage or have her playing back-up, you now know everything you need to put together your Xinyan build in Genshin Impact. Xinyan is just one of nearly forty heroes available in the game (at the time of writing, and the roster grows in number with every monthly update), so you’ll benefit from checking out ourGenshin Impact character tier listto see who else you want for your party.
