GenshinTeams

This page contains information about teams, team building and rotations in the computer game Genshin Impact.

The content of this page at the moment is cobbled together from various notes I took while learning to play the game, but so far I have not undertaken a coherent team-building effort of my own - I usually just throw some of my characters together for which I know they should work reasonably well together, then I tackle the content. Also I don't think about rotations because I can't think straight when things get hectic during combat.

References

• https://www.ign.com/articles/genshin-impact-team-building-guide
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJSmilkyCKA

Roles

All the team building guides on the net talk about various roles, but as a beginner it can be difficult to understand what each role means.

• Main DPS (aka "carry" or "hypercarry"): A team should contain at maximum one character that fills this role. The intent is that the main DPS character remains on the field for most of the time to attack the enemies. Note that a sizeable portion of the entire team damage may come from off-field characters due to their bonuses and the lingering effects of their Elemental skills and bursts. A team may do without a main DPS entirely, for instance in quick-swap teams you switch between characters in quick succession to trigger their skills and bursts so that none of the characters can really be considered the have the main DPS role.
• Sub-DPS: A team usually contains 1-2 characters that fill this role. A sub-DPS character deals damage while they are off-field.
• Support: A team usually contains 1-2 characters that fill this role. A support character performs any one of a variety of tasks, such as healing, providing a shield, crowd control, energy recharge, etc.

National Team

The so-called "National Team" is a well-known team composition that consists of the following characters:

• Bennett
• Xiangling
• Xingqiu
• One other character

Some choices for the 4th character:

• Raiden Shogun: Main DPS
• Fischl
• Kazuha: Off-field
• Yelan: Off-field sub-DPS

Other team ideas

• A quick-swap team consisting of 4★ characters only: Kaeya, Rosaria, Xiangling, Bennett.

Other notes

• Vapemelt teams (i.e. teams with Pyro, Hydro and Cryo characters): Against bosses, don’t use Diluc, Yanfei or Klee in Vapemelt teams. Bosses are immune to freeze, i.e. Cryo + Hydro auras. Because Diluc's, Yanfei's and Klee's attacks are Blunt Pyro attacks, this will cause Shatter on the boss before either Vaporize or Melt, which is bad because Shatter consumes the Cryo + Hydro auras. Since the boss was not frozen, the Shatter "reaction" will not have any effect and the Cryo + Hydro auras are therefore wasted.