Emilie Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Has a team-wide 85% Pyro RES against Burning.
• Amazing off-field DMG being able to replace Xiangling in some situations.
• Elemental Skill has a faster cooldown than duration.

Weaknesses

• Requires Burning to occur to maintain their DMG.
• Team comps can be restrictive at times due to needing a Pyro character.

Emilie is mostly used as an off-field SubDPS who scales based on ATK while benefitting from the Burning Elemental Reaction.

Emilie's best weapon by far is her signature Lumidouce Elegy which offers ATK, increased DMG and even energy. This is a significant upgrade over her second best weapon Calamity Queller. Other good options include Staff of Homa and Deathmatch.

Emilie's best artifact set comes down to either Unfinished Reverie or Deepwood Memories. As is often the case with Dendro characters and Deepwood, someone in the party needs to be using this artifact set. Ideally this is not emilie and instead someone like Thoma or Xiangling which then allows emilie to use Unfinished Reverie.

With Main and Sub stats, Emilie is built primarily as a fairly regular DPS needing stats like ATK and CRIT. A little Elemental Mastery is not very important but is also not a dead stat.

Fragrance Extraction is by far the most important talent to level. Aromatic Explication is next, it is important to know that depending on your team and rotation you may not use your Elemental Burst. Emilie's Normal Attacks are rarely used unless you plan to play her as an on-field DPS.

Emilie's gameplay revolves around her Lumidouce Case which can be created by both her Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst. The Lumidouce Case comes in 3 levels:

• Level 1: 71.3% DMG (At Lv.10)
• Level 2: 151.2%x2 DMG
• Level 3: 391% DMG

When using Aromatic Explication a Level 1 case will appear and periodically deal damage, this can be upgraded to level 2 when 2 Scents are gathered. A Level 3 case can only be created using Aromatic Explication which will create a Level 1 Case when the duration ends.

It is very important to understand that Emilie's Skill does not snapshot. This means that unlike many characters the skill does not "Remember" any buffs applied to it when they wear off. On top of having a shorter cooldown than duration, this makes it easy to maintain a good uptime on Aromatic Explication.

Scents are a key part of Emilie's kit, when opponents are affected by Burning, they will give off Scents. These Scents are then colleted by Lumidouce Cases to level up to Level 2 or to continue being at Level 2. A Level 3 case will not gather Scents.

Emilie's main teams focus on her utility as a SubDPS who excels when the Burning reaction is occurring. This means that strong Pyro characters are often wanted in her teams.

Emilie is often an improvement to Xiangling in Mono Pyro team compositions. While not really as much of a Mono Pyro team at this point, she can still be a great fit which also allows Xiangling to be used in different teams.

2 of the best DPS for this are Arlecchino and Lyney. Kaedehara Kazuha and Zhongli can be used interchangeably with Kazuha being the best option on paper for damage but the shielding from Zhongli can be better in more practical situations.

Emilie provides enough Dendro application to maintain Burning. This means that a second consistent Pyro applicator such as Xiangling, Thoma or Dehya is needed to maintain enough Pyro to consistently Melt with your Cryo DPS.

Emilie is a great option for Vaporize teams using Mualani. Currently using Dehya as your off-field Pyro application while using either Nahida or Sucrose. Nahida is generally a little easier to use rotationally and enables Dendro Resonance but Sucrose is more DPS overall.

Usually using an on-field Electro character, Quicken teams can sustain Burning and therefore allow for "Quickburning" to occur. This is because Burning does not immediately remove Quicken.