Albedo Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Consistent off-field Geo Damage to enemies.
• Amazing uptime on Elemental Skill with a low cooldown and long duration.
• Provides Elemental Mastery to the party using their Elemental Burst.
• Incredibly flexible and can be used in a range of teams.

Weaknesses

• Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst have split scaling stats before C2.
• Geo Constructs can easily be destroyed by many enemies and bosses.
• Generally tied to at least 1 other Geo character if not an entire team.

Albedo is best built as an off-field DPS primarily utilising his Elemental Skill.

Albedo's best weapons are Peak Patrol Song or Uraku Misugiri. Build Albedo with Uraki Misugiri for personal damage, or Build around Peak Patrol Song for huge buffs. Other good weapons include Cinnabar Spindle which is unobtainable and Primordial Jade Cutter. Harbinger of Dawn is an incredibly powerful F2P option assuming you consistently stay above 90% HP for the passive.

With regards to artifacts, Husk of Opulent Dreams is generally Albedo's best artifact set in this build but Golden Troupe is a close second and can even be his best set if your build uses Peak Patrol Song or Cinnabar spindle in Geo heavy teams.

Build Albedo with as much DEF as possible alongside CRIT stats, ATK % and ER should only be built if you regularly use Albedo's Elemental Burst.

Albedo wants around 130% Energy Recharge when paired with another Geo character but when solo wants around 140-150% instead. If Albedo is C1, 100% Energy Recharge will generally be fine.

Albedo's Solar Isotoma is your primary way to deal off-field damage with Albedo. Just place down on field and then swap to your main DPS. However, because it is a Geo Construct it can easily be destroyed so be careful with positioning. The Solar Isomata does have a short cooldown making it easy to bring back to the field if broken, but this will lower your teams DPS or break rotations if you need to swap to Albedo.

Albedo's Elemental Skill , Abiogenesis: Solar Isotoma, and Elemental Burst , Rite of Progeniture: Tectonic Tide, scale off of DEF and ATK respectively. This split scaling can cause build differences and it can be better to simply not use Albedo's Burst at times. The benefit of using Albedo's Burst comes from the 125 Elemental Mastery buff for reaction-heavy teams.

Albedo works with a range of teams but normally wants at least another Geo character with him. His best teams tend to be either entirely Geo focused or in a Double Geo pairing.

Albedo acts as a great support for Geo DPS such as Arataki Itto and Noelle by providing energy for their Elemental Bursts. Additionally, when not using his Elemental Burst, Albedo has incredibly low uptime allowing you faster rotations

Albedo helps support Arataki Itto by providing Geo energy for Elemental Bursts as well as supporting Gorou's buffs while allowing Itto the on-field uptime he needs. Zhongli is a good example of a support turning this into a Mono-Geo team. Other supports such as Fischl, Yelan and Xingqiu can provide increased damage, and Crystalize.

Yun Jin and Gorou are good supports. Yun Jin is great for Noelle especially due to her ATK SPD buffs allowing Noelle to attack more often and deal more damage. Gorou provides DEF buffs making him a great support for many Geo teams.

Albedo has great synergy with both Zhongli, Chiori or Navia which form flexible pairings that can be used in a wide range of teams. This is mainly because Geo rarely interferes with elemental reactions. Zhongli provides universal RES Shred, Navia acts as an on-field DPS while Chiori provides more off-field DMG.