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 without C2.
• Geo Construct can easily be destroyed by many enemies and bosses.
• Best weapons are only available in old events and are no longer obtainable.
• Generally tied to at least 1 other Geo character if not an entire team.

Albedo's best weapon is Chiori's signature Uraku Misugiri, with Cinnabar Spindle being his second best weapon and great 4-star option but is now unobtainable. Wolf-Fang is generally the next best weapon if you have it at R5, otherwise Primordial Jade Cutter will be best. 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 to aim for however Golden Troupe is a close second, even being better if you have Cinnabar Spindle or Uraku Misugiri.

Because Albedo's Elemental Skill, Abiogenesis: Solar Isotoma scales on DEF and is your main source of damage. You want to tailor your stats based on this.

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.

Rite of Progeniture: Tectonic Tide with the 4th Ascension Passive, Homuncular Nature provides a Elemental Mastery increase for 10s to all party members. This makes him great with transformative reactions.

Albedo works with a range of teams but normally wants at least another Geo character with him. His best teams tend to be Noelle, Navia and Arataki Itto focused.

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.

Albedo also pairs really well with Noelle by providing additional energy and increasing Noelles uptime. The SubDPS supports mentioned to pair well with Arataki Itto also pair well with Noelle. However, Yun Jin and Geo Traveler are good Noelle-Specific supports. Yun Jin especially due to her ATK SPD buffs allowing Noelle to attack more often and deal more damage.

With the Navia example, Albedo helps to provide additional Geo for Crystallize. Bennett and Xiangling bring increased DMG and also Pyro Resonance.

Albedo and Zhongli form a powerful pairing which can be used alongside other strong character pairs such as the Hu Tao and Xingqiu pairing above. Another example could be Xiao and Faruzan. Zhongli's RES Shred and shielding helps both these teams massively with Albedo providing Elemental Resonance and off-field DMG.