Alhaitham Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Powerful On-field DPS and strong Dendro enabler for Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon teams.
• Dendro infusion can not be overridden by other elemental infusions.

Weaknesses

• Has a specific rotation that can be hard to get used to.
• Requires almost constant on-field time.

In this build, Alhaitham is used as an On-Field Dendro DPS and Dendro enabler for Hyperbloom, Bloom, and Burgeon.

For this Alhaitham build, Light of Foliar Incision is the best-in-slot option. Not only does the sword provide CRIT DMG, but also a CRIT Rate buff, and increased damage for normal attacks as well as Elemental Skills. Primordial Jade Cutter is a better option in multi-target since the Light of Foliar Incision's effect disappears after you deal damage 28 times, which can occur fast when you fight multiple enemies. Wolf-Fang is the best 4-star option for Alhaitham's build, but if you are f2p, Iron Sting will be the best choice.

Build Alhaitham with Gilded Dreams if you play him with another Dendro teammate that already uses Deepwood Memories. If Alhaitham is the only Dendro character in your team, you will want to equip Deepwood.

2-piece options are possible if you combine 2 pieces with Elemental Mastery with 2-piece Deepwood Memories, or twice two pieces with Elemental Mastery. Marechaussee Hunter is a viable option, but only under specific conditions. Furina needs to be used to be able to build Alhaitham with the Marechaussee Hunter set, as you will need the HP fluctuations.

Build Alhaitham with Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge and CRIT Rate / DMG. Hit at least 300 Elemental Mastery before focusing on any other stat. Energy Recharge is also extremely important in Alhaitham's build. You will want to focus on at least 130% of energy recharge, and up to 200% if you play him in a solo Dendro team.

Alhaitham's primary method of damage is his Dendro abilities, which are based upon stacking Chisel-Light Mirror. These Mirrors convert his damage to Dendro and are generated a multitude of ways:

• Four-Causal Correction: One of his passive, when Alhaitham's Charged or Plunging attacks hit
• Universality: An Elaboration on Form: Alhaitham's Elemental Skill
• Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena: Alhaitham's Elemental Burst

Alhaitham can have up to 3 Mirrors on the field at the same time, and each has a 4s timer. If a fourth mirror is generated, it will just refresh the mirror with the shortest timer left. If Alhaitham is switched off-field, all mirrors will disappear.

When mirrors are active, Alhaitham's Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks are infused with Dendro. When you hit an enemy with one of those Dendro attacks, a projection attack will be triggered. These projection hit in the direction Alhaitham is facing, meaning that you have to face the enemies to make sure the projections hit.

The simple rotation for Alhaitham is the following:

1. Use his teammates' abilities first before switching to Alhaitham.
2. Create 3 Mirrors by holding his Elemental Skill and then directly using a Plunge Attack.
3. Attack to proc as many Projections as possible.

Maximized Projection Attacks rotation:

1. Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena
2. Wait for the Dendro Infusion
3. 3x Normal Attack: Abductive Reasoning for 3 Mirror Projections
4. Universality: An Elaboration on Form
5. 3x Normal Attack: Abductive Reasoning for 3 more Projections
6. Use a Charged Attack and Plunge Attack
7. 3x Normal Attack: Abductive Reasoning

The second rotation allows you to get more Projection Attacks, but it can be hard to master.

Alhaitham requires teammates that will allow him to enable Hyperbloom, Bloom, and Burgeon while he does massive Dendro DMG with his infusion and projection attacks. He does require a lot of Energy Recharge, so using another Dendro character can help with that if you are low on ER. Otherwise, Electro and Hydro characters are perfect teammates for Alhaitham as they will allow him to trigger reactions.

Alhaitham is a great on-field DPS for Nilou bloom teams, Nilou exclusively can only have Dendro and Hydro characters in their party to gain the full effects of Nilou's Bountiful cores.

Furina is one of the best teammates for Alhaitham. When using Furina, you can equip Alhaitham with the Marechaussee Hunter Artifact set. Baizhu will give more survivability to your Alhaitham, and also heal your team, which will help with the HP fluctuation needed for the Marechaussee Hunter set.

Xingqiu and Yelan provide good Hydro application while Raiden Shogun or Kuki Shinobu apply Electro, allowing Alhaitham to create Hyperbloom reactions.

A Burgeon team with Alhaitham consists in using one or two Hydro characters to keep the Dendro cores from burning, while Alhaitham allows Thoma to trigger Burgeon. Using an Anemo such as Kaedehara Kazuha can also be used to pull in enemies and swirl Hydro to also make it easier.

These teams allow Alhaitham to focus on maximizing his own damage through spread, while also having a good shielder such as Zhongli so you can ignore most of the incoming damage. Electro characters such as Yae Miko are great due to her consistent off-field damage and application.

If you just started the game, but pulled for Alhaitham, you can use the Dendro Traveler (you would have to travel up to a Dendro Statue of the Seven to get the Dendro power), and two characters that are given for free such as Lisa and Barbara, who perfectly do the job until you get other 5-star characters.