Arlecchino Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Arlecchino is a 5-star Polearm character released in patch 4.6. Our Arlecchino guide will cover Ascensions, Talents, Constellations as well as some team compositions.

Strengths

• High hypercarry damage using her Elemental Skill with unique gameplay from managing her Bond of Life.
• Pyro infusion persists when you swap characters.

Weaknesses

• Can not be healed by other characters, only her Elemental Burst or Abyss Buffs.
• Due to the lack of healing, low HP pool and barely any interruption resistance even at C1, a shielder is incredibly useful for smoother gameplay.

Arlecchino should mainly be played as a hypercarry DPS, dealing powerful Pyro DMG from her Masque of the Red Death state.

Arlecchino's best weapons tend to depend on if she is being played in an Overload team or a Vaporize team. That being said, her best weapons are generally pretty flexible.

Arlecchino's best weapon is her signature weapon Crimson Moon's Semblance being tailor-made for her gameplay and kit to the point where it has a unique style specifically on her. Primordial Jade Winged-Spear is otherwise an amazing substitute, there are many other good 5-star weapon options while Deathmatch and Ballad of the Fjords are her best 4-star options.

Fragment of Harmonic Whimsy is by far Arlecchino's best artifact set. Nothing even remotely comes close. Gladiator's Finale is a good transitional set to prepare or to easily use to help make Arlecchino viable while farming for Fragment of Harmonic Whimsy pieces.

Arlecchino's Normal Attacks are her main source of damage and is therefore the most important talent to level. Consider raising it to level 10 before spending boss materials on the other talents. From there her Skill and Burst are roughly equivalent with her Skill being the more important talent because of the fact that you may not always burst every rotation.

Arlecchino's Energy Recharge requirements depend on if she is played with other Pyro characters, if she has her C4 You Shall Love and Protect Each Other Henceforth... and if any characters are using Favonius weapons.

Additionally, because Arlecchino's Elemental Burst Balemoon Rising is primarily used for healing, if you do not need the healing you should not use her Burst as it is a DPS loss. This can drastically lower the Energy that you realistically need. Because she is a Hypercarry, there will often be a support on her team that should be using a Favonius weapon.

You can subtract roughly 35-40% Energy Recharge for C4 and 10-15% for any character using a Favonius Weapon.

Arlecchino's gameplay kit primarily revolves around "Bond of Life" which was introduced with Fontaine's release. Bond of Life essentially prevents healing with the Bond absorbing any healing received until enough HP has been cleared. Once the Bond of Life has been cleared, a character will obtain benefits depending on what caused the Bond to be applied.

Arlecchino however uses the Bond of Life differently, instead having it more as a stacking buff. The higher the value of the Bond of Life, the more damage dealt by her Normal Attacks as well as healing provided by her Elemental Burst.

Both Arlecchino's Normal Attacks and Elemental Burst will consume Bond of Life with Normal Attacks consuming a small amount with each attack and the Burst consuming the entire thing when healing.

To generate Bond of Life, you need to utilise her Elemental Skill All Is Ash. This marks opponents with Blood-Debt Directive and then grants Bond of Life if you defeat the marked enemy or if you hit them with a Charged Attack. Additionally, her Signature Weapon Crimson Moon's Semblance also generates Bond of Life when Charged Attacks hit opponents.

Listed below is the following rotation. If your Arlecchino is C6, you would instead start with Skill > Burst > Skill so that you gain the additional CRIT DMG and CRIT Rate on your burst which now does a lot more damage.

• All Is Ash
• Switch to and setup supports
• Charged Attack
• Normal Attack: Invitation to a Beheading Combos
• All Is Ash
• Balemoon Rising
• Repeat

There are various Normal Attack combos which can be used. Generally amounting to 15 or 16 Normal Attacks. The most important thing to know is that the sixth Normal Attack is very slow and therefore you can often dash cancel after the fifth Attack. Normal Attack combos do depend on what works best for your specific team however. 3 N5D and 4 N4D are common combos.

Arlecchino has a range of teams primarily involving the Overload and Vaporize reactions but can also be played effectively in Mono Pyro teams.

Due to Arlecchino's Ascension Passive The Balemoon Alone May Know, Arlecchino cannot be healed during combat and instead heals herself. This makes a shielder more preferable or a healer with DMG buffing utility who only heals the other party members.

Bennett is in theory an incredibly powerful support for Arlecchino due to the attack buffs he provides. This does mean however that you have to restrict your gameplay to the buff circle which can result in more difficult gameplay, no interruption resistance if Bennett is used instead of a shielder and DPS losses when you leave the AoE as a result of mobile enemies, Overload knockback or enemy knockback.

The first team involving Bennett should be Arlecchino's best overload team assuming you can reliably maintain Bennett's buff. This can be difficult depending on the enemy that you are facing. Some good Pyro alternatives are Thoma and Dehya both of which do not interfere much with Elemental Reactions while Thoma brings shielding and Dehya brings interruption RES. Beidou however is a powerful Electro shielder alternative.

In this team Fischl helps by bringing amazing Electro application and acts as a battery while Chevreuse brings powerful Electro and Pyro buffs.

In Vaporize teams, Yelan is Arlecchino's best teammate with her incredible Hydro application. Xingqiu is also another great Hydro option while also being able to provide some DMG reduction.

Zhongli is best used when paired with Chiori due to the amazing synergy they have, but Zhongli can otherwise just be used with Bennett so that you can have both shielding and Bennett's DMG buffs.

While Mono Pyro teams are best used with Lyney, you can still deal great damage. Xiangling is able to deal great off-field Pyro DMG while Bennett buffs the team and Kaedehara Kazuha helps to lower the enemies Pyro RES or Zhongli instead provides universal RES Shred and more survivability.