Arlecchino Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• High hypercarry damage using her Elemental Skill with unique gameplay from managing her Bond of Life.
• Pyro infusion persists when you swap characters making rotations more fluid.
• Wide range of team compositions.

Weaknesses

• Can not be healed by other characters in-combat, only her Elemental Burst or Abyss Buffs.
• Barely any interruption resistance even at C1 making a shielder is incredibly useful for smoother gameplay.

When building Arlecchino, she is mainly played as a DPS for Vaporize and Melt reactions while dealing powerful Pyro DMG from her Masque of the Red Death state.

Arlecchino's best weapon is her signature weapon Crimson Moon's Semblance, providing tailored benefits to her Bond of Life mechanic and boosting her damage output. Primordial Jade Winged-Spear or Staff of Homa are great build substitutes for Arlecchino while Lumidouce Elegy is specifically for Burning. Deathmatch and Ballad of the Fjords are Arlecchino's best 4-star options and more than capable of performing well in any build.

Fragment of Harmonic Whimsy is by far Arlecchino's best artifact set. Nothing even remotely comes close. Gladiator's Finale is a good secondary set due to dropping from World Bosses passively meaning you may already have good artifacts for Arlecchino.

Arlecchino's Normal Attacks are her main source of damage and is therefore the most important talent to build. Consider raising it to level 10 before spending boss materials on the other talents. From there Arlecchino's 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 team composition and constellation level. If Arlecchino 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 in most builds. 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, Melt 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 as Arlecchino can self-heal.

Bennett is 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.

With the release of Citlali, Melt has become Arlecchino's strongest reaction with a wide variety of team compositions available. Citlali is able to support Melt reactions on her own using a 4 N4D combo if you pause between every combo to ensure the enemy has a Cryo aura. Otherwise characters such as Rosaria can be used for additional application.

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

Zhongli provides much needed interruption RES alongside 20% RES Shred to increase your damage or Citlali can be used for more offensive buffs at the cost of a weaker shield.

The first team involving Bennett is 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 is also a powerful Electro shielder alternative.

In this team Fischl's role is to both provide amazing Electro application and act as a battery while Chevreuse brings powerful Electro and Pyro buffs.

Mono Pyro teams are another team composition that can be used with Arlecchino. Xiangling or Mavuika are able to deal great off-field Pyro DMG while Bennett buffs the team. Characters such as Zhongli, Kaedehara Kazuha and Xilonen provide additional damage buffs and utility.