Candace Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Candace is a 4-star Hydro polearm user in Genshin Impact who excels at providing AoE Hydro application as well as buffs to Normal Attacking characters.

Strengths

• The unique ability to provide a Hydro Infusion.
• Elemental Burst increases the amount of Elemental DMG a Characters Normal Attacks deal.
• Great AoE Hydro Application.

Weaknesses

• High Energy Recharge requirements.
• Low DMG output.
• C1 and C6 are incredibly important.

Candace is best played in more of a supporting role taking advantage of her Hydro infusion, Normal Attack DMG bonuses and AoE Hydro application.

With Candace having incredibly high Energy Recharge requirements, her best weapons tend to be those which help to ease this. Favonius Lance is therefore her best weapon for most situations. Alternatively, if you are aiming to increase her personal DMG, you can use weapons such as Staff of Homa or Engulfing Lightning.

Candace's best artifact sets are Emblem of Severed Fate and Noblesse Oblige. Emblem is generally the best allowing you to effectively use the 4-piece bonus of the artifact set as well as heavily benefitting from the +20% Energy Recharge. Noblesse however can be a great option in teams that want a lot of ATK%.

Candace's most important Talent is her Elemental Burst which is the focus of most of her supportive utility. Her Elemental Skill can also be useful to level but it is not worth levelling her Normal Attacks when played off-field.

Candace has incredibly high Energy Recharge requirements with her Elemental Skill only generating 2-3 particles. As a result of her low personal DPS you also do not want to be funnelling particles to her either which only increases her requirements further.

Your Energy Recharge requirements will depend on how menu Hydro characters you have in your team as well as if you use her Elemental Skill once or twice in a rotation.

Candace's Elemental Skill Sacred Rite: Heron's Sanctum has 2 different modes with different uses:

• Tap - Dashes forward dealing Hydro in front of Candace.
• Hold - Allows candace to block incoming attacks. The shield is also charged for a period of time, when released or when the shield is broken she will deal AoE Hydro DMG in front of herself. This charges instantly with her A1 Aegis of Crossed Arrows.

Tapping the Skill generates 2 Energy particles while Holding the skill generates 3 instead.

Candace's Elemental Burst Sacred Rite: Wagtail's Tide is the main way in which she helps to support your team. This provides the "Prayer of the Crimson Crown" buff to your active character.

This buff allows your active character to deal increased Elemental DMG with their Normal Attacks, deals AoE Hydro DMG periodically and also provides an Elemental Infusion to applicable characters.

Candace's best team compositions tend to revolve around Bloom, Vaporize and Hyperbloom team compositions allowing us to utilise her AoE Hydro application.

This can be a great Arlecchino team, Candace provides enough Hydro application to allow Arlecchino to Vape as much as Yelan can in other team compositions for Arlecchino. While Yelan provides significantly higher amounts of off-field DMG, Candace instead provides a Normal Attack buff as well as AoE Hydro application which can turn her into a competitive option.

Candace can be great in Bloom teams especially with Yaoyao. This is because of Candace's Hydro Elemental Infusion which can be used with Yaoyao to provide more value while Yaoyao has to stay on field for 5 seconds during her Elemental Burst.

Candace can also be played in Hyperbloom teams using characters such as Nahida and Baizhu for Dendro application. In this team, Kuki Shinobu provides more than enough Electro application to sustain Elemental Reactions.