Childe (Tartaglia) Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Powerful rapid Hydro application for Elemental Reactions.
• Riptide has amazing quadratic scaling.
• Unique passive, increasing the parties Normal Attack level by 1.

Weaknesses

• You are unable to Plunge in Melee Stance.
• Extremely long cooldown on their Elemental Skill.
• The fix to his long cooldown is locked behind constellations.

Tartaglia's primary build is that of a Main DPS where he is on-field dealing powerful Hydro DMG and facilitating various Elemental Reactions.

All of Tartaglia's 5-star options listed are incredibly competitive and can be better than other weapons with the right setup and situation. Polar Star as his signature weapon tends to be his BiS and will be if you are able to get 2-3 stacks at the start of your rotation. Without these stacks, weapons such as Aqua Simulacra tend to be more powerful.

Nymph's Dream is Tartaglia's best artifact set having amazing synergy with Polar Star due to both having similar stack mechanics. Heart of Depth is his second best option but Tartaglia can not fully utilise its effects.

With regards to substats, Tartaglia focuses on CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG and ATK % with a Hydro DMG goblet to increase his Elemental Damage. CRIT Rate can actually be more important to Tartaglia due to it applying Riptide with his 4th Ascension Passive Sword of Torrents.

Tartaglia's Energy Recharge requirements vary based on if you are using your Elemental Burst in your Ranged Stance or Melee Stance as well as if any party members use a Favonius weapon. For example, it is common for Kaedehara Kazuha to use a Favonius Sword.

Another aspect to consider which is not included inside the table is the Energy gained from Foul Legacy: Understream (C1) which generates 4 Energy per enemy defeated with Riptide.

It can be hard to know exactly how many enemies would be defeated in a single rotation with different fights having differing amounts of enemies. That being said, it is roughly 15% less for every enemy who would be defeated that rotation. I would just be careful when considering it as not all fights will have easy enemies to pick off for Energy.

Tartaglia's gameplay revolves around his 2 different stances. Melee Stance and ranged stance. These are activated when using his Elemental Skill Foul Legacy: Raging Tide. A very important thing to consider is that "The longer Tartaglia stays in his Melee Stance, the longer the CD." You generally only want to stay in his Melee Stance for around 10 seconds so that the cooldown does not get too long.

Tartaglia's Elemental Burst Havoc: Obliteration also changes depending on what stance he is in. His ranged stance doing Ranged Stance: Flash of Havoc and in Melee stance, Melee Stance: Light of Obliteration.

The Ranged Burst applies Riptide and gives 20 Energy back, the Melee Burst deals more DMG and utilises Riptide to deal further damage afterwards. Riptide is explained below.

Tartaglia's gameplay primarily revolves around his Riptide mechanic which marks opponents and can then do various effects. You can mark opponents with Riptide in the following ways:

• Charged Attacks while in his Bow stance.
• Ranged Stance: Flash of Havoc, his Elemental Burst while in Bow stance.
• CRIT Hits in Melee stance due to Sword of Torrents (A4).

Once an enemy is marked, you can then utilise Riptide to deal damage in these ways:

• Riptide Flash - A fully-charged Aimed Shot that hits an opponent affected by Riptide deals consecutive bouts of AoE DMG. Can occur once every 0.7s.
• Riptide Burst - Defeating an opponent affected by Riptide creates a Hydro burst that spreads Riptide to nearby opponents hit.
• Riptide Slash - Hitting an opponent marked by Riptide with a melee attack performs Riptide Slash that deals AoE Hydro DMG.
• Riptide Blast - When his Elemental Burst hits an opponent affected by Riptide, it clears their Riptide status and triggers a Hydro Explosion that deals AoE Hydro DMG. This is considered Elemental Burst DMG.

Hitting enemies with Riptide triggers independent versions of Riptide Slash. This makes it important to try and group enemies ideally with Anemo characters.

Tartaglia also has the ability to prestack the effects of his best weapon Polar Star and his best artifact set Nymph's Dream. This equipment gains DMG stacks when Normal, Charged, Skill and Bursts take place and hit opponents.

To "prestack" means to pre-emptively gain these stacks before dealing your most powerful hits from your Elemental Skill and Burst. One rotation for this is Skill > Normal Attack > Charged Attack.

Listed below are some team comps which can be used with Tartaglia such as his most popular International team composition and variants.

This is by far Tartaglia's most popular team composition, generally with Kaedehara Kazuha instead of Sucrose. Xiangling provides consistent Pyro application as well as Pyro Resonance when paired alongside Bennett who provides healing and powerful ATK buffs. Your Anemo character helps to group enemies for Riptide as well as RES Shred when using Viridescent Venerer

Tartaglia can also be played in Hyperbloom teams, his on-field Hydro application allows you to not need characters such as Xingqiu or Yelan. Instead, having an off-field Dendro and Electro character for Elemental Reactions. Tartaglia will also want a second Hydro character for additional Hydro appliation so that during the downtime on his Melee Stance, there are still reactions ongoing.

Kuki Shinobu is the preferred Electro character for Hyperbloom with her ability to both heal and effectively apply Electro although Baizhu or Yaoyao make great Dendro options instead. Depending on how often your Dendro character can apply Dendro for reactions, you may want 2 Dendro characters.

Electro-Charged, also known as Taser focuses on the Elemental DMG dealt mainly by Tartaglia and Beidou. With Bennett providing increased ATK buffs and healing as needed and Fischl acting as a battery and additional off-field Electro DMG.

I wanted to also list this team more so to explain a "Team Composition" which has started to occur more since the release of Neuvillette which players may see in Neuvillette showcases or during Spiral Abyss data/rankings. In this team, Tartaglia has no field time in this team and provides no benefit outside of his Master of Weaponry Passive which helps to increase the Normal Attack level for Neuvillette therefore dealing more damage.