Clorinde Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Clorinde is a 5-star Electro Sword character whose main focus is to enter the Swift Hunt state through her Elemental Skill, and then build Bond of Life to be spent with her Elemental Skill. She comes with high amounts of CRIT Rate increases in her kit and has good Electro Application while on field.

Strengths

• Flexible character, that does not hoard on-field time
• Centered around her Elemental skill instead of Burst for her Damage
• Loads of free CRIT Rate in her kit, making her easier to build.

Weaknesses

• Forced to do Electro-based Reactions to unlock a large portion of her damage.
• Bond of Life mechanics can be punishing if you get hit by mechanics at the wrong time.
• Large amount of damage locked behind her first and second constellations.

Clorinde plays around her Elemental skill converting her Normal Attacks for 7.5 seconds, then most likely swapping out to setup another rotation. Her skill has a 16s cooldown, so you would have ~7-8 seconds to setup Bursts and effects from other characters.

Her weapon selection is pretty straight forward, as her Signiture weapon will be the best for her. Finale of the Deep is a really good Sword for her aswell, which makes her quite friendly to F2P accounts.

Clorinde's best weapon is her signature weapon Absolution. Not only is it a CRIT DMG weapon, it also ties for the highest base Attack on Swords, on top of its effect increasing CRIT DMG even further. Its effect is easy to maintain, as Clorinde has no issue generating and clearing Bond of Life. Other options are also swords that complements Clorinde's kit really well. Just be aware of Haran Geppaku Futsu, as this weapon gives CRIT Rate instead of CRIT DMG. At lv90, it gives 33.08%, which means you will baseline have 75.08% CRIT Rate. This drops the value of CRIT Rate drastically.

Mistsplitter Reforged as a base, is the exact same as Absolution, and Mistsplitter's Effect is easy to maintain as long as you use your Burst as it comes up. The Black Sword is an easy weapon to pick up, as it is on the Battle Pass, which buffs your Normal Attacks and gives you a small heal now and then, which will be converted to Bond of Life. This weapon also gives CRIT Rate, although slightly less. Nevertheless, it drops your need for CRIT Rate significantly.

As of right now, Fragment of Harmonic Whimsy is her best set, however Gladiator's Finale is the easiest to passively farm as you can get this from any world boss.

A note on Thundering Fury, on paper it seems to perform pretty well especially in Aggravate comps, however this might not translate well in game. It extends your rotation by a significant amount, as your skill comes off cooldown faster, which may reduce your overall DPS.

With regards to stat priorities, Clorinde is a Main DPS or an Electro Driver, with a heavy focus on ATK % and CRIT DMG, as her kit gives her a lot of free CRIT Rate. Energy Recharge is not a bad stat either, as her Burst does lean into her Skill by generating a lot of Bond of Life instantly.

Clorinde's kit revolves around her Elemental Skill, where she will enter a new stance called Night Vigil. This stance works akin to Childe's, where her Normal Attack changes and is converted to Electro DMG. However unlike Childe, the Cooldown of her skill is static. During this period, her skill changes into a lunge attack.

While Night Vigil is up, Her Normal Attacks will generate 35% Bond of Life if the Bond of Life equals to less than 100% of your health. Any healing received during this will generate Bond of Life instead of healing as well. The Lunge attack has 3 stages based on how much Bond of Life you have generated, where its damage increases with each stage. The 1st stage only happens if you have no Bond of Life and only deals damage, while the 2 other stages will convert the Bond of Life cleared, into healing. All the DMG from her Skill is considered Normal Attack DMG, thus any %Skill DMG is avoided.

Her skill multipliers seems low on paper, however her 1st Ascension talent is the reason for this. Whenever an Electro-based Reaction happens, Clorinde gains a buff that stacks up to 3 times. This buff makes her Electro DMG from Normal Attacks and Elemental Burst deal additional damage equal to 20% of her ATK (up to 1800). This is a base damage increase, meaning its added onto the damage before any other % modifier.

Due to Clorinde's 1st Ascension passive, you want to be triggering Electro-based Reactions like Aggravate, Hyperbloom, Electro-Charged (Taser teams) and maybe Overload. There are some example team composition based around this below:

Above is a pretty straight forward Aggravate team with a bit of a flexibility in the last slot. Sucrose and Kazuha are both great for shredding Elemental resistance with Viridescent Venerer and will also group up smaller targets. They are both interchangeable, although Kazuha tends to be preferred. Zhongli can also be used, if you prefer to have some more defensive power through his Shield. For Artifacts on Clorinde in this case, Thundering Fury does look better than Fragment of Harmonic Whimsy on paper. However, it depends on playstyle, the fight composition among other things.

This team doesn't deviate too much from your normal Hyperbloom teams, Clorinde is just there to trigger Electro reactions and to trigger Yelan's Burst damage if you use her.

If you are not familiar with Hyperbloom, it is a triple Elemental Reaction, where you first apply Hydro to Dendro (or vice versa). This creates the Reaction Bloom, which leaves a green seed nearby. Triggering Electro near the seed with cause it to trigger Hyperbloom, which expends the seed to shoot a projectile at your target.

This team is solely built around Overload, which means that Chevreuse in this setup is mandatory. Her damage increases to Pyro and Electro damage are simply too large to skip. Outside of this, there is a bit of flexibility for the two other slots, although Thoma is nice to have for the interrupt resistance from his Shield. Between Fischl and Kujou Sara is a matter of preference. Kujou Sara is less damage when off-field, but gives Clorinde more ATK, while Fischl deals a lot of damage while off-field.