Dehya Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Extremely good damage mitigation leading to high survivability.
• Can be played On or Off-field.
• Has a good amount of Team composition possibilities.

Weaknesses

• Slightly underwhelming at C0.
• Despite her high survivability, you will most likely still require a healer in her team.
• Dehya's Pyro application is rather slow, making it hard to trigger reactions.

Dehya can be built in three different ways: as a Main DPS, Off-field DPS, or Off-field Support. All three will require you to build Dehya with different artifacts and weapons, and prioritize different stats. While we do recommend you go for the Support build, we will still go over the other two options in case you wish to build Dehya as an off-field DPS or Main DPS. Know that as a Main DPS she needs way more investment than as a support.

Dehya's Elemental Skill Molten Inferno will summon a Pyro field called Fiery Sanctum. When enemies who are inside of the field take damage, it will launch a coordinated attack and deal AoE Pyro DMG. This DMG is based on Dehya's ATK and Max HP.

When your active character is inside the field and takes damage, Dehya will mitigate and take a portion of that damage instead. The active character inside the field also has increased resistance to interruption.

During her Burst, Leonine Bite, Dehya enters a Blazing Lioness state and continuously unleashes Pyro attacks. Her Burst is extremely expensive in terms of energy, and for Off-field Dehya and Support Dehya builds, you will rarely use it.

Dehya's rotation and playstyle slightly varies whether she is played as a Main DPS, off-field DPS, or Support.

As a Main DPS you will:

• Use Molten Inferno
• Swap to teammates and use their buffs/abilities
• Swap back to Dehya and re-use Molten Inferno
• Use Leonine Bite

When playing as an Off-field DPS and Support the rotation is fairly similar, but you will just not necessarily use her Burst Leonine Bite. As a Support you will really only switch her in to apply her Fiery Sanctum field so you can mitigate the incoming damage

As a Sub-DPS you will use Dehya's skill Molten Inferno to mainly trigger Burgeon. You will have to coordinate with your Dendro character to apply Dehya's skill when Dendro Cores are present. Since Dehya's skill takes a long time to apply Pyro, you can accumulate new Dendro cores until the Pyro field procs a second time.

Dehya functions the best as a Support. In order for her to do proper damage as main DPS, she needs an extremely good build, with extremely well built supports as well. The investment you have to put into Dehya to main her may be too much. Hence why we recommend you build her as a support. This allows you to use her in more various teams, as she will do a very good job, with a bit less investment. She functions well to support characters that are more sensible to interruptions, or that need Pyro application.

As a support, Dehya can fit in more teams, since her primary goal will be to mitigate the incoming damage from the main and Sub-DPS. You will only have to swap her in to apply her skill, and then she will have to tank the damage.

As Sub-DPS, Dehya's goal is to mainly provide Pyro application through her Molten Inferno. She will not spend that much time on field, and serve as enabler for Burgeon, Melt, or other reactions that need Pyro application.

The triple Pyro team does a very good job as it accumulates buffs and Elemental abilities. Dehya does a great job as Main DPS on this team with Bennett and Kaedehara Kazuha will buff her and Bennett will also help with healing, while Xiangling will serve as a good Sub-DPS.

You can also use Furina instead of Kaedehara Kazuha if you want more damage on top of buffs.

Dehya as Main DPS can also function in Burning teams. Bennett is really required for Main DPS Dehya, he provides a real buff that allows Dehya to perform good. Dehya will be the Pyro enabler in those teams. Nahida and Emilie are two very good off-field Sub-DPS characters that are really good at applying Dendro.