Emilie Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Has a team-wide 85% Pyro RES against Burning.
• Amazing off-field DMG being able to replace powerful Sub DPS in some situations.
• Elemental Skill has a faster cooldown than duration providing consistent uptime.

Weaknesses

• Requires Burning to occur to maintain their DMG.
• Team comps can be restrictive at times due to needing a Pyro character that works with the niche reaction Burning.

Emilie is mostly used as an off-field Sub DPS who scales based on ATK while benefitting from the Burning Elemental Reaction.

Emilie's best weapon by far is her signature Lumidouce Elegy which offers ATK, increased DMG and even energy. This is a significant upgrade over her second best build option Calamity Queller. Other good build options include Staff of Homa and Deathmatch.

Build Emilie's with either Unfinished Reverie or Deepwood Memories. As is often the case with Dendro characters and Deepwood, someone in the party needs to be using this artifact set. Ideally this is not Emilie and instead someone like Thoma or Xiangling which then allows Emilie to use Unfinished Reverie.

With Main and Sub stat building, Emilie is built primarily as a fairly regular DPS needing stats like ATK and CRIT. A little Elemental Mastery is not very important but is also not a dead stat when building Emilie, it should simply not be a priority on the build.

Fragrance Extraction is by far the most important talent to level. Aromatic Explication is next, depending on your team and rotation you may not use your Elemental Burst.

Emilie's gameplay revolves around her Lumidouce Case which can be created by both her Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst. The Lumidouce Case comes in 3 levels:

• Level 1: 71.3% DMG (At Lv.10)
• Level 2: 151.2%x2 DMG
• Level 3: 391% DMG

When using Aromatic Explication a Level 1 case will appear and periodically deal damage, this can be upgraded to level 2 when 2 Scents are gathered. A Level 3 case can only be created using Aromatic Explication which will create a Level 1 Case when the duration ends.

Emilie's Skill does not snapshot. This means that unlike many characters the skill does not "Remember" any buffs applied to it when they wear off. On top of having a shorter cooldown than duration, this makes it easy to maintain a good uptime on Aromatic Explication.

Scents are a key part of Emilie's kit, when opponents are affected by Burning, they will give off Scents. These Scents are then collected by Lumidouce Cases to level up to Level 2 or to continue being at Level 2. A Level 3 case will not gather Scents.

Emilie's main teams focus on her utility as a Sub DPS who excels when the Burning reaction is occurring. This means that strong Pyro characters are often wanted in her teams.

Kinich is a Burning DPS and therefore has amazing Synergy with characters such as Emilie. Teams with Mavuika provide the highest amount of DPS however safer options such as Thoma and Dehya provide defensive utility instead if you are struggling with survivability.

Emilie is often an improvement to Xiangling in Mono Pyro team compositions. While not really as much of a Mono Pyro team at this point, she can still be a great fit which also allows Xiangling to be used in different teams.

2 of the best DPS for this are Arlecchino and Lyney. Kaedehara Kazuha and Zhongli can be used interchangeably with Kazuha being a great option for damage but the shielding from Zhongli can be better in more practical situations.

Emilie provides enough Dendro application to maintain Burning. This means that a second consistent Pyro applicator such as Xiangling, Thoma or Dehya is needed to maintain enough Pyro to consistently Melt with your Cryo DPS.

Emilie is a great option for Vaporize teams using Mualani. Currently using Dehya as your off-field Pyro application while using either Nahida or Sucrose. Nahida is generally a little easier to use rotationally and enables Dendro Resonance but Sucrose is more DPS overall.

Usually using an on-field Electro character, Quicken teams can sustain Burning and therefore allow for "Quickburning" to occur. This is because Burning does not immediately remove Quicken while characters such as Clorinde and Fischl are great for the electro side of things.