Freminet Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• One of the only characters able to effectively utilise the Shatter reaction.
• Reduced stamina consumption underwater aiding underwater exploration.
• Capable of being built as either a Physical DPS or Cryo DPS depending on your gameplay preferences.

Weaknesses

• As a character who focuses on Shatter and Physical DMG, Freminet lacks the supports to be able to fully utilise him.
• Low skill multipliers generally causing low damage.
• High energy Recharge requirements.

Freminet's best weapon tends to be Skyward Pride having high base ATK, Energy Recharge to lower requirements as well as a DMG buff. That being said, there are many good Claymores for Freminet. Serpent Spine is his best 4-star weapon although free weapons such as Prototype Archaic and Snow-Tombed Starsilver can also be effective.

Pale Flame 4-piece is significant better than any 2 piece combination. Therefore we would recommend either going straight for it, or slotting in 2 Emblem of Severed Fate while you work towards a 4 piece bonus. This is because Emblem helps with Energy Recharge which will make gameplay smoother while your still working towards better artifacts while your current artifacts likely do not meet requirements.

Once Freminet has enough Energy Recharge, you should focus on building up CRIT and ATK.

Both Verdict and Serpent Spine (at R5) are amazing weapons for Freminet, although there are many other options such as Skyward Pride and stat sticks such as The Unforged or Redhorn Stonethresher. For free 4-star options, Prototype Archaic tends to be your best choice.

Blizzard Strayer is by far his best artifact set and should be the goal. That being said, Golden Troupe is an incredibly resin efficient domain which can be "good enough" if you are focusing mainly on building other characters.

With regards to substats, once Freminet has enough Energy Recharge you should build him with CRIT and ATK.

Freminet has different energy Recharge requirements depending on if he is played as a Physical DPS or as a Cryo DPS. You can roughly take off 20% Energy Recharge when Freminet is played with an Electro character or if a teammate is using a Favonius Weapon.

Freminet's gameplay mainly revolves around using Normal Attacks while under the effects of his Elemental Skill Pressurized Floe. Upon use of the skill, it activates his Pers Timer.

This causes Normal Attacks to deal additional Cryo DMG as well as increase the Pressure Level by 1 up to a maximum of 4. These change from blue to yellow as they increase. Pressing Freminet's Elemental Skill a second time will activate Shattering Pressure which does different things depending on the Pressure level:

• Level 0 - An attack dealing Cryo DMG.
• Level 1 to 3 - Attacks dealing both Cryo and Physical DMG.
• Level 4 - Simply deals Physical DMG. Will automatically trigger if you use a Normal Attack at level 4.

Once Shattering Pressure is used, the Pers Timer will end. As the Pressure levels increase, more damage will be dealt however as you can see, Level 4 only deals Physical DMG.

Freminet's Elemental Burst Shadowhunter's Ambush helps to support this gameplay loop by resetting the CD of Pressurized Floe, decreasing the CD by 70% while also making Normal Attacks add 2 per hit to the Pressure Level.

You therefore want to use the following combos depending on a Physical or Cryo build.

Physical:

• Pressurized Floe
• Shadowhunter's Ambush
• Normal Attack x2
• Pressurized Floe
• Normal Attack x2
• Pressurized Floe
• Normal Attack x1
• Pressurized Floe
• Normal Attack x2
• Pressurized Floe
• Normal Attack x1

Cryo:

• Pressurized Floe
• Shadowhunter's Ambush
• Pressurized Floe x2
• Normal Attack
• Pressurized Floe x2
• Normal Attack
• Pressurized Floe x2
• Normal Attack
• Pressurized Floe x2
• Normal Attack

Freminet's best teams tend to include another Cryo character to help reduce Energy Recharge requirements, provide Cryo Resonance and also provide off-field Elemental Application. A Hydro character is then wanted to trigger Shatter to activate Parallel Condensers. From there, it depends on if you are playing Cryo or Physical.

Physical teams with Freminet include an Electro character so that he can trigger Superconduct to further boost his damage.

Listed are some examples of Physical teams although the majority of party members listed are interchangeable. Rosaria tends to be your best choice for a Cryo party member, providing increased CRIT Rate as well as RES Shred alongside powerful off-field Cryo application. Fischl tends to be your best off-field Electro applicator while also helping to also be a battery.

Freminet's Cryo teams include an additional Anemo character to Shred the enemies Cryo RES using Viridescent Venerer.

Listed are some examples of Cryo teams for Freminet. Powerful Hydro application is incredibly important to ensure Shatter can regularly occur. This means characters such as Xingqiu, Yelan and Sangonomiya Kokomi are great for this team.

With the release of Xianyun, Freminet can be used as a Physical Plunge DPS due to Claymore characters having high Plunge Attack scaling. On top of Xianyun, Rosaria and Fischl provide Superconduct to further increase Physical DMG.