Ganyu Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• High base CRIT DMG, which makes her a powerful main DPS even at C0.
• Easy to Build and to play.
• Powerful AoE attacks.
• Good Off-Field damage as well.

Weaknesses

• Must use charged shots, and without C6 it takes quite some time to charge, leaving you vulnerable.
• Requires specific teammates to support her.

Ganyu can easily be build as a main Cryo DPS with her powerful base CRIT DMG stats and charged shots. While she can also be used as Off-field DPS, we will focus on her main DPS build, as this is the role she excels in.

For this build, Ganyu's BiS weapon is the The First Great Magic. This is due to the fact it heavily buffs her charged attacks as well as the bow's stack mechanic which she can benefit from whether you play Ganyu with other Cryo characters or not.

When building Ganyu, you can combine The First Great Magic with the 4-piece Blizzard Strayer Artifact set which will boost both her ATK and CRIT Rate, allowing to aim more on CRIT DMG on the pieces themselves.

If you play Ganyu in a melt-focused team, you will want to use Wanderer's Troupe instead, as it will provide you with 80 Elemental Mastery and the 4-piece set constantly applies the buff to Charged Shots.

If you play Ganyu with Furina you can use Marechaussee Hunter.

Stat-wise, you want to aim for around 130% Energy Recharge if you want to be able to Burst every rotation. If you use Blizzard Strayer you only need around 50/60% CRIT Rate as the Artifact set will add a lot of CRIT Rate.

Ganyu is an extremely powerful Cryo DPS. Whether Ganyu is played in a Freeze, Melt, or Mono-Cryo, you will mostly use the same rotation. Place Ganyu's Elemntal Burst and use her Charged Attacks. Ganyu's Elemental Skill, Trail of the Qilin, is mainly used for energy generation and a taunt to keep her free to fire charged attacks at her enemies.

Overall, no matter what team Ganyu is a part of, she will always use her Elemental Burst, Celestial Shower, covering a huge AoE zone with it, and being able to trigger Elemental Reactions inside it through the help of her teammates, While she shoots down all the enemies with her powerful charged shots.

For this Build Ganyu will mainly be played as a Main DPS in Freeze, Melt, or Mono-Cryo.

Ganyu Freeze teams work around using a Hydro unit that can apply Hydro off-field, such as Furina, Mona, or even Sangonomiya Kokomi. Combined to a support such as Shenhe or a Shielder if you want a bit more protection since Ganyu is rather squishy.

You also want to use Venti or Kaedehara Kazuha for the RES shred, swirl, and packing small enemies. Venti is a particularly good option, as his Vortex can be used each rotation and he provides with good Energy Regeneration, as well as nicely grouping enemies together (if it's small enemies).

Ganyu can also work in a Mono-Cryo team. For this you will want to use Shenhe as she is the best Cryo support, with her RES Shred, Cryo DMG bonus, and Charged Attack DMG Bonus. Rosaria is another good option for Mono-Cryo teams as she has good particle generation, and she can also work as a Sub-DPS if needed, as she has good personal damage. For the last slot you can use any Cryo Shielder such as Layla or Citlali.

Ganyu Melt teams require you play closer to the enemies than Freeze teams. This is why you will need at least one Shielder to give you additional protection, especially since Ganyu wants the interruption RES. Bennett is your most wanted teammate for a Ganyu melt team due to his ATK Buffs, healing and Pyro application. The last slot should be filled by any character that can apply Pyro off-field.