Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Powerful buffs increasing damage, resistance shred and crowd control.
• Off-field elemental application of Anemo and Absorbed element.
• Incredibly flexible and used in a lot of the best team compositions.

Weaknesses

• Cannot swirl the right elements if the enemy has a persistent Elemental Aura. For example slimes and some bosses.
• While still a powerful character, there are now alternatives.

Kazuha's build focuses entirely on Elemental Mastery and Energy Recharge to get the most out of his kit. Therefore weapons which provide Elemental Mastery are best for Kazuha's build such as Freedom-Sworn and Xiphos' Moonlight. In situations where you are struggling to gain enough Energy Recharge to consistently burst you may consider a weapon such as Favonius Sword or Fleuve Cendre Ferryman.

Build Kazuha with Viridescent Venerer which is by far his best set to allow him to further support the party. With Elemental Mastery main stats, weapon and the bonus from your 6th Ascension, you will already have over 800 Elemental Mastery giving you at least a 32% damage bonus from Poetics of Fuubutsu before you even need to worry about substats. Ideally when building Kazuha, aim for around 1000 Elemental Mastery.

The exact amount of Energy Recharge you want will depend on your team and if you use Chihayaburu once or twice between each burst as well as if you simply tap or hold Chihayaburu.

Aim for around 200% - 215% if you tap Kazuha's skill twice in a rotation, you can lower this amount if you hold your skill or if someone in your team is using a Favonius weapon.

The goal with Kazuha is to provide massive buffs to the party so that your DPS and Sub DPS deal significantly more damage. This comes in 2 main ways:

• Through the Viridescent Venerer artifact set.
• Through triggering swirls and activating Poetics of Fuubutsu which gives a ~30-40% DMG bonus to the swirled element.

The important part to be aware of, is both of these effects trigger based on which elements are swirled and Kazuha therefore needs to swirl when the enemy has the elemental aura of your damage dealer.

Chihayaburu is Kazuha's main source of crowd control due to the fact it can pull a range of enemies towards him. This also causes Kazuha to jump in the air allowing you to perform a stronger plunge attack dealing damage based on the absorbed element.

Kazuha Slash is incredibly powerful providing the majority of Kazuha's damage as well as applying an absorbed element which is why it is so important to have enough Energy Recharge. This can help your team with additional elemental reactions. You just need to be careful that the right elements are absorbed.

Kazuhas Elemental Skill, Chihayaburu has different effects and utilities depending on if you tap or hold the skill. They generate different amounts of energy, pull enemies in more and even different amounts of elemental application.

You want to hold Chihayaburu whenever you need more powerful grouping or additional energy. Otherwise tapping the skill will allow you to swap to the rest of the party faster and deal more DPS.

Kazuha is an incredibly powerful support that can be used in essentially any team that has elements to swirl and will often be a huge DPS upgrade.

Neuvillette is one of the strongest DPS in the game and heavily benefits from having Kazuha in his teams with his best team also including Xilonen and Furina. That being said, because Kazuha and Xilonen both provide a lot of RES Shred that you start getting diminishing returns.

Kamisato Ayaka is an incredibly powerful main DPS who utilities the supportive abilities of Shenhe, Furina, and Kazuha to further increase her damage while freezing enemies. Kazuha has great synergy with a most characters you would use in a Freeze comp such as Ganyu, Layla, or Rosaria.

Listed are some examples of Pyro team compositions that use Kazuha. Bennett can apply Pyro making it easy for Kazuha to swirl before switching to your Main DPS. In the case of Lyney, Mono-Pyro teams can have all their DPS buffed such as Xiangling.