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

• Weak single-target damage
• Uses Elemental Mastery artifacts, which have a much lower drop chance

Kazuhas main build focuses on increasing his Elemental Mastery to increase the damage he can deal when Swirling elements as well as increasing the bonus he provides with his 4th Ascension Passive: Poetics of Fuubutsu.

Kazuha always wants Elemental Mastery where possible and as much as you can give. Therefore weapons which provide Elemental Mastery are great for Kazuha 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. If Ferryman is already being used on another character you could also opt for Sacrificial Sword.

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. Generally speaking, around the 180 - 200% area will be common.

Like many Anemo characters, Kazuha performs best when using Viridescent Venerer with the resistance shred being incredibly helpful.

With Elemental Mastery artifacts, 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.

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.

Kazuha is an incredibly powerful support that can be used in a wide range of teams such as Hypercarry, mono elemental teams and various reaction based teams. The biggest issue with Kazuha is that you only have one of him in Spiral Abyss.

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.

Neuvillette is an incredibly powerful Hydro DPS character who benefits greatly from Kazuha due to the resistance shred, elemental damage bonus and even the damage increase from his 1st Ascension Passive Heir to the Ancient Sea's Authority.

Lyney can be an incredibly powerful team composition being able to utilise his 4th Ascension passive Conclusive Ovation to deal more damage with more Pyro characters. Kazuha helps improve this team even without being a Pyro character due to the increased resistance shred, damage buffs and by ensuring characters are consistently affected by Pyro.