Kirara Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Great on-field Dendro application.
• Remaining shield DMG absorption will stack on top of a new shield when created.
• Unique mobility from her Elemental Skill.

Weaknesses

• Only DMG buff she provides to the team comes from her C6.
• While good on-field application, Kirara severely lacks off-field Dendro application. This isn't ideal for a support.

Kirara is best built as a Shield Support, providing shields to the party and occasionally asisting with reactions.

Key of Khaj-Nisut is Kirara's best weapon, helping to maximise her shield strength by building more HP and also increasing Elemental Mastery for the party. Other good weapons include Sapwood Blade and The Dockhand's Assistant. Alternatively, Favonius Sword is an option to ease Energy Recharge requirements but this is less important.

Build Kirara with Deepwood Memories for Dendro teams as someone in the team always wants to be using this set. Kirara will not as easily guarantee full uptime on Deepwood's effects. As Kirara isnt built for damage, 2 Piece HP artifacts is another good option, or even build Instructor for the EM buff on Aggravate teams.

Kirara wants to be built with enough Energy Recharge to consistently burst and HP % for her shield strength. This will be around 150 - 170% if she is the only Dendro character, or around 120% if there are 2 Dendro characters.

Kirara's Elemental Skill Meow-teor Kick has different effects and gameplay benefits depending on if you press or hold the Skill.

• Press deals Dendro DMG in front of Kirara while generating a Shield called a "Shield of Safe Transport" based on her HP.
• Hold creates a Shield of Safe Transport and turns Kirara into a Urgent Neko Parcel which deals Dendro DMG to opponents when she collides with them. With Bewitching, Betwitching Tails (A1), the Parcel state will also create up to 3 additional shields.

Any Shield of Safe Transport generated can stack with the remaining DMG absorption of the current shield that she has.

Urgent Neko Parcel has a few limitations which may be worth keeping in mind. Kirara must be moving to actually deal DMG and apply Dendro and will also consume stamina faster while climbing. Kirara also can not perform Plunging Attacks in this state. Kirara will automatically leave the Parcel state if she opens a wind glider or falls too fast.

Kirara is often played in Dendro teams such as Quicken, Hyperbloom and Bloom teams.

Alternatively, Kirara can also be played in more general teams where she simply focuses on shielding. Because she has low off-field Dendro application, she will rarely interfere in other Elemental Reactions.

Kirara can be a great teammate for Sethos with her shielding making Charged Attacks easier for Sethos. Characters such as Sucrose and Kaedehara Kazuha help massively with both crowd control and grouping for Charged Attacks.

In this Nilou-centric team, Kirara provides both shielding and Dendro application. That being said, she will not apply enough Dendro on her own. Characters such as Nahida and Alhaitham help to provide enough Dendro application.

Sangonomiya Kokomi is the best option for Hydro application as well as powerful healing to support the Bloom reaction damage.

Kirara often pairs well with DPS such as Tighnari or Keqing who adopt a more quickswap-style gameplay due to Kirara's 12s cooldown on her shielding. The first example focusing more on Aggravate while the second team instead focuses more on Spread.

Hyperbloom team compositions can be great for Kirara. That being said, she does not provide enough Dendro application on her own. This makes characters such as Alhaitham or an on-field Nahida help with this. Kuki Shinobu or Raiden Shogun are generally the best Electro characters for Hyperbloom.