Nahida Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Extremely powerful Dendro application both on-field and off-field
• Provides large Elemental Mastery bonuses to the party
• Low Elemental Burst cooldown and Energy costs
• Incredibly powerful C2 and C6

Weaknesses

• Low HP and Defense meaning damage can be more impactful
• Elemental Skill's aim mode can be more difficult to use on Mobile and Console

Nahida is best built off-field, swapping in often to apply her Elemental Skill and then swapping to other characters such as a DPS that can create further reactions with Dendro using her passive to share her Elemental Mastery with the party.

Prioritize building to 1,000 Elemental Mastery through a combination of artifacts and weapons is incredibly important to maximise both of your Ascension passives, Compassion Illuminated and Awakening Elucidated. Excess EM can still provide benefits but diminishing returns make CRIT stats a better secondary focus.

Nahida's best artifact set depends on your team composition. If no one in the team can equip Deepwood Memories, Nahida should wear it to maintain Dendro RES Shred. Otherwise, prioritize Gilded Dreams for its EM bonuses.

This generally means you want a weapon with Elemental Mastery and depending on your artifact substat RNG you will need a Goblet and Circlet that give Elemental Mastery. When transitioning off of EM due to having over 1000 to focus on CRIT, start by building a new Goblet first and then the Circlet.

Due to her strong Elemental application, Nahida is easily played as the only Dendro character for any Dendro-related reaction such as Hyperbloom and Burgeon. As a Catalyst user, Nahida is able to apply Dendro with each attack making her useful on-field and her Elemental Skill can trigger with her Normal Attacks to increase your damage.

When built as an on-field character, the majority of Nahida's personal damage comes from her Elemental Skill, All Schemes to Know, and subsequent reactions. The main reaction Nahida triggers is Spread, this scales off of Elemental Damage and CRIT DMG, not Elemental Mastery, hence the shift in stat priorities compared to off-field.

As mentioned on the other build, wear Deepwood Memories is Nahida's best set if no one else is wearing this set. Otherwise if another character can, Gilded Dreams is her best set.

You often want to start with her Elemental Skill, All Schemes to Know, to tether as many enemies as possible so that subsequent reactions can deal more damage using Tri-Karma Purification (from Seed of Skandha). Tri-Karma does have a limit of up to 8 characters at a single time, however.

Apply your Elemental Burst and start swapping to the other members of your party who will now be buffed due to the burst. Periodically swap back to Nahida to reuse All Schemes to Know again either for new waves of enemies or due to its powerful Dendro application to maintain any ongoing reactions.

Using Illusory Heart is a huge buff to your team, dealing increased damage from All Schemes to Know as well as buffing the entire parties Elemental Mastery up to a maximum of 250.

Nahida has 2 very unique gameplay benefits that take place outside of combat surrounding All Schemes to Know.

Nahida can collect up to 4 nearby items from the open world at a time using her Elemental Skill such as berries and flowers. This does not work for animals/collectables that move such as Scarabs in the desert.

Nahida can also use her Elemental Skill on NPCs in Sumeru to read their thoughts and gain additional dialogue. This is mainly for normal NPCs out in the world but at times can be used on other playable characters for example during an event.

Nahida's best team comps all revolve around Dendro's reactions, that being Quicken, Bloom, Burgeon and Hyperbloom. Dendro is an incredibly powerful element arguably the best in the game and having Nahida helps massively.

Hyperbloom almost always wants you to pair Nahida with either Raiden Shogun or Kuki Shinobu, both are beneficial to be able to trigger Hyperbloom. The Electro character always wants to be built with Elemental Mastery, which makes Kuki Shinobu a better choice. Raiden Shogun works with other team compositions which would require you to build 2 sets of Artifacts to also allow her to work in Hyperbloom.

Nahida has amazing synergy with Nilou being able to proc her bountiful cores incredibly fast. So fast that you may need to be careful with the damage that Dendro cores deal back to you. This team does not really have much of a Main DPS with all 4 characters contributing to either Hydro or Dendro and bringing their own benefits. This can lead to varying damage numbers as no specific character is the cause of the blooms.

Furina can be a great addition to this team with her Fanfare stacks and pairs really well with Kokomi and Baizhu.

Nahida is perfect for Quickbloom as a Sub DPS allowing Electro characters to deal high damage. Cyno's best variant of this team includes Nahida, Furina and Baizhu. The teams abilities line up smoothly with Cyno's Elemental burst.

Nahida is great for creating Dendro Cores and helping to set up Burgeon in Burgeon teams. Compositions generally want 2 Hydro and 1 Pyro to maintain an effective balance of elements. Pyro will then always reacts with the Cores and not Hydro which could cause Vaporize reactions instead. Thoma shines in Burgeon when built with Elemental Mastery due to how effectively he can trigger Burgeon.