Qiqi Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Some of the most powerful healing in the game.
• A great asset in Co-op due to Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst both providing healing.

Weaknesses

• Very low Cryo Application.
• Elemental Skill does not generate any Energy Particles.
• Elemental Skill has a long cooldown resulting in low uptime.

Qiqi is primarily played as a healer, ensuring the team stays alive and fit for combat. Generally using artifact sets that then support the team through increased damage or ATK buffs because her healing is so powerful already.

Many of Qiqi's best weapons focus on increasing her Energy Recharge because her Elemental Skill does not generate Energy. Weapons such as Favonius Sword and Sacrificial Sword are great at this.

Sacrificial Sword is also great because it pairs incredibly well with Tenacity of the Millelith. Sacrificial Sword allows you to have 100% uptime on your Elemental Skill, allowing you to consistently have the effects of Tenacity.

Ocean-Hued Clam is otherwise an amazing option converting Qiqi's healing into pure DMG. Generally speaking Ocean-Hued can be a better artifact set than Tenacity if you are able to regularly use your Elemental Burst.

Qiqi's healing scales based off of ATK. This means, the more ATK the better her damage and healing will be.

As a general recommendation, we would advise aiming for around 220 - 260% Energy Recharge to allow your Elemental Burst to be ready when your Elemental Skill ends its cooldown.

With Qiqi not generating energy using Adeptus Art: Herald of Frost you need incredibly high requirements. The 220-260% suggestion can be lower in a Cryo-focused team or when using Raiden Shogun. But may be higher without other Cryo characters.

You generally want to start with Qiqi's Elemental Burst, Adeptus Art: Preserver of Fortune to mark enemies with a Fortune-Preserving Talisman. This deals AoE Cryo DMG and when enemies that are marked take further damage, you heal.

Combined with Adeptus Art: Herald of Frost your Elemental Skill, you can apply Cryo slowly to enemies. This is not enough for consistent Elemental Reactions but can help support another Cryo character.

If you have Sacrificial Sword you can consistently maintain Adeptus Art: Herald of Frost. You otherwise may want to consider using your Elemental Burst first, and then after 15s, using your Elemental Skill to provide continuous healing. With Ascetics of Frost (C1) however, you want to always pair them together to generate Energy.

As a powerful healer, Qiqi can be used in a wide range of team compositions. Anything that really wants a healer can benefit from having her. Some teams however you may want to consider her Cryo application and if it will interfere with reactions.

Because of this, her biggest uses are in Cryo-centric teams such as Perma-Freeze teams. Or paired with Furina because powerful healing helps generate fanfare from Let the People Rejoice.

Qiqi is able to fit in really well with Hyperbloom teams, the first example using Furina who utilises Qiqi's healing abilities to increase her damage buff while providing Hydro application. The second example instead uses Raiden Shogun to deal increased Electro DMG. In these teams Qiqi will not interfere with the Dendro cores.

Qiqi can be played in various Freeze teams either as the Main DPS themselves or as a healer support for another DPS instead.

When Qiqi is the DPS you may need to build them differently. Using artifacts such as Blizzard Strayer alongside Chongyun or Pale Flame alongside Rosaria for a physical build instead.

When supporting a DPS such as Ganyu or even Kamisato Ayaka. Qiqi can just be played as a normal healer, simply keeping the team alive and providing a small amount of Cryo application for Freeze to occur.