Venti Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Strong Small Target Crown Control.
• Has a large variety of team options.
• Easy to play.
• Facilitates Exploration with his Wind current.

Weaknesses

• Large enemies are not affected by Venti's Elemental Burst.
• Elemental Burst can be difficult to place exactly where it is suppose to be.
• Burst sometimes lifts the enemies too high and they can not be reached by the Main DPS anymore.

Venti's role is mainly as a reaction off-field DPS, where you will have to focus on EM and ER to be able to use his Burst off-cooldown and increase his Swirl damage. Reaction DPS Venti is the recommended build. However, we will give you some ideas for a more Anemo DPS focused build, in case you want to use Venti as a Main DPS. But keep in mind that the second option will require way more investment to make it work.

Whether you Build Venti as a Reaction DPS or Anemo DPS, the gameplay mostly remains the same.

Venti's Elemental Skill Skyward Sonnet has two modes, a tap one and a hold:

• Tap the skill to launch a single tunnel of wind that will lift small enemies into the air and grant you 3 particles of energy.
• Holding the skill however, will create a large wind current, deal more damage, and produces 4 particles of energy.

In most cases, you will use the Hold version only outside of combat during exploration, in order to make use of the Wind Current to launch yourself in the air. During a fight, using tap only will be faster and more efficient, and still crowd control enemies.

Venti's Elemental Burst skill Wind's Grand Ode is his most important ability, whether you build him as a Reaction DPS or Anemo DPS. This skill creates a massive vortex that will suck in all surrounding enemies and control them in the air. It also absorbs and swirls any element which will deal even more damage to the enemies trapped within. This is one of the main reason Venti will shine more if you build him as a Reaction DPS with high Elemental Mastery.

This Burst offers 20 ticks of Anemo damage and 16 ticks if you absorb another element, with a Swirl effect occurring 7 times regardless of which element is absorbed. This can create some powerful elemental reactions when combined with the right teammates. However, this burst can also lift some enemies out of reach for certain melee fighters and skills, so use it wisely.

Venti will use both of his abilities when you bring him out onto the field, leading with his Elemental Skill first and then his Elemental Burst. This combo is the most common combination for Venti due to the fact that you can cut the animation time of his Skill by combining the two abilities. Afterwards, you simply switch back to another support to stack a different Element to create reactions or move to a DPS character to fight.

Venti is best placed teams who focus on Elemental Reactions and teams who can take advantage of his Crowd Control capabilities. Both Reaction and Anemo DPS Venti can take advantage of the same teams. Be careful with ground melee character such as Wriothesley as Venti tends to send enemies too high for them, putting them out of reach.

Venti's Rainbow Teams consist in creating a Rainbow Vortex that will melt down enemies in a few seconds using a range of elemental reactions. The goal is to accumulating multiple elements in one team in order to create massive AoE elemental Damage. Bennett and Fischl are two of the best teammates for this. Bennett with his usual buffs, and Fischl for the amount of Electro damage and energy recharge she provides, allowing you to lower the energy requirement on Venti. Iansan can also be a good pick instead of Bennett.

The Main DPS slot is rather flexible, but teammates such as Kamisato Ayato or Ganyu are good options for massive AoE damage boosts. As mentioned before, just don't use characters who deal damage close to the ground (Wriothesley, Heizou, Claymore users as they tend to have a hard time reaching up when the enemies are flying too high).

Lyney is another great option. Venti can allow Lyney to deal AoE damage, since Lyney will be able to shoot his Fire into Venti's vortex with ease, while benefiting from Bennett's Buffs and Citlali's Shield.

For the taser team to work you need at least one Electro and one Hydro unit. Fischl is the best option. You can also use Yae Miko, Kuki Shinobu, or even Lisa for a more beginner F2P team. As DPS you can use Raiden and combine her with Fischl who will provide energy recharge.

You can also use Kamisato Ayato as the Main DPS, he will have no issue hitting the enemies Venti sends flying. You can use Kaedehara Kazuha or even Zhongli on the flex slot instead. Yelan or Sangonomiya Kokomi are also good Sub-DPS and support options.

Freeze teams combined with Venti make the perfect Crowd Control teams, as both Venti's Vortex, and Freeze will prevent enemies from attacking you. Just make sure that your Cryo DPS can hit flying enemies.

Anemo-focused teams with Venti will only benefit from him if you play Venti as an Anemo DPS and not a Reaction DPS, as he will not have many reactions to do in those teams. Bennett and Faruzan are two characters you will want to use in those teams, as they provide important buffs to both the main DPS and Venti. The 4th slot is reserved to your Main Anemo DPS. The main options are Wanderer or Xiao. Wanderer benefits the most from Venti as this allows him to have a massive burst window to attack while Venti packs and controls enemies in his Vortex. Xiao works, but be aware that he tends to have a hard time hitting Venti's enemies inside the Vortex depending on where you put it.

Sadly Chasca is not an option as she will not perform well in such a team, and Heizou doesn't reach high enough.