Xiangling Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Great Pyro application on enemies.
• F2P character that can carry you through endgame.
• Strong Elemental Burst.
• Good Off-Field DPS due to her Pyronado.
• Large choice of team compositions.

Weaknesses

• Xiangling Requires a lot of Energy.
• Guoba can not really be aimed at anything and will simply target.
• Guoba's damage is low.

Xiangling is a character you can get for free and who can still be used in end-game content. Xiangling is usually built as a Sub-DPS because her powerful Burst Pyronado dealing Pyro DMG to all surrounding opponents.

For this build, Xiangling's best weapon is "The Catch". It provides Xiangling with a lot of Energy Recharge, while also being extremely easy to obtain at R5. This weapon comes from the fishing activity, which you can participate in early on and farm for it.

Xiangling's best Artifact set for this build is the Emblem of Severed Fate. Xiangling needs a set that provides more energy recharge, making the Emblem really worth. Additionally, this set also heavily increases her Burst damage, which is exactly what she needs.

For this Xiangling build you will need around 200 %+ energy recharge. If you reach that before picking a Sand Artifact you can go for ATK % or EM.

You can leave out Xiangling's Normal Attack and only focus on upgrading her Burst first and Skill second.

Xiangling's abilities can be quite powerful on the battlefield with her Elemental Burst, Pyronado, triggering some devastating Elemental Reactions. She can also help while off-field with her Elemental Skill Guoba Attack as a good source of Pyro application.

Both of Xiangling's skills snapshot, so she can play well into situations where she can take advantage of any damage buffs.

You should try to always have Bennett in your team, as he provides important buffs to both Xiangling and the rest of the team, and he will also lower her energy requirements as he will generate Pyro particles.

Xiangling's rotation for a Sub DPS build will be as follows:

1. Use Bennett's Burst if he is in the team
2. Swap to Xiangling
3. Use Pyronado
4. Use Guoba Attack
5. Swap to your Main DPS
6. You can use Bennett's Elemental Skill before swapping back to Xiangling as this will provide more particles

Xiangling will act as a Sub DPS. As mentioned previously, Bennett is her best teammate. We will focus on teams that take advantage of her powerful Burst for Elemental Reactions.

This team has been a top meta team ever since Raiden Shogun became available to players. The build uses Raiden’s DPS capabilities and amplifies them by stacking your team’s Elemental Bursts all together for her to take advantage of. Xiangling is primarily used for the power of her Pyronado, Bennett for his ATK buffs, and Xingqiu for his Hydro application.

When all three Elemental Bursts have been activated, you will swap back to Raiden to activate her Elemental Burst, Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu, allowing her to deal massive damage.

This powerful team uses the combination of Xiangling, Bennett, and Tartaglia to create Vaporize. Sucrose or Kaedehara Kazuha are added to help provide Elemental RES Shred as well as Swirl reactions.

You can use variants of this team with the following DPS characters as well:

This build focuses on 4-star characters only as an additional National variant and has a lot of Elemental Reactions that offer up solid damage against almost any type of enemy.

Xingqiu is our Hydro applicator, who is assisted by Sucrose to help apply the Hydro effect to every enemy on the field. She will also buff our Elemental Mastery and apply Swirl plus RES Shred if she is using the Viridescent Venerer set.

Bennett and Xiangling will add the Pyro to the equation. It is a very good starter 4-star team.

Xiangling is also excellent at assisting with elemental reactions in Melt teams. You can use Cryo main DPS such as Ganyu, Wriothesley, or Kamisato Ayaka. Bennett should still be a required teammate. You can add either another support like a shielder, or another Sub-DPS.

Xiangling will perform very well in Mono Pyro teams. Again you will want to pair her with Bennett and a Main Pyro DPS! The choice is rather large, but for example Diluc or Gaming paired with Xianyun and her plunge attack buff will make a powerful team. Other option such as powerful DPS like Arlecchino will benefit from the Xiangling and Bennet Duo as well!