Yelan Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Powerful Hydro application and off-field damage due to their Elemental Burst.
• Elemental Skill provides grouping from a non-Anemo character.
• Some of the most powerful Constellations in the game.
• Elemental Skill is amazing for exploration.

Weaknesses

• Energy hungry often wanting a lot of Energy Recharge.
• Less valuable if you already have a C6 Xingqiu, C0 Yelan being more of an equivalent side-grade.

Yelan's main role in your party should be as an Off-field damage dealer as well as a Hydro applicator allowing for powerful Elemental Reactions to take place.

Yelan's best weapon is normally Aqua Simulacra however, Elegy for the End can often deal more teamwide damage in teams with a lot of Elemental Reactions. This is because of the Elemental Mastery increases it can provide. Weapons such as Favonius Warbow and Sacrificial Bow are great for lowering Energy Recharge requirements. Mouun's Moon and The Stringless are better options if you do not need high Energy Recharge.

Emblem of Severed Fate is an amazing Artifact choice for Yelan. Emblem is also an incredibly efficient artifact set to farm, with it being used on characters such as Raiden Shogun, Xiangling and Xingqiu to name a few.

Yelan often has high Energy Recharge requirements, these can depend on how many times she uses Lingering Lifeline either due to the effects of Sacrificial Bow or the additional charge provided by Enter the Plotters.

While off-field for 5 seconds, Yelan enters Breakthrough dealing a powerful Charged Attack. It will however apply the same amount of Hydro as any Charged Attack.

You can also reset Breakthrough when using Lingering Lifeline's hold functionality. This will be indicated by the bracelet on Yelan's right arm glowing blue.

Lingering Lifeline is also a great skill to group enemies in combat. You will generally use Lingering Lifeline before swapping to your Elemental Burst, Depth-Clarion Dice.

Yelan's powerful off-field damage allows her to be incredibly flexible in a wide-range of team compositions with the Hydro Application being beneficial in many Vaporize, Dendro and Freeze teams.

Here are 2 examples of Vaporize teams which involve the Main DPS Hu Tao to deal massive damage. One example utilises the powerful pairing of Xingqiu and Yelan to regularly apply Hydro while Hu Tao vaporizes enemies. The second example instead uses Furina for her powerful DMG buffs and therefore needs a healer. Bennett is most suited for this role due to healing, damage buffs from Fantastic Voyage and Pyro Resonance.

Here is one such example of a Hyperbloom using characters such as Alhaitham and Kuki Shinobu to help produce the Hyperbloom reaction. Alhaitham is your On-field character, constantly applying Dendro while the remaining characters apply a lot of Hydro and Electro.

Listed are 2 examples of a Bloom team: one involving 3 Hydro and one involving 2. Nilou is incredibly important to Bloom reactions due to her Court of Dancing Petals Passive.

The first team is a more standard composition allowing Alhaitham to deal the majority of the parties damage with Baizhu applying additional Dendro application and healing as needed. The second team however utilises Nahida's powerful Dendro Application to have 3 Hydro instead.

Mono Hydro teams have been around for a while but with the release of Furina, they have been able to output much higher DPS than ever before. Characters such as Yelan and Xingqiu provide a large amount of off-field damage, Kazuha is a powerful unit in general often replacing Xingqiu's damage for decreased Hydro RES while Sangonomiya Kokomi and even Furina at C6 play more of an on-field role.