Yelan Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Powerful Hydro application and off-field damage due to their Elemental Burst.
• Has great Synergy with other Hydro characters such as Furina and Xingqiu.
• Mobility skill is great for exploration.

Weaknesses

• Energy hungry often wanting a lot of Energy Recharge which can be fixed with her C1.
• Has no defensive functionality unlike Xingqiu.

Yelan's built as a 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 deals more teamwide damage in teams with a lot of Elemental Reactions. Weapons such as Favonius Warbow is an amazing 4-Star build option for lowering Energy Recharge requirements and supporting your team.

Build Yelan with Emblem of Severed Fate it is the best Artifact choice for Yelan. This is by far Yelan's best artifact set in a Sub DPS build and can also be farmed via the strongbox.

Yelan often has high Energy Recharge requirements that should be considered in your build, 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. From there, simply swap to other supports or your Main DPS to deal high damage while the Dice provides Hydro application.

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.

Yelan is great with Pyro DPS such as Hu Tao and Arlecchino as a result of her amazing Hydro application. This allows for easy Elemental Reactions. Yelan can be paired with Xingqiu or Furina for Vaporize focused teams, or even with Citlali for teams with more Melt reactions.

Hyperbloom teams use Alhaitham or Nahida as their Dendro application while Yelan and the rest of the party creates more reactions to deal high damage.

Listed are 2 examples of a Bloom Teams that feature Yelan. 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, Kaedehara Kazuha is a powerful unit in general often replacing Xingqiu's damage for decreased Hydro RES while Sangonomiya Kokomi or even Furina at C6 play more of an on-field role.