Genshin Impact tier list

A Cryo sword user who leaves a Solo Dance Double on the field to keep hitting nearby enemies with Cryo, re-summoning it with her Skill or Burst.

A Cryo attacker who fights alongside her machine Fagio: her Charged Attack puts it in Decoding mode to sweep the area in front and fire Cryo beams, and her Skill has her hover forward on a mech for 6s.

An Anemo DPS whose Skill calls down Spirit Blades and puts her in Armed for Action, where her attacks become Anemo that can't be overridden and a wind pinion strikes alongside them.

A Geo sword DPS whose Skill switches her into Lunar Phase Shift, where her Normal and Charged Attacks become Geo that can't be overridden and build Phase Shift Radiance for her special Spirit Steed's Stride.

A Cryo spear sub-DPS whose tapped Skill sends a Cooking Mek after the active character, firing Cryo at nearby enemies, and whose Burst hits an area and heals the party off her ATK, followed by 9 seconds of extra healing.

An Electro support whose Skill throws up a shield and summons the robot Birgitta to keep zapping enemies, and who turns the party's Electro-Charged reactions into Lunar-Charged, adding up to 14% to their base damage depending on her ATK.

A Cryo DPS who runs on Serpent's Subtlety instead of Energy: her Skill gives her 45 of it and puts her in Seven-Phase Flash mode, and her Burst needs at least 50, spends it all, and hits harder for every point past 50.

An Electro spear DPS for Lunar-Charged teams.

A Pyro support whose Skill gives nearby party members an ATK buff and a shield that blocks Pyro at 250%, and the buff grows by another 300 ATK once the active character has stayed on the field for 3s.

A Dendro support built around Bloom: with her in the party, Bloom becomes Lunar-Bloom, and her Elemental Mastery raises its base damage by up to 14%.

A Dendro DPS who charges in with her Skill and enters Shadow Dance, where having at least one Verdant Dew swaps her Charged Attack for Phantasm Performance, a special attack that costs no Stamina.

A Hydro support who takes her Water Imp form on Skill and starts Song of Ages Past: a horn keeps dashing at enemies for Hydro damage, and both it and the Skill lower enemies' Hydro and Cryo RES.

A Hydro support who turns the party's reactions lunar.

A Geo bow support who fights through her companion Lumi, whose Skill form keeps hitting nearby enemies and adds Lunar-Crystallize damage when Moondrifts are around.

An Electro DPS who plants up to 3 Sesshou Sakura with her three-charge Skill, each one zapping a nearby enemy over time and hitting harder when the others are close by.

A Hydro buffer whose Burst turns HP changes into a resource.

A Pyro sword support whose Burst lays down an Inspiration Field: anyone below 70% HP inside it heals continuously, anyone above gets an ATK bonus based on his Base ATK, and everyone in it is imbued with Pyro.

A Geo shielder whose held Skill puts up a Max HP-based Jade Shield that gets 5% stronger every time it takes a hit, up to five stacks, and also plants a Stone Stele.

An Anemo support who groups enemies with a small Wind Spirit on Skill and a Large Wind Spirit on Burst that keeps pulling them in and also picks up Hydro, Pyro, Cryo or Electro.

A Pyro sword user who switches forms.

A Pyro claymore DPS whose Skill refills her Nightsoul points and calls up the All-Fire Armaments, either as a Ring of Searing Radiance or in Flamestrider form.

A Cryo support who shields with Elemental Mastery and shreds resistances.

A Geo support who skates in with her Skill for DEF-based Geo damage, entering Blade Roller mode in Nightsoul's Blessing, and carries 3 Source Samples that can take on other elements.

A Cryo fist fighter who trades HP for damage: his Skill puts him in Chilling Penalty, where his Normal Attacks hit harder while he's above 50% HP but cost HP on every hit.

An Anemo bow support whose Burst fires a huge Stormeye that sucks enemies in and keeps hitting them, picking up Hydro, Pyro, Cryo or Electro for extra damage of that type.

An Electro spear support who heals off his ATK.

The Cryo version stabs ahead for Cryo damage and leaves a Frostpierce Star that follows the party and keeps firing ice crystals at nearby enemies.

An Anemo Swirl damage dealer who drifts forward in her Dreamdrifter state, hitting nearby enemies with Anemo at regular intervals.

An Anemo crowd controller who vacuums enemies together with his Skill, rides the updraft and comes down with a plunge that adds 200% ATK in any Hydro, Pyro, Cryo or Electro the Skill touched.

A Hydro bow support whose Burst sets up Exquisite Throw, which follows the active character and joins in with a Max HP-based Hydro hit up to once a second on their Normal Attacks, and again whenever her Lifeline explodes.

An Electro bow user whose value is Oz, the raven her Skill summons to keep attacking nearby enemies.

An Anemo DPS who swings two claymores at once.

A Dendro support who marks up to 8 enemies with Seeds of Skandha for her Skill's Tri-Karma Purification damage.

An Electro spear support whose Burst puts out a Kinetic Energy Scale that follows the active character and feeds her Nightsoul points.

A Hydro attacker whose Burst traps a wide area of enemies in a bubble, soaking them and pinning weaker ones in place, and once a bubbled enemy takes damage it gets an Omen that raises the damage it takes.

A Pyro support built for Overloaded teams.

A Geo spear support who boosts the party's Geo damage off his Elemental Mastery.

A Cryo spear DPS whose Skill puts him in Masterstroke mode, where he builds Joy to fire a special Skill up to three times while teammates' damage fills his Will to Win meter.

An Electro spear DPS who lives in his Burst.

An Electro DPS who chains her moves into plunges: her Charged Attack headbutts and launches her into the air, and after her Skill dash, her next Plunging Attack within 5s adds 50% of her ATK to the impact, or 180% while she's in Fiery Passion.

A Hydro sword support whose Burst makes the active character's Normal Attacks trigger extra Hydro sword rain for its whole duration.

A Dendro claymore DPS who grapples onto an enemy and fights from Nightsoul's Blessing, firing his Skill's Scalespiker Cannon while Ajaw breathes Dendro from the Burst.

A Cryo support whose Skill gives the party Icy Quill, a damage bonus on their attacks, plus a 15% buff that depends on how she casts it: press for Skill and Burst damage over 10s, hold for Normal, Charged and Plunging damage over 15s.

A Hydro DPS who scales with Max HP and fights on her surfboard, burning Nightsoul points as she rides and refilling 20 of them from each of up to two Puffers her Surging Bite spawns.

A Cryo healer whose Herald of Frost follows the active character, healing them periodically and chilling enemies it passes, while her own Normal and Charged Attacks heal the whole party.

A Pyro spear user with two simple tools: Guoba, a summon that keeps breathing fire on nearby enemies, and a Pyronado Burst that whirls around her and moves with your character for its whole duration, burning anything it touches.

An Anemo bow support who lowers enemy Anemo RES and boosts Anemo attackers.

An Anemo hammer support who rings her Witchlure Bell for Anemo damage, and if that Swirls an element her Skill turns into a follow-up for the next 6s.

A Dendro sword DPS whose rotation revolves around Chisel-Light Mirrors.

A Hydro DPS built around his Charged Attack: he charges up a Seal of Arbitration while walking around, and every Sourcewater Droplet he absorbs speeds it up.

An Electro spear user whose Skill gives the party Eye of Stormy Judgment, adding coordinated Electro strikes to their attacks and raising their Burst damage.

A Cryo sword DPS whose dash wraps her in frost, chills nearby enemies when she reappears and briefly infuses her attacks with Cryo.

A Pyro spear DPS who trades HP for damage.

A Hydro sword support who dances through a three-step combo off her Skill, turning her hits into Hydro Skill damage based on Max HP.

A Cryo bow support who shields and heals.

An off-field Geo damage dealer built on DEF.

A Geo DEF scaler who stacks Superlative Superstrength through his Normal Attacks and through Ushi, the bull his Skill throws out to taunt enemies, and his consecutive Arataki Kesagiri slashes get up to 30% faster as they chain.

A Dendro spear user built for Burning teams.

A Cryo archer built around charged Frostflake Arrows, which bloom for a second Cryo hit, and after the first one the next ones get 20% more CRIT Rate for 5 seconds.

An on-field Pyro DPS whose every attack is an AoE explosion, from her three-hit Normal combo to a bouncing bomb Skill with 2 charges that scatters mines on its last bounce.

An Electro sword DPS who spends most of her time in Night Vigil, where her Normal Attacks turn into pistolet shots dealing Electro damage that infusions can't override, and her Skill becomes the Impale the Night lunge.

A Geo DPS who collects Crystal Shrapnel, up to 6 stacks, whenever the party picks up a Crystallize shard or triggers Lunar-Crystallize, and spends it on her Skill.

An Anemo healer who can launch or drag enemies with her Skill and heal the whole party at once with her Burst, which then leaves a field that keeps healing anyone standing in it.

An Anemo bow DPS whose Skill puts her into Nightsoul's Blessing, where her charged Multitarget Fire loads Shadowhunt Shells.

A Pyro bow DPS who spends HP on charged Prop Arrows that leave Grin-Malkin Hats behind, then clears his Prop Surplus stacks with a Skill firework that heals him back.

A Hydro healer who leaves a Bake-Kurage on the field to pulse Hydro damage and heal the active character off her Max HP.

An Electro healer who spends some of her own HP to put a ring around the active character that zaps nearby enemies every 1.5s and heals whoever is inside.

An Electro bow support whose Skill throws a Spirit Orb that bounces between nearby enemies, then gives him Aspect Sigil for 15s, during which the active character's attacks restore 3 Energy to them (and to him if he's off-field), up to three times.

A Pyro claymore DPS who chains his Skill up to three times and uses his Burst for a Phoenix strike that also infuses his weapon with Pyro, with a passive extending that infusion by 4 seconds and adding 20% Pyro DMG Bonus.

A Geo bow support whose banner's buffs depend on how many Geo characters are in the party: DEF Bonus with one, interruption resistance with two, and Geo DMG Bonus with three.

An Anemo spear DPS who does his work inside his Burst, the Yaksha Mask: it makes him jump much higher, widens and strengthens his attacks and locks them to Anemo, at the cost of steady HP drain until he swaps out.

A Geo sword user who scales on both ATK and DEF.

The Pyro version's tapped Skill gives it 42 Nightsoul points and summons a Blazing Threshold that follows the active character and burns nearby enemies at intervals, with a bigger area while the Traveler holds over 20 points.

An Anemo DPS who leaps into the air with his Skill and fights from there in Windfavored, where his Normal and Charged Attacks become stronger, wider Kuugo attacks.

A Dendro healer and shielder who scales on Max HP.

An Anemo support built for Plunging Attacks.

This entry carries the Anemo kit: a palm vortex that grinds enemies in front of you and bursts in a wider blast when it ends, and a forward-moving tornado on Burst that drags enemies along.

A Hydro fighter with two stances.

A Hydro support whose main job is her Elemental Burst: a duck-shaped device that keeps firing water balls at nearby enemies, with its damage raised by half her Elemental Mastery.

An Electro DPS who fights through his Burst: the Wolf Within joins his Normal Attacks with extra Electro hits, speeds up his attacks and makes him immune to Electro-Charged damage.

A Hydro sword DPS whose Skill turns his Normal Attacks into AoE Hydro strikes and starts stacking Namisen, with the water decoy he leaves behind maxing his stacks when it pops.

An Electro sword DPS who throws a stiletto, then teleports to it on recast and picks up a 5-second Electro infusion for her attacks.

A Pyro claymore DPS who fights through plunges.

A Dendro healer whose Skill sets out Yuegui, a device that lobs White Jade Radishes that explode for Dendro damage and heal anyone in the blast.

A Dendro bow DPS built around Wreath Arrows, his level-two charged shot, which his Skill lets him fire 2.4s faster for the next three shots while a field of illusions taunts enemies.

An Electro greatsword user built around counters.

An Anemo bow support whose Skill sends her darting around enemies, soaking up Pyro, Hydro, Electro or Cryo from them into a flask she then empties as damage.

A Hydro bow healer whose Skill fires a bubble that bounces between enemies for Max HP-based Hydro damage and heals everyone in the party but her on each bounce.

A Hydro healer who heals the party through her Normal and Charged Attacks while her Skill's Melody Loop is up, with Charged hits healing four times as much, and the Loop also regenerates the active character's HP on its own.

An Electro bow buffer: her Skill hops her backward, and her next fully charged shot leaves a Crowfeather that strikes for Electro damage and gives the active character an ATK bonus based on her Base ATK.

A Pyro bow DPS whose Skill turns her Normal Attacks into stronger Blazing Arrows, each hit adding 2% Pyro DMG Bonus for 3s, up to ten stacks.

A greatsword DPS who mixes Cryo skills with Physical damage.

A Cryo healer who scales on ATK.

An Anemo shielder whose Skill dashes her into a target, throws up a shield that scales with her ATK and bounces her back into the air.

A Cryo shielder whose Skill puts up an HP-scaling shield that soaks Cryo at 250% and builds a Night Star every 1.5s, with each one adding 6% Shield Strength up to four stacks.

A Cryo spear user whose Skill blinks her behind an enemy for a stab, earning 12% CRIT Rate for 5s when it lands from behind.

A Dendro bow support whose Skill throws a Floral Ring that hits on the way out and again on the way back.

A DEF-scaling Geo character who covers shielding, healing and damage on her own.

An Anemo healer who hovers on his partner Cacucu.

A Pyro shielder whose Skill kicks enemies and puts up a Max HP-based Blazing Barrier that blocks Pyro at 250%.

A Geo support whose Burst gives the party Flying Cloud Flag Formation, adding damage based on her DEF to their Normal Attacks for a set time or number of hits, with more of it the more elements the team has (up to 11.5% of her DEF extra at four).

A Geo attacker whose Normal Attacks build Star Jades that fly out with her next Charged Attack, which costs no Stamina while she has any.

An Anemo sword support whose Burst drops a Bogglecat Box that taunts enemies, hits them with Anemo and, once it touches Hydro, Pyro, Cryo or Electro, starts firing shots of that element too.

A Pyro DPS who builds Scarlet Seals with her fireball Normal Attacks, or gets all 3 at once from her Skill, then spends them on Charged Attacks.

A Cryo sword user with a simple kit: a frontal ice blast on Skill and three icicles that circle him and hit anything in their path on Burst.

A DEF-scaling Geo character who summons or rides a drill, Turbo Twirly, that runs on her Nightsoul points until they're gone.

An Anemo healer who rolls into enemies as a windwheel and finishes with an AoE kick, healing the party for 300 HP plus 1.2 per point of Elemental Mastery whenever she Swirls on the field (once every 2s).

A Hydro spear support who buffs Normal Attacks that deal elemental damage.

The Dendro version throws a spray of razor leaves on Skill and plants a Lea Lotus Lamp on Burst that keeps hitting enemies in its area.

A Cryo greatsword support whose Skill leaves a Frost Field that infuses Sword, Claymore and Polearm users with Cryo and speeds up their Normal Attacks by 8%.

An Anemo martial artist whose punches and kicks all deal Anemo damage, built around a Skill strike that gets stronger with up to 4 Declension stacks, gained by holding the Skill or by Swirling on the field.

A Cryo healer and buffer whose Skill gives the whole party Soulwind, raising the on-field character's ATK SPD, and adds Detector stacks worth 10% Physical DMG each as his shots hit more enemies.

An Electro bow DPS built on Elemental Mastery: his level-two charged shot, the Shadowpiercing Shot, pierces enemies and gains 700% of his Elemental Mastery as bonus damage, and his Burst turns Normal Attacks into piercing Dusk Bolts that also scale with Elemental Mastery and count as Charged Attack damage.

An Electro attacker who stacks Conductive on enemies with her tapped Skill and her Charged Attacks, then cashes the stacks in with a slow held Skill that hits everything nearby.

Fights with Anemo: the Skill holds a vacuum vortex in front that keeps hitting and then explodes over a larger area, growing the longer it's held, while the Burst sends a tornado forward that drags enemies with it.

A Dendro attacker built around Dendro Cores: his Skill and Burst both detonate every Core in range on the spot, and the Burst also widens his attacks and turns them into Dendro damage that can't be overridden.

A Pyro claymore user whose Skill sets down a Fiery Sanctum field that she can pick up and put down again with the leaping Ranging Flame.

The Geo version drops a meteorite on Skill that deals AoE Geo and stays as a construct you can climb or use to block attacks, and its Burst sends out shockwaves that launch enemies and leave a stone wall at their edge.

A Dendro shielder who scales off Max HP: her kick deals AoE Dendro damage and puts up a shield that soaks Dendro damage at 250%, and hitting enemies in her Urgent Neko Parcel form banks up to 3 smaller backup shields.

An Electro claymore support whose Burst summons a Jinni that tethers to a nearby character, healing them off her Max HP, feeding them Energy and applying Electro, while the tether zaps any enemy it touches.

A Hydro sword support who shields.

A Cryo claymore DPS who loops his Skill.

A Cryo bow user whose Skill throws a Freeze Bomb that splits into bomblets, lowering enemy ATK and building Coil stacks that lead into her Rushing Ice state.

The Hydro version fires a forward Torrent Surge on Skill, or holds it to spray Dewdrops before the Surge, with Suffusion spending HP during the hold and adding 45% of that HP to the final Surge (capped at 5,000).

The Electro version works as an Energy battery: its Skill sends out three thunder shadows that leave up to 2 Abundance Amulets, and whoever picks one up gets Energy and extra Energy Recharge for a while.

A Pyro shielder whose Skill hits nearby enemies and grants a DEF-based shield that gets stronger the more enemies it hits, reaching its top level at two or more, where it also pulses Pyro damage.

A Pyro archer whose Skill tosses Baron Bunny, a decoy that taunts enemies and explodes for AoE Pyro damage when it's destroyed or times out.