Genshin Impact Hu Tao Best Build: Best Weapons,…

This guide shares the best free-to-play and premium builds for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact while sharing the best artifacts, weapons, and team comps for Hu Tao.

Hu Tao Genshin Impact — Here's the best build for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact. | ©HoYoVerse

Hu Tao is a five-star Pyro element user and a Polearm wielder in Genshin Impact from Liyue, whose Elemental Skill, "Guide to Afterlife," and Elemental Burst, "Spirit Soother," along with Normal Attack, "Secret Spear of Wangsheng," makes her an amazing Main DPS unit, mainly focused around performing Charged ATKs or combination of Basic Attacks + Elemental Skill. Her Elemental Burst isn't her strongest, so it's widely ignored.

So, if you are lacking one of the most solid DPS units in your team or just want to get Hu Tao to tackle the Spiral Abyss or the other content offered in Genshin Impact, our best Hu Tao build guide will come in handy.

So keep reading as we go through the best build for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact while going over the best weapons, artifacts, and team compositions for her.

Update: We have made minor updates to the build guide on January 15, 2024.

Best Build For Hu Tao In Genshin Impact

Hu Tao Test Run — Below, you can find details on weapons and artifacts which are the best for Hu Tao. | © Hoyoverse

The only few things that you must remember while trying to attain the best build with Hu Tao in Genshin Impact is that her DMG scales with her HP stat. What this means is the higher you can get her HP, the more powerful her attacks will become.

Since she also applies the Pyro elemental effect with every one of her attacks, you should also look into raising her Pyro Damage. This can be done with Elemental Mastery and Pyro DMG stats.

While playing Hu Tao, you are going to want to make sure to utilize her charge attack the most during any of your rotations.

Combining a charge attack with her Elemental Skill is going to result in the most damage output.

The best way to use Hu Tao is by doing Normal Attack 1, Normal Attack 2, Normal Attack 3, and Charge Attack followed by a Jump Cancel.

When we look at the best builds for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact, we have taken her kit into consideration.

This includes weapons, artifacts, and team composition, which all will directly result in her having the biggest DPS output possible.

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Best Weapons For Hu Tao In Genshin Impact

The best weapon for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact is going to be her signature weapon, of course, The Staff of Homa.

The Staff of Homa increases the user's HP by 20%/25%/30%/35%/40%. Additionally, it also provides an ATK Bonus based on 0.8%/1%/1.2%/1.4%/1.6% of the wielder’s Max HP.

Moreover, when the wielder’s HP is less than 50%, this ATK Bonus is increased by an additional 1%/1.2%/1.4%/1.6%/1.8% of Max HP.

All this shows that the Staff of Homa, despite being used on characters like Zhongli, is, in fact, a weapon built in consideration of Hu Tao's abilities and scaling.

Besides The Staff of Homa, you could also use these weapons:

Staff of the Scarlet Sands
Dragon's Bane
Deathmatch
Primordial Jade Winged-Spear

Best Artifacts For Hu Tao In Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact Screenshot 2023 09 18 12 11 59 32 — The Crimson With of Flames is a great artifact for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact. | © Hoyoverse

There are a handful of artifacts that Hu Tao would go great with. We can take a look at what sets she goes well with below:

Crimson Witch of Flames

4 Piece: Increases Overloaded and Burning DMG by 40%. Increases Vaporize and Melt DMG by 15%.
- Using an Elemental Skill increases 2-Piece Set effects by 50% for 10s. Max 3 stacks.
2 Piece: Gain a 15% Pyro DMG Bonus.

Shimenawa's Reminiscence

4 Piece: When casting an elemental skill, if the character has 15 or more Energy, they lose 15 Energy, and Normal/Charged/Plunging Attack Damage is increased by 50% for 10s.
2 Piece: Attack +18%

Gilded Dreams

4 Piece: Within 8s of triggering an Elemental Reaction, the character equipping this will obtain buffs based on the Elemental Type of the other party members, ATK is increased by 14% for each party member whose Elemental Type is the same as the equipping character and Elemental Mastery is increased by 50 for every party members with a different Elemental Type.
- Each of the aforementioned buffs will count up to 3 characters. This effect can be triggered once every 8s. The character who equips this can still trigger its effects when not on the field.
2 Piece: Elemental Mastery +80.