Genshin Impact Xianyun Best Build: Weapons, Artifacts & Team Comps

Xianyun, aka Cloud Retainer, is an upcoming five-star Anemo user and a Catalyst wielder in Genshin Impact who will be making her debut in the game as a playable character during the version 4.4 update.

As a part of Hoyoverse drip marketing, they revealed the characters coming with the next update on December 18, 2023, including Xianyun. Soon after that, version 4.4 CBT started, giving us more leaks on Xianyun's character kit, ascension materials and other such details like scaling and energy cost.

Apparently, Xianyun is a support unit, a healer and a buffer who will be introducing the aerial combat meta to the game. To put it in simpler terms, her abilities highly favour plunge attacks and buff their damage output and also excels at healing allies.

There is a lot more to Xianyun's kit that we will be discussing in this pre-release build guide. So keep reading as we share the best possible build for Xianyun in Genshin Impact based on the current details.

Update on February 8, 2024: Added new recommendations to the build.

The Best Build For Xianyun

To attain the best for Xianyun, you must focus on attributes like ATK%, which is the stat that she scales with, and basic attributes like CRIT Rate, CRIT Damage, Anemo Damage, Elemental Mastery, Healing Bonus and other such things.

That being said, currently, the details that we have on Xianyun's kit are rather confusing as her Elemental Burst scales with duration.

Moving forward, here are some key details on Xianyun that will help you while building her:

• Xianyun scales with ATK%
• Xianyun's healing scales with ATK
• Her Elemental Burst helps with healing and crowd control
• You can focus on Anemo DMG for sub-stats
• You can also focus on Elemental Mastery for sub-stats
• Elemental Skill scaling at level 10
  • Route: 44.64%
  • 1 hit: 208.8%
  • 2 hit: 266.4%
  • 3 hit: 547.2%
  • CD: 12s
• Elemental Burst scaling at level 10
  • Skill DMG: 194.4%
  • Synergy: 70.6%
  • Release healing: 221.2%+1695
  • Duration: 66.4%+508

Best Weapons For Xianyun

The best weapon for Xianyun is none of than her signature Catalyst, Crane’s Echoing Call.

Crane’s Echoing Call stats

• Base ATK: 741
• Substats: 16.5% ATK
  • When the equipping character hits an opponent with a Plunging Attack, all nearby party members' Plunging Attacks deal 28% increased DMG for 20s. When other nearby party members hit opponents with Plunging Attacks, they will restore 2.5 Energy to the equipping character. Energy can be restored this way every 0.7s.

Apart from her signature weapon, Skyward Atlas will be a great weapon to use on Xianyun.

I will be using the Skyward Atlas on Xianyun on day one as I already have it.

Now, talking about free-to-play weapons, here are some weapons that you can use on Xianyun:

• Oathsworn Eye
• Dodoco Tales
• Eye of Perception
• Frostbearer

Best Artifacts For Xianyun

The best artifact for Xianyun is going to be the Song of Days Past, as not only it increases the Healing Bonus, it also improves plunge attacks and others, including Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst.

Song of Days Past

Artifact

Set Bonus

2-Piece: Healing Bonus +15%4-Piece: When the equipping character heals a party member, the Yearning effect will be created for 6s, which records the total amount of healing provided (including overflow healing). When the duration expires, the Yearning effect will be transformed into the Waves of Days Past effect: When your active party member hits an opponent with a Normal Attack, Charged Attack, Plunging Attack, Elemental Skill, or Elemental Burst, the DMG dealt will be increased by 8% of the total healing amount recorded by the Yearning effect. The Waves of Days Past effect is removed after it has taken effect 5 times or after 10s. A single instance of the Yearning effect can record up to 15,000 healing, and only a single instance can exist at once, but it can record the healing from multiple equipping characters. Equipping characters on standby can still trigger this effect.

Apart from that, when it comes other artifacts for Xianyun, you can use two pieces of ATK-based artifacts to further improve ATK% as Xianyun's damage and healing capabilities, as both depends on her ATK.

You can prepare good pieces from Shimenawa's Reminiscence and Gladiator's Finale.

Shimenawa's Reminiscence

Artifact	Set Bonus
	2 Piece: ATK +18%4 Piece: When casting an Elemental Skill, if the character has 15 or more Energy, they lose 15 Energy and Normal/Charged/Plunging Attack DMG is increased by 50% for 10s.

Best Team Compositions For Xianyun

Here are the best team compositions for Xianyun in Genshin Impact:

Update: For players who are wondering why we didn't use Hu Tao with Xianyun and Xiao who already has an Ult based on plunge attacks. It is becuase Hu Tao should be below 50% HP to deal real damage. Whereas Xianyun is a character who heals characters based of her ATK. Still, please do experiment with Hu Tao and other characters as we don't always have to be try hard and sometimes use the units that we think are great and will have fun playing.

Team Comp 1

With Gaming and Bennet, you get an extra 25% ATK as a part of the Elemental Resonance bonus. Anemo resonance will decrease Stamina Consumption by 15%. Increases Movement SPD by 10% and shortens Skill CD by 5%.

On top of that, you can use Bennet's Elemental Burst to get a further ATK boost. To us personally, this team looks like one of the best ones for Xianyun

Character	Roles
Xianyun	Support / Buffer / Healer
Xiao	DPS
Bennet	Support / Buffer
Gaming	Support / Buffer

More team comps coming soon!

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