Zhongli guide in Genshin Impact: best builds

In Genshin Impact Zhongli is 5 star character, belonging to the Geo class and wielding a spear. In a team, he can play the role of the main DPS or support. In this guide, we will tell you about his best builds, weapons and artifacts. You will also learn about his abilities and strengths.

How to play Zhongli

We note right away that this character shows himself perfectly in battles with both ordinary mobs and bosses, and can also support his allies if necessary. All this follows from its main advantages:

High attack speed.
Dealing large Geo damage in an area.
Can turn enemies to stone with her elemental blast.
Able to pull the Geo element from opponents.

Turn enemies to stone with Comet Drop

During the application of the elemental explosion of this hero, a huge meteorite falls on the battlefield, imposing petrification on all mobs in its area of effect. This is a great crowd control skill, similar to Elemental Reaction: Frozen elemental reaction, which means that enemies lose the ability to move. At this point, you can quickly heal, deal additional damage to opponents, or simply run away.

Balance between attack and defense with Dominus Lapidis

A quick press of an elemental skill key summons a stone pillar that deals area damage to Geo when it spawns. Then periodically she attacks all the enemies around her.

This column is a Geo construct, meaning you can climb it or use it to block enemy attacks. As a result, you will be able to simultaneously defend against opponents and deal damage to them. By the way, Zhongli 's charged strike causes a shower of stone spears. Its use consumes stamina.

Remove Geo-protection of enemies

If you hold down the "Dominus Lapidis" skill key for a long time, then the character deals Geo damage in an area, forms a Jasper Noelle: Protector, the power of which depends on maximum health, and depletes a Geo element from nearby enemies.

In the latter case, enemy Geo structures and shields are either destroyed or take significant damage. This skill is great for fighting Hilichurl Guards, Mitachurls, or Shamachurls.

Passive skills and talents

Above, we mainly considered the active abilities and skills of this spearman. His passives look like this:

Resonant Waves - Damage absorbed while the shield is activated allows the hero to gain the Fortify status, which increases his durability by 5%. The effect stacks up to 5 times.
Rich Table - Comet Impact deals additional damage equal to 33% of the character's maximum health.
Arcanum of Crystal - When forging a polearm, the Achievement: Hero recovers 15 percent of the ore spent.

As for talents, even low-level ones are useful, but the last constellation allows Zhongli to reveal himself to the maximum as a support character. List of all perks:

What keeps the earth on - you can use two Geo columns at the same time.
Stone, the Cradle of Jade - When you use Comet Smash, all allies gain a Jasper Noelle: Protector.
Jade, Shimmering through Darkness - Increases the level of Dominus Lapidis by three. The maximum level is 15th.
Topaz, Unbreakable and Fearless - Increases the Comet's area of effect by 20% and the petrification lasts 2 seconds longer.
Lazuli, Herald of the Order - Increases Comet Impact by 3. The maximum level is 15th.
Chrysos, Bounty of Dominator - 40% of damage taken is converted to health for the active hero while Jasper Shield is active. The amount of recovery does not exceed 8 percent of the character's maximum health.

The best builds for Zhongli

Basic DPS on physical damage

This build focuses on increasing the hero's attack speed and maximizing his damage dealt with normal and charged hits. In this case, we advise you to give him the following weapons:

Peak of the Crescent (4-star, best option) - When collecting elemental particles and spheres, damage from charged and normal strikes is increased by 20 percent for 5 seconds. Can be scrapped. The best option for Zhongli as a damage dealer.
Staff of Homa (5-Star) - Increases health by 20 percent and increases attack bonus by 0.8 percent of maximum HP. If the life bar falls below half, then the attack is additionally increased by 1 percent. Another great spear for this hero.
Deathmatch (4-star) - When two or more enemies are nearby, the hero's defense and attack are increased by 16 percent. If the battle is with only one enemy, then the attack power increases by 24 percent.
Vortex Vanquisher (5-star, Alternate) - Increases shield strength by 20%. When hitting enemies, increases attack by 4 percent for 8 seconds. The effect stacks up to 5 times. Fires once every 0.3 seconds. When the shield is active, attack is increased by 100%.
Primordial Jade Winged-Spear (5-star, Alternate) - On hit, increases Attack by 3.2 percent for 6 seconds. The effect stacks up to 7 times and occurs every 0.3 seconds. At maximum stacks, damage is increased by 12%.

As for the set of artifacts, the following parameters will be important for the main damage dealer: physical damage / attack power / critical strike chance. If we talk about sets, then take:

Bloodstained Chivalry - 2 items: Increases physical damage by 25%. Can be obtained in dungeon "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" .
Gladiator’s Finale - 2 items: Increases attack power by 18%. Dropped from elite bosses. These sets work perfectly with the Crescent Lance.

Support character

This build is aimed at strengthening the character's elemental explosion and elemental skill so that he deals the maximum possible Geo damage and smoothly imposes the Petrification status on enemies. As a weapon you can use:

Favonius Lance (4-Star) – On critical strikes, it has a 60% chance to create elemental particles that restore 6 energy. The effect occurs every 12 seconds. Ideal for Zhongli, who often uses his ult.
Skyward Spine (5-Star) – Increases critical strike chance by 8 percent and increases normal attack speed by 12 percent. In addition, Normal and Charged Hits have a 50% chance to trigger a Vacuum Blade that deals AoE damage equal to 40% of Attack Power. This effect can only trigger once every 2 seconds.
Blackcliff Pole (4-star) - After defeating enemies, attack power is increased by 12 percent for 30 seconds. The effect stacks up to three times.

For a support for elemental damage, you should take artifacts with the following parameters: Geo damage / crit chance and critical damage (with a ratio of 1 to 2) / health points or attack power. If we talk about a set of artifacts, then we advise you to take the following sets:

Archaic Petra (2 items) - Increases Geo damage bonus by 15%. It can be knocked out during the passage of the dungeon "Possessions of Gu Yun".
Noblesse Oblige (2 items) - Increases elemental explosion damage by 20%. It can be knocked out during the passage of the "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" dungeon.

You can also collect full variations of the above sets depending on your goals. The Archaic Petra strengthens the team better, and the Noblesse Oblige suggests more frequent use of Zhongli ult.

Support on shields

A rather non-standard build that aims to maximize Zhongli shields. In this case, you should take as a weapon:

Black Tassel (3-star) - Increases damage against slimes by 40%. Taken for the reason that it gives a bonus to the Zhongli health bar.

All artifacts must be taken with bonuses to the health bar. As for the sets themselves, they are identical to the previous build:

Archaic Petra (2 items) - Increases Geo damage bonus by 15%. It can be knocked out during the passage of the dungeon "Possessions of Gu Yun".
Noblesse Oblige (2 items) - Increases elemental explosion damage by 20%. It can be knocked out during the passage of the "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" dungeon.

Combination with other characters

Main damage

You can assemble some excellent squads in which Zhongli will deal huge physical damage to enemies. First option:

Main DPS: Zhongli
Secondary DPS: Ganyu
Support: Fischl - to create a Superconductor
Support: Beidou - to create resonance

Second option:

Main DPS: Zhongli
Support: Albedo - to create resonance and quickly restore energy
Secondary DPS: Fischl
Secondary DPS: Xingqiu - to create a reaction Charged

Third option:

Main DPS: Zhongli
Secondary DPS: Fischl
Secondary DPS: Beidou
Support: Bennett

Support

Zhongli plays the role of a support character or secondary damage dealer perfectly in almost any group thanks to his shields. Below are some interesting options. First:

Primary DPS: Xiao
Secondary DPS: Zhongli
Support: Bennett
Support: Sucrose