Albedo guide in Genshin Impact: best builds

In Genshin Impact Albedo is a strong 5-star character that uses a one-handed sword and belongs to the Geo class. In this guide, we will talk about his features and abilities, as well as point out the best builds, weapons and artifacts for him. You will also learn how to upgrade an alchemist, and what materials will be needed for this.

Albedo abilities and traits

First of all, consider the purpose, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of this character. It can be used to perform the following tasks:

• Boss battles - can perfectly show themselves in them.
• Battles with ordinary opponents - can show himself well in them.
• Team support - can show himself well in them.
• Research - can show itself well in them.

As for the advantages of the hero, they should include:

• Fast attacks can easily stun opponents.
• Gain an additional 125 Elemental Mastery after using Elemental Blast.
• Elemental Burst has a relatively fast cooldown and requires little energy to use.

Not without weaknesses:

• You have to rely on elemental explosions to deal maximum damage.

How to use Albedo

The elemental skill of the character called "Aboginese: Albedo: Sun Blossom" creates a small structure that deals damage to Geo in an area (depending on the level of protection). If the Achievement: Hero stands on it, a crystal platform will appear, which will immediately raise him to a small height. It will definitely come in handy when solving some puzzles. At the same time, you can create no more than two flowers.

With the Homuncular Nature passive skill, using an elemental explosion "Rite of Progeniture: Tectonic Tide" automatically grants all characters in your party 125 Elemental Mastery for a few seconds. This makes Albedo a decent secondary DPS.

It only takes 40 units of energy to use the elemental explosion, and its recovery rate is quite high. Therefore, before switching to your main damage dealer, try to use Tectonic Wave first to deal additional damage.

In addition, Albedo has a 10% chance to create twice as many weapon elevation materials when crafting them. This effect can be extremely useful if you are short on resources or need a lot of the same items.

Talents

Constellations are opened with the help of the character's luck, accumulated when copies of the hero fall out during the Prayer. The first, fourth and fifth talents are of little use. The most effective are the second and third constellations, so after C3 it makes little sense to roll Albedo.

• Flower of Eden - Aboginese's created Blossoms of Transience begin to regenerate 1.2 points of the character's energy.
• Opening of Phanerozoic - Flowers of Transience created by Aboginese grant the character Doom's Reckoning for 30 seconds, which increases damage by 30% of the hero's Defense (stacks up to 4 times). When using Tectonic Surge, the effect is removed and the damage from the elemental explosion is increased.
• Grace of Helios - increases the level of "Aboginesis" by 3. The maximum level is 15th.
• Descent of Divinity - Increases fall attack damage by 30% in the Sunflower area.
• Tide of Hadean - Increases the level of Tectonic Wave by 3. The maximum level is 15th.
• Dust of Purification - Increases the damage of active party members in the area of the Flower of the Sun by 17% if they have the Crystallize effect applied to them.

Best builds for Albedo

At this point in time, this character is best used as a support-focused secondary DPS, regularly using his elemental burst and shielding allies, and then quickly switching to the main damage dealer. Therefore, it is necessary to maximize his elemental skills.

The best weapon

• Harbinger of Dawn (3-star) – Increases your critical strike chance by 14% while above 90% health. The best sword when playing as Albedo, aimed at protection and creating elemental reactions.
• Corrupted Desire (4-star) – Increases elemental skill damage by 16% and critical strike chance by 6%. Can be obtained by participating in the event "The Chalk Prince and the Dragon" . Slightly weaker than the previous version.
• Summit Shaper (5-star) - Increases shield strength by 20 percent, and on a successful hit, increases attack by 4 percent for 8 seconds. The effect stacks up to 5 times and appears every 0.3 seconds. While under the protection of the shield, the attack from this effect is increased by 100%. A great option for those who plan to stay longer on Albedo.
• Iron Sting (4-Star) - Dealing elemental damage increases all damage by 6 percent for 6 seconds. The effect stacks up to 2 times and occurs once per second. A good option for buffing allies' shields with Elemental Mastery.

Best Artifacts

If you are going to use Albedo elemental skills and explosions a lot, then we advise you to focus on the following parameters of artifacts: crit chance and critical damage (in a ratio of 1 to 2) / ATK / Geo damage. In this case, you should take the following sets:

• Archaic Petra (2 items) – Increases Geo damage by 15%. Can be obtained in Gu Yun's Realm Dungeon.
• Noblesse Oblige (2 items) - Increases elemental explosion damage by 20%. Can be obtained from the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern dungeon.

When deciding to use Albedo to increase the defense of your team using elemental reactions, you need to pay attention to the following parameters: defense / defense with crits / geo damage. If your group has a Pyro or Electro damage dealer, such as Diluc or Keqing, then collect the following sets:

• Thundersoother: (2 items) - Increases electrical resistance by 40 percent; (4 items) - Increase damage when fighting Electro-affected enemies by 35%. Dropped from the Midsummer Courtyard dungeon.
• Lavawalker: (2 items) - Increases pyro resistance by 40 percent; (4 items) - Increases damage when fighting enemies affected by Pyro by 35%. Can be found in Wu Wan's Hidden Palace dungeon.

In the absence of such characters in the team, collect a complete set "Archaic stone". The bonus from its four parts will not be very useful, but from the first two it will be extremely effective.

Combination with other characters

First team

• Primary DPS: Noel
• Secondary DPS: Albedo
• Support: Fischl
• Support: Beidou

Albedo in this case needs to be equipped with Tranquil Thunder. His main task will be to create shields for allies. Electro heroes are needed to constantly create elemental reactions.

Second team

• Main DPS: Ningguang
• Secondary DPS: Albedo
• Support: Bennett
• Support: Beidou

In this case, Albedo should play from his ult, getting powerful elemental reactions from Beidou and Bennett.

Third team

• Primary DPS: Tartaglia
• Secondary DPS: Xingqiu
• Support: Albedo
• Support: Xiangling

Albedo needs to be equipped with Archaic Petra and Ancient Noble Ceremony. Xiangling is needed to create an elemental reaction Par.

Fourth team

• Primary DPS: Keqing
• Secondary DPS: Albedo
• Support: Beidou
• Support: Xingqiu

Albedo in this case needs to be equipped with Tranquil Thunder. Thanks to elemental reactions, almost all characters will deal huge damage.

Leveling Albedo

How to improve skills

First, we note that when increasing skills, we advise giving priority to an elemental explosion, since the benefits from it are much greater than from an elemental skill. However, if you wish, you can pump them at the same time.

To increase the skill level, you will need the following materials:

• Teachings, guidebooks and philosophies about "Poetry" - can be obtained in the Forsaken Rift dungeon on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
• Scrolls of Divine Magic, Seal, and Forbidden Curse - Drop from Shamachurls and upgrade with Alchemy.
• Tusk of Monoceros Caeli - Dropped by the Tartaglia boss in the Golden Chamber.

Elevation

To do this, you will need certain items, namely:

• First Ascension (Level 20) – 1 Prithiva Topaz Sliver, 3 Cecilia, 3 Scrolls of Divine Magic
• Second Ascension (Level 40) – 3 Prithiv Topaz Fragments, 2 Basalt Pillar, 10 Cecilia, 15 Scrolls of Divine Magic
• Third Ascension (Level 50) – 6 Prithiv Topaz Fragments, 4 Basalt Pillar, 20 Cecilia, 12 Seal Scrolls
• Fourth Ascension (level 60) - 3 pieces of Prithiv Topaz, 8 Basalt Pillar, 30 cecilia, 18 seal scrolls
• Fifth Ascension (level 70) - 6 pieces of Prithiv topaz, 12 Basalt Pillar, 45 cecilia a, 12 scrolls of forbidden curse
• Sixth Ascension (Level 80) – 6 Prithiv Gem Topaz, 20 Basalt Pillar, 60 Cecilia, 24 Forbidden Curse Scrolls

Topaz Prithiva and Basalt Column can be obtained from elite boss Geo Hypostasis. Topaz can also be bought at souvenir shop or knock out with ancient geovishap And Azhdahi. Cecilia flowers are a local curiosity of Mondstadt. IN separate guide their location is indicated.