Guide to Dilyuk in Genshin Impact: best builds

In Genshin Impact Diluc is 5 star character A pyro type that uses a two-handed sword in combat. It is considered one of the best basic damage dealers in the game, which is why many players are trying to get their hands on it. In this guide, we will tell you about his best builds, weapons and artifacts, as well as tell you who he works best with.

Features and abilities of Dilyuk

This swordsman is great for destroying both powerful single opponents (bosses) and large groups of ordinary mobs. All thanks to its unique advantages, which include:

Can infuse a weapon with a Pyro infusion to trigger elemental reactions repeatedly.
The Elemental Burst affects a huge area.
One of the few heroes that increases critical damage when ascended.

The disadvantages of this character can only be attributed to the relatively low attack speed. However, almost all owners of two-handed weapons suffer from this.

How to play Dilyuk

Interrupt Enemies with Fire Rush

The elemental skill of the character is able to interrupt the actions of enemies with each slash. This is very useful in terms of tactics - for example, you can prevent certain enemies from moving or give yourself extra time to use powerful abilities.

Break the shields

As a two-handed sword user, Diluc is able to break through enemy shields with ease. In addition, due to its fire element, it can be even more useful when fighting enemies with shields that create powerful reaction elements when in contact with flames.

Make quick work of Steam and Melt enemies

Dawn 'Elemental Burst knocks back nearby enemies and hits them with fire damage. After that, the swordsman rushes forward in the form of a phoenix, dealing fire damage to everyone, and at the end it explodes, hitting all enemies in a certain area. The hero's weapon is endowed with a Pyro infusion.

With a competent combination with characters of other elements, you can easily impose such effects as "Steam" and "Melting" on opponents, activating an elemental explosion or skill. Considering that even in the base, Diluc has high rates of critical and regular damage, you can easily dominate the battlefield with him.

Save ore

The passive skill "Tradition of the Dawn Knight" when crafting two-handed swords returns 15 percent of the spent ore to the player. Therefore, when you decide to create such a weapon, be sure to take this character to the team.

We add that he can also open such passives as "Relentless" and "Blessing of Phoenix". The first reduces the stamina cost of charged strikes by 50 percent and increases their duration by 3 seconds. The second increases the duration of the Pyro infusion by 4 seconds (Pyro damage is increased by 20 percent).

Talents (constellations)

Molten Vengeance - The Achievement: Hero begins to deal 15% more damage to enemies with more than 50% life bar.
Smoldering Ember - Taking damage increases your Attack Rating by 10% and Attack Speed by 5%. The effect lasts for 10 seconds and occurs every 1.5 seconds (stacking up to three times).
Fire and Steel - Increases your Flame Rush by three.
Flowing Flame - Rhythmically using an elemental skill increases their damage. For example, casting Flame Rush two seconds after the last hit increases the damage of the next attack by 40%.
Phoenix, Harbinger of Dawn - Dawn's level is increased by three.
Flaming Sword, Nemesis of the Dark - When using an elemental skill, the damage and speed of the next two hits are increased by 30% (effect lasts 6 seconds). It stops interrupting normal attacks.

The best builds for Dilyuk

This build aims to increase the attack power and effectiveness of the hero's elemental skills so that he can deal massive damage to enemies of any type. It works best with support characters that increase Diluc's damage output even more, such as Bennett or Xingqiu.

The best weapon

Wolf’s Gravestone (5-star) - Increases attack by 20%. Successfully hitting an enemy below 30% health increases the attack power of the entire team by 40% for 12 seconds. The effect appears once every 30 seconds. The best two-handed sword for Dilyuk.
Serpent Spine (4-star) - The hero's damage is increased by 6 percent every four seconds while he is on the battlefield. The effect stacks up to five times and does not disappear when switching heroes.
Unforged (5-star) - Increases shield durability by 20%. After taking damage, the character's attack is increased by 4 percent for 8 seconds. The effect stacks up to five times and occurs every 0.3 seconds. This two-handed sword is extremely useful when there is a character in the team that can cast a Noelle: Protector, such as Zhongli.
Prototype Archaic (4-Star) - Has a 50% chance to deal an additional 240% damage in a small area on a successful Normal or Charged Hit. The effect occurs every 15 seconds. This is a budget weapon option for Dilyuk, which can be used in the absence of the above swords.

Best Artifacts

Two sets of artifacts are suitable for this hero. The first one includes the full set Burning Scarlet Witch. Recall that in the presence of 2 items, the character increases Pyro damage by 15 percent. If you collect 4 items, then the damage from "Overload" and "Burning" increases by 40 percent, and from "Steam" and "Melting" - by 15 percent. Elemental skill increases Pyro damage for 10 seconds (stacks up to 3 times). Can be obtained in Wu Wan's Hidden Palace Dungeon.

If you are not yet able to assemble a complete set, then you can use two incomplete sets:

Gladiator’s Finale: 2 items - Increases the character's attack by 18 percent. Can be knocked out with elite bosses.
Crimson Witch of Flames: 2 items - Increase Pyro damage by 15%.

Combination with other characters

Diluc is a fairly versatile damage dealer that pairs well with many other elemental characters as he can create different reactions with them. A good command with it looks like this:

Main DPS: Diluc
Secondary DPS: Xingqiu (Creates a Steam effect and provides a damage boost with his Elemental Burst).
Secondary DPS: Fischl (Creates Elemental Reaction: Overloaded with Oz) or Mona (Creates Steam and resonates with Xingqiu)
Support: Bennett (Elemental Resonance increases attack power, and Elemental Burst heals and increases damage even more) or Xiangling

If you decide to take the sword Unforged, then a Achievement: Hero that creates shields will come in handy. In this case, you can assemble the following squad:

Main DPS: Diluc
Secondary DPS: Zhongli (Provides a shield and can replace the primary DPS if needed while it is on cooldown)
Elemental Burst : Bennett
Support: Sucrose (Elemental Burst gathers enemies in one place, making them much easier to destroy, and "Elemental Reaction: Swirl" increases damage)

Leveling Dilyuk

How to improve skills

This can be done by collecting a number of common and rare materials. Their list is given below:

Teachings, Instructions, and Philosophies about "Struggle" - Looted from the Forsaken Rift Dungeon on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Private, sergeant and officer chevrons - obtained from skirmishers and agents of Fatui, and are also created using alchemy.
Feather of Dwalin - Dropped from Stormterror.

How to level up a character

To do this, you will need to start collecting special materials. The full list and ways to get it are noted below.

First Ascension (Level 20) - 1 Agnidus Agate Sliver, 3 Glowweed Grass, 3 Private's Chevrons
Second Ascension (Level 40) – 3 Agnidus Agate Fragments, 2 Everflame Seed, 10 Glowweed Herbs, 15 Private's Chevrons
Ascension 3 (Level 50) – 6 Agnidus Agate Fragments, 4 Everflame Seed, 20 Glowweed Herbs, 12 Sergeant's Chevrons
Ascension 4 (Level 60) – 3 Agnidus Agate, 8 Everflame Seed, 30 Glowweed Herbs, 18 Sergeant's Chevrons
Fifth Ascension (level 70) - 6 pieces of Agnidus Agate, 12 Everflame Seed, 45 Glowweed Herbs, 12 Officer's Chevrons
Ascension 6 (Level 80) – 6 Agnidus Gem Agates, 20 Everflame Seed, 60 Glowweed Herbs, 24 Officer Chevrons

You can get Agnidus Agate and Everflame Seed from the Elite Boss Pyro Regisvine. Agates also drop from ancient geovishap. The Small Lamp Grass is a local curiosity of Mondstadt. IN separate guide indicated its exact location.