Genshin Impact Qiqi Guide: Best Builds

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In Genshin Impact Qiqi is a Cryo character who wields a one-handed sword. Its rarity level is 5 stars. In a team, she is able to perform the function of support and healer. If you managed to knock her out in prayers, and now you want to know about her best builds, weapons and artifacts, then check out our guide.

Qiqi Features and Abilities

Despite the fact that this kawaii swordswoman is positioned as a healer in the game, she is able to deal considerable damage to both bosses and groups of ordinary opponents with her powerful ice abilities. Its advantages also include:

The elemental skill provides the unit with healing over time and deals damage to enemies with Cryo.
Elemental Burst restores a significant amount of health, especially in co-op.

However, it was not without a couple of downsides. For example, her skills have a considerable cooldown time, so they often fail to use. She also needs more time sprinting and climbing to get to the right places due to her small stature.

How to play Qiqi

Incredible healing abilities

The elemental skill Adeptus Art: Herald of Frost deals Cryo damage to enemies and heals team members. The effect remains even after switching to another character, meaning you will receive powerful passive healing for any hero you have. Your companions will forget the taste of food, because all they need to heal is the Qiqi ability.

Art of the Adeptus: Guardian of Fortune's elemental explosion attaches a Affluence Talisman to all enemies in an area of effect. As soon as the character deals damage to these opponents, his health will immediately be restored - this will allow you to replenish the hit points of the desired hero very quickly.

Be sure to use her healing abilities while they are active because Qiqi main downside is her skills' long cooldown.

Create elemental reactions

So, the elemental skill of this crumb will allow you to inflict Cryo damage to nearby mobs, even after changing fighters. Qiqi: Cold Storage will fly across the battlefield, attacking all your opponents for a certain period of time. This will make it much easier for you to create elemental combinations.

For example, when combined with Pyro abilities, you will create "Melting", which deals additional damage, and with Electro skills - "Super Conductor", which reduces the resistance of enemies to physical damage and deals cold damage in an area.

Note: If you need to quickly cross a water barrier, then use the swordswoman's elemental skill to create an ice bridge. However, use it carefully, as the high cooldown makes it impossible to spam it as a Keiya.

Can deal damage while healing

Note that Qiqi healing abilities depend on her attack power. Therefore, use a build that increases this indicator. That is, you will not only heal your party members better, but also deal more damage to enemies.

Increasing this parameter to the maximum will benefit the group regardless of your playstyle. If you have a selfish damage dealer like Razor, then a high attack stat will mean she will provide him with more effective passive healing. If you plan to leave Qiqi on the battlefield for a long time, you can deal a lot of damage with it to the enemy, while healing your team members on each hit (while the elemental skill is active). It's a win-win!

Makes collecting items easier

If this cute swordswoman is present in the squad, then on your mini-map will be marked as curiosities of Liyue near you. All thanks to her passive skill "Former Life Memories". It greatly simplifies the collection of data materials. Her other two passives provide the following bonuses:

Life-Prolonging Methods - After activating an elemental skill and creating an elemental reaction, healing is increased by 20 percent (lasts 8 seconds).
A Glimpse Into Arcanum - Performing a Charged Strike or Normal Strike has a 50% chance to place a Talisman of Fortune on the enemy. The effect lasts for 6 seconds and appears every half a minute.

Talents (constellations)

To unlock them, you need character Serendipity, which is obtained during prayers - copies of the heroes you need should drop out. Given the random nature of this process, it will not be easy to open all the constellations.

Ascetics of Frost - When Herald of Cold damages an enemy marked with the Talisman of Fortune, the character recovers 2 energy.
Frozen to the Bone - Increases damage from normal and charged hits by 15% when fighting enemies with About Cryo.
Ascendant Praise - The level of "Adept Art: Keeper of Fortune" increases by three.
Divine Suppression - The attack rate of mobs with a Fortune Talisman is reduced by 20%.
Crimson Lotus Bloom - Adept's Art: Qiqi: Cold Storage level increases by three.
Rite of Resurrection – Activating an elemental blast revives nearby dead companions and restores half of their health. The effect appears every fifteen minutes.

Best Qiqi builds

Cryo support

With her powerful elemental abilities, she can create deadly elemental reactions, deal Cryo damage, and heal party members. For this reason, it makes sense to strengthen her skills and speed up Obtaining Energy. As a weapon you can take:

Skyward Blade (5-star) - Increases your chance to land critical attacks by 4%. Elemental Burst increases attack and movement speed by 10%, and charged and normal strikes hit 20% more. The duration of the effects is 12 seconds.
Sacrificial Sword (4-star) - Hitting with an elemental skill has a 40% chance to instantly restore its cooldown. The effect appears once every half a minute.
Favonius Sword (4-Star) - Critical hits have a 60% chance to create elemental particles that restore 6 energy. The effect occurs every 12 seconds.

As for Artifact Sets, you can choose from two options. The first includes the following sets:

Noblesse Oblige: 2 items - Increase elemental explosion damage by 20%. Can be obtained in dungeon "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" .
Blizzard Strayer: 2 items - Increase Cryo damage by 15%. Can be found in the dungeon "Peak of Vindagnyr".

You can also simply collect the full set of Ceremony of the Ancient Nobles, 4 pieces of which increase the attack rating of all team members by 20 percent for 12 seconds when an elemental explosion is activated. The effect does not stack.

Traveling Doctor-damager

We have already mentioned above that the effectiveness of Qiqi healing depends on the strength of her attack, so this build is aimed at increasing this parameter. With it, you can use this heroine on the battlefield longer without switching to other fighters immediately after activating her skills. As a weapon you can take:

Aquila Favonia (5-star) - Increases attack by 20%. When damaged, deal 200% damage to nearby enemies and restore health equal to 100% of attack power. The effect occurs every 15 seconds.
The Flute (4-Star) - Each charged or normal hit grants notes, and upon receiving 5 notes, nearby enemies are dealt 100 percent damage. Notes disappear after half a minute.
Black Sword (4-star) - Increases damage from charged and normal strikes by 20%. When performing critical hits, the character's health points are restored in the amount of 60 percent of the attack rate. The effect occurs every 5 seconds.

If we talk about a set of artifacts, then it should consist of two sets:

Maiden Beloved: 2 items - Increases the hero's healing by 15 percent. Can be obtained from the Valley of Remembrance dungeon.
Gladiator’s Finale: 2 items - Increases attack power by 18%. Can be obtained from elite monsters.

Combination with other characters

Considering Qiqi healing abilities and her ability to create powerful elemental reactions with basic damage dealers, she will look great on many teams. Below we list some of the most interesting options.

First team:

Primary DPS: Keqing or Razor (allows you to reduce physical damage resistance through Super Conduit)
Secondary DPS: Fischl
Support: Qiqi
Support: Bennett or Xingqiu

Second command:

Primary DPS: Diluc (allows you to create the "Melting" effect)
Support: Bennett (increases attack power) or Fischl
Support: Venti (crowd control)
Traveling Doctor: Qiqi

Third command:

Primary DPS: Klee (allows you to create the "Melting" effect with normal and charged attacks)
Secondary DPS: Mona (allows you to cast Freeze and deal massive damage when activating an elemental explosion)
Secondary DSP: Chongyun (Elemental Resonance increases Critical Hit Chance by 15%)
Support: Qiqi

Pumping Qiqi

How to improve skills

This can be done by collecting the special materials listed below.

Doctrines, directions and philosophies about "Prosperity" - obtained in the dungeon "Taishan Mansion" on Mondays and Thursdays.
Marriages of Divine Magic, Seal, and Forbidden Curse - Drop from shamachurls or crafted using alchemy.
Tail of Boreas - Dropped by the elite boss Lupus Borealis.

How to level up a character

To do this, you will need to collect a large number of fairly rare items. Below we have indicated their names and sources of receipt.

First Ascension (Level 20) – 1 Shivada Jade Sliver, 3 Glass Bells, 3 Scrolls of Divine Magic
Second Ascension (Level 40) – 3 Shivad Jade Fragments, 2 Frost Cores, 10 Glass Bells, 15 Scrolls of Divine Magic
Third Ascension (Level 50) – 6 Shivad Jade Fragments, 4 Frost Cores, 20 Glass Bells, 12 Seal Scrolls
Ascension 4 (level 60) – 3 pieces of Shivad Jade, 8 frost cores, 30 glass bells, 18 seal scrolls
Fifth Ascension (level 70) - 6 pieces of Shivad Jade, 12 frost cores, 45 glass bells, 12 scrolls of forbidden curse
Ascension 6 (Level 80) – 6 Jewel Shivad Jades, 20 Frost Cores, 60 Glass Bells, 24 Forbidden Curse Scrolls

Shivad's Jade and Hoarfrost Core can be obtained from the Elite Boss Cryo Regisvine. Jade can also be obtained from Lupus Borealis and ancient geovishap. Violetgrass are a local curiosity of Liyue. IN separate guide their location is indicated.