Kamisato Ayaka in Genshin Impact: a guide to the best builds

In Genshin Impact Kamisato Ayaka is 5 star character, which in battle uses a one-handed sword and cryo element. In a team, she can play the role of both the main and secondary damage dealer. This guide will let you know about her best builds, weapons and artifacts. We will also tell you about the optimal squads with her and pumping.

Ayaka's abilities and traits

Thanks to her powerful abilities, this ice swordswoman can successfully withstand both single bosses and large groups of ordinary mobs. She is especially good against Electro, Pyro and Hydro enemies. Its main advantages include:

High base attack power.
AoE strikes cover a large area where Cryo damage is dealt, which aids in creating lethal elemental reactions.
The elemental skill does a lot of Cryo damage and has a fast cooldown.
Like Mona, she is able to move quickly through water thanks to an alternate form of sprinting.
Useful when crafting materials for weapon elevation.

However, it was not without some minor drawbacks:

A small defense parameter, which is why it is highly desirable for a team to have a healer or a character capable of applying shields to allies.
To pump it, you need to extract completely new materials, which can significantly slow down its development.
High dynamics can make Ayaka difficult to control, especially for beginners.

How to play as Ayaka

Her normal attack "The Normal Attack: Kamisato Art – Kabuki" allows up to 5 consecutive strikes, while with her charged strike, she can spend stamina to unleash a stream of wind swords. When making a falling attack, the swordswoman will deal AoE damage.

With your elemental skill "Kamisato Art: Heka" this heroine causes an explosion of blooming ice that knocks all nearby enemies into the air, dealing Cryo damage to them. It can be used to quickly freeze opponents if they are under Hydro status.

Kamisato Ayaka will be the second character in the game to have an alternate sprint, a skill that replaces the character's normal sprint. We are talking about "The Art of Kamisato: Senho", which causes the heroine to hide in the snow streams and move With You them, spending stamina. After appearing from the ground, cold energy is released, imposing a Cryo effect on the surrounding mobs, and endowing Ayaka's attacks with a Cryo infusion.

In addition, using the sprint, you can hide from enemies or simply run away from them if your health has dropped to almost zero. Of course, you will have to practice a lot to perfectly master this skill.

Note: This sprint allows you to quickly move through the water, so you can easily overcome rivers and reservoirs. The main thing is to watch your stamina so as not to accidentally drown.

Finally, with the help of his elemental explosion "The Kamisato Art: Soumetsu" the princess is able to summon a blizzard that creates a Frost Seki, but these are ice blades that constantly move forward, slashing all enemies in their path and inflicting Cryo damage on them. After its duration ends, the storm explodes and deals AoE damage to Cryo.

This ability is great for creating powerful elemental reactions like Melt or Freeze. In this case, Kamisato Ayaka can act as a secondary damage dealer. As for her passive skills, they include:

Fruits of Shinsa - Crafting weapon ascend materials has a 10% chance to spawn a second item.
Kanten Senmyou Blessing - When an enemy takes Frost damage from Art of Kamisato Art: Senho(Sprint), Ayaka recovers 10 stamina and gains a 10% bonus Cryo Damage for 10 seconds.
Consecration of Amaumi Kunitsumi - After using the Heka elemental skill, the heroine's charged and normal strikes deal 30% more damage for 6 seconds.

Constellations (talents) Ayaks

To open the constellations, the character's Serendipity is required, obtained by knocking out copies of the hero. Given the randomness of this process, it will be extremely difficult to open even one talent, not to mention all of them. However, we highly recommend reaching at least the 2nd constellation.

Snowswept Sakura - Dealing Cryo damage to an enemy with a Normal or Charged Hit has a 50% chance to reduce the cooldown of Kamisato Art: Heka by 0.3 seconds. This effect occurs every 0.1 seconds.
Blizzard Blade Seki no To - Kamisato's Art: Sometsu spawns 2 additional smaller Frost Seki dealing 20% of the base damage.
Frostbloom Kamifubuki – Increases Kamisato Art: Sometsu by 3. Max level: 15.
Ebb and Flow – Reduces the defense of enemies hit by Kamisato Art: Sometsu by 30 percent for 6 seconds.
Blossom Cloud Irutsuki - Increases the level of Kamisato Art: Heka by 3. Maximum level value: 15.
Dance of Suigetsu - The heroine's Charged Strike damage is increased by 298% every 10 seconds. After dealing damage with this attack, the effect disappears, and the countdown starts from the very beginning.

The best builds for Ayaka

Primary cryo damage dealer with a focus on regular hits

Kamisato Ayaka can easily deal massive amounts of Cryo damage with her elemental skills. She can also access Cryo infusion, allowing her to cast an ice effect on enemies even with normal attacks. Therefore, we advise you to give the princess the following weapons:

Mistsplitter Reforged (5-star; Critical Damage) – Increases critical hits by 9-44 percent and grants a 24 percent bonus to elemental damage. When dealing elemental damage, special seals are issued that provide up to an additional 56 percent bonus to elemental damage.
Primordial Jade Cutter (5-star; Critical Hit Chance) - Increases maximum health by 20 percent and grants an attack bonus equal to 1.2 percent of maximum life bar.
Blackcliff Longsword (4-star; Critical Damage) - In case of destruction of opponents, attack power is increased by 12 percent. The effect lasts for half a minute and can stack up to three times. The duration of additional effects does not depend on each other.
Black Sword (4-star; Critical Hit Chance) - Increases damage from normal and charged strikes by 20%. Dealing critical damage with these hits restores health equal to 60% of Attack Rating. The effect occurs every 5 seconds.

If we talk about artifacts, then we advise you to focus on the following main characteristics: ATK / Bonus to Cryo damage / Critical hit chance or critical damage. As for the set, you should collect:

Blizzard Strayer: 2 items - increase Cryo damage by 15%; 4 items - when fighting enemies with Cryo effect or Freeze, the probability of inflicting crits increases by 20 and 40%, respectively. Can be found in the dungeon "Peak of Vindagnyr".

You can also try to build the following set:

Shimenawa’s Reminiscence: 2 items - increase attack power by 18 percent; 4 items - When using an elemental skill, if the hero has 15 or more points of energy, then he loses 15 points of energy, and the damage from his normal and charged hits (including falling attacks) is increased by 50 percent for 10 seconds. Mined in Momiji-Dyed Court dungeon.

If you do not have all the parts of the above artifacts, then you can take 2 incomplete sets for a while:

Blizzard Strayer: 2 items - Increase Cryo damage by 15%.
Shimenawa’s Reminiscence: 2 items - Increase attack power by 18 percent.

Secondary cryo damage dealer with a focus on elemental explosion

Kamisato Ayaka possesses a powerful elemental blast capable of destroying enemies in one fell swoop or inflicting a cryo effect on them, which aids in creating superior elemental reactions. This build is aimed at increasing the damage from this skill. As a weapon, we advise you to take:

Mistsplitter Reforged (5-star; Critical Damage) – Increases critical hits by 9-44 percent and grants a 24 percent bonus to elemental damage. When dealing elemental damage, special seals are issued that provide up to an additional 56 percent bonus to elemental damage.
Skyward Blade (5-star; Obtaining Energy) - Increases the chance of a critical hit. When using an elemental explosion, the movement speed and attack of the weapon carrier is increased by 10%. Normal and charged hits now deal 20% more damage. The effect lasts 12 seconds.
Favonius Sword (4-star; Obtaining Energy) - Crits have a 60% chance to restore 6 energy. The effect occurs every 12 seconds.

When selecting artifacts, you need to pay attention to the following main parameters: feather (ATK), flower (HP), clock (ATK%), bowl (Cryo damage), crown (Critical damage / Critical chance in a ratio of 1 to 2). As for sets, you can take:

Blizzard Strayer: 2 items - increase Cryo damage by 15%; 4 items - when fighting enemies with Cryo effect or Freeze, the probability of inflicting crits increases by 20 and 40%, respectively. Can be found in Peak of Vindagnyr Dungeon.

You can also try the new set of artifacts:

Emblem of Sundered Fate: 2P - Increases your energy regeneration rate by 20%. 4 items - Increases elemental explosion damage by 30 percent of your Energy Regen. The maximum effect can be increased up to 75 percent. The set can be obtained in the Momiji-Dyed Court dungeon.

In the absence of complete sets, you can temporarily use half sets:

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

Best teams with Ayaka

Given the above, this heroine goes well with many characters as both a primary and secondary damage dealer. In the first case, we advise you to build the following command:

Primary DPS: Kamisato Ayaka
Secondary DPS: Xingqiu or Mona (to create Freeze)
Support: Diona (for shielding, resonance and healing), Qiqi or Zhongli
Support: Kaedehara Kazuha or Venti (to create dispersion)

If you plan to use Ayaka as a secondary damage dealer, then here is another good unit:

Primary DPS: Diluc, Klee, Hu Tao, Eula, or Tartaglia (for generating elemental reactions)
Secondary DPS: Kamisato Ayaka
Support: Sucrose, Venti, or Kaedehara Kazuha (for dispersal and crowd control)
Support: Bennett or Barbara (for resonance)

Leveling Ayaka

How to improve skills

To do this, you will need special materials, and in very large quantities. Below is a list of them:

Teachings, directions and philosophies about "Grace" - can be mined in Violet Court dungeon on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The Old Handguard, Kageuchi Handguard, and Famed Handguard are dropped by new Nobushi enemies that can be found on Indazuma.
Bloodjade Branch - Dropped by Elite Boss Azhdaha.
Crown of Contempt - Can be obtained during various events or by leveling up the Permafrost tree with crimson agates.

How to level up a character

You will need special resources scattered around the world. In the list below we will indicate all the materials and how to obtain them.

First Ascension (Level 20) – 1 Shivada Jade Sliver, 3 Sakura Bloom, 3 Old Handguard
Second Ascension (Level 40) – 3 Shivad Jade Fragments, 2 Perpetual Heart, 10 Sakura Bloom, 15 Old Handguard
Third Ascension (Level 50) – 6 Shivada Jade Fragments, 4 Perpetual Heart, 20 Sakura Bloom, 12 Kageuchi Handguard
Fourth Ascension (Level 60) – 3 pieces of Shivada Jade, 8 Perpetual Heart, 30 Sakura Bloom, 18 Kageuchi Handguard
Fifth Ascension (Level 70) - 6 pieces of Shivada Jade, 12 Perpetual Heart, 45 Sakura Bloom, 12 Famed Handguard
Sixth Ascension (Level 80) - 6 Jewel Shivad Jades, 20 Perpetual Heart, 60 Sakura Bloom, 24 Famed Handguard

Shivada Jade can be obtained from Cryo Fern, Lupus Borealis, Ancient Geovishap, Cryo Hypostasis And Maguu Kenki. Jade can also be purchased at souvenir shop. The Sakura Bloom is a local curiosity of Inazuma, and we have indicated its location in separate guide. Infinite Gear Hearts drop from the boss Perpetual Mechanical Array.