The Knave in Genshin Impact: where to find and how to win

In Genshin Impact The Knave is the harbinger of Fatui and weekly boss, which was added to the game With You the release of patch 4.6 and is available as part of the Scattered Ruins punishment dungeon. It drops dying candles, silky feathers, and Denial and Judgment, necessary to ascend certain characters.

In this guide, we will tell you how to find and defeat this powerful warrior, studying in detail all of her attacks and movements, as well as indicating recommended commands and the best tactics for fighting her.

Where to find Servant (Arlecchino) in Genshin Impact

To gain access to the battle with this boss, you will first need to unlock the special dungeon “Scattered Ruins” by completing the Arlecchino Legends quest called "When the Hearth-Flame Goes Out". After this, you will be able to challenge this harbinger of Fatui at any time, but you will be able to collect the reward for defeating her only once a week. Let us add that in the quest this enemy is somewhat weaker than in the weekly battles.

Note: Starting with patch 4.2, you no longer need to complete story conditions to unlock weekly bosses - just reach level 40 adventure rank. You can enter into battle with them through the adventurer's guide.

The passage to the dungeon is located in the northern part of the Liffey area, in Fontaine. To have the game mark its location for you, simply select "Scattered Ruins" under the "Punishment Dungeons" section of the Adventurer's Handbook. Once you enter it, you will need to choose the difficulty of the battle depending on the strength of your characters.

Before the battle, be sure to make sure that you have 60 units virgin resin (or 30 if we are talking about one of the first three battles with weekly bosses in the current week), otherwise you will not be able to receive the reward later.

Servant Characteristics

Even in the first phase, this harbinger of Fatui has 70% resistance to Pyro damage, so we do not advise you to take damage dealers of the corresponding element into your team. As for other elements and physical damage, her resistance to them is only 10%, which makes it easier to create an optimal squad.

If we talk about the main attributes, then in the first phase (left column in the picture below) she has more health, but less attack, and in the second (right), on the contrary, less HP, but higher ATK. Moreover, any of her indicators can be considered relatively high, for example, her life scale in the second phase at level 90 is 1 million units, and her attack power is 26.6 thousand points. Plus, she can make some pretty powerful area-of-effect attacks.

Thus, she definitely cannot be called a weak opponent. The full characteristics of this enemy can be found in the pictures above.

Featured Characters

Tips for choosing heroes

Considering the boss’s high resistance to the Pyro element, it’s definitely not worth taking the main damage dealers of the corresponding element, but you can easily add Pyro healers or shield fighters who do not deal direct damage to the enemy. You can even take a fiery sub-DD to assign appropriate statuses and cause elemental reactions.

Note: It is not recommended to use archers and catalysts, although the enemy often rises high into the air. The fact is that in some cases the boss will not receive damage from long-range attacks, protecting himself from them with a wing or simply teleporting from place to place.

We advise you to take damage dealers who can quickly perform a charged strike, for example, Wriothesley or Nevillet - this will make it easier for you to stun the Servant by activating the Crimson Tide (we talked about this mechanic in more detail below). You also won't deal significant damage to her and prevent her from using Crimson Feast on Blood.

Be sure to have your best healer on your team, as you will have to constantly cleanse your characters of Life Debt, otherwise you will not be able to stun the boss and you will receive increased damage from him. Supports like Sangonomiya Kokomi, Baizhu and Furina can remove negative status almost instantly.

You can also take a good shieldman who will negate any additional damage from her attacks. In this case, you will only receive Life Debt. If there is no such hero, you can add a second healer to the team.

Top teams

Considering the above information, we have prepared some of the most suitable units that will make it easier for you to deal with Arlecchino. They are demonstrated in the table below.

Servant's attacks and movements

Life debt

The main mechanics of the boss, so let's look at it in a little more detail. Some of the Servant's attacks consume her own health, but when they hit, they apply Life debt and restore the boss's life points. If the affected hero already had this negative effect, then this attack will deal 250% of the initial damage.

The duration of Life Debt is 600 seconds. While it is active, all characters affected by it also receive the Decay debuff, causing them to lose 0.125% of their maximum health +200 points every 2.5 seconds. After Life Debt is removed, the hero's next “Charged Attack” will activate Crimson Tide, which will deal additional physical damage to the Servant.

Let's add that the presence of Life Debt is quite easy to determine on a character - a red cross hangs near his life scale and name, and a large red mark is displayed on him. So you will know who exactly has the debuff, even if the character is in the pocket.

First phase

Ranged Immunity

While The Knave is not attacking and the player is far away from her, she will dodge (over 70% health) or block (below 70% health) all incoming attacks. When blocking a large number of rapid successive attacks, she will dash towards the character and strike with her wings.

Cut and pull

Performs a horizontal slash followed by a pulling slash with his scythe, dealing damage to Pyro. If her maximum health is below 70%, she can perform up to three additional attacks.

Rotating Scythe

Launches his scythe at the player in the form of a spinning wheel, causing Pyro damage. If her maximum health is below 70%, this attack is performed twice in quick succession, followed by a forward dash during which The Knave launches a grabbing arm, dealing Pyro damage and inflicting Life Debt.

Splitting Charge

Quickly rushes towards the player and strikes once, dealing damage to Pyro. If her maximum health is below 70%, she can perform an additional attack from the opposite side.

Falling Reaper

Flies high into the air and rushes towards the player, striking with a scythe. If her health is below 70% of her maximum, also performs a wing attack that can inflict Life Debt.

Descending Darkness

Performs when health drops to 70%. It applies Life Debt to all players currently in the arena.

Jump attack

Jumps left and right in the air, and then flies towards the player, striking with a scythe. This is followed by a spinning weapon attack.

Crimson Feast on Blood

Deals massive Pyro damage over a large area while inflicting Life Debt. During this attack, if the player is able to hit the boss with a charged strike infused with Crimson Tide, he will interrupt the attack and deal additional physical damage. The Knave uses this skill only after two uses of Descending Darkness.

Dividing convergence

Two cross-shaped areas will appear in the arena, after which blades will appear on the ground that will cut the corresponding areas, causing Pyro damage and inflicting Life Debt. The boss will then damage Pyro in a large area.

Dance of Purgatory

Jumps onto a thread hanging in the air and launches two phantoms at the player, each of which deals Pyro damage and inflicts Life Debt. The Knave then descends from the thread and flies towards the hero to strike with his scythe and wing. She then dashes back, performing another attack that applies a debuff. The boss makes this move after the first activation of Descending Darkness.

Second phase

At the beginning of the second stage of the battle, he immediately dashes towards the player, dealing Pyro damage and inflicting Life Debt.

Double braid combo

Performs up to 6 consecutive attacks with her scythes, dealing ever-increasing Pyro damage.

Double rotating braids

Launches two scythes at once in the form of spinning wheels, and then rushes forward to attack with spider legs, dealing damage to Pyro. Can then immediately transition into a double scythe combo.

Circular cut

If the player is standing behind the Servant in close proximity to her, then she performs a circular strike with both scythes. She then immediately goes into a double scythe combo if the character is standing close to her, or throws spinning scythes if they are far away from her.

Blood Ray

Charges and fires a powerful laser beam at the player, dealing Pyro damage and inflicting Life Debt. You can shoot up to three times in a row.

Destruction after destruction

Flies high into the sky and fires two 6 homing projectiles at the player, dealing Pyro damage and inflicting Life Debt on hit. She then scatters 6 orbs around the edges of the arena before performing a falling attack towards the character. The spheres explode, and The Knave herself deals significant area damage. All of these attacks apply a debuff.

Bloody Furina: Banquet

Places Life Debt on all players in the arena and then performs one of two attacks:

• Option 1: Deals Pyro damage to a circle-shaped area, a ring-shaped area, and a larger circle-shaped area. All of these attacks apply Life Debt.
• Second option: Constantly deals damage to Pyro around him, applying a debuff.

If you hit the Servant with a charged strike filled with Crimson Tide during this attack, you will interrupt the attack and deal additional physical damage to the boss.

How to defeat a Servant (Arlecchino)

Preparing for battle

Before the battle begins, you can eat dishes that increase attack power, critical damage and critical hit chance. It would be a good idea to drink potions that increase certain elemental damage to strengthen your damage dealers. In this case, the following will be useful:

• Forest Essential Oil – increases Dendro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
• Frosting Essential Oil – Increases Cryo damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
• Gushing Essential Oil – increases Anemo damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
• Unmoving Essential Oil – increases Geo damage by 25% for 5 minutes.
• Streaming Essential Oil – Increases Hydro damage by 25% for 5 minutes.

The boss also mostly deals Pyro damage, so we recommend you take Heatshield Potion, which increases resistance to fire damage by 25% for 300 seconds.

Battle strategy

As with other Harbingers, the battle with the Servant will consist of two phases. At the first stage, the boss has more health, but a weaker attack. Additionally, until her life bar reaches 70%, she will not inflict Life Debt on your characters. Most of her attacks are relatively easy to dodge. The only difficulty that may arise is with the Dividing Convergence, since it covers a fairly large area.

In the second phase, she uses jumping more often and generally becomes more mobile, making her attacks more difficult to evade. In addition, she will begin to use longer series of strikes, which will become more sweeping. Her health will drop slightly, but her attack power will increase. So you will have to be even more wary of her movements.

It will become somewhat more difficult to hit it, since it will often soar into the sky, becoming inaccessible to your attacks. At the same time, Arlecchino will start shooting homing projectiles, which are quite difficult to dodge. At the end, she will launch a lot of bombs across the arena, the explosions of which must be avoided, otherwise you will receive significant damage.

As for the Life Debt, it will be both a gift and a curse. The disadvantages are obvious: you will gradually lose health, and the damage you receive from Arlecchino will increase significantly (some of her attacks may well one-shot your character). However, there is one big plus - if you can remove this debuff by healing the hero, you will release a Crimson Tide, in which your next “Charged Attack” will deal significant damage to the boss.

Note that if you use an Empowered Charged Strike when The Knave tries to cast Crimson Feast on Blood, you will not only interrupt her, but also stun her for a short period of time. Plus, she will receive significant damage. So we advise you to save the healing abilities of supports and use them only when an ally has Life Debt.

Servant Achievements

During the battle with this boss you can get two trophies. Next, we will tell you what you need to do to open them.

If You’re Thirsty for Blood…

Start the battle with Arlecchino, wait until she puts Life Debt on you, remove it with healing, and then immediately hit the boss with a charged attack. Repeat this process exactly four times and you will unlock an achievement that rewards you with 5 Primogems.

Brighter Than White

Select the first difficulty level and start the battle with the Servant. Then try to defeat her before she can put Life Debt on you. At the end you will receive an achievement for which you will receive 10 source stones. If the boss still managed to put a debuff on you, then you need to quickly get rid of it by healing your hero. At the same time, you cannot fall under her blows.

Rewards for defeating a Servant

You can receive a reward from the Harbinger of Fatui only once a week. In addition to Mora, Friendship Points and Adventure Experience, you will be able to obtain valuable materials required to ascend certain heroes. The higher the boss level, the better the reward. The full list of items is below:

• Agnidus Agate Sliver (level 0+)
• Agnidus Agate Fragment (level 40+)
• Agnidus Agate Chunk (level 60+)
• Agnidus Agate Gemstone (level 75+)
• Dream Solvent – ​​makes it possible to convert rare materials.
• Fading Candle (level 70+) – required for leveling up talents Arlecchino.
• Silken Feather (level 70+)
• Denial and Judgment (level 70+)
• Midlander Sword Billet (level 0+)
• Midlander Claymore Billet (level 0+)
• Midlander Polearm Billet (level 0+)
• Midlander Bow Billet (level 0+)
• Midlander Catalyst Billet (level 0+)

Among other things, this boss drops various sets of artifacts, namely:

• Berserker (3-4 stars)
• Instructor (3-4 stars)
• The Exile (3-4 stars)
• Gladiator’s Finale (4-5 stars)
• Wanderer’s Troupe (4-5 stars)

We hope that our guide will help you find and defeat the Servant in Genshin Impact, learning about all of her attacks and preparing a good team to fight the Harbinger of Fatui.