Guide to Xiangling in Genshin Impact: getting, builds and leveling

In Genshin Impact Xiangling, perhaps not the most strong character but definitely one of the best. She can play the role of both support and DPC (damage) depending on the build chosen for her. In addition, you can get it completely free of charge by performing certain actions.

In this guide, we will talk about how you can unlock this heroine, look at her main abilities, talents and builds (the choice of weapons and artifacts), and also give useful information about her leveling.

How to get Xiangling

Fortunately, Xiangling belongs to free characters, and her loss does not depend on any accidents, therefore, with due effort, anyone can get this heroine. To do this, follow these steps:

Reach Adventure Rank 20.
Start going through the dungeon Spiral Abyss (go to the character page in the "Events" tab and click on the "Enter the Abyss" button).
Get to the 3rd room on the 3rd floor. After that, you will have a new young lady in the team.

This promotion has no time limit, so you can not rush to get Xiangling.

Characteristics of Xiangling

Skills

First of all, let's look at its main abilities. Her normal attack allows her to deliver a flurry of quick strikes, while her charged attack allows her to perform an attack dash while spinning in a spiral (can fly through enemies). The elemental skill summons Panda Gobu, who eats chili and then exhales a stream of fire. This critter is smart enough to detect targets on its own, including nearby totems or crates, and then destroy them. When it disappears, it leaves a Pepper on the ground, increasing attack power by 10% when harvested.

Xiangling elemental blast is Fire Pyronado, which summons a fiery spear that begins to rotate around the heroine, dealing pyro damage to all surrounding enemies. This ability is especially useful against enemies with shields.

Normal Attack: Dough-Fu (Basic Attack) - Inflicts up to five consecutive spear strikes. Charged Strike requires a certain amount of stamina.
Guoba Attack (Basic Ability) - Summons Goba the Panda, which attacks with fire.
Pyronado (Elemental Burst) - The fire spear created will move With You your character for the duration. We advise you to use this skill against large clusters of enemies.
Crossfire (Passive Skill) - Ascension 1: Increases the range of Goba's Fire Breath by 20%.
Keen Edge! (Passive Skill) - Ascension 4: When the effects of Goba's attack end, the panda leaves a chili Pepper in the place where it disappeared. Collecting an item increases attack power by 10% for 10 seconds.
Chef de Cuisine (Passive Skill) - When Xiangling cooks the Brave dish perfectly, she has a 12% chance of creating a second of the same dish.

Talents

Xiangling has a lot of great talents, which, however, are quite difficult to unlock, but more on that below. First, let's list all her perks:

Level 1 - Crispy Outside, Tender Inside: Enemies hit by Goba's attacks have Pyro's resistance reduced by 15% for 6 seconds.
Level 2 - Oil Meets Fire: The last attack in a sequence of normal strikes inflicts the Combustion status on the enemy for 2 seconds. At the end of this time, an explosion will occur that will deal Pyro AoE damage equal to 75% of the heroine's attack power.
Level 3 - Deepfry: Increases the level of Fire Whirl by 3. The maximum level of improvement is 15.
Tier 4 - On Slowbake: Increases the duration of Firestorm by 40%.
Level 5 - Guoba Mad: Increases Goba's Attack Level by 3. Max Upgrade Level is 15.
Tier 6 - Condensed Pyronado: For the duration of Fire Whirl, all party members gain a 15% bonus to Pyro Damage.

Builds for Xiangling

The most obvious way to increase the effectiveness of this young lady is to focus on increasing her damage and reducing her cooldowns. Xiangling is unique in that both of her abilities continue to work even if you switch to another character. As a result, you can create from it both a pure damageer and a support hero.

Minor DPS (Support)

This build is mainly aimed at increasing the effectiveness of the character's elemental skills. As a weapon, we advise you to give her:

Skyward Spine (5-Star) - Increases critical strike chance by 8 percent and standard strike speed by 12 percent. Has a 50% chance to hit enemies with an intangible blade on normal and charged hits. The effect occurs every 2 seconds.
Prototype: Starlight (4-Star Weapon) - After using elemental skills, increases normal and charged attack damage by 8% for 12 seconds. Stacks up to 2 times.
Dragon’s Bane (4-star) - Enemies that are affected by Pyro or Hydro effects take 20 percent more damage.
Spear of Favonius (4-star weapon) - Critical attacks have a 60% chance to create elemental particles that restore 6 points of energy. Appears every 12 seconds.
Halberd (3-star weapon) - Normal attacks deal an additional 160% damage. May appear once every 10 seconds. Budget option for Xiangling.

As for artifacts, we recommend choosing the following options (you can collect both full sets and combine their incomplete options with each other):

Noblesse Oblige - 2 items: increase elemental explosion damage by 20%; 4 items: Activating an elemental explosion increases the attack power of all party members by 20% for 12 seconds. The effect does not stack. Can be found in the dungeon "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" .
Crimson Witch of Flames: 2 items - increase Pyro damage by 15 percent; 4 pieces - Damage from Overload and Burning is increased by 40%, and from Steam and Melting by 15%. Elemental skill increases Pyro damage for 10 seconds (stacks up to 3 times). Can be found in Wu Wan's Hidden Palace dungeon.
The Exile - 2 items: increases the speed of energy recovery by 20%; 4 items: Using an elemental explosion restores 2 energy to the rest of the party every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. The effect does not stack. Drops from elite bosses. It is a budget option for the heroine.

Basic Pyro DPS

This build mainly aims to increase the damage of the heroine's normal attacks and increase the bonus to Pyro damage. As a weapon, we advise you to take:

Skyward Spine (5-Star) - Increases critical strike chance by 8 percent and standard strike speed by 12 percent. Has a 50% chance to hit enemies with an intangible blade on normal and charged hits. The effect occurs every 2 seconds.
Primordial Jade Winged-Spear (5-Star) - Hitting enemies increases Attack Rating by 3.2% for 6 seconds. The effect stacks up to seven times and occurs every 0.3 seconds.
Crescent Pike (4-Star Weapon) - After collecting elemental particles, normal and charged attacks deal additional damage equal to 20% of attack power for 5 seconds.
Halberd (3-star weapon) - Normal attacks deal an additional 160% damage. May appear once every 10 seconds. Budget option for Xiangling.

As for artifacts, here you can collect two sets. The first will include the following sets:

Gladiator’s Finale - 2 items: increase attack power by 18%; 4-Piece: Increases normal attack damage by 35% if the character uses a sword, two-handed sword or spear (indicated the effect of 4-piece, since you can try to complete a full set without using a blood knight). Dropped by elite bosses.
Bloodstained Chivalry: 2 items - Increase physical damage by 25%. Can be obtained from the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern dungeon.

The second set is more suitable for those who are going to use heroine's elemental skills and explosions a lot. It consists of the following sets:

Gladiator’s Finale - 2 items: Increase attack power by 18%. Dropped by elite bosses.
Crimson Witch of Flames: 2 items - Increase Pyro damage by 15%. Can be found in Wu Wan's Hidden Palace dungeon.

Combinations with other characters

As we mentioned above, Xiangling can be both a main damage dealer and a support character. Many players use her as a secondary fighter to enable higher element combinations similar to how Fischl operates.

Xiangling Chief DPS

In this case, your team should have the following composition:

Main damage: Xiangling
Additional damage: Fischl
Traveling Doctor: Qiqi
Support: Venti or Bennett

If you want to create a balanced team of free characters, then this is the best option:

Main damage: Xiangling
Additional damage: Amber
Traveling Doctor: Barbara
Support: Traveler (Anemo)

Xiangling extra DPS

In this case, your team should have the following composition:

Main damage dealer: Diluc
Additional damage: Xiangling
Additional damage: Mona
Support: Xingqiu

Leveling Xiangling

How to improve skills

For this you will need three materials:

Diligence Teachings, Guides or Philosophical Works - these can be obtained from Dungeon "Taishan Mansion" on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Mucus, secretions and slime concentrate - dropped from slimes and are created through alchemy.
Dvalin’s Claw - Dropped by Stormterror.

Elevation

Here's what you'll need to get max level for Xiangling.

1st Ascension (max level 20) - 1 Agnidus Agate Sliver, sky-high peppers x3, slime slime x3.
2nd Ascension (max level 40) - 3 fragments of Agnidus agate, flaming seeds x2, sky-high peppers x10, slime slime x15.
3rd Ascension (Max Level 50) – 6 Agnidus Agate Fragments, Flaming Seeds x4, Cloudy Peppers x20, Slime Extractions x12.
Ascension 4 (max level 60) - 3 pieces of Agnidus agate, flaming seeds x8, sky-high peppers x30, slime secretions x18.
Ascension 5 (max level 70) - 6 pieces of Agnidus agate, flaming seeds x12, sky-high peppers x45, slime concentrate x12.
Ascension 6 (max level 80) - 6 precious Agnidus agates, flaming seeds x20, sky-high peppers x60, slime concentrate x24.

sky-high peppers can be easily found while exploring the world, and the Everflame Seed and pieces of agate can be obtained from pyro orchids. The location of these resources can be found at interactive map.