Xiangling is easily one of the strongest characters in Genshin Impact, especially when you use the right build for her. The best thing is, you can get her for free from the Spiral Abyss. Thus making her a definite addition to your team. So without further ado, let us check the best build for Xiangling in Genshin Impact, and the recommended weapons, artifacts, and team composition for her.
Best Xiangling Build in Genshin Impact
You should play Xiangling as a Sub-DPS character. Hence for her build, you should use the following weapons & artifacts:
- Best Weapon: Staff of the Scarlet Sands
- Best Artifact Set: Emblem of Severed Fate (4-piece set)
- Best Artifact Stats
- Main Stats
- Sands of Eon: ATK%
- Goblet of Eonothem: Pyro DMG Bonus
- Circlet of Logos: Crit Rate Bonus
- Sub Stats
- Energy Recharge
- Elemental Mastery
- Crit Rate Bonus
- Main Stats
Aside from a Sub-DPS role, you could also use her for Burst-DPS. But for this build, we will focus on the weapons and artifacts best suited for her Sub-DPS role.
Best Xiangling Weapons
Staff of the Scarlet Sands is the best weapon for Xiangling in Genshin Impact. It gives her 542 base damage and 44.1% Crit Rate at level 90. You also get the passive ability Heat Haze at Horizon’s End with it. When using it Xiangling gets 52 to 104% of her Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK. And upon hitting the opponent, the Dream of the Scarlet Sands effect gets activated for 10 seconds. This allows her to gain 28 to 56% of Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK for a maximum of 3 stacks.
Alternate weapons to use with Xiangling:
- 5-star weapon: Engulfing Lightning
- 4-star weapon: The Catch
- 3-star weapon: White Tassel
Best Xiangling Artifacts
Emblem of Severed Fate as a 4-piece set is the best Artifact set for Xiangling. It gives her +20% Energy Recharge as a 2-piece set bonus. And it also increases Elemental Burst DMG by 25% of your Energy Recharge, as its 4-piece set bonus.
Alternate Artifacts to use with Xiangling:
- Crimson Witch Of Flames (4-piece set)
- Crimson Witch Of Flames (2-piece set) & Emblem of Severed Fate (2-Piece set)
Best Team Comp for Xiangling in Genshin Impact
The best team for Xiangling is none other than the National team. It consists of:
- Xiangling
- Bennett
- Chongyun
- Xingqiu
I suggest you check out our guide on what the National team is to learn why you should use it and everything else about it.
That covers this guide on the best Xiangling build to use in Genshin Impact and her team composition. For more such build guides or other walkthroughs for this game be sure to check out our Genshin Impact section.