Ganyu is a new character in Genshin Impact. This pretty girl controls the cryo element and has great power. Here are things you need to know about Ganyu Genshin Impact skills, best build and other tips to make her an overpowerful wizard in this game.

Genshin Impact Ganyu
Genshin Impact Ganyu is a new character who controls the cryo element and has great power.

Ganyu Genshin Impact Skills

The character Ganyu in Genshin Impact has Cryo power. She is an archer. Her normal attack is called Liutian Archery that lets Ganyu shoot the arrow with cryo element to the target. The base hit damage of this attack will increase when you level up Ganyu. Besides, she has two other powerful skills, including Trail of the Qilin and Celestial Shower.

1. Elemental skill and Elemental burst

When using the elemental skill Trail of the Qilin, Ganyu freezes the enemies with an ice lotus and steps back quickly. This skill causes double damage to the enemies in comparison with Liutian Archery skill. Moreover, the ice lotus also distracts the enemies and lets her attack them without having to dodge enemies' attacks. When enemies break the lotus, it explodes and causes damage on a large scale.

Ganyu skill Archer
Her normal attack is called Liutian Archery that lets Ganyu shoot the arrow with cryo element to the target.

Celestial Shower is the ultimate skill that causes giant damage to enemies on a larger scale. When using this elemental burst, she causes a storm of ice to hurt and kill enemies with sharp ice knives falling down from the sky. This skill is active in 15 seconds, letting Ganyu clear a large number of monsters.

Moreover, the cooldown time is concise which takes only 15 seconds. It makes her become one of the best Genshin Impact 5-star characters and strongest DPS heroes in this game now.

Ganyu skill Celestial Shower
Celestial Shower is the ultimate skill that causes giant damage to enemies on a larger scale.

All targets inside the effective area of the Celestial Shower will be frozen and killed. To increase the hit damage of all these Ganyu Genshin Impact abilities, increase the level of this character. Besides, you should choose proper artifacts and weapons to build this character and make her more powerful.

Genshin Impact Ganyu New Character
When using the elemental skill Trail of the Qilin, she freezes the enemies with an ice lotus and steps back quickly.

2. Passive talents

The first passive talent of Ganyu is called Undivided Heart. It helps increase the hit damage of Liutian Archery in the next attack by 20% after 5 seconds. She also has two other talents, including Preserved For The Hunt and Harmony Between Heaven And Earth.

How To Build Ganyu Genshin Impact

Ganyu Genshin Impact skills make her a powerful DPS hero in this game now. However, you can build to make her even stronger with a perfect set of weapons and artifacts. Moreover, Ganyu is also an excellent supporter of your squad with a proper weapon for her.

Genshin Impact Ganyu Cryo
You can build to make her stronger with a perfect set of weapons and artifacts.

1. Ganyu Best Weapon

There are some bows that make this beautiful archer more dangerous, including the Sharpshooters Oath, Sacrificial Bow, and The Stringless. You can also consider Amos’ Bow and The Viridescent Hunt as alternatives.

  • Sharpshooters Oath increases the damage to weak spots. But it's not as good as the two other bows.
  • Sacrificial Bow can decrease the cooldown time of the elemental skill Trail of the Qilin.
  • The Stringless is a 4-star weapon. It is the best choice for this character because it can increase the hit damage of the elemental skill and elemental burst.
Ganyu best weapon Sharpshooters Oath
Sharpshooters Oath increases the damage of Ganyu's attack on the enemies.
  • Amos’ Bow: This 5-star bow helps increase the normal attack and aim shot damage.
  • The Viridescent Hunt is a 4-star bow. It also increases the aimed shot damage and the damage of the normal attack.
Ganyu best weapon Viridescent Hunt
The Viridescent Hunt is a 4-star bow that increases the aimed shot damage.

2. Ganyu Best Artifacts

The set of artifacts for Ganyu in Genshin Impact includes five items: Troupe's Dawnlight, Gladiator's Destiny, Broken Rime's Echo, Berseker's Battle Mask, and Conductor's Top Hat.

  • Troupe's Dawnlight: This flower of life increases crit damage, attack, and elemental mastery.
  • The suggested choice for Plume Of Death is the Gladiator's Destiny. It helps increase crit damage, crit rate, and defense.
Ganyu Best Artifact Gladiator's Destiny
Choose the best artifacts to boost the health, damage, and ability of Ganyu in Genshin Impact.
  • The recommended choice for Circlets of Logos is the Broken Rime's Echo. It helps boost the elemental mastery, HP, crit damage, and enemy recharge. Or else, you can choose Berseker's Battle Mask to increase the attack damage and the effect energy recharge.
  • You can choose a Conductor's Top Hat for both attack and defense.
Ganyu best artifact Broken Rimes Echo
The recommended choice for Circlets of Logos is the Broken Rime's Echo.

3. Ganyu Best Team Build

For this character, the best combo includes Ganyu, Xiangling, Bennett, and Venti. This best Ganyu build includes two Pryo characters, one Anemo character, and one Cryo character. To be specific, Anemo element helps increase the effective scale of the Pryo and Cryo elements.

Ganyu will play as the main DPS in this squad while Venti will be the supporter. Xiangling and Bennett are sub-DPS characters. When Ganyu's elemental skill and elemental burst are in the cooldown time, switch to use the two Pryo characters.

Chongyun
The combination of two Cryo characters, Chongyun and Ganyu, will boost the attack effects

Alternatively, you can choose Tartaglia to replace Xiangling. He controls the Hydro element which will increase the power and attack damage of Ganyu's Cryo element. This combo will increase the base damage of the elemental skill and elemental burst of Ganyu.

Venti
Anemo element of Venti helps increase the effective scale of the Cryo element.

Another party for Ganyu includes Xiangling, Chongyun, and Diluc. Ganyu and Diluc are the main DPS characters. The combination of two Cryo characters and two Pryo characters will boost the attack effects of this squad. After using the elemental burst to freeze targets, you can switch to use Chongyun to break the enemies.

Ganyu Banner Event

  • When is Genshin Impact Ganyu banner?

Apparently, the only way to get Ganyu is through pulling from her banner. The latest time she was featured was from January 12 to February 2 earlier this year.

Players will need to wait until another banner rolls out and features her as one of the characters.

  • Are you guaranteed to get Ganyu via banner?

Not quite. Even if you do pulls from her banner, it is not guaranteed that you can 100% get her. Luckily, the game does have a mercy system.

If you make 89 attempts and not receiving a 5-star reward, you will surely be granted a 5-star item on the 90th pull. This star item has a 50% opportunity to be Ganyu.

In case Ganyu was not in that first pity pull, the next 5-star would be. This means you will need a maximum of 180 wishes to obtain her.

Moreover, if you joined an earlier event banner with no 5-star character, your progress can carry over to the banner of Ganyu.

Ganyu
Getting Ganyu in Genshin Impact may take quite some effort but it's certainly worthwhile.

Ganyu Ascension Materials

The ascension materials for Ganyu require 8 items and each level acquires a different number of them:

  • Qingxin: can be found in Guyun Stone Forest, Jueyun Karst
  • Shivada Jade Sliver: can be collected as a reward for defeating Lupus Boreas and Cryo Regisvine
  • Whopperflower Nectar: can be extracted from the stamen of Whopperflowers; Pyro Whopperflower, Cryo Whopperflower,...
  • Shivada Jade Fragment: is obtainable from crafting or as a random reward from defeating a level 40+ Cryo Regisvine and Lupus Boreas.
  • Hoarfrost Core: is an Ascension Material dropped by an Lv.30+ Cryo Regisvine.
  • Shimmering Nectar: can be obtained by beating Lv. 40+ whopperflowers.
  • Energy Nectar: dropped by Lv.60+ Whopperflowers and can be found in locations like the Easternmost part of Mondstadt.
  • Shivada Jade Gemstone: can be obtained by defeating Lv. 75+ Wolf of the North.
Ganyu Ascension Materials
Ascension materials for Ganyu.

Those are things you need to know about Ganyu Genshin Impact skills and best build. To update the latest Genshin Impact game news as well as more tips, tricks, and guides for gamers, let's visit our website.

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