Yanfei is a new pretty character in Genshin Impact. You need to equip appropriate artifacts and weapons to make her more powerful. Besides, Genshin Impact Yanfei materials are necessary for character ascension. Check out the best build and guide for this new character here.

Genshin Impact Yanfei Guide

About Genshin Impact Yanfei

Yanfei is a new 4-star character in Genshin Impact who has come to this game on April 28, 2021. This S-tier character uses a catalyst to make Pyro attacks. Her father is an Adeptus and her mother is a human. However, her parents left her for Madame Ping to take care of while they went on an adventure.

Aboutgenshin Impact Yanfei
Yanfei is a new 4-star character who uses the Pyro element.

Yanfei lives in Liyue and servers Liyue residents as a legal advisor. Her constellation is Bestia Iustitia. She has three Pyro skills, including normal attack, elemental skill, and elemental burst. Besides, Yanfei also has three useful passive talents, including Proviso, Blazing Eye, and Encyclopedic Expertise.

Yanfei's Skills and Talents

Like most other characters, Yanfei has three main skills and three talents. You need to understand her skills and talents to know how to use this character effectively.

Yanfei Weapon Genshin Impact
She uses a catalyst to control her element skills and attack enemies.

#1. Yanfei's Skills

Seal of Approval is her normal attack. She will throw many fireballs to cause Pyro DMG to opponents. Moreover, it will create a Scarlet Seal to protect her when the attack hits enemies. Two sub-skills of this are:

  • Charged Attack: This character causes more DMG in a larger AoE. But she will consume stamina when using charged attack.
  • Plug Attack: Yanfei will cause AoE Pyro DMG when falling to the ground from mid-air.
Yanfei Normal Attack
Yanfei will throw many fireballs when using her normal attack.

Signed Edict is Yanfei's elemental skill. This DPS character will cause big flames with AoE Pyro DMG. Moreover, she will receive the maximum number of the Scarlet Seals when the opponents suffer from her ATK DMG.

Charged Attack Dmg
Her Charged Attack cause big flames with AoE Pyro DMG.

Done Deal is her elemental burst. This DPS magician creates a shower of flames in a large AoE. It also causes the greatest Pyro DMG to a group of opponents. In addition, the Brilliance skill also grants her a Scarlet Seal to protect her from enemies' attacks. But it will disappear when she leaves the battlefield.

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Yanfei Elemental Burst Genshin Impact
Yanfei's Elemental Burst causes the greatest Pyro DMG to a group of opponents.

#2. Yanfei's Passive Talents

Encyclopedic Expertise is unlocked automatically. This passive talent helps you mark the location of special resources in Liyue. But make sure that you recruit her to your current party.

Yanfei Mark The Resources
Yanfei can locate the special materials on the map.

Proviso talent is unlocked at Ascension 1. The Pyro DMG she causes will increase by 5% when she uses the Charged Attack. It will last for 6 seconds.

Yanfei Team Role
Her passive talents help boost her charged attack DMG.

Blazing Eye will be unlocked at Ascension 4. When her Charged ATK causes a CRIT Hit to enemies, it makes an extra attack with a huge AoE Pyro DMG that equals 80% her ATK.

Genshin Impact Yanfei Best Build

To make this character stronger to use her as the main DPS fighter in your team, choose a proper weapon and artifacts for her.

Yanfei
Choose the best weapons and artifacts to make her more powerful.

  • Yanfei's Best Weapons And Artifacts

The best weapon for her is the catalyst named Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds. The best artifact that fits this 5-star catalyst is Crimson Witch of Flames. This combo helps boost the Pyro DMG Bonus by 15%, Overloaded DMG, and Burning DMG by 40%. Besides, the Vaporize DMG and Melt DMG are also increased by 15%.

Lost Prayer To The Sacred Winds
Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds catalyst boosts all DMG by 15 - 40%.

Wanderer's Troupe and Lavawalker are two good replacements for that flower. If you don't have Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds in your weapon inventory, let's use The Widsith or Skyward Atlas instead.

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  • Best Team Build With Yanfei

The best role of Yanfei is the main DPS. You need to recruit Xingqiu, Ganyu, and Albedo to her team. The Hydro character Xingqiu will play as the healer for this team. Besides, they can cause huge Vaporize DMG with their elemental reaction.

Yanfei Dps Build
The best role of Yanfei in a team is the main DPS fighter.

The character Ganyu is also a powerful Cryo DPS. They will clear a lot of opponents in a large AoE with massive Melt DMG. Albedo is a strong Geo character. If you haven't got this character, use another Geo character, such as Zhongli. The Geo element helps boost the elemental mastery of all characters in her allies.

Yanfei Best Team
Yanfei's team needs to include cryo, hydro, and geo characters to cause more elemental reaction DMG.

Genshin Impact Yanfei Ascension Materials

Genshin Impact Yanfei talent materials include many rare items dropped by enemies on the map, enemies in the domains, and dropped by Big Boss. Check out all Genshin Impact Yanfei materials here.

  • Enemy drops Recruit's Insignia, Sergeant's Insignia, and Lieutenant's Insignia.
  • Domain drops Teachings of Gold, Guide to Gold, and Philosophies of Gold.
  • Big Boss drops Bloodjade Branch.
Eye Passive Skill
Collect talent materials from domains, enemies, and Big Bosses to level up her talents.

Besides, you also need to collect materials to ascend this character. These are all ascension materials you need to level up her.

  • Noctilucous jade: It can be collected in the wild.
  • Agnidus Agate sliver/fragment/chunk/gemstone: You can buy or obtain from missions or crafting.
  • Juvenile jade will be dropped by Primo Geovishap. You can find them in the wild in Liyue to defeat and obtain this material.
  • Treasure Hoarder Insignia, Silver Raven Insignia, and Golden Raven Insignia. You can get the Treasure Hoarder Insignia by defeating Treasure Hoarders. You can craft the Silver and Golden Raven Insignias by using Treasure Hoarder Insignias.

Those are all Genshin Impact Yanfei materials and the best build for this 5-star DPS character. She is one of the most favorite characters in this game now.

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