Genshin Impact Yaoyao Build Guide: Best Talents, Gears, And Team Comps

Yaoyao is a 4-star Dendro Polearm character who brings a unique combination of healing and Dendro application to her teams. She was Xiangling's junior disciple under the same martial arts master but has since become an assistant for Ganyu.

In this article, Gurugamer is going to showcase the complete Genshin Impact Yaoyao Build Guide, including talents, gears and team comps.

1. Yaoyao Talent Overview & Gameplay

Talents

• Skill: Create a turret that throws white radishes to damage enemies/heal allies (AoE effect). Priority healing if the active character is under 70% HP. Damage and heal scale based on MAX HP, 15s CD.
• Burst: Turn into a special state for 5 seconds, summoning 3 extra turrets that deal more damage and heal more HP. CD 20s, cost 80 energy.
• Passive 1: During her Burst duration, she will throw a while radish at enemies/allies every 0.5 seconds while sprinting, jumping, or running.
• Passive 2: When White Jade Radishes explode, active characters within their AoE will regain HP every 2s based on 20% of Yaoyao’s Max HP. This effect lasts 6s.

Gameplay

Overall, Yaoyao is mainly a healer with the ability to deal damage and heal in multiple instances. She is the long-awaited Dendro healer for Bloom teams - her turret can keep the active character at high HP while applying Dendro damage at the same time. The turret can generate 5 particles over the course of its 10-second duration if Yuegui only targets one enemy.

Her combo is just to use her skill then activate her burst and run around. During the duration, her turret will throw radishes at the target, while she runs around summoning extra turrets while also throwing radishes. As Yaoyao's Burst forces her to stay on-field for up to 5 seconds, which limits its use in most of Yaoyao's teams. Players should use it as an emergency heal boost.

With passive 2, radishes will have an additional 6-seconds healing effect. Stack that on top of the 10s duration of Yaoyao's Skill and players should be able to keep healing constantly as her Skill has a 15s CD.

Talent Priority

Yaoyao is the usual support character whose whole purpose is to fire off Skill and Burst to contribute and then switch to the DPS. Just max her Skill first then her Burst.

2. Yaoyao Best Constellation

With Yaoyao being a 4-star, players should be able to get a few of her constellations and eventually max them out. Only C1 is utility while the rest are damage boost.

• C1: Characters healed by white radishes get an extra 15% Dendro DMG and 15 stamina. This means Yaoyao would be great supporting Dendro DPS like Alhaitham or Nahida, who mainly deal Dendro damage with catalyst and infusion. C1 is overall her best talent - players should try to get it if possible.
• C2: Regenerate energy while in her Burst form if white radishes damage enemies. This ease up the ER requirement in Yaoyao's build, allowing players to get more damage substats on her.
• C4: Gain extra EM after using Skill or Burst. This improves Yaoyao's damage and consistency.
• C6: Each turret will have a chance to throw a big radishes (max 2) that deal more damage and heal more HP.

3. Best Weapon & Artifacts for Yaoyao

Weapons

Players can build Yaoyao's weapon around either healing (MAX HP%) or reaction damage (Elemental Mastery). With her being a support, using an ER weapon like Favonius is also viable.

• Best HP weapon: Staff Of Homa (players will probably never waste this spear on Yaoyao)
• Best EM weapon: Moonpiercer
• Substitute: Black Tassel, Favonius Lance, Kitain Cross Spear, Dragon's Bane

Artifacts

In most cases, Yaoyao will Burst every other rotation (see Burst for more details); her ER requirements are accordingly low. Even in teams with very low particle generation, Yaoyao shouldn’t need more than 150% ER.

Overall, players would want to use the Deepwood Memories set for the Dendro RES shred if they are supporting a Dendro DPS character. The Tenacity of the Millelith set is also a viable choice for the extra HP (if you need more healing). The Maiden Beloved set can also be a substitute if you planning on running Yaoyao as a full healer.

Additionally, the 4p Instructor is great for boosting reaction damage, which most Dendro teams rely on. Healer builds will generally outperform offensive ones because the set is limited by 4-star stats. Note that this set only activates on-field, so players should make sure to proc a reaction before swapping to their next character.

Substat Priority

Energy Recharge > HP% > Elemental Mastery > ATK%

• Sands: HP%/ Elemental Mastery
• Goblet: HP%/ Elemental Mastery
• Circlet: Healing Bonus%/ Elemental Mastery

4. Genshin Impact Yaoyao Team Comps

Nilou Bloom

• Yaoyao + Nilou + Dendro + Hydro

Yaoyao cannot apply enough Dendro by herself to support a healthy amount of Bountiful Cores. However, she opens up the second Hydro slot, which was traditionally reserved for healers.

Quicken

• Yaoyao + Dendro + Electro + Flex

Because Yaoyao is a healer, she gives Quicken teams a wider selection of support characters and damage dealers. Even when using her as the solo Dendro supporting multiple Electro teammates, Yaoyao provides a rotation-tight Quicken aura. The flex spot is usually filled by another Electro or Dendro character for simultaneous Electro and Dendro Resonances, or by a support character that can buff the existing DPS options.

Hyperbloom/Burgeon

• Yaoyao + Hydro + Electro/Pyro + Flex

Yaoyao’s unique position as a Dendro healer frees up other slots. The Hydro unit should have consistent Hydro application to create Dendro Cores and the third slot should be an effective Hyperbloom/Burgeon trigger. The flex slot can be someone who gives buffs or additional Elemental application. For Burgeon teams in particular, the last slot must be a Dendro character. After Burning occurs and consumes Dendro aura, Yaoyao doesn’t apply enough Dendro to produce Cores by herself.

>>> Read more: Genshin Impact 3.4 Yaoyao: Talents, Constellations, Ascension Materials Revealed