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Genshin Impact Amber build

Genshin Impact's Amber is the last Outrider of the Knights of Favonius, so let's take a look at her best build to make her a strong DPS.

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Look out, world! Genshin Impact’s Amber, the only remaining Outrider of the Knights of Favonius, is the top glider in Teyvat. Ever optimistic and free-spirited, she’s the first character you meet right at the start of your adventure, who shows you around Mondstadt and gets you your glider. She’s also a free four-star unit you can use in combat.

If you need some more primogems to acquire a new character, check out our Genshin Impact codes page. Our Genshin Impact next banner guide lets you know who’s up in the next Genshin Impact update to spend those all-important primogems on.

Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Amber guide:

What’s the best Genshin Impact Amber build?

Genshin Impact’s Amber is a four-star character that uses a bow and the pyro element.

Rarity ★★★★
Element Pyro
Weapon Bow
Best weapon Amos Bow
Substitute weapons Stringless, Prototype Crescent
Best artifact set Noblesse Oblige
Artifact substitutes 2pc of Crimson Witch of Flames or 2pc of Wanderer’s Troupe
Main stats -Sands: Attack or HP
-Goblet: Pyro damage bonus
-Circlet: Crit rate/damage
Sub-stats Attack, crit rate, crit damage, HP

While Amber may not be the strongest or ‘most-meta’ pyro DPS in Genshin, she can be a flexible and helpful unit, especially at higher constellations – though you may need to grab them from the store, as Amber never gets a rate-up on any banner.

If you stack up her attack and crit stats and equip her with a set of Noblesse Oblige artifacts and a Stringless or Amos Bow, you’ll get reliable damage out of her, especially from her deployable taunt bunny that can provide some all-important off-field pyro.

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If you want to use Amber as a DPS, you can pair her with the likes of Bennett to boost her attack, and a hydro unit like Barbara or Furina to help pop off plenty of vape reactions.

How do I use Amber?

Many players underestimate Amber, considering she’s a starter character. However, she certainly has her uses and with a little TLC, can provide some great damage and utility. Her kit is quite simple, but playing her well relies on quick reflexes and long-term thinking.

It’s best to use Amber as a sub-DPS. Her Baron Bunny acts as a taunt, and draws enemies’ attention, so you can swap to your main DPS and deal damage to them while they’re not looking. Amber’s burst provides AoE pyro damage, so you can use this to pop off reactions.

Oh, by the way, Amber is really useful for a lot of overworld puzzles, especially in Mondstadt, where you must shoot targets with the pyro element.

What are the best weapons for Amber?

The best weapon for Amber depends on the team comp you’re pairing her with. In general, the Amos Bow is a great choice for Amber due to its significant damage increase. The Elegy for the End is great for a more support or reaction-focused build due to its high energy recharge and the elemental mastery it provides through its skill.

When it comes to four-star options, Stringless is a great option for buffing her elemental mastery for reactions, and her skill and burst damage. Prototype Crescent is also a decent backup option if you’re struggling to pull the others, offering a nice attack buff, though its skill can be tricky to activate.

If you’re using Amber and you’re early on in the game, any three-star bows with attack or crit stats will tide you over well, especially if you can refine them when pulling copies.

Amos’ Bow Stat: Attack
Skill: Increases normal attack and charged attack damage by 12%. After firing a normal or charged attack, damage dealt increases by a further 8% every 0.1 seconds the arrow is in the air, for up to five times
Weapon banner
Elegy for the End Stat: Energy recharge
Skill: Increases elemental mastery by 60. When Amber’s elemental skill or burst hits opponents, she gains a Sigil of Remembrance. This effect triggers once every 0.2 seconds, even if she’s not on the field. When Amber possesses four sigils, they are all consumed and all nearby party members gain the ‘Millennial Movement: Farewell Song’ effect for 12 seconds, increasing their elemental mastery by 100 and their attack by 20%. Once this effect triggers, you can’t gain any more sigils for 20 seconds. Buffs of the same type don’t stack
Weapon banner
Stringless Stat: Elemental mastery
Skill: Increases elemental skill and elemental burst damage by 24%
All banners
Prototype Crescent Stat: Attack
Skill: Charged attack hits on weak points increase movement speed by 10% and attack by 36% for ten seconds
Forge via blacksmith

What are the best artifacts for Amber in Genshin Impact?

The Noblesse Oblige artifact set is a strong option for Amber, offering a nice boost to her burst damage and a strong team-wide buff. However, if you already have a character holding a four-piece set of Nobless Oblige in the team, you can go with Wanderer’s Troupe to increase the damage of her elemental reactions and charged attacks, or Crimson Witch of Flames to boost her pyro damage.

Noblesse Oblige Two pieces: Elemental burst damage increase
Four pieces: Using an elemental burst increases all party members’ attack by 20% for 12 seconds, including Amber’s
Obtain from the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern domain
Crimson Witch of Flames Two pieces: Pyro damage increase
Four pieces: Increases overload and burning damage by 40%, and increases vaporize and melt damage by 15%. Using elemental skills increases the two-piece set effect by 50% for ten seconds
Obtain from the Hidden Palace of Zhou Formula domain
Wanderer’s Troupe Two pieces: Elemental mastery increase
Four pieces: Increases Amber’s charged attack damage by 35%
Obtain from world and weekly bosses, artifact strongbox

Artifact stat recommendations

When sorting out which artifacts to equip Amber with, make sure to note the stats and sub-stats of each – try to get some good crit stats, and HP to make sure her Baron Bunny deals damage. Here are the best stats to aim for on each artifact.

Main stats:

  • Sands: Attack / HP
  • Goblet: Pyro damage
  • Circlet: Crit rate

Sub-stats:

  • Crit rate, crit damage
  • Energy recharge
  • Attack
  • HP

What are the best Genshin Impact Amber team comps?

Amber can, and has, carried us all through the early game – though some continue to main Amber throughout the entire game. Generally, you can use her as a pyro DPS if you build her attack and crit stats, or a sub DPS if you focus on her elemental skill.

Here’s a great early-game team comp for Amber that includes a healer, shield, off-field damage, and on-field damage.

DPS Healer Sub-DPS Shield
Amber Barbara Xiangling Noelle icon
Noelle

Here are some teams Amber excels in once your roster expands:

Amber Hu Tao Xingqiu Zhongli
Amber Rosaria Bennett iconBennett Layla
Amber Lyney Bennett iconBennett Kazuha

What are Amber’s abilities?

Here’s what Amber is capable of on and off the battlefield including her basic attacks, charged, and elemental burst.

Active skills

Normal attack Sharpshooter
Normal
: Performs five shots
Charged: Performs a precise shot that deals increased damage. A fully-charged arrow will deal pyro damage
Plunging: Fires a shower of arrows from mid-air before striking the ground to deal AoE damage
Elemental skill Explosive Puppet
Press
: Throws an explosive Baron Bunny that taunts opponents, then explodes after a time and deals AoE pyro damage. The Baron Bunny’s HP scales with Amber’s max HP
Hold: Hold to adjust the throwing direction and distance of the Baron Bunny
Elemental burst Fiery Rain
Deals AoE pyro damage

Passive skills:

Every Arrow Finds Its Target  Increases the critical hit rate of Fiery Rain by 10% and widens the AoE by 30%
Precise Shot Aimed shot hits on weak spots increase attack by 15% for ten seconds
Gliding Champion Decreases gliding stamina consumption for all party members by 20%

What are Amber’s constellations?

If you get more than one Amber in your pulls, here’s what you can get with each unlocked constellation:

C1
One Arrow to Rule Them All
Fires two arrows per aimed shot. The second arrow only deals 20% of the first arrow’s damage
C2 Bunny Triggered
Baron Bunny is manually detonated if you hit its foot with a fully charged aimed shot. Manual detonation deals 200% additional damage
C3 It Burns!
Increases the level of Fiery Rain by three
C4 It’s Not Just Any Doll…
Decreases Explosive Puppet’s cooldown by 20% and adds one additional charge
C5 It’s Baron Bunny!
Increases the level of Explosive Puppet by three
C6 Wildfire
Fiery Rain increases movement speed by 15% and base attack by 15% for ten seconds

Genshin Impact Amber official birthday art showing her reaching out her hand and smiling

What are Amber’s ascension materials?

Every time you ascend Amber, she gets a boost to her attack percentage. Make sure you save up the following items to ascend her as soon as possible.

20➔30 20k mora
One agnidus agate sliver
Three small lamp grass
Three firm arrowheads
40➔50 40k mora
Three agnidus agate fragment
Ten small lamp grass
15 firm arrowheads
Two everflame seeds
50➔60 60k mora
Six agnidus agate fragment
20 small lamp grass
12 sharp arrowheads
Four everflame seeds
60➔70 80k mora
Three agnidus agate chunk
30 small lamp grass
18 sharp arrowheads
Eight everflame seeds
70➔80 100k mora
Six agnidus agate chunk
45 small lamp grass
12 weathered arrowheads
12 everflame seeds
80➔90 120k mora
Six agnidus agate gemstone
60 small lamp grass
24 weathered arrowheads
20 everflame seeds

Here’s where you can get each of the materials you need for Amber:

  • Agnidus agate – normal and weekly boss drops, especially pyro enemies
  • Small lamp grass – found growing in Mondstadt, especially around Wolvendom
  • Firm, sharp, and weathered arrowheads – obtain from Hilichurl archer enemies across Teyvat
  • Everflame seeds – drops from the pyro regisvine in Liyue

What are Amber’s talent materials?

Amber’s talents level up using the freedom books found in the Forsaken Rift domain in Mondstadt, along with arrowhead drops from Hilichurl archers, and Dvalin’s sigh from the weekly boss Dvalin in Stormterror’s Lair.

1➔2 12.5k mora
Six firm arrowheads
Three teachings of freedom
2➔3 17.5k mora
Three sharp arrowheads
Two guides to freedom
3➔4 25k mora
Four sharp arrowheads
Four guide to freedom
4➔5 30k mora
Six sharp arrowheads
Six guides to freedom
5➔6 37.5k mora
Nine sharp arrowheads
Nine guide to freedom
6➔7 120k mora
Four weathered arrowheads
Four philosophies of freedom
One Dvalin’s sigh
7➔8 260k mora
Six weathered arrowheads
Six philosophies of freedom
One Dvalin’s sigh
8➔9 260k mora
Nine weathered arrowheads
12 philosophies of freedom
Two Dvalin’s sighs
9➔10 700k mora
12 weathered arrowheads
16 philosophies of freedom
Two Dvalin’s sighs
One crown of insight

Here’s where to get all of Amber’s talent materials:

  • Freedom talent books – obtain from the Forsaken Rift domain in Mondstadt on Monday, Thursday, and Sundays
  • Firm, sharp, and weathered arrowheads – obtain from Hilichurl archer enemies across Teyvat
  • Dvalin’s sigh – drops from the weekly Dvalin boss fight in Stormterror’s Lair, Mondstadt

Talent priorities

  • Elemental skill > elemental burst > normal attack

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