Genshin Impact’s Collei is a sweet trainee forest ranger, and a four-star dendro bow-wielder with a simple yet effective kit. So grab a pita pocket, because it’s time to dive into our best Collei build, featuring her top team comps, weapons, artifacts, how to use her, and more.
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Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Collei build guide:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Collei build?
Collei is a four-star dendro bow-wielder. She predominantly excels in a sub-DPS or reaction driver role, where she applies dendro to enemies with her wide-reaching elemental burst and elemental skill, setting up devastating elemental reactions for your other characters.
Here’s a brief overview of our best Genshin Impact Collei build:
Best weapon | Polar Star |
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Best artifact set | Deepwood Memories |
Artifact substitute | Emblem of Severed Fate |
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Collei’s best weapon is the five-star bow, Polar Star. In terms of artifacts, we recommend a full set of Deepwood Memories – just keep in mind that you should only have one character equipped with this set per team, as the effect doesn’t stack.
When picking artifacts for Collei, you should generally focus on stats and sub-stats that boost her energy recharge, attack, and crit. For more in-depth recommendations and alternates, check out each of the dedicated sections below.
When leveling up her talents, we recommend prioritizing her elemental burst, then her elemental skill, and finally her normal attack.
With decent personal damage, affordable weapon options, and flexibility with both artifacts and team compositions, she makes a great secondary dendro character for many dendro reaction-focused teams. However, she’s pretty energy hungry, and relies on both her constellations and a well-invested team mates to really shine.
How to use Collei
Collei synergises well with dendro DPS such as Genshin Impact’s Tighnari, as you can equip her with Deepwood Memories in order to buff their dendro damage, while also enjoying the benefits of dendro resonance, Sprawling Greenery. The dendro resonance buff increases your party’s elemental mastery by 50 across the board, pushing it even higher when you trigger dendro elemental reactions.
Generally, her normal attacks aren’t worthwhile – it’s her skill and burst that you need to focus on.
Collei’s boomerang (the floral ring from her skill) is the trickiest part of her kit to master, but it’s also the key to a successful Collei player. It applies dendro once when you throw it out, and a second time when it returns, and has a pretty long cooldown of 12 seconds. Luckily, the throw and return applications space out Collei’s dendro application, allowing for a less front-loaded kit which, in turn, compliments quicken teams that require prolonged dendro application.
Unfortunately, due to its long animation, it can be surprisingly easy to hit enemies with Collei’s boomerang at a range, especially with faster enemies that move about a lot. The best way to ensure her boomerang hits both ways is to throw it when she’s close to the enemy, then keep an eye on the boomerang’s arc and move to the left or right of the enemy depending on its trajectory.
Luckily, her elemental burst is a lot easier to pull off – and it also happens to provide the majority of her damage. It has a 15-second cooldown which is only slightly longer than her skill’s cooldown, making her a great option for quickswap teams with rotations of between 15 and 20 seconds.
Unfortunately, the dendro application rate of her burst only ticks three to four times per rotation, but, when combined with her skill and the right team, she can still help keep dendro application at a high up-time.
What’s Collei’s best weapon?
The best weapon for Collei is Polar Star or Aqua Simulacra. Both of these weapons have high base stats and useful damage boosts. However, they’re highly contested five-star weapons, which may be better used on other characters.
Favonius Warbow is Collei’s best four-star weapon. It offers some great energy recharge, and also boosts Collei’s elemental particle generation, which can be useful to both her and her allies.
Here are Genshin Impact Collei’s best weapons:
Weapon | Effect | How to obtain |
Polar Star | Bonus effect: +crit rate% Skill: increases elemental skill and elemental burst damage by 12%. After a normal attack, charged attack, elemental skill, or elemental burst hits an enemy, gain one stack of Ashen Nightstar for 12 seconds. When 1/2/3/4 stacks of Ashen Nightstar are present, attack increases by 10/20/30/48% |
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Aqua Simulacra | Bonus effect: +crit damage% Skill: increases HP by 16%. When there are opponents nearby, damage increases by 20%. This takes effect whether the character is on-field or not |
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Favonius Warbow | Bonus effect: +energy recharge% Skill: crit hits have a 60% chance to generate a small amount of elemental particles, which regenerate six energy for the character. Can only occur once every 12 seconds. |
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What are Collei’s best artifacts?
If no one else on the team is holding Deepwood Memories, it’s a great idea to give that one to Collei. Aside from that, Emblem of Severed Fate is a good choice for maximizing her elemental bust damage.
Here are Genshin Impact Collei’s best artifacts:
Artifacts | Effect | How to obtain |
Deepwood Memories | Two equipped: increases dendro damage bonus by 15% Four equipped: after elemental skills or bursts hit opponents, the targets’ dendro resistance is decreased by 30% for eight seconds. This effect can trigger even if the equipping character is not on the field |
Spire of Solitary Enlightenment domain, near Gandha Hill in Sumeru |
Emblem of Severed Fate | Two equipped: increases energy recharge by 20% Four equipped: increases elemental burst damage by 25% of energy recharge. A maximum of 75% bonus damage can be obtained this way |
Momiji-Dyed Court domain, Inazuma |
Stat and sub-stat recommendations
Energy recharge is very important to Collei to ensure she can make the most of her burst’s dendro application. Getting that to the desired amount should be your top priority, after which you can boost her other stats.
Elemental mastery is useful to her, but not as integral as it is for Tighnari – and therefore should only be prioritized if you’re running with an elemental reaction focused build.
Main stats
- Sands: energy recharge (can use attack% or elemental mastery if requirements are met)
- Goblet: dendro damage bonus
- Circlet: crit damage/crit rate (try to maintain a 2:1 ratio)
Sub-stats
- Energy recharge
- Attack%
- Crit damage/crit rate
- Elemental mastery
What are the best Collei team comps?
As you’d expect, Collei shines the brightest in teams that rely heavily on dendro-focused elemental reactions. She fits well in quicken, burgeon, bloom, and hyperbloom teams, especially when supporting a strong, on-field DPS or in 12-20 second rotation quickswap teams.
As mentioned at the beginning of this guide, Collei also benefits greatly from having a second dendro character on the team where possible, as this helps pick up the small gaps between her dendro application, and allows for the elemental mastery buff from dendro resonance.
For a more in-depth break down of Collei’s different character synergies, check out the Keqingmains guide.
Here’s some examples of strong Genshin Impact Collei team comps:
What are Collei’s abilities?
Here are all of Collei’s abilities and attacks.
Active skills:
Skill | Effect |
Normal attack: Supplicant’s Bowmanship | Normal: perform up to four consecutive shots with a bow Charged: perform a more precise aimed shot with increased damage. While aiming, dendro energy accumulates around the arrowhead. A fully charged arrow deals dendro damage Plunge: fire a shower of arrows mid-air before falling and striking the ground, dealing AoE |
Elemental skill: Floral Brush | Throw out a floral ring that deals one instance of dendro damage to targets it comes into contact with. The floral ring returns after a set time, dealing dendro damage again |
Elemental burst: Trump-Card Kitty | Throw Collei’s Cuilein-Anbar doll, causing an explosion that deals AoE dendro damage and creating a Cuilein-Anbar zone. Cuilein-Anbar bounces around within this zone, dealing AoE dendro damage |
Passive skills:
Skill | Effect |
Gliding Champion of Sumeru | Decreases gliding stamina consumption for your own party members by 20%. Not stackable with passive talents that provide the same effects |
Floral Sidewinder | If one of your party members triggers burning, quicken, aggravate, spread, bloom, hyperbloom, or burgeon reactions before floral ring returns, it grants the sprout effect upon return, which continously deals dendro damage equivalent to 40% of Collei’s attack to nearby opponents for three seconds. If another sprout effect triggers during its initial duration, the initial effect is removed. Damage dealt by sprout counts as elemental damage |
The Languid Wood | When a character within the Cuilein-Anbar Zone triggers burning, quicken, aggravate, spread, bloom, hyperbloom, or burgeon reactions, the zone’s duration increases by one second. A single Trump-Card Kitty can extend by up to three seconds |
What are Collei’s constellations?
Gaining more than one copy of a character in Genshin Impact allows you to unlock special bonuses called ‘constellations’.
Here are all of Genshin Impact Collei’s constellations.
Constellation | Effect |
C1: Deepwood Patrol | When in the party and not on the field, Collei’s energy recharge rate increases by 20% |
C2: Through Hill and Copse | Reworks Collei’s passive talent Floral Sidewinder with these effects: Floral Ring grants the character the sprout effect from Floral Sidewinder upon return, dealing 40% of Collei’s attack as dendro damage to nearby opponents for three seconds. From the moment of using Floral Brush to the moment when this instance of sprout’s effects end, if any of your party members trigger burning, quicken, aggravate, spread, bloom, hyperbloom, or burgeon reactions, the sprout effect extends by three seconds. It can only be extended this way once. If it triggers again during its initial duration, the initial effect is removed. Requires you to have unlocked the Floral Sidewinder talent |
C3: Scent of Summer | Increases the level of Floral Brush by three. Maximum upgrade level is 15 |
C4: Gift of the woods | Using Trump-Card Kitty increases all nearby characters’ elemental mastery by 60 for 12 seconds (not including Collei herself) |
C5: All Embers | Increases the level of Trump-Card Kitty by three. Maximum upgrade is level 15 |
C6: Forest of Falling Arrows | Forest of Falling Arrows – when the Floral Ring hits opponents, it creates a miniature Cuilein-Anbar that deals 200% of Collei’s attack as dendro damage. Each Floral Brush can only create one mini Cuilein-Anber |
What are Collei’s ascension materials?
You can level Collei up all the way to level 90 using wanderer’s advice, adventurer’s experience, or hero’s wit, but you also need to use specific materials to ascend her and increase her level cap at set intervals.
Here are all of Genshin Impact Collei’s ascension materials:
Level | Mora | Ascension materials |
20+ | 20,000 | One nagadus emerald sliver, three firm arrowhead, three rukkhashava mushrooms |
40+ | 40,000 | Three nagadus emerald fragment, 15 firm arrowhead, ten rukkhashava mushrooms, two majestic hooked beak |
50+ | 60,000 | Six nagadus emerald fragment, 12 sharp arrowhead, 20 rukkhashava mushrooms, four majestic hooked beak |
60+ | 80,000 | Three nagadus emerald chunk, 18 sharp arrowhead, 30 rukkhashava mushrooms, eight majestic hooked beak |
70+ | 100,000 | Six nagadus emerald chunk, 12 weathered arrowhead, 45 rukkhashava mushrooms, 12 majestic hooked beak |
80+ | 120.000 | Six nagadus emerald gemstone, 24 weathered arrowhead, 60 rukkhashava mushrooms, 20 majestic hooked beak |
Here’s where to get all of Collei’s ascension materials:
- Nagadus emerald slivers / fragments / chunks / gemstones
- Obtain from normal bosses and commission bonus rewards, or craft via alchemy or the parametric transformer
- Firm / sharp / weathered arrowheads
- Obtain from hillichurl shooter enemies or craft via alchemy
- Rukkhashava mushrooms
- Gather in the wild around Ashavan Realm and the Lokapala Jungle, or purchase from Aramani (an Aranara located in Vanarana, Sumeru) and Ashpazi (an NPC located in Gandharva Ville, Sumeru)
- Majestic hooked beaks
- Obtain from the Jadeplume Terrorshroom boss located in Vissudha Field, Sumeru
What are Collei’s talent materials?
In addition to increasing her character level, you can also boost the power of Collei’s basic attack, elemental skill, and elemental burst – but you need a set of specific materials to do so.
Here are all of the materials you need to level up one of Collei’s talents:
Level | Mora | Materials |
Two | 12.5k | Six firm arrowhead, three teachings of praxis |
Three | 17.5k | Three sharp arrowhead, two guide to praxis |
Four | 25k | Four sharp arrowhead, four guide to praxis |
Five | 30k | Six sharp arrowhead, six guide to praxis |
Six | 37.5k | Nine sharp arrowhead, nine guide to praxis |
Seven | 120k | Four weathered arrowhead, four philosophies of praxis, one tears of the calamitous god |
Eight | 260k | Six weathered arrowhead, six philosophies of praxis, one tears of the calamitous god |
Nine | 450k | Nine weathered arrowhead, 12 philosophies of praxis, two tears of the calamitous god |
Ten | 700k | 12 weathered arrowhead, 16 philosophies of praxis, two tears of the calamitous god, one crown of insight |
Here’s where to get all of Collei’s talent materials:
- Firm / sharp / weathered arrowheads
- Obtain from hillichurl shooter enemies or craft via alchemy
- Praxis talent books
- Obtain from the Steeple of Ignorance domain located in Chatrakam Cave, Lokapala Jungle, Dharma Forest, Sumeru on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays
- Tears of the calamitous god
- Obtain from the End of the Oneiric Euthymia weekly trounce domain (Raiden Sogun weekly boss) located in Mt. Yougou, Narukami Island, Inazuma
Talent priority
When leveling up Collei’s talents, we recommend prioritizing the following:
- Elemental burst > elemental skill > normal attack
Who is Genshin Impact’s Collei?
Collei is a trainee forest range under the tutelage of Genshin Impact’s Tighnari. A key character in the Genshin Impact manga, Collei was born sickly, so her parents brought her to a seer and begged him to see her. However, this “seer” was in fact working with Genshin Impact’s Dottore, who then turned Collei into a test subject, causing her great pain and trauma, while also imbuing her with an uncontrollable power.
Afflicted with a painful disease called eleazar, Collei suffered a great amount. Having escaped from the Fatui, she arrived in Mondstadt, and soon befriended Genshin Impact’s Amber. However, when Genshin Impact’s Cyno sealed her powers, she decided to leave with him to learn more about the world.
Arriving back in Sumeru, Cyno dropped Collei off with his friend Tighnari, who then took Collei in, acting as her mentor. She’s stayed with him ever sense, and has seen a dramatic improvement in both her mental and physical health, later playing a role in the Sumeru archon quests and several events since.
That’s everything we’ve got on Genshin Impact’s Collei. If you’re as eager to get your paws on one of the first dendro characters as we are, head over to our Genshin Impact codes and start stashing those primos.