Genshin Impact's Xiangling is known for being the head chef at the Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue. She loves to cook spicy foods and regularly experiments with unique ingredients to make surprising new dishes and flavor combinations. So let's see what tasty combos we can whip up with our Xiangling build guide, featuring her skills, constellations, best weapons and artifacts, and more so that you can get the most out of her.
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Here's everything in our best Xiangling build:
What's the best Genshin Impact Xiangling build?
Xiangling is a four-star pyro polearm wielder. She's a super important sub-DPS staple in many of the top-ranking 'National' team comps. Available as a free character for anyone who braves floor three of the Spiral Abyss, she's a versatile little bean capable of applying pyro and dealing damage from off-field. Her AoE burst is incredibly powerful and perfect for elemental reaction combos, and she scales very well with high investment and external buffs, such as Genshin Impact Bennett's burst.
Here's a brief overview of our best Xiangling build:
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Element | Pyro |
| Weapon | Polearm |
| Best weapon | Staff of the Scarlet Sands |
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| Best artifact set | Emblem of Severed Fate |
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Xiangling's best weapon is the Staff of the Scarlet Sands. Her best artifact set is Emblem of Severed Fate, built with plenty of elemental mastery, energy recharge, attack, and pyro damage bonus.
How to use Xiangling
As long as you have a decent battery for her, you should use Xiangling as a sub-DPS in your team, popping her skill and ultimate whenever they're available for great pyro damage and application.
What are the best weapons for Xiangling?
Xiangling's best-in-slot weapon is Staff of the Scarlet Sands. Its bonus stat boosts her crit rate and its skill synergizes wonderfully with her elemental mastery build, allowing her to gain bonus attack even when she's off-field when Guoba hits an enemy.
Xiangling's next best weapon is Engulfing Lightning. This five-star polearm is in high demand thanks to its great energy recharge stats, making her ultimate uptime much better and boosting her attack.
The Catch is a great free-to-play option for Xiangling. It improves her energy recharge for better ultimate uptime and increases both her elemental skill and burst's effectiveness, which is perfect for an off-field sub-DPS.
Here are Xiangling's best weapons:
| Staff of the Scarlet Sands | Bonus stat: crit rate Skill: Xiangling gains 52% of her elemental mastery as bonus attack. When an elemental skill hits opponents, she gains the Dream of the Scarlet Sands effect for ten seconds. Dream of the Scarlet Sands: Xiangling gains 28% of her elemental mastery as bonus attack. Max three stacks |
Limited banner |
| The Catch | Bonus stat: energy recharge Skill: increases elemental burst damage by 16% and elemental burst crit rate by 6% |
Buy from Kujirai Momiji of the Fishing Association |
| Staff of Homa | Bonus stat: crit damage Skill: HP increased by 20%. Additionally, provides an attack bonus based on 0.8% of Xiangling's max HP. When her HP is less than 50%, this attack bonus increases by an additional 1% of max HP |
Limited banner |
| Engulfing Lightning | Bonus stat: energy recharge Skill: attack increased by 28% of Xiangling's energy recharge over the base 100%. You can gain a maximum bonus of 80% attack. Gain 30% energy recharge for 12 seconds after using an elemental burst |
Limited banner |
What are the best artifacts for Xiangling?
Generally, a four-piece set of Emblem of Severed Fate is the best option for Xiangling, regardless of her team comp. Four pieces of Gilded Dreams are also a good option, especially in overvape teams where she's paired up with the likes of Genshin Impact's Sucrose.
Crimson Witch of Flames is also a good option, though it falls behind in some team comps and can be very expensive and inefficient to farm.
Here are Xiangling's best artifacts:
| Emblem of Severed Fate | Two equipped: energy recharge +20% Four equipped: increases elemental burst damage by 25% of energy recharge. You can obtain a maximum of 75% bonus damage in this way |
Momiji-Dyed Court domain on Yashiori Island in Inazuma |
| Gilded Dreams | Two equipped: elemental mastery +80 Four equipped: within eight seconds of triggering an elemental reaction, Xiangling obtains buffs based on the elemental type of the other party members. Increases attack by 14% for each party member with the same elemental type as Xiangling, and increases elemental mastery by 50 for every party member with a different elemental type. Each of the aforementioned buffs count up to three characters. This effect can trigger once every eight seconds, even when Xiangling isn't on the field |
Spire of Solitary Enlightenment domain in Avidya Forest, Sumeru |
| Crimson Witch of Flames | Two equipped: pyro damage +15% Four equipped: increases overloaded and burning damage by 40%, and vaporize and melt damage by 15%. Using an elemental skill increases two-piece set effects by 50% for ten seconds. Maximum three stacks |
Hidden Palace of Zhou Formula domain on Bashui Plain, Wuwang Hill, Liyue |
Artifact stat recommendations
When choosing artifacts for Xiangling, we recommend prioritizing these stats:
Main stats:
- Sands: energy recharge/elemental mastery/attack%.
- Elemental mastery is only recommended for reverse vape and overload or overvape teams that use Xiangling as a trigger. Generally, you should use energy recharge with non-energy recharge weapons, and elemental mastery or attack% with energy recharge weapons
- Goblet: pyro damage bonus
- Circlet: crit rate/crit damage (try to maintain a 1:2 ratio overall)
Sub-stats:
- Energy recharge to requirement (this varies, but 200% gives you flexibility and comfort)
- Crit rate/crit damage
- Elemental mastery
- Attack%
What are the best Xiangling team comps?
As long as she has a reliable battery, Xiangling can fit into a huge range of team comps, whether that's mono pyro, National, or overvape. She also fits well into free-to-play team comps as we mentioned earlier.
Here are some examples of strong Xiangling team comps:
 Xiangling |
 Raiden Shogun |
 Xingqiu |
 Bennett |
| Xiangling |
 Diona |
Xingqiu |
 Sucrose |
| Xiangling |
 Childe |
 Kazuha |
Bennett |
What are Xiangling's abilities?
Here are all of Xiangling's abilities.
Xiangling's active skills:
| Normal attack | Dough-Fu Normal: Performs up to five spear strikes Charged: Consumes stamina to lunge forward and deal damage along the way Plunging: Deals AoE damage on impact with the ground |
| Elemental skill | Guoba Attack Summons Guoba the bear, who breathes fire at enemies, dealing AoE pyro damage |
| Elemental burst | Pyronado Summons a Pyronado to deal AoE pyro damage that moves around the character for a set time |
Xiangling's passive skills:
| A1 | Crossfire Increases Guoba's attack range by 20% |
| A4 | Beware, It's Super Hot! When Guoba's attack's effects end, he leaves a chili pepper on the spot where he disappeared. Picking up a chili pepper increases attack by 10% for ten seconds |
| Utility | Chef de Cuisine When pulling off a perfect cook on an attack-increasing dish, Xiangling has a 12% chance to double the product |
What are Xiangling's constellations?
When you pull more than one copy of Xiangling, you can use these duplicates to unlock one of six special abilities called constellations.
Here are all six of Xiangling's constellations and what they do:
| C1 | Crispy Outside, Tender Inside Enemies hit by Guoba's AoE will have their pyro resistance reduced by 15% for six seconds |
| C2 | Oil Meets Fire The final hit in a normal attack sequence will apply the implode status for two seconds. When the duration ends, an explosion will deal 75% of Xiangling's attack as AoE pyro damage |
| C3 | Deepfry Increases the level of Pyronado by three |
| C4 | Slowbake Increases the duration of Pyronado by 40% |
| C5 | Guoba Mad Increases the level of Guoba Attack by three |
| C6 | Condensed Pyronado All party members receive a 15% pyro damage boost for the duration of Pyronado |
What are Xiangling's ascension materials?
Each time you ascend Xiangling, she receives an increase to her elemental mastery.
Here are all the materials you need to fully ascend Xiangling:
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Here's where to get all of Xiangling's ascension materials:
- Agnidus agate - drops from weekly and normal bosses
- Jueyun chilis - found in the wild or purchased in Liyue
- Everflame seeds - drops from the Pyro Regisvine normal boss in Liyue
- Slime condensates/secretions/concentrates - drops from slime enemies
What are Xiangling's talent materials?
Make sure you keep hold of your slime concentrate, because here are all the talent level-up materials you need to ascend one of Xiangling's talents to level ten.
Here are all the materials you need to get one of Xiangling's talents to max level.
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Here's where to get all of Xiangling's talent materials:
- Slime condensates/secretions/concentrates - drops from slime enemies
- Diligence talent books - obtained from Taishan Mansion on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Dvalin's claw - drops from the Dvalin's Terror weekly boss in Mondstadt
Talent priority
When leveling up Xiangling's talents, you should prioritize them in the following order:
- Elemental burst > elemental skill > normal attack
That's everything you need to know about Genshin Impact's Xiangling so that you can take on any challenge Teyvat throws your way. Why not explore Hoyoverse's spacefaring title with our Honkai Star Rail tier list and Honkai Star Rail codes? We've got even more gacha goodies with the latest Zenless Zone Zero codes and Wuthering Waves codes, too.