Genshin Impact’s Yanfei is a half-adeptus and Liyue’s premier legal adviser. Not only can she offer top-of-the-line legal advice, but she can also pack a punch on the battlefield as a surprisingly powerful four-star pyro catalyst wielder. So if you’d care to read the wavier and sign on the dotted line, we’ll take you through the best Yanfei build, featuring her skills, weapons, and more.
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What’s the best Genshin Impact Yanfei build?
| Best weapon | Vaporize: Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds Transformative: A Thousand Floating Dreams |
| Weapon substitutes | Vaporize: Cashflow Supervision Transformative: Sacrificial Fragments |
| Best artifact set | Vaporize: Crimson Witch of Flames Transformative: Gilded Dreams |
| Artifact substitutes | Shimenawa’s Reminiscence, Marechaussee Hunter (with Furina), or Wanderer’s Troupe |
| Main stats | Vaporize:
Transformative:
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| Sub-stats |
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Yanfei’s best vaporize DPS build weapon is Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds and her best transformative reaction (eg. overloaded and burgeon) weapon is A Thousand Floating Dreams. Her vaporize build favors four pieces of Crimson Witch of Flames with a focus on attack%, pyro damage, and crit stats. Gilded Dreams is Yanfei’s best transformative artifact set and you should go all-in on elemental mastery.
If possible, it’s worthwhile getting Yanfei to level 90, especially in an overload team. She also sees some strong quality of life benefits from her constellations in all roles, with her C4 allowing her to provide a strong shield that makes her a strong support for characters like Genshin Impact’s Hu Tao, and her C6 offering a boost to her stamina so she can use her powerful charged attacks more freely.
How should I use Yanfei?
Yanfei primarily excels in an on-field DPS role, taking the lead in either a vaporize or overload team. She’s a great option for early gameplay, and her ranged attacks have a handy reach. She also has decent reach and damage with her AoE, consistent pyro application, and plenty of F2P and resin-efficient options when it comes to weapons, artifacts, and team builds. Yanfei’s elemental skill and elemental burst require a lot of field time, but their DPS potential makes it all worth it.
However, she has a long charged attack animation which isn’t easy to cancel and doesn’t offer invincibility, leaving her vulnerable to incoming attacks. As she’s also pretty squishy in most builds, you may find yourself relying on highly sought-after shield units to negate this damage.
What are the best Yanfei weapons?
Vaporize Yanfei
The Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds is our catalyst of choice for vaporize Yanfei, as it compliments the extended on-field time necessary to make the most of her rotations. The crit rate secondary stat, which isn’t very common in catalysts, also works really well for her.
As you’ll discover as we continue through this guide, Yanfei synergizes amazingly with Genshin Impact’s Furina, but her corresponding build is extremely specific. Cashflow Supervision works wonders for Yanfei when she’s working with Furina, thanks to its HP change-based attack buffs and substantial crit rate bonus stat.
Alternatively, The Widsith is a great choice, especially as higher refinement ranks, as Yanfei is one of the few catalyst users capable of making full use of its buffs. Plus, it’s slightly easier to roll into.
| Weapon | Effect | How to obtain |
| Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds | Bonus effect: crit rate Skill: Increases movement speed by 10%. When in battle, gain an 8% elemental damage bonus every four seconds. Max four stacks. Lasts until Yanfei falls or leaves combat |
Gacha |
| Cashflow Supervision | Bonus effect: crit rate Skill: Increases attack by 16%. When current HP increases or decreases, normal attack damage will increase by 16% and charged attack damage will increase by 14% for four seconds. Max three stacks. This effect can be triggered once every 0.3 seconds. When Yanfei has three stacks, attack speed increases by 8% |
Weapon event gacha |
| The Widsith | Bonus effect: crit damage Skill: When a character takes the field, they will gain a random theme song for ten seconds. This can only occur once every 30 seconds. Recitative: Attack is increased by 60%. Aria: Increases all elemental damage by 48% Interlude: Elemental mastery is increased by 240 |
Gacha |
| Dodoco Tales | Bonus effect: attack Skill: Normal attack hits on opponents increase charged attack damage by 16% for six seconds. Charged attack hits on opponents increase attack by 8% for six seconds |
Midsummer Island Adventure event |
| Mappa Mare | Bonus effect: elemental mastery Skill: Triggering an elemental reaction grants an 8% elemental damage bonus for ten seconds. Max two stacks |
Forging or Stellar Reunion event |
Overload/Transformative Yanfei
Our top weapon picks for overload Yanfei are a bit different to that of Vaporize Yanfei, as your main priority for this role is increasing her elemental mastery as much as possible.
Thanks to its unmatched elemental mastery, A Thousand Floating Dreams is Yanfei’s best-in-slot weapon for overload and burgeon teams. Plus, if other members of the team are struggling to meet their EM requirements, this weapon can help them out too.
Sacrificial Fragments takes the top four-star spot due to its high elemental mastery, despite its skill not being the most useful to her. Refinements don’t change much, so you’re fine at R1 for this one, meaning it’s also a very affordable option.
Magic Guide comes in third, as it offers the third-highest elemental mastery of all the catalysts so far. Its attack doesn’t do much for Yanfei, but with it being a three-star weapon, it’s much cheaper to upgrade and refine than other weapons.
| Weapon | Effect | How to obtain |
| A Thousand Floating Dreams | Bonus effect: elemental mastery Skill: Party members other than Yanfei will provide her with buffs based on whether their elemental type is the same as her (pyro) or not. If they are pyro, increase elemental mastery by 32. If not, increase Yanfei’s pyro damage bonus by 10%. Each of the aforementioned effects can have up to three stacks. Additionally, all nearby party members other than Yanfei will have their elemental mastery increased by 40. Multiple such effects from multiple such weapons can stack |
Weapon event gacha |
| Sacrificial Fragments | Bonus effect: elemental mastery Skill: After you damage an opponent with Yanfei’s elemental skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own cooldown. This can only occur once every 30 seconds |
Gacha |
| Magic Guide | Bonus effect: elemental mastery Skill: Increases damage against enemies affected by hydro or electro by 12% |
Gacha |
| Thrilling Tale of Dragon Slayers | Bonus effect: HP Skill: When you switch characters, the new character taking the field has their attack increased by 24% for ten seconds. This effect can only occur once every 20 seconds |
Gacha |
What are the best Yanfei artifacts?
For vaporize Yanfei, we highly recommend using a full set of the Crimson Witch of Flames artifacts to get a healthy pyro damage bonus. However, if you’re using Furina, Marechaussee Hunter is your best bet.
Transformative reaction Yanfei favors Gilded Dreams thanks to its high EM base effect. The four-piece effect is entirely based on reactions, so it suits this build nicely, especially as Yanfei is often the only pyro character on the team so you’ll get plenty of extra EM with each reaction.
Shimenawa’s Reminiscence and Wanderer’s Troupe also offer some nice benefits depending on how you want to build your Yanfei.
| Artifact set | Effect | How to obtain |
| 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 |
| Marechaussee Hunter | Two equipped: normal and charged attack damage +15% Four equipped: when current HP increases or decreases, crit rate increases by 12% for five seconds. Max three stacks |
Denouement of Sin domain in Belleau Region, Fontaine |
| Gilded Dreams | Two equipped: elemental mastery +80 Four equipped: within eight seconds of triggering an elemental reaction, Yanfei will obtain buffs based on the elemental type of the other party members. Attack is increased by 14% for each party member whose elemental type is the same as Yanfei’s (pyro), and elemental mastery is increased by 50 for every party member with a different elemental type. Each of the aforementioned buffs will count up to three characters. This effect can be triggered once every eight seconds. Yanfei can still trigger its effects when not on the field |
Spire of Solitary Enlightenment domain in Avidya Forest, Sumeru |
| Shimenawa’s Reminiscence | Two equipped: attack +18% Four equipped: when using an elemental skill with 15 or more energy, you lose 15 energy and gain 50% normal/charge/plunging attack damage for ten seconds. This effect won’t trigger again during that duration |
Momiji-Dyed Court domain on Yashiori Island in Inazuma |
| Wanderer’s Troupe | Two equipped: elemental mastery +80 Four equipped: increases charged attack damage by 35% because Yanfei uses a catalyst |
World bosses and weekly bosses, or the Wanderer’s Troupe artifact strongbox |
Artifact stat recommendations
When picking artifacts for vaporize Yanfei, you should prioritize the following stats.
Main stats:
- Sands: attack%
- Goblet: pyro damage bonus
- Circlet: crit rate or crit damage
Sub-stats:
- Attack%
- Crit damage
- Crit rate
Transformative reaction Yanfei only wants elemental mastery on all artifacts and once you reach her requirements, you can focus on rolling for energy recharge sub-stats.
To find out more about how artifacts work, check out our Genshin Impact artifacts guide.
What’s the best Yanfei team comp?
Naturally, when picking a team comp for Yanfei, the characters you should choose are reliant on whether you want a vaporize, overload, or burgeon team.
For vaporize teams, she synergizes well with Genshin Impact’s Xingqiu and Genshin Impact’s Bennett. You can fill the spare slot with an anemo unit like Genshin Impact’s Kazuha to shred resistance and reap the benefits of the Viridescent Venerer artifact set, Genshin Impact’s Fischl for additional damage and overloads, or Genshin Impact’s Zhongli to shield her, which helps negate her vulnerability during her long charged attack animations.
Here’s an example of a strong vaporize Yanfei team comp:
 Yanfei |
 Xingqiu |
 Bennett |
 Zhongli |
For overload teams, you should go with Genshin Impact’s Fischl and Genshin Impact’s Beidou. The fourth slot can once again be filled with Bennett, Xingqiu, or Zhongli, or you can go with Genshin Impact’s Kokomi, all of which help her survivability without interfering with overload reactions.
Here’s an example of a strong overload Yanfei comp:
| Yanfei |
 Beidou |
 Fischl |
 Kokomi |
Then there’s the Furina-focused team comp. This is technically still a vaporize team, but Yanfei and Furina’s abilities and kit are so specific that this team deserves its own category:
| Yanfei |
Xingqiu |
Bennett |
 Furina |
What are Yanfei’s abilities?
Active skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Normal attack: Seal of Approval | Normal: Yanfei shoots fireballs that deal up to three counts of pyro damage. On hit, Yanfei receives a Scarlet Seal, she can have a maximum of three. The seals decrease her stamina consumption Charged: Consumes stamina and all Scarlet Seals to deal AoE pyro damage Plunging: Yanfei plunged toward the ground, dealing AoE pyro damage on impact |
| Elemental skill: Signed Edict | Deals AoE pyro damage and grants Yanfei the maximum number of Scarlet Seals |
| Elemental burst: Done Deal | Deals AoE pyro damage, grants Yanfei the maximum number of Scarlet Seals, and applies Brilliance to her. Brilliance periodically grants Yanfei a Scarlet Seal and increases the damage of her charged attack |
Passive skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Proviso | When a Scarlet Seal is consumed by using a charged attack, Yanfei’s pyro damage is increased by 5% for six seconds |
| Blazing Eye | When a charged attack deals a critical hit, Yanfei will deal extra AoE pyro damage that’s equal to 80% of her attack |
| Encyclopedic Expertise | The mini-map will show the location of nearby resources that are unique to Liyue |
What are Yanfei’s constellations?
You can unlock extra benefits for Yanfei by pulling copies of her. These are called constellations.
| Constellation | Effect |
| C1: The Law Knows No Kindness | Each existing Scarlet Seal additionally reduces the stamina cost of charged attacks by 10% and increases resistance against interruption when released |
| C2: Right of Final Interpretation | Increases Yanfei’s charged attack critical hit rate by 20% against enemies with HP below 50% |
| C3: Samadhi Fire-Forged | Increases the level of Signed Edict by three. The maximum upgrade level is 15 |
| C4: Supreme Amnesty | Done Deal creates a shield that absorbs up to 45% of Yanfei’s max HP for 15 seconds. The shield absorbs pyro damage 250% more effectively |
| C5: Abiding Affidavit | Increases the level of Done Deal by three. The maximum upgrade level is 15 |
| C6: Extra Clause | Increases the maximum number of Scarlet Seals by one |
What are Yanfei’s ascension materials?
Here’s a guide to all of the materials needed to fully ascend Yanfei:
| Level | Mora | Ascension materials |
| 20+ | 20k | One agnidus agate sliver, three noctilucous jades, three treasure hoarder insignias |
| 40+ | 40k | Three agnidus agate fragments, two juvenile jades, ten noctilucous jades, 15 treasure hoarder insignias |
| 50+ | 60k | Six agnidus agate fragments, four juvenile jades, 20 noctilucous jades, 12 silver raven insignias |
| 60+ | 80k | Three agnidus agate chunks, eight juvenile jades, 30 noctilucous jades, 18 silver raven insignias |
| 70+ | 100k | Six agnidus agate chunks, 12 juvenile jades, 45 noctilucous jades, 12 golden raven insignias |
| 80+ | 120k | Six agnidus agate gemstones, 20 juvenile jades, 60 noctilucous jades, 24 golden raven insignias |
Here’s where to find all of Yanfei’s ascension materials:
- Agnidus agate – drops from normal and weekly bosses
- Treasure hoarder insignias / silver raven insignias / golden raven insignias – drops from Treasure Hoarder enemies
- Noctilucous jade – mined around Liyue (especially Mingyun Village), and sold in Liyue and Sumeru
- Juvenile jade – drops from the Primo Geovishap normal boss in Liyue
What are Yanfei’s talent materials?
Here are all the talent level-up materials you need to ascend one of Yanfei’s talents to level ten:
| Talent level | Mora | Materials |
| Two | 12.5k | Six treasure hoarder insignias, three teachings of gold |
| Three | 17.5k | Three silver raven insignias, two guides to gold |
| Four | 25k | Four silver raven insignias, four guides to gold |
| Five | 30k | Six silver raven insignias, six guides to gold |
| Six | 37.5k | Nine silver raven insignias, nine guides to gold |
| Seven | 120k | Four golden raven insignias, four philosophies of gold, one bloodjade branch |
| Eight | 260k | Six golden raven insignias, six philosophies of gold, one bloodjade branch |
| Nine | 450k | Nine golden raven insignias, 12 philosophies of gold, two bloodjade branches |
| Ten | 700k | 12 golden raven insignias, 16 philosophies of gold, two bloodjade branches, one crown of insight |
Here’s where to get each of Yanfei’s talent materials:
- Treasure hoarder insignias / silver raven insignias / golden raven insignias – drops from Treasure Hoarder enemies
- Gold talent books – rewards from the Taishan Mansion domains on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays
- Bloodjade branches – drops from the Azhdaha weekly boss in Liyue
Talent priorities
When leveling up Yanfei’s talents, we recommend prioritizing them in the following order.
- Normal attack > elemental burst > elemental skill
That’s everything you need to know about Genshin Impact’s Yanfei. If you’re off exploring the cosmos with the crew of the Astral Express, check out our Honkai Star Rail codes and Honkai Star Rail tier list. We also have builds for characters like Honkai Star Rail’s Firefly, Honkai Star Rail’s Black Swan, and Honkai Star Rail’s Ruan Mei.