Genshin Impact's Yoimiya is a spirited, optimistic young woman who can often be found setting off fireworks to entertain the children of Inazuma. She's a true bright spark, and that carries over to her explosive playstyle as a five-star pyro bow wielder. So grab a sparkler, it's time to dive into our Genshin Yoimiya build, featuring her best weapons, artifacts, and more.
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Here's everything in our best Yoimiya build:
What's the best Genshin Impact Yoimiya build?
Yoimiya is a five-star pyro DPS. She certainly lacks some of the punch afforded by other DPS units like Genshin Impact's Ganyu or Genshin Impact's Hu Tao, and is quite replaceable - meaning, if you're tight on primos and in desperate need of a strong DPS, she probably isn't the best choice to pull for. However, she's extremely adorable, and a lot of players love her despite her not being considered 'meta'.
Here's a brief overview of our best Genshin Impact Raiden build:
| Rarity | ★★★★★ |
| Element | Pyro |
| Weapon | Bow |
| Best weapon | Thundering Pulse |
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| Best artifact set | Crimson Witch of Flames (vaporize) or Shimenawa's Reminiscence |
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To get the most out of your Yoimiya, equip her with the Thundering Pulse bow and a full set of Crimson Witch of Flames with high attack%, crit rate, crit damage, and pyro damage bonus stats. This loadout works best in a vaporize or overload team alongside characters like Genshin Impact's Fischl and Genshin Impact's Xingqiu.
How to use Yoimiya
Use Yoimiya's elemental skill to turn your normal attacks into blazing arrows for increased pyro damage, then pop her elemental burst when you have enough energy for huge AoE pyro damage that benefits whether or not Yoimiya is on the field.
What are the best weapons for Yoimiya?
For Yoimiya's weapon choices, Thundering Pulse takes the top spot. When using Thundering Pulse, you should always aim to cast her elemental burst before her elemental skill. Another interesting choice for Yoimiya is the Polar Star, mostly because of its high crit rate bonus effect. KQM now recommends Aqua Simulacra slightly more than Polar Star, but both are good five-star alternatives if your Thundering Pulse is in use.
When it comes to four-star options, Rust is by far the best, and at high refinement ranks it can outperform Skyward Harp, especially with the help of Genshin Impact Bennett's attack buff. Finally, we have the three-star bow, Slingshot. Amazingly, R5 Slingshot outperforms Rust R1 when combined with Bennett's attack buff and Yoimiya is equipped with an attack% sands. It has great range and gives you a helping hand in balancing your crit ratio with its crit rate sub-stat.
Here are Yoimiya's best weapons:
| Thundering Pulse | Bonus stat: crit damage Skill: Increases attack by 20% and grants a thunder emblem. At stacks one, two, and three, normal attack damage is further increased by 12, 24, and 40% respectively. Each stack has an individual duration and is achieved by performing: • Normal attacks with elemental damage (duration five seconds) • Casting an elemental skill (duration ten seconds) • Having less than 100% energy (disappears at full energy) |
Limited gacha |
| Polar Star | Bonus stat: crit rate Skill: Increases elemental skill and element burst damage by 12%. After a normal attack, charged attack, elemental skill, or elemental burst hits an opponent, Yoimiya gains one stack of Ashen Nightstar for 12 seconds. When one/two/three/four stacks of Ashen Nightstar are present, attack increases by 10/20/30/48%. Different types of attack create different stacks of Ashen Nightstar that count independently |
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| Aqua Simulacra | Bonus stat: crit damage Skill: HP is increased by 16%. When there are opponents nearby, Yoimiya's damage dealt is increased by 20%. This will take effect whether she is on-field or not |
Limited gacha |
| Rust | Bonus stat: attack Skill: Increases normal attack damage by 40% but decreases aimed shot damage by 10% |
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| Slingshot | Bonus stat: crit rate Skill: If a normal attack or aimed shot hits a target within 0.3 seconds of being fired, increases damage by 36%. Otherwise, decreases damage by 10% |
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What are the best artifacts for Yoimiya?
Generally, we recommend a full set of Crimson Witch of Flames if you're running a vaporize or overload team, and Shimenawa's Reminiscence for any other team comp.
Alternatively, Echoes of an Offering can serve as a great DPS set for Yoimiya thanks to her reliance on normal attack damage, which is relatively high. As usual, if you're running a Furina-focused team, Yoimiya is the perfect candidate for Marechaussee Hunter. Plus, she gets more use out of its two-piece bonus than other burst-focused DPS units.
Here are Yoimiya's best artifacts:
| Shimenawa's Reminiscence | Two equipped: attack +18% Four equipped: When you cast an elemental skill, if Yoimiya has 15 or more energy, she loses 15 energy and normal, charged, and plunging attack damage is increased by 50% for ten seconds |
Momiji-Dyed Court domain on Yashiori Island in Inazuma |
| Crimson Witch of Flames | Two equipped: pyro damage +15% Four equipped: Increases overloaded and burning damage by 40%. Increases vaporize and melt damage by 15%. When you use an elemental skill the two-piece set effects are increased by 50% for ten seconds |
Hidden Palace of Zhou Formula domain on Wuwang Hill, Liyue |
| Echoes of an Offering | Two equipped: attack +18% Four equipped: when normal attacks hit opponents, there is a 36% chance that it will trigger Valley Rite, which increases normal attack damage by 70% of Yoimiya's attack. This effect will be dispelled 0.05 seconds after a normal attack deals damage. If a normal attack fails to trigger Valley Rite, the odds of it triggering the next time will increase by 20%. This trigger can occur once every 0.2 seconds |
The Lost Valley domain in The Chasm, 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 Romaritime Harbor, Fontaine |
| Berserker | Two equipped: crit rate +12% Four equipped: When Yoimiya's HP is below 70%, crit rate increases by an additional 24% |
Domains, chests, enemy drops |
Artifact stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Sands: attack%
- Goblet: pyro damage bonus
- Circlet: crit rate/crit damage (try to maintain a 1:2 ratio)
Sub-stats:
You generally want Yoimiya to have around 120-160% energy recharge, maybe higher depending on build and team composition.
- Crit rate/crit damage
- Attack%
- Elemental mastery
What are the best Yoimiya team comps?
Yoimiya works well in a variety of team comps alongside hydro units for vaporize builds in particular, but she can also perform well in a pyro-heavy team with shielding and swirl potential. Bennett is almost a must-pick due to his attack buff making Yoimiya a lot more viable as a main DPS.
Here are some examples of strong Yoimiya team comps:
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What are Yoimiya's skills?
Here are all of Yoimiya's skills and attacks. Note that you can level them up using the materials listed further down this guide.
Yoimiya's active skills:
| Normal attack | Firework Flare-Up Normal: Fire five consecutive shots with your bow Charged: Perform a stronger, more precise shot. The effect changes the longer you charge: One charge: the arrow deals pyro damage Two charges: generate three kindling arrows that hit nearby enemies and deal pyro damage Plunging: Fire off a shower of arrows in mid-air before falling and striking the ground, dealing AoE damage upon impact |
| Elemental skill | Niwabi Fire-Dance Wave a sparkler to create a ring of saltpeter. During this time, any arrow you fire will become a blazing arrow, and it will dish out increased pyro damage. However, your charged normal attack will not produce kindling arrows |
| Elemental burst | Ryuukin Saxifrage You launch rockets toward the enemy and deal AoE pyro damage. All normal, charged, and plunging attacks, as well as elemental bursts and skills dealt by party members other than Yoimiya, will mark the enemy with an Aurous Blaze. The blaze triggers an explosion that causes AoE pyro damage |
Yoimiya's passive skills:
| A1 | Tricks of the Trouble-Maker During Niwabi Fire-Dance, shots from Yoimiya's normal attack increase her pyro damage by 2% on hit. This lasts for three seconds and can have a maximum of ten stacks |
| A4 | Summer-Night's Dawn Using Ryuukin Saxifrage causes nearby party members to gain a 10% attack increase for 15 seconds. Additionally, it adds a further attack bonus based on the number of 'Tricks of the Trouble-Maker' stacks when using Ryuukin Saxifrage. Each stack increases this bonus by 1% |
| Utility | Blazing Match When Yoimiya crafts decorations, ornaments, or landscape-type furnishings, she has a 100% chance to refund a portion of the materials |
What are Yoimiya's constellations?
Learn more about Yoimiya's constellations below so you know when to roll for copies of her. Her second constellation is particularly good for increasing her damage output as her builds really lean into crit rate and crit damage buffs.
| C1 | Agate Ryuukin The Aurous Blaze lasts for an extra four seconds. Additionally, when an opponent affected by Aurous Blaze is defeated, Yoimiya's attack is increased by 20% for 20 seconds |
| C2 | A Procession of Bonfires When Yoimiya scores a critical hit with pyro damage, she will gain a 25% pyro damage bonus for six seconds. This can be triggered even when Yoimiya is not active |
| C3 | Trickster's Flare Increases the level of Niwabi Fire-Dance by three |
| C4 | Pyrotechnic Professional When Aurous Blaze triggers an explosion, Niwabi Fire-Dance's cooldown is decreased by 1.2 seconds |
| C5 | A Summer Festival's Eve Increases the level of Ryuukin Saxifrage by three |
| C6 | Naganohara Meteor Swarm During Niwabi Fire-Dance, Yoimiya's normal attacks have a 50% chance of firing an extra Kindling Arrow that deals 60% of its original damage. This is considered normal attack damage |
What are Yoimiya's ascension materials?
To get Yoimiya to her max level, you'll need to ascend her at set intervals using specific materials.
Here are all of Yoimiya's ascension materials:
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| 40➔50 |
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| 50➔60 |
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| 60➔70 |
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| 70➔80 |
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| 80➔90 |
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Here's where to find all of Yoimiya's ascension materials:
- Agnidus agate - drops from normal and weekly bosses
- Naku weed - sold in Inazuma and Sumeru, found in areas of Inazuma with high electro concentration, or grown in the Serenitea Pot
- Divining scrolls / sealed scrolls / forbidden curse scrolls - drops from samachurl enemies
- Smoldering pearls - drops from the Pyro Hypostasis normal boss in Inazuma
What are Yoimiya's talent materials?
Here are all the talent materials you need to ascend one of Yoimiya's talents to level ten:
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| 4➔5 |
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| 5➔6 |
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| 8➔9 |
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| 9➔10 |
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Here's where to get each of Yoimiya's talent materials:
- Divining scrolls / sealed scrolls / forbidden curse scrolls - drops from samachurl enemies
- Transience books - rewards from the Violet Court domains on Mondays, Thursdays, and Sundays
- Dragon Lord's crowns - drops from the Azhdaha weekly boss in Liyue
Talent level priority
When leveling up Yoimiya's talents, we recommend prioritizing the following:
- Normal attack >> Skill > Burst
That's everything we've got on Genshin Impact's Yoimiya. If you fancy getting acquainted with the newest Hoyoverse game, check out our Honkai Star Rail codes guide and Honkai Star Rail tier list. We also have character guides like this one for Honkai Star Rail's Lingsha, Honkai Star Rail's Firefly, and Honkai Star Rail's Trailblazer.