Genshin Impact: How to Build Shenhe

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Shenhe was introduced in Genshin Impact Version 2.4. As of Version 3.5, Shenhe has gone the longest amount of time between her premier banner and her first rerun banner than any other character. Seriously, the wait was around 14 months.

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Shenhe is unique. Not only is she a 5-Star Support, but she focuses on increasing your team’s damage output and nothing else. Typically, a Support relies on their HP stat, Energy Recharge, and either Healing or Shields. But Shenhe doesn’t operate as a defensive Support and instead, you need to focus on increasing her ATK. But using Shenhe may require you to run a double Support team for attack and defense.

Shenhe does best as a Support for a full Cryo team, or a team with a Main Cryo DPS. Her Elemental Skill provides teammates with a Cryo DMG buff based on Shenhe’s ATK stat. Her Elemental Burst inflicts Cryo and Physical RES debuffs to any enemies caught within its field, plus some periodic Cryo attacks for good measure.

Between her Skill and Burst, you can either focus on increasing her ATK to use her Skill buff on a Cryo team, or increasing her Energy Recharge to use her Burst debuffs for your non-Cryo party. 

As a Support, you want to see what buffs are affected by what stat. Shenhe’s Elemental Skill buff scales off of her ATK stat. However, you can also activate enemy debuff through her Elemental Burst. The choice here is whether you want to boost her ATK for the Elemental Skill buff or her Energy Recharge for the Burst debuff.

The Calamity Queller is Shenhe’s signature weapon and so far, remains her best. It increases the wielder’s ATK by a percentage and grants an Elemental