Ganyu Guide and Best Builds (2024)

Last updated on Feb 01, 2024 at 00:25by Tectonix

Ganyu slays the majority of main story content and strolls throughAbyss with little concern when built correctly. She is all aboutCryo damage and crushing Frozen enemies withcharged shots from her bow. One of the best on-field DSPers in thegame for both single target and AoE damage, she is also an extremelyversatile team builder, as she can excel in many different setups.

Ganyu's 5-star first weapon, The First Great Magic, was chosen tofocus on buffing her charged attacks as well as using the skill of the bow fora 'Gimmick' stack. These stacks come from team members who are the same elementas her; this means having 2 Cryo team members is ideal. Thisalso activates a Cryo Resonance for moreCRIT Rate, benefiting her damage further. However, if youchoose not to use the same elemental team members, you still gain a buff formovement speed which helps Ganyu stay our of danger and at range throughout afight. Our alternative 5-star bow picks are also focused around Ganyu's ChargedAttacks, elemental damage or attack power. For the 4-star weapon picks, wefollow the same pattern focusing on what will best amplify Ganyu's damagecapabilities the best.

Ganyu's Artifacts will push for pure damage sub-stats on almost every piece,but you must first meet her Energy Recharge threshold of around130%-150%. Once you have attained that requirement, the rest of her sub statswill be chosen to amplify her DPS, starting with her CRIT DMGand CRIT Rate stats. Every defensive stat becomes null for her,as once she scales her DPS high enough, she kills so fast that keeping heralive is relatively simple. As for her Artifacts sets, Shimenawa's Reminiscence is arguably the best choice in allsituations due to the massive increase in her Charged Attack bonus.

Ganyu is devastating on the battlefield, commanding her Elemental Abilitiesto not just encase everyone in ice, but her charged attacks with her bow arealso incredibly powerful. Whether Ganyu is attached to aFreeze team, a Melt team or some kindof Mono-DPS team with buffers, she tends to follow the samepattern; primarily focusing on her Burst ability and using her Charged Attacksduring its recharge phase. Ganyu's Elemental Skill, Trail of the Qilin, is mainly used for energy generation and ataunt to keep her free to fire charged attacks at her enemies.

Overall, no matter what team Ganyu is a part of, she will always keep herElemental Burst, Celestial Shower, to trigger huge AoEElemental Reactions off her teammates abilities, then hammerthe enemies with some charge shots before rotating back through her team'srotation. Ganyu's Elemental Burst is a snapshot of her stats on cast, so youwant to activate as many buffs as you can before triggering the skill. Anotherimportant thing to note about this skill, is that your buffed damage that istaken at the start of the skill cast will be carried throughout the skillsduration regardless of if the buffs fall off of Ganyu or other characters.

As we have previously mentioned, Ganyu will be an on-field DSPer with teamcompositions built around her damage capabilities.

This team takes advantage of the Double Cryo Resonancebonus for more CRIT Rate against Frozen or Cryo affected enemies. This enhancesboth Ganyu and Kamisato Ayaka's abilities tomaximize our damage while we use Sangonomiya Kokomi as ourHydro applicator, leaving the enemies Frozen for the majority ofthe fight. On top of Kokomi's capability to heal her team, she can be alternativelyequipped with Tenacity of the Millelith as an option to increasethe team's ATK even higher. Kaedehara Kazuha helps to round outthe team with a Cryo RES Shred, reducing the enemies ElementalResistances, as well as applying a decent amount of Crowd Control to thebattlefield. This team has fantastic synergy between its members and can beutilized for the majority of Genshin's content.

This 4-star focused Double Cryo team uses a great mix ofElemental Reactions, shielding and some limited healing.Xingqiu and Fischl's off-field abilitiesreally shine here, offering Ganyu some excellent synergy with each of theirelements. This allows us the ability to Freeze orSuperconduct enemies on the battlefield with Ganyu'sElemental Burst, Celestial Shower. Overall, this is a verysimple playstyle; keep Fischl's Oz out on the field and use Xingqui/Ganyucombos to Freeze enemies. All the while, Diona can place ashield on the team. This is a great F2P build if you were lucky enough to getGanyu on the gacha pull.

This Perma-Freeze team can keep enemies frozen in icewith good rotational play as well as dish out some solid damage. Monais our source of Hydro on the battlefield, and when assisted byVenti or Kaedehara Kazuha's abilities, you canapply the Hydro quite effectively. Mona's Elemental Burst can also provide a solidDMG increase to the skill that breaks the Illusionary Bubble it creates, so besure to follow it up with Ganyu's Elemental Burst, Celestial Shower, to maximize your damage.Venti or Kazuha are not only key to helping apply our Hydro element, but canhelp to group enemies together. They can also provide some Elemental RESShred if equipped with the Viridescent Venerer set. Lastly, we haveDiona included in this team for shielding and healing, but wealso use her as as additional application of Cryo to keep enemies frozenfor as long as possible.

This Melt team is energy hungry. You will need to stackEnergy Rechargeon both Kazuha and Bennett to assist with the overall energy consumptionof this build, but once it is working its damage is incredible. First, westart off with shields from our high HP build Zhongli. Then, follow thesimple rotation below.

• Ganyu's Elemental Skill Trail of the Qilin
• Kazuha's Elemental Skill Chihayaburu
• Bennett's Elemental Burst Fantastic Voyage
• Kazuha's Elemental Burst Kazuha Slash
• Ganyu's Elemental Burst Celestial Shower

Now hammer everything with Ganyu's Charged Attack from her bow. Thisbasic pattern can be reset at any point by going back to Zhongli and using hisElemental Burst for a meteor if you make a mistake.