The best builds for Nahida in Genshin Impact

Nahida is one of the most unique Genshin Impact characters we've had for quite a while. The five-star Dendro Archon's playstyle centres around buffing elemental reactions for your party, but also tagging enemies with her Seeds of Skandha so she can perform powerful Tri-Karma Purification follow-up attacks. These trigger anytime an elemental reaction is caused, and can be buffed through her passive skills and the Shrine of Maya AoE she gets from her burst.

The skill that Nahida uses to mark enemies, All Schemes to Know, is also very fun, as she essentially takes a picture and snaps enemies, linking them together. If you unlock her On All Things Meditated passive, this skill can also be used to collect any item you take a picture of, which sounds handy for speedier material farming.

In this Genshin Impact Nahida build guide, I'll walk you through how best to build her towards powerful elemental reactions and how to maximise her Tri-Karma Purifications. I'll also explain her abilities and ascension materials further down.

Builds

The best Genshin Impact Nahida build

Nahida is all about supercharging elemental reactions for your party. Her elemental skill, All Schemes to Know, lets her mark enemies with a viewfinder, connecting them with Seeds of Skandha. When you inflict an elemental reaction on any of them, it'll unleash a Tri-Karma Purification, dealing Dendro damage to all the connected enemies based on Nahida's attack and elemental mastery.

Her Shrine of Maya burst AoE adds a further layer based on party composition. Pyro party members buff the damage of Tri-Karma Purification, Electro characters reduce the interval between uses, and Hydro increase the shrine's duration. Once you unlock her Compassion Illuminated passive, the shrine also buffs the elemental mastery of the active character by 25% of the character with the highest amount. 

Once unlocked, Nahida's Awakening Elucidated passive grants a 0.1% damage and 0.03% crit rate bonus to Tri-Karma Purification for every point of elemental mastery she has over 200. She can get a max of 80% damage and 24% crit rate this way. As you'd imagine, this means that Nahida is best built towards elemental mastery.

Weapons: A Thousand Floating Dreams or The Widsith

Nahida's perfect weapon is the five-star A Thousand Floating Dreams catalyst that's releasing alongside her. It buffs elemental mastery as a substat, but like her Shrine of Maya AoE, it provides bonuses based on party composition. If your other characters are Dendro, Nahida gains 32 elemental mastery for each. If they aren't she gets 10% increased elemental damage for each. All party members also receive 40 elemental mastery, which is pretty great alongside Nahida's Compassion Illuminated passive that also grants elemental mastery.

If you're looking for a less rare alternative, The Widsith is a decent four-star option. It boosts crit damage as a substat, which ties in well with Nahida's Tri-Karma Purifications, and grants one of three effects when a character takes the field for 10 seconds. Recitative buffs attack by 60%, which boosts Tri-Karma Purification's Dendro damage, Aria increases elemental damage by 48%, and Interlude buffs elemental mastery by 240. All of these are pretty useful for Nahida, which helps take some of the randomness out of the weapon.

Artifacts: (4) Deepwood Memories

For artifacts, the new Deepwood Memories set is a good choice for Nahida. Two-pieces boost Dendro damage by 15%, which adds a lot of value since she's a catalyst user, and four-pieces reduces Dendro resistance by 30% for eight seconds when you hit enemies with a burst or skill. This synergises wonderfully with Nahida's Seeds of Skandha since it means as soon as enemies are marked with her skill, your Tri-Karma Purifications hit a lot harder.

In terms of stats, you'll want to build a lot of elemental mastery in order to maximise the damage and crit rate boost for Tri-Karma Purification. You'll also want attack, to further boost its Dendro damage, crit damage to make it hit even harder, and some energy recharge so she can get her burst frequently. An artifact with a Dendro damage bonus substat also wouldn't go amiss. On the whole, this should let Nahida deal powerful damage with her Tri-Karma Purifications and elemental reactions, while also buffing her party members' reactions, too.

How to unlock

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How to get Nahida in Genshin Impact

Nahida's banner, The Moongrass' Enlightenment, will arrive in the first phase of Genshin Impact 3.2 on November 2. The rate boosted four-star characters on the banner are Bennett, Noelle, and Razor. The banner will also feature alongside Yoimiya's rerun. You'll be able to get both characters until around November 23, when Yae Miko, Tartaglia, and new four-star character, Layla, take their place.

Abilities

Nahida's abilities 

Here are Nahida's abilities, passives, and constellations. 

Ascension materials

Nahida's Ascension materials 

Character

You'll need to hunt down specific Ascension materials to level up Nahida. The Nagadus Emerald gems are dropped by the Jadeplume Terrorshroom boss, and the new Dendro Hypostasis boss being added in version 3.2. The hypostasis also rewards you with Quelled Creeper, which is another of Nahida's ascension materials. The other items needed are: 

• Kalpalata Lotus
• Fungal Spores/Luminescent Pollen/Crystalline Cyst Dus

Kalpalata Lotus is a regional speciality found growing on cliffs in the Sumeru region. And lastly, the Fungal items are looted from the Fungi enemies found in both The Chasm and Sumeru areas of Teyvat.

Talents

There are more Ascension materials to collect if you want to level up Nahida's talents. These are: 

• Teachings/Guide/Philosophies of Ingenuity
• Fungal Spores/Luminescent Pollen/Crystalline Cyst Dust
• Puppet Strings
• Crown of Insight

The Ingenuity items are rewards for completing the Steeple of Ignorance domain on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. The Fungal items are dropped by enemies of the same name in The Chasm and Sumeru, and the Crown of Insight is a reward from various seasonal activities, upgrading the Frostbearing Tree in Dragonspine, the Sacred Sakura in Inazuma, or levelling the Lumenstone Adjuvant gadget in The Chasm.

Puppet Strings are a potential drop from the new weekly Shouki No Kami Scaramouche boss that you'll have to unlock through the Archon quest. However, you will be able to craft it with any of the bosses other materials and Dream Solvent.