Genshin Impact Xingqiu build

With our Genshin Impact Xingqiu build, you'll have everything you need to be a hero including his best weapons, artifacts, team comps, and more.

Genshin Impact Xingqiu: Xingqiu as a waiter from the IPSTAR collab cafe in China.

Genshin Impact’s Xingqiu has always wanted to be a hero, and he’s known for his love of fictional books, which inspired him from a young age to be chivalrous and a little eccentric. If you want to help him become the hero he’s always dreamt of being, our Genshin Xingqiu build guide is the perfect place for you, diving into his skills, constellations, best weapons and artifacts, and more.

For those of you who are a bit low on mora or primogems, head over to our Genshin Impact codes list so you can make some extra wishes and earn some in-game currency for a healthy wallet, then take a look at our Genshin Impact tier list to find out where all of your favorite characters rank among the group. Check out our Genshin Impact next banner guide to stay up to date and study up with our build guides for Genshin Impact Kaeya, Genshin Impact Keqing, and Genshin Impact Diona.

Adventure with us to learn all about Genshin Impact’s Xingqiu.

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What’s the best Genshin Impact Xingqiu build?

Xingqiu is an extremely useful four-star character that has become a staple in many of the top ‘National’ team comps. He has the most consistent hydro application on single-target enemies in the game, and some AoE capabilities, allowing him to enable reactions. He deals some of the highest single-target damage off-field, provides a large survivability boost to his team, can self-sustain, and is affordable to build. He doesn’t rely on constellations, but they do offer brilliant bonuses, especially at C6, and is highly sought-after for many Abyss teams.

On the downside, he is energy hungry with a high burst cost of 80, his cooldowns are quite long, he mostly specializes in single-target damage meaning he isn’t always the best against large groups, and his hydro self-application can be problematic at times. However, with his amazing flexibility in team comps, brilliant support capabilities, and great hydro application, this four-star champ can give plenty of five-stars a run for their money.

What’s the best Genshin Impact Xinqiu weapon?

When it comes to choosing Xingqiu’s weapon, the best-performing option relies heavily on what constellation you have him at. Check out the super handy graph on the Keqingmains Xingqiu guide for more info.

Generally, Primordial Jade Cutter is the best offensive option for Xingqiu. With a full set of Emblem of Severed Fate artifacts and 240% energy recharge, it outperforms all other options regardless of your constellation level. Skyward Blade is also a great option for Xingqiu at any constellation level due to its comfortable energy recharge substat, high base attack, and useful crit rate buff through its skill. Plus, it’s a far more accessible five-star than Primordial Jade Cutter, and less highly contested among other sword wielders.

Sacrificial Sword is Xingqiu’s best four-star option, due to its energy recharge substat and handy passive which gives you room to farm for more offensive artifact stats.

Weapon Effect How to obtain
Primordial Jade Cutter Bonus effect: crit rate
Skill: increases HP by 20%. Also provides an attack bonus based on 1.2% of Xingqiu’s max HP
Weapon event gacha
Sacrificial Sword Bonus effect: energy recharge
Skill: after an opponent is damaged by an elemental skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own cooldown. This can only occur once every 30 seconds
Gacha
Skyward Blade Bonus effect: energy recharge
Skill: crit rate increases by 4%. Xingqiu gains Skypiercing Might when he uses his elemental burst. This increases movement and attack speed by 10% and boosts the damage of normal and charged attacks by 20% for 12 seconds
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What are the best Genshin Impact Xingqiu artifacts?

We recommend using a full set of Emblem of Servered Fate or Noblesse Oblige for Xingqiu to focus on increasing the impact of his elemental burst. Alternatively, you can use Heart of Depth to buff his hydro attack.

Artifact set Effect How to obtain
Emblem of Severed Fate Two equipped: energy recharge +20%
Four equipped: increases elemental burst damage by 25% of energy recharge. You can obtain a maximum of 75% bonus damage in this way
Momiji-Dyed Court domain on Yashiori Island in Inazuma
Noblesse Oblige Two equipped: elemental burst damage +20%
Four equipped: increases all party members’ attack by 20% for 12 seconds after using an elemental burst. This effect cannot stack
Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern domain in Minlin, Mt. Aozang, or from the Noblesse Oblige Artifact Strongbox
Heart of Depth Two equipped: hydro damage +15%
Four equipped: increases normal and charged attack damage after using an elemental skill by 30% for 15 seconds
Peak of Vindagnyr domain on Dragonspine, in Mondstadt, or from the Heart of Depth Artifact Strongbox
The Exile Two equipped: energy recharge +20%
Four equipped: elemental bursts regenerate two energy for all party members, excluding Xingqiu, every two seconds for six seconds
Chests, enemy drops, quest rewards

Artifact stat recommendations

Main stats:

  • Sands: Energy recharge or attack%
  • Goblet: Hydro damage bonus
  • Circlet: Crit rate, crit damage, or attack%

Sub-stats:

  • Energy recharge
  • Attack%
  • Crit rate
  • Crit damage

Genshin Impact Xingqiu: A chibi drawing of Xingqiu and Chongyun in Liyue

What are Genshin Impact Xingqiu’s abilities?

Xingqiu’s elemental skill and elemental burst are the key to his off-field damage, creating Rain Swords to protect your teammates and attack enemies for tons of hydro damage. Depending on your build, Xingqiu’s skill and burst can constantly be available.

Active skills:

Skill Effect
Normal attack: Guhua Style Normal: Perform five strikes
Charged: Consume stamina to perform two powerful strikes
Plunging: Plunges from mid-air to deal AoE damage on impact
Elemental skill: Guhua Sword – Fatal Rainscreen Perform two strikes that deal hydro damage and summon the maximum number of Rain Swords. These swords float around Xingqiu and have the following properties:
  • A Rain Sword will shatter when you take a hit, reducing the amount of damage taken
  • Xingqiu’s resistance to interruption is increased
  • 20% of Xingqiu’s hydro damage bonus is converted to additional damage reduction for the Rain Swords
  • Xingqiu gains the wet status 
Elemental burst: Guhua Sword – Raincutter Xingqiu begins Rainbow Bladework and fights using an illusory sword rain. This also creates the maximum number of Rain Swords. While Rainbow Bladework is in effect, normal attacks made by the active character will trigger sword rain attacks that deal hydro damage. Rain Swords will remain at the maximum number as long as this ability is active

Passive skills:

Skill Effect
Hydropathic When a Rain Sword shatters or expires, it regenerates your HP by 8% of Xingqiu’s maximum HP
Blades Amidst Raindrops Gain a 20% hydro damage bonus
Flash of Genius When crafting character talent materials, you have a 25% chance to refund a portion of the materials

What are Genshin Impact Xingqiu’s constellations?

Here’s every bonus you receive when leveling up Xingqiu’s constellations.

Constellation Effect
C1: The Scent Remained The maximum number of Rain Swords is increased by one
C2: Rainbow Upon the Azure Sky The duration of Guhua Sword – Raincutter is increased by three seconds. Enemies hit by sword rain receive a 15% decrease to their hydro resistance for four seconds
C3: Weaver of Verses Increases the level of Guhua Sword – Raincutter by three, up to a maximum level of 15
C4: Evilsoother For the duration of Guhua Sword – Raincutter, damage dealt by Guhua Sword – Fatal Rainscreen is increased by 50%
C5: Embrace of Rain Increases the level of Guhua Sword – Fatal Rainscreen by three, up to a maximum level of 15
C6: Hence, Call Them My Own Verses If you activate two Guhua Sword – Raincutter’s sword rain attacks, damage is increased for the third strike. Three energy is regenerated when the sword rain attacks hit enemies

What are Genshin Impact Xingqiu’s ascension materials?

You need a hefty number of silk flowers to ascend Xingqiu. If you’re having trouble finding them, take a look around Yujing Terrace in Liyue Harbor.

Required level Mora Materials
20 20k One varunada lazurite sliver, three silk flower, three damaged mask, 
40 40k Three varunada lazurite fragment, two cleansing heart, ten silk flower, 15 damaged mask
50 60k Six varunada lazurite fragment, four cleansing heart, 20 silk flower, 12 stained mask
60 80k Three varunada lazurite chunk, eight cleansing heart, 30 silk flower, 18 stained mask
70 100k Six varunada lazurite chunk, 12 cleansing heart, 45 silk flower, 12 ominous mask
80 120k Six varunada lazurite gemstone, 20 cleansing heart, 60 silk flower, 24 ominous mask

Genshin Impact Xingqiu: Xingqiu, Chongyun, Xiangling, and Hu Tao, all in casual clothing, visiting a shop

What are Genshin Impact Xingqiu’s talent materials?

We hope you like fighting the Wolf Lord, because you’re gonna need to do it over and over to raise Xingqiu’s talents to level ten.

Talent level Mora Materials
Two 12.5k Six damaged mask, three teachings of gold
Three 17.5k Three stained mask, two guide to gold
Four 25k Four stained mask, four guide to gold
Five 30k Six stained mask, six guide to gold
Six 37.5k Nine stained mask, nine guide to gold
Seven 120k Four ominous mask, four philosophies of gold, one tail of Boreas
Eight 260k Six ominous mask, six philosophies of gold, one tail of Boreas
Nine 450k Nine ominous mask, 12 philosophies of gold, two tail of Boreas
Ten 700k 12 ominous mask, 16 philosophies of gold, two tail of Boreas, one crown of insight

What are the best Genshin Impact Xingqiu team comps?

As we said earlier, Xingqiu works in a huge range of team comps as he’s great for hydro application. He also fits really nicely into National team comps for the same reasons.

Here’s an example of one of the many strong Xingqiu team comps:

First character slot Second character slot Third character slot Fourth character slot
Xingqiu iconXingqiu Raiden Shogun iconRaiden Shogun Genshin Impact XianglingXiangling Bennett iconBennett

That’s everything you should know about Genshin Impact’s Xingqiu. If you need some help with Hoyoverse’s newest game, check out our Honkai Star Rail codes, Honkai Star Rail tier list, and build guides for Honkai Star Rail’s Lynx, Honkai Star Rail’s Dan Heng, and Honkai Star Rail’s March 7th.