Xingqiu Rating and Best Builds | Genshin Impact

Xingqiu is a 4-star Hydro Sword character in Genshin Impact. Learn about Xingqiu's stats, strengths and weaknesses, Japanese voice actor, best weapon and builds, and our rating of the character in this complete profile!

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Xingqiu
	Rating: Rarity: ★★★★ Element: Hydro (Water) Weapon: Sword EN Voice Actor: Cristina Vee Valenzuela JP Voice Actor: Minagawa Junko

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Stats

Xingqiu Strengths and Weaknesses

How to Get Xingqiu

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How to Use Xingqiu

Flexible Support

Xingqiu's Elemental Skill and Burst provide powerful defensive and offensive support. Using Guhua Sword: Fatal Rainscreen, is a great way to easily set up elemental reactions and provide Hydro DMG while also reducing incoming DMG and increasing resistance to interruption!

Take care when fighting Cryo enemies as his Elemental Skill does apply Wet to the active character.

Supplemental Damage and Reactions

Pairing Xinqiu's Burst with a Pyro character like Klee can set up rapid Vaporize reactions. Likewise, pairing Xingqiu with a Cryo character like Chongyun can set up a Freeze party composition to lock down the battlefield.

Use When Crafting Character Talent Materials

Xingqiu has the Passive Skill “Flash of Genius”, which grants a chance of regaining a portion of the crafting materials used in creating Character Talent Materials.

Since the materials used require grinding Domains to collect, it's best to exhaust as few as possible with each item crafted.

Story Quest - Xingqiu

Learn more about Xingqiu, the Bookworm Swordsman from Liyue in his Story Quest.

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Best Build For Xingqiu

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support

Xingqiu Sub DPS Builds

Hydro Sub DPS

Weapon	Artifact Set
Sacrificial Sword	Noblesse Oblige x2 Heart of Depth x2
Set Bonus
• Elemental Burst DMG +20%. • Hydro DMG Bonus +15%
Talent Priority
Guhua Sword: Fatal Rainscreen Xingqiu performs twin strikes with his swords, dealing Hydro DMG. At the same time, this ability creates the maximum number of Rain Swords, which will orbit your active character.

Recommended Artifact Substats

Stat Priority	Energy Recharge Hydro DMG Bonus ATK% or CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG
Substats	・Energy Recharge ・CRIT DMG ・CRIT Rate. ・Elemental Mastery

Replacement Weapons

Weapon	Effect
Festering Desire	Bonus Stat: Energy Recharge ・Increases Elemental Skill DMG by 16% and Elemental Skill CRIT Rate by 6%.
Iron Sting	Bonus Stat: Elemental Mastery ・Dealing Elemental DMG increases all DMG by 6% for 6s. Max 2 stacks. Can occur once every 1s.

Burst Sub DPS

Weapon	Artifact Set
Skyward Blade	Gladiator's Finale x2 Noblesse Oblige x2
Set Bonus
• ATK +18%. • Elemental Burst DMG +20%.
Talent Priority
Guhua Sword: Fatal Rainscreen Xingqiu performs twin strikes with his swords, dealing Hydro DMG. At the same time, this ability creates the maximum number of Rain Swords, which will orbit your active character.

Recommended Artifact Substats

Stat Priority	Energy Recharge/ E.Mastery/HP Elemental Mastery or Hydro DMG Bonus ATK% or HP
Substats	・Energy Recharge ・ATK% ・HP ・Crit Rate ・Crit DMG

Replacement Weapons

Weapon	Effect
Sacrificial Sword	Bonus Stat: Energy Recharge ・After damaging an opponent with an Elemental Skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own CD. Can only occur once every 30s.
Festering Desire	Bonus Stat: Energy Recharge ・Increases Elemental Skill DMG by 16% and Elemental Skill CRIT Rate by 6%.

Best Artifacts and Weapons for Xingqiu

Best Artifacts Ranked

Rating	Set	Bonus
Best	Heart of Depth	• Hydro DMG Bonus +15% • After using Elemental Skill, increases Normal Attack and Charged Attack DMG by 30% for 15s.
Second Best	Noblesse Oblige	• Elemental Burst DMG +20%. • Using an Elemental Burst increases all party members' ATK by 20% for 12s. This effect cannot stack.
Third Best	Gladiator's Finale	• ATK +18%. • If the wielder of this artifact set uses a Sword, Claymore or Polearm, increases their Normal Attack DMG by 35%.

Alternative Artifact Set

Set	Bonus
The Exile	• Energy Recharge +20% • Using an Elemental Burst regenerates 2 Energy for all party members (excluding the wearer) every 2s for 6s. This effect cannot stack.

List of Artifacts and Set Bonuses

Best Weapons Ranked

Rating	Weapon	Stats (Lv.1)
Best	Sacrificial Sword	Base Stats Base Attack: 41 Bonus Effect: Energy Recharge 13.3% Skill Effect After damaging an opponent with an Elemental Skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own CD. Can only occur once every 30s.
Second Best	Skyward Blade	Base Stats Base Attack: 46 Bonus Effect: Energy Recharge 12.0% Skill Effect CRIT Rate increased by 4%. Gains Skypiercing Might upon using an Elemental Burst: Increases Movement SPD by 10%, increases ATK SPD by 10%, and increases the DMG of Normal and Charged Attack hits by 20% for 12s.
Third Best	Festering Desire	Base Stats Base Attack: 42 Bonus Effect: Energy Recharge 10 Skill Effect Increases Elemental Skill DMG by 16% and Elemental Skill CRIT Rate by 6%.

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Recommended Party Members for Xingqiu

Character	Element	Weapon
Chongyun
	· Xingqiu can easily apply Hydro to enemies. · Chongyun's Elemental Skill turns Melee Normal Attacks into Cryo DMG, so you can easily freeze your opponents.
Klee
	· Xingqiu can easily apply Hydro to enemies and Klee's Normal Attacks can easily trigger Vaporize. · All Pyro DMG will get a massive boost from the Vaporize reaction.
Hu Tao
	· Xingqiu can easily apply Hydro to enemies. · Hu Tao deals high DMG on her own, but will deal even higher DMG with the boost from the Vaporize reaction.
Diluc
	· Xingqiu can easily apply Hydro to enemies. · Diluc's Pyro Burst DMG will get a massive boost from the Vaporize reaction.

Xingqiu Ascension and Talent Materials

Xingqiu Ascension Materials

Lv.20→Lv.40	Silk Flower ×3 Varunada Lazurite Sliver ×1 Damaged Mask ×3
Lv.40→Lv.50	Silk Flower ×10 Varunada Lazurite Fragment ×3 Damaged Mask ×15 Cleansing Heart ×2
Lv.50→Lv.60	Silk Flower ×20 Varunada Lazurite Fragment ×6 Stained Mask ×12 Cleansing Heart ×4
Lv.60→Lv.70	Silk Flower ×30 Varunada Lazurite Chunk ×3 Stained Mask ×18 Cleansing Heart ×8
Lv.70→Lv.80	Silk Flower ×45 Varunada Lazurite Chunk ×6 Ominous Mask ×12 Cleansing Heart ×12
Lv.80→Lv.90	Silk Flower ×60 Varunada Lazurite Gemstone ×6 Ominous Mask ×24 Cleansing Heart ×20

Xingqiu Talent Level-Up Materials

Daily Domain Drops	Enemy Drops	Weekly Boss Drops
Wed/Fri/Sun Teachings of Gold	Hilichurls Damaged Mask	Lupus Boreas Challenge Reward Tail of Boreas
Guide to Gold	Stained Mask
Philosophies of Gold	Ominous Mask

Talent Materials per Level

Xingqiu Talents (Skills)

Normal Attack: Guhua Style

Guhua Sword: Fatal Rainscreen

Guhua Sword: Raincutter

Hydropathic

Blades Amidst Raindrops

Flash of Genius (Xingqiu)

Xingqiu Constellations

The Scent Remained	Increases the maximum number of Rain Swords by 1.
Rainbow Upon the Azure Sky	Extends the duration of Guhua Sword: Raincutter by 3s. Decreases the Hydro RES of enemies hit by sword rain attacks by 15% for 4s.
Weaver of Verses	Increases the Level of Guhua Sword: Raincutter by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Evilsoother	Throughout the duration of Guhua Sword: Raincutter, the DMG dealt by Guhua Sword: Fatal Rainscreen is increased by 50%.
Embrace of Rain	Increases the Level of Guhua Sword: Fatal Rainscreen by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Hence, Call Them My Own Verses	Activating 2 of Guhua Sword: Raincutter's sword rain attacks greatly increases the DMG of the third. Xingqiu regenerates 3 Energy when sword rain attacks hit enemies.

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