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What is Elemental Resonance? | Best Elemental Resonance Setup

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Genshin Impact - Elemental Resonance Guide

This is a guide to Elemental Resonance in Genshin Impact. Synergize with your team, increase your team's performance, and resist the enemy's assault by using Elemental Resonance!

What is Elemental Resonance?

Bonus Effects By Partnering Elements

Genshin Impact - Elemental Resonance

Elemental Resonance provides certain benefits like increasing your team's damage, increasing recovery, and even resisting some Elemental Reactions!

When team building, you'll want to be diverse with your elements to be able to adjust to each situation accordingly. Taking Elemental Resonance into account will allow you to maximize your team's performance.

List of Elemental Resonance Effects

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Pyro
(Fervent Flames)
Affected by Cryo for 40%. less time. Increases ATK by 25%.
+
Geo
(Enduring Rocks)
Increases shield strength by 15%. Additionally, characters protected by a shield will have the following special characteristics: DMG dealt increased by 15%, dealing DMG to enemies will decrease their Geo RES by 20% for 15s.
+
Hydro
(Soothing Water)
Affected by Pyro for 40% less time. Increases Max HP by 25%.
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Cryo
(Shattering Ice)
Affected by Electro for 40% less time. Increases CRIT Rate against enemies that are Frozen or affected by Cryo by 15%
+
Anemo
(Impetous Wind)
Decreases Stamina Consumption by 15%. Increases Movement SPD by 10%. Shortens Skill CD by 5%.
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Electro
(High Voltage)
Affected by Hydro for 40% less time. Superconduct, Overloaded, Electro-Charged, Quicken, Aggravate, or Hyperbloom have a 100% chance to generate an Electro Elemental Particle (CD: 5s).
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Dendro
(Sprawling Greenery)
Elemental Mastery increased by 50. After triggering Burning, Quicken, or Bloom reactions, all nearby party members gain 30 Elemental Mastery for 6s. After triggering Aggravate, Spread, Hyperbloom, or Burgeon reactions, all nearby party members gain 20 Elemental Mastery for 6s. The durations of the aforementioned effects will be counted independently.
4 Unique ElementsProvides 15% additional elemental resistance.

Best Elemental Resonance Combos

Electro + Dendro

Electro + Dendro

Electro and Dendro react together to apply the Quicken aura on enemies. Double Dendro will increase your elemental mastery, which in turn will increase Spread and Aggravate reaction damage.

Cryo + Pyro

Cryo + Pyro

This combination on generating Melt reactions, which deals high damage. This Resonance is also very effective against Electro and Hydro enemies. Increased ATK and CRIT Rate also makes this a strong offensive combination.

Pyro + Geo

Pyro + Geo

A combination that balances offense and defense. Geo Shields keep you safe and increases DMG while inside, which is boosted even more by the increased ATK from the Pyro Effect.

Creating Combinations

Elemental Reactions

At a glance, this might be confusing at the start, as there is currently a large number of combinations that you can do. However, creating combinations allows you to be more flexible in combat, and win more fights in the long run!

List of Elemental Reactions

Elemental Resonance Updates

Version 3.0 Updates

Elemental Resonance Adjustments
Dendro Resonance added
Electro Resonance adjusted to include Dendro Reactions
Hydro Resonance replaced 'increases incoming healing by 30%' with 'Increases Max HP by 25%'

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20 Anonymous Anonymous 8 months

Anemo resonance needs to be added

19 Anonymous Anonymous over 2 years

The first best resonance is named wrong. It's Electro + dendro, not electro + pyro

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