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Genshin Impact

List of All Bow Characters

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Genshin Impact - List of Bow Characters and Users

Here is the list of characters that use Bows in Genshin Impact, arranged by rarity, element, and region. We also have the rankings for the best Bow characters to get a better idea on their roles and strengths!

List of All Bow Users

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All Bow Users

Character Rarity Element Nation
Cryo Cryo Mondstadt
Anemo Anemo Natlan
Cryo Cryo Liyue
Pyro Pyro Fontaine
Hydro Hydro Fontaine
Hydro Hydro
Dendro Dendro Sumeru
Anemo Anemo Mondstadt
Hydro Hydro Liyue
Pyro Pyro Inazuma
Pyro Pyro Mondstadt
Dendro Dendro Sumeru
Cryo Cryo Mondstadt
Anemo Anemo Sumeru
Electro Electro Mondstadt
Geo Geo Inazuma
Anemo Anemo Nod-Krai
Electro Electro Natlan
Electro Electro Inazuma
Electro Electro Sumeru

List of Bows

Best Bow Characters

Best Bow Characters Ranked

SS Tier
Genshin - Fischl ImageGenshin - Yelan Image
S Tier
Genshin - Chasca Image
A Tier
Genshin - Venti ImageGenshin - Diona ImageGenshin - Ganyu ImageGenshin - Lyney ImageGenshin - Faruzan ImageGenshin - Ororon Image
B Tier
Genshin - Tartaglia ImageGenshin - Yoimiya ImageGenshin - Sara ImageGenshin - Gorou ImageGenshin - Tighnari ImageGenshin - Collei ImageGenshin - Sigewinne ImageGenshin - Sethos ImageGenshin - Jahoda Image
C Tier
No characters!
D Tier
Genshin - Amber ImageGenshin - Aloy Image

Characters are shown in no particular order.

SS Tier Bow Characters

Character Roles and Strengths
Genshin - Fischl Fischl As a Sub-DPS
・Oz stays on the field to deal continuous Electro DMG, but needs full constellations to achieve the optimal level.
・Rotating between Elemental Skill and Burst let's Oz have permanent field time.
Genshin - Yelan Yelan As a Sub-DPS
・Sub-DPS character with a powerful Elemental Burst that can be used to set up or trigger Hydro Elemental Reactions, while also buffing her active characters' damage.
・Elemental Skill deals competitive damage and gives a lot of energy to funnel for her burst. Moreover, her Elemental Skill can group enemies closer together.

S Tier Bow Characters

Character Roles and Strengths
Genshin - Chasca Chasca As a DPS
・Specializes in Rainbow teams where she can convert her damage into other elements that is Pyro, Hydro, Electro, or Cryo, making her versatile in team-building.
・Flying is extremely useful in overworld exploration especially in Natlan.
・Bullets in AoE situations are split between enemies, essentially making her a single-target damage dealer.

A Tier Bow Characters

Character Roles and Strengths
Genshin - Venti Venti As a DPS
・On Hexerei teams, Venti becomes an on-fielder powerhouse for Pure Anemo DMG mixed with Swirl.
As a Sub-DPS
・Powerful crowd control and Swirl damage to one location from Elemental Burst.
・High energy recharge rate.
・Struggles with enemies that are harder to pull-in.
Constellations reduce enemy elemental resistances.
Genshin - Diona Diona As a Support
・Provides shields, heals, and off-field Cryo application.
・Also becomes a buffer for Elemental Mastery at C6.
Genshin - Ganyu Ganyu As a DPS
・Level 2 Charged Shot is great vs mobs of enemies, with high damage potential with Melt. However, it takes a long time to charge, and she's susceptible to interruptions.
・Elemental Burst, in-combination with ally pull-in effects, can quadratically target and attack enemies in one location.
As a Sub-DPS
・Elemental Burst can easily set up Cryo reactions, especially Freeze.
・Her Burst can be used off-cooldown, provided you have enough Energy Recharge with another Cryo character.
Genshin - Lyney Lyney As a DPS
・Passive talent greatly compensates the lack of Elemental Reactions in a Mono-Pyro team.
・High damage on both single target and AoE.
・Susceptible to interruptions.
Genshin - Faruzan Faruzan As a Support
・Buffs Anemo DMG and decreases enemy Anemo RES.
・Has an extremely high Energy requirement without her C6 constellation, which makes her a high investement character.
Genshin - Ororon Ororon As a Sub-DPS
・Enables the Electro-Charged niche with his personal damage and the ability to hold the Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City Artifact Set, and a decent battery as long as he's in Electro-Charged.
・Locked in Electro-Charged teams and subpar on any other reactions.

B Tier Bow Characters

Character Roles and Strengths
Genshin - Tartaglia Tartaglia As a DPS
・Riptide applies strong Hydro application especially against multiple opponents.
・Currently the best driver for Vaporize.
Genshin - Yoimiya Yoimiya As a DPS
・Elemental Skill infuses Normal Attacks with Pyro, which has a high base scaling.
・Supports that can improve her resistance to interruption and ATK SPD are needed to improve her overall performance.
Genshin - Sara Sara As a Support
・Increases party members' ATK.
・Becomes the best Electro Support buffer after unlocking C6, but is clunky and energy hungry at low constellations.
Genshin - Gorou Gorou As a Support
・Best Geo Support for DEF-focused Geo teams who can provide Geo DMG and DEFbuffs, and interruption resistance.
・Turns into a well-rounded offensive support and healer with C4, and a top-tier support at his niche at C6.
Genshin - Tighnari Tighnari As a DPS
・Damage primarily comes from Charged Attacks and Elemental Bursts
・Deals big damage by using the Spread Dendro Elemental Reaction.
・Can distract most enemies with his taunt.
Genshin - Collei Collei As a Sub-DPS
・Deals off-field Dendro damage, perfect for triggering Elemental Reactions.
・Elemental Burst AoE is small, so enemies can easily get outside of the AoE.
Genshin - Sigewinne Sigewinne As a Support
・Comfortable healing in the overworld.
・Low uptime on her heals and Elemental Skill ticks.
・ Low uptime on her buffs for off-field Elemental Skills.
・ No useful utility on Elemental Burst or Special Charged Attacks.
Genshin - Sethos Sethos As a DPS
・Versatile playstyles as he can choose either Charged Attack spamming, or Normal Attack spamming through his Elemental Burst, depending on his current Energy.
・Charged Attack form makes him stationary and susceptible to interruptions.
・Stats is inherintly on the low-side due to him being a 4-star.
Genshin - Jahoda Jahoda As a Sub-DPS
・Applicator of PHEC elements while off-field.
・Long on-field time may be a detriment to team DPS.
As a Support
・Heals at her base kit and buffs Lunar-teams at C6.
・Comparable to Sucrose but loses out on max damage per rotation as her buffs doesn't overtake Sucrose's potential.

C Tier Bow Characters

Character Roles and Strengths
There are no characters in this tier!

D Tier Bow Characters

Character Roles and Strengths
Genshin - Amber Amber As a Sub-DPS
・Can apply AoE Pyro with Burst.
・Use Elemental Skill to taunt enemies away from Main DPS.
・C6 Constellation provides party-wide buffs with Elemental Burst.
Genshin - Aloy Aloy As a DPS
・Can increase own Normal ATK DMG with Elemental Skill, but requires bomblets to be hit by the pellets to gain access to infusion.
・No access to constellations means that her performance is only limited to a point forever.

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List of All Characters

Characters by Element
Genshin - Pyro Characters Pyro Genshin - Anemo Characters Anemo Genshin - Electro Characters Electro Genshin - Hydro Characters Hydro
Genshin - Dendro Characters Dendro Genshin - Geo CharactersGeo Genshin - Cryo CharactersCryo

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Playable Characters

All Playable Characters
Chasca Chasca Faruzan Faruzan Heizou Heizou Ifa Ifa
Jahoda Jahoda Jean Jean Kazuha Kazuha Lan Yan Lan Yan
Lynette Lynette Mizuki Mizuki Sayu Sayu Sucrose Sucrose
Traveler (Anemo) Traveler (Anemo) Venti Venti Wanderer Wanderer Xianyun Xianyun
Xiao Xiao Aloy Aloy Ayaka Ayaka Charlotte Charlotte
Chongyun Chongyun Citlali Citlali Diona Diona Escoffier Escoffier
Eula Eula Freminet Freminet Ganyu Ganyu Kaeya Kaeya
Layla Layla Mika Mika Qiqi Qiqi Rosaria Rosaria
Shenhe Shenhe Skirk Skirk Wriothesley Wriothesley Alhaitham Alhaitham
Baizhu Baizhu Collei Collei Emilie Emilie Kaveh Kaveh
Kinich Kinich Kirara Kirara Lauma Lauma Nahida Nahida
Nefer Nefer Tighnari Tighnari Traveler (Dendro) Traveler (Dendro) Yaoyao Yaoyao
Beidou Beidou Clorinde Clorinde Cyno Cyno Dori Dori
Fischl Fischl Flins Flins Iansan Iansan Ineffa Ineffa
Keqing Keqing Lisa Lisa Ororon Ororon Raiden Raiden
Razor Razor Sara Sara Sethos Sethos Shinobu Shinobu
Traveler (Electro) Traveler (Electro) Varesa Varesa Yae Miko Yae Miko Albedo Albedo
Chiori Chiori Gorou Gorou Itto Itto Kachina Kachina
Navia Navia Ningguang Ningguang Noelle Noelle Traveler (Geo) Traveler (Geo)
Xilonen Xilonen Yun Jin Yun Jin Zhongli Zhongli Aino Aino
Ayato Ayato Barbara Barbara Candace Candace Dahlia Dahlia
Furina Furina Kokomi Kokomi Mona Mona Mualani Mualani
Neuvillette Neuvillette Nilou Nilou Sigewinne Sigewinne Tartaglia Tartaglia
Traveler (Hydro) Traveler (Hydro) Xingqiu Xingqiu Yelan Yelan Amber Amber
Arlecchino Arlecchino Bennett Bennett Chevreuse Chevreuse Dehya Dehya
Diluc Diluc Durin Durin Gaming Gaming Hu Tao Hu Tao
Klee Klee Lyney Lyney Mavuika Mavuika Thoma Thoma
Traveler (Pyro) Traveler (Pyro) Xiangling Xiangling Xinyan Xinyan Yanfei Yanfei
Yoimiya Yoimiya

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All Upcoming Characters
Alice Alice Capitano Capitano Columbina Columbina Dainsleif Dainsleif
Dottore Dottore Illuga Illuga Linnea Linnea Nicole Nicole
Pantalone Pantalone Pierro Pierro Pulcinella Pulcinella Rerir Rerir
Sandrone Sandrone Tsaritsa Tsaritsa Varka Varka

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