Alhaitham Rating and Best Builds

Alhaitham is a Dendro sword user and a powerful damage dealer from Sumeru in Genshin Impact. See Alhaitham's best builds, weapon, artifacts, and our rating of this character in this guide!

Alhaitham

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Alhaitham Rating and Info

Character Information

Alhaitham
Rating
Rarity	★★★★★
Element	Dendro
Weapon	Sword
Voice Actors	EN Voice Actor: Nazeeh Tarsha JP Voice Actor: Umehara Yuuichirou

Tier List Rankings

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Support	Exploration
	N/A	N/A

Character Tier List

Alhaitham's Stats

Alhaitham Strengths and Weaknesses

Alhaitham Best Builds

Alhaitham Main DPS Builds

Dendro Main DPS

Best Weapon	Light of Foliar Incision
Replacement Weapons	1. Primordial Jade Cutter 2. Mistsplitter Reforged 3. Wolf-Fang 4. Iron Sting
Best Artifacts	Gilded Dreams x4
Artifact Main Stats	Sands: Elemental Mastery
	Goblet: Dendro DMG Bonus
	Circlet: CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG
Artifact Sub Stats	Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge, CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, ATK%
Recommended Energy Recharge	±130% Total Energy Recharge

Alhaitham needs as much Elemental Mastery and CRIT stats he can get with the Gilded Dreams build as a Dendro Main DPS. You will also need a Dendro support who can use the Deepwood Memories artifact set to provide the Dendro RES shred.

This build focuses on maximizing his Projection Attack damage from his Elemental Skill.

Solo Dendro DPS

Best Weapon	Light of Foliar Incision
Replacement Weapons	1. Primordial Jade Cutter 2. Mistsplitter Reforged 3. Wolf-Fang 4. Iron Sting
Best Artifacts	Deepwood Memories x4
Artifact Main Stats	Sands: Elemental Mastery
	Goblet: Dendro DMG Bonus
	Circlet: CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG
Artifact Sub Stats	Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge, CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, ATK%
Recommended Energy Recharge	±160% Total Energy Recharge

Alternatively, you can have Alhaitham equip the Deepwood Memories artifact set if there are no other characters in the party who can equip it.

Since he's alone, he will need more energy to recharge his burst. We recommend equipping your supports with Favonius weapons to fund his energy cost.

Alhaitham Talent Priority

Alhaitham's Elemental Skill should be the main priority to level up as his Projection Attack damage scales with this talent. As with most Main DPS characters, you should also be leveling up your Normal Attack and Elemental Burst to increase his personal damage.

Alhaitham Best Artifacts

Alhaitham Artifact Rankings

	Artifact	Artifact Bonuses
Best	Gilded Dreams	2-PC: Elemental Mastery +80 4-PC: Within 8s of triggering an Elemental Reaction, the character equipping this will obtain buffs based on the Elemental Type of the other party members. ATK is increased by 14% for each member whose Elemental Type is the same as the equipping character, and EM is increased by 50 for every member with a different Elemental Type. Each of the buffs will count up to 3 characters. This effect can be triggered once every 8s and even when not on the field.
2nd	Deepwood Memories	2-PC: Dendro DMG Bonus +15% 4-PC: After Elemental Skills or Bursts hit opponents, the targets' Dendro RES will be decreased by 30% for 8s. This effect can be triggered even if the equipping character is not on the field.
3rd	Gilded Dreams	2-PC: Elemental Mastery +80
	Wanderer's Troupe	2-PC: Elemental Mastery +80

Best 4-Star Artifact for Alhaitham

Artifact	Artifact Bonuses
Instructor	2-PC: Increases Elemental Mastery by 80. 4-PC: Upon triggering an Elemental Reaction, increases all party members' Elemental Mastery by 120 for 8s.

Alhaitham Best Weapons

Alhaitham Weapon Rankings

	Weapon	Weapon Information
1st	Light of Foliar Incision	Bonus Stat: CRIT DMG 19.20% Skill Effect: CRIT Rate is increased by 4%. After Normal Attacks deal Elemental DMG, the Foliar Incision effect will be obtained, increasing DMG dealt by Normal Attacks and Elemental Skills by 120% of Elemental Mastery. This effect will disappear after 28 DMG instances or 12s. You can obtain Foliar Incision once every 12s.
2nd	Primordial Jade Cutter	Bonus Stat: CRIT Rate 9.6% Skill Effect: HP increased by 20%. Additionally, provides an ATK Bonus based on 1.2% of the wielder’s Max HP.
3rd	Wolf-Fang	Bonus Stat: CRIT Rate 6.0% Skill Effect: DMG dealt by Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst is increased by 16%. When an Elemental Skill hits an opponent, its CRIT Rate will be increased by 2%. When an Elemental Burst hits an opponent, its CRIT Rate will be increased by 2%. Both of these effects last 10s separately, have 4 max stacks, and can be triggered once every 0.1s.

Best Free-to-Play Weapon for Alhaitham

Weapon	Weapon Information
Iron Sting	Bonus Stat: Elemental Mastery 36 Skill Effect: Dealing Elemental DMG increases all DMG by 6% for 6s. Max 2 stacks. Can occur once every 1s.

Substitute Iron Sting with Toukabou Shigure

You can replace Iron Sting with Toukabou Shigure for Alhaitham, but only if you are up against bosses. Iron Sting would still be better in AoE situations, and also as a generalist option in the overworld.

All Good Weapons for Alhaitham

Recommended Weapons	How to Get
Light of Foliar Incision	Gacha
Primordial Jade Cutter	Gacha
Mistsplitter Reforged	Gacha
Haran Geppaku Futsu	Gacha
Wolf-Fang	Battle Pass
Toukabou Shigure	Event
Iron Sting	Crafted
Xiphos' Moonlight	Gacha
The Black Sword	Battle Pass
Blackcliff Longsword	Starglitter Exchange
Harbinger of Dawn	Gacha

List of Swords

Alhaitham Best Teams

Alhaitham Quickbloom Teams

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS / Support
Alhaitham	Nahida	Yelan	Shinobu
Alhaitham	Yelan	Shinobu	Baizhu
Alhaitham	Xingqiu	Raiden	Baizhu

This Alhaitham team comp focuses on applying as much Dendro as possible to cause or trigger a combination of Hyperbloom and Quicken. The Dendro in this team can be substituted with another Electro if you have enough Energy Recharge for Alhaitham.

If you do not have Nahida, Raiden, or Yelan, a more free to play option with Yaoyao, Xingqiu, and Shinobu are also good.

Alhaitham Best Team Comps

Alhaitham Spread Teams

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Alhaitham	Nahida	Yae Miko	Zhongli
Alhaitham	Fischl	Yae Miko	Baizhu

A party consisting of Dendro and Electro characters enables Alhaitham to focus on maximizing his own personal damage with Spread. Other supprortive characters like Zhongli, or buffers for Electro like Kazuha are okay alternatives.

Alhaitham Burgeon Teams

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Alhaitham	Thoma	Xingqiu	Baizhu

This team comp for Alhaitham centers around him enabling the formation of cores for Thoma to trigger Bugeon. For the reaction to not cause Burning, two Hydro Characters (or an Anemo to swirl Hydro) are recommended to facilitate the reaction.

Alhaitham Free-to-Play Teams

Main DPS	Sub-DPS	Sub-DPS	Support
Alhaitham	Traveler (Dendro)	Lisa	Barbara

If you don't have premium characters, this free-to-play party that centers on Hyperbloom or Quicken can perform well for Alhaitham. Lisa, however, will need a lot of Energy Recharge to make her accessible.

Alhaitham Constellations

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Constellation and Effects

Best Constellations Rating and Explanation

C0 is Good Enough for Alhaitham

Alhaitham's constellations simply increase his damage and comfortability, but they are not necessary if you can follow his rotations well.

Alhaitham Ascension and Talent Materials

Alhaitham Ascension Materials

Lv.20→Lv.40	Mora ×20000 Nagadus Emerald Sliver ×1 Faded Red Satin ×3 Sand Grease Pupa ×3
Lv.40→Lv.50	Mora ×40000 Nagadus Emerald Fragment ×3 Faded Red Satin ×15 Sand Grease Pupa ×10 Pseudo-Stamens ×2
Lv.50→Lv.60	Mora ×60000 Nagadus Emerald Fragment ×6 Trimmed Red Silk ×12 Sand Grease Pupa ×20 Pseudo-Stamens ×4
Lv.60→Lv.70	Mora ×80000 Nagadus Emerald Chunk ×3 Trimmed Red Silk ×18 Sand Grease Pupa ×30 Pseudo-Stamens ×8
Lv.70→Lv.80	Mora ×100000 Nagadus Emerald Chunk ×6 Rich Red Brocade ×12 Sand Grease Pupa ×45 Pseudo-Stamens ×12
Lv.80→Lv.90	Mora ×120000 Nagadus Emerald Gemstone ×6 Rich Red Brocade ×24 Sand Grease Pupa ×60 Pseudo-Stamens ×20

Alhaitham Talent Level-Up Materials

Daily Domain Drops	Enemy Drops	Weekly Boss Drops
Tue/Fri/Sun Teachings of Ingenuity	Eremites Faded Red Satin	Scaramouche Boss Challenge Reward Mirror of Mushin
Guide to Ingenuity	Trimmed Red Silk
Philosophies of Ingenuity	Rich Red Brocade

Talent Materials per Level

Should You Pull for Alhaitham?

Alhaitham is a Meta Main DPS

With his relatively complex rotations and great synergy with Dendro reactions, Alhaitham has a high pull value. It is highly worth to pull for him as he can easily clear the Spiral Abyss, and comfortably explore the overworld.

Like all Main DPS characters, his value drops if you don't necessarily need a frontline DPS. Generally speaking, it's better to wait for characters who can work for you in the long term, but that doesn't change the fact that Alhaitham is a solid character to build for.

How to Use Alhaitham

Explaining the Chisel-Light Mirror

The Chisel-Light Mirror is Alhaitham's bread and butter mechanic for dealing damage. If he has at least 1 mirror, whenever he deals damage with his Normal, Charged, or Plunging Attacks, he will also do Projection Attacks with increasing intensity the more stacks he has.

He can gain stacks of Chisel-Light Mirrors from his Elemental Skill, Ascension Passive, and Elemental Burst.

Gains Dendro Infusion

In addition, having at least 1 Chisel-Light Mirror will infuse his attacks with Dendro, which cannot be overriden.

Alhaitham's Rotations

It's recommended to keep up his Chisel-Light Mirrors around 2-3 stacks. This means you will need to juggle around using his Elemental Burst, Elemental Skill, and Ascension Passive every 4 seconds.

Simple or No Burst Rotation

If you are looking for a simple rotation in the overworld, or if you have no burst, then using his Elemental Skill into Charged/Plunge Attack is his simplest rotation. Only switch when your mirrors decay to 1 stack.

We recommended to fast hold your Elemental Skill then to do a Plunging Attack to get 3-Mirror stacks immediately.

Six 3 Mirror Projection Attacks Rotation

The video above showcases how you can deal the 3-stack Projection Attack six times with this long rotation. Due to the tightness of the rotation, you will need practice to achieve at least four to six of said Projection Attacks!

Note that there is a 2 second delay of gaining mirrors after using your Elemental Burst. You can utilize that time for the next variant of rotation:

Low Ping Variant of Long Rotation

This is a variant of the long rotation above that lets you swap to one of your supports after using his Elemental Burst, then immediately swapping back to Alhaitham to get 3 Mirror stacks. This is to compensate the 2 second delay of gaining mirrors from his Burst.

Note that this rotation requires lower ping to do so.

Short Burst Rotation

To get the most damage out of your Elemental Burst, only use it after getting 3 Mirror Stacks from your Elemental Skill and Charged/Plunge Attacks. Due to the energy cost and mirror removal, we recommend using this only when you're about to defeat a boss.

Alhaitham's Elemental Skill

His Elemental Skill can either be pressed or held. If pressed, Alhaitham will immediately teleport and damage enemies around him. If held, he can instead aim it.

When Alhaitham uses his Elemental Skill, he also gains 1 Chisel Light Mirror. If he doesn't have any stacks prior to activation, he'll also gain 1 additional mirror. The maximum mirrors he can have is 3.

Alhaitham's Elemental Burst

His Elemental Burst deals instances of damage and will vary in power depending on the number of Chisel-Light Mirrors he currently has. The more mirrors you have, the more times his burst will damage enemies.

Replenishes Chisel-Light Mirrors

His Elemental Burst creates more Chisel-Light Mirrors the fewer the stacks you had prior to activation. If you had no mirrors, you will gain 3 mirrors. If you had all three, you won't get any mirrors.

This means that if you want to prolong his Chisel-Light Mirrors and Dendro Infusion, you will need to burst with no mirror stacks.

Alhaitham's Talents (Skills)

Normal Attack: Abductive Reasoning

Universality: An Elaboration on Form

Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena

Four-Causal Correction

Mysteries Laid Bare

Law of Reductive Overdetermination

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Banner Status	Inactive

Alhaitham's rerun banner, Caution in Confidence was available in Phase 2 of Version 3.7 from June 13, 2023 until July 4, 2023. His banner was up alongside Kazuha's banner rerun, Leaves in the Wind.

There is currently no other way to get Alhaitham from Wish Banners.

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Alhaitham's In-Game Information

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Thoughts About Alhaitham

Character	In-Game Thoughts
Candace	A truly unusual scholar, unlike any other I've ever met. He sees and thinks about things in his own unique way... I only hope he never wields his sharp mind against the peace of Aaru Village.
Cyno	I don't really like people who are too smart. They think they can control everything, and constantly venture to the fringes of danger. But Alhaitham is one of the more reliable ones. In most cases, he is actually in control of things and has the ability to avert potential disaster.
Dehya	He offered me a position in the Akademiya once. I declined — working in a place like that would bore me to death. He, on the other hand, is exactly the kind of person I can imagine working there... always talking in long, convoluted sentences, and in that snooty tone... Tsk.
Dori	He once came nosing around, asking my minions some questions to see what he could find out. Like I said, those Akademiya people are just pig-headed and dishonest. Why should I take the risk of others prying into my business? Right, my young apprentice?
Kaveh	Temperament: I guarantee you'll never meet anyone else who's as infuriating as him! And for the record, yes, I would say that to his face. Sure, he's smart, and sure, geniuses often come with a bad temper, but that's only half the story with him... He knows perfectly well how to appear friendly and likable to others, he just doesn't want to. If he ever gives you the impression that he doens't really have a temper, or that he's rigidly logical like a machine, then you just don't know him well enough yet. He definitely has a personality, it's just... too big a personality. Most people wouldn't get it. It's Complicated: Alhaitham helped me out a fair amount recently. If we were still as close as we were during our student days, then I'd be thanking him every chance I got. Now, though... I can't seem get a word of appreciation out of my mouth. Even if I could, I wouldn't want to give him the satisfaction. I guess you could say our relationship is something of a mixed bag these days? Honestly, with everything that's happened, it almost feels like the universe has been playing pranks on us... It's hard to make sense of it all... too much to process for one lifetime. I will say that it's not every day that you get to know someone like him — I just wish he could rein in some of the worst excesses of his personality. Okay, yeah, that's never gonna happen.
Layla	I bet someone who's good enough to get a job like Scribe never has to worry about whether their projects will get approved or be successful. Wait... Oh shoot, if he's a Scribe, he probably doesn't have to do any projects in the first place. So lucky...
Nahida	He holds a body of knowledge more advanced than most could imagine, and his mind is constantly thinking, so maybe nothing in this world could ever fool him. But is the wise man truly wise to view the mediocre majority as defective? Because without them, there is no us.
Tighnari	Be careful of Alhaitham. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, but he purely operates by rationality, so people often find his actions unacceptable. If you don't believe me, just ask his housemate - thanks to Alhaitham, he has more pent-up frustration than an angry Anemo Slime.

Alhaitham's Thoughts About Others

Character	In-Game Thoughts
Dehya	About Dehya It's a waste for such a capable person to remain among the Eremites. If only she'd consider my suggestion to join the Akademiya... Our work would become a lot easier with someone like her around, but a predictable life isn't exactly her cup of tea - I can understand that. sigh What a pity.
Dori	About Dori She's sharp and always keeps an eye out for herself. She knows how to take life by the reins and make her dreams a reality. I'm not condoning her actions, but just because we stand on different sides doesn't mean that I can't appreciate her attitude towards life.
Kaveh	About Kaveh Overly Sensitive: Kaveh tends to be overly sensitive about everyone and everything he crosses paths with, and he's constantly making a fuss about nothing. Maybe it's because he's too emotionally fragile... Getting Duped: Someone set up a stand on the street saying that for each handmade keychain they sold, a child in poverty would be given a meal. Kaveh bought at least a dozen. ... This is Sumeru, where even healthcare is free. I needn't say more.
Nahida	About Lesser Lord Kusanali One should neither dismiss nor overly revere the divine. Gods require followers, and they are also part of a biological hierarchy. That's why I don't take any pride in the fact that if helped rescue a god. I hope Lesser Lord Kusanali doesn't take offense.
Nilou	About Nilou The strengths and weaknesses of a performing artist are quite clear. Nilou Knows how to play to her strengths, which enables her to live a happy and simple life.
Tighnari	About Tighnari Apparently, a lot of people think he has a bad temperament, but I don't think they're giving him a fair chance. When Kaveh built a house right over a Withering Zone and created a huge mess, it ended up being a real headache for the Forest Rangers. Even so, this Forest Ranger didn't hold it against Kaveh. He even invited Kaveh to his house for a meal. Hmm, maybe it's good people like him who allow people like Kaveh to survive.

Alhaitham Release Date

Genshin Impact Version 3.4 Phase 1
Release Date	January 18, 2023

Alhaitham was released on January 18, 2023 in the first phase of Version 3.4.

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