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Genshin Impact

How to Beat Ayato in a Genius Invokation Duel

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Genshin Impact - How to Get Ayato and Effects

Challenge Ayato to a Genius Invokation Duel in Genshin Impact. See where to find Ayato, how to beat Ayato, recommended deck, and all rewards here!

How to Unlock Ayato TCG Battle

Invite in The Cat's Tail

Genshin - Cat

How to Unlock Invite in The Cat's Tail

You can repeatedly invite Ayato to a Genius Invokation battle once you reach Player Level 2! You must use a Match Invitation Letter when inviting him for the first time.

How to Increase Player Level

How to Beat Ayato in Genius Invokation

Best Deck Against Ayato

Recommended Character Cards

Main Character Cards
Genshin - Yoimiya CardYoimiya Genshin - Kamisato Ayaka CardKamisato Ayaka Genshin - Bennett CardBennett

Strategy Against Ayato's TCG Deck

Use Burst-Hypercarry Decks

Ayato will try to stack Equipment cards on each turn while also inflicting Frozen and Vaporize/Melt. This could be disruptive against decks that rely on multiple character combos as these reactions can easily disable a character.

Try using Hypercarry decks where one or two of the characters can endure the attacks while you set up your main damage dealer—like using Yoimiya's burst before sweeping the other side of the board with Ayaka.

Be sure to have Starsigns and Iron Tongue Tian to pull off this combo easier.

Noelle Hypercarry Deck is also a great choice against Ayato!

Ayato Duel Information

Genius Invokation Duel Information

#AyatoImage Ayato
Challenge Type Character Invite Challenge
Main Element Used
Cryo ImageHydro Image
Weak Against
Geo Image
Special Rule No Special Rule

Am I up for a game? Ha, such a proposal is too enticing to turn down.

Ayato's TCG Deck

Ayato's Character Cards

Main Character Cards
Genshin Impact - Kamisato Ayato ImageKamisato Ayato Genshin Impact - Kamisato Ayaka ImageKamisato Ayaka Genshin Impact - Bennett ImageBennett

Ayato will frequently play Equipment Cards to buff his characters and Food Cards that reduce Normal Attack costs. Be careful when his Ayato card is fully geared and your active character is affected by Cryo or Pyro!

Ayato Duel Location

Where to Find Ayato

Find Ayato in The Cat's Tail, Mondstadt

Ayato can be fought as a Character Invite Challenge, which means you have to go to The Cat's Tail tavern in Mondstadt City to find and challenge them!

Likely to Show up in Weekly Guest Challenges

Ayato is also likely to show up as one of the Weekly Guest Challenges at The Cat's Tail tavern!

Weekly Guest Challenge Guide

Duel Objectives and Rewards

All Objectives and Rewards

Objective Rewards
Achieve victory
Achieve victory within 6 Rounds
Genshin Impact - Kyouka Fuushi ImageKyouka Fuushi Card x1
Win with less than 2 characters defeated
Genshin Impact - Kyouka Fuushi ImageKyouka Fuushi Card x1

Serious Showdown

Objective Rewards
Achieve victory

Genshin Impact Related Guides

Genshin Impact - List of NPC Duels and Duel Types

TCG Character and NPC List

List of Character Invite Challenge Duels

List of Character Invite Challenge Duels
Genshin Impact - Qiqi ImageQiqi Genshin Impact - Albedo ImageAlbedo Genshin Impact - Lisa ImageLisa Genshin Impact - Wanderer ImageWanderer
Genshin Impact - Dehya ImageDehya Genshin Impact - Yaoyao ImageYaoyao Genshin Impact - Baizhu ImageBaizhu Genshin Impact - Dori ImageDori
Genshin Impact - Nilou ImageNilou Genshin Impact - Alhaitham ImageAlhaitham Genshin Impact - Gorou ImageGorou Genshin Impact - Lynette ImageLynette
Genshin Impact - Lyney ImageLyney Genshin Impact - Yelan ImageYelan Genshin Impact - Layla ImageLayla Genshin Impact - Yanfei ImageYanfei
Genshin Impact - Candace ImageCandace Genshin Impact - Kaedehara Kazuha ImageKaedehara Kazuha Genshin Impact - Amber ImageAmber Genshin Impact - Venti ImageVenti
Genshin Impact - Nahida ImageNahida Genshin Impact - Tartaglia ImageTartaglia Genshin Impact - Hu Tao ImageHu Tao Genshin Impact - Yae Miko ImageYae Miko
Genshin Impact - Xiao ImageXiao Genshin Impact - Shenhe ImageShenhe Genshin Impact - Zhongli ImageZhongli Genshin Impact - Ei ImageEi
Genshin Impact - Ayato ImageAyato Genshin Impact - Tighnari ImageTighnari Genshin Impact - Arataki Itto ImageArataki Itto Genshin Impact - Kujou Sara ImageKujou Sara
Genshin Impact - Kokomi ImageKokomi Genshin Impact - Eula ImageEula Genshin Impact - Klee ImageKlee Genshin Impact - Beidou ImageBeidou
Genshin Impact - Diluc ImageDiluc Genshin Impact - Diona ImageDiona Genshin Impact - Jean ImageJean Genshin Impact - Keqing ImageKeqing
Genshin Impact - Ganyu ImageGanyu Genshin Impact - Kaeya ImageKaeya Genshin Impact - Chongyun ImageChongyun Genshin Impact - Kamisato Ayaka ImageKamisato Ayaka
Genshin Impact - Barbara ImageBarbara Genshin Impact - Xingqiu ImageXingqiu Genshin Impact - Mona ImageMona Genshin Impact - Xiangling ImageXiangling
Genshin Impact - Bennett ImageBennett Genshin Impact - Yoimiya ImageYoimiya Genshin Impact - Razor ImageRazor Genshin Impact - Cyno ImageCyno
Genshin Impact - Noelle ImageNoelle Genshin Impact - Collei ImageCollei Genshin Impact - Ningguang ImageNingguang Genshin Impact - Fischl ImageFischl
Genshin Impact - Sucrose ImageSucrose

Duel Types and Location Guides

All Duel Types and Guides
Genshin Impact - Genius Invokation TCG PvP GuideCo-Op Matches Genshin Impact - How to Unlock Weekly Guest Challenges GuideWeekly Guest Challenges
Genshin - Character Invitation Challenges in Genius InvokationCharacter Invitations Genshin - Ascension Challenges in Genius InvokationAscension Challenges
Genshin - Tavern Challenges in Genius InvokationTavern Challenges Genshin - Genius Invokation Open World Matches SlimOpen World Matches

Genius Invokation Gameplay Guide

Genshin Impact - Genius Invokation Guides Slim
Genius Invokation TCG Guide

Comment

1 Anonymous Anonymous over 1 year

This was kinda a crappy page, like what action cards do I put in the deck? How do I use the deck? I'm sorry you can't just say "oh hypercarry" and expect everyone to know...what a waste

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