Noelle, Barbara, and Ningguang, Crystallized Hydro Deck Build and How to Play

This is the Crystallized Hydro Deck build for Noelle, Barbara, and Ningguang in Genshin Impact's Genius Invokation TCG. We have a list of all character and action cards for the Crystallized Hydro Deck and a guide on how to play the deck!

Crystallized Hydro Deck Build

List of Cards

Main Characters Cards
Noelle				Barbara				Ningguang
Action Cards
Changing Shifts ×2			Leave it to Me! ×2			Iron Tongue Tian ×2			Wagner ×1
Timmie ×2			Liben ×2			Chang the Ninth ×1			Ellin ×1
Liu Su ×2			Elemental Resonance: Enduring Rock ×2			Liyue Harbor Wharf ×2			Jade Chamber ×2
Wangshu Inn ×2			Strategic Reserve ×1			I Got Your Back ×2			Glorious Season ×1
Sacrificial Fragments ×1			Skyward Atlas ×1			Wolf's Gravestone ×1

Crystallized Hydro Deck How to Play

Crystallized Hydro Deck Explanation

Strengths and Weaknesses

How to Play

The main play for this deck is to apply Hydro and create shields through Geo's reaction with Barbara and the Geo Characters on the team. It is a strategy to get a constant shield to preserve all the characters' HP to drag the duel longer and strike once there's an opening.

Noelle with Wolf's Gravestone will be the main damage dealer for this deck. Barbara should be used to keep everyone alive with her Elemental Skill and Burst and apply the wet status effect to enemies for the crystallization reaction. Ningguang can act as a support DPS if needed, especially when setting up a combo or Noelle is close to dying.

This deck lacks a bit of damage compared to other deck compositions as it focuses on defensive, slow plays. You can cover that by equipping Weapon Cards and getting enough dice using other action cards.

Crystallized Hydro Deck Combo Cards

Combo Card 1	Combo Card 2	Result
Noelle	I Got Your Back	- Uses Breastplate skill without any cost. It also provides a shield to reduce damage and heal when you do a normal attack.
Ningguang	Strategic Reserve	- Deal damage and put up a defense as you equip the Strategic Reserve talent to Ningguang.
Barbara	Leave it to Me!	- After healing the previous turn, you can swap out of barbara and use the turn to re-apply shields or deal damage.

Crystallized Hydro Deck Best Used Against

List of NPCs

Blanche

Bu'yun

Iron Tongue Tian

This deck is perfect against NPCs whose decks have character cards with high HP. This deck will help keep you alive as you steadily whittle down the tanky enemies!

What does this Deck Counter?

This deck counters decks that focuses on Swirl Damage or any high-damaging decks. Constant healing and shields allow all characters to survive and drag the duel longer until your opponents run out of cards.

How to Counter Crystallized Hydro Deck: How to Beat

Decks that can Constantly Apply Vaporize or Melt

Decks that can constantly deal Vaporize and Melt damage can counter this deck. It will cancel out the damage reduction and the damage dealt might also exceed what the Crystallized Hydro Deck can heal.

Take the chance to go on an all-out offensive and defeat at least one of its characters once the user of this deck gets a bad turn.

Characters with Piercing Damage

Keqing

Fischl

Ganyu

Characters who deal Piercing damage can destroy the Crystallized Hydro Deck since their attack "pierces" through shields. Those characters render the shields useless and can defeat shield-focused characters with ease.

Build a deck that revolves around the characters above to counter the Crystallized Hydro Deck.

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