Sumeru Chronicle Banner - Best Characters & Weapons To Pull For

Nilou

Alhaitham

Main DPS/ Sub DPS

Main DPS

Weapon Type: Sword

Element: Hydro

Nilou

Role: Main DPS/ Sub DPS

Nilou is one of the game’s most interesting characters in terms of her skill kit that helps facilitate the Bloom Elemental reaction between Hydro and Dendro element. She serves as either the main DPS or the Sub DPS character of the team, with the ability to create powerful and unique Bountiful Cores that can deal massive amounts of Dendro damage to enemies in a short time, allowing Bloom teams to shine. She works especially well with characters that boost the Elemental Reaction damage output or characters that allow her Bountiful Cores to deal critical damage like Nahida or Lauma.

Weapon Type: Sword

Element: Dendro

Alhaitham

Role: Main DPS

Alhaitham is one of the main DPS options that serves as different Dendro team’s main on field DPS thanks to his Normal and Charge Attack centric skill kit that infuses his attacks with the Dendro element. Alhaitham works best as an on field DPS option when buffed with different buffs from characters like Yelan, Xingqiu, Shinobu, Raiden, etc. to boost his overall damage output while helping facilitate different Dendro related elemental reactions. Generally speaking, Alhaitham is relatively behind in the current Genshin Impact meta compared to other characters of other elements. However, with the release of better Dendro supports in the future that can boost his usability further, he is among the top choices to pull for in the Sumeru Chronicle Wish Banner relative to the other characters.

Cyno

Wanderer

Main DPS/ Sub DPS

Main DPS

Weapon Type: Polearm

Element: Electro

Cyno

Role: Main DPS

Cyno is a Main DPS character that serves as a Main on field DPS character that thrives on utilizing different Dendro Elemental Reactions to boost his overall damage output while helping to facilitate the Hyperbloom Elemental Reaction to boost the Elemental Mastery of other characters in the team. He is a very interesting character held back by his relatively difficult to use Skill kit that requires precise timing to deal big damage to enemies. Additionally, Cyno’s main downside is his on field duration which can be relatively too long, making it harder for support skill effects to last until he finishes his entire damage rotation. Additionally, with the release of Flins, Cyno’s role can be completely replaced with Flins’ special brand new Luna-charged skill kit, making it harder to justify rolling for Cyno on the Chronicle Wish Banner.

Weapon Type: Catalyst

Element: Anemo

Wanderer

Role: Main DPS

Wanderer is a Anemo Main DPS character that focuses on using his normal and charge attacks as an on field DPS to deal Anemo damage to enemies and facilitate the Swirl elemental reactions on enemies. Wanderer is generally one of the better Anemo DPS characters in the game thanks to his amazing mobility and his ability to dodge enemies’ attacks while he is on the air. However, he is generally held back by several factors: the lack of strong Anemo DPS artifacts and weapons, his generally low DPS uptime and difficult to support skill kit, and his single target skill kit that is only suitable for fighting against big boss enemies. Due to these general factors, Wanderer generally suffers in the current meta game and is often overshadowed by Chasca as the main Anemo DPS character. Additionally, with the upcoming release of Varka as another Anemo DPS character, it is harder to justify rolling for Wanderer in the Sumeru Chronicle Wish banner.

Dehya

Tighnari

Sub DPS/ Support

Main DPS

Weapon Type: Claymore

Element: Pyro

Dehya

Role: Sub DPS/ Support

Dehya is a sub DPS Support hybrid character that can fill both the role of an off field Pyro support as well as a sustain option for different teams that want to utilize different Pyro Elemental reactions. Her main value lies in her ability to grant the team a decently good way to apply Pyro to enemies periodically off field while also supplementing the team’s damage output. However, she is held back by two main factors: She is a character available in the Standard pool and there are other better Pyro support options in the game like Mavuika, Xiangling that can apply Pyro marks on enemies more reliably while dealing way better damage than Dehya, making her value plummets.

Weapon Type: Bow

Element: Dendro

Tighnari

Role: Main DPS

Tighnari is a Dendro Main DPS character that has a hybrid skill kit that allows him to both help facilitate other character’s Dendro elemental reactions with his Skill and a playstyle that allows him to be a Dendro on field main DPS option. However, due to his difficulty to playstyle using Charge Attacks that are relatively difficult to buff and require him to be on field for a long period of time, reducing his overall DPS potential by a large amount. Additionally, Tighnari is available for all players to obtain in any banners as he is a Standard banner character, making it extremely hard to justify picking him as the rated up option in the Sumeru Chronicle Wish Banner.

Key of Khaj-Nisut

Staff of The Scarlet Sands

Tulaytullah’s Remembrance

+ 542 Attack

+ 66.2% HP

Key of Khaj-Nisut

Sword

Effect: HP increased by 20%. When an Elemental Skill hits opponents, you gain the Grand Hymn effect for 20s. This effect increases the equipping character's Elemental Mastery by 0.12% of their Max HP. This effect can trigger once every 0.3s. Max 3 stacks. When this effect gains 3 stacks, or when the third stack's duration is refreshed, the Elemental Mastery of all nearby party members will be increased by 0.2% of the equipping character's max HP for 20s.

Key of Khaj-Nisut is a strong generic Sword weapon that boost the user’s Max HP while also provide immense value by boosting the wielder’s Elemental Mastery stat proportional to the wielder’s Max HP and even boost the team’s Elemental Mastery stats, making it one of the best generic Sword weapons on the game for Sword wielding character that scales off Max HP and Elemental Mastery,

+ 542 Attack

+ 44.1% CRIT Rate

Staff of The Scarlet Sands

Polearm

Effect: The equipping character gains 52% of their Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK. When an Elemental Skill hits opponents, the Dream of the Scarlet Sands effect will be gained for 10s: The equipping character will gain 28% of their Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK. Max 3 stacks.

Staff of The Scarlet Sands is a polearm that boost the wearer’s attack stat proportional to their Elemental Mastery stat while also provide the wielder with critical rate as a sub stat, allowing it become a very strong generic weapon for characters that scales off Elemental Mastery as their main stat, helping to boost their attack massively even when building them with high Elemental Mastery.

+ 674 Attack

+ 44.1% CRIT DMG

Tulaytullah’s Remembrance

Catalyst

Effect: Normal Attack SPD is increased by 10%. After the wielder unleashes an Elemental Skill, Normal Attack DMG will increase by 4.8% every second for 14s. After hitting an opponent with a Normal Attack during this duration, Normal Attack DMG will be increased by 9.6%. This increase can be triggered once every 0.3s. The maximum Normal Attack DMG increase per single duration of the overall effect is 48%. The effect will be removed when the wielder leaves the field, and using the Elemental Skill again will reset all DMG buffs.

Tulaytullah’s Remembrance is a strong Catalyst weapon that both provide the wielder with a decently strong critical sub stat boost while helping to boost the normal attack damage and normal attack speed of Catalyst wielder. With a decent amount of Catalyst users in the game like to use their Elementally infused normal attacks as their main source of damage, the weapon can serve as a good generic weapon option for various catalyst characters.

Light of Foliar Incision

Beacon Of The Reed Sea

Hunter’s Path

+ 542 Attack

+ 88.2% CRIT DMG

Light of Foliar Incision

Sword

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.

Light of Foliar Incision is a sword weapon that provides the wielder with a critical damage sub stat in addition to boosting the wielder’s critical rate. The weapon boosts the wielder’s Elemental Skill Damage and Normal Attack output whenever the wielder deals Elemental Damage using their normal attack. The main downside of this weapon lies in the fact that the wielder needs to infuse their normal attack with elemental damage in order to activate the weapon’s effect, making it less universal overall.

+ 608 Attack

+ 33.1% CRIT Rate

Beacon of the Reed Sea

Claymore

Effect: After the character's Elemental Skill hits an opponent, their ATK will be increased by 20% for 8s. After the character takes DMG, their ATK will be increased by 20% for 8s. The 2 aforementioned effects can be triggered even when the character is not on the field. Additionally, when not protected by a shield, the character's Max HP will be increased by 32%.

Beacon Of The Reed Sea is a Claymore weapon that boosts the wielder’s max HP and provides them with a critical rate sub stat, making it a generally good weapon for Max HP scaling Claymore characters in the game. The main downside of this weapon is the fact that there’s not a lot of claymore characters in the game that scales off Max HP, making the weapon slightly less valuable overall despite its good effects.

+ 542 Attack

+ 44.1% CRIT Rate

Hunter’s Path

Bow

Effect: Gain 12% All Elemental DMG Bonus. Obtain the Tireless Hunt effect after hitting an opponent with a Charged Attack. This effect increases Charged Attack DMG by 160% of Elemental Mastery. This effect will be removed after 12 Charged Attacks or 10s. Only 1 instance of Tireless Hunt can be gained every 12s.

Hunter’s Path is a bow weapon that boosts the wearer’s charge attack damage output proportional to the wearer’s Elemental Mastery stat while also providing the wielder with a critical stat boost. Generally speaking, this weapon is low in value due to the fact that there are not many Bow wielding characters that scales off their Elemental Mastery stat and deal Charge Attack damage, making this weapon slightly worse in terms of overall usability outside of their intended character.