Genshin Impact Yelan Build Guide

With the release of Nod-Krai and brand new Elemental Reactions such as Lunar Bloom and Lunar-Charge, having special Elemental Enablers to help facilitate these reactions in different teams is crucial. Well worry not as Genshin Impact’s best Hydro Enabler - Yelan is making her grand return in Genshin Impact version 6.0. In this guide, we will show how players can best build Yelan for the future contents coming to Nod-Krai.

 

Skill Kit & Leveling Priorities

General Introduction

Yelan is a Limited 5 stars Character of the Hydro Element that comes from the Liyue region. She wields a bow as her main type of weapon and specializes in dealing off field Hydro Elemental Burst damage to enemies by unleashing coordinated attacks together with the active character on the field whenever they uses their normal attacks, making her a very strong off field Hydro enabler and one of the game’s best universal Elemental Enablers.

Element	Weapon Type	Role
Hydro	Bow	Sub DPS/ Hydro Enabler

 

Yelan Skill Kit Details & Leveling Priority

Yelan’s skill kit mainly revolves around her Elemental Burst, which allows her to deal coordinated Hydro attacks to enemies whenever the active character is dealing normal attack damage to enemies. This effect is extremely good thanks to the fact that it will trigger even when Yelan is off the field.

Yelan’s Elemental Skill allows her to enter a special travel mode, quickly moving through the enemies and ensnare them with a special barb wire. When released, Yelan will immediately deal an instance of Hydro damage to all enemies marked, allowing her to apply the Hydro marks on all enemies hit.

Upon using Yelan’s Elemental Burst, she will summon a special dice that can coordinate Hydro attacks that deals damage proportional to Yelan’s max HP to enemies whenever the active on field character uses their normal attacks. This effect triggers even when Yelan is off-field, making it one of the best off-field Hydro application effects in the game with the only requirement being normal attacks. White her dice is active, Yelan will also grant the active character an amazing Damage buff thanks to her Ascension Talent.

Due to her unique and easy to use skill kit revolving around her Elemental Burst, to maximize her damage, players should prioritize leveling up her Elemental Burst First and Foremost, with her Elemental Skill being the 2nd priority.

To maximize her support capabilities and her own damage output, players should level up and unlock her Ascension Talents as soon as possible, with her 2nd talent providing the active character with a straight up damage buff when her Elemental Burst is on the field.

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Best Weapons & Artifact Builds

Yelan Recommended Weapons

As a Hydro Sub DPS and Hydro Elemental Off Field Enabler, Yelan’s skill kit wants her to have as much Max HP as possible to maximizes her off field damage in addition to having enough Energy Regen to allow her to quickly get her Elemental Burst up for her main off field Hydro application and damage gimmick.

Due to this, Yelan wants weapons that boost Her Max HP or Energy Regen Stats and weapons that have effects that either boost her Elemental Burst Damage or Boost Her Overall Damage Output When She is Off-Field. Yelan also wants Critical Stats to maximize her off-field damage output further.

The best in slot weapon for Yelan is of course, her signature weapon:

- Aqua Simulacra

	Aqua Simulacra (5⭐) Attack (542) Critical Damage (88.2% )
HP is increased by 16% . When there are opponents nearby, the DMG dealt by the wielder of this weapon is increased by 20%. This will take effect whether the character is on-field or not.

 

Some of her Best Premium Alternatives Includes:

- Elegy for the End

	Elegy for the End (5⭐) Attack (608) Energy Recharge (55.1%)
A part of the "Millennial Movement" that wanders amidst the winds. Increases Elemental Mastery by 60 . When the Elemental Skills or Elemental Bursts of the character wielding this weapon hit opponents, that character gains a Sigil of Remembrance. This effect can be triggered once every 0.2s and can be triggered even if said character is not on the field. When you possess 4 Sigils of Remembrance, all of them will be consumed and all nearby party members will obtain the "Millennial Movement: Farewell Song" effect for 12s. "Millennial Movement: Farewell Song" increases Elemental Mastery by 100 and increases ATK by 20%. Once this effect is triggered, you will not gain Sigils of Remembrance for 20s. Of the many effects of the "Millennial Movement," buffs of the same type will not stack.

 

Some Good F2P weapon options for Yelan includes:

- Favonius Warbow

	Favonius Warbow (4⭐) Attack (454) Energy Recharge% (61.3%)
Critical Hits have a 60%chance to generate a small amount of Elemental Particles, which will regenerate 6 Energy for the character. Can only occur once every 12s.

- Sacrificial Bow:

	Sacrificial Bow (4⭐) Attack (565) Energy Recharge% (30.6%)
After damaging an opponent with an Elemental Skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own CD. Can only occur once every 30s.

- Fading Twilight:

	Fading Twilight (4⭐) Attack (565) Energy Recharge% (30.6%)
Has three states, Evengleam, Afterglow, and Dawnblaze, which increase DMG dealt by 6%/7.5%/9%/12% respectively. When attacks hit opponents, this weapon will switch to the next state. This weapon can change states once every 7s. The character equipping this weapon can still trigger the state switch while not on the field.

 

Yelan Best Artifact Sets

For Yelan, her best artifact set is the Emblem of Severed Fate

set, which boost Yelan’s Energy Regen by a decent amount, allowing her to regenerate energy and use her Elemental Burst more often, the damage of which is also boosted further proportional to Yelan’s Energy Regen thanks to the artifact’s 4pcs set effect, allowing players to maximize Yelan’s off field damage output easily while still being able to keep up her rotation and stat requirements.

Emblem of Severed Fate
2pcs	Energy Recharge +20%
4pcs	Increases Elemental Burst DMG by 25% of Energy Recharge. A maximum of 75% bonus DMG can be obtained in this way.

For Main Stats and Sub Stats, players should prioritize HP% and Energy Regen, as well as the different Critical Stats to maximize her off field damage output,

- For Yelan, players should focus on these stats:

	Main Stat	Sub Stats
Sands	HP% or Energy Regen%	- Priority #1: HP%, Energy Regen%, Critical Rate%, Critical Damage% - Priority #2: Other Stats
Goblet	HP% or Hydro Damage%
Circlet	Critical Rate% or Critical Damage%

 

Constellation Priorities

Yelan Recommended Constellations

C1 - Enter the Plotters

Yelan’s 1st Constellation is extremely simple but effective, allowing her to use her Elemental Skill 1 additional time before it enters cooldown. This massively improves Yelan’s rotation and helps to massively reduce her Energy Requirement, allowing players to quickly use her Elemental Burst more efficiently.

Rating: Most Recommended (Massively Improves Yelan’s rotation while also help to reduce her energy requirements, making it easier for the team to function properly)

C2 - Taking All Comers

Yelan’s 2nd Constellation essentially adds an additional damage instance to her attacks whenever her Elemental Burst does an off field attack with the active character, which somewhat improves her damage output and helps to supplement the team’s damage by a decent amount.

Rating: Recommended (An additional damage instance that help supplement the team’s overall damage output occasionally)

C4 - Bait-and-Switch

Yelan’s 4th Constellation is a straight up Max HP increase to all party members whenever she uses her Elemental Skill, which can stack up to 40%, massively improve the survivability of normal teams and help boost the damage of Max HP centric team comps.

Rating: Extremely Recommended (A massive free stat boost that can help boost the damage output of Max HP-oriented teams while improving the survivability of normal teams)

C6 - Winner Takes All

Yelan’s 6th constellation essentially allows Yelan to become a main on field DPS herself by massively boosting her Normal Attack damage and make it so that all of her Normal Attack damage are considered Charge Attacks, further allowing to take effects of her special Charge Attack effects and high multipliers.

Rating: Recommended (Makes Yelan into a potential main on field DPS character)

 

Yelan Constellations VS Signature Weapon Pulling Priorities

In terms of pulling investment for Yelan and the balance between getting her Constellations and her signature weapon, there are certain considerations players should make:

- Yelan’s weapon is an extremely amazing generic bow weapon that offers a massive critical stat boost while simply boosting the damage dealt by the wielder as long as there are opponents nearby, making it a very valuable weapon to have.

- Yelan’s main constellation that players should aim for is her C1 and C4, with her C1 massively improves Yelan’s playability while her C4 offers the entire team free Max HP boost. The other constellations don't have the same impact as these 2 constellations.

Therefore, with these considerations, players should invest in Yelan in this order:

C0 + R0	C1 + R1	C4 + R1	C6 + R5
F2P	Best Investment Point	High Investment	Highest Investment

 

Best Team Recommendations

Since her release, Yelan have been one of Genshin Impact’s most powerful and universal off field Hydro applicant, with her ability to deal off field coordinated attacks with the active character when they are using their normal attacks on field, making her one of the main components of countless powerful teams that utilize a normal attack-centric Main DPS character.

Some of the most popular Yelan teams includes:

- Flins Lunar-charge Hypercarry

Yelan	Flins	Ineffa	Kokomi
Sub DPS/ Hydro Enabler	Main DPS	Support/ Dendro Enabler	Sustain

The newest and premium team for Flins, this team utilize the effect of Flins’ talent that boost the damage output of his Lunar-charge Elemental Reaction while there’s 2 Nod-krai characters in the team while further boosting the reaction damage by having 2 high HP Hydro characters in the team with strong off-field Hydro applications. As Flins’s skill kit and damage relies on his normal attacks, he can take full advantage of Yelan’s Elemental Burst, allowing him to constantly trigger Lunar-charge with the help of Yelan’s constant off field Hydro application. Ineffa is the sub DPS option for this team to further allow Lunar-charge elemental reaction while Kokomi serves as the team’s main sustain option.

- Hyperbloom Teams:

Yelan	Alhaitham	Nahida	Shinobu
Sub DPS/ Hydro Enabler	Main DPS	Support/ Dendro Enabler	Sustain/ Electro Enabler

Another popular team to use Yelan in is the Hyperbloom team, with Yelan being the main Hydro off field enabler option for normal attack hypercarry like Alhaitham to help create Dendro core to trigger the Hyperbloom reaction and massively boost Alhaitham’s Dendro damage output. Alhaitham serves as the team’s main on field DPS, taking full effect of his normal-attack based skill kit and Yelan’s elemental burst to create as much Dendro Cores with his attacks as possible, before triggering Hyperbloom with the help of a high Elemental Mastery build Shinobu. Nahida is used as an additional Dendro support and enabler for higher damage output and better consistency.

- Freeze Team:

Yelan	Skirk	Furina	Escoffier
Sub DPS/ Hydro Enabler	Main DPS	Support	Support/Sustain

One of the most popular and highest damage output teams recently, Yelan is used together with Skirk in one of her many team variations thanks to her Elemental Burst synergy with Skirk Normal and Charge Attack-based skill kit, allowing Skirk to deal massive amounts of damage to frozen enemies. For the premium Skirk team, Furina and Escoffier are chosen as the other team members to further boost the damage output of the team and elevate Skirk’s damage to the highest level.

- Reverse Vaporize Team:

Yelan	Kamisato Ayato	Mavuika	Bennett
Sub DPS/ Hydro Enabler	Main DPS	Sub DPS/ Pyro Enabler	Support/Sustain

One of the more generic team comp that uses Yelan is the Ayato reverse vaporize team, once again taking advantage of Yelan’s Elemental Burst synergy with Ayato’s Normal Attack-based Skill kit and Mavuika’s off field Pyro application to trigger the Reverse Vaporize Elemental Reaction, massively boosting the damage output of Ayato when he is on field. Bennett is the main support and sustain option for the team to help fulfill the Pyro Resonance and boost the attack of Ayato massively.

 

Conclusion

We hope that with the help of this guide, players will have a better understanding of the best Yelan builds, skills, constellations and teams in order to fully unleash her potential in the world of Genshin Impact. To maximize your gameplay, don’t miss the chance to Top Up Genshin Impact on LDShop—we provide the lowest prices across all platforms for Genesis Crystals and secure, instant recharges. Power up your account today through LDShop and get the most out of your pulls!