Latest Escoffier Build Guide: Weapon, Artifact & Teams

Together with the release of Genshin Impact version update 5.6 , the return to fan favorite region of Mondstatd, players will have the chance to roll for and obtain a brand new character introduced to the region of Fontaine for Genshin Impact - the 5* Limited Cryo Character Escoffier.

In this guide, LDShop will go over everything players need to know regarding Escoffier, what are her best weapon choices and options are to maximize her combat potential, as well as how to build her with the best Artifact sets to fulfill her roles in different team compositions.

 

Escoffier Overview

Element	Weapon Type	Special Effect	Role
Cryo	Polearm	Ousia (Fontaine)	Sub DPS or Elemental Enabler or Damage Support

Escoffier is a Cryo polearm character who excels at enabling Cryo elemental reactions and boosting team damage. She uses wide-area Cryo attacks and a summonable Cooking Mek to continuously apply Cryo, making it easier to trigger Elemental Reaction Application.

Her Burst deal a big blast of Cryo Damage instance to all enemies surrounding her and instantly heal all party members by a large amount proportional to her attack stat.

Escoffier’s passive talent greatly reduces enemy Cryo resistance—up to 55%—but requires a full team of Cryo and Hydro allies to be most effective.

 

Escoffier Skill Leveling Priority

Due to her unique skill kit and abilities, to maximizes her potential, players will need to focus on leveling some of her major abilities:

• The most important thing players need to get when playing Escoffier is focus on leveling up her Elemental Skill and Burst. Leveling up Escoffier’s Skill will maximize her Cryo damage both on and off field, while leveling up her Burst will maximize her Burst damage and healing potential.
• Escoffier Normal Attacks shouldn’t be leveled for the most part due to her not needing her normal attacks most of the time.

 

Escoffier Best Weapons & Artifact Builds

Escoffier Recommended Weapons

As Escoffier is a Polearm using character that can fill the roles of both Sub DPS and Support character with a skill kit that scales of her Attack stat, players should choose weapons that boost either her Energy Regen, Critical Stats and Attack Stats to maximize her skill kit.

Escoffier’s Best In Slot weapon is her signature weapon:

• Symphonist of Scents
  • Main Stat: Attack
  • Secondary Stat: Crit Damage%

Effect: ATK is increased by 12%. When the equipping character is off-field, ATK is increased by an additional 12%. After healing, the equipping character and healed character(s) will obtain the "Sweet Echoes" effect, increasing their ATK by 32% for 3s. This effect can be triggered even if the equipping character is off-field.

For Alternative Weapons, there are several considerations players can use:

• Alternative 5* Weapon option: Calamity Queller, Skyward Spine

Both Calamity Queller and Skyward Spine provides an extremely high amount of attack boost and a decent amount of Energy Regen for Escoffier, allowing her to perform her combo relatively well with the help of these weapons.

• Best in Slot Sub DPS 4* Weapon : Deathmatch

Deathmatch is a very good stat stick for Escoffier if players intend to build her as a sub critical DPS for Cryo teams. It provides Escoffier with a decent amount of Critical Rate. The only downside is that it is a Battle pass weapon.

• Best in Slot Support F2P 4* Weapon: Favonius Lance

The single best F2P option for support build Escoffier that players should consider is the Favonius Lance, which provides Escoffier with a massive boost of energy whenever her skill critical hits and enemy, allowing her to get back her energy much quicker to do her Combo more smoothly.

 

Escoffier Best Artifact Sets

For Escoffier, players can choose 2 different Artifact sets to build her depending on the type of build you want to use her with:

• For Pure Support Escoffier, players should use the Golden Troupe artifact set on her, which allows her to boost her damage output when she is offield.

• For Sub DPS Escoffier, players should consider the Blizzard Strayer artifact set, as it nor only boosts her critical rate when initializing Cryo based reactions, it also boosts her Cryo damage output when she is on field.

For Main Stats and Sub Stats, players should prioritize these main stats for the different artifact pieces:

	Sands	Goblet	Circlet
Main Stat	Attack%	Cryo Damage%	Crit Rate% Crit Damage%
Sub Stat #1	Attack%, Crit Rate%, Crit Damage%, Energy Regen%
Sub Stat #2	Other Stats

 

Best Team Recommendations

As Escoffier fulfills the Sub DPS and Support role for teams revolving Hydro and Cryo characters, there are several teams that players can make and use Escoffier in to boost the team’s overall strength and damage output thanks to her skill kit and talent.

Escoffier Best Premium Cryo Carry Team

The best Escoffier Premium team involves running her together with 2 Hydro characters and 1 Cryo Main DPS character, allowing the main Cryo DPS character to take full advantage of Escoffier’s Cryo Resistance reduction.

Best Cryo Team Composition
Main Cryo DPS	Hydro / Cryo Enabler	Hydro / Cryo Support	Escoffier (Cryo Support)

• Main Cryo DPS: The Main Cryo DPS will be the one carrying the majority of the team’s damage by taking full advantage of Escoffier’s massive 55% Cryo resistance reduction when the team is filled with 4 Cryo/Hydro characters. The selection for this position are: Kamisato Ayaka, Ganyu
• 2 Hydro Characters: These two slots are quite flexible as the Hydro characters can either be another good Hydro DPS option to supplement the Main DPS damage, a good Hydro enabler to enable the Frozen Elemental Reaction or a strong Hydro support character to boost the team’s overall damage output. Some options for these slots are: Neuvilette, Furina, Yelan, Xinqiu, etc.

 

Escoffier Best F2P Team Options

Similar to Escoffier’ Premium team option, the best F2P Escoffier teams revolves around filling the team with as much synergistic Hydro and Cryo characters as possible to amplify the Cryo damage of the different elemental reactions and team damage output thanks to Escoffier’s talent

Best F2P Team Composition
Main Cryo DPS	Hydro / Cryo Enabler	Hydro / Cryo Support	Escoffier (Cryo Support)

Please keep in mind that due to the nature of the F2P team, different members of the team can do different things and fulfill the different roles in the team and does not need to be exactly built for 1 single role.

 

Final Thought

This is all the Escoffier build guide. It is rumored that Escoffier may be a perfect match with Skirk, who will be coming in the 5.7 version. The real environment for the Ice Team has not yet arrived. Whether it is Escoffier or all members of the Freeze Team, they are promising in the future! The 5.6 banner is open. Now is a good time to bet on the Cryo Team's comeback! Go to LDShop to enjoy the Genesis Crystal top up discount and make sure to pull Escoffier or her constellation—don't miss it!