Genshin Mualani Build Guide: Best Team, Weapon, Artifacts & Stats

One of the few main Hydro DPS options in Genshin Impact, Mualani will soon make her return in the game with the release of her rerun banner in the upcoming update patch.

Therefore, in this build guide, we will go over everything players need to know regarding Mualani, all about her skill kit, abilities, best weapon options, strongest artifact sets and best teams to maximize her potential as Hydro DPS character in the new meta of Genshin Impact.

General Introduction

Mualani is a 5* Limited Character of the Hydro element, she uses a catalyst as her main weapon and specializes in dealing Normal and Elemental Skill Hydro Elemental damage to enemies by moving swiftly between them and marking them with the Mark status.

Due to being a Natlan character, Mualani also has access to the region’s special Nightsoul mechanic, allowing her to accumulate Nightsoul points and enter the Nightsoul state when her gauge is filled in combat.

Element	Weapon Type	Special Effect	Role
Hydro	Catalyst	Nightsoul	Main DPS

Mualani Skill Kit & Leveling Priorities

Skill Kit Details 

Mualani Skill kit and abilities revolve mainly around her Skill’s ability to allow her to enter her hunting mode, with her surfing on a shark and circling the enemies, marking them with the Mark status and allowing Mualani to deal Hydro Normal and Elemental Skill damage to them.

Mualani’s skill allows her to trigger her Nightsoul state and help her ride her shark companion across the battlefield as long as she has her Nightsoul points. When in this mode, when Mualani runs over enemies, they will be marked with the Mark status. When 3 Mark status is achieved on the enemies, Mualani can use her enhanced skill to deal a massive blow of Hydro Elemental damage to the enemies, dealing additional damage to Marked enemies.

Mualani’s Elemental Burst allows her to deal a single instance of strong Hydro Elemental damage to all enemies in front of her with tracking missiles.

Leveling Priority

In terms of leveling, due to Mualani being a Main DPS, players should level up all of her talents, including her Normal Attack, Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst, with an Emphasis on Elemental Skill.

Players should also get Mualani to Ascension 4 as soon as possible to unlock all of her Ascension Talents, allowing her to deal more damage based on her Max HP.

 

Best Weapons & Artifact Builds

Mualani Recommended Weapons

As a main DPS Hydro option that takes full advantage of the Vaporize elemental reaction, Mualani wants stats and weapons with passive that boost her overall elemental damage output and boost her normal attack and skill damage to help optimize her damage.

Due to this, Mualani wants weapons that boost Critical Stats like Critical Damage and Critical Rate with good skill and normal attacking boosting passives.

The best in slot weapon for Mualani is of course, her Signature Weapon:
- Surf's Up

	Surf's Up (5* Limited) Attack (542) Critical Damage (88.2%)
Max HP increased by 20%. Once every 15s, for the 14s after using an Elemental Skill: Gain 4 Scorching Summer stacks. Each stack increases Normal Attack DMG by 12%. For the duration of the effect, every 1.5s, lose 1 stack after a Normal Attack hits an opponent; once every 1.5s, gain 1 stack after triggering a Vaporize reaction on an opponent. Max 4 Scorching Summer stacks.

Alternatively, Other good Weapons that boost Critical Stats are also extremely good for Mualani, for example:

- Cashflow Supervision

	Cashflow Supervision (5* Limited) Attack (674) Critical Rate (22.1%)
ATK has increased by 16~32%. When current HP increases or decreases, Normal Attack DMG will be increased by 16~32% and Charged Attack DMG will be increased by 14~28% for 4s. Max 3 stacks. This effect can be triggered once every 0.3s. When the wielder has 3 stacks, ATK SPD will be increased by 8~16%.

- Tome of the Eternal Flow

	Tome of the Eternal Flow (5* Limited) Attack (542) Critical Damage (88.2%)
HP is increased by 16%. When current HP increases or decreases, Charged Attack DMG will be increased by 14% for 4s. Max 3 stacks, can be triggered once every 0.3s. When you have 3 stacks or refresh a third stack's duration, 8 Energy will be restored. This Energy restoration effect can be triggered once every 12s.

Alternative F2P Weapon Option For Mualani includes:

- Sacrificial Jade:

	Sacrificial Jade (4*) Attack (454) Critical Rate (36.8%)
When not on the field for more than 5s, Max HP will be increased by 32% and Elemental Mastery will be increased by 40. These effects will be canceled after the wielder has been on the field for 10s.

- Ring of Yaxche:

	Ring of Yaxche (4*) Attack (510) HP% (41.3%)
Using an Elemental Skill grants the Jade-Forged Crown effect: Every 1,000 Max HP will increase the Normal Attack DMG dealt by the equipping character by 0.6% for 10s. Normal Attack DMG can be increased this way by a maximum of 16%.

- Solar Pearl

	Solar Pearl (4*) Attack (510) Critical Rate (27.6%)
Normal Attack hits increase Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst DMG by 20~40% for 6s. Likewise, Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst hits increase Normal Attack DMG by 20~40% for 6s

Mualani Best Artifact Sets

For Mualani, her best artifact set is the Obsidian Codex set, which grants Citlali massive amounts of Critical stats whenever she consume Nightsoul points, which her skills and abilities naturally do, allowing her to deal better damage through normal rotation without extra requirements.

Obsidian Codex
2pcs	While the equipping character is in Nightsoul's Blessing and is on the field, their DMG dealt is increased by 15%.
4pcs	After the equipping character consumes 1 Nightsoul point while on the field, CRIT Rate increases by 40% for 6s. This effect can trigger once every second.

For Main Stats and Sub Stats, players should prioritize Critical Stats for Mualani as with other DPS characters in the game. Additionally, players should focus on boosting Mualani’s HP stat as her damage scales entirely through her Max HP.

- For Mualani, players should focus on these stats:

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

Constellation Priorities

Mualani Recommended Constellations

C1 - The Leisurely "Meztli"...

Mualani’s 1st Constellation boosts the damage she deals even more by increasing her Damage based on her Max HP ratio. Additionally, unlocking this constellation reduces the amount of Nightsoul Mualani need to enter her Nightsoul state, improving her overall rotation.

Rating: Highly Recommended (A Good Damage Increase For Mualani)

C2 - Mualani, Going All Out!

Mualani’s 2nd Constellation is one of her most important Constellations as it allows Mualani to use 2 Elemental Skills in a row instead of only 1 and allow her to recover the use of her Skill whenever she picks up Puffers on the field. This allows her to massively prolong her skill duration and make her damage rotation very long.

Rating: Most Recommended (Massively Improve Mualani’s Damage Rotation And Doubles Her On Field Time)

C4 - Sharky Eats Puffies

Mualani’s 4th Constellation allows Mualani to gain energy whenever she obtains Puffers while in her Skill form, allowing her to spam her Elemental Burst and additionally increase her Elemental Burst damage.

Rating: Recommended (Improves Mualani’s Elemental Burst Damage and Change her Damage rotation)

C6 - Spirit of the Springs' People

Mualani’s 6th constellation massively improves her damage output by removing the limitation of her 1st Constellation by allowing it to activate all the time instead of once every nightsoul state. This helps Mualani to improve her HP scaling damage overall and allow all of her abilities to be enhanced.

Rating: Extremely Recommended (Massively Improved Mualani’s damage output even when she is not in her nightsoul state)

Mualani Constellations VS Signature Weapon Pulling Priorities

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

- Mualani’s weapon provides Mualani with a lot of necessary stats and helps boost her damage immensely. Other alternative and F2P weapons don't help Mualani as much as her Signature weapon.

- You should get Mualani’s 1st Constellation together with her weapon as her 1st Constellation help boost her damage output significantly.

- Mualani’s best Constellation is her C2, which allows her to massively improve her damage rotation while also boosting her damage output.

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

C0 + R0	C1 + R1	C2 + R1	C6 + R1	C6 + R5
F2P	Low Investment	Best Investment Point	High Investment	Highest Investment

Best Team Recommendations

With Mualani being a main DPS option for the Hydro element, she best excels in teams that take full advantage of her fast normal attack damage and Hydro related Elemental reactions. Mualani especially excels at being the main DPS in Reverse Vaporize teams, boosting her overall damage output with the help of powerful Pyro allies.

Mualani Reverse Vaporize Teams

In a Reverse Vaporize team comp, players need to focus on applying the Pyro elemental mark on the enemies so that Mualani can use her Hydro abilities to trigger the Vaporize reaction, massively boosting the Hydro damage instance while being buffed by strong damage buffers and sustain.

- Mualani’s Premium Reverse Vaporize Team:

Mualani	Mavuika	Xilonen	Bennett
Main DPS	Pyro Enabler	Damage Support	Damage Support/ Sustain

The premium team focus on Mualani’s synergy with Mavuika and Xilonen’s Nightsoul abilities, allowing them to boost the Nightsoul damage output of the team with the help of Mavuika’s off field Pyro application to help Mualani trigger the Vaporize reaction while buffed with both Xilonen and Bennett’s powerful damage buffing abilities.

- Mualani’s F2P Reverse Vaporize Team:

Mualani	Xiangling	Sucrose	Bennett
Main DPS	Pyro Enabler	Damage Support	Damage Support/ Sustain

The F2P team for Mualani works under the same principle as her premium team, with Xiangling applying Pyro marks on enemies, Sucrose reducing their Pyro and Hydro resistances with the help of Anemo artifacts and Bennett buffing Mualani’s damage output to help her do big damage with Vaporize.

 

Conclusion

We hope that with the help of this guide, players will have a better understanding of the best Mualani builds, skills, constellations and teams in order to fully unleash her potential in the world of Genshin Impact.