Kujou Sara Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• ATK buff can be equivalent to Bennett's.
• Two ways to apply Sara's buff, it is not solely locked behind her Burst.
• Can work as a battery for other Electro characters.
• Can work as both a Support and Sub-DPS with the AoE Electro damage from her Burst.

Weaknesses

• Full potential for buffs is locked behind Constellations.
• High energy recharge cost.
• Not easy to play at C0. Automatic buff unlocks only at C2.
• Short buff time compared to other similar characters.

Kujou Sara is primarily built as a support thanks to her unique ability to buff her teammates ATK.

In order to understand Kujou Sara's build choices regarding her weapons, artifacts, and stats, you first need to understand how her buff works. Similar to Bennett's Elemental Burst mechanic, Sara's ATK buff is also based on her Total Base ATK. This means that it will only take into account Kujou Sara's Base ATk + her weapon's Base ATK. Stacking ATK on her artifacts will not give any bonus to her buff. If you want to maximize Kujou Sara's ATK buff, you need to wear the weapon with the highest Base ATK, and level her own level up to 90.

Knowing this, Kujou Sara's support build best weapon is the Skyward Harp with its Base 674 ATK. This weapon also has CRIT Rate as main stat, which makes it a great weapon for both Sara's personal DMG, and her buff capacity. Kujou Sara's support build best in slot F2P weapon is the Fading Twilight with high base ATK, energy recharge, and a good passive.

When building artifacts, for a Support Kujou Sara's build we recommand the Emblem of Severed Fate Artifact set for the Energy Recharge and Elemental Burs DMG including a 75% bonus DMG. If no one else wears a Noblesse Oblige set in your party you can also equip Kujou Sara with this one.

Kujou Sara requires a lot of ER. If she is the solo Electro unit in your team, you will have to aim for +300%. We don't recommand you play her as a solo Electro. With two Electro characters, the requirement already lowers more around +200%. If you have 3 or more Electro units in your team, you can go for only 130%.

The goal with Kujou Sara is to be able to Burst and use her skill at least once every rotation in order to get the buffs up for your team. Her gameplay changes slightly depending on if you have her at C0 or C2+.

At C0 she is a bit clunky to play. Every time you do her Elemental Skill, you have to follow up with a Charged Attack. This leaves her extremely vulnerable to interruption, and if you get interrupted you get no buff.

Once you get her C2, the ATK buff basically pops up automatically when you use her Elemental Skill. This allows you to skip the Charged Attack.

Once you have that in mind, her rotation mostly revolves around quickly swapping her in, to her Burst when available, her Skill each rotation, follow up with a Charged Attack if she's C0, otherwise swap back to your Main DPS and use the buff.

Kujou Sara is a support character specializing in creating buffs for your active DPS to fight with. As for teams, we aim to match her up with high DPS Electro partners to amplify her usefulness.

Kujou Sara is one of the best support for Raiden Shogun as her buff synergises perfectly with Raiden's Burst. Raiden can also function as a battery for Sara to help with Energy Recharge. You can team them up with units like Bennett or Kaedehara Kazuha for additional buffs for Raiden, or you can go for a full Electro team.

Taser teams like this consist in using both Electro and Hydro to trigger Electro-charged reactions. Kamisato Ayato or Tartaglia are perfect Main DPS for this. They benefit highly from Kujou Sara's Buff. Note that it is better to have a C2 Kujou Sara for this kind of teams, as you need to be able to swap her in and out fast, which is not possible with a C0.

Kujou Sara can also be used in an Aggravate team. You will need both Electro and Dendro units in the team. Nahida is one of the best choices as she provides high Dendro application, allowing Keqing to trigger reactions. Keqing will take advantage of the ATK buff, and an Anemo unit will allow you to spread to all to surrounding enemies.