Lauma Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Powerful off-field Bloom support with good off-field elemental application and decent damage.
• Provides both a Hydro and Dendro RES Shred.
• Can allow Bloom-based reactions to crit. Something previously only available with Nahida's C2.
• Strong Lunar-Bloom buffs which should only increase in value over time.

Weaknesses

• No character fully utilises Lauma currently.
• You lose the ability for Bloom-based reactions to crit if you use multiple Nod-Krai characters.
• Healing is entirely locked behind C1 which provides a very significant change to team-building.

Lauma is best built as a supportive SubDPS unit for Bloom-based elemental reactions.

Lauma's best weapon is her signature Nightweaver's Looking Glass however the event catalyst Etherlight Spindlelute is extremely competitive with it providing both EM and ER. Other options include the available 5-Star EM catalysts as well as the new Nod-Krai craftable Blackmarrow Lantern.

Lauma's best artifact build can be a bit complicated as it heavily depends on your team composition. As a general rule, Deepwood Memories should be built if Lauma is the only Dendro unit (or no one else is using it). Aside from that, Silken Moon's Serenade tends to be your next best bet.

As for main and substats, build Lauma with primarily Elemental Mastery although you may need an Energy Recharge sands depending on your weapon and team composition. While CRIT can be more beneficial in Spread teams.

Lauma mainly wants to be built with full Elemental Mastery for main stats, but does benefit from CRIT and some Energy Recharge.

Build recommendations assume a "decently built" level of artifact rolls alongside Lauma's best weapon. Using other weapons may increase or decrease certain stats relative to these recommendations.

• HP: 17,000 - 19,000
• ATK: 1150 - 1300
• Energy Recharge: 130 - 210%
• Elemental Mastery: 1000+

Building Crit is simply an added benefit. If your choosing between an EM or CRIT roll, then always go EM. Lauma's Energy Recharge requirements heavily depend on how many Dendro characters are in the team as well as your rotation.

Lauma is a Dendro Sub DPS with buffing utility that provides buffs to Bloom-based reactions by turning them into Lunar-Bloom. Lauma has a range of buffs she provides, these are:

• 25% (Lv10) Dendro & Hydro RES with her Skill.
• Increase Bloom, Hyperbloom, Burgeon and Lunar-Bloom DMG using her Elemental Skill.
• Allow Bloom, Hyperbloom and Burgeon to crit with Moonsign: Nascent Gleam.
• Allow Lunar-Bloom CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG increase for all party members with Moonsign: Ascendant Gleam.
• Self-Buffs Elemental Skill DMG by 32% at 800EM.
• Buffs Lunar-Bloom's Base DMG by 14% at 800EM.

To gain all these buffs, Lauma focuses on 3 confusing sounding stacks called Verdant Dew, Moon Song and Pale Hymn.

While Lauma features several confusing types of stacking mechanics, once you get the hang of what they mean they are actually simple to understand. The first one being Verdant Dew.

Verdant Dew are the 3 crescent moons you see on the right below your other team members. These generate over time every 2.5s whenever Lunar-Bloom is taking place. They also queue meaning that if one Verdant Dew is being built up, the next one will start generating straight after. Verdant Dew stacks are used by your Hold Runo: Dawnless Rest of Karsikko to make it do more damage. They are then automatically converted into Moon Song.

Moon Song essentially does nothing. It's sole purpose is that it converts into Pale Hymn when you use Runo: All Hearts Become the Beating Moon.

18 Pale Hymn stacks are generated with Lauma's Elemental Burst, and then an extra 6 for each Moon Song(Verdant Dew's spent). Pale Hymn stacks are spent whenever Bloom-based reactions take place to provide a damage buff.

Moon Song is converted into Pale Hymn whenever available during the duration. So it does not matter if Lauma Burst > Skill or Skill > Burst.

Lauma has 2 different Moonsign effects which can significantly impact teambuilding due to it requiring a set number of Nod-Krai characters. Moonsign: Nascent Gleam triggers when only Lauma is in the party and allows Bloom, Hyperbloom and Burgeon to CRIT while having another Nod-Krai party member creates Moonsign: Ascendant Gleam instead which creates buffs for your parties Lunar-Bloom DMG.

Lauma has 2 very important considerations with regards to team compositions. The first is that playing Lauma with other Nod-Krai characters changes the effects of Light for the Frosty Night. The other consideration is that her C1, "O Lips, Weave Me Songs and Psalms" allows you to not run a healer in teams. This allows changes such as Raiden Shogun in Hyperbloom, building more EM for Sangonomiya Kokomi or even using Nahida instead of Baizhu.

With Nilou Bloom teams, your main character is of course Nilou. She needs exclusively Dendro and Hydro to be able to create her enhanced Dendro cores. This is perfect for Lauma who decreases the RES of Hydro and Dendro. Nilou Bloom teams tend to be more AoE friendly but Bloom ownership can be difficult to track.

Lauma is the perfect upgrade to your traditional Hyperbloom team, Lauma is often able to act is the sole source of Dendro application in these teams.

Some other examples of team compositions you can use Lauma in. For example a Spread team with Alhaitham, quickbloom with Cyno or Clorinde and even a Burgeon team composition using Thoma.