Nahida Guide and Best Builds for Genshin Impact

Strengths

• Extremely powerful Dendro application both on-field and off-field.
• Provides large Elemental Mastery bonuses to the party.
• Low Elemental Burst cooldown and Energy costs.
• Incredibly powerful C2 and C6.

Weaknesses

• Low HP and Defense meaning damage can be more impactful both to knockback and overall survivability.
• Elemental Skill's aim mode can be more difficult to use on Mobile and Console.

While Nahida can be played and built for both On-Field and Off-Field situations, this does not change things significantly, maintaining the same Artifact Sets and general priorities.

Nahida's best weapon to build around is her signature A Thousand Floating Dreams however Nahida also has a tonne of great build options available with the listed 4-Star options also being pretty competitive.

Build Nahida with Deepwood Memories if possible, however be aware that only one person needs to use this set. While it is generally best to build Nahida around Deepwood, Gilded Dreams is a great option if you do not want to remove Deepwood off of the other party members.

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

• HP: 16,000 - 17,000
• ATK: 1200 - 1300
• Elemental Mastery: 1000+
• Energy Recharge: 110 - 150%
• Dendro DMG: 0% - 46.6%

With regards to Nahida's stat priorities, Dendro DMG becomes more important than hitting 1000 Elemental Mastery if Nahida is mainly played on-field.

You often want to start with her Elemental Skill, All Schemes to Know, to tether as many enemies as possible so that subsequent reactions can deal more damage using Tri-Karma Purification (from Seed of Skandha). Tri-Karma does have a limit of up to 8 characters at a single time, however.

Apply your Elemental Burst and start swapping to the other members of your party who will now be buffed due to the burst. Periodically swap back to Nahida to reuse All Schemes to Know again either for new waves of enemies or due to its powerful Dendro application to maintain any ongoing reactions.

Using Illusory Heart is a huge buff to your team, dealing increased damage from All Schemes to Know as well as buffing the entire parties Elemental Mastery up to a maximum of 250.

Nahida has 2 very unique gameplay benefits that take place outside of combat surrounding All Schemes to Know.

Nahida can collect up to 4 nearby items from the open world at a time using her Elemental Skill such as berries and flowers. This does not work for animals/collectables that move such as Scarabs in the desert.

Nahida can also use her Elemental Skill on NPCs in Sumeru to read their thoughts and gain additional dialogue. This is mainly for normal NPCs out in the world but at times can be used on other playable characters for example during an event.

Nahida's best team comps all revolve around Dendro's reactions, that being Quicken, Bloom, Burgeon and Hyperbloom. Dendro is an incredibly powerful element and having Nahida helps massively.

Hyperbloom almost always wants you to pair Nahida with either Raiden Shogun or Kuki Shinobu, both are beneficial to be able to trigger Hyperbloom. The Electro character always wants to be built with Elemental Mastery, which makes Kuki Shinobu a better choice. Raiden Shogun works with other team compositions which would require you to build 2 sets of Artifacts to also allow her to work in Hyperbloom.

Nahida has amazing synergy with Nilou being able to proc her bountiful cores incredibly fast. So fast that you may need to be careful with the damage that Dendro cores deal back to you. This team does not really have much of a Main DPS with all 4 characters contributing to either Hydro or Dendro and bringing their own benefits. This can lead to varying damage numbers as no specific character is the cause of the blooms.

Furina can be a great addition to this team with her Fanfare stacks and pairs really well with Sangonomiya Kokomi and Baizhu.

Nahida is perfect for Quickbloom as a Sub DPS allowing Electro characters to deal high damage. Cyno's best variant of this team includes Nahida, Furina and Baizhu.

Nahida is great for creating Dendro Cores and helping to set up Burgeon in Burgeon teams. Compositions generally want 2 Hydro and 1 Pyro to maintain an effective balance of elements. Pyro will then always reacts with the Cores and not Hydro which could cause Vaporize reactions instead. Thoma shines in Burgeon when built with Elemental Mastery due to how effectively he can trigger Burgeon.