Nicole Best Teams and Team Compositions
Nicole is a 5-Star Pyro Catalyst user in Genshin Impact who primarily provides support via Shielding, and Attack buffing. This guide will focus on Nicole's best builds, artifacts, weapons and best team compositions.
Nicole's Best Teams & Character Synergies
Welcome to our Nicole team composition guide and character synergies overview for Genshin Impact. In this guide, we'll explore the best teams to build for Nicole, including recommended characters, character synergies, and team compositions to help Nicole reach her full damage potential.
Best Pairings and Synergies With Nicole
As an Attack buffer, Nicole primarily works best with characters that scale off Attack. Since Nicole has team-wide buffs, she has further synergy with off-field DPS units. Nicole is also Hexerei, so having another Hexerei character on the team is great, since you'll gain Hexerei: Secret Rite.
The other Hexerei supports also have great synergy with Nicole:
- Venti works well as a sub-DPS and buffer for Anemo DPS, while also providing the best crowd control in the game for AoE.
- Albedo works great with Geo DPS, dealing great damage and having decent buffing.
- Mona shines as a fantastic buffer for Vaporize.
- Fischl is great in Overload teams, dealing good single-target damage and good ATK % buffing.
- Sucrose is excellent for reaction-focused teams, particularly Vaporize and Melt.
- Prune at Constellation 6 is a decent general option for Attack scaling DPS, especially if they can benefit from Viridescent Venerer.
Hexerei DPS such as Varka, Venti, Klee, Lohen and Razor, naturally have great synergy with Nicole, since they all scale off Attack. The coordinated Attacks from Nicole's Elemental Burst will also deal more damage for Hexerei DPS, and they don't have to wait the 3 seconds for her extra 300 Attack buff either.
Anemo DPS have excellent synergy with Nicole, as they scale with Attack and she gives their teams The Bounty of Nature, a strong support buffing set, which Anemo damage used to lack. Wanderer especially appreciates Nicole's Shield. Xiao greatly appreciates having buffs that will last his full Elemental Burst duration.
Attack scaling Geo DPS like Navia and Ningguang can use Nicole as a great new buffing option, even providing a consistent Shield for Geo Resonance. But keep in mind these two are front-loaded DPS and will miss out on 300 of Nicole's Attack buff if you are not careful with your combo timing.
Dendro characters like Kinich and Emilie that don't make good use of Quicken and Bloom reactions get great value out of Nicole's buffs. Emilie in particular has historically not had access to many ways her damage can be buffed from off-field; Nicole and The Bounty of Nature solve this.
Nicole's buffs are great for Cryo DPS like Ganyu and Wriothesley in their Melt teams, making Melt more competitive with Freeze.
Pyro DPS can utilize Nicole well in a variety of different teams, including but not limited to Melt, Vaporize, Overload, or even Burning.
Nicole's Best Team Compositions
Listed below are a range of team compositions we recommend you use with Nicole. Her best teams, however, can depend both on what boss you are against as well as how you have built your characters. The inclusion or exclusion of any given team does not necessarily reflect its overall power; for example, some F2P teams may also be present.
Anemo DPS Teams
Melt Teams
Overload Teams
Burning Teams
Geo DPS Teams
Changelog
- 09 Apr. 2026: Nicole Guide added.
