5.8 Genshin Impact Tier List and Best Character Rankings
Welcome to our comprehensive Genshin Impact Tier List, where we break down the best characters to help you conquer Teyvat's toughest challenges. Whether you're assembling a powerful team for Spiral Abyss or just exploring the world, this guide will rank each character based on their performance in various roles, including Main DPS, Sub DPS and support.
Genshin Impact 5.8 Tier List
Our Tier List for Genshin Impact organises characters into 3 roles. A Main DPS, Sub DPS and Support. Click their icons to open a characters build guide!
Some characters rank in our Tier List multiple times where they can fit multiple roles, for example Raiden Shogun who can be a Main DPS, Sub DPS and Support. Many support characters do have the ability to provide off-field damage or apply an element however if there is a significant difference then they have been omitted.
Tier lists can be great for showing a rough estimate of a character's performance relative to other characters in their role. Please know that every character in Genshin Impact is viable regardless of their ranking and can clear all content with enough investment. Make sure to pick the character you like and want over the character that performs better!
Genshin Impact 5.8 Tier List Changes and Additions
Below are the most recent changes to our tier list which is the changes in patch 5.8 which focuses on the release of Ineffa.
| Character | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Ineffa | Ineffa is our shockingly powerful Electro Sub DPS/Shielder
combo, essentially following in the footsteps of Escoffier of being both a
sustain unit as well as a powerful Sub DPS. This seems to be the trend for the future
where characters will be having more role compression in their kits. |
| Xingqiu | We lowered Xingqiu down by a tier with version 5.8, while he is still an incredibly powerful character nowadays he is more easily outclassed by Yelan who has only aged better as time went on. |
| Zhongli | While still the undefeated king of shielding, Zhongli's main utility aside from that is the 20% RES Shred he provides. This used to be much rarer but not a wide range of characters provide more RES Shred alongside increased utility. Additional shielding provides nothing if less shielding keeps you alive and Zhongli's damage or team-wide utility is not enough to compensate for that. |
Tier List Explanations and Ranking Criteria
Our Tier List for Genshin Impact groups characters as either a Main DPS, Sub DPS or a support.
- Main DPS: A character who spends the majority of their time on-field in the team to deal massive damage.
- Sub DPS: Characters that have good elemental application to create Elemental Reactions for the team or deal high amounts of damage while off-field.
- Support: Healers, Shielders and buffers. These characters may also deal some damage while off-field but their value lies in the supportive utility they give the party.
Characters are then ranked in their respective role based on D to S+ rankings based on their damage, ease of play, elemental application, buffs they provide to the team and how widely used they are.
Characters in the same tier are simply in alphabetical order and generally speaking it is pointless to compare characters in the same tier due to them rarely overlapping directly in roles and having different elements that allow them to be more or less suitable based on the fight.
Changelog
- 29 Jul. 2025: Updated for 5.8.
- 18 Jun. 2025: Updated for 5.7.
- 07 May 2025: Updated for 5.6.
- 25 Mar. 2025: Updated for 5.5
- 12 Feb. 2025: Updated for 5.4.
- 02 Jan. 2025: Updated for 5.3.
- 12 Dec. 2024: Added Tier List.
This guide has been written by Shikhu (Discord - Shikhu), an avid Genshin Impact player who has been exploring Teyvat since the game has launched. He has experienced all the game has to offer from building his favorite characters, exploring the world to clearing Spiral Abyss each rotation. His favorite character being his C6 Furina.