Nahida is a playable Dendro character in Genshin Impact. She is one of the most powerful and thus popular characters for playing as Main DPS. We decided to write this guide to help you learn more about Nahida. In our Genshin Impact Nahida Build and Best Team Comp post you will learn about Nahida’s talents, how they work and how to upgrade them. Also, you will read about her Constellations that will help you make Nahida even more powerful. After that, we have written Genshin Impact Nahida Build where you’ll see the weapon and artifact set. And at last, we have mentioned the best team comps for Nahida as the Main DPS hero.
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Nahida Build
Below you can see the best weapon option for playing Nahida in Genshin Impact. Accompanied by the best Nahida artifact set and its stat priorities.
Main DPS Build
If you play this champion as a Support in your comp you should take the weapon and artifacts from the list below. They are believed to be the most effective ones in almost all situations.
Weapon
A Thousand Floating Dreams
Weapon Substitutes: Kagura’s Verity, Solar Pearl, The Widsith, Mappa Mare.
Artifact Set
Deepwood Memories (4-Piece)
Artifact Main Stats Priority: Elemental Mastery Dendro DMG Bonus CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG
Sub Stats Priority: Elemental Mastery > CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG > ATK% / Energy Recharge
Talent Priority
All Schemes to Know > Illusory Heart > Akara
Best Team Compositions for Nahida
When you play Genshin Impact everything depends not only on your main character but also on the composition. You should learn how elements complement each other and build the best team for your main. Below you can see the best team composition for Nahida with two Sub DPS and Support characters. Also, we have included alternative characters for each role that go well with Nahida too.
Nahida mainly deals DMG with her Elemental Skill, which connects 8 enemies at maximum and deals Dendro DMG to them while triggering elemental reactions. The Elemental Burst of Nahida buffs her Elemental Skill depending on the Element of her teammates. Yae Miko and Fischl provide Electro Element off-field which makes them perfect to cooperate with Nahida. Kokomi is the main healer and enables Bloom reactions in addition to reactions from Electro and Dendro.
How to Build Genshin Impact Nahida Team?
Good characters for this comp: Cyno, Keqing, Nilou, Yelan, Kamisato Ayato, Traveller (Dendro), Collei, Xingqiu, Xiangling, Zhongli, Jean, Kuki Shinobu, Dori, Bennett.
If you want to know more about every teammate for Nahida you can click on the link below and find them in the list of all Genshin Impact characters that we have described.
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In case you are still not sure what champion you want to pick as main we have Genshin Impact characters tier list with explanations on how to build your best team.
Nahida Talents
Below you can see the list of talents that Nahida uses during the fight. Each of them we have described with the main characteristics.
Akara
Normal Attack
Normal Attack: Performs up to 4 attacks that deal Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her.
Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her after a short casting time.
Plunging Attack: Calling upon the might of Dendro, Nahida plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Dendro DMG upon impact with the ground.
All Schemes to Know
Elemental Skill
Sends forth karmic bonds of wood and tree from her side, dealing AoE Dendro DMG and marking up to 8 opponents hit with the Seed of Skandha.
When held, this skill will trigger differently.
Hold
Enters Aiming Mode, which will allow you to select a limited number of opponents within a limited area. During this time, Nahida’s resistance to interruption will be increased.
When released, this skill deals Dendro DMG to these opponents and marks them with the Seed of Skandha.
Aiming Mode will last up to 5s and can select a maximum of 8 opponents.
Seed of Skandha
Opponents who have been marked by the Seed of Skandha will be linked to one another up till a certain distance.
After you trigger Elemental Reactions on opponents who are affected by the Seeds of Skandha or when they take DMG from Dendro Cores (including Burgeon and Hyperbloom DMG), Nahida will unleash Tri-Karma Purification on the opponents and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on her ATK and Elemental Mastery.
You can trigger at most 1 Tri-Karma Purification within a short period of time.
Illusory Heart
Elemental Burst
Manifests the Court of Dreams and expands the Shrine of Maya.
When the Shrine of Maya field is unleashed, the following effects will be separately unleashed based on the Elemental Types present within the party.
Pyro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the DMG dealt by Tri-Karma Purification from “All Schemes to Know” is increased.
Electro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the interval between each Tri-Karma Purification from “All Schemes to Know” is decreased.
Hydro: The Shrine of Maya’s duration is increased.
If there are at least 2 party members of the aforementioned Elemental Types present when the field is deployed, the aforementioned effects will be increased further.
Even if Nahida is not on the field, these bonuses will still take effect so long as party members are within the Shrine of Maya.
Compassion Illuminated
1st Ascension Passive
When unleashing Illusory Heart, the Shrine of Maya will gain the following effects:
The Elemental Mastery of the active character within the field will be increased by 25% of the Elemental Mastery of the party member with the highest Elemental Mastery.
You can gain a maximum of 250 Elemental Mastery in this manner.
Awakening Elucidated
4th Ascension Passive
Each point of Nahida’s Elemental Mastery beyond 200 will grant 0.1% Bonus DMG and 0.03% CRIT Rate to Tri-Karma Purification from All Schemes to Know.
A maximum of 80% Bonus DMG and 24% CRIT Rate can be granted to Tri-Karma Purification in this manner.
On All Things Meditated
Utility Passive
Nahida can use All Schemes to Know to interact with some harvestable items within a fixed AoE. This skill may even have some other effects…
Every talent can be upgraded up to level 15. But to do so you will need to gather materials on particular days. The list of the needed materials for leveling Nahida’s talents is mentioned in the next block.
Talent Leveling Materials
So here you can see all materials that you will need in order to level up Nahida’s talents.
Talent Level-Up Materials
Ingenuity Books: Teachings of Ingenuity, Guide to Ingenuity, Philosophies of Ingenuity.
Common Ascension Materials
Fungal Spores, Luminescent Pollen, Crystalline Cyst Dust.
Weekly Boss Material
Puppet Strings
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Some of them are required at the beginning for low levels and others are more advanced. We just wanted to focus your attention on material types in general.
Nahida Constellations
In Genshin Impact characters have a specific upgrade system called constellation. You will need to get a specific item called Stella Fortuna to increase the level of constellation. Each character has their own version of Stella Fortuna, which you get by obtaining a duplicate of the character from Wishes.
Level 1
The Seed of Stored Knowledge
When the Shrine of Maya is unleashed and the Elemental Types of the party members are being tabulated, the count will add 1 to the number of Pyro, Electro, and Hydro characters respectively.
Level 2
The Root of All Fullness
Opponents that are marked by Seeds of Skandha applied by Nahida herself will be affected by the following effects:
Burning, Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon Reaction DMG they receive can score CRIT Hits. CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG are fixed at 20% and 100% respectively.
Within 8s of being affected by Quicken, Aggravate, Spread, DEF is decreased by 30%.
Level 3
The Shoot of Conscious Attainment
Increases the Level of All Schemes to Know by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 4
The Stem of Manifest Inference
When 1/2/3/4 (or more) nearby opponents are affected by All Schemes to Know‘s Seeds of Skandha, Nahida’s Elemental Mastery will be increased by 100/120/140/160.
Level 5
The Leaves of Enlightening Speech
Increases the Level of Illusory Heart by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 6
The Fruit of Reason’s Culmination
When Nahida hits an opponent affected by All Schemes to Know’s Seeds of Skandha with Normal or Charged Attacks after unleashing Illusory Heart, she will use Tri-Karma Purification: Karmic Oblivion on this opponent and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on 200% of Nahida’s ATK and 400% of her Elemental Mastery.
DMG dealt by Tri-Karma Purification: Karmic Oblivion is considered Elemental Skill DMG and can be triggered once every 0.2s.
This effect can last up to 10s and will be removed after Nahida has unleashed 6 instances of Tri-Karma Purification: Karmic Oblivion.
Every Genshin Impact character has own set of constellations above you can see Nahida constellations list with descriptions.
Ascension Materials
In addition, there are ascension phases that increase the level cap for your character. After Nahida reaches the 20th level she can be ascended to the next ascension phase, up to phase 6, which allow getting 90th level.
Character Ascension Materials
Nagadus Emerald: Nagadus Emerald Sliver, Nagadus Emerald Fragment, Nagadus Emerald Chunk, Nagadus Emerald Gemstone.
Quelled Creeper
Common Ascension Materials
Fungal Spores, Luminescent Pollen, Crystalline Cyst Dust.
Local Specialty
Kalpalata Lotus
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In order to level up ascension phases you’ll need materials. So the list of those required for Nahida is listed above.