Nilou is a playable Hydro character in Genshin Impact. She is one of the most powerful and thus popular champions. We decided to write this guide to help you learn more about Nilou. In our Genshin Impact Nilou Build and Best Team Comp post you will learn about Nilou’s talents, how they work and how to upgrade them. Also, you will read about her Constellations that will help you make Nilou even more powerful. After that, we have written Genshin Impact Nilou Build where you’ll see weapon and artifact set. And at last, we have mentioned the best team comps for Nilou as the Sub DPS hero.
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Below you can see the best weapon option for playing Nilou in Genshin Impact. Accompanied by the best Nilou artifact set and its stat priorities.
If you play this champion as a Sub DPS 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
Haran Geppaku Futsu
Weapon Substitutes: Favonius Sword, Iron Sting, Festering Desire.
Artifact Set
Gilded Dreams (2-Piece) & Tenacity of the Millelith (2-Piece)
Artifact Main Stats Priority:
Sub Stats Priority: HP% > Elemental Mastery / Energy Recharge > CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG
Talent Priority
Dance of Haftkarsvar > Dance of Abzendegi: Distant Dreams, Listening Spring > Dance of Samser
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 Nilou with 2 Sub DPS characters and one support. Also, we have included alternative characters for each role that go well with Nilou too.
Nilou is the Sub DPS in this team. Nilou provides Hydro elements for triggering Bloom reaction in this team. Because of Nilou’s passive talent, which transforms the cores generated from Bloom into Bountiful Cores if the team is only composed of Dendro and Hydro Character you cab deal more AoE DMG. Those Bountiful Cores burst quicker than regular cores and also deal larger AoE DMG. Dendro Traveler and Collei provide the off-field Dendro allowing the continuous production of Blooms. Kokomi will continuously provide Hydro attack reactions with the Dendro element and heal the team using its Elemental Skill preventing damage from Dendro Cores.
How to Build Genshin Impact Nilou Team?
Good characters for this comp: Tighnari, Mona, Yelan, Xingqiu, Barbara.
If you want to know more about every teammate for Nilou 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.
Below you can see the list of talents that Nilou uses during the fight. Each of them we have described with the main characteristics.
Dance of Samser
Normal Attack
Normal Attack: Performs up to 3 consecutive sword strikes.
Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to perform a twirling slash.
Plunging Attack: Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.
Dance of Haftkarsvar
Elemental Skill
Nilou will enter the Pirouette state, dealing Hydro DMG to nearby opponents based on her Max HP. While she is in the Pirouette state, Nilou’s Normal Attacks and Elemental Attacks will cause her to enter the Sword Dance and Whirling Steps stances respectively, causing DMG she deals to be converted to Hydro DMG that cannot be overridden and that is considered Elemental Skill DMG. In these stances, Nilou’s third dance step will end Pirouette, and has the following effects:
Sword Dance: unleashes a Luminous Illusion that deals Hydro DMG to opponents it touches and grants Nilou the Lunar Prayer effect. This effect converts Nilou’s Normal Attacks into Sword Dance techniques, and her final hit will unleash a Luminous Illusion.
Whirling Steps: Nilou unleashes a Whirling Water Wheel that deals AoE Hydro DMG and creates a Tranquility Aura that follows your active character around and applies Wet to opponents within its AoE.
Nilou is unable to perform Charged Attacks when under the effect of Pirouette or Lunar Prayer. These effects will be removed once she leaves the field.
Dance of Abzendegi: Distant Dreams, Listening Spring
Elemental Burst
Begins the dance of faraway dreams and springs that hear, causing a Lotus of Distant Waters to bloom, dealing AoE Hydro DMG based on Nilou’s Max HP and applying the Lingering Aeon effect to all opponents hit. After an interval, opponents affected by Lingering Aeon will take Hydro DMG.
Court of Dancing Petals
1st Ascension Passive
When all characters in the party are all Dendro or Hydro, and there are at least one Dendro character and one Hydro character:
The completion of the third dance step of Nilou’s Dance of Haftkarsvar will grant all nearby characters the Golden Chalice’s Bounty for 30s.
Characters under the effect of Golden Chalice’s Bounty will increase the Elemental Mastery of all nearby characters by 100 for 10s whenever they are hit by Dendro attacks. Also, triggering the Bloom reaction will create Bountiful Cores instead of Dendro Cores.
Such Cores will burst very quickly after being created, and they have larger AoEs.
Bountiful Cores cannot trigger Hyperbloom or Burgeon, and they share an upper numerical limit with Dendro Cores. Bountiful Core DMG is considered DMG dealt by Dendro Cores produced by Bloom.
Should the party not meet the conditions for this Passive Talent, any existing Golden Chalice’s Bounty effects will be canceled.
Dreamy Dance of Aeons
4th Ascension Passive
Every 1,000 points of Nilou’s Max HP above 30,000 will cause the DMG dealt by Bountiful Cores created by characters affected by Golden Chalice’s Bounty to increase by 9%.
The maximum increase in Bountiful Core DMG that can be achieved this way is 400%.
White Jade Lotus
Utility Passive
When Perfect Cooking is achieved on Food with Adventure-related effects, there is a 12% chance to obtain double the product.
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 Nilou’s talents is mentioned in the next block.
So here you can see all materials that you will need in order to level up Nilou’s talents.
Talent Level-Up Materials
Praxis Books: Teachings of Praxis, Guide to Praxis, Philosophies of Praxis.
Common Ascension Materials
Fungal Spores, Luminescent Pollen, Crystalline Cyst Dust.
Weekly Boss Material
Tears of the Calamitous God
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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.
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
Dance of the Waning Moon
Dance of Haftkarsvar will be enhanced as follows:
Luminous Illusion DMG is increased by 65%.
The Tranquility Aura’s duration is extended by 6s.
Level 2
The Starry Skies Their Flowers Rain
After characters affected by the Golden Chalice’s Bounty deal Hydro DMG to an opponent, that opponent’s Hydro RES will be decreased by 35% for 10s. After a triggered Bloom reaction deals DMG to opponents, their Dendro RES will be decreased by 35% for 10s.
You need to have unlocked the “Court of Dancing Petals” Talent.
Level 3
Beguiling Shadowstep
Increases the Level of Dance of Abzendegi: Distant Dreams, Listening Spring by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 4
Fricative Pulse
After the third dance step of Dance of Haftkarsvar’s Pirouette hits opponents, Nilou will gain 15 Elemental Energy, and DMG from her Dance of Abzendegi: Distant Dreams, Listening Spring will be increased by 50% for 8s.
Level 5
Twirling Light
Increases the Level of Dance of Haftkarsvar by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 6
Frostbreaker’s Melody
For every 1,000 points of Max HP, Nilou’s CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG will increase by 0.6% and 1.2% respectively.
The maximum increase in CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG via this method is 30% and 60% respectively.
Every Genshin Impact character has own set of constellations above you can see Nilou constellations list with descriptions.
In addition, there are ascension phases that increase the level cap for your character. After Nilou 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
Varunada Lazurite: Varunada Lazurite Sliver, Varunada Lazurite Fragment, Varunada Lazurite Chunk, Varunada Lazurite Gemstone.
Perpetual Caliber
Common Ascension Materials
Fungal Spores, Luminescent Pollen, Crystalline Cyst Dust.
Local Specialty
Padisarah
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In order to level up ascension phases you’ll need materials. So the list of those required for Nilou is listed above.
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