When you start playing Genshin Impact you see a mysterious fight between siblings and forces of darkness. There you choose who you’d like to play for brother (Aether) or sister (Lumine) and so your adventure begins. In the game, you will be referred to as Traveler and this is your first default and free 5-start champion in Genshin Impact. In this post, you will learn more about Anemo Traveler and the best comps that suits this character.
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Traveler is the only character in Genshin Impact who can change elemental powers. You will start with Anemo powers but as you proceed through the game and unlock new regions you’ll find new gods that will let you swap to another element. The other four are Geo, Electro, Dendro and Hydro but there’ll be more to come in the future. You will see that we have described Traveler character from all sides. In this post, you will see Anemo comps and you can click on other elements below to see the relevant comp for Traveler.
Traveler (Anemo) Build
Below you can see the best weapon option for playing Traveler (Anemo) in Genshin Impact. Accompanied by the best Traveler (Anemo) artifact set and its stat priorities.
Sub DPS Build
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
Skyward Blade
Weapon Substitutes: Primordial Jade Cutter, Festering Desire, Favonius Sword.
Artifact Set
Viridescent Venerer (4-Piece)
Artifact Main Stats Priority: ATK% Anemo DMG Bonus CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG
Sub Stats Priority: CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG > ATK% > Elemental Mastery / Energy Recharge
Talent Priority
Gust Surge > Palm Vortex > Foreign Ironwind
Best Team Compositions for Traveler (Anemo)
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 Traveler (Anemo) with Main DPS, sub DPS and one Support characters. Also, we have included alternative characters for each role that go well with Traveler (Anemo) too.
Anemo Traveler is a great and free source of Anemo resistance shred to support Xiao and providing Ameno particles to batter him. In addition, together they activate Anemo resonance. In such a composition, Xiao will be the main DPS. Zhongli will be sub DPS and the source of shields and Bennett will activate Pyro reactions for Swirl and heal the team.
Good characters for this comp: Diluc, Hu Tao, Klee, Yanfei, Ganyu, Xiangling, Fischl, Xingqiu, Jean, Diona.
If you want to know more about every teammate for Traveler (Anemo) 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.
Traveler (Anemo) Talents
Below you can see the list of talents that Traveler (Anemo) uses during the fight. Each of them we have described with the main characteristics.
Foreign Ironwind
Normal Attack
Normal Attack: Perform up to 5 rapid strikes.
Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to unleash 2 rapid sword strikes.
Plunging Attack: Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.
Palm Vortex
Elemental Skill
Grasping the wind’s might, you form a vortex of vacuum in your palm, causing continuous Anemo DMG to opponents in front of you. The vacuum vortex explodes when the skill duration ends, causing a greater amount of Anemo DMG over a larger area.
Hold: DMG and AoE will gradually increase.
Elemental Absorption: If the vortex comes into contact with Hydro/Pyro/Cryo/Electro, it will deal additional elemental DMG of that type.
Elemental Absorption may only occur once per use.
Gust Surge
Elemental Burst
Guiding the path of the wind currents, you summon a forward-moving tornado that pulls objects and opponents towards itself, dealing continuous Anemo DMG.
Elemental Absorption: If the tornado comes into contact with Hydro/Pyro/Cryo/Electro, it will deal additional elemental DMG of that type.
Elemental Absorption may only occur once per use.
Slitting Wind
1st Ascension Passive
The last hit of a Normal Attack combo unleashes a wind blade, dealing 60% of ATK as Anemo DMG to all opponents in its path.
Second Wind
4th Ascension Passive
Palm Vortex kills regenerate 2% HP for 5s. This effect can only occur once every 5s.
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 Traveler’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 Traveler’s talents.
Talent Level-Up Materials
Freedom Books: Teachings of Freedom, Guide to Freedom, Philosophies of Freedom.
Resistance Books: Guide to Resistance, Philosophies of Resistance.
Ballad Books: Guide to Ballad, Philosophies of Ballad.
Common Ascension Materials
Divining Scroll, Sealed Scroll, Forbidden Curse Scroll.
Weekly Boss Material
Dvalin’s Sigh
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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.
Traveler (Anemo) Constellations
Other characters in Genshin Impact have a different system of constellation upgrade as you can get them from wishes. Traveler is a free character that you start the game with and you don’t get any upgrades from wishes, so there is another constellation system. You will need to obtain Memory of Roving Gales a Constellation Activation Material item used to unlock Constellations for the Traveler when aligned with the Anemo element. You will get all six of them during the campaign:
Memory of Roving Gales
- Reward for quest For a Tomorrow Without Tears (Prologue, Act II)
- Reward for quest Song of the Dragon and Freedom (Prologue, Act III)
- Sold by Marjorie in Souvenir Shop, With Wind Comes Glory (limit 1, for 225 Anemo Sigils)
- Reward for reaching Adventure Rank 27
- Reward for reaching Adventure Rank 37
- Reward for reaching Adventure Rank 46
Level 1
Raging Vortex
Palm Vortex pulls in opponents and objects within a 5m radius.
Level 2
Uprising Whirlwind
Increases Energy Recharge by 16%.
Level 3
Sweeping Gust
Increases the Level of Gust Surge by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 4
Cherishing Breezes
Reduces DMG taken while casting Palm Vortex by 10%.
Level 5
Vortex Stellaris
Increases the Level of Palm Vortex by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.
Level 6
Intertwined Winds
Targets who take DMG from Gust Surge have their Anemo RES decreased by 20%.
If an Elemental Absorption occurred, then their RES towards the corresponding Element is also decreased by 20%.
Every Genshin Impact character has own set of constellations above you can see Traveler (Anemo) constellations list with descriptions.
Ascension Materials
In addition, there are ascension phases that increase the level cap for your character. After Traveler reaches the 20th level he/she can be ascended to the next ascension phase, up to phase 6, which allow getting 90th level. You can obtain Brilliant Diamond Sliver, Brilliant Diamond Fragment, Brilliant Diamond Chunk and Brilliant Diamond Gemstone as the reward by reaching a certain Adventure Rank at Adventure guild.
Character Ascension Materials
Brilliant Diamonds: Brilliant Diamond Sliver, Brilliant Diamond Fragment, Brilliant Diamond Chunk, Brilliant Diamond Gemstone.
Common Ascension Materials
Damaged Mask, Stained Mask, Ominous Mask.
Local Specialty
Windwheel Aster
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In order to level up ascension phases you’ll need materials. So the list of those required for Traveler is listed above.