The best Raiden Shogun build in Genshin Impact will take some time to achieve. But once you do, you will have the strongest Electro character in the game.
Raiden Shogun is a popular character in Genshin Impact. As the archon of Inazuma, her banner generated some of the most revenue in the game’s history. Raiden Shogun has been the strongest Electro character since she debuted in 2.1, and even though many units in her element have been introduced since then, no one has been able to dethrone her.
Raiden Shogun is one of the most interesting characters in Genshin Impact since she can function as both a DPS and a support unit. If you are someone who is interested in achieving the best Raiden Shogun build in Genshin Impact, this article will provide you with all the necessary information.
Contents
- Raiden Shogun: Skills
- Best Raiden Shogun build: Constellations
- Raiden Shogun Ascension materials
- Best Raiden Shogun build: Artifacts
- Raiden Shogun Weapons
- Best Raiden Shogun build: Team
Genshin Impact: Raiden Shogun Skills
Before diving into the best build Raiden Shogun builds, let’s review her skills. Shogun’s abilities include the ability to generate burst energy for the entire squad as well as do heavy damage to foes. Her skill and elemental burst have some of the highest damage multipliers, allowing her to function as an on-field DPS if necessary. Here’s a rundown of her abilities.
- Normal Attack: Performs 5 consecutive strikes dealing Physical damage.
- Skill: Deals Electro damage and summons a eye. This eye will follow the active character and will deal elemental damage when the on-field character attacks. This damage will be triggered every 0.9 seconds.
- Passive: Raiden gains a stack every time an ally uses their elemental burst or when they gain energy particles. She can accumulate a total of 60 stacks
- Elemental Burst: Raiden unsheathes her katana, dealing a huge AoE Electro damage based on the stacks she gains. After that she can perform 14 consecutive strikes of Electro attack which deals damage to enemies as well as provides energy for the entire team.
For leveling up talents prioritize in the following order:
- Ultimate -> Skill -> Normal attack
Her ultimate is her kit’s bread and butter. You should prioritize maximizing it.
Genshin Impact: Raiden Shogun Constellations
The best Raiden Shogun build is kind of tied to her constellations. The archon of Inazuma boasts one of the best constellation trees in Genshin Impact. Each constellation you obtain for her further strengthens her role as one of the best damage dealers as well as a support unit in the game. Do note, Constellation 3 and 5 are excluded as they provide a +3 level to her skill and ultimate respectively.
- Constellation 1: Accumulates her stacks faster.
- Constellation 2: When using elemental burst, her attacks ignores 60% enemy DEF
- Constellation 4: When her burst ends, all party members excluding the Shogun gains a 30% attack bonus for 10 seconds.
- Constellation 6: Each strike from Raiden’s burst can decrease the cooldown of party members’ burst by 1 second. This effect can be triggered 5 times.
If you want to invest your precious Primogems on Raiden Shogun for her constellation, it is highly recommended to do so.
Genshin Impact: Raiden Shogun ascension and talent level up materials
Raiden Shogun needs the following materials for her to be completely leveled up.
Ascension Materials
- Mora: 420,000
- Boss Materials (Thunder Manifestation): 46x Storm beads
- World Material: 168x Amakumo Fruit
- Enemy Material: 18xOld Handguard, 30x Kageuchi Handguard and 36x Famed Handguard
- Gemstone: 1x Vajrada Amethyst Sliver, 9x Vajrada Amethyst Fragment, 9x Vajrada Amethyst Chunk, 6x Vajrada Amethyst Gemstone
Talent level up materials
- Mora: 4,957,500
- Talent Books: 9x Teachings, 63x Guide, 114x Philosophies of Transience
- Enemy Materials: 18x Old Handguard, 66x Kageuchi Handguard, 93x Famed Handguard
- Crowns: 3x
Boss Material (La Signora): 18x Molten Moment
Genshin Impact: Raiden Shogun’s best artifacts
Genshin Impact currently has only one 4-piece artifact set dedicated to Raiden Shogun.
- Emblem of Severed Fate: Increases Energy Regeneration and increases elemental burst damage by a 25% of the Energy Recharge of a character. A total of 75% damage can be obtained.
You can run a few 2 piece alternatives, but a 4-piece emblem outclasses any other artifact build on her. Here are a few recommendations.
- 2 piece attack+2 piece Emblem
- 2 piece Emblem+2 piece Thundering Fury
- 2 piece Thundering Fury+2 piece attack.
For artifact stats, focus on the following
- 1:2 Crit Rate to Crit Damage ratio. Try to target a 65+ Crit rate build as her attacks not crit hitting means a major damage loss.
- Attack/Energy Recharge sands
- Attack goblet
- Crit rate or Crit damage head-piece as per your requirements.
- Targeted energy recharge should be around 250%.
While one can run Raiden for Dendro-based reaction teams, specifically Hyperbloom, it is not recommended to do so as it not only handicaps her kit but also better 4-star options exist that are tailor-made for Dendro reactions.
Genshin Impact Raiden Shogun: Best Weapon options
Raiden has quite a few weapon options that she can use. This article will list down some of the best weapons as well as some free-to-play ones.
- Engulfing Lightning: This is undoubtedly her best weapon. This polearm allows her to be a stronger unit overall, thanks to the increased attack bonus it provides based on her Energy Recharge.
- Skyward Spine: The Spine provides increased attack speed, Crit rate and has a high base attack alongside Energy Recharge substat
- The Catch: If you lack any good 5-star alternatives, The Catch is your go-to polearm for Raiden. This is a free-to-play polearm that you can obtain from the fishing minigame. The Catch lacks a high base attack but makes up for it with a Energy Recharge substat and bonus to both Crit rate and Crit damage.
- Staff of Homa: Homa is an universal DPS weapon that provides high attack and Crit damage.
Genshin Impact Raiden Shogun team guide
Raiden can be used as a support on most teams and as a damage dealer in a few others. Here are some team-building options you might attempt with her.
- National: Raiden, Bennett, Xiangling, Xingqiu/Yelan
- Overload: Raide, Bennett, Xiangling, Chevreuse
- Hypercarry: Raiden, Bennett, Kazuha/Sucrose, Kujo Sara
- Aggravate support: Alhaitham, Collei/Nahida/Yaoyao, Raiden, Zhongli
- Physical support: Mika/Bennett, Eula, Raiden, Rosaria
She is quite flexible in terms of team building and can be used in many team compositions making her one of the best unit in Genshin Impact.
Raiden’s familiar and another great Electro unit, Yae Miko will receive her rerun banner in the second half of version 4.4. For now, Cloud Retainer aka Xianyun and Nahida the Dendro Archon have their banner live as part of Phase 1.
