Genshin Impact’s Collei is a sweet trainee forest ranger, and a four-star dendro bow-wielder with a simple yet effective kit. So grab a pita pocket, as we dive into our best Collei build, featuring her top team comps, weapons, artifacts, how to use her, and more.
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Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Collei build:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Collei build?
Collei is a four-star dendro bow-wielder. She predominantly excels in a sub-DPS or reaction driver role, where she applies dendro to enemies with her wide-reaching elemental burst and elemental skill, setting up devastating elemental reactions for your other characters.
Here’s a brief overview of our best Genshin Impact Collei build:
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Element | Dendro |
| Weapon | Bow |
| Best weapon | Polar Star |
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| Best artifact set | Deepwood Memories |
| Artifact substitute | Emblem of Severed Fate |
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Collei’s best weapon is the five-star bow, Polar Star. In terms of artifacts, we recommend a full set of Deepwood Memories – just keep in mind that you should only have one character equipped with this set per team, as the effect doesn’t stack.
When picking artifacts for Collei, you should generally focus on stats and sub-stats that boost her energy recharge, attack, and crit. For more in-depth recommendations and alternates, check out each of the dedicated sections below.
When leveling up her talents, we recommend prioritizing her elemental burst, then her elemental skill, and finally her normal attack.
With decent personal damage, affordable weapon options, and flexibility with both artifacts and team compositions, she makes a great secondary dendro character for many dendro reaction-focused teams. However, she’s pretty energy hungry, and relies on both her constellations and a well-invested teammates to really shine.
How to use Collei
Collei synergizes well with dendro DPS like Genshin Impact’s Tighnari, as you can equip her with Deepwood Memories in order to buff their dendro damage, while also enjoying the benefits of dendro resonance. The dendro resonance buff increases your party’s elemental mastery by 50 across the board, pushing it even higher when you trigger dendro elemental reactions.
Generally, her normal attacks aren’t worthwhile – it’s her skill and burst that you need to focus on.
Collei’s boomerang (the floral ring from her skill) is the trickiest part of her kit to master, but it’s also the key to a successful Collei player. It applies dendro once when you throw it out, and a second time when it returns, and has a pretty long cooldown of 12 seconds. Luckily, the throw and return applications space out Collei’s dendro application, allowing for a less front-loaded kit which, in turn, compliments quicken teams that require prolonged dendro application.
Unfortunately, due to its long animation, it can be surprisingly easy to hit enemies with Collei’s boomerang at a range, especially with faster enemies that move about a lot. The best way to ensure her boomerang hits both ways is to throw it when she’s close to the enemy, then keep an eye on the boomerang’s arc and move to the left or right of the enemy depending on its trajectory.
Luckily, her elemental burst is a lot easier to pull off – and it also happens to provide the majority of her damage. It has a 15-second cooldown which is only slightly longer than her skill’s cooldown, making her a great option for quickswap teams with rotations of between 15 and 20 seconds.
Unfortunately, the dendro application rate of her burst only ticks three to four times per rotation, but when combined with her skill and the right team, she can still help keep dendro application at a high up-time.
What’s Collei’s best weapon?
The best weapon for Collei is Polar Star or Aqua Simulacra. Both of these weapons have high base stats and useful damage boosts. However, they’re highly contested five-star weapons, which may be better used on other characters.
Favonius Warbow is Collei’s best four-star weapon. It offers some great energy recharge, and also boosts Collei’s elemental particle generation, which can be useful
