Ride the waves of Natlan with Genshin Impact’s Mualani – an eager tour guide and a really fun playable character. When not attending to her shop in the Springs area, she can be found zooming around on a shark-shaped surfboard or throwing water bombs in our team comps. Here’s how to get the best Mualani build out there.
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Here’s everything you need to know about Genshin Impact’s Mualani:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Mualani build?
Mualani is a five-star character who uses the hydro element and a catalyst weapon.
| Best weapon | Surf’s Up! |
| Weapon substitutes | Ring of Yaxche, Ash-Graven Drinking Horn |
| Best artifact set | Obsidian Codex |
| Main stats | Sands – HP Goblet – Hydro damage bonus Circlet – Crit rate/damage |
| Sub stats | HP, crit rate, crit damage, energy recharge |
Mualani’s kit is incredibly fun – she rides a Sharky Surfboard across the overworld and into battle, then throws water bombs during her normal attacks.
The best weapon for Mualani is the Surf’s Up catalyst. If you have this, the weapon’s skill means she’s best placed for a vape team, with classic teammates like Genshin Impact’s Xiangling, Genshin Impact’s Thoma, or Genshin Impact’s Dehya.
She’s a little more flexible if you don’t get her signature weapon, though, allowing her to shine in any hydro reaction team. Her attacks scale off her HP stat, so make sure to keep an eye on your artifacts and their stats to get as much as you can – but throw some crit rate and crit damage in there too.
How do I use Mualani?
Mualani’s kit is a bit different from what we’re used to. As a debut Natlan character, she has a new side to her kit called the Nightsoul Blessing state.
Mualani enters the Nightsoul Blessing state when you activate her elemental skill – she rides her sharky surfboard, and you can see how long it has left thanks to the meter on the side.
When in the Nightsoul Blessing (surfing) state, if you knock into opponents, you mark them as Prey, and Mualani gains a Wave Momentum stack. This increases the damage of her normal attacks when in the Nightsoul state, which can do some heavy damage. You can see the amount of stacks she has as they light up next to the Nightsoul meter. When you have three stacks, use her normal attack, and watch the big numbers appear.
The best way to use Mualani is to enter the Nightsoul Blessing state, then surf toward enemies and mark them, then use her normal attacks while surfing to deal heavier damage. Her elemental burst can also provide a big instance of hydro damage to each enemy on field. The key is to set up any other elements before entering her rotation – though with the lack of off-field pyro, this can be the tricky bit.
What are Mualani’s best weapons?
We recommend Mualani’s signature weapon, Surf’s Up, for her kit. This boosts her vaporize damage and her crit damage overall, as well as adding a chunk to her HP stat.
If you’re not in a place to pull for a limited five-star weapon, we have some other recommendations for you, including the catalyst given for free to every player upon entering Natlan, and an event reward.
| Surf’s Up | Bonuseffect: Increases crit damage Skill: Increases Mualani’s maximum HP by 20%. Once every 15 seconds, for the 14 seconds after using an elemental skill, she gains four Scorching Summer stacks. Each stack increases her normal attack damage by 12%. During this effect, she loses a stack every 1.5 seconds after a normal attack hits an opponent, but gains a stack when triggering a vaporize reaction. She can hold four stacks at maximum | Weapon banner |
| Ring of Yaxche | Bonuseffect: Increases HP Skill: Using an elemental skill grants Mualani the Jade-Forged Crown effect: every 1,000 of her maximum HP increases her normal attack damage by 0.6% for ten seconds. The maximum damage able to be gained is 16% | Forged, and free during Natlan |
| Ash-Graven Drinking Horn | Bonus effect: Increases HP Skill: When an attack hits an opponent, Mualani deals AoE damage equal to 40% of her maximum HP at the target location. This effect can be triggered once every 15 seconds | Event reward |
What are the best artifacts for Mualani?
For Mualani, you want to focus on hydro damage, HP, and the new Nightsoul mechanics specifically for Natlan characters. The best artifact set for Mualani is Obsidian Codex, but you can mix and match HP and hydro-boosting two-piece sets.
Remember to focus on individual pieces’ stats, too – for Mualani you need HP, crit damage and crit rate, and a hydro damage boosting goblet.
