As Genshin Impact Mona once said, ‘fate is called as such, for it can’t be changed’, and we predict that your fate holds a powerful team comp with the help of this build. Mona Magistus is a five-star hydro catalyst wielder and a great astrologist with the power of divination. So, you can use our build guide, featuring her skills, constellations, artifacts, and more, to get the most out of her.
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Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Mona build:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Mona build?
Mona is a 5-star Hydro Catalyst character that you can pick up very early on in the game. She’s an astrologist who lives in Mondstadt in an attempt to hide from the anger of her master after she accidentally read their diary. She performs best as a support, but she can also dish out some fairly good DPS on the battle field.
Here’s a brief overview of our best Mona build:
| Best weapon | Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds |
| Weapon alternatives | Skyward Atlas |
| Best artifact set | Noblesse Oblige (support) Heart of Depth (DPS) |
| Artifact set alternatives | Brave Heart (DPS) Scholar (support) |
| Main stats | DPS Mona
Support Mona
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| Sub-stats | DPS Mona
Support Mona
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Mona’s best weapon is Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds thanks to the movement speed buff and crit rate boost. Her best support artifact set is Noblesse Oblige with lots of energy recharge, hydro damage, and crit rate. Alternatively, her best DPS artifact set is Heart of Depth built with plenty of attack, crit rate, crit damage, and hydro damage.
How to use Mona
Mona is a five-star hydro catalyst user and one of the most flexible supports in the game. She synergizes well in freeze teams with powerful DPS like Ganyu or Ayaka and provides your team with a substantial damage boost. She’s relatively cheap to build, can dish out some nasty damage, and doesn’t require much field time, making her a suitable option in quickswap teams. Plus, she’s capable of also acting as a DPS or sub-DPS under the right circumstances.
However, her kit is pretty tricky, and it takes quite a lot of practice (and, sometimes, a splash of luck) to get the most of her mechanics. Her burst is especially complicated and hard to time and can be easily sabotaged by a misplaced turret, normal attack, or lingering construct. But, with some patience and TLC, Mona is certainly worth your while.
What are the best weapons for Mona?
Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds is the best five-star option for Mona as long as you’re able to maintain at least one stack. The additional movement speed is great for helping her dodge attacks, and the crit rate stat makes her somewhat easier to build when it comes to artifacts.
Alternatively, Skyward Atlas is a great option but requires you to build enough crit to support it. However, it can be a little tricky to get it to synergize with her perfect combo. Check out the super detailed Keqingmains Mona guide to find out more about her perfect combo and how to pull it off.
When it comes to four-star options, The Widsith charges into the lead, even outperforming its five-star competitors. It’s the perfect choice for most Mona builds and team comps, but underperforms in electro-charged teams. Alternatively, Mappa Mare is an amazing choice, especially in vaporize teams. Plus, it’s F2P friendly as you can forge it and its refinements at the blacksmith.
Here are the best weapons for Mona:
| Weapon | Effect | How to obtain |
| Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds | Bonus stat: crit rate Skill: Increases movement speed by 10%. When in battle, gain an 8% elemental damage bonus every four seconds. Max four stacks. Lasts until Mona falls or leaves combat | Weapon gacha |
| Skyward Atlas | Bonus stat: attack Skill: Increases elemental damage bonus by 12%. Normal attack hits have a 50% chance to earn the favor of the clouds, which actively seeks out nearby opponents to attack for 15 seconds, dealing 160% attack damage. Can only occur once every 30 seconds | Weapon gacha |
| The Widsith | Bonus stat: crit damage Skill: When a character takes the field, they gain a random theme song for ten seconds: Recitative – increases attack by 60% Aria – increases elemental damage by 48% Interlude – increases elemental mastery by 240 The effects only occur once every 30 seconds | Weapon gacha |
| Mappa Mare | Bonus stat: elemental mastery Skill: Triggering an elemental reaction grants an 8% elemental damage bonus for ten seconds. Max two stacks | Forging or Stellar Reunion |
What are the best artifacts for Mona?
For support Mona, Noblesse Oblige is the best option, offering an amazing buff to your team. For a more DPS-focused Mona, Heart of Depth is the best option due to its accessible uptime and high damage.
We’ve also included two artifact sets that offer similar buffs for earlier in the game – Brave Heart for DPS-focused Mona and Scholar for support Mona, especially if your team features catalyst and bow users.
Here are the best artifacts for Mona:
| Artifact set | Effect | How to obtain |
| Noblesse Oblige | Two equipped: elemental burst damage +20% Four equipped: increases all party members’ attack by 20% for 12 seconds after using an elemental burst. This effect cannot stack | Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern domain in Minlin, Mt. Aozang, Liyue, or from the Noblesse Oblige Artifact Strongbox |
| Heart of Depth | Two equipped: hydro damage +15% Four equipped: increases normal and charged attack damage after using an elemental skill by 30% for 15 seconds | Peak of Vindagnyr domain on Dragonspine, in Mondstadt |
| Brave Heart | Two equipped: attack +18% Four equipped: increases damage by 30% enemies with more than 50% HP | Chests, enemy drops, domains |
| Scholar | Two equipped: energy recharge +20% Four equipped: gaining energy gives three energy to all party members equipped with a bow or a catalyst. Can only occur once every three seconds | Chests, enemy drops, domains |
Artifact stat recommendations
When choosing artifacts for Mona, we recommend you prioritize the following stats.
DPS Mona main stats
- Sands: attack%
- Goblet: hydro damage
- Circlet: crit rate or crit damage (try to maintain a 1:2 ratio)
DPS Mona sub-stats
- Attack%
- Energy recharge
- Crit rate/crit damage
- Elemental mastery
Support Mona main stats
- Sands: energy recharge
- Goblet: hydro damage bonus
- Circlet: crit rate
Support Mona sub-stats
- Energy recharge – prioritize until requirements are met (enough to comfortably burst off cooldown, roughly 200-300% in most builds)
- Attack%
- Elemental mastery
- Crit rate/crit damage
What are the best Mona team comps?
Mona’s hydro application makes her a great asset to a variety of teams, and thanks to the inevitability of losing the 50/50, most players have her at at least C0. C2 Mona is ideal if you’re building her as a main hydro DPS, and she benefits from multi-element compositions thanks to her Prophecy of Submersion constellation boosting reaction damage.
Here’s an example of a strong DPS Mona team comp:
| First character slot | Second character slot | Third character slot | Fourth character slot |
| Mona | Venti | Ganyu | Diona |
Alternatively, here’s an example of a strong support Mona team comp:
| First character slot | Second character slot | Third character slot | Fourth character slot |
| Mona | Hu Tao | Sucrose | Diona |
What are Mona’s abilities?
Mona’s kit is great for applying hydro to enemies and drawing their fire, setting up for elemental reactions like freeze and vaporize. Her passive skill, Illusory Torrent, also grants her an alternate sprint to outrun opponents and apply even more hydro.
Active skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Normal attack: Ripple of Fate | Normal: Unleashes up to four hydro attacks Charged: Deals AoE hydro damage after consuming a small amount of stamina Plunging: Deals AoE hydro damage on impact with the ground |
| Elemental skill: Mirror Reflection of Doom | Press: Summons a phantom that taunts enemies and deals hydro damage, exploding on death, dealing AoE hydro damage Hold: Moves backward quickly before conjuring a phantom. Only one phantom can exist at a time |
| Elemental burst: Stellaris Phantasm | Traps opponents in an Illusory Bubble, causing the wet status effect. When an enemy takes damage while in the bubble, the following effects occur:
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| Alternate sprint: Illusory Torrent | Stamina is consumed to move at high speed over water and apply the wet status to opponents |
Passive skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Come ‘n’ Get Me, Hag! | After using Illusory Torrent for two seconds around enemies, Mona summons a phantom. This phantom lasts for two seconds, and its explosion damage is equal to 50% of Mirror Reflection of Doom |
| Waterborne Destiny | Increases Mona’s hydro damage bonus by 20% of her energy recharge rate |
| Principium of Astrology | When crafting weapon ascension materials, Mona has a 25% chance to refund some of the materials used |
What are Mona’s constellations?
When you pull more than one of each playable character in the gacha mechanic, you can unlock one of their constellations, which are special abilities that can only be obtained this way.
Here are all six of Mona’s constellations and what they do.
| Constellation | Effect |
| C1: Prophecy of Submersion | For eight seconds after a character hits an enemy affected by an Omen, electro-charged, vaporize, and hydro swirl damage increases by 15%. Frozen duration increases by 15% |
| C2: Lunar Chain | After a normal attack hits, there is a 20% chance it will automatically be followed by a charged attack. Can only occur once every five seconds |
| C3: Restless Revolution | Increases the level of Stellaris Phantasm by three, up to a maximum level of 15 |
| C4: Prophecy of Oblivion | When a character attacks an enemy affected by an Omen, their crit rate is increased by 15% |
| C5: Mockery of Fortuna | Increases the level of Mirror Reflection of Doom by three, up to a maximum level of 15 |
| C6: Rhetorics of Calamitas | Upon entering Illusory Torrent, Mona gains a 60% damage increase to her next charged attack per second of movement. A maximum damage bonus of 180% can be achieved. The effect lasts up to eight seconds |
What are Mona’s ascension materials?
You can level Mona up to increase her effectiveness, but you need a specific set of materials to do so. Make sure you keep hold of all your philanemo mushrooms, you’re going to need a lot to ascend Mona!
Here are all the materials you need to fully ascend Mona.
| Required level | Mora | Materials |
| 20 | 20k | One varunada lazurite sliver, three philanemo mushroom, three whopperflower nectar |
| 40 | 40k | Three varunada lazurite fragment, two cleansing heart, ten philanemo mushroom, 15 whopperflower nectar |
| 50 | 60k | Six varunada lazurite fragment, four cleansing heart, 20 philanemo mushroom, 12 shimmering nectar |
| 60 | 80k | Three varunada lazurite chunk, eight cleansing heart, 30 philanemo mushroom, 18 shimmering nectar |
| 70 | 100k | Six varunada lazurite chunk, 12 cleansing heart, 45 philanemo mushroom, 12 energy nectar |
| 80 | 120k | Six varunada lazurite gemstone, 20 cleansing heart, 60 philanemo mushroom, 24 energy nectar |
Here’s where to get all of Mona’s ascension materials:
- Philanemo mushrooms – obtained in Mondstadt, Springvale, and around the Dawn Winery
- Varunada Lazurite gemstones – can be bought in souvenir shops, or dropped by bosses like Rhodeia of Loch, Hydro Hypostasis, Aeonblight Drake, Iniquitous Baptist, Hydro Tulpa, Childe, Azhdaha, Dvalin, Scaramouche, Primo Geovishap, and All-Devouring Narwhal
- Energy nectar – obtained from Whopperflowers
- Cleansing heart – obtained by defeating the Oceanid, Rhodeia of Loch
What are Mona’s talent materials?
You can level up Mona’s attacks, but you’ll need several materials to do so.
Here are all the talent level-up materials you need to ascend one of Mona’s talents to level ten.
| Talent level | Mora | Materials |
| Two | 12k | Six whopperflower nectar, three teachings of resistance |
| Three | 17.5k | Three shimmering nectar, two guide to resistance |
| Four | 25k | Four shimmering nectar, four guide to resistance |
| Five | 30k | Six shimmering nectar, six guide to resistance |
| Six | 37.5k | Nine shimmering nectar, nine guide to resistance |
| Seven | 120k | Four energy nectar, four philosophies of resistance, one ring of Boreas |
| Eight | 260k | Six energy nectar, six philosophies of resistance, one ring of Boreas |
| Nine | 450k | Nine energy nectar, 12 philosophies of resistance, two ring of Boreas |
| Ten | 700k | 12 energy nectar, 16 philosophies of resistance, two ring of Boreas, one crown of insight |
Here’s where to get all of Mona’s talent materials:
- Books of resistance – obtained from the Forsaken Rift on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Ring of Boreas – obtained by completing the Wolf of the North domain in Wolvendom
- Nectar – obtained from Whopperflowers
There you have it! That’s everything you need to know about Genshin Impact’s Mona. If you want even more gacha goodness, make sure to snap up the latest Zenless Zone Zero codes, Honkai Star Rail codes, and Wuthering Waves codes.
