Genshin Impact’s Yae Miko is the Guuji of the Grand Narukami Shrine and owner of Yae Publishing House. A five-star electro catalyst user, her elegant and beautiful appearance belies an intelligent and cunning personality fitting of her kitsune heritage. Players often find themselves captivated by her charm and versatility in various team compositions. So let’s take a look at her best build, weapons, team comps, and more!
Keeping up with all the best characters in Genshin Impact can be a challenge. With frequent updates, banners, and events, it’s important to stay informed. In this guide, we’ll provide you with everything you need to maximize Yae Miko's potential and enhance your gameplay experience. From her abilities to her ideal team compositions, we have you covered!
Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Yae Miko build:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Yae Miko build?
Yae Miko is a five-star electro catalyst user. Her unique kit and off-field electro application makes her a great DPS or enabler in a variety of elemental reaction-focused teams. This makes her a versatile choice for many players looking to optimize their party setups.
Here’s a brief overview of our best Genshin Impact Yae Miko build:
| Best weapon | Kagura’s Verity |
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| Best artifact set | Emblem of Severed Fate |
| Artifact substitutes | Two pieces of Thundering Fury with two pieces of an attack set like Gladiator’s Finale |
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Yae Miko’s best weapon is Kagura’s Verity, and her best artifact set is Emblem of Severed Fate. She performs best in teams that can benefit from her strong electro application, such as quicken, aggravate, and quickbloom dendro teams, or hypercharge or overload teams.
When leveling up Yae Miko, we recommend getting her to ascension level six. You should prioritize her elemental skill, then her elemental burst, then her normal attack.
How to use Yae Miko
When it comes to normal attacks, they’re not a main source of her damage, but they do have their place in some rotations. Unlike many characters, her standard combo isn’t three normal attacks and a charged attack – instead you should use two normal attacks, then a charged attack, then either jump or dash to cancel the long charged attack animation.
On the other hand, her elemental skill is a big part of her kit, and the main thing you want to get to grips with. The most important factor is that you ensure all of the Sesshou Sakura totems are placed close enough for them to link together in order to deal the maximum damage. When Yae places a totem, she does a back-step dash with no invulnerability frames. This can be tricky to adapt to but, with time, it should become second nature – and you can even use it to get her out of harm’s way.
You should only use Yae’s elemental burst once you’ve set up all of her Sesshou Sakura totems, as they dictate how much damage the lightning strikes deal.
For a super in-depth description of the mechanics for each of Yae’s skills, be sure to check out the Keqingmains Yae Miko guide.
What is the best Genshin Impact Yae Miko weapon?
Yae Miko’s signature weapon is Kagura’s Verity, and it’s easily her best-in-slot option if you manage to get your paws on it. Its passive is perfectly tailored to her elemental skill, lasting the entire duration of her Tenko Thunderbolts, and it suits her in any playstyle or team comp.
Alternatively, Skyward Atlas is a great option as it boosts her attack, making up for her inability to make use of external attack buffs.
In terms of four-star options, Oathsworn’s Eye at R5, is your best choice. It massively reduces Yae’s energy recharge shortages, and has virtually no caveats unlike other four-star options.
Unfortunately, Oathsworn’s Eye was tied to the Three Realms Gateway Offering event, so is no longer available. If you missed that, then The Widsith is your next best choice, offering plenty of utility especially at R5.
| Weapon | Effect | How to obtain |
| Kagura’s Verity | Base stat: crit damage Skill: when the wielder uses an elemental skill, they gain the Kagura Dance effect, increasing their skill damage by 12% for 16 seconds. Max three stacks. The wielder gains an additional 12% elemental damage bonus when she has three stacks | Gacha |
| Skyward Atlas | Base stat: attack Skill: increases elemental damage bonus by 12%. Normal attack hits have a 50% chance to earn the favour of the clouds, which actively seeks out opponents to attack for 15 seconds, dealing 160% attack damage. This can only occur once every 30 seconds |
