Genshin Impact’s Yaoyao is an adorable, four-star dendro polearm wielder from Liyue. Having learnt from both Xiangling and Ganyu, Yaoyao is a surprisingly powerful little fighter, who can both heal and harm. So let’s get tossing those radishes as we dive into her skills, best weapons and artifacts, and more.
To see how Yaoyao sizes up against her elders, check out our Genshin Impact Xiangling and Genshin Impact Ganyu guides, or head over to our Genshin Impact tier list. We’ve also got all the latest Genshin Impact codes, along with a rundown of all current and upcoming Genshin Impact banners and Genshin Impact events.
Here’s everything in our best Genshin Impact Yaoyao build:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Yaoyao build?
Yaoyao is a four-star dendro polearm wielder. She’s an excellent healer and offers a decent level of dendro application, making her a very valuable support that can slot into a variety of different team comps.
Here’s a brief overview of our best Yaoyao build:
| Best weapon | Favonius Lance |
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| Best artifact set | Deepwood Memories |
| Substitute artifacts | Tenacity of the Millelith |
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Yaoyao’s best weapon is Favonius Lance, and her best artifact set is Deepwood Memories. When building her, we recommend focusing on HP to boost her healing efficiency, along with energy recharge to help her burst more often.
If you fancy experimenting and have another healer or a strong shielder on your team, you can also choose to build her as a reaction driver with a focus on elemental mastery. She’s a pretty flexible little unit with heaps of potential.
When leveling up Yaoyao’s talents, we recommend prioritizing her elemental skill, then her elemental burst, then her normal attack.It’s worth ascending her to level 90 if you can, as it allows you to make the most of her healing and ability to trigger reactions.
How to use Yaoyao
Yaoyao is a four-star dendro polearm wielder best suited to a support role. She can heal allies through both her skill and burst, while also applying AoE dendro damage, making her a great utility candidate for elemental reaction teams.
In combat, we generally recommend that you swap to her and use her elemental skill whenever Yuegui expires, so you can keep those heals and dendro applications coming.
In terms of her burst, we recommend keeping her on the field while it’s active, and essentially running around and jumping to make the most of the radishes that her Starscatter passive throws out.
What’s the best weapon for Yaoyao?
Yaoyao is quite energy-hungry, with a pretty pricy burst. As such, our top weapon pick is the Favonius Lance, as it allows her to regenerate particles at a quicker rate, especially if she’s the only dendro character in the team.
Alternatively, Staff of Homa is the best all-rounder polearm for pretty much any character, and works well for Yaoyao too – though it’s a highly contested weapon, and you may find better use for it on one of your stronger damage dealers.
For some decent four-star options beyond Favonius, Dragon’s Bane, Kitain Cross Spear, and Moonpiercer all work well with Yaoyao, offering elemental mastery to boost the damage of her elemental reactions.
Here are Genshin Impact Yaoyao’s best weapons:
| Weapon | Effect |
| Favonius Lance | Bonus stat: energy recharge Skill: crit hits have a 60% chance to generate a small amount of elemental particles, which regenerate six energy for the active character. This can only occur once every 12 seconds |
| Staff of Homa | Bonus stat: crit damage Skill: increases HP by 20%, and provides an attack bonus based on 0.8% of the wielder’s max HP. When the wielder’s HP drops to less than 50%, the attack bonus increases by an additional 1% of their max HP |
| Dragon’s Bane | Base stat: elemental mastery
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