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Kirara, everyone’s favourite new cat girl inGenshin Impact, has arrived on the scene. She’s a four-star Dendro sword user from Inazuma, working for the Komaniya Express delivery service. Kirara is known as a youkai in Inazuma, which is something of a supernatural creature.
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Her Elemental Skill lets her create a shield and transform into a cat form, able to hit enemies and scale walls. If you press her Skill, she will perform a kick and create a Dendro shield. Holding her Skill lets her roam around in cat form, hitting enemies for Dendro damage. She can fit into Bloom and Aggrevate teams well, providing support and plenty of Dendro application.
Best Weapons For Kirara
Kirara’sshield strength is based on her HP stat, which means the best weapons for her will need to offer HP. There are currently only two swords in the game that do this, both of which are five-star weapons.
If you have five-star swords to spare, they will work perfectly.They aren’t necessary for Kirara to be good, but they are her best in slot.
You can useother four-star weapons without impacting her supportcapabilities at all, so don’t worry if you don’t have any of the powerful five-star swords.
Favonius Sword
Energy Recharge
Loses some value on Kirara due to theEnergy Rechrage stat being overkill. She doesn’t need this much due to her Energy costs, but it isgreat for the rest of her teamwho need a lot of energy.
Sapwood Blade
Great F2P weapon, helps Kirara trigger Dendro reactions. Leaves a leaf on the ground, when picked up itwill buff your Elemental Mastery by 60 points.
Sacrificial Sword
Has a fixed chance to reset the timer on your Elemental Skill when it hits an enemy. This will give yourmore uptime on Kirara’s shield.
Key of Khaj-Nisut
HP Percent
IncreasesKirara’s HP by a huge amount.This means her shields will last longer before breaking. Moreover, it increases her Elemental Mastery based on her max HP.
Primordial Jade Cutter
Crit Rate
Increases Crit Rate and the bonus effect increasesKirara’s HP by 20 percent.
Freedom Sworn
Elemental Mastery
Increases Kirara’s DMG, plus further increases it when she triggers an elemental reaction. This also provides abuff to your team’s normal, charged, and plunge attacks.
Kirara doesn’t need much personal damage.
The best thing for her is asupport-focused weaponthat benefits the whole team.
The Sapwood Blade,for example, would be one of her best choices for a F2P weapon since you can craft it and refine it to max rank fairly easily.
Energy Recharge swords are typically great for Kirara, but not for her energy particle needs. ER weapons like Favonius are good for their damage and if you have a high-energy team.
Best Artifact Sets For Kirara
For the most part, Kirara will want to havea four-piece Deepwood Memory Artifact set.There are some variations, and she does have a lot of options.
Deepwood Memories
+15% Dendro DMG
When Kirara’s Skill or Burst hits an enemy, reduce their Dendro RES by 30%.
Noblesse Oblige
+20% Elemental Burst DMG
Increases the entire party’s ATK by 20% for 12 secondsafter using Elemental Burst.
Noblesse is great for any ATK-based teams since it will increase everyone’s DMG. Generally speaking, any of these other options are better.
Vourukasha’s Glow
+20% HP
Increases Elemental Skill and Burst DMG by 10%. DMG buff increases to 80 if you take damage.
This should only be worn as a two-piece set bonus for Kirara, along with the two-piece Tenacity of the Millelith set.
Tenacity of the Millelith
Buffs team’s attack when Kirara’s Elemental Skill hits an enemy. It also increases shield strength.
This can be worn as a four-piece set, but Kirara will benefit the most from wearing two-piece Vourukasha’s Glow and two-piece Tenacity.
Instructor
+80 Elemental Mastery
Increases the whole team’s Elemental Mastery by 120 when triggering an Elemental Reaction.
This is a four-star Artifact set, which means it’s not nearly as powerful as other options. The Elemental Mastery buff does go a long way if your team needs more.
The Deepwood Memories set isperfect for any Dendro Support character.She will effectivelybuff the Dendro DMGof your team, which lets any other Dendro characters you have in your team focus on a more offensive Artifact set.
An offensive playstyleisn’t recommended for Kirarasince she fits therole of Support so well.
The Artifact Set that works best for Kirara depends on what you want to use her for. If you want a shield bot, then you should use two-piece Vourukasha’s and two-piece Tenacity for a 40% HP bonus.
If you want to give Kirara and your team more ATK, then a four-piece Nobless Oblige is a great option.
Kirara Artifact Stat Priority
The stats you want for Kirara will depend entirely on how you want to play her.
Her best and general-purpose build is to maximise how powerful her shield is, which means HP% across the board.
HP%
HP% > Crit Rate/DMG > Energy Recharge
Other than a shield build, you can have aDPS Kirara if you opt for the general statsfor any DPS, such as:
Crit Rate/DMG
HP% > Energy Recharge
Thisisn’t the most optimal build for Kirara,since it will stifle her shields and you will generally have better characters in your teams with her who will do more damage.
Kirara Talent Priority
For those of you who want Kirara to be your next best shield team member, you shouldfocus first on her Elemental Skill.This will increase her overallutility and support capabilities in any team comp.
Next, you shouldfocus on Kirara’s Elemental burst. While it’s not entirely necessary to use her Burst, it doesn’t hurt to have more Dendro damage and application in a fight.
For the most part, Kirara’s shield is going to be themost important to anyone who wants a good shield character.
Her Normal Attack talentshould only be levelledif you want to use her as a DPS character, otherwise, it should be left alone.
Kirara Constellations
Kirara’s six Constellations aren’t much to write home about. They are not needed at all to make the most out of Kirara’s kit, but having them won’t hurt you at all.
As mentioned, her Constellations aren’t necessary to aim for. Kirara’s kit holds up incredibly well by itself and the only benefit these would provide is to slightly enhance what she already does incredibly well.
