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Once you acquire a new character inGenshin Impactand build them up, the next step is to find the perfect team to use them in. Most characters in the game have about two to three good teams where you’re able to use them, while some can be a little more niche and have only one good team until more characters get released.
Xilonen, a five-star Geo Sword user is an exception to all this because of her flexible support capabilities. She has quite a range of valuable teams that she can be used in, and the only condition is the element of the characters in it.
Burning enabler
Xiangling
Pyro applicator
Mualani’s release in the game during the Version 5.0 update came as a pleasant surprise with her high numbers even with F2P-friendly builds and weapons. This character could alreadydeal over 200,000 damage with each buffed shark bitewhen you were fighting single-target bosses, which is more than enough to get you through the endgame already.
However, she wasmade even better with the release of Xilonendue to a couple of reasons:
There’s a lack of good constant Pyro applicators in the game, which isnegated by the presence of Nahida in this team. Whenever Xiangling applies Pyro on the opponents using her Skill or Burst, Nahida’s mark can be used to trigger Burning, which constantly burns the enemy and applies even more Pyro.
you may also useEmilieas an alternative to Nahida to deal extra damage sinceshe gets buffed from the Burning reaction.
Here’s what the rotation for this team should look like:
If you’re fighting multiple enemies, you’dwant Mualani’s mark from the Skill to be on all the enemiesbefore you perform an attack.
Kaedehara Kazuha
Buffer
Ever since the release of Neuvillette, no one has come close to his authority on the Hydro element as the main DPS. While Mualani can deal significantly higher damage in a single instance, Neuvillette still deals better damage overall,especially in this team due to the existence of Furinaand her massive off-field damage.
The only missing part with Neuvillette was the fourth staple team member who could buff his damage. While Zhongli did a decent job, Xilonen easily power creeps his buff and gives a ton of value to this team. Between Kazuha and Xilonen, you’re able to get up to76 percent RES shred and over 70 percent Elemental DMG bonusfor Neuvillette and Furina.
Other than all these buffs,Furina also provides a significant DMG bonuswhen the party members' HP increases or decreases during her Burst.
If you’re already enticed to use this team afterreading all the buffs you’re able to get, here’s what the rotation should look like:
During the early days of Genshin Impact, Kamisato Ayaka was one of the most anticipated characters in the game, with a bunch of players saving all their Primogems for her.While she did remain in the meta for quite a long timeafter her release, she eventually fell off due to the lack of good Cryo reaction compatibility.
With the release of Xilonen, you can once again use Ayaka in a partial mono-Cryo team. In this team, Xilonen, Kazuha, and Shenhe allexist simply to funnel all their buffs into Ayakawhile she deals all the damage once she takes the field. If you don’t have Shenhe, you can also use Bennett as the buffer, though that might mess up some of the reactions.
you’re able to also go for a freeze compositionhere by replacing Shenhe with thelikes of Kokomi, Yelan, or Xingqiu.
As for the rotation of this team, here’s what you need to do:
Bennett
Ever since her release, Navia has been one of the most popular Geo characters both becauseshe’s a good unit and there’s a lack of fun characters in the Geo element. However, one of the main problems with her was the lack of Geo-related reactions and most Geo supports buffing the DEF of the main DPS.
Xilonen changes this, which, much like Neuvillette,makes her a great team member for Navia as well. Not only does she act like the Kazuha for Navia, but she also triggers various Crystallize reactions to give her the required stacks. On top of all that, she can replace the team’s sustainer, which still leaves two slots for other supports.
Furina and Bennett are two of the best choices for Navia sincethey can give the buff to her burst-type damage.
For this team, you’d want to use the characters in the following manner:
The most important aspect of this team is having at least two characters from Hydro, Cryo, Electro, and Pyro elements even if you replace Furina and Bennett.You need these to properly activate Xilonen’s samplerseven when she’s off-field.
Xianyun
Plunge Enabler
Finally, Xilonen’s team compositions wouldn’t really be complete without having a team for her DPS playstyle. However, it’s firstimportant to mention the conditions that you have to meetto use this play style. Essentially, you can’t have more than one character from Pyro, Hydro, Electro, and Cryo elements in your party.
When this condition is met, youcan’t activate your samplersby gaining Nightsoul energy from your basic attacks. Instead, you get a30 percent increase to Xilonen’s Normal and Plunging attack DMG. Her attacks during the Nightsoul state are also based on her DEF, which makes perfect use of Gorou’s buffs.
Xilonen doesn’t perform as well being a basic attack DPS,which explains Xianyun’s presence in this teamto focus on her Plunge attacks.
You can instead use characters like Yun Jin if you want to focus on her normal attacks.
