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WhenGenshin Impactwas first released, it had quite a variety of meta supports like Bennett or Xiangling, who are still some of the best units to build in the game. However, as the game progressed, most of the released support characters were niche and specific to some play styles.
Thankfully, players got another all-rounder support during the Version 5.1 update in the form of Xilonen. She’s a five-star Sword-wielding Geo character with the capabilities to do a lot of things at once, but it’s quite important to build her properly first.
Best Xilonen Builds
Apart from having a beautiful design and some fantastic animations, Xilonen hasquite a fewuseful aspects in her kit that make her one of the most valuable charactersto have. Here are some of them:
All of this already seems too good to be true, but the best part about Xilonen is thatshe’s not meant to replace your support in a party like Kazuha. Instead, she’s meant to replace your sustainer, which allows you to run her with another support and get all these buffs for free.
Of course, Xilonen’s biggest downside is that shedoesn’t work with Dendro or Anemo main DPScharacters.
If you read Xilonen’s kit, you’ll realize that she can essentially go for two of these play styles and builds:
Weapons
Peak Patrol Song,Freedom-Sworn,Flute of Ezpitzal
Regardless of what characters you have on your account, Xilonen’ssupport build will undoubtedly be the best one to go for. This is because she can provide the 40 percent Elemental DMG bonus and the active character healing mentioned above during this build, apart from the 36 percent RES shred that she can get regardless.
The Elemental DMG Bonus comes from the Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City artifact setonce you trigger the Crystallize reaction with her in the Nightsoul state. If you have weapons like Freedom-Sworn or Peak Patrol Song on her, you can give your party additional buffs as well.
You’dwant to trigger Crystallizewith the element of your main DPS since theElemental DMG Bonus only applies to the elements involved.
Flute of Ezpitzal serves as a decent F2P-friendly option for this buildsince Xilonen’s healing from the Burst is based on her DEF, which is boosted significantly with this weapon.
Uraku Misugiri,Flute of Ezpitzal
When you think of a DPS build for a support unit, it’s mostly meant as a funny build since most supportsdon’t have the damage required for it unless you get some constellations on them. This is different in Xilonen’s case since she has some inherent aspects of the kit that make her a decent DPS in a specific scenario.
This build can only work if you haveless than two members from Hydro, Cryo, Electro, and Pyro elements in the team(more on this below). Obsidian Codex becomes the best set if you want to use DPS Xilonen, and luckily, you can farm it alongside the set required for her support build.
It’s important to mention thatXilonen’s overall value will decrease with this build, but it’s still viable.
Uraku Misugiri is the best five-star option for the build with Flute of Ezpitzal being the F2P-friendly option. No matter which weapon you choose, itwon’t be hard to have a decent Crit Ratio on herdue to the free 40 percent provided by Obsidian Codex. Of course, you can also use her signature weapon since it already gives more DEF than Flute apart from some other buffs.
Xilonen Artifact Priority
Before you start working on Xilonen’s artifacts and getting the best stats on her,you’ll first have to determine the build you’re using. Both her builds have significantly different artifact stat priorities:
DEF Percent
Energy Recharge > Crit/Elemental Mastery (optional)
Since these stats are significantly easy to get, you can try having a decent Crit Rate or Elemental Mastery on Xilonen.
The latter takes priority since EM canhelp you make better shields with Crystallize, which you’re going to be triggering anyway for her artifact set.
Crit Rate > DEF Percent > Energy Recharge
Xilonen Talent Overview And Priority
Since Xilonen can have two opposite play styles, it can be alittle difficult to understand how it all works, so here are a few simple things you need to know:
With all this in mind, it’s obvious that the main aspect of Xilonen’s kit exists in her Elemental Skill,making it the priority for upgrades. This works the best since she can already heal quite a lot even when your Burst is only at level four or five. However, you’ll have to upgrade the Burst after your Skill to get full value.
Finally, you only need to upgrade her Normal Attacks if you’re using her as a DPS since thistalent has her multipliers for the attacks in Nightsoul state as well.
