Learn how to put together the best possible Sayu build
Want to learn how to create the best Sayu build in Genshin Impact?The tiny Sayu is a ninja that tends to spend her days sleeping high up in Inazuma’s trees. Despite her laziness, she’s able to curl up into a ball and deal damage by rolling into opponents, giving her one of Genshin’s most unique movesets to date. Sayu best serves as a combination between a healer and an Anemo support character.
This guide will show you how to create the best Sayu build inGenshin Impact. Below we’ll cover everything you need to know about Sayu, including wishing, weapons, artifacts, ascension materials, talents, abilities, and constellations.
How to build Sayu as a healer/Anemo support in Genshin Impact
Alternative:Katsuragikiri Nagamasa, Favonius Greatsword
Skyward Prideis a stellar option for Sayu as it increases DMG and adds a vacuum blade effect that deals extra DMG to opponents in its path. If you don’t have the elusive weapon, though, don’t fret!Katsuragikiri Nagamasais also an excellent option if you’re going to use Sayu’s rolling skill, as it will boost Elemental Skill DMG. Finally, theFavonius Greatswordoffers a hefty amount of Energy Recharge.
Alternative:Maiden Beloved
We’d definitely recommend you equip Sayu with a 4-pieceViridescent Venererset, which will drastically decrease enemies’ elemental resistance to elements swirled up in Sayu’s rolling attacks. Alternatively, if you’re going to exclusively use Sayu as a healer, which isn’t really recommended, go for a 4-pieceMaiden Belovedset instead.
When selecting stats and substats to prioritize, aim for Energy Recharge and Elemental Mastery. ATK% and Healing Bonus can also be great depending on what you’re building your Sayu for. Consider the following for a decent balance:
Secondary:Yoohoo Art - Mujina Flurry (Elemental Burst)
If you’re building your Sayu exclusively for healing, level up her Elemental Burst first. Otherwise, prioritizing her Elemental Skill and then her Burst is best, as this is where the majority of her damage will come from. In case you’re curious, here are all of Sayu’s talents:
5-star alternative:Ganyu replacing Kaeya as DPS
Anemo support characters are a desirable rarity right now in Genshin Impact, so Sayu really has her pick of teams to join. She may not be quite the 4-star Anemo support powerhouse that isSucrose, but the fact that she can double up as the team’s healer means that she still has a lot to recommend her.
Sayu’s Swirlreactionallows her to effectively support any DPS whose element is Cryo, Hydro, Pyro, or Electro. I’ve gone for a Cryo DPS in this set-up to allow the strongest reactions with the sub DPSes, but there really is a lot of room to play around with your party comp here.KaeyaorRosariaare the best 4-star Cryo DPS candidates among a thinly populated field, but if you’re lucky enough to have almost any 5-star Cryo character, this is definitely the place to sub them in.Ganyuis top of her field, but there really are a ridiculous number of really good 5-star Cryo DPS characters in this game.
Xingqiu(Hydro) andXiangling(Pyro) are both excellent 4-star sub DPS characters, who can even take a promotion to main DPS if you so wish. I’ve placed them in the sub DPS roles here because they can react directly with the Cryo DPS main for two of the most devastating offensive reactions in the game — Freeze and Melt — though their own reaction combo, Vaporize, is pretty powerful in its own right too. Combined with Sayu’s Anemo Swirl reaction, the field of combat with these four elements in play starts to look like a blender with big numbers falling out of it, as your team’s enemies begin to fall with no more effort on your part than occasionally chucking in another elemental talent. It’s very satisfying stuff to watch.
To fully ascend Sayu, you’ll need:
Farming for Sayu will take plenty of Maguu Kenki fights to earn enough Marionette Cores. Additionally, you’ll have to fight Anemo bosses like Maguu Kenki, the Anemo Hypostasis, and Stormterror to get enough Vayuda Turquoise.
To fully level all three of Sayu’s talents, you’ll need 9 Teachings of Light, 63 Guides to Light, 114 Philosophies of Light, 18 Whopperflower Nectar, 66 Shimmering Nectar, 93 Energy Nectar, 18 Gilded Scales, and 3 Crowns of Insight. Per every one talent, that comes out to:
In addition to fighting the same Whopperflower type enemies you used to farm Sayu’s ascension materials, you’ll need to tackle the Violet Court domain in Inazuma on Wednesday/Saturday/Sunday for her books. Gilded Scales come from reliving the Azhdaha boss fight in the “Beneath the Dragon-Queller” trounce domain at Lvl 70+. Finally, Crowns of Insight can be obtained through limited-time events or by making offerings to the Frostbearing Tree and the Sacred Sakura.
Even though Sayu is a 4-star character, her Constellations are surprisingly great.Constellation 1Sayu is able to deal damage and healing at the same time, whileConstellation 2increases her Elemental Skill’s DMG.Constellation 6is arguably her best, though, as it provides a massive ATK bonus that scales off of Elemental Mastery.
At 4-star rarity, it’s pretty easy to pull Sayu, as she can be pulled from any standard or eventwishbanner. She’ll sometimes be featured with a boosted drop rate on a 5-star character’s event wish banner, too.
If you’re saving up for Sayu, check outour guide on getting charactersto learn the best ways to prep, or ourGenshin Impact codes listto get some freePrimogems!
That’s all the info we’ve got on Sayu! Why not check out ourGenshin Impact best characters tier listto see which other characters are good to wish for?
