is a Catalyst-wielding Cryo user with 🍰a fast-paced play style. His powerful punch-based attacks make him the ideal on-field DPS for those who enjoy a hands-on experience. Building the right teams to further play to Wriothesley's strengths will ensure that you get the best possible performance out of him.
Ge✨nshin Impact: Best Builds For Wriothesley
Wriothesley is a phenomenal Cryo DPS character in Genshin Imp🐬act, but you need to know how to build him rigꦡht.
As with most Cryo units, Wriothesley's team compositions will♛ be most efficient when they are devised to take advantage of the 15 percent Crit Rate buff you can obtain from Cryo resonance — which occurs when you place two or more Cryo units in the same team. However, he is just as effective in some other combinations.
Wriothesley's Best Overall Team: Permafrost
This team composition depends on a consistent application of Hydro and Cryo to keep enemies Frozen for as long as possible. While there are several different combinations that can make this team work well for Wriothesley, the highest-performing one is composed of:
- : Main DPS (on-field)
- : Sub DPS (off-field)
- : Crowd control, Reaction support
- : Healer, Reaction support
The rotation is quick and simple, and it will generally follow this pattern:
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Trigger Kokomi's Elemental Skill as soon as she takes the field, which will give you 12 seconds of consistent Hydro application. This also serves to heal any allies in need throughout a rotation. |
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Kazuha should be next to take the field, at which point you can trigger both his Elemental Burst and Elemental Skill to maximize the reach of Kokomi's Hydro application through the corresponding Swirl reaction. This will also help concentrate enemies in the Bake-Kurage's AoE, when done right. |
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Shenhe is usually not on the field for very long. Long press to activate her Elemental Skill and effectively activate the Icy Quill buff that will significantly increase Wriothesley's performance. |
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Once you have successfully run through the rotation, Wriothesley should remain on the field. His DMG capacity will be greatly amplified. |
A rotation should not last longer than a few seconds in practice, so Wriothesley should get over ten seconds of uninterrupted on-field time.
Viable Replacements
You don't need every unit on this team for it to work. There are other suitable options to use, albeit with some decrease in performance:
- : can be replaced with other effective Hydro applicators like Xinqiu and Yelan.
- : can be replaced with other Anemo support units like Sucrose or Venti. You could also use Lynette, though she's not quite good with crowd control, which is the main feature of strong Anemo supports, especially in Freeze teams.
- : can easily be replaced by Rosaria with minor decrease in performance in single-target situations.
Wriothesley's Best F2P Team: Winternational
It is no surprise to find International, one of the most popular teams since the game launched, on this list. Not only is this team F2P friendly, it also performs outstandingly well in most cases, serving as the perfect complement to almost any DPS in the game. This team fits Wriothesley like a glove. The characters that you need to put this team together are:
- : Main DPS (on-field)
- : Sub DPS (off-field)
- : Reaction Support
- : Healer, Support
The rotation follows the same pattern as it usually does for International + DPS character:
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Bennett should deploy his Elemental Burst as soon as he takes the field, automatically creating an AoE where characters will be healed and buffed. |
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Quickly follow up by triggering Xinqiu's Elemental Burst, which will grant consistent Hydro application for its 15-second duration. Additionally, the on-field character will gain resistance to interruption for the duration of the burst. |
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Then, trigger Xiangling's Elemental Burst. The Pyronado, with its lack of internal CD will be a great reaction enabler. |
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Once you have successfully ran through the rotation, Wriothesley should remain on the field. He will have his attack buffed from Bennett's burst, and the bursts from both Xingqiu and Xiangling will enable him to both Freeze and Melt at an incredible pace, maximizing his DMG output. |
Wriothesley Melt Team
In terms of powerful elemental reactions which are favored due to their damage potential, Melt and Reverse Melt are top tier. Wriothesley can benefit from being put in these teams because of his unique potential as a Cryo Catalyst user, which makes him able to consistently apply Cryo to enemies on every hit. As such, he aces enabling his own reactions. To get the best Melt potential your team should be:
- : Main DPS (on-field)
- : Sub DPS (off-field), Reaction Support
- : Shielder, Reaction Support
- : Healer, Reaction Support
The rotation for this powerful Melt combination that will see Wriothesley perform his best should be something like this:
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Triggering her burst will buff the active character according to the elements of the other team members, so long as they remain within the Shrine of Maya's AoE. Given that Hydro, Electro and Pyro are the only elements that react with Dendro, and this team is mainly composed of Pyro characters, the buff they will receive will be based on DMG. You should deploy her Elemental Skill shortly after her burst, making sure to mark opponents with the Seed of Skandha, which will connect them. |
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You can either:
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Depending on the action you chose the rotation can continue in one of two ways.
If Bennett triggers Burning:
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Take the field and use his Elemental Skill to land a few quick hits. Just keep in mind enemies will not Burn for too long, so this half rotation will only see suboptimal results. With that said, it is ideal when you want to defeat weaker enemies without wasting your all your Bursts. |
If Bennett uses his Elemental Burst instead:
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Nahida's Elemental Skill has a short CD (roughly 5 to 6 seconds), so it is easy to get a few procs from her in between switching other characters. |
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Use his Elemental Burst to deploy the Scorching Ooyoroi, which will enable Pyro reactions in one second intervals. This will easily burn enemies that are affected by Nahida's Seed of Skandha. |
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After all teammates have used their abilities, Wriothesley can take the field until it's time for a new rotation to begin. |
Viable Replacements
To replace the units in the first Wriothesley Melt team would require an entirely different team composition altogether. However, it can be done to the same end and with a good performance capacity of its own.
- : Main DPS (on-field)
- : there are no good replacements that can serve the same function as Nahida, especially no Dendro units with a kit as unique and useful as hers. You can replace her with , another Cryo unit, instead. She will provide good personal DMG, as well as buff Wriothesley.
- : can be replaced with a good Pyro enabler like Xiangling.
- : stays the same.
Wriothesley Hyperbloom Team
This last team is not very centered on Wriothesley's personal DMG, despite him being the driver and on-field unit. Hyperbloom teams are very low effort and require almost no player input to cause a lot of DMG and easily clear difficult content.
If you are focused on your personal skill as a player, this team will not be very satisfying. On the other hand, if you want to play Wriothesley just for fun, Hyperbloom is worth considering.
The best Hyperbloom combination for Wriothesley is composed of:
- : Driver (on-field)
- : Sub DPS, Reaction Support
- : Sub DPS, Reaction Support
- : Healer, Reaction Support
The rotation for this team should follow these general principles:
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Trigger her Elemental Burst and Elemental Skill to provide buffs to the active character and lock the Seed of Skandha on enemies, making them conduits for Dendro-based reactions. |
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Trigger her Elemental Burst to give the active character the ability to proc Hydro application with their normal attacks every one second, this will make it possible to create Dendro cores. |
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Trigger her Elemental Skill and then Elemental Burst, this will allow you to trigger Hyperbloom every time Electro comes into contact with a Dendro Core. |
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As all the off-field abilities from other teammates collide in the background, Wriothesley can take the field. Using his Normal Attack will proc Yelan's Burst Hydro application, and he can even Freeze enemies while it's active. |
