Best Beidou Build: Weapons, Artifacts & Team Comps

Normal Attack: Oceanborne

Beidou strikes up to five times, and holding the attack deals consecutive slashes that consume stamina. After stopping the consecutive slashes, Beidou performs a powerful slash that deals extra damage. This skill is not as impactful as other skills. Thus, it takes the least priority in leveling up.

Elemental Skill: Tidecaller

If this skill is pressed, Beidou will perform a slash that deals Electro damage. On hold, Beidou will perform a stance that absorbs damage based on her maximum HP. Once released or when the stance’s duration expires, Beidou performs a slash that deals Electro damage. The damage scales of the number of times she’s been hit while in the stance, with two hits being the maximum number.  

If the damage dealt to Beidou exceeds the shield from her Elemental Skill, the shield will break, and she will take the remaining damage. This applies even to perfect counters. One thing to note is that Beidou applies Electro on her upon using the Elemental Skill, which can be useful for solving some puzzles, especially in Inazuma. 

Elemental Burst: Stormbreaker

Beidou deals Electro damage and grants herself and her teammates “Thunderbeast’s Targe” buff, which deals Electro damage to enemies when they are hit by normal and charged attacks. Moreover, Thunderbeast’s Targe reduces damage taken and increases interruption resistance. Note that it only works on normal and charged attacks, which means it does not work on Raiden Shogun’s Burst. 

This ability is considered what’s known in the community as a snapshot ability, which means that its stats remains the same as the moment it was activated. It’s important to use this Burst immediately after buffs such as Bennett’s Burst to increase Beidou’s stats. Once it is used, even if the character leaves Bennett’s Burst, for example, Beidou’s Burst’s damage will not change. This is the most important skill for Beidou in general, so it takes the highest priority in leveling up.

Passive: Retribution

Pressing or holding the Elemental Skill just before an enemy attacks Beidou will count as a “perfect counter”, which will grant the maximum damage from obtaining two stacks. 

2nd Passive: Lightning Storm

When the Elemental Skill is used with full stacks or after a perfect counter, damage dealt by normal and charged attacks will increase by 15% for 10 seconds. Moreover, normal and charged attacks will gain 15% attack speed and charged attacks have a reduced delay.

Wolf’s Gravestone

Wolf’s Gravestone has a high offensive capabilities from its high base damage along with its 49.6% attack from its secondary stat. This allows Beidou to be a great sub DPS along with buffing her Burst. Not only that, damaging enemies with HP less than 30% grants allies a 40-80% attack buff. 

Skyward Pride

A good alternative for Beidou, especially if she is lacking energy recharge. Beidou’s Elemental Burst’s cost is quite high, so energy recharge is extremely important in keeping her Burst up. While its passive is fairly weak, its base attack is one of the highest for claymores.

Luxurious Sea-Lord

Luxurious Sea-Lord is a weapon that was given for free for completing Moonlight Merriment Event. This made it available to F2P players with a fifth refinement. While its base attack is fairly average, the secondary stat grants 55.1% attack, along with 24% Elemental Burst damage. This makes it a wonderful weapon for Beidou whether she is used as a sub DPS or full support.

Fischl

As an Electro battery, Fischl is one of, if not the best Electro battery in the game. She can generate a lot of particles while being off-field due to her Elemental Skill. Pairing her with Beidou will almost guarantee she will have her Burst always up and reduce the required energy recharge. 

Eula

Eula can utilize Beidou’s kit so well due to her Cryo element along with being a Physical damage dealer. Using Eula’s Elemental Skill and Beidou’s Burst can shred enemies’ Physical resistance. Not only that, Eula’s normal attacks can utilize Beidou’s Elemental Burst by bouncing the Electric charge more. Overall, Eula and Beidou are a wonderful pair that utilize each other’s strengths. 

Childe/Ayato

In a taser team, Beidou can excel in applying Electro through the Hydro users’ normal attacks. This makes characters such as Childe or Ayato pair well with her due to their Hydro application from their normal attacks. Not only that, but Beidou’s Burst can offer them protection from interruption and reduce the damage they take, which gives them more opportunity to attack within their rotations.

Kazuha/Venti/Sucrose

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Anemo users are great when it comes to causing swirl effect, especially in a taser team. Absorbing Hydro along with Beidou’s Burst can cause massive damage to enemies while grouping them up. One thing to note is that Sucrose does better since she is a catalyst. She can use Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers to boost the team’s damage or Sacrificial Fragments to generate particles to help Beidou keep her Burst up.

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Yoimiya

Yoimiya benefits from any support that buffs normal attacks. Beidou offers an Electro bounce with normal attacks with a bonus of interruption resistance, making her a good pair with Yoimiya. However, they are more situational pick since Overload reactions are not as strong as other reactions. One situation is enemies with Geo shield since Overload breaks them very easily. 

Bennett

Most of Beidou’s comps do not have a dedicated healer, but rather a free spot. Bennett can be one of the best characters to fill that free spot due to his attack buff along with his field’s heal. In a typical rotation, Beidou should use her Burst on Bennett’s field to maximize its potential.

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