Genshin Impact Shenhe Guide: Build, Weapons and Artifacts

Shenhe is a 5 star Cryo heroine. She has just arrived in update 2.4 of Genshin Impact. Fighting with a hast weapon, she is mainly intended for a support role. It can considerably increase the damage of your Cryo characters. However, it will be much less effective in other teams. To help you decide whether to summon it and to better understand its gameplay, we have written a complete guide to Shenhe from Genshin Impact. With our tips and advice, you can ensure the best build for her: weapons, artifacts, skills, etc.

How to get Shenhe in Genshin Impact ?

Shenhe is a character you can only get temporarily. She must be highlighted in a character event wish.

Shenhe wish event

You have a small chance to unlock Shenhe by doing summonses with the character event wish The Transcendent One Returns from January 5th to January 25th until 5pm. You will then have to wait for a rerun of the character.

Shenhe's constellations

While Shenhe can be played without constellations, they can greatly enhance the character! His Spirit Centered C2 extends his elemental rampage by 6 seconds and increases the critical and Cryo damage of characters in the field generated by the attack by 15%.

How to play Shenhe in Genshin Impact ?

Shenhe's gameplay is primarily support-oriented. She deals Cryo damage and boosts the Cryo attacks of in-game heroes with her Spring Spirit Summoning elemental attack. In addition to causing ice damage, all characters benefit from an Icy Quill effect.

When a Cryo attack hits an enemy, the damage is multiplied according to Shenhe's maximum attack. You get 5 charges with a short press and 7 with a long press. Each hero has its own charges. For example, if you have 3 Cryo characters, this will give you 15 charges on short support and 21 on long support. If this bonus is excellent in single-target, it is more greedy in multi-target. Each enemy hit by an attack consumes a stack.

Her elemental rampage Deliverance of the Divine Maiden also increases your team's damage. The ability releases a talismanic spirit that reduces the Cryo and physical RES of enemies, while dealing Cryo damage. And, thanks to the Divine Embrace passive, all characters in this field receive a 15% Cryo damage bonus.

To play Shenhe well in Genshin Impact, we advise you to improve his attack and elemental unleashing as a priority.

What is the best equipment for Shenhe?

Shenhe is mainly used to boost your team's Cryo damage with her Icy Quill charges. The bonus deployed is calculated in proportion to her total attack. Thus, the higher it is, the more important the boost will be. To have an optimal build, you must largely favour this statistic.

The best artefacts for Shenhe

The best option is to combine two sets of artefacts: Gladiator's Curtain and Nostalgic Reminiscence. They each increase Shenhe's attack by 18%, for a total of 36%.

You can also opt for 2 pieces ofNoblesse Oblige to increase the elemental rampage by 20% and 2 pieces of the Blizzard Strayer set to boost Cryo damage. This build is especially recommended in a perma-freeze team, where you regularly freeze your enemies.

As for stats, focus onATK % on all pieces and critical rate or critical damage for the crown. As for the sub-stats, preferATK % as well as damage and critical rate, elemental mastery and energy recharge.

The best weapons for Shenhe

To optimise Shenhe's equipment in Genshin Impact, we advise you to opt for attacking weapons such as :

• Calamity Stifler (5★): this is Shenhe's signature weapon. It grants a 12% elemental damage bonus and increasesATK by 3.2% every second after using an elemental skill. The effect can be accumulated 6 times.
• Winged Jade Spear (5★): Also very effective, this hast weapon grants a 3.2% bonus toATK for 6 seconds and up to 7 times when an enemy is hit.

• Scion of Victory (4★): you can get this weapon in the paid version of the battle pass. It increasesATK and DEF by 16% if at least 2 enemies are present. If there are less, the bonus increases to 24%.
• Spear of Favonius (4★): This hast weapon has a lot of basic attacks and acts as a battery to recover energy.
• Spear of Millelith (4★): each hero from Liyue provides a 7% bonus toATK and a 3% bonus to CRIT rate to the equipped character.

Shenhe's ascension materials in Genshin Impact

To take full advantage of Shenhe's potential in Genshin Impact, you will need to level her up to 90, several resources will be needed:

• 18 Whopperflower Nectar, 30 Nectar Shimmer and 36 Nectar Elemental ;
• 168 Qingxin Flower, which you can pick in Liyue, mainly in Karst Jueyn or Guyn Stone Forest. Locate them more easily with the interactive map of Teyvat;
• 46 Dragonheir's False Fin, you lob them at theAbyssal Elemental. The boss is in the new Enkanomiya area, which arrived in update 2.4.
• 1 Shard, 9 Fragments, 9 Pieces and 6 Shivada Jade Stones: you get them mostly from theCryo Hypostasis or theFrozen Tree.

Which team should Shenhe play in?

Shenhe only reveals her full potential in specific teams centered on main DPS employing massive Cryo skills. We recommend playing her with Ayaka, Ganyu Chongyun or Rosalia as a DPS hand.

You can then add a Hydro character to freeze your enemies: Mona Kokomi, Barbara or Xingqiu. Finally, completing the team with an Anemo character such as Kazuha, Venti, or . SucroseThis allows you to not only gather your enemies, but also to execute Cryo attacks thanks to their elemental unleashing. It absorbs other elements and thus benefits from the stacks of Icy Pennage.

What is Shenhe's birthday and height in Genshin Impact ?

Shenhe was born on 10 March and is from Liyue. She comes from a long family of exorcists. She is also Chongyun's aunt. The fighter Cryo lives in the highest mountains of Liyue, where she follows the teachings of the adept Cloud Breath.

A curse forces her to live apart... We don't know much more, which makes her quite mysterious! Also, her size is not specified. However, she is taller than most of the characters.

Thanks to this guide and our tips, you now know how to play Shenhe in Genshin Impact. With the right equipment, she will give a nice damage boost to your Cryo heroes, which is perhaps a great asset in the abyss. But this will mainly be her only function; the character is not versatile and adapts to few teams. So if you're still hesitating to summon him, think about the type of team you want to play.