Genshin Impact: Kujou Sara guide — Weapons, artifacts, and talents

Genshin Impact: Kujou Sara’s talent priorities and passives

Let’s talk about Kujou Sara’s build based on her talent priorities and passives.

Normal Attack: Tengu Bowmanship – This determines the damage dealt by Kujou Sara’s normal, charged, and plunging attacks. Her charged attack also has a special shot when in the Crowfather Cover state (explained below).

Tengu Stormcall (elemental skill) – Kujou Sara does a backstep, then she enters the Crowfather Cover state:

• Crowfeather – When she fires a fully-charged shot, it will end the Crowfather Cover state. However, this shot will spawn a Crowfather at the target’s location.
• Tengu Juurai: Ambush – After a short while, the Crowfather deals Electro damage and creates a small AoE field. The active character standing on this field will gain an ATK bonus based on Kujou Sara’s base ATK stat. The buff itself lasts for six seconds, and the skill has a cooldown of 10 seconds.

Subjugation: Koukou Sendou (elemental burst) – The burst itself has a 20-second cooldown after being used. Still, there are a couple of facets to take note of here:

• Tengu Juurai: Titanbreaker – This is a massive Electro AoE explosion after the burst is cast.
• Tengu Juurai: Stormcluster – The explosion spreads into four ruptures that also deal AoE Electro damage.
• The Tengu Juurai procs (Titanbreaker, and Stormcluster) provide the same ATK buff as Tengu Juurai: Ambush, but these effects don’t stack on top of each other. Their effects and duration are determined by the last Tengu Juurai proc that occurred.

Simply put, Kujou Sara can be considered as an “Electro Bennett” in that she’ll provide a damage buff (i.e., the Tengu Juurai procs) based on her base ATK. However, the duration of these buffs is fairly short at only six seconds.

Note: Kujou Sara’s talents require Elegance booklets (from the Violet Court domain every Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday), as well as Hilichurl masks. At higher levels, her talents require the Ashen Heart dropped by La Signora.

Passive talents:

• Land Survey – -25% time required for Kujou Sara to complete an expedition in Inazuma.
• Immovable Will – -60% charge time for aimed shots when in the Crowfather Cover state.
• Decorum – When Tengu Juurai: Ambush hits enemies, Kujou Sara will provide 1.2 energy for every 100% energy recharge stat that she has.

Constellations

• C1: Crow’s Eye – When Tengu Juurai abilities grant ATK bonuses or hit enemies, Kujou Sara’s elemental burst cooldown is decreased by one second.
• C2: Dark Wings – Using your elemental skill leaves a weaker Crowfeather that does 30% of its damage. (This means you no longer need to do an aimed shot to trigger the ATK buff.)
• C3: The War Within – +3 levels for your elemental skill; maximum level is 15.
• C4: Conclusive Proof – The elemental burst now has six Tengu Juurai: Stormclusters that spread outward.
• C5: Spellsinger – +3 levels for your elemental burst; maximum level is 15.
• C6: Sin of Pride – Characters who’ve had their ATK buffed by Tengu Juurai procs will have the crit damage of Electro attacks/abilities increased by 60%.

All right, let’s go to the next part of our Genshin Impact Kujou Sara guide to talk about the best weapon options for her.