Kazuha’s talent priorities
Let’s discuss Kazuha’s capabilities and talent priorities.
Normal Attack: Garyuu Bladework – This upgrades Kazuha’s regular attacks (i.e., normal, charged, and plunging).
Elemental Skill: Chihayaburu – The elemental skill pulls enemies closer, then Kazuha will be lifted into the air via a whirlwind slash that deals Anemo damage. Within 10 seconds, you can do a plunging attack called “Midare Renzan” that also does Anemo damage (subsequently pulling enemies once more). The skill button can be pressed or held (the latter has a larger AoE pull and damage).
Elemental Burst/Ult: Kazuha Slash – Kazuha creates a large AoE field (comparable to Ganyu’s burst) that lasts for 10 seconds. There are three damage sources here: the initial sword slash (Anemo), a damage-over-time (Anemo DoT) effect for enemies within the field, and the “Elemental Absorption” quirk. Basically, if enemies were previously affected by Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, and Electro, those elements will deal additional damage alongside the Anemo DoT (i.e., the extra element will tick five times).
Kazuha’s burst can be used fairly often, and you’ll gain the extra damage from other elements that affect your targets. You can even swap him out while the burst is active. As for his elemental skill, the second instance of damage (the plunging attack or Midare Renzan) seems to be affected more by Normal Attack: Garyuu Bladework. Likewise, based on the Chihayaburu’s tooltip, the talent itself only increases the damage for the pressed/held skill (i.e., the initial pull/whirlwind lift). Ideally, you’ll want to prioritize Kazuha’s burst, followed by his skill and, finally, his normal attacks.
Note: Kazuha’s talents use Insignias from Treasure Hoarders and Diligence booklets.
Passive talents:
- Cloud Strider -20% stamina consumption for the party.
- Soumon Swordsmanship – Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, and Electro effects are absorbed by the Chihayabaru elemental skill. When you perform the Midare Renzan plunging attack within 10 seconds of being launched in the air, you’ll deal an additional 200% ATK of the absorbed element. The “Elemental Absorption” proc can only occur once per use of the elemental skill.
- Poetics of Fuubutsu – When Kazuha triggers a Swirl reaction, teammates will gain a 0.04% elemental damage bonus for every point of elemental mastery that he has. This effect lasts for eight seconds, and multiple elements can be Swirled/buffed at the same time. Likewise, because this bonus only applies to Swirled elements, it won’t affect Anemo and Geo (i.e., the so-called “rainbow buff” effect). You can see an example in the image below which comes from Kazuha’s test run. Because I was able to Swirl Pyro and Hydro, the other character in the party, Barbara, gained extra elemental damage.
Note: The EM-to-damage conversion works with Albedo’s and Diona’s (C6) perks since they give flat value increases. Sadly, Sucrose’s percentage-based increases don’t apply.
Constellations
Trying to gain additional constellations on any 5-star character in Genshin Impact can be very expensive. Still, Kazuha has some very neat bonuses, especially once he hits Constellation 2 (C2). In any case, here are Kazuha’s constellations:
- C1: Scarlet Hills – -10% elemental skill cooldown; using your burst resets the elemental skill’s cooldown.
- C2: Yamaarashi Tailwind – The AoE field created by the elemental burst has additional effects. It gives +200 elemental mastery for Kazuha and all other characters standing in the field.
- C3: Maple Monogatari – +3 levels for your elemental skill; maximum level is 15.
- C4: Oozora Genpou – When Kazuha’s energy is below 45, he gains extra effects. First, his elemental skill grants extra energy. Second, gliding also regenerates energy.
- C5: Wisdom of Bansei – +3 levels for your elemental burst; maximum level is 15.
- C6: Crimson Momiji – After using Kazuha’s elemental skill or burst, he gains Anemo Infusion for five seconds. Additionally, each point of elemental mastery increases the damage of Kazuha’s normal, charged, and plunging attacks by 0.2%.
Anyway, let’s move on to the next part of our Genshin Impact Kazuha guide to talk about his ascension materials.
