Genshin Builds - Alhaitham

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Weapons

Highlighted weapons are free options.

1(5★)

2(5★)

≈(5★)

3(5★)

≈(5★)

4(5★)

5(4★)

6(4★)

7(4★)

8(5★)

≈(4★)

≈(3★)

9(4★)

≈(4★)

10(5★)

Artifact Sets

(4)

(2)

+20% ER set (2)

+80 EM set (2)

[Choose Two]

(4)

Conditional (See Notes):

(4)

Artifact Stats

Main Stats

SandsElemental Mastery / ATK%

GobletDendro DMG

CircletCRIT Rate / CRIT DMG

Substats

1Energy Recharge

2CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG

3Elemental Mastery

4ATK%

Talents

1Skill

2Normal Attack

≈Burst

Notes

This playstyle maximizes Alhaitham's kit, leveraging both Spread reactions and his Elemental Mastery-scaling Skill for significant damage. As a Spread DPS with a high rate of on-field Dendro application and flexible team compositions, he excels in Quicken/Quickbloom teams. To further maximise his performance it's highly recommended to prioritize levelling him to 90/90.

Basic Rotations:

Burst up =
Burst down =

Viable Weapons with WIP Calculations:

Regarding Artifact Choices:

Usually in Quicken/Quickbloom teams Alhaitham leans towards Elemental Mastery sands (roughly 5% or so difference usually). But in Bloom/Burgeon/Hyperbloom teams with fewer to no Spread reactions, he skews more towards ATK% sands (unless you're using ). Or even Energy Recharge sands if you're trying to Burst every rotation for increased Dendro seed generation in those teams.

Weapons notes

: This weapon prefers Elemental Mastery sands even in situations with fewer or no Spread procs such as in Bloom/Burgeon/Hyperbloom teams.

: With a Geo unit on the team this performs on par with , or even slightly better in AoE scenarios where you lose stacks faster on .

: At [R5], this weapon performs similarly to and .

: This ranking assumes single-target situations, in AoE situations it starts falling behind weapons such as and .

: If you can maintain near perfect uptime on its passive this weapon will perform similarly to weapons like .

: This weapon can perform similarly to in teams where you have higher Energy Recharge requirements or want to Burst every rotation.

Artifact sets notes

(4): This ranking assumes that you already have another holder on the team, if not then becomes his best set.

+80 EM set (2): These split set options can actually perform similarly to (4) or even surpass it in situations where you have higher Energy Recharge requirements or want to Burst every rotation. Or even if they just have better substat rolls on them.

(4): If played with Furina, this is Alhaitham's best set.

Substats notes

Energy Recharge: Certain Quicken teams can run little to no Energy Recharge and simply Burst every other rotation without a dps loss

Elemental Mastery: If you're running under 200 Elemental Mastery this substat has priority over Crit