Genshin Impact’s Shenhe is a dedicated, cryo-wielding adepti disciple with a heart-wrenching story and plenty of power in her delicate hands. To help harness her potential as a support unit for your cryo DPS, scroll down to our build guide to find out her best weapons, artifact sets, and what each of her skills does.
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Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Shenhe build guide:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Shenhe build?
Shenhe is a cryo polearm wielder. She’s a five-star character available on limited banners.
| Best weapon | Calamity Queller |
| Weapon substitutes | Skyward Spine, Favonius Lance |
| Best artifact set | Blizzard Strayer or Gladiator’s Finale |
| Main stats | Sands – Energy recharge Goblet – Cryo damage bonus Circlet – Attack |
| Sub stats | Attack, crit rate, crit damage |
Shenhe has support and sub-DPS capabilities – she can buff her own and her teammate’s cryo damage, making her a perfect teammate for icy powerhouses like Genshin Impact’s Ganyu, Wriothesley, and Ayaka.
She can also debuff enemies with her elemental burst, giving your DPS character the perfect opportunity to smash through enemy defenses. Depending on your team comp, you can use Shenhe as a main DPS, granted you have another hydro and a cryo character on the sidelines.
The best weapon for Shenhe is her signature polearm, the Calamity Queller, and we recommend a full set of Blizzard Strayer artifacts.
How do I use Shenhe?
Shenhe is a support unit geared toward cryo and physical characters. She provides different buffs depending on whether you tap or hold her elemental skill.
Simply put, it is best to use Shenhe’s skill and burst before you swap to your main cryo DPS, as the buffs she applies to teammates and debuffs onto enemies allow you to deal a lot more damage.
What are the best Shenhe weapons?
The best weapon for Shenhe is Calamity Queller, a five-star polearm that appears alongside her reruns in the weapon banner. The Engulfing Lightning, as another five-star, is a good option due to its high energy recharge stat.
As most of these options are gacha, they can be a little hard to obtain for F2P players, so we’ve also included the Dragonspine Spear which can be forged in-game and will synergize well with Shenhe’s cryo damage bonuses.
| Calamity Queller | Stat: Attack Skill: Shenhe gains a 12% elemental damage bonus, and obtains Consummation for 20 seconds after using a skill, causing her attack to increase by 3.2% per second. This attack increase has a maximum of six stacks. When Shenhe is not on the field, Consummation’s attack increase is doubled. | Weapon banner |
| Engulfing Lightning | Stat: Energy recharge Skill: Increases attack by 28% of Shenhe’s energy recharge over the base 100%. Gain a maximum bonus of 80% attack. Gain 30% energy recharge for 12 seconds after using an elemental burst. | Weapon banner |
| Skyward Spine | Stat: Energy recharge Skill: Increases critical rate by 8% and increases normal attack speed by 12%. Additionally, normal and charged attack hits on enemies have a 50% chance to trigger a vacuum blade that deals 40% of attack as damage in a small AoE. This effect can occur no more than once every two seconds. | Standard banner |
| Favonius Lance | Stat: Energy recharge Skill: Crit hits have a 60% chance to generate a small number of elemental particles, which regenerate six energy for Shenhe. Can only occur once every 12 seconds. | All banners |
| Lithic Spear | Stat: Attack Skill: For every character in the party who hails from Liyue, Shenhe gains a 7% attack increase and a 3% crit rate increase. This effect stacks up to four times. | Weapon banner |
What are the best Shenhe artifacts?
As with any Genshin character, you can equip Shenhe with a set of five artifacts. A four-piece set of Blizzard Strayer is a great pick, as it boosts her cryo and critical damage to dizzying heights, but the two attack-boosting sets work well, too. You can mix sets of two artifacts or a full set to make the most of your desired benefits.
| Blizzard Strayer | Two pieces: Increases cryo damage bonus by 15% Four pieces: When Shenhe attacks an enemy affected by cryo, her 
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