Mastering Tighnari: Your Ultimate Guide To Genshin Impact’s Dendro Bow Wielder

Genshin Impact’s Tighnari is an intuitive forest ranger, and a five-star dendro bow wielder. In this Tighnari build we help you get to grips with his unique kit, while also highlighting the best artifacts, weapons, and team comps to get the most out of him.

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Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact Tighnari build:

What’s the best Genshin Impact Tighnari build?

Tighnari is a five-star dendro bow-wielder who acts as a unique combination of quickswap DPS and enabler. He excels best in quicken teams, in which his dendro application contributes to triggering spread and aggravate reactions.

Here’s a brief overview of our best Genshin Impact Tighnari build:

Tighnari’s best weapon is Hunter’s Path, and his best artifact set is Deepwood Memories – however, keep in mind that you only need one Deepwood Memories holder on each team, as the effects don’t stack. When picking artifacts for him, you should focus on boosting his attack%, crit, and elemental mastery.

When leveling up Tighnari’s skill, you should prioritize his normal attack, then his elemental burst. You can leave his elemental skill until last, as it’s not as important as the other two.

We recommend getting Tighnari to level 90, as it significantly boosts the damage he deals with spread reactions.

Tighnari offers both high damage and very low field time for an on-field DPS character, making him great for quickswap teams. He has good range with both his burst and charged attacks, can make full use of the spread reaction, and shines brightest as a quickswap DPS or enabler in quicken teams, especially when you’re facing bosses.

How to use Tighnari

As mentioned above, Tighnari is best suited to a DPS or elemental enabler role in quickswap teams that revolve around dendro-based reactions. His respectable dendro application and ability to make full use of the spread reaction make him a great choice for quicken teams.

Tighnari’s playstyle is built around quick bursts of predominantly single-target damage, allowing you to switch out to an electro damage dealer or an anemo character capable of swirling Tighnari’s dendro application with an off-field source of electro application (like Fischl’s Oz or Kuki’s ring) to keep the reactions coming.

In combat, his charged attack is the main focus of his kit. Like Genshin Impact’s Ganyu, it has two stages of charging. The first stage deals decent dendro damage; however, you should aim to charge his normal attack to stage two, as it deals far more damage.

The second charge of his normal attack transforms into a Wreath Arrow that deals standard dendro damage on hit, then generates four additional Wreath Arrows that home in on enemies and deal four more instances of dendro damage.

The main issue with this far more powerful version of his normal attack takes quite some time to charge – but the rest of his kit does much to combat this.

With his elemental skill, Tighnari throws a Vijnana Stormheart, which deals AoE dendro damage and creates a field that temporarily taunts and blinds enemies. But the most important part of this skill is that it grants him the Vijnana Suffusion effect for 12 seconds, which dramatically reduces the amount of time it takes for you to charge up his next three charged attacks.

Then there’s his burst, which is a pretty easy concept to grasp. Hit the burst button, and he fires off six projectiles that each home in on the enemy and deal instances of dendro damage. It has a low cooldown and low energy cost, and has no real caveats.

In general, the only thing you need to remember when playing Tighnari is to use his skill before you use his charged shots. Beyond that, it’s up to you.

What’s the best weapon for Tighnari?

Hunter’s Path is Tighnari’s five-star signature weapon. It’s easily his best in show, and its skill and stats are perfectly tailored to his kit. Aqua Simulacra and Polar Star are also brilliant five-star options for him.

Alternatively, Prototype Crescent at R5 is his best four-star option when its passive is active. However, keeping its passive up can be tricky and depends on what enemies you’re facing. Instead, you can also go with Viridescent Hunt as a strong stat-stick, or the three