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Best Mualani Build in Genshin Impact

Mualani was the first five-star character to be released along with the new region, Natlan, in Genshin Impact‘s 5.0 update. As a member of the People of the Springs, Mualani has a deep connection to the ocean and enjoys surfing around on her companion Sharky.

If you’ve rolled for this five-star character and are wondering how to upgrade her, here’s everything you need to know about it Mualani building in Genshin.

Genshin Impact: Best Mualani Build

An image of Mualani dancing next to two capybaras in Genshin Impact.
There’s always time for a dance break. Image via HoYoVerse.

Mualani is a Hydro five star DPS who uses her shark buddy to surf through the overworld and fire incredibly powerful damage nukes in combat. Although she wields a Catalyst, most of her damage comes from building stacks and unleashing Sharky Surging Bites and Super Shark Missiles with her Basic Skill and Burst.

Mualani can also use her ability in the overworld to surf, just like a Koholasaur, which can be used to complete challenges and find hidden treasures. To unleash Mualani’s full potential, you can upgrade her Weapons, Artifacts, Talents and Constellations.

Best Mualani Weapons

An image of the Surf's Up Weapon, used by Mualani, from Genshin Impact.
What weapon do you use? Screenshot by Dot Esports.

Because Mualani’s damage is proportional to her maximum horsepower, Multiple weapons can increase her damage. You want to focus on options that offer both HP percentage and CRIT percentage or damage. Here are the best weapons available for Mualani:

  • Surf’s Up (five stars)
  • Tome of Eternal Flow (five stars)
  • A Thousand Floating Dreams (5 stars)
  • Sacrificial Jade (Four Stars)
  • Ring of Yaxche (four stars)

Surfing is possible is Mualani’s best-in-slot option and signature weapon, meaning it’s tailor-made to increase Mualani’s damage. Surf’s Up increases your max HP by 20 percent, deals a solid 88.2 percent CRIT Damage, and increases the damage of Sharky’s attacks by 12 percent.

Book of the Eternal Stream And A thousand floating dreams are two different five-star catalysts made for Neuvillite and Nahida respectively, but they can still perform well on Mualani. Tome of Eternal Flow will increase Mualani’s CRIT damage and HP, while A Thousand Floating Dreams can increase Mualani’s Vaproize damage.

If you’d rather save your Primogems and use four-star weapons, the craftable Ring of Yaxche was just added with the Natlan update. This weapon increases Mualani’s attack damage by 0.6 percent for every 1000 HP she has. Finally, Offer Jade‘a battle pass weapon that increases max HP and elemental mastery, but costs $10.

Best Mualani Artifacts

An image of the Obsidian Codex Artifact Set from Genshin Impact. This increases elemental damage and crit rate.
The Obsidian Codex can only be used by characters from Natlan. Screenshot by Dot Esports.

Mualani’s best Artifact Set is by far Obsidian Codex, which can be found in Natlan. This set increases Mualani’s damage by 15 percent when in the The Blessed State of Nightsoulor surfing on her shark. If you have four pieces of this Artifact Set and Consume Nightsoul points Surfing also gives you a massive 40 percent CRIT Rate increase.

If you haven’t farmed for Obsidian Codex yet, you can always Heart of Depth or Unfinished musing Artifact Sets. These two sets increase your Hydro Damage and Burning Damage, but they don’t increase Mualani’s damage as much as Obsidian Codex.

Best Mualani Artifact Substats

Since Mualani scales with HP, Prioritize this stat over ATK. This makes Mualani a bit easier to build than other DPS characters, as HP percentage artifacts have a higher drop rate. Here are the Artifact Statistics You should focus on:

  • Sand: HP percentage
  • Cup: Hydro DMG Bonus
  • Circlet: CRIT speed or CRIT damage

The HP percentage Sands and the Hydro Goblet will greatly increase Mualani’s damage, while building the right Circlet can maximize her Crit stat. If you can’t consistently reach 60 to 80 percent CRIT Rate, prioritize a CRIT Rate Circlet over CRIT DamageDon’t forget to factor Obsidian Codex’s 40 percent CRIT rate increase into your CRIT ratio calculations.

Best Mualani talents

An image of Mualani surfing on a shark in Genshin Impact
Mualani loves surfing on land and sea. Image via HoYoVerse.

Because Mualani scales with HP, you want to: upgrade her fully to level 90 and enhance her talents. This is the best order to upgrade Mualani’s talents:

  • Character Level 90 = Basic Skill
  • Elemental eruption
  • Normal attacks

Mualani’s Sharky Bite does not scale with normal attack modifiers, so ignore your Normal Attack talent to save resources. If you can only upgrade one talent, we recommend her Elemental Skill.

Best Mualani Constellations

An image of Mualani using her ultimate blast in Genshin Impact, knocking cute penguins around.
Mualani always deals explosive damage. Image via HoYoVerse.

Mualani can already dish out huge bursts of damage, but you can increase her potential by unlocking her Constellations. If you have extra Primogems, roll for her first and second Constellations.

Mualani’s first Constellation increases her first Sharky Surging Bite by 66 percent of her max HP and reduces the amount of Nightsoul points she consumes while surfing by 30 percent. Mualani’s second increases her stacks when you collect the pufferfish generated by Sharky’s Surging Bite, essentially allowing her to use an extra Surging Bite every rotation.

If you’re going to spend everything you have on Mualani, her sixth sign becomes her strongest power, making her first sign’s buff apply to all of her attacks.


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