Genshin Impact Varesa Best Build Guide

Varesa is one of the two new units that were added with the Genshin Impact Version 5.5. She is a 5-star Electro DPS unit that players can obtain by pulling on the Cornucopia of Contention banner, running from March 26 until April 15, 2025. In this guide, we’ll show you the best way to build Varesa!

Varesa Overview

	Name:	Varesa
	Constellation:	Mascara Luctatori
	Rarity:	5-star
	Element:	Electro
	Weapon:	Catalyst
	VA	Ichimichi Mao (JP) Jane Jackson (EN)

Varesa is a 5-star Electro unit that uses a Catalyst as her weapon. She is a main DPS unit that focuses on plunge attacks to deal the majority of her damage, and her whole kit revolves around buffing her plunge attacks and giving her more opportunities to do plunge attacks. The way Varesa transitions into a plunge attack state is by pressing her E skill and then performing a Charged Attack that launches her into the air. This then allows her to do a plunge attack to deal a lot of damage.

Varesa has a slightly unique combo sequence due to the way her Ultimate works. Varesa’s ultimate has two ways of activation. One is when her Energy is full, which allows Varesa to do a powerful hit with high multipliers, and the other is when it’s performed during a plunge attack. During plunge attacks, Varesa can consume a bit of her Ultimate charge to do a secondary plunge attack that does a bit less damage but still provides good damage overall.

All in all, Varesa is a solid DPS unit that pairs well with characters that can buff her ATK% off the field, and she’s great in overloaded teams that feature the other new unit, Iansan.

Varesa Best Weapons

Rank	W-Engine	Effect
1	Vivid Notions	ATK is increased by 28%. When you use a Plunging Attack, you will gain the "Dawn's First Hue" effect: Plunging Attack CRIT DMG is increased by 28%. When you use an Elemental Skill or Burst, you will gain the "Twilight's Splendor" effect: Plunging Attack CRIT DMG is increased by 40%. The two effects above each last for 15s, and will be canceled 0.1s after the ground impact hits a target.
2	The Widsith	When the character takes the field, they will gain a random theme song for 10s. This can only occur once every 30s. Recitative: ATK is increased by 60%. Aria: Increases all Elemental DMG by 48%. Interlude: Elemental Mastery is increased by 240.
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3	Flowing Purity	When using an Elemental Skill, All Elemental DMG Bonus will be increased by 8% for 15s, and a Bond of Life worth 24% of Max HP will be granted. This effect can be triggered once every 10s. When the Bond of Life is cleared, every 1,000 HP cleared in the process will provide 2% All Elemental DMG Bonus, up to a maximum of 12%. This effect lasts 15s.

There is no doubt that Varesa’s best-in-slot weapon is her signature, the Vivid Notions. This weapon gives Varesa huge CRIT DMG buffs and is, overall, a huge DPS boost from any other weapon choice for her. Having said that, she can use other good options to still deal decent damage.

Varesa Best Artifact Sets

As far as relics are concerned, you might be out of luck, as Varesa’s current best set is the newly added [Long Night's Oath]. This set gives Varesa up to 100% Plunge Attack DMG, and since most, if not all, of Varesa’s damage comes from plunge attacks, this is the set you always want to have on her.

Skill Priority

Lastly, for skill priority, you first want to focus on Varesa’s Basic Attacks, followed by her Elemental Burst, and finally her Elemental Skill.