Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (2024)

Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (1)

Kaedehara Kazuha is a 5-star Anemo Sword support character in Genshin Impactwho excels at buffing your teams damage and provides crowd control. Hisincredibly powerful buffs and supportive capabilities make Kazuha one of thestrongest units in the game.

Last updated on Jun 05, 2024 at 11:00by Shikhu

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1.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (2)Strengths

  • Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (3)Powerful buffs increasing damage, resistance shred and crowd control.
  • Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (4)Off-field elemental application of Anemo and Absorbed element.
  • Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (5)Incredibly flexible and used in a lot of the best team compositions.

Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (6)Weaknesses

  • Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (7)Weak single-target damage
  • Kaedehara Kazuha Guide and Best Builds (8)Uses Elemental Mastery artifacts, which have a much lower drop chance

2.

Anemo Support Kazuha Build

Kazuhas main build focuses on increasing his Elemental Mastery to increasethe damage he can deal when Swirling elementsas well as increasing the bonus he provides with his 4th Ascension Passive: Poetics of Fuubutsu.

BiS Weapon Freedom-Sworn
Alternative Weapons
  1. Xiphos' Moonlight
  2. Favonius Sword
  3. Fleuve Cendre Ferryman
  4. Toukabou Shigure
Best Artifacts
  1. Viridescent Venerer
Main Stats
  • Sand Stats: Elemental Mastery / Energy Recharge
  • Goblet Stats: Elemental Mastery
  • Circlet Stats: Elemental Mastery
Substat Priority
    1. Energy Recharge until you can consistently burst
    2. Elemental Mastery
    3. ATK %
    4. CRIT Rate / DMG
    Talent Priority
    1. Elemental Burst
    2. Elemental Skill
    3. Normal Attack

    Kazuha always wants Elemental Mastery where possible and as much as you cangive. Therefore weapons which provide Elemental Mastery are great for Kazuha such as Freedom-Sworn and Xiphos' Moonlight. In situationswhere you are struggling to gain enough Energy Recharge to consistently burstyou may consider a weapon such as Favonius Sword or Fleuve Cendre Ferryman. If Ferryman is already being used on anothercharacter you could also opt for Sacrificial Sword.

    The exact amount of Energy Recharge you want will depend on your teamand if you use Chihayaburu once or twice between each burst as wellas if you simply tap or hold Chihayaburu. Generallyspeaking, around the 180 - 200% area will be common.

    Like many Anemo characters, Kazuha performs best whenusing Viridescent Venerer with the resistance shred being incrediblyhelpful.

    With Elemental Mastery artifacts, weapon and the bonus from your 6th Ascension,you will already have over 800 Elemental Mastery giving you at least a 32% damage bonusfrom Poetics of Fuubutsu before you even need to worry about substats.

    3.

    Combos and How to Play Kazuha

    Chihayaburu is Kazuha's main source of crowdcontrol due to the fact it can pull a range of enemies towards him. Thisalso causes Kazuha to jump in the air allowing you to perform a strongerplunge attack dealing damage based on the absorbed element.

    Kazuha Slash is incredibly powerful providing the majority ofKazuha's damage as well as applying an absorbed element which is why it isso important to have enough Energy Recharge. This can help yourteam with additional elemental reactions. You just need to be careful thatthe right elements are absorbed.

    3.1.

    Should You Tap or Hold Chihayaburu?

    Kazuhas Elemental Skill, Chihayaburu has different effectsand utilities depending on if you tap or hold the skill. They generate differentamounts of energy, pull enemies in more and even different amounts of elementalapplication.

    You want to hold Chihayaburu whenever you need more powerfulgrouping or additional energy. Otherwise tapping the skill will allow you toswap to the rest of the party faster.

    4.

    Best Team Comps

    Kazuha is an incredibly powerful support that can be used in a wide rangeof teams such as Hypercarry, mono elemental teams and various reactionbased teams. The biggest issue with Kazuha is that you only have one of him inSpiral Abyss.

    4.1.

    Ayaka Freeze

    Main DPSSub DPSSupportSupport
    Kamisato Ayaka Kaedehara Kazuha Sangonomiya Kokomi Shenhe
    Kamisato Ayaka Kaedehara Kazuha Furina Charlotte

    Ayaka is an incredibly powerful main DPS who utilities thesupportive abilities of Shenhe, Furina, and Kazuha to further increaseher damage while freezing enemies. Kazuha has great synergy with a mostcharacters you would use in a Freeze comp such as Ganyu,Layla, or Rosaria.

    4.2.

    Neuvillette Hypercarry

    Main DPSSub DPSSub DPSSupport
    Neuvillette Fischl Kaedehara Kazuha Zhongli

    Neuvillette is an incredibly powerful HydroDPS character who benefits greatly from Kazuha due to the resistance shred,elemental damage bonus and even the damage increase from his 1st AscensionPassive Heir to the Ancient Sea's Authority.

    4.3.

    Mono Pyro

    Main DPSSub DPSSupportSupport
    Lyney Xiangling Kaedehara Kazuha Bennett

    Lyney can be an incredibly powerful team compositionbeing able to utilise his 4th Ascension passive Conclusive Ovationto deal more damage with more Pyro characters. Kazuha helps improve this teameven without being a Pyro character due to the increasedresistance shred, damage buffs and by ensuring characters are consistentlyaffected by Pyro.

    5.

    Kazuha's Ascensions, Talents, and Constellations

    Kazuha AscensionsKazuha TalentsKazuha Constellations

    5.1.

    Kazuha Ascension Passives and Materials

    UnlockAscension PassiveExplanation
    With Character Cloud StriderIf Chihayaburu comes into contact withHydro/Pyro/Cryo/Electro when cast, Chihayaburu willabsorb that element and if Plunging Attack: Midare Ranzan is used beforethe effect expires, it will deal an additional 200% ATK of the absorbedelemental type as DMG. This will be considered Plunging Attack DMG.Elemental Absorption may only occur once per use of Chihayaburu.
    1st Ascension Soumon SwordsmanshipUpon triggering a Swirl reaction, KaedeharaKazuha will grant all party members a 0.04% Elemental DMG Bonus to theelement absorbed by Swirl for every point of Elemental Mastery he has for8s. Bonuses for different elements obtained through this method canco-exist.
    4th Ascension Poetics of Fuubutsu
    • Decreases sprinting Stamina consumption for your own party members by 20%.
    • Not stackable with Passive Talents that provide the exact same effects.

    Kazuha requires a range of materials to ascend to the 6th ascension.Starting from the second ascension they gain additional Elemental Mastery as theirbonus stat giving a total of 115 increased Elemental Mastery at the final ascension.The total cost to upgrade all ascensions is:

    SourceQuantity
    Mora420,000 Mora
    Boss Material46x Marionette Core
    Ascension Material
    • 1x Vayuda Turquoise Sliver
    • 9x Vayuda Turquoise Fragment
    • 9x Vayuda Turquoise Chunk
    • 6x Vayuda Turquoise Gemstone
    Local Specialty168x Sea Ganoderma
    Enhancement Material
    • 18x Treasure Hoarder Insignia
    • 30x Silver Raven Insignia
    • 36x Golden Raven Insignia

    5.2.

    Kazuha's Talents

    Listed below is each talent and a simplified explanation of how they work.

    TypeTalent NameBrief Explanation
    Normal Normal Attack: Garyuu BladeworkNormal attacks deal 5 rapid strikes, charged attack deal 2. Whendoing a plunging attack as a result of Chihayaburu, dealincreased Anemo damage.
    Elemental Skill Chihayaburu
    • Pulls enemies towards Kazuha's position dealing AoE damage.
    • Allows you to deal increased damage on your plunging attack.
    Elemental Burst Kazuha SlashLarge AoE which absorbs Hydro, Pyro, Cryo or Electro to dealelemental damage of that type and apply to enemies.

    To upgrade a single talent to level 10, it costs:

    SourceQuantity
    Mora1,625,500 Mora
    Special Material1x Crown of Insight
    Boss Material6x Gilded Scale
    Domain Material
    • 3x Teachings of Diligence
    • 21x Guide to Diligence
    • 38x Philosophies of Diligence
    Enhancement Material
    • 6x Treasure Hoarder Insignia
    • 22x Silver Raven Insignia
    • 31x Golden Raven Insignia

    5.3.

    Kazuha's Constellations

    Kazuhas best constellation is his C2, Yamaarashi Tailwind due tohow incredibly powerful its buff can be to the entire parties damage output. Scarlet Hills is also a good constellation allowing you morefreedom with Chihayaburu and lower potential energy requirements.

    #NameExplanation
    C1 Scarlet Hills
    • Decreases Chihayaburu's CD by 10%.
    • Using Kazuha Slash resets the CD of Chihayaburu.
    C2 Yamaarashi TailwindThe Autumn Whirlwind field created by Kazuha Slash has the following effects:
    • Increases Kaedehara Kazuha's own Elemental Mastery by 200 for its duration.
    • Increases the Elemental Mastery of characters within the field by 200.
    • The Elemental Mastery-increasing effects of this Constellation do not stack.
    C3 Maple Monogatari
    • Increases the Level of Chihayaburu by 3.
    • Maximum upgrade level is 15.
    C4 Oozora GenpouWhen Kaedehara Kazuha's Energy is lower than 45, he obtains the following effects:
    • Pressing or Holding Chihayaburu regenerates 3 or 4 Energy for Kaedehara Kazuha, respectively.
    • When gliding, Kaedehara Kazuha regenerates 2 Energy per second.
    C5 Wisdom of Bansei
    • Increases the Level of Kazuha Slash by 3.
    • Maximum upgrade level is 15.
    C6 Crimson Momiji After using Chihayaburu or Kazuha Slash,Kaedehara Kazuha gains an Anemo Infusion for 5s. Additionally, each pointof Elemental Mastery will increase the DMG dealt by Kaedehara Kazuha'sNormal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks by 0.2%.

    5.4.

    Changelog

    • 05 Jun. 2024: Reviewed for 4.7.
    • 31 Jan. 2024: Guide reviewed for Patch 4.4.
    • 29 Nov. 2023: Guide added.

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