Best Alhaitham Genshin Impact build: Artifacts, weapons, more

Alhaitham is a formidable 5-star Dendro user in Genshin Impact. Here’s everything you need to know about effectively building the character.

Alhaitham serves as the Sumeru Akademiya’s scribe and as a member of the Haravatat, one of the six Darshans. He also lives with the 4-star Dendro character Kaveh after the latter had financial issues following the construction of the Palace of Alcazarzaray.

Alhaitham is an exceptionally powerful Main DPS that can quickly apply Dendro to opponents. He also has the ability to hit multiple targets with the potential to cause Dendro-related Elemental Reactions.

If you’re looking to build Alhaitham, keep reading to learn our recommended Artifacts, weapons, and more.

Contents

• Alhaitham abilities in Genshin Impact
• Alhaitham Constellations in Genshin Impact
• Best Alhaitham Artifacts in Genshin Impact
• Best Alhaitham weapons in Genshin Impact
• Alhaitham Talent Level-up and Ascension Materials
• Best Alhaitham team comp in Genshin Impact

Alhaitham abilities in Genshin Impact

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Normal Attack: Abductive Reasoning

• Normal Attack: Performs up to 5 rapid strikes.
• Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to unleash 2 rapid sword strikes.
• Plunging Attack: Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.

Elemental Skill: Universality: An Elaboration on Form

Rushes forward, dealing Dendro DMG to nearby opponents when the rush ends, causing a Chisel-Light Mirror to form. Holding this skill will cause it to behave differently.

Hold: Enters Aiming Mode to adjust the direction of Alhaitham’s rush attack.

Chisel-Light Mirror: When this skill is unleashed, Alhaitham will generate 1 Chisel-Light Mirror. If there are no Mirrors at this time, he will generate 1 additional Mirror. Chisel-Light Mirrors will have the following properties:

• When he possesses Chisel-Light Mirrors, Alhaitham’s Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks will be converted to Dendro damage that cannot be overriden
• When attacks of the aforementioned kinds hit opponents, the Chisel-Light Mirrors will unleash a Projection Attack that deals AoE Dendro DMG based on the number of Mirrors on the field.
• A total of 3 Chisel-Light Mirrors can exist at once.

The Chisel-Light Mirrors will disappear one after the other over time, and will all disappear when Alhaitham leaves the field.

Elemental Burst: Fetters of Phenomena

Creates a Particular Binding Field and deals multiple instances of AoE Dendro DMG. If Chisel-Light Mirrors exist when this ability is unleashed, all such Mirrors will be consumed and increase the number of DMG instances dealt.

2 seconds after this ability is unleashed, if 0/1/2/3 Mirrors were consumed, Alhaitham will generate 3/2/1/0 new Mirrors in turn.

Alhaitham Constellations in Genshin Impact

If you’re lucky enough to pull multiple copies of Alhaitham, here are the powerful buffs you’ll receive from his Constellations:

• Level One – Intuition: When a Projection Attack hits an opponent, Universality: An Elaboration on Form‘s CD is decreased by 1 second. This effect can be triggered once every 1 second.
• Level Two – Debate: When Alhaitham generates a Chisel-Light Mirror, his Elemental Mastery will be increased by 50 for 8 seconds, max 4 stacks. Each stack’s duration is counted independently. This effect can be triggered even when the maximum number of Chisel-Light Mirrors has been reached.
• Level Three – Negation: Increases the Level of Universality: An Elaboration on Form by 3.
  Maximum upgrade level is 15.
• Level Four – Elucidation: When Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena is unleashed, the following effects will become active based on the number of Chisel-Light Mirrors consumed and created this time around:
  • Each Mirror consumed will increase the Elemental Mastery of all other nearby party members by 30 for 15s.
  • Each Mirror generated will grant Alhaitham a 10% Dendro DMG Bonus for 15s.
  • The pre-existing duration of the aforementioned effects will be cleared if you use Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena again while they are in effect.
• Level Five – Sagacity: Increases the Level of Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena by 3.
  Maximum upgrade level is 15.
• Level Six – Structuration: Alhaitham gains the following effects:
  • 2 seconds after Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena is unleashed, he will generate 3 Chisel-Light Mirrors regardless of the number of mirrors consumed.
  • If Alhaitham generates Chisel-Light Mirrors when their numbers have already maxed out, his CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG will increase by 10% and 70% respectively for 5s.
  • If this effect is triggered again during its initial duration, the duration remaining will be increased by 5s.

Best Alhaitham Artifacts in Genshin Impact

If you want to run Alhaitham as a Dendro Main DPS, we recommend running the Gilded Dreams set if another character can have the Deepwood Memories artifacts equipped. Gilded Dreams will increase Alhaitham’s Elemental Mastery by 80 in addition to the ATK or Elemental Mastery of teammates, depending on their Elemental Type.

Otherwise, we suggest using the Deepwood Memories set for Alhaitham to improve his Dendro DMG by 15% and reduce opponents’ Dendro RES by 30% for eight seconds.

Artifact	Set Bonuses
Gilded Dreams	2-piece: Elemental Mastery +80 4-piece: Within 8s of triggering an Elemental Reaction, the character equipping this will obtain buffs based on the Elemental Type of the other party members. ATK is increased by 14% for each member whose Elemental Type is the same as the equipping character, and EM is increased by 50 for every member with a different Elemental Type. Each of the buffs will count up to 3 characters. This effect can be triggered once every 8s and even when not on the field.
Deepwood Memories	2-piece: Dendro DMG Bonus +15% 4-piece: After Elemental Skills or Bursts hit opponents, the targets’ Dendro RES will be decreased by 30% for 8s. This effect can be triggered even if the equipping character is not on the field.

Best Alhaitham weapons in Genshin Impact

The best weapon option for Alhaitham is the 5-star Light of Foliar Incision. This sword increases the character’s CRIT Rate by 4% in addition to increasing the DMG dealt by Normal Attacks and Elemental Skills by 120% of their Elemental Mastery. This effect occurs after Normal Attacks deal Elemental DMG, making it a great choice for Alhaitham.

If you don’t have Alhaitham’s signature, you could run Primordial Jade Cutter to possess an ATK bonus based on 1.2% of his HP alongside a 20% HP bonus.

Alternatively, the Wolf-Fang is also an excellent 4-star sword for Alhaitham to improve his Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst DMG by 16%. After hitting an opponent with either an Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst, Alhaitham’s CRIT Rate will increase by 2% at a maximum of four stacks, which can be triggered every 0.1 seconds.

Weapon	Details
Light of Foliar Incision	CRIT Rate is increased by 4%. After Normal Attacks deal Elemental DMG, the Foliar Incision effect will be obtained, increasing DMG dealt by Normal Attacks and Elemental Skills by 120% of Elemental Mastery. This effect will disappear after 28 DMG instances or 12s. You can obtain Foliar Incision once every 12s.
Primordial Jade Cutter	HP increased by 20%. Additionally, provides an ATK Bonus based on 1.2% of the wielder’s Max HP.
Wolf-Fang	DMG dealt by Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst is increased by 16%. When an Elemental Skill hits an opponent, its CRIT Rate will be increased by 2%. When an Elemental Burst hits an opponent, its CRIT Rate will be increased by 2%. Both of these effects last 10s separately, have 4 max stacks, and can be triggered once every 0.1s.

Alhaitham Talent Level-up and Ascension Materials

The following tables contain what you’ll need to gather to level up Alhaitham’s Talents and fully ascend the character:

TALENT LEVEL-UP MATERIALS
Talent Level-up Materials	Teachings of Ingenuity x9	Guide to Ingenuity x63	Philosophies of Ingenuity x114
Common Materials	Faded Red Satin x18	Trimmed Red Silk x66	Rich Red Brocade x93
Weekly Boss Materials	Mirror of Mushin x18

Ascension Level	Mora	Materials
1	20,000	Nagadus Emerald Silver x1	–	Sand Grease Pupa x3	Faded Red Satin x3
2	40,000	Nagadus Emerald Fragment x3	Pseudo-Stamens x2	Sand Grease Pupa x10	Faded Red Satin x15
3	60,000	Nagadus Emerald Fragment x6	Pseudo-Stamens x4	Sand Grease Pupa x20	Trimmed Red Silk x12
4	80,000	Nagadus Emerald Chunk x3	Pseudo-Stamens x8	Sand Grease Pupa x30	Trimmed Red Silk x18
5	100,000	Nagadus Emerald Chunk x6	Pseudo-Stamens x12	Sand Grease Pupa x45	Rich Red Brocade x12
6	120,000	Nagadus Emerald Gemstone x6	Pseudo-Stamens x20	Sand Grease Pupa x60	Rich Red Brocade x24

Best Alhaitham team comp in Genshin Impact

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We highly recommend placing Alhaitham on a team focused on triggering the Hyperbloom and Quicken Elemental Reactions. Therefore, we suggest running Alhaitham alongside Yelan, Nahida, and Kuki Shinobu. These are all great options to be able to hit multiple targets and cause Elemental Reactions.

Alternatively, you could use Alhaitham on a Spread team consisting of Yae Miko, Nahida, and Zhongli. Yae Miko’s ability to apply Electro damage to several enemies off-field will perfectly coincide with Nahida and Zhongli’s Dendro application.

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