Ever since the start of the game, the developers of Genshin Impact have revealed a ton of characters with unique play styles. With the choices of artifacts, weapons, and abilities present in the game, players can have a different experience every time they summon a new character to play with.

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Nilou is a five-star Sword-wielding character who has a Hydro vision. She hails from Sumeru Rainforest and was first introduced in the story during the main quest of the region. Hoyoverse has put a lot of detail in both her design and kit, making her satisfying to play in the right conditions.

Select Your Elemental Skill Stance Carefully

The unique part about Nilou's kit is her ability to have different stances based on how you use her Elemental Skill. Here's how to use a certain part of her Skill and what it does:

Your third dance decides which part of Elemental Skill will be applied, so it doesn't matter which dances you perform in the first two hits. Moreover, the Sword Dance for the first and second hit have higher multipliers than the Whirling Steps.

Thus, it's recommended to always a basic attack twice every time you activate the Skill and then perform another basic attack or press the Skill button based on your desired stance.

It is also possible to have both stances on Nilou at the same time with the help of a certain weapon known as the Sacrificial Sword. The weapon has a passive that has a chance of resetting your Elemental Skill cooldown whenever it deals damage to the enemy.

At refinement one, the weapon only gives a 40 percent chance of resetting the CD every time you deal damage, which goes up to 80 percent at refinement five. Although, the first refinement is good enough for Nilou since she deals damage four times during her Skill, raising the chance to trigger the passive.

This weapon is great if you're planning to use Nilou in a mono-Hydro team. It can deal a ton of Hydro damage while it also helps you charge up your Elemental Burst very quickly because of the Energy Recharge of the weapon.

But it is also important to note that triggering the same stance twice with Sacrificial Sword doesn't stack its damage or time, making it useless.

She's Great For Free-To-Play Players

Hoyoverse doesn't usually release five-star characters that are amazing for free-to-play or low-spending players, so Nilou gets an extra rating for that. Every character in the game has a set of six constellations except some exclusive collaborations like Aloy.

Usually, the developers would lock certain important mechanics with the character behind the constellations to entice players to spend more, but this is far from the truth for Nilou. The most efficient play style with that character, which is reaction-based support, can be executed perfectly without a single constellation.

Furthermore, Nilou is also easy to build since she scales on HP and doesn't require any Crit ratio for this play style. While getting the weapon and artifact set ready for Nilou, you only need to look for a ton of HP and Elemental Mastery along with a bit of Energy Recharge here and there.

Even after being an easy character to build and free-to-play-friendly, the value given by Nilou in this composition will astonish you. You can easily place her in a Vaporize, Bloom, Freeze, or Electro-charged team, and she will not disappoint in any of them.

Nilou's Team Requires A Healer

After reading the passives given to Nilou, you'll easily be able to tell what direction you're supposed to take while building her team. Here's what the passives do:

• One of the passives gives her entire team extra Elemental Mastery if they take Dendro damage within 30 seconds after she performs the third dance of her Elemental Skill. This applies if your team consists of only Dendro and Hydro characters, with at least one of each.
• The second passive increases the damage dealt by her Bountiful Cores based on her HP over 30,000. For 30 seconds after activating her Skill, all the Bloom reactions caused by the party members will create Bountiful Cores instead of Dendro Cores. The above condition is also required for this passive.

Apart from pointing the players at building a ton of HP and Elemental Mastery on her for more reaction-based damage, the developers also make it clear that Bloom teams will be her forte. This makes the character a little niche and situation-based, but she can be stronger than anyone else in that situation.

Elemental Mastery is the stat that decides how effective your reactions are going to be. If you head over to the character page and click on "Details" in the Attributes section, you'll be able to see a question mark that'll tell you the effects of your current Elemental Mastery.

There is another thing to note before creating the perfect team for the Bloom reaction. The Dendro/Bountiful Cores formed by this reaction will explode after a certain amount of time, and they deal damage to both the enemy and your characters if they're in the area of effect.

While the damage dealt to your character is far less, you'll be making a lot of Bountiful Cores with Nilou since that's her main damage output. Furthermore, you have to take Dendro damage from these cores for one of the passives to work, making it essential to have a healer on your team.

Without a healer, you'll see your party members struggling to stay alive. There are also great characters in the game to fit into this role like Barbara or Sangonomiya Kokomi. Also, you can't perform Hyperbloom or Burgeon reactions with Nilou's Bountiful Cores.

Ideally, you'd want to have two Dendro and two Hydro characters in her team, given that they all have a great application of their element. This is a little hard to have for Dendro characters because the element was released very late in the game.

Her Constellations Change Her Play Style

If you want to use Nilou as the main damage dealer of your team with the Sword Dance part of her Elemental Skill and her Burst, you might want to look into her constellations. Here's what they provide:

• The first constellation increases the third dance damage of Sword Dance by 65 percent, and it also increases the duration of the flower from Whirling Wind.
• The second one decreases the opponent's Hydro RES by 35 percent when you deal Hydro DMG after using your Elemental Skill. This is huge for increasing Nilou's damage.
• The other two constellations make it easier for her to get the Burst back, increase the Burst damage, and also give her extra Crit Rate and DMG based on her HP.

As mentioned above, you don't need her constellation for the most efficient reaction-based play style, but you can easily use her as a phenomenal main DPS if you happen to get them.

In this case, you might not be using the Bloom team for her, which makes two of her passives useless. It's a little tricky to build her on damage because you'll be missing out on a bit of damage, but it's also worth it because of how elegant she is when she performs her attacks.

Her Weapon Choice Is Limited

With the number of weapon choices in Genshin Impact, you'd think that no character would have any problems finding a decent weapon for them. Unfortunately, there aren't many swords in the game that have HP Percent as the main stat.

Nilou's signature weapon, Key of Khaj-Nisut is the only weapon that has the mentioned stat, and you'll have to make do with Energy Recharge or Elemental Mastery weapons if you aren't able to get that. This makes your artifact farming a little hard, and you have to focus on getting HP Percent everywhere you can.

If you're not using her signature weapon, it's highly recommended to have HP Percent as the main stat on at least two artifact pieces. There are only three kinds of pieces that can have this main stat: Sands, Goblet, and Circlet. Ideally, you'd want to have over 50,000 HP on her.

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