Nahida
★★★★★

Nahida

Dendro Catalyst Tier SS Sub-DPS
Reflects patch 6.7 (2026-07-06) — the meta store re-ranks every patch, never edited by hand.
Is Nahida worth building?

Nahida is one of the most rewarding characters in the entire game, unlocking the whole world of Dendro team comps. She lays down wide, incredibly durable Dendro from off-field and buffs her teammates' Elemental Mastery, so she fits into nearly any team. The best part is she's almost free to make strong: every Dendro team already wants a 4pc Deepwood Memories, and 4-star weapons like The Widsith or Sacrificial Fragments are more than enough — no signature pull needed. Build primarily around Elemental Mastery, aiming for ~900-1000 total EM when played off-field. If you run any Dendro team at all, put Nahida at the top of your investment list.

Building Nahida — just follow the numbers

Nahida Build

Community consensus, patch 6.7 — free-to-play option included
Artifacts
Main & sub stats
SandsElemental Mastery
GobletDendro DMG Bonus / Elemental Mastery
CircletElemental Mastery / CRIT

Priority substats: Energy Recharge › Elemental Mastery › CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG

Talent priority

E > Q > NA — the Skill is her main Dendro source and damage, level it first; Burst is for the EM buff, Normals are near-skippable.

Teams for Nahida

Nahida Hyperbloom
Nahida
Nahida
Xingqiu
Xingqiu
Kuki Shinobu
Kuki Shinobu
Flex (hydro)

Nahida and Xingqiu generate Bloom cores rapidly, and Kuki triggers Hyperbloom to dump Electro damage onto enemies.

Nahida Aggravate
Nahida
Nahida
Keqing
Keqing
Fischl
Fischl
Zhongli
Zhongli

Nahida sustains the Dendro base, Keqing and Fischl carry the Aggravate damage, and Zhongli's shield keeps things safe.

Nahida's talents

Akara
Normal Attack
Performs up to 4 attacks that deal Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her.

Charged Attack
Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her after a short casting time.

Plunging Attack
Calling upon the might of Dendro, Nahida plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Dendro DMG upon impact with the ground.
All Schemes to Know
Sends forth karmic bonds of wood and tree from her side, dealing AoE Dendro DMG and marking up to 8 opponents hit with the Seed of Skandha.
When held, this skill will trigger differently.

Hold
Enters Aiming Mode, which will allow you to select a limited number of opponents within a limited area. During this time, Nahida's resistance to interruption will be increased.
When released, this skill deals Dendro DMG to these opponents and marks them with the Seed of Skandha.
Aiming Mode will last up to 5s and can select a maximum of 8 opponents.

Seed of Skandha
Opponents who have been marked by the Seed of Skandha will be linked to one another up till a certain distance.
After you trigger Elemental Reactions on opponents who are affected by the Seeds of Skandha or when they take DMG from Dendro Cores (including Burgeon and Hyperbloom DMG), Nahida will unleash Tri-Karma Purification on the opponents and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on her ATK and Elemental Mastery.
You can trigger at most 1 Tri-Karma Purification within a short period of time.

Lo, the god of grass and trees shines her ultimate truth into the void, illuminating the origin and destruction of the three karmas.
Illusory Heart
Manifests the Court of Dreams and expands the Shrine of Maya.

When the Shrine of Maya field is unleashed, the following effects will be separately unleashed based on the Elemental Types present within the party.
·Pyro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the DMG dealt by Tri-Karma Purification from "All Schemes to Know" is increased.
·Electro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the interval between each Tri-Karma Purification from "All Schemes to Know" is decreased.
·Hydro: The Shrine of Maya's duration is increased.

If there are at least 2 party members of the aforementioned Elemental Types present when the field is deployed, the aforementioned effects will be increased further.

Even if Nahida is not on the field, these bonuses will still take effect so long as party members are within the Shrine of Maya.

Perhaps all that dwell under the bowers of trees are naught but a fleeting upside-down dream in the eyes of the God of Wisdom.
Compassion Illuminated
When unleashing Illusory Heart, the Shrine of Maya will gain the following effects:
The Elemental Mastery of the active character within the field will be increased by 25% of the Elemental Mastery of the party member with the highest Elemental Mastery.
You can gain a maximum of 250 Elemental Mastery in this manner.
Awakening Elucidated
Each point of Nahida's Elemental Mastery beyond 200 will grant 0.1% Bonus DMG and 0.03% CRIT Rate to Tri-Karma Purification from All Schemes to Know.
A maximum of 80% Bonus DMG and 24% CRIT Rate can be granted to Tri-Karma Purification in this manner.
On All Things Meditated
Nahida can use All Schemes to Know to interact with some harvestable items within a fixed AoE.
This skill may even have some other effects...

Combat Rotation

  1. Cast E (hold to aim if needed) to mark up to 8 enemies with Seed of Skandha, 5s cooldown.
  2. Unleash Q (costs 50 energy, 13.5s cooldown) to open the Shrine of Maya, triggering bonuses based on which of Pyro/Electro/Hydro are present in the party.
  3. Stay inside the Shrine of Maya to get the buff: Pyro boosts Tri-Karma Purification damage, Electro shortens its internal cooldown, Hydro extends the field's duration.
  4. Swap to whichever elemental character matches the active buff to trigger an Elemental Reaction on the marked targets.
  5. The reaction (or Dendro Core damage) sets off Tri-Karma Purification, a wide Dendro nuke scaled off Nahida's ATK and Elemental Mastery that also hits linked targets.
  6. Wait out Tri-Karma Purification's short internal cooldown before triggering another reaction, since it can only go off once per short window.
  7. Recast E as soon as it's off cooldown (5s) to keep fresh marks on new or surviving enemies.

Nahida constellations

C1
The Seed of Stored Knowledge

When the Shrine of Maya is unleashed and the Elemental Types of the party members are being tabulated, the count will add 1 to the number of Pyro, Electro, and Hydro characters respectively.

C2
The Root of All Fullness

Opponents that are marked by Seeds of Skandha applied by Nahida herself will be affected by the following effects:
· Burning, Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon Reaction DMG they receive can score CRIT Hits. CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG are fixed at 20% and 100% respectively. CRIT Rate from this effect stacks with CRIT Rate from similar effects that allow these Elemental Reactions to CRIT.
· Within 8s of being affected by Quicken, Aggravate, or Spread, DEF is decreased by 30%.
· The CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG of Lunar-Bloom DMG received are increased by 10% and 20% respectively.

C3
The Shoot of Conscious Attainment

Increases the Level of All Schemes to Know by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.

C4
The Stem of Manifest Inference

When 1/2/3/4 (or more) nearby opponents are affected by All Schemes to Know's Seeds of Skandha, Nahida's Elemental Mastery will be increased by 100/120/140/160.

C5
The Leaves of Enlightening Speech

Increases the Level of Illusory Heart by 3.
Maximum upgrade level is 15.

C6
The Fruit of Reason's Culmination

When Nahida hits an opponent affected by All Schemes to Know's Seeds of Skandha with Normal or Charged Attacks after unleashing Illusory Heart, she will use Tri-Karma Purification: Karmic Oblivion on this opponent and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on 200% of Nahida's ATK and 400% of her Elemental Mastery.
DMG dealt by Tri-Karma Purification: Karmic Oblivion is considered Elemental Skill DMG and can be triggered once every 0.2s.
This effect can last up to 10s and will be removed after Nahida has unleashed 6 instances of Tri-Karma Purification: Karmic Oblivion.

Base Stats (Lv90)

HP
10,360
ATK
299
DEF
630
Ascension Stat
Elemental Mastery 115

Character Profile

  • Region: Sumeru
  • Voice Actors: JP 田村ゆかり · EN Kimberley Anne Campbell · KR Park Shi-yoon · CN 花玲

Other Dendro characters

Ascension materials

Total ascension materials to reach level 90 (talent books not included).

Talent scaling by level

Akara
  Lv 1Lv 10Lv 13
1-Hit DMG 40.3%72.5%85.6%
2-Hit DMG 37.0%66.6%78.6%
3-Hit DMG 45.9%82.6%97.5%
4-Hit DMG 58.4%105.1%124.1%
Charged Attack DMG 132.0%237.6%280.5%
Charged Attack Stamina Cost 50.050.050.0
Plunge DMG 56.8%112.3%136.1%
Low/High Plunge DMG 114%/142%225%/281%272%/340%
All Schemes to Know
  Lv 1Lv 10Lv 13
#{LAYOUT_MOBILE#Tap}{LAYOUT_PC#Press}{LAYOUT_PS#Press} DMG 98.4%177.1%209.1%
Hold DMG 130.4%234.7%277.1%
Tri-Karma Purification DMG 103.2% ATK+206.4% Elemental Mastery185.8% ATK+371.5% Elemental Mastery219.3% ATK+438.6% Elemental Mastery
Tri-Karma Purification Trigger Interval 2.5s2.5s2.5s
Seed of Skandha Duration 25.0s25.0s25.0s
#{LAYOUT_MOBILE#Tap}{LAYOUT_PC#Press}{LAYOUT_PS#Press} CD 5.0s5.0s5.0s
Hold CD 6.0s6.0s6.0s
Illusory Heart
  Lv 1Lv 10Lv 13
Pyro: DMG Bonus 1 Character 14.9%1 Character 26.8%1 Character 31.6%
Pyro: DMG Bonus 2 Characters 22.3%2 Characters 40.2%2 Characters 47.4%
Electro: Trigger Interval Decrease 1 Character 0.25s1 Character 0.45s1 Character 0.53s
Electro: Trigger Interval Decrease 2 Characters 0.37s2 Characters 0.67s2 Characters 0.79s
Hydro: Duration Extension 1 Character 3.34s1 Character 6.02s1 Character 7.11s
Hydro: Duration Extension 2 Characters 5.02s2 Characters 9.03s2 Characters 10.66s
Base Duration 15.0s15.0s15.0s
CD 13.5s13.5s13.5s
Energy Cost 505050

Advanced frame data (official)

Elemental application ICD, gauge units and interruption resistance — official numbers rarely published anywhere.

Akara
Hit Gauge ICD Interruption res.
Normal Attack 1-Hit 1U 2.5s/3 Hits 7.557
Normal Attack 2-Hit 1U 6.933
Normal Attack 3-Hit 1U 8.601
Normal Attack 4-Hit 1U 10.951
Charged Attack 1U 80
Plunging Attack Collision 0U 5
Low Plunge 1U 50
High Plunge 1U 100
All Schemes to Know
Hit Gauge ICD Interruption res.
Press DMG 1U 75
Hold DMG 1U 100
Tri-Karma Purification DMG 1.5U 1s 30

FAQ about Nahida

What is the best weapon for Nahida?
Go with A Thousand Floating Dreams. See the Build section above for full alternatives.
How much Mora to max out Nahida?
About 5.377.500 Mora (ascension + all three talents). Full per-phase table in the Materials section.
What are Nahida base stats at Lv90?
See the Base stats (Lv90) table on this page — numbers straight from the developer.

Voice actors

  • 日本語: 田村ゆかり
  • English: Kimberley Anne Campbell
  • 中文: 花玲
  • 한국어: Park Shi-yoon

Ascension & Talent Materials

Total Mora to max out: 5.377.500

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Full profile

A caged bird secluded within the confines of the Sanctuary of Surasthana who can only see the world in her dreams.

  • Affiliation: Sumeru City
  • Birthday (day/month): 10/27
  • Specialty dish: Halvamazd
  • Namecard: Nahida: Crescent — Namecard style. The rising moon admires the sun, because her light can shine all over the earth. On the other hand, the setting sun is envious of the moon, for she can be accompanied by the sweetest of dreams.