Genshin Impact Hu Tao build: Best weapons, artifacts and teams

HU Tao is returning to Genshin Impact banners, and while she’ll be difficult to pick up, she’s a great inclusion for your team.

Not only is Hu Tao a strong fighter, but her quirky personality has won fans’ hearts.

She focuses on her elemental skill, which is powerful but consumes HP when she uses it.

Here’s the best way to build and use Hu Tao in Genshin Impact.

Best weapons for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact

Like many other Genshin Impact characters, Hu Tao’s signature weapon the Staff of Homa is her best option.

It not only increases Critical Damage, but also increases HP by 20%, and boosts attack by 0.8% of her max HP.

This increases to 1% when she is hit below half health, which is useful as she uses a lot of HP to attack.

Here are some alternative weapons for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact:

• Primordial Jade-Winged Spear (five-star polearm)
• Staff of the Scarlet Sands (five-star polearm)
• Deathmatch (four-star polearm)
• Dragon’s Bane (four-star polearm)
• White Tassel (three-star polearm)

Best artifacts for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact

Hu Tao benefits from a wide range of stats, including HP, attack, critical damage and critical hit rate, elemental mastery, and energy recharge.

She’s a glass cannon, so you can easily focus on maximising her offenses.

The Crimson Witch of Flames is a great artifact set for her, as two pieces will improve Pyro damage by 15%, and four pieces improve elemental skill damage by 50%.

It will also increase the damage of reactions by 40%, and a further 15% increase to other skills.

You’ll want the following stat distribution on artifacts for Hu Tao:

• Flower: HP (main stat), Critical Damage or Critical Hit Rate, Attack%, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge (secondary stats)
• Plume: Attack (main stat), Critical Damage or Critical Hit Rate, Attack%, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge (secondary stats)
• Sands: Attack% (main stat), Critical Damage, Critical Hit Rate, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge (secondary stats)
• Goblet: Pyro Damage% (main stat), Critical Damage or Critical Hit Rate, Attack%, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge (secondary stats)
• Circlet: Critical Hit Rate or Critical Damage (main stat), Critical Damage or Critical Hit Rate, Attack%, Elemental Mastery, Energy Recharge (secondary stats)

Best teams for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact

Hu Tao is usually the main DPS character, and she has a number of off-field skills to support her normal attacks.

Supports with shields or small bursts of healing also work great with her.

• Hu Tao (Main DPS), Yelan (Sub DPS), Xingqiu (Support), Zhongli (Support)

This is a vaporise team, where Yelan and Xingqiu provide off-field Hydro effects.

The Hydro Resonance also buffs Hu Tao’s HP, which helps boost her attack.

Zhongli brings shields that support Hu Tao alongside Xingqiu’s healing.

• Hu Tao (Main DPS), Yelan (Sub DPS), Ganyu (Sub DPS), Diona (Support)

This is a melt team, and while not as strong as the vaporise team, these characters are easier to pick up.

Hu Tao is the only five-star character in this mix, which works similar to the team above.

Written by Marco Wutz and Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.