Aloy in Genshin Impact – guide [best builds]❄️

It's time to find out if miHoYo's freebie can be useful for ordinary Genshin Impact players! Choosing the best weapons, artifacts and squad members for Aloy, which will be given out for free to everyone during updates 2.1-2.2.

Aloy in Genshin Impact is a playable ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ character that will be given out for free to PlayStation users in the Update 2.1. Users of other platforms will receive the protagonist of Horizon Zero Dawn in their squads along with the release of patch 2.2 in Genshin Impact. This gift is the result of a collaboration between Sony and miHoYo.

In the Zero Dawn canon, Aloy is a genetic clone created by Dr. Elisabet Sobeck. In the world of Teyvat, she will become a Cryo Archer. The unique opportunity to get a playable character from another world is a good reason to start playing Genshin Impact. However, current players will certainly find how to effectively use this hero in their squads. The following is a detailed guide with builds for Aloy in Genshin Impact (leveling, weapons, artifacts and team members).

Release Date

The character's first appearance is scheduled for September 1, 2021when Genshin Impact Update 2.1 is released. However, in this patch, the character will be exclusive to PS 4/5 players. Users of other platforms will have to wait until the next update.

How to get Aloy in Genshin Impact

On all platforms, the character will be gifted through in-game mail. Travelers who have the 20 Adventure rank. by the time the technical works end, will be able to receive her. The current deadlines for obtaining Aloy are as follows:

• PS 4/5 Update 2.1: September 1 - October 13, 2021;
• PC, Android, iOS: October 14 - November 24, 2021 (console players will still have the opportunity to get the hero).

Skills

You should be aware of the talents of the free hero in order to effectively integrate her into your teams. This is especially true for beginners, for whom the archer from another game universe can become a worthy member of the team.

Basic (Active) Skills

• Rapid Fire (Normal/Charged/Plunging Attack)

With a tap, performs up to 4 simple shots.

Holding charges the arrow with Cryo energy, increasing damage dealt.

With a plunging attack, drops to the ground with a hail of arrows, dealing AoE physical damage.

• Frozen Wilds (Elemental Skill)

The character throws a Freeze Bomb at the enemy, which explodes and deals Cryo damage in an area, disintegrating into many Chillwater Bomblets. Small charges also explode on impact with a target or after a short time.

When this skill hits an enemy, the target's damage is reduced and Aloy gains a Coil charge (maximum of 1 per 0,1 seconds). The applied effect has the following properties:

• Increases the damage of the hero's normal attacks.
• Upon reaching four levels, the Coil is reset, putting Aloy into the Rushing Ice state. After that, all normal attacks deal increased Cryo damage.

• Prophecies of Dawn (Elemental Burst)

A Power Cell is thrown at the target and Aloy detonates this cell with a well-aimed shot, dealing increased Cryo damage in an area.

Passive Skills

Constellation

At the moment, there is no mention of Aloy dropping in the banners. Accordingly, her Stella Fortuna for getting her constellations cannot be obtained. How exactly miHoYo will beat the lack of this gameplay feature, is unkown.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Naturally, you need to start with the fact that this is an absolutely free character, which will be received by all players with Rank 20. The specified leveling threshold can be overcome in just a few days of the game, with no issues.

In combat and while exploring Teyvat, the character has the following positive sides:

• high Cryo damage with a fairly simple boost mechanics for normal attacks;
• easy application of AoE Cryo damage;
• high duration of the effect imposed by the elemental skill (in a long battle it will not be difficult to stack Coil);
• a passive for fast farming meat of animals and birds.

However, no one was going to make a free character an imba, that's why Aloy's Cons are obvious:

• limited elemental damage (physical attacks have no practical value);
• little benefit when fighting monsters that are resistant to Cryo;
• long cooldown of the E necessary for the accumulation of stacks of the Coil (20 seconds);
• lack of constellations (the maximum potential of the hero is limited by her weapons, artifacts and leveling level).

Next, we will describe all the nuances of leveling and equipping Aloy in Genshin Impact.

Leveling

The development of a collab character is no different from the standard heroes for Genshin Impact. You will have to collect special components and materials in order to reach the maximum level and highest performance.

Ascension

You can level the character to maximum using the following farmed components and materials:

Also check out our farming and getting guides:

• Crystal Marrow;
• Crystalline Bloom;
• Spectral Nucleus.

Calculate the amount of ascension materials with the help of the Genshin Impact Calculator.

Talents

To upgrade talents, Aloy herself will need a long time known materialsand a new component, dropped by monsters in the Inazuma Islands.

For each active talent, the player will need Freedom Talent Books, Spectral Nucleus, Signora material, and Crown of Insight (Wisdom) for each talent to be leveled to 10.

Best builds for Aloy

This hero will be a great secondary DPS for many teams. She is not Ganyu, which many people dream of rerunning, but the character is quite suitable for those who do not have more effective options for their squads. To reveal the combat potential of Aloy, it is advisable to gain the following Main characteristics:

• Cryo damage bonus;
• Attack Power;
• Crit Rate/DMG;
• Elemental Mastery.

For additional stats, the following will also be useful:

• HP;
• Defense.

Below are the best builds for weapons, artifacts and team members for Aloy.

Best Weapons

Together with the newcomer, a bow designed specifically for the guest from Zero Dawn will be brought to the game on the PlayStation. Actually, it will give the best stats to the hero:

Bow	Rarity	Features	Passive
Predator	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Base Attack: 42-510 ATK: 9-41,3%	Strong Strike When dealing Cryo Damage to an enemy, Normal Attacks and Charged Attacks gain +10% Power for 6 seconds. The effect stacks up to 2 times. When Aloy herself uses the weapon, her attack power is increased by 66.

PC and smartphone users will not see such gifts from miHoYo, and therefore we recommend using one of the following bows to boost the hero’s elemental power, turning her into a support reactor:

number	Name	Rarity	Features	Passive Effects
1	The Stringless	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 42-510 Elemental Mastery: 36-165	Arrowless Song Elemental skill and elemental burst damage is increased by 24-48%.
2	Sacrificial Bow	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 44-565 Energy recharge: 6,7-30,6%	Composed A successful hit with an E has a 40-80% chance to instantly reset this skill. The effect works every 30-16 seconds.
3	Favonius Warbow	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 41-454 Energy recharge: 13,3-61,3%	Wind Companion Critical attacks have a 60-100% chance to create elemental particles that restore 6 energy. The effect works every 12-6 seconds.

If you want to make Aloy a budget Yoimiya with powerful simple attacks, then you should choose the following ranged weapons:

number	Name	Rarity	Features	Passive Effects
1	Thundering Pulse	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 46-608 ATK: 10,8-49,6%	Attack power is increased by 20-40%. At the same time, the hero receives Thunder Emblems (1-3 levels) with an increase in the damage of normal attacks by 12(24)/24(48)/40(80)%.  You can earn Thunder Emblems: dealing elemental damage (effect duration 5 seconds); activating an elemental burst (10 seconds). If, upon receiving the emblem, the character does not have 100% energy, it is valid until it is fully restored. The activity time of each emblem is calculated individually.
2	Amos’ Bow	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 46-608 ATK: 10,8-49,6%	Normal and charged attacks deal 12-24% more damage. Charged attack damage is increased by 0,1-8% for every 16 seconds the arrow travels. The effect stacks up to 5 times.
3	Hamayumi	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 41-454 ATK: 12-55,1%	The damage of normal attacks is increased by 16-32%, and that of charged attacks is increased by 12-24%. When a character with a bow accumulates 100% energy, the effect is increased by 100%.
4	Rust	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 42-510 ATK: 9-41,3%	The damage of regular attacks is 40-80% higher. However, damage from charged attacks is reduced by 10%.
5	Skyward Harp	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 48-674 Crit Chance: 4,8-22,1%	+20% critical damage. Has a 60% chance to deal AoE damage every 4 seconds.
6	Prototype Crescent	⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	Normal attack: 42-510 ATK: 9-41,3%	Aimed shot at an enemy's weak spot increases the character's movement speed by 10% and attack power by 36-72%.

You can find out about other equipment and its demand in weapon tier list.

Best Artifacts

number	Name	The set is	Rarity	Passive Effects
1	Shimenawa's Reminiscence		⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	2 Piece: Increase attack power by 18% 4 Piece: When using an elemental skill when the character has 15 or more points of energy, they consume 15 energy, and normal, charged and plunging attacks become stronger by 50% for 10 seconds.
2	Blizzard Strayer		⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	2 Piece: Cryo Damage Bonus +15% 4 Piece: When attacking targets with Cryo status, the crit chance is increased by 20%. If the enemy is Frozen, the critical chance increases by an additional 20%.
3	Martial Artist		⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️	2 Piece: Normal and Charged Attack Damage +15% 4 Piece: Normal and Charged Attack Damage +25% for 8 seconds after using an elemental skill.

Team Setup

Based on the fact that Aloy will be a secondary DPS character who will have to go into battle quite often, appropriate companions are needed for her. As a main damage dealer for such a squad, you can choose:

Character	Element	Weapon	Effects
Xiao	Anemo	Polearm	Provides increased AoE damage, but needs a helper while his elemental burst is on cooldown. It is the moment when the Cryo Archer can build up charges of Coil and discharge at enemies with powerful simple attacks.
Eula	Cryo	Claymore	In addition to Cryo-resonance, is valuable for huge physical damage. In fact, if paired with the Cryo Archer, she is able to destroy targets regardless of their resistances. At the same time, it is better to take a Cryo support with Ayaka, since the second DPS of the same element will take useful time from his main dps.
Keqing	Electro	Sword	It's all simple: AoE Electro damage combined with Cryo damage in an area. With a decrease in resistance, simple attacks that are not charged with the elements will also be more effective. Keqing will greatly increase the dynamics of the battle.
Razor	Electro	Claymore	One of the best options: physical DD, which, in combination with a Cryo character, will reduce the physical resistance of enemies with the Superconduct reaction.
Beidou	Electro	Claymore	A situation similar to Razor, but with an all-consuming Electro-shield that will allow you to survive even the most powerful attacks of the enemy.
Ningguang	Geo	Catalyst:	The screen will protect you from remote attacks of the enemy. Due to Crystallize, you can regularly receive an elemental shield.
Diluc	Pyro	Claymore	Huge AoE Pyro damage combined with Cryo will give you good Melt damage. At the same time, Diluc's basic attack damage is no worse than that of some physical damage dealers.
Hu Tao	Pyro	Polearm	This character needs a good shield and heal, but if you have it in 3-4 slots, then temporarily replacing Pyro damage with Crio attacks is quite acceptable.
Klee Yanfei	Pyro	Catalyst:	The only downside to these heroes is their limited attack range. The cryo-archer will help you distance yourself from enemies for the duration of the rollback of skills and energy recovery.

In the position of a Sub-DD , the following characters can be used:

Character	Element	Weapon	Effects
Kazuha	Anemo	Sword	Will not only pull enemies together, but will also increase the elemental damage against them, which will make the archer's simple attacks with Cryo-Infusion even more powerful.
Venti	Anemo	Bow	Also needed to pull together scattered groups of enemies, so that later the main or secondary DPS character can be discharged into them.
Baal	Electro	Polearm	The Electro Archon, which increases energy regeneration and reduces the cooldown of skills, will help almost any squad in battle. Here, paired with the Cryo Archer, she will increase the attacks of the last Electro element, while reducing the physical resistance of the enemy.
Zhongli	Geo	Polearm	His own shield and also Crystallize will protect the squad. At the same time, a large AoE damage and resistance reduction will significantly increase the overall DPS.
Albedo	Geo	Sword	Alternative for Zhongli. However, Albedo rather increases the dynamics of the battle than protects teammates from incoming damage.
Mona	Hydro	Catalyst:	She has a good alternative sprint, an elemental skill phantom, as well as elemental burst that "turns off" the enemy and increases the damage passing through the target. And, of course, in combination with Cryo, it is easy to freeze the enemy.
Xingqiu	Hydro	Sword	Pure buff from Rain Swords: protection when summoning them with his E and additional Hydro-attacks from elemental bursts. A more efficient option in terms of freezing, because. Hydro-effect will complement Cryo-shots.
Xinyan	Pyro	Claymore	Useful for her Pyro Shield, as well as AoE damage that temporarily incapacitates enemies. If 4 constellations are unlocked, can reduce the physical resistance of the target.

For the last slot, take a good healer:

Character	Element	Weapon	Effects
Jean	Anemo	Sword	Has a powerful ult that restores health to all characters in the area of ​​effect.
Sayu	Anemo	Claymore	Her assistant Daruma heals characters who lack HP. This is a convenient scheme in which you do not need to purposefully switch to the hero for regeneration. Also with her E, Sayu absorbs other elements, increasing elemental damage.
Qiqi	Cryo	Sword	An excellent healer that regenerates the health of an active character. At the same time, it will give resonance with the Cryo Archer, increasing the chance of crit.
Diona	Cryo	Bow	Healer and shielder, and also grants Cryo Resonance. Despite the same element and weapon, in terms of equipment, the two characters do not interfere with each other.
Bennett	Pyro	Sword	A great alternative to any of the above heroes. In addition to restoring HP, Bennet gives the squad increased attack power, which is extremely necessary for an archer with a boost in simple shots.

Team samples

Character 1	Character 2	Character 3	Character 4	Features
Xiao	Aloy	Xinyan	Qiqi Diona Sayu	The cryo archer can replace Xiao while his ult is on cooldown. At the same time, Xinuan will cover everyone with her shield, periodically discharging her elemental burst. The healer is chosen based on the effect that we want to get. Anemo resonance will speed up the squad, reduce stamina consumption and skill cooldown time, and Cryo will give an increased chance of crit.
Eula	Aloy	Fischl	Bennett Jean	In this case, Fischl is added to Cryo-resonance, as both DPS characters need to be boosted at the same time. However, the roles of the archers are too close, because this is an experimental build. Bennets are equal in terms of healing, but the Pyro-hero takes precedence due to the increase in attack power.
Ayaka	Aloy	Baal (Shogun Raiden)	Sayu	A high-quality squad with an increased crit chance, increased energy regeneration, reduced enemy resistances and cooldown time for team skills. At the same time, Sayu regenerates HP and increases the dynamics of the battle, increasing damage to the target when all characters have a sufficient level of health.
Razor	Aloy	Xingqiu	Diona Qiqi	Resist reduction will give a basic combo of two DPS characters. Resonating with Cryo-heal will increase the chance of a critical hit, which will greatly increase Razor's physical damage. Xingqiu will add defenses to the game, as well as create useful reactions based on Hydro status.
Keqing	Aloy	Mona	Diona Qiqi	The increased AoE damage of such a tean will also include Superconduct, Charged, Frozen, and Cryo Resonance reactions with increased crit chance. Mona and Keqing will increase the dynamics of the battle, as well as allow you to distance yourself from the enemy.
Dee Luke	Aloy	Xingqiu	Bennett	Pyro Resonance and Bennett's attack power increase will give a great boost to both Diluc and the Cryo Archer. At the same time, Xingqiu will increase the damage dealt even more.
Hu Tao	Aloy	Zhongli	Bennett	The main game is played on Hu Tao, who is protected by Zhongli's shield, as well as Bennet's heal. With Pyro Resonance, her damage will be even higher. Aloy only periodically enters the battle when the rest need to restore energy and wait for the rollback of skills.
Klee Yanfei	Aloy	Venti Kazuha	Bennett	Anemo-character is needed to pull enemies into one point. There can be discharged Pyro with a catalyst. If all this goes under the buff of Bennett's ult, then the effect of the attacks will be deadly. The Cryo-Archer is used when everyone has skills on cooldown, as well as when it is necessary to trigger reactions.

There is also a variant of a free squad using heroes that can be obtained without buying any currency (this is also Aloy).

Character 1	Character 2	Character 3	Character 4	Features
Kaeya Xiangling	Aloy	Noelle Electro (Traveler)	Barbara	You decide how to boost the damage of the characters. The main interest is 2 Cryo, which increase the chance of crit. The Electro Traveler in the Sub-DD position is not much needed by them, because Superconduct will lower physical resistance, not elemental resistance. At the same time, you can play through it, if there is no shield from Noelle, or take Xiangling for increased AoE Pyro damage and create Vaporize/Melt reactions.

How to play Aloy

This character should always have the opportunity to shoot. Only when successfully stacking Coil charges, Aloy will ramp up her own DPS. If the enemy is not resistant to Cryo damage, then with normal attacks of increased power, you can shatter a pack of enemies and go on a well-deserved cooldown. It is best to use her in teams with a main DPS that needs periodic “rest” (skill cooldown outside of combat).

Сonclusion

Aloy in Genshin Impact is a nice gift for beginners and a true collectible for existing players who have more powerful characters. In any case, she should be taken to the archive of heroes, in order, perhaps, to be added to one of the experimental squads in the future. The main character of Horizon Zero Dawn is of real practical use only for players who are in dire need of replenishing the list of characters, or for those who want to quickly farm a lot of meat from animals and birds of Teyvat.

Browse the Genshin Impact builds section of our site to see all the up-to-date builds for each character of the game. Also, in a separate article, you can find best team setups.