Genshin Impact: Zhongli Guide

Currently working as the consultant of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor is a mysterious man described as a living history due to his extreme knowledge in all things. This man is Morax, the Geo Archon and the oldest among the Seven Archons of Teyvat. After thousands of years, he finally decided to step down as the overlord Rex Lapis, the ruling god of Liyue, to live incognito as a mortal man named Zhongli.

Being a playable Archon makes Zhongli one of the most wanted characters in Genshin Impact. He is designed to be a support character with his shield, which is second to none. Zhongli has one of the coolest move sets for his normal attack combo and an epic elemental burst where he will summon a meteor to strike the opponents.

How to Get Zhongli

Zhongli is a 5-star character that can only be obtained by making wishes on a limited-time event character banner. If you missed that banner, worry not because banner reruns happen from time to time. If you can, you can save up Primogems and wait for Zhongli’s banner to rerun.

Zhongli Build

Support Type

A support character is what Zhongli is designed as. His passive talent named Dominance of Earth increases his damage based on his max HP. For this, you will need high HP to increase your shield’s strength.

Geo DPS Type

This build is the damager type that focuses on increased damage of Stone Stele and Planet Befall.

For this build, you will want to have artifacts with Geo damage bonus and a balance of ATK and Critical stats.

Please note that this build will compromise the strength of Zhongli’s shield since you will not be building enough HP stat.

Physical Type

Some players choose to go with a non-conventional Physical build where the playstyle focuses on normal and charged attacks.

This will most likely ignore his kit’s potential and role as a supporting character. Even his elemental skill and burst will not have that much damage.

Weapons

Vortex Vanquisher

You will know that this weapon is designed for Zhongli by its looks. Its passive effect increases the shield strength of the weapon wielder and increases that character’s ATK for a certain amount whenever that character hits an opponent. This effect can be stacked up to 5 times and doubled if a shield protects that character.

Despite this, many players do not consider this as his BiS weapon because it was meant for Zhongli’s test or original kit and build. He was originally an off-field sub-DPS but was changed to HP-type shield support.

Engulfing Lightning, Skyward Spine, The Catch, Prototype Starglitter, and Favonius Lance

Although they have different passive effects, all these weapons have a secondary stat bonus of Energy Recharge Rate, which can help keep Zhongli’s elemental burst up and ready every after cool down.

Having that is good for a Shield or Elemental burst type where the playstyle only involves switching to Zhongli to either summon a shield or do the elemental burst and then switching back to your DPS character.

Primordial Jade Winged-Spear, Staff of Homa, Deathmatch, and Blackcliff Pole

These weapons have critical as their secondary stat bonus. This is important for a DPS-build Zhongli to make sure you get a more consistent high damage output.

Calamity Queller, Lithic Spear, Royal Spear, Wavebreaker’s Fin

ATK% Bonus is the secondary stat for these weapons, making them safe or decent weapons for Zhongli. If you do not have any other polearms than these, then go on and use them.

Crescent Pike

This polearm is for those who prefer to have a Physical type Zhongli. Again, this build focuses on normal and charged attacks, and elemental skill and elemental burst talents will work as only fillers to the combo.

Black Tassel

Black Tassel is a 3-star weapon that some people prefer if they want more HP for Zhongli. However, being a 3-star, this weapon falls behind with damage output it can provide when you are already on higher Adventure Ranks and World Levels.

Artifacts

Tenacity of Millelith

This artifact set is probably designed for Zhongli—focusing on his main role, a supporting character that provides shield and off-field attacks with his Stone Stele.

The 2-piece set increases HP by 20%, and the 4-piece set increases the ATK and shield..