Zhongli’s Legendary Build

Zhongli Build Guide

Zhongli remains the premier shield support in Genshin Impact, offering unparalleled protection and resistance shred for your team. This Zhongli build focuses on maximizing his HP scaling to ensure an immortal shield while utilizing specific polearms to provide team-wide utility.

Best Weapons

• Favonius Lance: This is the top support choice for a Zhongli build to generate energy particles for the entire team. It helps meet the 140% to 150% energy recharge requirements, making it ideal for high-utility rotations in various team comps.
• Staff of Homa: The best weapon for players looking to balance shield strength with high burst damage. It provides a massive critical damage boost and scales with HP, allowing his elemental burst to hit significantly harder without sacrificing too much protection.
• Black Tassel: A highly accessible three-star option that is perfect for a pure shield bot setup. It provides a massive HP percentage secondary stat, making it the easiest way to reach the 50,000 HP threshold for maximum damage absorption.

Best Artifacts

• Tenacity of the Millelith: This is the standard choice among artifact sets for the attack buff and shield strength it provides. However, players should be aware that triggering the four-piece effect can be inconsistent if enemies move away from the stone stele.
• Vourukasha's Glow: Using two pieces of this set provides a 20% HP bonus, which is excellent for strengthening the shield. It is often paired with other two-piece sets to create a more consistent and flexible build for general support.
• Noblesse Oblige: A two-piece set of this artifact increases elemental burst damage by 20%. It is a great choice for a sub-DPS build where you want his meteor to deal significant damage while maintaining his defensive utility.

Teams and Stat Priorities

• For stat priorities, focus on reaching 40,000 to 50,000 HP for the shield, while maintaining 60% to 70% critical rate and 140% to 150% energy recharge to ensure consistent burst uptime and particle generation.
• The Hu Tao and Xingqiu team uses Zhongli as a dedicated protector to keep Hu Tao safe at low health. This classic vaporize team benefits from his resistance shred and the interrupt resistance provided by his jade shield.
• A Mono Geo resonance team with Albedo and Ningguang focuses on high construct damage and energy generation. This composition maximizes Geo resonance benefits, increasing overall damage dealt while the shield is active.