Best Kuki Shinobu Builds

HYPERBLOOM This is a Dendro team that requires a reliable Electro trigger unit to work, for which Kuki is one of the best Electro units to perform this role.
Regarding Weapon Choices:

• Key of Khaj-Nisut: This becomes a better choice than Iron Sting at [C4] when you can gain the 3rd passive stack without extending your rotation time or taking extra field time. It can also net more Elemental Mastery than Freedom-Sworn at 3 stacks, assuming you have actually built some HP% Substats on your Sands/Goblet/Circlet, but this is usually not enough to out-perform the overall gains from Xiphos' Moonlight/Freedom-Sworn's respective passives.
• Toukabou Shigure: This weapon performs very similarly in a Hyperbloom focused build to Iron Sting since its passive does not effect Hyperbloom damage.

AGGRAVATE OFF-FIELD DPS This adds flat damage to the triggering Electro attack that scales off Elemental Mastery and levels, which essentially allows Kuki's personal damage to become relevant while also filling the role of a healer in the team.
Regarding Weapon Choices:

• Freedom-Sworn: While not having the highest personal damage it makes up for it in overall team damage through its competitive buffs.
• Primordial Jade Cutter: Has the highest personal damage of any weapon on Kuki but little to no utility, which means it usually falls behind in overall team damage.
• Key of Khaj-Nisut: On paper combines a mixture of high personal damage with team buffs to potentially be her best weapon if you manage to get it fully stacked. This is usually a unrealistic scenario though with it taking up to 2-3 rotations to fully stack or forcing you to stay on-field to let it stack which is usually a net DPS loss.

Regarding Artifact choices:

• Thundersoother (4): It's potentially your BIS set if you can maintain a constant Electro aura or near that, to be this consistent usually takes up to 3 Electro units (or possibly 2 Electro units and a Anemo unit like Kazuha or Venti swirling Electro)
• Thundering Fury (2) +80 EM set (2) Noblesse Oblige (2): Usually performs so close to Gilded Dreams (4) that you can simply pick the set or combination of sets with the highest possible substats.

SUPPORT Outside of reaction teams where she can be a reliable trigger unit, Kuki's damage contribution is usually insignificant. Hence her best usage case in those scenarios is building purely for utility.
Regarding Weapon Choices:

• Favonius Sword: The passive lets her provide energy to the rest of the team. A Crit Rate circlet or substats should be considered to reliably trigger the passive.
• Freedom-Sworn: In teams where Kuki can reliably trigger reactions, the teamwide buff from this weapon can make it preferable over Favonius Sword.
• Key of Khaj-Nisut: Highest possible healing in exchange for weaker utility. Worth considering in teams that can't reliably trigger reactions for Freedom-Sworn or don't need extra energy particles from Favonius Sword.
• The Dockhand's Assistant: Similarly to Key of Khaj-Nisut, this weapon trades utility for stronger healing.

Regarding Artifact Choices:

• Noblesse Oblige (4): When using this set, make sure to build enough Energy Recharge to cast Burst off cooldown and keep good uptime on this set's passive.
• Ocean-Hued Clam (4): Provides a decent amount of extra damage on a full healing build.
• Instructor (4) / The Exile (4): Can be a cheap alternative on teams where the extra ATK% buff from Tenacity of the Millelith (4) or Noblesse Oblige (4) is not as useful.

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