Best Ganyu Builds

Ganyu can be built as a Melt DPS, utilizing her Level 2 Charged Shot to apply two instances of Cryo and trigger Melt reaction twice. Her Charged Attack will be the majority of her damage output, neglecting her Skill and Burst damage contribution for most scenarios. Regarding Weapon Choices:

• Amos' Bow: Ganyu's Level 2 Charge Shot Bloom extends arrow flight duration, allowing her to get 3 stacks of Amos' Bow passive even on point blank range.
• Flower-Wreathed Feathers: This weapon scales incredibly well with refinements. At R5, this weapon performs better than The First Great Magic.
• Hamayumi: Due to its passive, this weapon prefers Wanderer's Troupe (4) instead. At higher refinements, Hamayumi can outperform Thundering Pulse and Skyward Harp.
• Scion of the Blazing Sun: At R5, this weapon can outperform Thundering Pulse and Skyward Harp.
• Prototype Crescent: At higher refinement levels with good uptime on its passive, it can potentially be on par with Skyward Harp. However, do bear in mind that not all enemies have weak spots that you can headshot, which does affect its performance significantly.

Regarding Artifact Sets:

• Shimenawa's Reminiscence (4) and Wanderer's Troupe (4): If you are able to squeeze 5 Charged Attacks during the 10 second buff duration, Shimenawa's Reminiscence (4) pulls ahead of Wanderer's Troupe (4). Due to it being very difficult to do, Wanderer's Troupe (4) will usually end up dealing more damage for most players.
• Unfinished Reverie: If Ganyu is played in a team with consistent burn uptime, this set performs better than Wanderer's Troupe (4) and Shimenawa's Remniscence (4).

Regarding Talent Priority: Ganyu's Elemental Burst is low priority on a Melt Build since most of the times, you don't cast her burst at all so that it doesn't steal your Melt reaction.
Ganyu can also be built as a Freeze DPS, utilizing her Elemental Burst as the main damage source. Charged attacks should only be used when the time between using the team's skills and bursts allows it. If running Shenhe alongside Ganyu, weapons with Crit stats and/or DMG% are slightly favored. Regarding Weapon Choices:

• Polar Star: This weapon is much harder to optimize with, due to having a very high Crit Rate stat.
• Amos' Bow: In quickswap heavy rotations (Ganyu Mona Venti Diona) where you usually don't do a lot of Charged Shots, this weapon performs worse than the other 5 star options listed.
• Prototype Crescent: Requires a weak spot hit before casting Ganyu's Elemental Burst to utilize the passive fully. At R5, this weapon performs close to Skyward Harp.
• Mouun's Moon: This weapon's exact performance varies with the team's total burst cost. At R5, this weapon performs similar to Thundering Pulse.

Ganyu can also be built as a mono Cryo DPS, utilizing Blizzard Strayer (4) and Cryo Resonance while having Ganyu on field dealing damage through both her Charged Attacks and Elemental Burst. Regarding Weapon Choices:

• Amos' Bow: If Shenhe is present on the team, this weapon performs worse than Skyward Harp.
• Flower-Wreathed Feathers: At R5, this weapon performs similar to Prototype Crescent at R5.
• Prototype Crescent: Requires a weak spot hit before casting Ganyu's Elemental Burst to utilize the passive fully. At R5, this weapon performs slightly better (without Shenhe) or slightly worse (with Shenhe) than Skyward Harp.
• Mouun's Moon: This weapon's exact performance varies with the team's total burst cost. Performs better than similar options with Shenhe present on the team.
• Flower-Wreathed Feathers: This weapon scales incredibly well with refinements. At R5, this weapon performs closer to Amos' Bow.

Best Ganyu Teams

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