Raiden Shogun Guide and Best Builds (2024)

This is the general build Raiden Shogun, where you primarily focus onbeing able to do massive damage with her Burst, Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu.

Raiden Shogun's weapons are pretty straight forward. Her signature weapon, Engulfing Lightning, is her best weapon. This is due to its effectof giving her ATK % based on her Energy Recharge, while also increasingyour Energy Recharge after using your burst. Staff of Homa, Primordial Jade Winged-Spear and Skyward Spine are all slightly stronger than "The Catch",but not by much. The Catch is very good and is free as long as youdo not mind fishing. However, there is also a lot of competition for thisPolearm as you can only get one. Out of the 3 5* weapons listed, Staff of Homasticks out as there are other characters who use this weapon better thanRaiden. Skyward Spine's benefit comes from the increased ATK SPD,which allows Raiden to squeeze in more attacks during her burst.

Emblem of Severed Fate is her best set when it comes to increasingRaiden's personal damage. It gives you 20% Energy Recharge forthe 2-piece effect, while also converting Energy Recharge into Burst damagewith the 4 piece. All the Normal and Charged Attacks you do during her burstare considered Burst DMG, thus this set bonus also affects that.

Raiden Shogun's stat priority is a bit different because she valuesEnergy Recharge a lot due to one of her Ascension Passives, Enlightened One.She values it even more so if you have Engulfing Lightning,due to it converting Energy Recharge into ATK% as well. Because of this passive,it also makes Electro DMG on the goblet less valuable the more EnergyRecharge you have.

The reason why is due to how damage is calculated inGenshin. The formula is long and winded, but in short, all types of DMGincreases, whether it is from other characters like Furina'sburst Let the People Rejoice or Electro DMG from your gobletwill be added together. This counts the effect from Raiden Shogun's AscensionPassive Enlightened One as well. All of this is multiplied onto the attackvalue, meaning that getting more DMG bonuses will diminish over time, comparedto increasing the attack value.

In short, the more Energy Recharge you have and dependingon your team composition, the more you want ATK% on your Goblet. Same is truefor the Sands. However if you have Engulfing Lightning, EnergyRecharge is roughly equivalent to ATK%. Other than that,CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG are still strongerstats, where you preferably want a 1:2 split.

Between Electro DMG and ATK% on the goblet, it dependson quite a few things. Having Engulfing Lightning waters down theeffect of ATK%, while Energy Recharge waters down the effect of Electro DMG.Having external ATK buffs, such as the buffs provided by Bennettand Kujou Sara also water down the effect of ATK% so the answerwill always be it depends. However, as ATK% goblet is a lot more common whenfarming artifacts, it is more likely that you find one with good substats andpossibly within Emblem of Severed Fate. This would mean your circletcan be the flex Artifact, making it a lot easier to gear her up properly.

This is a Hyperbloom specific build focusing onoff-field DPS instead and an emphasis on Elemental Mastery.

Raiden Shogun is very simple when it comes to Hyperbloom,you just want to stack as much Elemental Mastery as you can.The priority for leveling her talents is not very important, as most of herdamage will come from triggering Hyperbloom.This does not scale on anything but Elemental Mastery and artifact set bonusesso focus on leveling her talents as if you would also build her for main DPS.

Her weapon choices are also simple, all 3 weapons are 4-star weapons, where Dragon's Bane is her best option. This is due to the sheer amount ofElemental Mastery it has. Moonpiercer is a goodsecondary option if you do not have Dragon's Bane and is craftable which makesit very easy to come by. While Energy Recharge is not important on RaidenShogun since she will be off field, Favonius Lance can used ifsomeone else in your party wants the Elemental Particles that this weaponcan create. If you use this weapon, you want to aim for someCRIT Rate in your substats since you will be relying onCRIT Rate to trigger the effects of the Favonius Lance.

Raiden Shogun primarily plays around setting up her burst, then spending 7seconds with high damage combos, before rotating back out to build up herburst again. With sufficient Energy Recharge on Raiden Shogunand the rest of your team, you can essentially run a Burst Rotation every18-20s depending on how the cooldown of Bursts on the other team members.Outside of the 10-12 seconds you will spend on Raiden Shogun (swapping in,using Burst and then doing attacks for 7 seconds), you will spend time onswapping through the other 3 characters, using their Burst and Skills, beforeswapping back to Raiden.

This makes for a very smooth playstyle as long as you do not miss any uptimeon your Burst on Raiden. This can directly affect how much Energy you getback. While the game tells you that her Burst lasts for 7 seconds, it will notdrop off mid attack, meaning that if you initiate a Charged Attack right asit is about to end, it will extend itself until that attack is finished.

Raiden Shogun has quite a few attack patterns during her burst tomaximise the amount of damage you can squeeze out of them. The reason why youwant to do this, is because the damage you do with all your regular attacksare considered Burst DMG. This means they benefit off of her own Burst DMGmechanic and also the 4-piece effect of Emblem of Severed Fate.

Which attack pattern will use depends on the weapons and buffs in your party.Generally speaking, you want to do 4 Normal Attacks into a Charged Attack. Thisis done twice before you do 2 Normal Attacks into a Charged attack. This combois written out as 2N4C + N2C. There is another combo you can use as well, named4N4D, which is 4 Normal Attacks into Dash cancel. This is done 4 times.

Dash canceling is when you use your Dash mid attack animation to cancel theanimation without canceling the attack. This combo specifically can be a bittricky to pull off at first, since you have to dash cancel after the 2nd hit of her4th attack. The best you can do is to train this timing until it is muscle memory,however it is recommended to not Dash cancel if you are uncomfortablewith it. It is a higher damage loss than what is gained if you mess it up.Other attack combos available includes 3N3C + N1C, which is recommended if youhave any kind of ATK SPD, such as Jean's C2 or Skyward Spine

For Hyperbloom Teams, Raiden Shogun is off-field, meaning that youessentially swap her in to use her Elemental Skill Transcendence: Baleful Omen, before swapping herback out. This also changes her weapon choices as shown in her Hyperbloomspecific build.

Below are a few examples of Raiden being Main DPS in but also one whereshe is the Electro driver for Hyperbloom.Raiden Shogun is generally very flexible, hence why these teams are just examples.

The Raiden National team is a 3-man team witha flex slot, coined by the Chinese community. It is a highly efficient teamconsisting of the 3 4-star characters seen above who are all still performingextremely well. The general issue this team has had has been regaining Energyfor the high power bursts of the 3, which Raiden Shogun elegantly resolveswhile also benefiting of it. This means you can lower theEnergy Recharge that the rest of the team needs, and funnelthose stats right back into both CRIT values and ATK % forXiangling and Xingqiu. Their burst cooldownsare pretty similar, with the longest at 20s. Since all the other charactersare 4-Star, it generally makes this build relatively budget friendly.

This team takes advantage of the high burst costs of the 3 other characters,with Yae Miko costing 90 Energy, and the two others costing 80Energy. Furthermore, Yae Miko has very high damage off-field as well as whenshe casts Great Secret Art: Tenko Kenshin. This is coupledwith Kujou Sara's ATK increase from her Skill, Tengu Stormcall,and Burst, Subjugation: Koukou Sendou while Sin of Pride (C6) provides a massive 60% CRIT DMGincrease to Electro DMG specifically. Jean ispresent to be able to heal the party and to shred Electro with Viridescent Venerer. You can slot in other Anemocharacters as well, just be aware of their Burst cost, as that will directlyinfluence the amount of damage Raiden Shogun's burst does.

Hyperbloom teams are very strong, withRaiden Shogun providing consistent Electro applicationoff-field as her skill lasts for a very long time. There is a bit offlexibility with the team, mainly with the Hydro character.With the addition of Furina, you can foregoKokomi and then slot in Baizhu who is one ofthe strongest healers. This works really well with Furina's Burst. You canstill use Kokomi, in which case Baizhu is not needed as Kokomi already provideshealing. Nahida is your main Dendro applierin this team, and you would want to run Flower of Paradise Lost onRaiden Shogun, as she will be the one to triggerHyperbloom off the Dendro Cores. With this team,Raiden wants to go for Elemental Mastery as well, as herpersonal DPS does not matter at all