Vodyanitsa Build Guide

Vesna Stellar Swirl Teams

Vesna - Vodyanitsa
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2 of Odette, Traveler (Cryo), Faruzan, Diona

• If planning to use only a single Cryo slot, Odette is by far the best. She has far better Cryo Application than the other options and makes the best use of Vodyanitsa's Chorus effect.
• 2 Cryo options to round the team work totally fine, and make for an arguably smoother experience. However, Faruzan tends to be one of Vesna's strongest buffers, and a team of Odette + Faruzan is about as good as a team of Odette + C4 CMC.

Example Rotation:

1. Vodyanitsa Skill
   →
2. Odette Skill + Enhanced Skill
   →
3. Faruzan Burst
   →
4. Vesna Rotation:
5. 1. Enter Skill Stance
      →
   2. Use Enhanced Elemental Skill 2 times
      →
   3. Use Elemental Burst if available
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   4. Perform 3 Normal Attacks + Charged Attack to fill up Vesna's resource bar, then spend it with Enhanced Skill. This can be done for 3 Enhanced Skill uses.

Other Stellar Teams

Yumemizuki Mizuki - Vodyanitsa - Odette - Flex 4th slot

Sandrone - Odette - Yae Miko - Vodyanitsa

Sandrone - Odette - Sucrose - Vodyanitsa

• Vodyanitsa is a viable but overall unreliable slot for Mizuki teams. Her Hydro Application messing with Cryo Aura uptime on the enemy is significantly worse for Mizuki than for Vesna, as MIzuki might not be able to consistently trigger Swirls on the enemy, which are required for her Stellar Swirl damage.
• Sandrone SSW teams prefer Vodyanitsa over any other 4th slot by a strong amount, but those teams are far from Sandrone's best. Vodyanitsa is a 10-12% upgrade for Sandrone SSW teams over Qiqi in the same slot, and makes them much easier to play with the extension to Stellar Swirl Radiance from 8 to 12 seconds. Vodyanitsa vertical investment can make these teams be as good as Sandrone's Stellar-Conduct teams without corresponding vertical investment.
• Said Sandrone Stellar-Conduct teams are able to make use of Vodyanitsa as a 4th slot, as a decent damage and sustain option. She tends to be about as good as Nicole, which is to say worse than Sandrone's best options in C6 Alyosha, Qiqi, Sucrose, etc. Similarly, Vodyanitsa vertical investment can make her the best 4th option.

Skirk and other Escoffier Teams

Skirk - Escoffier - Vodyanitsa - Furina

• Skirk teams have a fairly flexible 4th slot that Vodyanitsa is poised to be great for. She will be taking over Citlali / Mona and other such options and be a significant upgrade over them, to the tune of ~10-15%. While not as good as Furina can be, she is close to that level.
• Vodyanitsa is able to give Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers every rotation to Skirk due to her long rotations, and her Hydro Energy particles are useful for Furina to have an easier time getting her Burst up. Escoffier and Furina both deal decent off-field damage and can make great use of Vodyanitsa's Chorus Quills.
• Skirk is incentivized to perform combos with more attacks than her usual N5 combos. A strong and relatively easier combo to take advantage of Vodyanitsa's 26 Lead Vocal quills is 9N2 2N5 ( transcribed as 2N2D -> N2Q -> 2N2D -> N5D -> N2D -> N2C 2N2D -> N5D )
• The best non-Skirk team with Escoffier is with Lohen. Vodyanitsa is an upgrade over Furina in Lohen Freeze teams, and can be either an upgrade or a sidegrade to Furina in any other team if you don't already have her and aren't planning on pulling for her.

Example Rotation:

1. Furina Skill + Burst
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2. Escoffier Skill + Burst
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3. Vodyanitsa Skill
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4. Skirk combo

Hymn of the Maelstrom

Vodyanitsa's Signature; essentially gives the currently active character 42 ATK% and significantly increases the value of her Quill effect thanks to the massive amounts of HP% it provides. This effect transfers from character to character as you swap, unlike TTDS, so Vodyanitsa can for example give the 42 ATK% effect to Odette using her Enhanced Skill and Vesna at the same time, at maximum uptime instead of TTDS's 10 seconds. An okay upgrade over TTDS, usually around 5-6% team DPS.

Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers

Vodyanitsa is made to work with it. An HP% secondary stat to improve her buffing and significant ATK% buffing for her best teams make it a no-brainer to use if you don't have her signature.

Tenacity of the Millelith

Her best teams in Vesna and Skirk will make great use of its effect, and the HP% 2pc is the most useful to her by far. Other options will not compare to this, and if you have other potential users of it, it will likely be better to put them on a different set.

1. Elemental Skill

Vodyanitsa's only important scaling is her Elemental Skill, which contains her Cryo/Hydro RES Shred and her healing. Her Anemo RES Shred and quill effects are found in her Ascension Passives.

Overview

Vodyanitsa is a a support for Cryo or Hydro Elemental DMG focused teams and for Stellar Swirl teams, with these roles being mutually exclusive. She is able to accomplish this through RES Shred for Cryo and Hydro through her Elemental Skill, and Anemo RES Shred if the Stellar Swirl Reaction is triggered while she's in the team. She is also a healer with her Elemental Skill, and with her Ascension 4 Passive, she increases the damage of either Cryo and Hydro Elemental attacks or Stellar Swirl attacks if SSW is triggered. These are again mutually exclusive, with Stellar Swirl always taking priority.

Elemental Skill, Lead Vocal and Chorus

Vodyanitsa's Elemental Skill deals a small amount of Hydro DMG in an AoE around her and periodically every 3 seconds. When it hits an enemy, it will lower their Cryo and Hydro RES Shred by an amount scaling on her Skill Talent level for 6 seconds. Vodyanitsa will hit once every 3 seconds, and each hit will apply Hydro, heal the active character, and generate a Hydro particle. Vodyanitsa will hit for a total of 6 times, and this skill has a maximum duration of 16 seconds. As an additional effect, the currently active character will have increased Interruption Resistance while this Skill is active. This is particularly useful for Skirk teams, but is generally a notable boon for most of Vodyanitsa's teams.

Lead Vocal and Chorus are the names of Vodyanitsa's damage increasing effects. Lead Vocal consists of 26 'quills', additional damage that is added to each damage instance up to 26 times per Elemental Skill cast, and once gained through a Skill cast, they will last for 30 seconds. Chorus consists of 10 such effects. Those pools are separate and consumed differently. Lead Vocal instances can only be consumed by damage dealt by Cryo or Hydro DMG or Stellar Swirl DMG dealt by the on-fielder, whereas Chorus can only be consumed off-field.

Additionally, if the Stellar Swirl effect is active, Stellar Swirl Reaction damage instances will also consume quills. Each Stellar Swirl can consume one Lead Vocal quill and one Chorus quill. This damage increase is not particularly major, and typically not better than just using the quills, however the on-field quills are typically not very affected. Vodyanitsa's Hydro Application makes it harder to consistently trigger a lot of Stellar Swirls, which ends up not being a huge negative.

Ascension 1 Passive

Vodyanitsa will modify the Stellar Swirl Reaction while in the team, although not in a particularly notable way. When an enemy takes damage from either a Stellar Swirl or a Stellar Vortex, their Anemo RES Shred will be reduced by 35%. This is how Vodyanitsa becomes a strong Vesna support.

Additionally, the Stellar Swirl Radiance effect that triggers when Stellar Swirl is triggered and enables Stellar character kits will be extended by 4 seconds, from 8 to 12. This is relevant particularly for Sandrone teams, which can have some Radiance uptime issues otherwise, but not too notable for her other teams.

Elemental Burst

Vodyanitsa's Elemental Burst gives her a significant amount of additional DMG to her Elemental Skill. It has a 15 second cooldown and costs 60 Energy, and on cast will deal a relatively large instance of damage that scales on her HP. The animation time of using this is absolutely not worth the trade-off. The effect is simply not strong enough to matter in Vodyanitsa's teams.

Stellar Swirl

Stellar Swirl is the modified version of the Cryo Swirl Reaction, available only if one of the characters that enables it is in the team. As of 7.1, these characters are Vesna, Sandrone, Odette, and the Traveler (Cryo).

When a Stellar Swirl is triggered, a damage instance dealing damage that scales with the Reaction participants' stats will be triggered, and also a Stellar Vortex will spawn if one doesn't already exist.

The Stellar Vortex will explode after 3 seconds, dealing further damage scaling in the same manner. This damage is Cryo instead of Anemo, and you can upgrade it by triggering enough Stellar Swirls. For more information, visit the Stellar Swirl Reaction Guide.

Stellar Swirl Relevant Niche Interaction

Because Vodyanitsa is a Hydro unit that applies Hydro in a team that will have consistent Cryo Application, she will regularly trigger the Freeze Reaction. This is a flat out negative against unfreezeable boss enemies, as you can't trigger Stellar Swirl without Cryo applied to the enemy. Against freezeable enemies though, this shouldn't be an issue, and can even sometimes net you an extra Stellar Swirl or two.

Vodya Vaporize

Thanks to the massive multiplier on Vodyanitsa's Burst cast, it is possible to play a team that focuses on maximizing that damage and turn Vodya into a DPS of sorts. This requires changing her build to HP% Sands, Hydro DMG% Goblet and a Crit circlet, and very different substats than usual.

Her best Artifact set at this point is some combination of 2p2p with HP % or Elemental Mastery, or something like 4pc Gilded Dreams.

The best available teammates include either Mavuika or Durin for a sort of double carry setup, and buffers that are able to boost the damage of those two. Likely the best would be include a Hexerei core with Mona and Sucrose to become similar to a Mualani team.

This setup gets quite a bit stronger with higher investment into Vodyanitsa. It is not one of Vodyanitsa's best setups, but it is something you can do if you want to make Vodyanitsa the star of the show.

Vodyanitsa was officially released as a playable character in Genshin Impact during the Version 7.1 update.