Overview

Outline

Nahida is a 5-star playable Catalyst Dendro character in Genshin Impact.

She is the vessel of Buer, as Lesser Lord Kusanali, the current Dendro Archon. Having been freed from her extensive confinement in the Sanctuary of Surasthana, she now strives to have a stronger presence in Sumeru.

Talents

• Normal Attack: Akara
  1. Normal Attack: Performs up to 4 attacks that deal Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her.
  2. Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her after a short casting time.
  3. Plunging Attack: Calling upon the might of Dendro, Nahida plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Dendro DMG upon impact with the ground.

• Elemental Skill: All Schemes to Know

Sends forth karmic bonds of wood and tree from her side, dealing AoE Dendro DMG and marking up to 8 opponents hit with the Seed of Skandha.
When held, this skill will trigger differently.

Hold
Enters Aiming Mode, which will allow you to select a limited number of opponents within a limited area. During this time, Nahida's resistance to interruption will be increased.
When released, this skill deals Dendro DMG to these opponents and marks them with the Seed of Skandha.
Aiming Mode will last up to 5s and can select a maximum of 8 opponents.

Seed of Skandha
Opponents who have been marked by the Seed of Skandha will be linked to one another up till a certain distance.
After you trigger Elemental Reactions on opponents who are affected by the Seeds of Skandha or when they take DMG from Dendro Cores (including Burgeon and Hyperbloom DMG), Nahida will unleash Tri-Karma Purification on the opponents and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on her ATK and Elemental Mastery.
You can trigger at most 1 Tri-Karma Purification within a short period of time.

• Elemental Burst: Illusory Heart

Manifests the Court of Dreams and expands the Shrine of Maya.
When the Shrine of Maya field is unleashed, the following effects will be separately unleashed based on the Elemental Types present within the party.

1. Pyro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the DMG dealt by Tri-Karma Purification from "All Schemes to Know" is increased.
2. Electro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the interval between each Tri-Karma Purification from "All Schemes to Know" is decreased.
3. Hydro: The Shrine of Maya's duration is increased.

• 1st Ascension Passive: Compassion Illuminated

• 4th Ascension Passive: Awakening Elucidated

• Utility Passive: On All Things Meditated

Constellation

• Level 1: The Seed of Stored Knowledge

When the Shrine of Maya is unleashed and the Elemental Types of the party members are being tabulated, the count will add 1 to the number of Pyro, Electro, and Hydro characters respectively.

• Level 2: The Root of All Fullness

1. Burning, Bloom, Hyperbloom, and Burgeon Reaction DMG can score CRIT Hits. CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG are fixed at 20% and 100% respectively.
2. Within 8s of being affected by Quicken, Aggravate, Spread, DEF is decreased by 30%.
   • Level 3: The Shoot of Conscious Attainment

• Level 4: The Stem of Manifest Inference

• Level 5: The Leaves of Enlightening Speech

• Level 6: The Fruit of Reason's Culmination

Personality

When the Traveler and Paimon (Genshin Impact) first meet Nahida in the Sabzeruz Festival samsara, she was an elusive and secretive individual. She voluntarily left ruling the city to the sages, though like in cases with the samsara, she would intervene as best she could if they stepped out of line. She also suffered from very low self-esteem as a result of the way the sages treated her. However after the downfall of the sages and the cleansing of Irminsul, many of these traits have minimized or vanished. She now openly wanders around the city, when she has time, and interacts with her people and has an overall far more genuinely cheerful view of herself.

Despite her previously difficult circumstances, when she spoke to people she rarely revealed her sadness. Then and now she almost always maintains a gentle and kind demeanour when she speaks to others, and treats everyone as equals. However she also admits that her social skills and understanding of human interaction needs work, and she's prone to slightly eccentric speech and behaviour as a result. She also professes a fondness for analogies and frequently makes use of them when attempting to explain things to others. Like many in Sumeru, she believes in helping people come to answers on their own, particularly regarding heavier truths, rather than providing all the answers. As a result she's also prone to peppering her speech with a mixture of analogies and subtle clues about things she wants others to learn.

As the God of Wisdom, however, Nahida's most notable traits are her exceptional intelligence, knowledge, and planning. She's capable of creating extremely thorough, multi-layered plans and can even be a little manipulative if the situation calls for it. She's also capable of making plans in a pinch, as shown when she bartered with Dottore (Genshin Impact). Perhaps most of all, Nahida is skilled at realizing when her intelligence is required and when her kindness is required, or both.

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Character Mentions

• Cyno

Commenting on a god might be overstepping my position a little... But when I was working with her, I personally witnessed her wisdom, courage, and determination. Compared with those sages who constantly undermined and criticized her without a shred of evidence, I think I can provide a more reliable assessment: She is an exceptional deity who is worthy of everyone's respect.

• Alhaitham

• Candace (Genshin Impact)

• Collei

• Dori (Genshin Impact)

• Faruzan

• Layla (Genshin Impact)

• Nilou

• Tighnari

• Traveler

• Wanderer

It's a pity that Lesser Lord Kusanali already forced him to erase so many of his segments. The joy I would have derived from slicing them apart one by one...

• Venti (Genshin Impact)

• Raiden Shogun

• Zhongli