Beidou build guide

Beidou can either serve as a hypercarry or off-field DPS character. Due to the damage scaling on her Burst (Q), she is crucial for endgame content and shines particularly well in Taser comp. This is even more so as it can bounce off multiple enemies, snapshot and gets stronger with C2.

Perfect countering is a term you’ll hear a lot and refers to using Bediou’s Elemental Skill (E) right as enemies attacked. Despite what you may think, its way easier to pull off. If you’ve dash right as an enemy attack and taken no damage, you’ve done it before. The only difference in this case is that your dash is replaced with E. The only worthwhile thing to know is that you don’t have to hold and can simply tap E right as the enemy attack.

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Taser Electro Beidou

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Fireworks Childe / Electro-Charged Childe

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Hypercarry Beidou

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Regardless of whatever team comp your Beidou is running, her build are pretty much all the same. For artifact sets, the difference between the top 2 on the list are negligible hence concentrate on which provides you with better substats. For weapons, an R5 Serpent Spine with full stack will outperform the WGS if a Bennet buff is present but the opposite is the case without any buffs. Substats wise, similar to any DPS character concentrate on CritDamage and CritRate above anything else. Beidou only need around 120 – 140 ER% if the team has another electro battery hence why Fischl gets paired with her. Because her Q can snapshot, this makes Bennett invaluable to the team.

Regarding Weapon Choices:

Serpent Spine: This weapon can be considered over Wolf’s Gravestone for a Sub DPS Beidou, while Wolf’s Gravestone is equipped onto another Claymore DPS character with higher field time. Beidou can effectively make use of the full stacks, as long as you have her stacks up before swapped away, the stacks will be maintained even while off-field since her Elemental Burst snapshots her stats. Serpent Spine outperforms Wolf’s Gravestone by a significant margin when Bennett/Sara ATK buffs are applied.
Akuoumaru (260 team energy assumed): Akuoumaru outperforms Skyward Pride on a low ER requirement Beidou (where she is paired with other Electro characters to battery her energy needs). At [R3+], it becomes exponentially better and comes very close to Serpent Spine and Wolf’s Gravestone.

Regarding Artifact Sets:

Emblem of Severed Fate (4): Even after considering the 4-piece set effect, you should refrain from investing into Energy Recharge beyond what is needed to burst off cooldown as it will result in a damage loss as compared to prioritising offensive stats such as ATK/Crit. In team comps where Beidou has low ER requirements (i.e. when paired with electro batteries), a Noblesse Oblige (2) / Thundering Fury (2) / +18% ATK set (2) [Choose Two] will outperform Emblem of Severed Fate (4).

Thundersoother (4): This set seeks to maximise your Burst damage in an Electro-Charged or mono Electro comps, take note that the set could be rendered useless when against enemies with non-Electro elements imbued.
Noblesse Oblige (4): This set could be considered if your Beidou can get her Elemental Burst off cooldown and the team doesn’t have a Noblesse Oblige (4) user yet, do note that sometimes Beidou doesn’t benefit from the ATK buff from the 4 piece set if she’s the set holder, so Beidou as a Noblesse Oblige (4) holder isn’t really recommended.
Scholar (2) The Exile (2): This set acts as a cheap beginner’s option to provide Beidou with 40% Energy Recharge to help maintain her Elemental Burst uptime.