Citlali Build Guide

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Citlali’s Role and Skills

Citlali is Natlan’s premier 5-star Cryo shielder whose main ability is to shield your team while applying off-field Cryo damage and lowering the Pyro and Hydro resistance of enemies. She sets herself apart from other shielders by providing more support capabilities from her A1 Passive and can also fully utilize the Scroll of Hero of Cinder City set.

Her Skill (E) will grant her a Cryo shield based on her Elemental Mastery (EM). If she has at least 50 Nightsoul points, she will periodically consume her Nightsoul to deal Cryo AoE damage. Her Burst (Q) deals Cryo AoE damage and summons up to 3 Spiritvessel Skulls onto enemies. The Spiritvessel Skulls will explode shortly afterwards dealing another instance of AoE Cryo damage.

Her A1 Passive is pretty substantial for Melt teams. When her shield is active, party members that trigger the Frozen or Melt reaction will decrease the Pyro and Hydro RES of opponents affected by 20% for 12s. Its pretty much the reason why she’s the premier teammate for Mavuika.

Artifact set

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Scroll of Hero of Cinder City (4)

Universally Citlali’s best artifact since it gives her energy whenever her party triggers Nightsoul Burst and provides up to 40% Elemental DMG Bonus for your party.
There’s really no other reason use another set unless someone else is already on the Cinder City.

Tenacity of the Millelith Flower
Tenacity of the Millelith (4)

If someone is already on Cinder City set then Tenacity is her 2nd best option. She doesn’t really utilize the 2pc since none of her talents scale with HP but the 4pc will buff her shield (30%) while also providing an ATK (20%) buff to her party.

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Scroll of Hero of Cinder City (4)

For sub DPS Mavuika, if there is nobody in the team using the Cinder City set, then naturally this would be her best option due to the team-wide buffs she can provide.

Weapon

Starcaller's Watch
Starcaller’s Watch (5✩)
Citlali’s signature

Starcaller’s Watch (5✩) is easily Citlali’s Best-in-Slot (BiS). Not only does it provides up to 365 Elemental Mastery, it also allows your active party member to deal 28% more damage to enemies when protected by a shield.

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Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers (3✩)

Aside from being incredibly F2P friendly, TTDS is pretty much Citlali’s best option if you don’t have her signature weapon. It provides an absolutely insane 48% ATK bonus to whoever that switches after her.

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Wandering Evenstar (5✩)

A decent option for Citlali since it provides EM and also buffs her teammates ATK based on her EM. The only caveat is that the ATK buff for her team is low that it loses to other option.


Favonius Codex (4✩)

Favonius provides a lot of ER which lowers her energy requirements and give better Burst (Q) uptime. The particle generation from its passive can also help battery her team.

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A Thousand Floating Dreams (5✩)

A very good 5-star alternative for Citlali as its one of the very few Support Catalyst. Citlali benefits from the EM of its secondary stat while also gaining a small DMG increase from its passive. Additionally it also gives her team a small EM buff as well.

Talent

C0-C3

Skill (E) > Burst (Q)

Aside from C6, there really isn’t a reason to build Citlali for DPS since her personal damage is negligible. The most important part of Citlali’s kit would be her E for its shielding capability. Once she hits 50 Nightsoul points, her shield can do periodical AoE Cryo damage but using E only gives 24 points. This is where her Q comes into the picture. Her Q provides a small but substantial damage but more importantly it gives her 27 points which activates her AoE Cryo damage effect.

Stat and substat

Sand: EM / ER

Goblet

Goblet: EM

Circlet

Circlet: EM

  1. Elemental Mastery
  2. Energy Recharge
  3. Crit Rate*

Her shield and personal damage are all based on EM hence why it would take priority first. Energy is important since her Burst (Q) does a bit of damage while also helping her hit the 50 Nightsoul points threshold. Crit Rate is only important if you’re running her with Favonius and need it to activate the passive.

Constellation

C1 > C2

Teams