Mualani Build Guide (Patch 5.1)

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Mualani’s Role and Skills

Mualani is a HP-scaling Hydro DPS that relies on building stacks and marking enemies while surfing to deal damage. When using Elemental Skill (E), Mualani would start surfing on Sharky Surfboard until her Nightsoul points depletes. In this surf state, she can mark enemies and gain 1 Wave Momentum stack upon contact with enemy. When she has 3 stacks, she deals extra damage meanwhile marked enemies also take more damage.

Start surfing -> Tag enemies to mark them and build stacks -> Attack after 3 stacks -> Repeat

Mualani’s combo

Mualani’s Burst (Q) is pretty straightforward in which she fires a shark missile that deals AOE damage. The same can be said for both her A1 and A4 passives. A1 essentially increases her surf duration when you pick up “Puffer” during battles. A4 simply gives a boost onto her Burst (Q) whenever another Natlan character triggers Nightsoul Burst.

Artifact set

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Obsidian Codex (4)

Mualani’s uncontested Best-in-Slot (BiS) because it gives a whopping 40% Crit Rate simply by consuming Nightsoul point. On top of that, the 2pc also gives her an extra 15% DMG whenever she’s surfing.

Easily the best artifact for any Natlan characters since all of them uses the Nightsoul mechanic.

Heart of Depth Flower
Heart of Depth (4)

Mualani’s 2nd best option since she can utilize both 2pc and 4pc set effects. While surfing both her Sharky’s Bites and Sharky’s Surging Bite are considered Normal Attack (NA) hence she can benefit from the 30% NA DMG increase from the 4pc artifact.

Tenacity of the Millelith Flower
HP set (2) HP set (2)

Viable combo if you are still farming for the new Obsidian set since all of her attacks are HP-scaling. This means stacking up as much HP for Mualani will increase her damage.

Weapon

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Surf’s Up (5✩)
Mualani’s signature

Mualani’s signature weapon is easily her best considering how specific its passive and secondary stat is. Its one of the only offensive catalyst with HP buff on its passive. Its passive stack also provides 12% DMG for her NA but gets used up for every NA.

Interesting you can gain 1 stack if she triggers Vape encouraging Mualani to be ran in a Vape comp.


The Widsith (4✩)

Widsith is Mualani’s best 4-star option as she can benefit from either the Elemental DMG buff or Elemental Mastery buff. The only caveat is that if she’s unlucky enough to get the ATK buff, the weapon is then pretty much just a stat stick.

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Ash-Graven Drinking Horn (4✩)

Drinking Horn (4✩) is looking to be Mualani’s best ‘F2P’ weapon due to its high HP stat and passive that deals AoE DMG equal to 40% of Max HP at enemies.
This weapon can be obtain at the current Traces of Artistry Event during the 5.0 Natlan patch.

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Ring of Yax­che (5✩)

Yaxche (4✩) is another contender for Mualani’s top ‘F2P’ weapon due to its high HP stat and passive that boosts user’s NA damage based on their Max HP.
This weapon is the new craftable on Natlan hence it could potentially beat Drinking Horn (4✩) when R5.

Talent

C0-C6

Skill (E) > Burst (Q) > Normal Attack (NA)

Mualani relies primarily on her E to do the majority of her damage. Even though her Sharky’s Bites and Sharky’s Surging Bite are considered Normal Attack (NA) while surfing, its multipliers are from her Elemental Skill (E) hence E will take priority over NA.

Main stat and substat

Sand: HP%
Goblet: Hydro DMG%
Circlet: Crit DMG

  1. Crit DMG
  2. Crit Rate
  3. HP%
  4. Elemental Mastery
  5. Flat HP

ATK is practically useless for Mualani since her multipliers are HP-scaling so ignore them completely. Crit DMG will take priority over Crit Rate since with the new Obsidian artifact set (40% CR) and her own ascension stat (19% CR) will put her at 60% Crit Rate.

Energy Recharge Requirements

Constellation

C1 > C2 > C6

Teams