Neuvillette Build Guide (Patch 4.1)
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Neuvillette’s Role and Skills
Neuvillette is a HP-scaling Hydro Catalyst whose kit revolves around dealing continuous AoE damage with his special Charged Attacks. These special Charged Attacks have a long charging time at base, so he relies on Sourcewater Droplets summoned by his Skill and Burst to shorten the charging time.
As an on-field Hydro DPS, Neuvillette has a large variety of teams. Because he has HP-scaling and therefore has few good buffers excluding Kazuha, many of his teams use off-field damage dealers. Additionally, Neuvillette’s Charged Attacks can be interrupted, leading to huge losses in damage, he has a high reliance on shielders at C0.
Artifact set
Marechaussee Hunter (4)
4pc MH is Neuvillette’s BiS by a sizable margin; it is over 12% better than the next best option. Neuvillette can fully stack the 4pc MH effect very quickly because of the HP loss during his Charged Attack.
Heart of Depth (4)
4pc HoD is Neuvillette’s best option after 4pc MH, providing Hydro DMG% and Charged Attack DMG%.
Marechaussee Hunter/Hydro set (2)
Hydro/HP set (2)
Any combination of 2pc Marachaussee Hunter, 2pc Heart of Depth, 2pc Nymph’s Dream, 2pc Tenacity of the Millelith, and 2pc Vourukasha’s Glow performs similarly to 4pc HoD.
Weapon
Tome of the Eternal Flow (5✩)
Tome of the Eternal Flow is Neuvillette’s BiS and signature weapon, providing a little of everything that Neuvillette could want: high CRIT DMG%, HP%, CA DMG%, and enough Energy to lower his ER reqs to 100% in most teams. TotEF is significantly better (30-40%) than all other options, except Sacrificial Jade (TotEF is 20% better than R1 Sac Jade, and only 7% better than R5 Sac Jade).
Sacrificial Jade (4✩)
Sacrificial Jade is Neuvillette’s second-best weapon, providing both CRIT Rate and HP%. At R1, It is about 10% better than the next best option, so it may be a worthwhile purchase for players who do not have TotEF. Sac Jade scales well with refines, which increase the amount of HP% it provides to Neuvillette.
Prototype Amber (4✩)
Prototype Amber offers Neuvillette a hefty amount of HP%, as well as some passive healing. While its healing is too miniscule and infrequent to be of much use to Neuvillette himself, it can heal his teammates of chip damage that cannot otherwise be healed in Neuvillette’s usually healer-less teams.
Cashflow Supervision
Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds
Jadefall Splendor
Everlasting Moonglow
Kagura’s Verity
(5✩)
All of these 5-star weapons perform similarly on Neuvillette, providing some amount of CRIT Rate or HP%, as well as small bonuses from their passives.
Talent
C0-C6
Normal Attack (NA) > Burst (Q) = Skill (E)
Neuvillette’s Charged Attacks are his main source of damage, so his Normal Attack Talent should be leveled first. Neither his Skill nor his Burst contribute significant amounts of damage, but are still used to generate Sourcewater Droplets, so they can be leveled afterwards in tandem.
Main stat and substat
Sand: HP%
Goblet: Hydro DMG% / HP%
Circlet: Crit Rate / DMG / HP%
- Energy Recharge
- Crit Rate / DMG
- HP%
- Flat HP
Depending on the weapon and artifact set Neuvillette is using, HP/Hydro DMG/CRIT, HP/Hydro DMG/HP, and HP/HP/CRIT are all viable options.
HP/HP/HP with good enough substats is also an option, but it is notably worse in every situation.
HP/Hydro DMG/CRIT is almost always the best option, but more often than not by a very small margin.
HP/Hydro DMG/HP is always highly competitive with HP/Hydro DMG/CRIT, except when Neuvillette is using a non-CRIT weapon and also not running 4pc Marechaussee Hunter.
HP/HP/CRIT is competitive only when Neuvillette is using a weapon that provides significantly more CRIT and/or DMG% than HP% e.g. Rite of the Eternal Flow or Blackcliff Agate.
Energy Recharge Requirements
- 2 x Electro with Fischl : 120 – 140%
- 2 x Electro without Fischl : 130 – 150%
- Any other team comps : 140 – 160%
Every Favonius proc lowers the ER requirement by 10 – 20%
Except in teams where Neuvillette only does 2 CAs per rotation (e.g. some Xiangling rotations), it is absolutely essential that Neuvillette has enough ER to Burst consistently every rotation; otherwise, he will not have enough Sourcewater Droplets to lower all his CA charging times.
Constellation
C1 > C2 > C6
C1
C1 offers both a respectable DPS increase and a valuable QoL improvement. The damage increase C1 provides may be even greater if it allows you to swap a defensive unit for a buffer or sub-DPS.
However, his C1 may not provide any bonus damage if run in teams where his A1 Passive is already maximized. Further, the QoL it brings can also be unnecessary if getting staggered is not a concern; for example, when he is paired with units that already provide ample crowd control or interruption resistance.
C2
C2 increases the value of C1’s additional A1 stack by offering CRIT DMG per stack of A1. Otherwise, it’s a relatively straightforward damage increase.
C6
With C6, if a Charged Attack nears the end of its duration and there are available Sourcewater Droplets nearby, Neuvillette will absorb another Droplet to extend the Charged Attack’s duration by 1s.
The damage improvements from this Constellation can be difficult to evaluate due to how it intrinsically changes his rotations, ranging from a minimum of 15% to well over 36% improvement over C5. However, the additional currents mean that there will always be an improvement to his DPS. His C6 also makes his C4 useful, with the additional Droplets extending the duration of his CAs by about 2-3s total — equivalent to an entire standard Charged Attack.
While the changes in his rotation can cause extensions or worsen buff uptime. Neuvillete does so much damage at C6 that its boosts are almost always worth capitalizing on.
However, this means that C6’s value also depends on what team Neuvillette is in: teams featuring short skill/buff durations (such as Kazuha teams) will be worse off than those featuring long off-field skill/buff durations (such as Raiden and Nahida in Hyperbloom).