Skirk Rating and Basic Information
| Rating: | information is being updated ( rating of all characters ) |
| Element: | Cryo(Freezing) |
| Weapon: | One-handed (Sword) |
| Rarity : | |
| Floor: | Female |
| Birthday: | November 5 |
| Constellation: | Crystalline |
| Region: | Cosmic cataclysm |
| Affiliation: | Teyvat |
| Special dish: | Treasure of the Abyss |
| How to get: | Prayer |
| Release date: | Version 5.7 June 18, 2025 |
Skirk is a playable 5-starCryo-character in Genshin Impact .
A traveler who once appeared in the Abyss’s rift and at the Primordial Sea. This lone warrior taught Tartaglia the art of combat.
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Character Announcement
” Sin has darkened the sky, catastrophe has engulfed the entire universe. Now no one can limit your freedom. And yet, your fate remains inextricably linked to this world—as it will be in the near future, when you bring your apprentice here .” ” What? I’m going to have an apprentice? Well, that’s certainly not good news… That is, of course, for someone I haven’t even met yet .” — “The Seer” Vedrfjölnir and “The Knight of Corruption” Surtalogi
Above our heads are stars shining in the night darkness.
Below is the Abyss, lurking in the underground depths.
No one knows what lies behind the starry sky, just as no one can know what entities dwell in the depths of the Abyss.
As the ancient prophecy of Khaenri’ah states:
“To rise to the stars or to plunge into the abyss –
It is an equally bold move towards the unknown.”
After the fall of the underground civilization in the forgotten scorched lands
Those who despised fate one day snatched the girl from her cruel shackles.
Having grown up, the girl saved a child who was under the influence of fate.
If kindness were the measure of everything and all stories had a happy ending…
It is a pity that ahead there is a fog of uncertainty, enveloping the path and the entire surrounding world.
Story about the character
About the character
Her existence was akin to unverified rumors…
Sometimes, after midnight, some innkeeper would swear he’d caught a glimpse of her. His trembling hands would paint a tale of a person whose existence no one could be certain of.
For a long time, Skirk moved through Teyvat like a shadow. She avoided all contact with those around her and gathered information only when absolutely necessary.
Only recently did someone appear who could claim to know her…
“Oh, my mentor? Ha-ha, she’s the kind of person who keeps to herself.
And let me tell you… She’s a pretty decent cook. Although, maybe it’s because the creatures in that space don’t taste quite like ordinary people.
We initially agreed to stop by my place after we left that place. I wanted her to try this year’s homemade sausages. Such an opportunity is rare enough as it is, so it’s a shame she couldn’t come…
But enough of that. My mentor’s greatest asset is her strength… and the arrogance with which she backs it up!
Hm? Oh, yes, I said exactly what I wanted to say.
With each passing day, I, Tartaglia, grow stronger, and with each rising sun, I have the opportunity to reveal new facets of my mentor’s power.
At first, she only needed one hand to defeat me. There was a hint of arrogance in that. But when facing a weak opponent, arrogance is a form of sophistication.
To crush him to dust would be unseemly, but to feign humility only to turn the tables later? That, my dear comrade, seems too pretentious.”
This “analysis” reached Skirk’s ears while she was drinking in the tavern. She frowned.
“As I’ve said many times, I’ve retained the skill of dealing with certain capable people. And the food in the Abyssal Rift only seems unpalatable to him because he’s an ordinary human.”
Regarding training: I don’t care how many arms I use, but I do care how many he’ll have left when I finish his training.
He lives in Teyvat, which means he can’t create new limbs for himself using Void energy like I can.
Arrogance and carelessness are dangerous qualities. It’s good that he has a desire to improve, not just show off.
Otherwise, I’d start worrying about where to look for his corpse.
Character History 1
“Let’s go. She won’t survive.”
“But we have orders…”
The little girl clutched her broken, bloody arm and watched the two figures standing before her with bleary eyes.
Finally, the leader ordered the other to be silent. They turned and disappeared into the distance.
Not long ago, her people learned that there were more civilizations in the universe than they could have imagined. In the past, the ability to communicate with those beyond their world was available only to a few scientists.
Just a few months ago, the leaders announced that trade relations had become friendly. So why?…
Beams cracked and shattered beneath the flames. In the hellish haze, choking from smoke, heat, and blood loss, lay the body of a little girl.
As the rubble and charred wood under which she was buried was dug away, she heard a sound… something beeping.
Her eyelids were crusted with dried blood, but even blindly, she sensed light.
And she heard footsteps treading on the scorched earth. Broken bricks crunched underfoot with each step.
The man easily freed the girl from the rubble that bound her, then pulled her out, grasping her shoulder.
The pain was so intense that it felt as if all her limbs had been torn off at once. The girl burst into tears, and the tears that streamed from her eyes washed away the blood.
She was surprised to find that she had the strength to cry.
But this feeling lasted only a moment. The next moment, she lost consciousness from the excruciating pain.
When she came to, she was bewildered. She hadn’t thought she’d be granted the grace of opening her eyes a second time. Though her vision was blurred, she could make out a fire, and a tall man sat cross-legged beside it. Nearby, in the shadows, a massive rat-like creature writhed. The fire’s wild flicker was reflected in its black eyes.
“You’re awake. Don’t waste your energy on matters unrelated to your survival.”
The man didn’t even glance in her direction. He continued stirring the embers with his blade.
“So? Do you want to live or die?”
She wanted to ask him why she was still alive. She wanted to ask him who he was. But he warned her not to waste her energy.
So she looked up at the starry sky and nodded almost imperceptibly.
After receiving an answer, the man pulled a sword from the embers and slew the rat-like beast. He cut the meat from its paws, skewered it, and roasted it over an open fire. Finally, he stood up, something he rarely did, and shoved the meat into her mouth. It was tasteless, but the fat tasted delicious to the hungry girl…
At least he didn’t ask her to feed herself. He seemed to understand that her limbs were beyond repair.
Character History 2
As the wounds began to heal, the man allowed her to ask a few basic questions.
“Are you also one of the survivors?”
“No.”
“Then how do I understand you?”
“There is only one state of chaos, and only one definition of emptiness. But order can be interpreted in a thousand different ways.
The people of your planet once relied on their remarkable adaptability to establish contact with the Void, and even after death, the power they carried within them retained traces of their past contacts. This power is similar to mine.
I have woven together the dying echoes of countless souls. I have spent much time learning from them.
” “Just to learn our language? So my father and mother…”
“They are dead. They were eaten like meat, to give themselves strength—swallowed like scraps.”
The man answered the second question, then continued,
“At first, I thought they wanted to destroy all life on this planet because there was something worth destroying. Perhaps some incredible technology that allowed them to control the Abyss.
But I was wrong. You had practically no technology. You’d think that in the entire history of your civilization, there has never been a single person with ambition. Or strength.”
“You!..”
“Aren’t you the same? You ate the flesh of the creature that dug you out of the ruins?”
I must say, I brought him here from another planet, as all life on yours is extinct.
I can’t find a single species that knows how to search.”
The girl wanted to say something, but the words stubbornly refused to leave her lips. Instead, she decided to ask about something else.
“Why am I still alive?”
“Your world collided with the Abyss. Although few of you had direct contact with it, each of you was infected to one degree or another.
It made your bodies a little stronger. If it were a normal person in your place, they would suffocate, rot, and then the collapsing ceiling would crush their remains.”
“So this power can be used to become stronger?”
The man’s eyes glinted in the firelight, and something changed in them. “Oh? You want to become stronger?”
The girl nodded.
“Even if it costs you everything? Even if you are judged and cursed for using dirty tricks to emerge victorious… You still want to become stronger?”
The girl answered, and her words were carried away by the winds of the desert planet.
Character History 3
Today her name is Skirk.
Her torn tendons and shattered bones were repaired by a man nicknamed “The Filth.” But there was nothing to rejoice about.
He forced her to wield a blade and train every day until her limbs were destroyed anew. It seemed he simply wanted her to know pain.
Every day, after training, her broken body was restored once more.
She traveled the universe with the Scourge and saw the trail of enemy graves it left behind.
A weapon forged with the resources of an entire star system. A deity embodied in the unity of a civilization’s beliefs. The mightiest warrior among billions…
He buried them all. And as Skirk grew stronger, a revelation dawned on her: no one had ever forced her mentor to use his full potential.
If it was a wild beast, it devoured its flesh. If it was a deity or a machine, it absorbed its energy.
If it was a warrior or a mage, it toyed with its prey, forcing it to use every trick in its power, then killing it once it had tired of it.
According to her mentor, this was what it meant to “destroy.”
In place of Skirk’s limbs, illusions of the Abyss appeared. They would never hurt again.
Her pain receptors had been overloaded and completely disabled for years. They would never signal again.
Pain was a normal biological avoidance mechanism. Skirk understood what her body was saying.
She had become very strong. She would never have to run from danger again.
This gave her confidence. One day, she decided to ask the question she’d been itching to ask all along:
“Why did you save me then?”
Character History 4
“It was a spontaneous impulse.”
That’s how her mentor, whose real name was Surtalogi, responded.
“Right now, I am the greatest disaster in the entire universe. Believe it or not.”
“There’s no need to discuss my belief, mentor. Anyone who ever doubted it has turned to dust.”
“Hm. I’ve always strived for strength—the kind that allows me to cut through any lies and manipulations.
But… choosing this path, I felt fear…
Fear that I would become bored.”
Skirk listened silently. She couldn’t believe the life of the greatest villain, the one who conquered the universe, could be “boring.”
“Having met the most powerful warriors in the universe, I had nothing left to strive for.
What was that story? Distance is measured by the heart, and my heart is slightly larger than the universe.
When the entire universe becomes my playground, and all I see are two anthills fighting each other… I suppose my years of power will also be the most boring of my life.”
Of course, Surtalogi wasn’t one to read novels. That’s because some time ago he’d stumbled upon a scrap of it, drifting through the universe and carrying the scent of his homeland.
He glanced at the title and the opening lines before throwing it away. It just so happened that the very beginning contained the following passage:
“I once seriously considered taking on students and waiting for them to mature before seeking out my own distractions. You were the first.
And once you leave, I will no longer see you as my student.
I will strip you of everything: what I gave you, what you demanded of yourself, even the most insignificant aspects of yourself… everything will be reduced to dust.”
Skirk knew this wasn’t just pedagogical nonsense. There was no pretense of mentoring or ostentatious “tough love” between her and Surtalogi.
Surtalogi meant what he said. One day, they would clash in a fight to the death.
There are many paths in the world, but once you step onto one, all the others disappear.
From that day on, it seemed as if a blade had descended from nowhere and hovered above Skirk’s head. Her life, her destiny… everything merged into one, transformed into a single goal: to become stronger.
Character History 5
“Master, you said your squad once shared the power of the Abyss between them, enough to upend an entire world—or at least a sixth of it…
How is it that you alone proved stronger than the entire world?”
“Oh? Don’t tell me I saved the idiot back then.
Listen carefully. When a tree’s fruit dies, its seeds are buried beneath the rotten soil. From these seeds, stronger trees can grow, yielding a harvest a hundred, even a thousand times richer than the first fruit tree.
Even if only one or two people survive in a doomed world, their will can become strong enough to change the very world they lost.”
As their separation became inevitable, Skirk no longer sought to feign respect and obedience.
Fear motivates the weak. But as you grow stronger, if fear is not conquered, it becomes a bondage.
Ultimately, she decided to bid farewell to her mentor and set out for the homeland of Surtaloga, a world called Teyvat.
She wanted to find that first tree—the tree that had planted its seeds in the rotten soil, only to grow into a truly mighty tree.
And since then, a great darkness has hung over the entire forest—the shadow the Fel Knight cast across the entire universe.
In every corner of the universe, the other civilizations she encountered considered her an ally of the Fel Knight.
Every world she passed through during her travels considered her a member of the “Cosmic Cataclysm” and kept their distance, displaying a wary, defensive posture.
…Except Teyvat, where the one guarding the world’s borders relaxed her guard after speaking with Skirk. Having reached an agreement with her, she allowed Skirk limited movement within the world.
“You don’t belong there. This isn’t your home.”
The Fel Knight’s words were forever imprinted on her heart.
But what if a wish made upon a shooting star as it streaked past in a fiery trail could forge the tiniest thread between her and the world?
Her answer
“Even if it costs you everything? Even if you’re judged and cursed for using dirty tricks to come out on top… Do you still want to become stronger?”
What was Skirk’s answer? The one the wind blew away?
Perhaps even a fleeting “yes” wouldn’t have changed what followed.
But that wasn’t her answer.
She was a little girl then, her mind unburdened by cunning. She wanted only to thank and apologize to the life that had nurtured her at the very beginning of her adolescence.
“The big rat and I could have been best friends.”
…But in the end, I ate it.
For the Fel Knight, this saying took on a second meaning: “If I turned my back on the benefactor who saved me in ruins, then what can I not turn away from?”
It is difficult to say how much of these words were self-hypnosis, how much misunderstanding, and how much sincerity.
But beyond that, a misunderstanding could arise between them that neither of them expected.
“Well then. Since I saved you that day, maybe you’ll kill me too someday in pursuit of power?”
The fel knight was shocked by his own words, but in her despair, the girl didn’t notice.
The Seven-Faced Serpent
The Seven-Faced Serpent is a technique taught to Skirk by the Fel Knight.
It was originally a humble spell called “Chaos Penetration,” developed by the Kaenri’ah Spell Academy to mock those wielding elemental power in Teyvat. This spell harnessed Void energy to create elemental-like effects. Its principle was similar to the ability to use the Void to penetrate reality, creating specific forms of negative pressure to summon the energy of the corresponding element.
For the people of Kaenri’ah, “Chaos Penetration” was a simple trick used in performances and parades.
The Fel Knight was a warrior and initially understood nothing of this technique. But as his knowledge of the power of the Void expanded, he mastered it almost instantly. While ordinary performers might spend months practicing switching from one element to another just to make a living from street performances, the Fel Knight effortlessly switched between all seven on his first try.
He taught Skirk this technique, but not so she could resort to it if she ran out of mora—after all, only the most desperate glutton could demonstrate mastery of the Void within the seven nations of Teyvat.
“In my homeland, the seven elements represent the natural order of things. If you wish to conceal your power for as long as possible, disguise it with this trick.”
Characteristics
| HP | Attack | Protection | Ascension Bonus | |
| Level 20 | 2508 | 72 | 163 | — |
| Level 90 | 12417 | 359 | 806 | Critical damage 88.40% |
The best build for Skirk
Skirk is a damage dealer with a fairly expensive build. His artifact choices are primarily the signature set Finale of the Deep Galleries , and Haran is a good alternative for weapons.
In a squad, she requires Cryo and buffers— Escoffier (very important), Shen He , Furina —in general, the teams during testing are very expensive. Given that Skirk requires a 5-star weapon (or a signature) and a completely new artifact set to be playable, building her won’t be easy.
Maine-DD
Weapon
Azure Glow
Critical Hit Chance
For 12 seconds after using an elemental skill, attack power is increased by 24%. If the equipped character runs out of energy during this time, attack power is further increased by 24% and critical damage is increased by 40%.
OR
Haran geppaku futsu
Critical Hit Chance
Grants 12% bonus damage to all elements.
When other nearby squad members activate elemental skills, the character equipped with this weapon gains 1 level of Spike Wave. This effect occurs no more than once every 0.3 seconds. A maximum of 2 levels can be gained.
When a character with this weapon uses an elemental skill, all Spike Wave stacks are consumed, granting them Wave Chaos, which increases normal attack damage by 20% for 8 seconds per stack. It also has a 60% chance to create elemental particles that restore 6 energit damage, and a 40% chance to instantly reset its cooldown. Can occur once every 30 seconds.
Set of artifacts
The finale of the depth galleries
ATK / Cryo Damage / Critical Damage or SK
(2) Grants 15% bonus Cryo damage.
(4) When the equipped character’s Energy is 0, Normal Attack and Elemental Burst damage is increased by 60%. After the equipped character deals damage with a Normal Attack, this effect is no longer applied to Elemental Burst for 6 seconds. After the equipped character deals damage with an Elemental Burst, this effect is no longer applied to Normal Attack for 6 seconds. This effect can occur even if the equipped character is outside the battlefield.
The best artifacts and weapons
Best Artifacts Ranking
| Rating | Set of artifacts | Bonus |
| Best | The finale of the depth galleries | • Grants a 15% Cryo Damage bonus. • When the equipped character’s Energy is 0, Normal Attack and Elemental Burst damage is increased by 60%. After the equipped character deals Normal Attack damage, this effect is no longer applied to Elemental Burst for 6 seconds. After the equipped character deals Elemental Burst damage, this effect is no longer applied to Normal Attack for 6 seconds. This effect can occur even if the equipped character is outside the battlefield. |
| Second place | Twilight Court Hunter | • Increases Normal and Charged Attack damage by 15%. • Increases Critical Hit Chance by 12% for 5 sec when current HP increases or decreases. Effect can stack up to 3 times. |
| Third place |
Lost in a Snowstorm |
• Increases the Cryo damage bonus by 15%. • Attacks on enemies with the Cryo effect increase the critical hit chance by 20%. If the enemy has the Freeze status, it additionally increases the critical hit chance by 20%. |
Best Weapons Ranking
| Rating | Weapon | Characteristics (Lvl.1) |
| The best | Azure Glow | Basic Stats : Basic Attack: 48 Bonus Effect: Critical Hit Chance 4.8% Effect : For 12 seconds after using an elemental skill, attack power increases by 24%. If the equipped character runs out of energy during this time, attack power will increase by an additional 24% and critical damage will increase by 40%. |
| Second place | Haran geppaku futsu |
Basic Stats : Base Attack: 46 Bonus Effect: Critical Hit Chance: 7.2% Effect: Grants a 12% damage bonus with all elements. When other nearby party members activate elemental skills, the character equipped with this weapon gains 1 level of Spike Wave. This effect occurs no more than once every 0.3 seconds. A maximum of 2 levels can be gained. When a character with this weapon uses an elemental skill, all levels of Spike Wave are consumed, granting them Wave Chaos, which increases normal attack damage by 20% for 8 seconds for each level of this effect. |
| Third place | Black Sword |
Basic Stats : Base Attack: 42 Bonus Effect: Critical Hit Chance: 6% Effect: Increases Normal and Charged Attack damage by 20%. Critical hits with Normal and Charged Attacks restore HP equal to 60% of Attack Power. Can occur once every 5 seconds. |
Recommended command for Skirk
Skirk |
Furina |
Ye Lan |
Escoffier |
Skirk |
Furina |
Shen He |
Escoffier |
Skirk |
Xing Qiu |
Ye Lan |
Sitlali |
Skirk |
Xing Qiu |
Rosary |
Dahlia |
Materials for the elevation of Skirk
As Skirk levels up, he gains a bonus to Critical Damage.
| Exalted. | Max lvl | Price (Mora) | Electronic material #1 | Electronic material #2 | Local curiosities | Additional materials |
| 1 | 20 | 20,000 | Shivada Jade Shard x1 | — | Cloudy Stoneleaf x3 | Meshing gear x3 |
| 2 | 40 | 40,000 | Shivada Jade Fragment x3 | Locking Gaze x2 | Cloudy Stoneleaf x10 | Pinion Gear x15 |
| 3 | 50 | 60,000 | Shivada Jade Fragment x6 | A Binding Gaze x4 | Cloudy Stoneleaf x20 | Gear x12 |
| 4 | 60 | 80,000 | Shivada Jade Piece x3 | Eye-Catching x8 | Cloudy Stoneleaf x30 | Gear x18 |
| 5 | 70 | 100,000 | Shivada Jade Piece x6 | A Binding Gaze x12 | Cloudy Stoneleaf x45 | Sophisticated Dynamic Gear x12 |
| 6 | 80 | 120,000 | Shivada Precious Jade x6 | Eye-Catching x20 | Cloud-Leaf Stone x60 | Sophisticated Dynamic Gear x24 |
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