We tell you how to play for Saino: what types of weapons, artifacts and commands are best for him
Saino is in the position of General of the Mahamatra and stands above all the matras of the Academy. His duties include overseeing the implementation of conscientious research by the scientists of the Academy in Sumeru. Saino is a five-star character who possesses the Eye of God Electro. With the help of an elemental explosion, he can inflict many swift electro attacks.
Next, we will take a closer look at his skills, which weapons, artifacts and commands will suit him best.
Sayno
Saino’s skills
To figure out how to build Saino well, you need to delve into his skills and find the most important dependencies. Like many other attacking characters, his elemental burst plays a key role, and the elemental skill complements it.
When using an elemental burst, Saino transforms his form and gains a significant boost, and his normal attacks are replaced, while any of his attacks are converted to electro, such an infusion cannot be replaced. While the buff is active, his Elemental Mastery goes up, which is an important stat because one of his passives heavily relies on it. The buff from this talent will be lost when changing characters.
Explosion of the elements
Using an elemental skill, Saino jumps forward, and everyone who gets in his way will receive electro damage.
Elemental Skill
When Saino transforms his form under the effect of an elemental explosion, his elemental skill changes. Now, when applying the skill, all nearby monsters receive electro damage, in addition, the skill recovers faster, and hitting monsters increases the duration of the buff from his jackal form, but there is a time limit.
Improved Elemental Skill
Saino has a passive skill that, during a battle under the influence of an elemental explosion, there may be a good moment to use an elemental skill. A hint for this moment will be a glowing purple symbol in full screen. If you activate an elemental skill at the right moment, then the damage of this strike will be increased. In addition, Saino will release three lightning bolts, the damage of which depends on his attack power and mastery of the elements. Be careful, the prompt on the screen does not last long.
Passive skill “Judgment of the pen”
Normal attacks are generally unremarkable, consisting of a series of attacks with physical damage and ineffective due to low damage.
Optimal rotation:
- Saino is released onto the battlefield at the very end, so first we use the skills of other members of the squad;
- We release Saino on the battlefield and activate his elemental explosion;
- We hold the elemental skill for a good moment, the rest of the time we try to inflict as much damage as possible with normal attacks, accompanying them with reactions.
Priority and materials for improving skills
Since we already found out earlier that the elemental explosion for Saino is a key skill for fighting monsters, we download it first of all. Next, be sure to improve the elemental skill to increase the overall damage. Light Attacks are optional as they do not affect damage while the Elemental Blast Buff is active.
To improve skills you will need:
- Books about “Instructions”. They are available in the Tower of Ignorance dungeon in Sumeru on Monday/Thursday/Sunday;
- Scroll of Divine Magic. Dropped by all Shamachurls;
- The wisdom of the sinister general. It can drop from the weekly boss Shogun Raiden level 70 and above.
Priority and materials for improving skills
Saino Elevation Materials
To raise Saino you will need:
- Amethyst Vajrad. Dropped by Electro Fern, Hypostasis, and Manifestation of Thunder;
- Can be found on the surface and in the ruins of the Sumeru Desert;
- The fruit of thunder. Drops only from the Electro Fern in Sumeru;
- Scroll of Divine Magic. Dropped by all Shamachurls.
Saino Elevation Materials
Useful constellations
For Saino, three constellations will be most useful: the first, second and sixth. Next, we’ll explain why.
Since Saino’s jackal form makes a lot of quick strikes, the attack speed that is increased by the first constellation will increase the overall damage.
The second constellation increases the bonus electro damage for each monster hit with normal attacks, but has a limit on the number of stacks.
The sixth constellation will increase Saino’s overall damage when under the influence of an elemental explosion, due to the fact that he will release one lightning bolt, the same as with the elemental skill at a good moment, which will now also appear from normal attacks.
Useful constellations
Weapons suitable Saino
In this block, we will analyze which weapons of each rarity suit Saino the most.
Five star
Of the five-star weapons, you can pay attention to the Staff of Scarlet Sands and the Jade Kite.
The Staff of Scarlet Sands was created specifically for Saino, as it harmoniously uses his strengths and weaknesses, namely, it increases the crit chance, which he lacks, and enhances it due to mastery of the elements, which Saino should have in abundance.
The Jade Kite is also well suited for Saino, here the chance of crit is also increased, but the second characteristic here is the attack power, which is also not unimportant.
The Crimson Sands Staff can only be obtained from the Weapon Event Time Prayer, while the Jade Kite can only be obtained from the Standard Prayer.
Five star weapons on Sayno
Four-star
As for the four-stars, it is better to choose from these weapons:
- Deadly fight. A very good spear for Saino, it increases the chance of crit and attack power. But it can only be obtained in a paid Battle Pass;
- Montenegrin peak. A good spear that increases critical damage. It can be purchased at the Paimon Store for Star Glitter;
- Spear of the Message of the Winds. This spear is pretty good for Saino, but it’s better to look towards the first two options that we wrote about above. However, it has a significant disadvantage, it can only be used by those who received it in the “About Ballads and Cups” temporary event in 3.1.
Four-star weapons on Sayno
Three star
If there is nothing at all, then you can give him a three-star White Brush spear, which increases the chance of a critical hit.
Artifacts suitable for Sayno
The Gilded Dreams four-piece set is one of the best on Sayno because it boosts the most important stats for him. But it is important to keep the balance of characters in the team according to the elements due to the fact that the set bonus depends on this, for example, one more electro and two other elements.
A full set of Thunderous Roar of Fury is also very good for Saino, due to the fact that it increases the bonus of electro damage and all his reactions.
As long as there are no full sets with the desired stats, you can use two parts of any Elemental Mastery set and two parts of Thunderous Roar of Fury.
Up to the 45th adventure rank, you can put two parts of the Berserker and two parts of the Instructor.
Artifacts
Artifact characteristics
Watch, if you are good at creating reactions, especially with Dendro, choose elemental mastery. But if you are more comfortable playing without a lot of reactions, then you should opt for attack power. You can also pay attention to energy recovery, if energy is restored too slowly, then this characteristic will increase the comfort of the game, but it is better to look for it in additional stats.
The cup is traditionally looking for Electro damage (temporarily – attack power), and the crown is chosen for critical damage or crit chance based on what you lack. Saino should ideally have ~60% crit chance and ~200% critical damage.
The best commands for Saino
After getting to know Saino better, we learned that he urgently needs to use the elemental explosion as often as possible, the use of which requires a lot of energy, so an additional electro character is desirable for him in the team. This will create an electro resonance and help generate more electro particles to restore energy faster.
Also, the dendro character will be a very useful addition to the team, due to the fact that the Aggravation reaction created with the help of dendro and electro elements increases electro damage.
In addition, to strengthen the team, characters of other elements, for example, hydro, will come up to create the Budding reaction, this will not specifically strengthen Saino, but will increase the overall damage of your team.
Let’s look at an example command for Sayno:
- Fischl is an additional electric character. It can deal high damage, it will create an electro resonance with it, and it will also help generate additional electro particles;
- Dendro Traveler is well suited for creating reactions because its elemental burst stays on the battlefield for quite a long time and increases the active character’s elemental mastery. In addition, his sixth constellation increases the elemental damage of the element that his elemental blast has come into contact with;
- Barbara acts as a healer, and thanks to her skills, budding reactions are well suited for reactions, which also deals good damage from dendro cores.
A few more command examples:
- Saino, Shogun Raiden, Dendro Traveler, Kokomi;
- Saino, Kazuha/Sucrose, Kollei, Dori;
- Saino, Zhong Li, Dendro Traveler, Kuki Shinobu.
Saino command example
Summing up, we can say that Saino is a good damage dealer, but quite demanding on his team, at the moment there are not many weapons in the game that can fully reveal his potential, and in order to get good characteristics in a new set of artifacts, you will need to spend a lot time.
If you manage to collect Saino well, then he will be able to please you with his high damage due to fast Electro attacks with the help of elemental explosion and elemental skill.
