Zhongli in Genshin Impact is a fairly rare five-star character in the Genshin Impact game world, which only drops through prayer. His element in battle is Geo (Earth). In a team game, Zhongli can be both an independent damage dealer and a support for the main characters to help them at the most opportune moment with a full magical charge.
Zhongli Character Review
Zhong Li is a mature and serious guy who works at the Wansheng Bureau, which deals with funeral services. He knows a lot about the world around him, and therefore, he can always support a conversation about the Archons, as well as the Old War, which means that it is a pleasure to communicate with him.
From Zhong Li’s story, we can learn that he is far from a simple clerk who knows the secrets of the world. He was born over 1,000 years ago and still exists to spread his wisdom to the world and apply it in battle. Among Genshin Impact players, he even received an affectionate nickname – “Grandpa”, in tribute to his age.
Pros and cons of the character
In combat, Zhongli shows himself in different ways. Among his strengths are colossal damage to the attacked area, turning enemies into stone during an elemental explosion, the ability to extract geoelements from enemy characters. For example, when the Hilichurls stocked up on stone shields. The character’s weaknesses are low basic attacks and a long recharge of elemental particles.
Tip: The character has two skills – a strong shield from attacks and a stone stele. It is better to use only the shield, as it recharges quickly and copes well with its defensive ability.
Zhongli’s Skills
Basic Active Skill – Stone Rain
Zhongli deals quick damage, which can continue up to 6 times. If this skill is fully charged, Zhongli will deal additional damage to all nearby enemies with additional copies of the polearm. If the attack is made on the fly, the hero, in addition to the main damage to enemies, will also deal a small additional damage in the radius. It is important to remember that the passive skill of this character is Crystal Destiny, combined with this skill, will return up to 15% of the ore spent on crafting any polearm.
Comet Fall
A beautiful destructive skill that is formed in the form of an elemental explosion that deals terrible crushing damage to enemies in the comet’s area. All enemies caught in the explosion field will instantly turn to stone for a short time. All enemies with Petrification applied to them cannot move for several seconds. This combat pause can be used to eat and restore health, or to prepare a new battle tactic. Bountiful Table is a passive that adds 33 of the main HP to this main skill in damage to already weakened enemies.
Power over stone
Zhongli can create an active stone stele that, when created, deals elemental damage to all enemies within its radius. If there are geo objects near the stele that can be broken (such as ore), they will strengthen the hero and help deal even more damage. Zhongli can also climb the stele to block some enemy attacks. However, it is better to use the stele in conjunction with other Geo characters so that the stone structure can deal additional damage more often and more elementally.
Destruction of the Geo shield and stele
Zhongli’s single ability is responsible for two skills – Stele and Jasper Shield. And while a short press of the skill causes the shield to activate from underground, the Jasper Shield is generated by a long press of the ability. The shield weakens the resistance of enemies by about 30 percent of their total defense, and also helps to cope with the enemy’s fast attacks, especially if they are strengthened.
How to Play as Zhongli in Genshin Impact
This character is like Batman – he must appear on time and leave just as quickly. His fast attacks can slow down, stop and reduce the level of mobs’ eyebrows. Zhongli can become even more useful if there is another Geo character in the team, or a character that complements the elemental reaction.
The great thing about this hero is that he will be appropriate for any battle. He will fit in well with the battle with the Hilichurls or the battle in any temple.
And even though his basic abilities don’t deal much damage to enemies, his team play is unmatched by any other character.
Best Zhongli Builds
This character can be universally assembled into three different builds:
- – as a support;
- – as the main damage dealer;
- – as a secondary damage dealer.
If you are building a support build for Zhong Li, you should stock up on the following set of the young warrior: Celestial Axis as the main weapon and Archaic Stone as an artifact. Celestial Axis increases the chance of a critical hit well and has the ability to restore energy quite well. Archaic Stone adds 15% damage to the existing one. If Celestial Axis is hard to get, you can replace it with the Mortal Combat spear. It will regenerate defense and increase the main chance of a critical hit on the enemy.
Few people know that Zhongli can become an excellent fighter and even a replacement for the main characters with high damage, if you choose the right build with good DPS (Damage Per Seconds). In this build, it is worth giving preference to the Crescent Peak, Gladiator’s End as an artifact or the Blood Knight replacing it. The Crescent Peak is also a fairly rare item, but very powerful. It can be replaced with similar ones – Jade Kite, Vortex Conqueror or Dragonspine Spear. This build is aimed at forming a protective shield and a crushing weapon.
The final build is all about protecting and guarding Zhongli himself and other characters through minor damage. This build includes Spear of Favonius and Ceremony of the Ancient Nobility. The build includes everything you need for an elemental charge.
How to properly level up Zhongli
Before the main leveling, it is worth paying special attention to his talents. You can pump any talents, even the simplest ones, they will be useful in any case of use.
All Zhong Liv Genshin Impact perks, which ones are best to start with in order with each constellation:
- – “What the earth rests on” – two steles can be placed and used at the same time;
- – “Jade Cradle” – When Zhong Li uses the Comet Fall skill, all allied heroes gain a Jade Shield to absorb damage;
- – “Jasper Glitter” – increases the level of “Dominus Lapidis” by three units. The maximum level for increase is 15.
- – “Topaz, Unbroken and Fearless” – increases the area of damage of the “comet” by 20%, and the duration of petrification increases by another 2 seconds.
- – “Lazurite, Herald of Order” – increases the level of “Comet Fall” by three units. The maximum level for increase is 15.
- – “Crisis, Despot’s Reward” – 40% of the damage received becomes health, but only if the shield is on. The amount of regeneration cannot be higher than 8% of the hero’s maximum HP.
What artifacts should definitely be in Zhongli’s inventory? Of course, “Blood Knight” and “Gladiator’s End”. The first trinket lies and waits for its time in the dungeon “Clear Water and Mountain Cave”, and “Gladiator’s End” includes a two-piece build that can be obtained after defeating bosses.
To increase talents, you should stock up on a bunch of necessary resources: slime mucus, slime secretions, slime concentrate, teachings, philosophy, and instructions on “Gold”.
To pump up the character’s elevations, you also need to put in a lot of effort and get: a basalt column, a lapis core, secretions and concentrate of slime, fragments, pieces and full topazes of Prithiv. In addition to resources, the main currency of Genshin Impact is also required, but it can be obtained for almost any performance of in-game actions.
Secrets and tips
Zhongli can become stronger if formed in a squad with some specific heroes:
- – Traveler – Geo element (Anemo);
- – Tartaglia – element Hydro (water);
- – Albedo – Geo element (Earth);
- – Ning Guang is the element of Geo (Earth).
Each such character has a main elemental ability, which in combination with other heroes can enhance the skills of the entire team or simply be useful in battle. If such characters are not yet in the hero collection, they can be replaced with other characters that have the Geo or Hydro element.
In the gaming community, Zhongli has earned a worthy nickname – imbalanced. He is able to perfectly dodge attacks and destroy powerful bosses with his devastating damage.
When playing as Zhong Li in Genshin Impact, the first thing you should do is level up “Stone Mastery” to quickly learn how to disassemble the shield and install stone pillars. If you figure out the best order to install the pillar, Zhong Li can be simply invincible. The ideal way to use this skill is to first install the stele, jump on it and let the attacking characters take their passive damage, then jump up from the column to deal some more damage, remove the stele and turn enemies to stone. With this strategy, it is better to level up not only the hero in battle, but also in skill in general.
Secondly, of course, it is worth pumping the “comet”, which literally demolishes everything in its path and deals a ton of damage to enemies. If you reach the maximum talent in pumping this ability, the petrification of enemies will last for as long as 4 seconds. This is quite enough to finish them off and completely heal yourself.
Examples of squad builds for Zhongli:
- Zhongli, Xiao, Sucrose, Fischl – Xiao deals the main damage along with Zhongli, Sucrose and Fischl, like real ladies, support the heroes from a distance. If desired, Fischl can be replaced with Albedo, for a strong Geo Link.
- Zhongli, Razor, Ganyu, Xin Yan – 100% damage, where Zhongli can take on the role of both a healer with a strong shield and a damage dealer from any position.
- Zhongli, Anemo Traveler, Fischl, Noelle – a support build in which the first two heroes deal binding damage to enemies, and the rest act as strong support from the side.
This is the old man in Genshin Impact – with a unique appearance and a bunch of complex characteristics. If you correctly build the character’s role in battle – support, main or secondary damager, you can make him almost immortal. Leveling up and talents will help you get closer to the imbalance of this prayed-for hero. Getting him means a 100% victory in all boss battles and ease of collecting materials. Nimble, agile, fast, sudden – all this is the thousand-year-old Zhong Li.