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Forewords
Readers, please stay tuned ~ Please note that the constellations, and skills recommended in this article are all personal recommendations. I hope that when you are confused, you can refer to the recommended combinations within this analysis and guide. Remember, Genshin Impact is a PvE game, everyone should be highly encouraged to play and experiment by themselves. You will encounter a variety of characters, artifact sets, and weapons during the journey across Teyvat. You can create the most suitable gameplay and exploration methods according to your own time and energy. I hope you all enjoy the happiness that Genshin Impact brings to your everyday life!
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Within the passage：
A skill = normal attacks; E skill = Elemental Skill; Q skill = Elemental Burst
Opening
I've been hearing folks mention that my previous character analysis was slightly information overload for some; therefore, I've decided starting this time that I will be separating my character analysis into 2 different sections:
- First Part: Constellation, Talent - Introduction and analysis (recommendation)
- Second Part: Weapon, Artifact Sets, and Team Comps - Introduction and analysis (recommendation)
This way, it should be more convenient for everyone to read and improve their understanding of the characters. In turn, it will be more convenient for us to absolutely c**** all the enemies standing in front of us during our trip across Teyvat!
In my opinion, Raiden Shogun is an extremely well-designed and well-rounded character. Whether it's her constellation or talents...her overall design is almost perfect. In the meantime, there are plenty of options for her weapon choices; as she's extremely well-designed, not only is she a strong Electro background damange output and elemental recharger (battery), she is also a strong main DPS. It really isn't difficult to understand why every time her banner comes out there will be a bunch of people who just want to roll on her non-stop! Without further ado, let's take a look at the introduction and analysis of Raiden Shogun's weapons, artifact sets, and team comps.
As the guardian of Inazuma, Raiden Shogun and her Engulfing Lightning merges into a very formidable character providing you with a ton of fun and DMG output. Her insanely strong Q skill makes it one of the strongest Q DMG output in the entire game. In addition to her Q skill, Raiden Shogun's E skill is also a very reliable skill that provides your entire team with strong elemental recharge capabilities. The combination of her strong Q skill and highly adaptive E skill allows Raiden Shogun to be freely plugged into multiple team comps to aid you in your Teyvat travels! Raiden Shogun is a highly versatile and adaptable unit, so much so that many people have called her to be one of the most well-designed characters within Genshin Impact. (Quick reminder: if you have C0 Raiden Shogun, she'd be better suited as a sub-DPS; if you have C2 Raiden Shogun, she'd be better as a quick swap DPS)
Weapons Recommendation
Weapon Ranking:
Engulfing Lightning ＞ Skyward Spine ＞ The Catch ＞ Prototype Starglitter = Favonius Lance ＞ White Tassel
「 5-Stars」
Engulfing Lightning ★★★★★
Primary Attribute:
ATK (Up to 608)
Secondary-Attribute:
Elemental Recharge (Up to 55.1%)
Timeless Dream: Eternal Stove
ATK increased by 28%/35%/42%/49%/56% of Energy Recharge over the base 100%. You can gain a maximum bonus of 80%/90%/100%/110%/120% ATK. Gain 30%/35%/40%/45%/50% Energy Recharge for 12s after using an Elemental Burst.
In her character story, Raiden Shogun, as the guardian of Inazuma, personally forged the "Engulfing Lightning", the most suitable and tailor-made weapon for herself. This one hell of a weapon is made by and for herself (also great for other polearm users, to be honest)
The official game's primary attributes for this weapon are excellent (ATK up to 608), and the secondary attribute of elemental recharge capability is also definitely among the best in the game. Realistically, this weapon alone is able to bring Raiden Shogun to a whole different level in terms of her gameplay level (Raiden Shogun, with this weapon equipped, really makes her whole lore and gameplay complete) .
When we compare other weapons with Engulfing Lightning, all the other weapons all just lack slightly in different ways. Both the primary and secondary attributes for Engulfing Lightning are perfect fits for Raiden Shogun.
In my opinion, if you've followed Raiden Shogun down her rabbit hole, Engulfing Lightning is one weapon truly worthy for her. 
Skyward Spine ★★★★☆
Primary Attribute:
ATK (Up to 674)
Secondary-Attribute:
Elemental Recharge (Up to 36.8%)
Black Wing
Increases CRIT Rate by 8%/10%/12%/14%/16% and increases Normal ATK SPD by 12%/12%/12%/12%/12%. Additionally, Normal and Charged Attacks hits on opponents have a 50%/50%/50%/50%/50% chance of triggering a va**** blade that deals 40%/55%/70%/85%/100% of ATK as DMG in a small AoE. This effect can occur no more than once every 2s.
Skyward Spine, a five-star weapon with a secondary-attribute that increases Raiden Shogun's Elemental Recharge, is a good weapon that follows closely behind the Engulfing Lightning. Not only is Skyward Spine a good fit, the weapon's aesthetic design is pretty good as well.
First of all, the main attribute (674 ATK increase) for Skyward Spine is the second highest among all currently available polearms（Calamity Queller 741 ATK）. The element charging efficiency of the secondary attribute is exactly what Raiden Shogun needed as well. After Skyward Spine had been refined, this weapon is increasingly more suitable for Raiden Shogun as it increases her DMG output.
Skyward Spine's base numbers are high, and the overall improvement of Skyward Spine to Raiden Shogun is honestly pretty good; in terms of damage, Skyward Spine does not lose to my main 4-star recommendation: The Catch.
(Note: Skyward Spine's refinment special effects need to hit the enemy with a normal attack or a charge attack to trigger the vaccum blade. This does not trigger when Raiden Shogun is in her Q skilll state)
「 4/3-Stars 」
The Catch ★★★★☆
Primary Attribute:
ATK (Up to 510)
Secondary-Attribute:
Elemental Recharge (Up to 45.9%)
Shanty
Increases Elemental Burst DMG by 16%/20%/24%/28%/32% and Elemental Burst CRIT Rate by 6%/7.5%/9%/10.5%/12%.
No worries if you don't have a suitable 5-star polearm for Raiden Shogun. R5 "The Catch" is a close competition in terms of damage, and the best part of it all is that you can get this weapon for free. Aside from the two recommended 5-star weapons (Engulfing Lightning and Skyward Spine), "The Catch" is a great weapon for Raiden Shogun.
In terms of The Catch's attributes, although they are indeed inferior to many other polearms, but the attributes that Raiden Shogun needs most are perfectly matched by The Catch (ATK and Elemental Recharge). When The Catch is fully refined, the weapon's bonus is not at all in any way inferior to R1 Skyward Spine. The refinement bonuses improve Raiden Shogun's Q skill DMG and her Crit RATE extremely well - this is very suitable for Raiden Shogun's Q skill. Therefore, if you've got "The Catch" just lying around in your backpack, don't hesitate at all and just throw it on Raiden Shogun!
Prototype Starglitter ★★★☆☆
Primary Attribute:
ATK (Up to 510)
Secondary-Attribute:
Elemental Recharge (Up to 45.9%)
Magic Affinity
After using an Elemental Skill, it increases Normal and Charged Attack DMG by 8%/10%/12%/14%/16% for 12s. Max 2 stacks.
If you're playing Raiden Shogun as a sub-DPS or even just as support, and you do not have strong 5-star polearms for her (or even The Catch); Prototype Starglitter is a good temporary choice for you. Since Raiden Shogun usually increases the DMG output in the background after she releases her E skill, we also do get to enjoy this weapon's effect Magic Affinity (increasing normal and charged ATK DMG after the character uses their E skill) This weapon's elemental recharge and ATK increase after refinement is awesome and a good fit for Raiden Shogun. The good thing about Prototype Starglitter is that the elemental recharge value is higher than that of Favonius Lance; therefore, making this an easier recommendation when compared to the Favonius Lance.
Favonius Lance ★★★☆☆
Primary Attribute:
ATK (Up to 565)
Secondary-Attribute:
Elemental Recharge (Up to 30.6%)
Windfall
CRIT Hits have a 60%/70%/80%/90%/100% chance to generate a small amount of Elemental Particles, which will regenerate 6 Energy for the character. Can only occur once every 12/10.5/9/7.5/6s.
In the absence of other better polearm choices, Favonius Lance is a decent (short-term) temporary weapon for Raiden Shogun. As Raiden Shogun's elemental recharge is among the faster ones in the game, Favonius Lance's refinement improvement can almost be ignored to be honest. Therefore, in a way, we lose out on this weapon's effect Windfall if we equip Raiden Shogun with it.
White Tassel ★★★☆☆
Primary Attribute:
ATK (Up to 401)
Secondary-Attribute:
Crit Rate (Up to 23.4%)
Sharp
Increases Normal Attack DMG by 30%/36%/42%/48%.
White Tassel is recommended for beginners to use during their transition and build-up period. If you have any of the 4-star and/or 5-star weapons mentioned above, you should just go ahead and equip those on Raiden Shogun instead.
Artifacts Recommendation
Main-Stats:
Sands: Elemental Recharge
Goblet: Electro DMG Bonus > ATK
Circlet: Crit Rate = Crit DMG
Sub-Stats:
Crit Rate = Crit DMG > Elemental Recharge > ATK
Most Recommended：Emblem of Severed Fate 4-Piece ★★★★★
2 Piece: Energy Recharge +20%
4 Piece: Increases Elemental Burst DMG by 25% of Energy Recharge. A maximum of 75% bonus DMG can be obtained in this way.
I believe that players who have seen Raiden Shogun's skills can see at a glance that the Emblem of Severed Fate artifact set is perfectly tailored for her. Not only does the set fit her aesthetically, the 4-piece effect also drastically improves Raiden Shogun's DMG output.
For Raiden Shogun, her elemental recharge is her most important benefit to the team, and also her main DMG output method is her Q skill. Therefore, the 75% increase in her Q skill DMG provided by this artifact set is a good choice for Raiden Shogun. 
In order to achieve the upper limit bonus for Severed Fate's 75% bonus DMG, Raiden Shogun's elemental recharge should be around 300%. To achieve this number means losing out on some other attributes (such as Crit DMG and Crit Rate), So, in order to achieve a good balance between elemental recharge and the double CRIT stats, I'll recommend you to just achieve an elemental recharge number around 250%.
2nd Recommended：Tenacity of the Millelith 4-Piece★★★★☆
2 Piece: HP +20%
4 Piece: When an Elemental Skill hits an opponent, the ATK of all nearby party members is increased by 20% and their Shield Strength is increased by 30% for 3s. This effect can be triggered once every 0.5s. This effect can still be triggered even when the character who is using this artifact set is not on the field.
Raiden Shogun's E skill attack carries on over a long period of time, so it can continuously trigger the DMG-increasing effect provided by Tenacity 4-piece. I'd recommend this artifact set for C0 Raiden Shogun and does not have a strong solid Emblem of Severed Fate 4-Piece built up yet. This artifact set is still quite powerful; matter fact, if you have C2 Raiden Shogun, this set really isn't that bad of a choice still. We can straight away unleash Raiden Shogun's E skill for other characters in the team to enjoy a 20% increase in their ATK power and a 30% increase in their Shield Strength. Once again, although this is a good set for support Raiden Shogun, I'll still recommend the Emblem of Severed Fate 4-Piece for everyone wanting to build a strong Raiden Shogun. 
3rd Recommended：Gladiator 2-Piece + Wanderer 2-Piece ★★★☆☆
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Gladiator 2-Piece: ATK +18%.
Wanderer 2-Piece: Increases Elemental Mastery by 80.
Gladiator 2-Piece and Wanderer 2-Piece paired up together is recommended for newer players or players who currently do not have a decent Tenacity of the Millielith and/or Severed Fate lying in their backpack. The barrier of entry for these artifact sets is near nil; most players should be able to come up with a decent 2-Piece of both pretty easily - this 2-piece pairing's is also quite practical to be honest. However, even if this is a decent set for the short term, I'll still strongly urge and recommend you to get yourself a strong set of Severed Fate 4-Piece for Raiden Shogun.
Teams Comp Recommendation
Raiden National Team：Raiden Shogun + Xiangling + Xingqiu + Bennett
Recommendation
The National Team Comp has and still is very suitable for not only just newer beginners, but also us "experienced players" as well. This lineup is a revision and re-adaptaion of the National Team. For a lack of better names, let's just call it the Raiden National Team. The specific lineup is composed of Raiden Shogun, Bennett, Xingqiu and Xiangling. The core idea of the Genshin Impact National Team is to play fast character swaps to hit high DMG outputs through looping different elemental skills together for their elemental reactions. The National Team comp has always had relatively high requirements for team-wide Elemental Recharging capabilities, and Raiden Shogun can reduce the demand for the whole team's elemental recharging for all the other characters on the team by helping them complete their elemental recharge easily.
This lineup as a whole is focused on achieving the most elemental reactions in a short period of time:
- Raiden Shogun's E skill keeps up with the team's overall demand for high elemental rechrage and also keeps the enemies affected by the Electro element; meanwhile, she serves as the team's main DPS;
- Xiangling's E skill provides partial elemental recharge and Pyro element to be inflicted on the enemies; her Q skill serves as the team's sub-DPS and also provides a longer period of Pyro elemental application for Raiden Shogun's Electro elemental reactions and/or Xingqiu's Hydro elemental reactions;
- Xingqiu's E skill provides partial elemental recharge capabilties, and his strong and supportive Q skill provides the team with a consistent Hydro elemental application to create elemental reactions with Raiden Shogun's Electro element, and or Xiangling's Pyro element;
- Bennett's Q skill not only helps heal the team's HP, it also provides a strong dependable ATK DMG boost for the whole team.
Rotation
Raiden Shogun E & A for Electro application → Xingqiu Q and E for Hydro applicationn → Bennett E elemental Recharge and Q for DMG boost → Xiangling E skill for elemental recharge and Q for sub-DPS → Raiden Shogun Q followed by A and charged A.
Raiden Double-Electro Nuke：Raiden Shogun + Kujou Sara + Kazuha + Bennett
Recommendation
The relatively popular double-Electro team comp consists of Raiden Shogun (even better if she's C2), Bennett, Kujou Sara (recommended C6) and Kazuha. In this duo-Electro team, Raiden Shogun serves as the main DPS, and through the three supporting characters' skills, Raiden Shogun's Q skill damage will be increased to the extreme!
- Raiden Shogun's E skill keeps up with the team's overall demand for high elemental rechrage and also keeps the enemies affected by the Electro element; meanwhile, she serves as the team's main DPS;
- Kujou Sara's E and Q skills provide longer Electro application on the enemies, as well as serving the whole team with elemental recharge; as the second Electro character in the team, she also provides the whole team with Electro Elemental resonance - further increasing the whole team's elemental recharging capabilities (Battery);
- Kazuha not only gathers the enemies together, he also improves our elemental reactions' DMG;
- Bennett's Q skill not only helps heal the team's HP, it also provides a strong dependable ATK DMG boost for the whole team.
Rotation
Raiden Shogun E & A for Electro application → Kazuha E and Q to decrease enemies' elemental RES → Bennett Q to increase DMG → Kujou Sara's E and Q to increase Electro DMG → Raiden Shogun Q followed by A and charged A.
Triple Archon Electro-Focus：Raiden Shogun + Nahida + Zhongli + Fischl
Recommendation
Although the damage of this team is not the most top-notch...this team has extremely strong survivability, and there is almost no elemental recharge pressure; also, the overall rotation of this team is truly quite simple. The only disadvantage may be that you'd have to be quite lucky enough to draw the three Archons!
- Raiden Shogun's E skill keeps up with the team's overall demand for high elemental rechrage and also keeps the enemies affected by the Electro element; meanwhile, she serves as the team's main DPS;
- Nahida's E and Q skills provide us with strong Dendro application for all the other characters within this team to consistently put out strong elemental reactions;
- Fischl's E and Q skills provide the team with even longer Electro elemental application and DMG, as well as providing partial elemental recharge. She also provides the whole team with Electro Elemental resonance - further increasing the whole team's elemental recharging capabilities (Battery);
- Zhongli is the dependable and strong shield, providing us with sure-needed survivability, while his Q skill provides some DMG output.
Rotation
Raiden Shogun E → Zhongli charged E for skield → Nahida charged E and Q for Dendro application → Fsichl E→ Raiden Shogun Q followed by A and charged A.
Electro Dendro Congregation：Raiden Shogun + Nahida + Venti + Barbara
Recommendation
This lineup does not require super strong character buildups, and really is quite easy to operate. The only harder thing to put together for this team is to have the aforementioned three Archons of Raiden Shogun, Nahida and Venti. As for why this team is recommended, the logic is actually extremely simple
- Raiden Shogun's E skill keeps up with the team's overall demand for high elemental rechrage and also keeps the enemies affected by the Electro element; meanwhile, she serves as the team's main DPS;
- Nahida's E and Q skills provide us with strong Dendro application for all the other characters within this team to consistently put out strong elemental reactions;
- Venti's E skill provides us with partial elemental recharge, while his Q skill gathers almost all the enemies together for Raiden Shogun's Q skill one-shot; meanwhile, having an Anemo character in the team further helps us with achieving better elemental reaction DMG;
- Barbara provides the whole team with strong healing and Hydro application for Raiden Shogun and Nahida's Electro and Dendro elemental reactions.
Rotation
Venti Q to gather enemies and E for elemental recharge → Raiden Shogun's E for Electro application → Nahida hold E and Q for Dendro application → Barbara E skill for Hydro application → Raiden Shogun Q followed by A and charged A.
Closing
Alright folks, now that you have more understanding regarding Raiden Shogun's weapons, artifact sets, and team comps, let's draw the key points again for your convenience:
Weapons
- If you've got Engulfing Lightning, just go ahead and equip that on Raiden Shogun without a doubt; if not, Skyward Spine is a close second. If you have neither of the aforementioned five-star polearms, "The Catch" is a great four-star polearm for Raiden Shogun as well;
- These weapons are great for Raiden Shogun as these all perfeclty improve Raiden Shogun's much needed ATK and elemental recharge numbers.
Artifact Sets
- Severed Fate 4-Piece is the best fit for Raiden Shogun, no matter aesthetically or from DMG number-wise. If you have yet to farm a strong Severed Fate 4-Piece, you can also consider Tenacity of the Millelith 4-piece as a short-term temporary choice;
- Although there are other artifact sets that can be considered, I will only recommend Severed Fate 4-Piece for Raiden Shogun, without any other doubts.
Team Comps
- Raideen Shogun is not only a reliable element recharger (battery), she is also a strong and powerful DMG output character who can constantly apply the enemies with the Electro element in the background for long periods of time; therefore, she is very suitable in many lineups and can give strong dependable ATK output and DMG for herself and also the team;
- Combined with the recently updated Dendro elemental mechanism, Raiden Shogun's reliable Electro application will provide you with strong and powerful elemental DMG output over a long time;
- Raiden Shogun can be placed in many lineups - matter fact, she might be one of the most versatile units in the game. You should try and play around to see what other lineups are good for her besides the ones I have recommended here!
