Kamisato Ayato
✦ Hydro DPS / Sub DPS Guide ✦
Welcome to my Ayato Guide! This guide will focus on his DPS / Sub DPS playstyles, we will cover basic info but also go deep into his mechanics with everything discovered so far!
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✦ Full Infographic (TL;DR) ✦
✦ Talents Overview ✦
✦ Elemental Skill: Kamisato Art • Kyouka ✦
Dashes entering the Takimeguri Kanka state while also leaving an illusion at his original position. This illusion will explode if opponents are nearby or after its duration ends, dealing AoE Hydro DMG.
Takimeguri Kanka
In this state Ayato will be able to perform fast Hydro AoE Normal attacks, while Charged and Pluge attacks will be disabled.
• Each hit will generate 1 particle with a 50% chance to generate 1 extra with a ~2 sec CD (3 times per Skill)
• After a Normal attack hits an opponents, Ayato will gain a Namisen stack. Each stack will increase his damage based on his Max HP, to a maximum of 4 stacks
• You can only get 1 stack each 0.1s (even with Attack speed buffs you will never reach this time cap)
• At base attack speed you can perform up to 16 Attacks during his Skill
• During this state he has increased resistance to interruption
Tricks and Tips
• You should always hold down your Normal Attack instead of spamming it, doing so will ensure you get 16 attacks
• The stacks mechanic is nice to have but it's not vital. Building HP is usually not recommended
• The Normal Attacks performed during this Skill DO NOT scale from his Normal Attack Talent but are still considered Normal Attacks
• This skill does not snapshot (it uses Ayato stats in real time)
✦ Elemental Burst: Kamisato Art • Suiyuu ✦
Creates a field that will constantly deal AoE Hydro DMG (Bloomwater Blades) and buff Normal Attack DMG of characters within.
• This Burst is very similar to Ganyu's Burst, meaning that if there are n numbers enemies close together each Bloomwater Blades will hit n enemies. Making characters like Venti or any groupping Anemo good partners for Ayato
• It snapshots
✦ Normal Attack: Kamisato Art • Marobashi ✦
It is highly recommended to not level up this Talent as Ayato Normal Attacks during his Skill will scale off the Skill itself and not this Talent
✦ Ascension 1: Kamisato Art • Mine Wo Matoishi Kiyotaki ✦
Makes Ayato's Elemental Skill gain 2 Namisen stack upon use and, when the water illusion explodes, Ayato will gain a Namisen effect equal to the maximum stacks possible (4 at c0)
✦ Ascension 4: Kamisato Art • Michiyuku Hagetsu ✦
If Ayato is not on the field and his Energy is less than 40, he will regenerate 2 Energy every second; a decent Talent for his energy hungry Burst but not very intuitive in most rotations as you often want to cast your Burst into your Elemental Skill
✦ Talent Priority ✦
Talent priority is really simple: His Elemental Skill has priority in most teams, followed by his Burst while leaving the Normal Attack at level 1
✦ Artifact Sets ✦
First of all an important question: Do you need to build HP on Ayato? Short answer is no. Long answer is noooooo.
• 4 Echoes of an Offering
Best choice in most scenarios and don't let the RNG scare you away because it will even out and surpass other options on average. It remains still hard to recommend farming this for most people as Blizzard/HoD Domain has a way higher value
• 4 Heart of Depths
Amazing option in a very high value Domain. It will boost your Burst a bit better than Echoes or Glad and scales really good with high Atk or Atk buffs
• 4 Gladiator's Finale
Another very good choice that can reach the potential of the above sets. Scales better with Normal DMG or Hydro DMG buffs but it's really hard to farm
• 2 mix | HoD / 18% ATK
The damage provided by mixing 15% Hydro DMG and 18% Atk is actually really really close to a full set of the above
• 4 Thundering Fury
Thundering Fury reduces your Skill cooldown but only works in Electro-Charged teams (Fischl + Beidou), it will fall behind other options for personal damage but not always for total team damage. Still not recommended but usable
• 4 Blizzard Strayer
Another set that only works in a certain team, freeze in this case. 40% total Crit Rate as an artifact bonus is very good though and should outperform any other option provided you can perma freeze and have a high Crit DMG. It will also buff your Burst like no other set but using it off cooldown is going to be really hard
• 4 Emblem of Severed Fate
It can be very good in scenarios where you are going to face multiple enemies at the same time while being able to group them, it's really bad against 1 single enemy and not amazing in random scenarios. Using just the 2 pc for +20% ER is ok
Main/Sub Stats
• Sands | ATK • ER it's hardly recommended but it's ok with high Atk weapons or if you focus on your Burst a lot and just need it. HP shouldn't be used
• Goblet | Hydro DMG
• Circlet | Crit Rate or Crit DMG
Your substats will focus on Crit > Atk% > HP%. Make sure to always have enough ER%
Try to balance your Crit Rate to Crit DMG on a 1:2 ratio and remember that his Ascension Talent is Crit DMG
If you are a low AR player just focus on Atk% stats (even on goblet and circlet)
✦ Weapons ✦
✦ 5 Star ✦
• Haran Geppaku Futsu • His signature weapon and overall best weapon in the right scenarios. It's unfortunately conditional but it's not hard to get the 2 stacks required depending on your team. The Crit rate passive builds very well with his Crit DMG Ascension stat
• Primordial Jade Cutter • Unconditional and in some scenario (HoD set) even better than his signature weapon while also making use of any HP substats. Even more Crit Rate that goes well with his Crit DMG Ascension stat
• Mistsplitter Reforged • An amazing weapon for Ayato if you can keep the relatively easy to get stacks up
• Summit Shaper • Very high Atk but requires a shield to pull its weight. Not great if you plan on buffing his Atk further
• Skyward Blade • This weapon has a lot of good things going for Ayato: ER%, Attack Speed and some Crit Rate but unfortunately when looking at raw damage it's behind the above 5 star options and a few 4 stars
✦ 4 Star ✦
• The Black Sword • Ayato's best 4 star option. Crit Rate passive goes well with his Crit DMG Ascension stat while the passive is simply amazing for his Skill damage. It scales really well with refinements. The only downside is that it's only obtainable once per patch by purchasing the Battle Pass
• Blackcliff Longsword • Decently high base Atk with a Crit passive is already enough to make this somewhat good. Getting the Atk stacks makes it really shine but it's too conditional. Also expensive and not worth to refine
• Lion's Roar • Amazing choice but only in Electro-Charged teams
• Amenoma Kageuchi • Fully F2P and helps casting your Burst over more rotations but it's not recommended. You will have problems getting many stacks as they last 30s, your Skill cooldown is 12s while your Burst is 20s
Sac and Festering Desire do not work that well as the only work on your water illusion, not your Normal attacks
Other options you can use but are not recommended: The Flute, Sac Sword, Prototype Rancour, Harbinger of Dawn, Fav
Note: Generally if you have any of: Haran, Jade and Mistsplitter just use them. Summit Shaper is ok if you can shield and the top 4 star options are better than Skyward usually. Black Sword is the only real 4 star I'd recommend though (and Lion's Roar but only in EC teams)
✦ Teams ✦
Ayato Taser
This is one of Ayato's best teams. Sucrose is usually driving the team but Ayato will still want to spam his high damage window. Another version of this team considers Bennett instead of Sucrose, giving up Anemo utility + Swirl damage healing and an high Atk boost (especially good for Beidou Burst).
In the Bennett version using the 4 piece Thundering Fury Set is justified on Ayato but it's still not worth farming vs other sets, use it if you alreay have it.
Freeze (Morgana variation)
A variation of the famous Morgana team that welcomes Ayato in place of Mona, basically trading her buffs for Ayato's high personal damage.
The team will work with both Ayaka and Ganyu but it's usually better with Ayaka as Ganyu paired with Ayato in this team doesn't really find the time to use her strong Charged Attacks and becomes a Burst Sub-DPS, Ayato and Ganyu Bursts are also a bit redundant.
The rotation is not always the same and you can get creative but make sure you keep enemies frozen especially if your team members are the using Blizzard Strayer Set.
Freeze (Kaeya/Rosaria)
Hyper Carry
This team's only purpose is to buff Ayato Normal Attacks during his Skill making it hit crazy numbers. It's not a very good meta team to be honest and its rotations are going to be hard and very energy demanding but it's fun to play and makes Ayato shine a lot!
Raiden
Pairing Ayato with Raiden is definitely not a bad idea and can open up for both Raiden Carry teams and Electro-Charged teams
Xiangling?
Pairing Xiangling/Bennett (classic National team) with Ayato is an ok choice but just because of the high amount of DMG everyone in that team will provide. Unfortunately they don't synergize that well for a few reasons:
• Ayato's Elemental Skill only lasts 6 seconds while Pyronado lasts between 10 and 14 seconds depending on Constellations
• Ayato Burst has a long cast time and alone doesn't apply enough Hydro
Overall Ayato while not bringing anything super new to the table provides high AoE personal damage in a short time paired with a good Burst. Almost all of the above teams if not more work similarly with other Hydro units like Mona, Xingqiu, Kokomi and Childe.
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