Everything About Yoimiya from Genshin Impact: Best Builds, Skills, Leveling, and Ascension

Genshin Impact is a popular anime game where players explore a vast open world, battle monsters, and solve various puzzles. With the release of the latest update, new heroes will be introduced, one of which will be Yoimiya. In this guide, we will cover her features, abilities, artifacts, ascension materials, and provide tips to help you use the character most effectively.

Yoimiya will appear in Genshin Impact with the update on July 22. Like all other characters, she can be obtained during the prayer (wish) event. This will require a special premium currency, which can be acquired in exchange for Primogems.

Yoimiya is a 5-star character who uses a long-range bow and skills charged with Pyro effects in battle. In the story, she is a master of fireworks from Inazuma (a new region also introduced in update 2.0). In practice, the warrior can be used as a main or a secondary hero, focused on dealing maximum damage.

Firework Flare-Up — Yoimiya's normal attack fires up to 5 arrows at the enemy, and her charged attack allows sending an enhanced arrow, dealing additional fire damage. The power of the charged attack depends on the skill level (1st level allows firing an arrow with Pyro damage, 2nd level — the character fires up to 3 arrows that automatically find the enemy and explode upon reaching the target).

Niwabi Fire-Dance (Elemental Skill) — Yoimiya surrounds herself with a ring of saltpeter, dealing damage to all nearby enemies.

Niwabi Fire-Dance Ensei — while the skill is active, each of Yoimiya's normal shots gains an additional Pyro effect (during the skill's duration, Firework Flare-Up stops generating explosive arrows), which disappears after the archer exits combat.

Ryuukin Saxifrage (Elemental Burst) — using the skill launches blazing rockets into the sky, dealing Pyro damage in an area and marking one enemy with the effect of Golden Shine.

Golden Shine — squad members (except Yoimiya herself), dealing any attacks to an enemy marked with Golden Shine, cause explosions, dealing area damage and hitting enemies near the target. If the target dies during the effect of Golden Shine, the effect moves to the next monster (the shine explosions can occur no more than once every 2 seconds).

Summer Night's Dawn — using the Ryuukin Saxifrage talent increases the damage dealt by squad members by 10% for 15 seconds (additional effect — triggering the Trickster's Flare increases damage by an additional 1%).

Trickster's Flare — while the Niwabi Fire-Dance skill is active, each of Yoimiya's normal attacks on a target will deal an additional 2% Pyro damage (the effect stacks up to 10 times and lasts for 3 seconds).

Blazing Match — when Yoimiya crafts landscape, furnishing, or decoration items, there's a 100% chance to refund some of the materials used.

Teachings, Guides, and Philosophies of the Floating World are dropped in the Floating Palace.

Divining Scrolls are dropped by Samachurls of level 40+ located in camps throughout Teyvat.

Sealed Scrolls can be obtained from Samachurls of level 50+ or crafted from Divining Scrolls (3 Divining Scrolls are needed to craft one Sealed Scroll).

Forbidden Curse Scrolls drop from Samachurls of level 60+ or are crafted from Sealed Scrolls (3 Sealed Scrolls are needed to craft one Forbidden Curse Scroll).

The Crown of the Dragon Lord drops from the main boss of the dungeon Beneath the Dragon-Queller, Azhdaha.

The Crown of Insight could have been obtained through the course of temporary events. They are currently unavailable, but similar quests will surely appear in the future. At the moment, the only way to obtain the Crown of Insight is to reach level 11 of the Frostbearing Tree.

To activate a constellation, you need a Stellar Fortuna for the character. To obtain it, unlock Yoimiya again during a wish.

Ryuukin Saxifrage — The Elemental Burst's action lasts for 4 seconds longer, and if an enemy dies during the process, Yoimiya receives a bonus 20% damage for 20 seconds.

Summer Night's Procession — If Yoimiya deals critical damage during a Pyro attack, the damage of Pyro skills increases by 25% for 6 seconds.

Trickster's Flare — Increases the level of Niwabi Fire-Dance by 3 levels (can be leveled up to a maximum of 15 levels).

Pyrotechnic Professional — A successful Elemental Burst reduces the cooldown of the Elemental Skill by 1 second.

Festival's Eve — Increases the level of Ryuukin Saxifrage by 3 levels (can be leveled up to a maximum of 15 levels).

Naganohara Meteor Swarm — When the Golden Skyward skill triggers, there is a 40% chance that Yoimiya will fire a second arrow, dealing 50% of the first attack's damage.

Agnidus Agate Gemstone, Agnidus Agate Chunk, Everflame Seed, Agnidus Agate Fragment, and Agnidus Agate Sliver can be obtained as a reward for defeating the boss Pyro Hypostasis (it can be found in the north of Kannazuka Island).

Naku Weed can be found all over Inazuma (to facilitate the search, we recommend using the interactive map of Genshin Impact, highlighting the resource you need).

As we mentioned at the beginning of the guide, Yoimiya is a character focused on dealing maximum damage, so it is necessary to level her up in that direction.

The character achieves maximum attacking potential if she wields the Skyward Harp or Amos' Bow. The first weapon increases Yoimiya's base damage by 20-40% and gives a 60-100% chance to deal additional Pyro damage in an area. The second weapon increases the damage of basic and charged attacks by 12-14%, and also provides an additional 8-16% damage depending on the arrow's flight distance (this effect stacks up to 5 times).

Eimiya can also be tried in the role of a secondary attacking hero with support functions. To unlock her full potential in this direction, you will need to arm the warrior with Elegy for the End, which increases the heroine's elemental mastery by 80-120 units. In addition to this, upon successful triggering of an elemental burst or elemental skill, all members of Eimiya's squad receive from 100 to 200 units to elemental mastery and deal an additional 20-40% of attack level.

If it's not possible to find a 5-star weapon, the Ceremonial Weapon will do. Besides decent damage, it also gives the owner a 40-80% chance to reset the cooldown of the elemental skill when using the same ability.

As for artifacts, we recommend collecting the Crimson Witch of Flames set, which is optimal for all heroes whose skills have a Pyro effect. By collecting 2 pieces of the set, you get a bonus 15% to damage from fire abilities, and for collecting the full set, you are awaited by two additional effects: a bonus of 40% to damage against targets affected by the Burning, Overloaded, or Superconduct effect; a bonus of 15% to damage against targets from the Melt and Vaporize effect.

If assembling the Crimson Witch of Flames set is not possible, as an alternative, you can use the Noblesse Oblige (increases damage from elemental burst and attacks for all squad members) or the Wanderer's Troupe (increases elemental mastery and damage from charged bow attacks).

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Eimiya will become your main character if you focus on maximum damage in battle. The archer moves actively across the field and also has a large set of lethal abilities, which, in combination with the right effects, will help quickly deal with even the strongest opponent (or a whole crowd of lower-ranked enemies).

The optimal team composition with Eimiya, if she is leveled for damage:

The optimal team composition with Eimiya, if she is leveled for support: