Best Raiden Shogun Build: Weapons, Artifacts & Team Comps

Normal Attack: Origin

The typical polearm normal attacks. Raiden performs up to 5 consecutive attacks and at hold will do an upward slash consuming stamina. Raiden’s damage mainly resides in her Elemental Skill and Burst, so her normal attack is the lowest priority in leveling up.

Elemental Skill: Transcendence: Baleful Omen

Raiden Electro damages nearby enemies and gives her allies “Eye of Stormy Judgment” buff. For 25 seconds, teammate’ attacks will be followed by an Electro damage. Moreover, allies’ Elemental Burst damage will increase based on the cost of used Elemental Burst.

In co-op mode, this skill also applies to teammates. If Raiden Shogun is used more for support, this is the highest priority in leveling up.

Elemental Burst: Secret Art: Musou Shinsetsu

For every Elemental Burst used before her, Raiden gains stacks based on the cost of their elemental burst. The maximum number of stacks is 60 (at 300 energy used). Raiden unleashes her sword dealing AOE Electro damage that scales based on the numbers of stacks collected.

Afterward, Raiden Shogun becomes a sword user for 7 seconds. Her attacks will deal Electro damage and recharge her allies’ Elemental Burst. This skill is her main source of damage and if she is played as DPS it is the highest priority in leveling up.

It is important to note that during those 7 seconds, her attacks only scale with Elemental Burst damage bonuses. All the bonuses from artifacts and weapon will not be added. Moreover, her attacks count as Elemental Burst attacks. In other words, they will not benefit from buffs such as Beidou’s Elemental Burst.

Passive: Wishes Unnumbered

When a nearby ally gains element particles, Raiden gains two stacks for her Elemental Burst. This passive has a 3-seconds cooldown.

2nd Passive: Enlightened One

For each 1% excess charge for her Elemental Burst, Raiden gains 0.4% Electro damage and 0.6% energy restoration from activating her Elemental Burst.

Engulfing Lightning

Raiden Shogun’s signature weapon, Engulfing Lightning is currently the best weapon for her. This is mainly since its second stat gives her 55.1% energy recharge, which is the most important stat for her.

Moreover, the polearm user gains 28% of the energy recharge above the base 100% as ATK. Also, after using their Elemental Burst, the polearm user gains 30% energy recharge. The massive amount of ATK and energy recharge makes this the perfect weapon for Raiden Shogun.

The Catch

While The Catch is a F2P weapon, it synergizes greatly with Raiden Shogun and can only be replaced by Engulfing Lightning. Not only that it gives 45.9% energy recharge, it also gives CRIT Rate and CRIT Damage to the Elemental Burst.

Skyward Spine

A good replacement for Engulfing Lightning. While it gives less energy recharge than Engulfing Lightning and the Catch, Skyward Spine increases CRIT chance by 8% and deals a small AOE every two seconds.

Eula

Eula and Shogun pair so well together since they boost each other’s strengths. Raiden allows Eula to charge her Elemental Burst faster and increase its strength. They both can interact to cause Superconduct reaction to reduce the physical resistance of enemies by 40%. This allows both to have high damage with high consistency due to Raiden’s energy recharge.

Ayaka

Ayaka and Raiden are amazing pair for the same reason as Eula. Ayaka’s Elemental Burst can deal massive damage on its own and pairing it with Shogun will make it even stronger and more spammable. However, Ayaka does not benefit a lot from the physical resistance reduction.

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Sara Kujou

Sara can boost active members’ attack by using her Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst. Moreover, her Elemental Burst has high costs which boost Raiden’s Elemental Burst’s damage. Moreover, at C6, the attack boost is coupled with a 60% crit damage.

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Kazuha/Venti/Sucrose

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Kazuha and Venti can be helpful with Raiden by gathering enemies in one spot, which can ensure her Elemental Burst damages all of them. Moreover, Kazuha can reduce elemental resistance for enemies, which allows Raiden to deal even more damage.

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Bennett

Bennett is overall amazing support even for Raiden Shogun. His AOE heal and attack boost can help her and her allies deal more damage and stay alive. Moreover, Bennett’s Elemental Burst is quite spammable when built properly, which helps charge Raiden’s stacks and boost her Elemental Burst’s damage.

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