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Even after four years of its release,Genshin Impact’sdevelopers still haven’t run out of ideas as they consistently put out unique kits with new mechanics. During the second half of Fontaine, a mechanic called Bond of Life was introduced in playable characters, and Clorinde was the second one to have it.
Being one of the most anticipated Fontaine characters, people had quite high expectations fromClorinde, and she fulfilled them all. While she might not be the strongest character in the game, you will still have a lot of fun with her if you use her correctly.
Holding Is Better Than Pressing
After using Clorinde’s Elemental Skill, you will enter a special statewhere her normal attacks convert into pistol shots, which can perform up to three attacks in a row. This state is the main source of her damage, but it only lasts for 7.5 seconds while having a 16-second cooldown, which essentially means a 7.5-second cooldown after the state ends.
You have to make the most out of this state if you want to use her efficiently, and one of the best ways to do this is byholding your Basic Attack button instead of consistently pressing it. When you hold this button, she’ll automatically perform the next attack as soon as she can, and it’ll let you perform a lot more attacks than pressing it.
Keep An Eye On Her Health Bar
Going hand in hand with the previous tip, it’s highly important tokeep an eye on Clorinde’s health bar during her Elemental Skill state. When your pistol shots are performed, they build acertain amount of Bond of Life, which can be seen on your health bar as the red-colored line surrounding it.
Clorinde gets 35 percent Bond of Life from every pistol attack, butit stops stacking up once you reach over 100 percent. As soon as you reach the limit, you’d want to use your Elemental Skill again to perform the dash attack, which deals the highest damage once your BoL is over 100 percent.
Your BoL will be over 100 percent roughly when the red outline reaches halfway on your health bar, which can be a little misleading.
If you don’t want to consistently look at this bar, you can also simply look at Clorinde’s animations. Onceher animations for all three pistol attacks end, you can perform a dash attack right after.
She’s Great For Overworld Exploration
Genshin Impact might finally have two types of endgame content now, but they still cycle alternatively,which means you don’t spend a lot of time doing these. Most of your time will be spent either exploring the open world or doing some of the quests, which also take you through different places in the same world.
Thankfully, Clorinde is one of the best characters you can use in these since herability cooldowns are quite short, allowing you to use them consistently. Moreover, you can heal her back up even when you’re out of combat by using your Skill’s Bond of Lifesince she generates it by performing attacks, not by hitting enemies.
Apart from all this, you can also activate Clorinde’s Skill andconsistently press it to use it as a movement mechanic.
Your Elemental Burst Needs To Be Timed Properly
This tip might not seem like it makes a big difference, but it caneasily be the reason for your defeatif you’re attempting an endgame content. Clorinde’sElemental Burst is largelyseparated from the rest of her kit, but the most important part of this ability is the Bond of Life it provides as soon as you use it.
You instantly gain 120 percent of your Max HP as Bond of Life,but if you time it incorrectly, this might become obsolete. There can be different ways to efficiently use your Elemental Burst based on your team:
If you perform it after the three pistol shots, you’ll lose some time from your special state.
However, you canstack your BoL up to 225 percentfor one big dash attack in this manner.
Elemental Reactions Are Key
Elemental reactions are already of great importance for Genshin Impact’s combat unless you’re using a mono-elemental team,but they become even more important for Clorinde. This is because of her Dark-Shattering Flame passive, which increases her Normal Attack and Burst DMG by up to 60 percent upon triggering reactions.
Moreover, thebest set you can use on Clorindeis the Thundering Fury set, butit’s only good if you perform Electro-based reactions as well. Upon performing enough reactions, this set gives you a Skill cooldown as little as two seconds after your special state ends.
