Genshin Citlali Build Guide: Best Team, Weapon, Artifacts & Stats

Hi! Travelers! With the resurgence of Cryo centric teams thanks to the release of powerful Cryo characters like Skirk and Escoffier, Citlali, being one of the strongest Cryo enabler released in Natlan will also soon make her return with the release of her rerun banner in Genshin Impact 5.8 Patch.

Therefore, in this Build Guide, we will go over everything players need to know regarding Citlali, all about her skill kit, abilities, best weapon options, strongest artifact sets and best teams to run her with in order to maximize her powerful skill kit and to help supplement the rise of Cryo centric teams in Genshin Impact.

General Introduction

Citlali is a 5* Limited Cryo character from the region of Natlan, she wields a catalyst as her main choice of weapon and specializes in both improving the entire team’s survivability with her shield ability as well as enabling different Cryo related elemental reactions even when she is off-field.

Due to being a Natlan character, Citlali also has access to the region’s special Nightsoul mechanic, allowing her to accumulate Nightsoul points and enter the Nightsoul state when her gauge is filled in combat.

Element	Weapon Type	Special Effect	Role
Cryo	Catalyst	Nightsoul	Elemental Enabler/ Sustain

 

Skill Kit & Leveling Priorities

Citlali Skill kit revolves around protecting the active character while also providing the Cyro mark for Elemental reactions by dealing Cryo damage to enemies even when Citlali herself is not on the field.

Citlali’s skill grants the active character a very hefty Cryo shield to protect allies and periodically apply Cryo surrounding enemies by summoning Itzpapa to periodically attack surrounding enemies with Cryo damage. When the shield is active, it will absorb Cryo more efficiently and grant Citlali NIghtsoul points.

Her elemental burst allows her to summon familiars to aid the active character in battle, applying the Cryo mark on them for easier elemental reactions. The more enemies are on the field, the more familiars she will summon, up to 3 instances of the familiar. After a set amount of time, these familiars will explode, dealing Cryo damage to the enemies and apply the Cryo Mark on them.

As a sustain and support character that enables different elemental reactions, players should level up Citlali’s Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst to improve her shield buff and her Cryo damage output.

For Ascension Talent, you should get Citlali to ascension level 4 as soon as possible to unlock both of her talents, allowing her to decrease enemies’ Hydro and Pyro resistance when her skill is up and massively increase her Elemental Mastery stat as well as boosting her Elemental Burst damage massively.

Priority: Elemental Skill = Elemental Burst > Normal Attack

 

Best Weapons & Artifact Builds

Recommended Weapons

As a character that helps boost the team’s survivability with powerful shielding ability and providing Cryo marks for easier Elemental Reactions, Citlali is a very unique character whose abilities scales with the Elemental Mastery Stat.

Due to this, to help boost her support and sustain role in a team, players should invest in as much Elemental Mastery and Energy Regeneration Stat as much as possible for Citlali.

The best in slot weapon for Citlali is of course, her Signature Weapon:
- Starcaller's Watch

	Starcaller's Watch (5* Limited) Attack (608) Elemental Mastery (265)
Increases Elemental Mastery by 100. Gain the "Mirror of Night" effect within 15s after the equipping character creates a shield: The current active party member deals 28% increased DMG to nearby opponents. You can gain the "Mirror of Night" effect once every 14s.

Alternatively, Other good Weapons that boost Elemental Mastery and Boost her capabilities when she is off field are also extremely good for Citlali, for example:

- A Thousand Floating Dreams

A Thousand Floating Dreams (5* Limited) Attack: 542 Elemental Mastery: 265

Party members other than the equipping character will provide the equipping character with buffs based on whether their Elemental Type is the same as the latter or not. - If their Elemental Types are the same, increase Elemental Mastery by 32. - If not, increase the equipping character's DMG Bonus from their Elemental Type by 10%. Each of the aforementioned effects can have up to 3 stacks. Additionally, all nearby party members other than the equipping character will have their Elemental Mastery increased by 40. Multiple such effects from multiple such weapons can stack.

 

Alternative F2P Weapon Option For Citlali includes:

- Sacrificial Fragments:

	Sacrificial Fragments (4*) Attack (454) Elemental Mastery (221)
After dealing damage to an opponent with an Elemental Skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own CD. Can only occur once every 30s.

- Favonius Codex:

	Favonius Codex (4*) Attack (510) Energy Regen% (45.9%)
CRIT hits have a 60~100% chance to generate a small amount of Elemental Particles, which will regenerate 6 Energy for the character. Can only occur once every 12~6s.

- Mappa Mare

	Mappa Mare (4*) Attack (565) Elemental Mastery (110)
Triggering an Elemental reaction grants a 8% Elemental DMG Bonus for 10s. Max 2 stacks

 

Best Artifact Sets

For Citlali enhancing support ability, her best artifact set is the Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City set, which allows Citlali to boost the team’s Elemental Damage whenever she uses her Nightsoul Burst and initiate a Cryo related Elemental Reaction like Melt or Freeze.

• 2pcs: When a nearby party member triggers a Nightsoul Burst, the equipping character regenerates 6 Elemental Energy.
• 4pcs: After the equipping character triggers a reaction related to their Elemental Type, all nearby party members gain a 12% Elemental DMG Bonus for the Elemental Types involved in the elemental reaction for 15s. If the equipping character is in the Nightsoul's Blessing state when triggering this effect, all nearby party members gain an additional 28% Elemental DMG Bonus for the Elemental Types involved in the elemental reaction for 20s. The equipping character can trigger this effect while off-field, and the DMG bonus from Artifact Sets with the same name do not stack.

For enhancing shield strength,  her best artifact set is the Gilded Dreams set.

 

• 2pcs: When a nearby party member triggers a Nightsoul Burst, the equipping character regenerates 6 Elemental Energy.
• 4pcs: After the equipping character triggers a reaction related to their Elemental Type, all nearby party members gain a 12% Elemental DMG Bonus for the Elemental Types involved in the elemental reaction for 15s. If the equipping character is in the Nightsoul's Blessing state when triggering this effect, all nearby party members gain an additional 28% Elemental DMG Bonus for the Elemental Types involved in the elemental reaction for 20s. The equipping character can trigger this effect while off-field, and the DMG bonus from Artifact Sets with the same name do not stack.

Other Choices

Other Choices
Tenacity of the Millelith	Effect: 2Pcs: HP +20% 4Pcs: 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.
Noblesse Oblige	Effect: 2Pcs: Elemental Burst DMG +20% 4Pcs: Using an Elemental Burst increases all party members' ATK by 20% for 12s. This effect cannot stack.
Instructor	Effect: 2Pcs: Increases Elemental Mastery by 80. 4Pcs: Upon triggering an Elemental Reaction, increases all party members' Elemental Mastery by 120 for 8s.

 

For Main Stats and Sub Stats, players should prioritize the Elemental Mastery stat as all of her abilities and damage scales entirely with this important stat.

- For Citlali, players should focus on these stats:

	Main Stat	Sub Stats
Sands	Elemental Mastery	- Priority #1: Elemental Mastery, Energy Regen - Priority #2: Other Stats
Goblet	Elemental Mastery
Circlet	Elemental Mastery

 

Constellation Priorities

Citlali Recommended Constellations

C1 - Radiant Blades of Centzon Mimixcoah

Citlali’s 1st Constellation helps boost the team’s overall damage output whenever she uses her elemental skill by granting her 10 stacks of Stellar Blade when she uses her skill. As long as Citlali have Stellar Blade stacks, whenever the active character attacks, she will consume 1 stack of stellar blade to deal damage based on her Elemental Mastery in conjunction with the active character.

Rating: Highly Recommended (Get to improve team’s damage output)

C2 - Heart Devourer's Travail

Citlali’s 2nd Constellation is one that massively helps boost her own damage as well as provide extremely powerful buffs to allies. When activated, this constellation grants Citlali a 125 Elemental Mastery boost and helps boost the entire team’s Elemental Mastery whenever they have Citlali’s shield or familiars following them. Additionally, Citlali’s talent that decreases the enemies’ Hydro and Pyro resistances when allies trigger elemental reactions will be doubled from 20% to 40%, massively boosting the team’s damage output.

Rating: Most Recommended (Massively Improve Citlali’s Buffing Prowess)

C4 - Death Defier's Spirit Skull

Citlali’s 4th Constellation further improves her own damage output by introducing an additional damage instance whenever her familiar deals damage while her skill is active. This also helps recover Citlali’s Nightsoul energy and allow her to enter her nightsoul state easier.

Rating: Recommended (A decent Constellation that introduce another damage instance to supplement the team’s damage output and improve Citlali’s rotation)

C6 - Death Defier's Spirit Skull

Citlali’s 6th constellation is, of course, the most overpowered constellation, which massively improves her Famiilar’s ability when Citlali uses her skill. Additionally, while her familiar is on the field, it will constantly consume Nightsoul points to grant up to 60% Pyro and Hydro Elemental Damage boost and increase the damage dealt by Citlali herself.

Rating: Extremely Recommended (Grants Massive Damage buffs to Pyro and Hydro characters and Citlali herself)

 

Citlali Constellations VS Signature Weapon Pulling Priorities

In terms of pulling investment for Citlali and the balance between getting her Constellations and her signature weapons, there are certain considerations players should make:

- Citlali’s weapon only serves as essentially a stat stick for her, with no direct benefit or change to Citlali’s kit herself. However, it does provide her with a good damage buffing ability for the active character.

- Citlali’s best Constellation is her C2 and C6 Constellations, with them providing additional buffing ability for Citlali to massively improve the team’s overall damage output.

Therefore, with these considerations, players should invest in Citlali in this order:

C0 + R1	C2 + R1	C6 + R1	C6 + R5
Low Investment	Best Investment Point	High Investment	Highest Investment

 

Best Team Recommendations

As Citlali is a Cryo centric team that can support various Cryo team comps with her amazing survival boosting skill kit as well as supplementing the team’s damage output with her powerful Elemental Mastery based kit, Citlali can be filled into 2 different types of teams depending on the user’s preference: The Melt team and the Freeze team.

Citlali Melt Teams

Citlali’s role in a melt team revolves around her high Elemental Mastery build as well as her ability to both grant a survival boosting shield as well as apply the Cryo mark on enemies even when she is off field, allowing for easier Melt reactions. Additionally, her talent also reduces the enemies’ Pyro Resistance when Melt is triggered, allowing the Pyro main DPS to deal even more damage when she is on the team.

- Citlali’s Premium Melt Team:

Mavuika	Citlali	Xilonen	Bennett
Main DPS	Cryo Enabler/ Sustain	Damage Support	Damage Support

This team takes full advantage of the synergistic relationship between Mavuika and Citlali’s Nightsoul abilities, allowing them to supplement each other’s damage output and help Mavuika deal massive amounts of damage thanks to the Melt reaction. Other teammates can be substituted with other damage boosting characters, but the best teammates for this team are Xilonen and Bennett.

- Citlali’s F2P Melt Team:

Gaming	Citlali	Iansan	Bennett
Main DPS	Cryo Enabler/ Sustain	Damage Support	Damage Support

Similar in principle to her premium team, the F2P team takes full advantage of Citlali’s Pyro resistance reduction talent and off field Cryo application to help facilitate the main Pyro DPS damage output, helping them to deal more damage with the help of 2 damage buffers.

Citlali Freeze Teams

Citlali’s role in the Freeze team is less prevalent than her role in Melt Team due to the fact that Cryo Freeze team have a lot of good enablers already. However, her shield and off field Cryo application are still very much appreciated in a good Freeze team.

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- Citlali’s Premium Freeze Team:

Skirk	Citlali	Escoffier	Furina
Main DPS	Cryo Enabler/ Sustain	Damage Support	Damage Support

This team uses Citlali as the sustain option for a Skirk centric team, allowing the team to fulfill Escoffier’s Cryo and Hydro teammate requirements to reduce enemies’ Cryo resistance and Furina to buff the team’s overall damage output and help elevate Skirk’s power.

- Citlali’s F2P Freeze Team:

Charlotte	Citlali	Xingqiu	Rosaria
Main DPS	Cryo Enabler/ Sustain	Damage Support	Damage Support

The F2P Freeze team for Citlali focuses on allowing Charlotte to use her Cryo infused normal attacks to constantly freeze the enemies with the help of Xingqiu’s ultimate while under the protection and buff of both Citlali and Rosaria, improving the overall damage output of the team.

 

Conclusion

We hope that with the help of this guide, players will have a better understanding of the best Citlali builds, skills, constellations and teams in order to fully unleash her potential in the world of Genshin Impact.