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Being the Chief Justice of Fontaine,Neuvillettewas first introduced during the region’s main story inGenshin Impact. He seemed like an intimidating character at first, but his easy-going and comfortable personality was revealed as soon as he started talking. Neuvillette was also released as a playable character in the Version 4.1 update.
He’s a five-star Hydro DPS character relying on his special Charged Attack for most of his damage. His Skill and Ultimate can generate droplets that help him heal the HP lost during the Charged Attack. With the correct build, Neuvillette can easily be one of your strongest DPS characters.
Updated June 30, 2025:We’ve added a video version of this guide to help you build an even more powerful Neuvillette.
Best DPS Build For Neuvillette
While being one of the most fun characters to use in Genshin Impact, Neuvillette’s play style is also a little limited since his Skill and Ultimate only deal a small burst of damage. Theonly way you can get value out of this character is by making him the main DPSof the team where he stays on the field most of the time.
Moreover, Neuvillette has a special Charged Attack that requires you to hold it for quite a long time. If you stop pressing the button before the seal is created,he’ll just do a small Charged Attack that barely deals any damage. Once the seal is formed completely, Neuvillette lets out a beam of water in a straight line.
You can change the direction of this beamboth horizontally and verticallysimply by moving your screen.
This charging time can be reduced if he consumes the nearby droplets created by his Skill or Burst. At Constellation Zero,Neuvillette creates three droplets from his Skill and six from his Burst. you may only consume three droplets for each Charged Attack and the droplets stay on the battlefield for 15 seconds after spawning.
To get the most use out of this kit, you can use any one of the Artifact sets mentioned above.You can choose the set you want depending on the play style, and here’s how they help his kit:
Wanderer’s Troupe
Increases your Elemental Mastery and Charged Attack DMG. This can be used if you’re planning to put Neuvillette withdamage-dealing reactions like Electro-Charged or Vaporize.
Heart of Depth
This gives him a 15 percent Hydro DMG Bonus while alsoincreasing your Charged Attack DMG by 30 percentafter using your Skill, which is perfect for Neuvillette.
Marechaussee Hunter
This set essentially gives Neuvillette afree 36 percent Crit Rate apart from the Charged Attack DMG. Since he already gets extra Crit DMG from ascension, this can help him get quite a good Crit Ratio.
Once you’ve selected the four-piece bonus that you want from the Artifact set, the next step is to choose his weapon. Of course,Neuvillette’s signature weapon will work the best for himsince it’s designed according to his kit specifically. However, you don’t need that weapon since he already has a strong free-to-play option.
Prototype Amber is a four-star craftable weapon that youmost likely already have on Refinement Fiveif you’ve been playing the game for a while. This weapon scales on HP and gives you extra Energy whenever you use your Elemental Burst. This is perfect for Neuvillette since it allows you to get the Burst back much faster.
The Burst cost for Neuvillette is only 70, andyou can regenerate 18 of itwith this weapon at Refinement Five.
Finally,Lost Prayer to the Sacred Wind can also be a decent weapon for him. This is a five-star weapon, but you’re able to always get it on the Standard Banner as well. It gives him anincreased movement SPD and Elemental DMG as long as he stays in battle. Moreover, it gives you another 33 percent Crit Rate as the secondary stat.
Artifact Stat Priority For Neuvillette
Getting the correct set bonus isn’t enough for Neuvillette since themain and sub-stats for each Artifact can change his damage monumentally as well. Each artifact has one main stat and up to four sub-stats if they’re a four-star or five-star piece. Here are all the stats that you should look for when it comes to Neuvillette:
HP (guaranteed)
ATK (guaranteed)
Crit DMG/Rate
Crit Rate/DMG > HP Percent > Energy Recharge
You’d only want a Crit Rate Circlet on Neuvillette if you’renot using the Marechaussee set or Lost Prayer to the Sacred Wind.
Energy Recharge can be quite an important sub-stat for Neuvillette since you’ll be able to dish out constant attacks with him as long as your Burst has a good uptime. Moreover, he has a passive whereyou’d want to trigger three different Hydro reactions with the character. This prevents you from using a Hydro battery with him.
Neuvillette Talent Priority
Genshin Impact does a great job at keeping a character’s talent screen quite straightforward. You’ll find up to five talents on this screen, but youonly have to upgrade three of them while the other three get unlocked with ascensions. Out of the three active talents, you’d always want to upgrade Neuvillette’s Normal Attacks first.
This is quite a straightforward choicesince his Charged Attacks scale with your Normal Attack talent. After that, you can upgrade his Skill and Burst in any order. Skill’s damage is lower than the Burst, but you’ll also be using it more often.
Is It Worth Getting Neuvillette?
Whenever a new five-star gets released in Genshin Impact, the first question from every free-to-play or low-spending player is if the character is worth getting. You can only get a limited number of Primogems in every update, soit’s important to decide which character will be better for your account overall.
First and foremost,if you like Neuvillette’s personality and think that his play style is fun, you should absolutely go for it. Even when it comes to strength, Neuvillette easily beats most of the other Hydro DPS characters. If you’re lacking a damage dealer from this element, it’s highly recommended to pull for him.
