Summary
- The Traveler's new Hydro Elemental Resonance is a powerful addition, offering DPS, healing, and shielding capabilities.
- Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each Elemental Resonance is crucial before investing in upgrades for the Traveler.
- While the Traveler's different Elemental Resonances provide unique benefits, some may be more suited for support roles than DPS.
The Traveler character in Genshin Impact has arguably always been worth using, but now even more so with the ability to align them with new Elements that change the character’s kit. Specifically, the new Hydro Elemental Resonance for the Traveler in Genshin Impact is quite powerful, but some of the older Elemental Resonances can also be worth investing in.
While the Traveler’s character level is universal, none of the talent upgrades are shared between their different Elemental Resonances. Consequently, players should understand the strengths and weaknesses of each Elemental Resonance before investing in any upgrade materials and using the Traveler main character.
Genshin Impact: Explaining the Traveler's Complicated Role as the Fourth Descender
With Genshin Impact bringing up descenders, it's imperative players know that through the Traveler, they play as the fourth descender.
The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Traveler's Elemental Resonances
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Anemo Elemental Resonance: While the Anemo Traveler features a talent that can heal them, this source of healing isn’t reliable enough to replace a dedicated healing character in Genshin Impact. Also, the best way to use Anemo Swirl reactions is with a high Elemental Mastery stat, which makes the Anemo Traveler’s scaling with HP seem unfitting.
Dendro Elemental Resonance: While Pyro reacting with Dendro is one of the strongest Dendro Elemental reactions in Genshin Impact, this reaction comes with a downside for the Dendro Traveler. Specifically, Pyro reactions can end the Traveler’s Elemental Burst ability. This will provide an immediate instance of damage, but it will cancel the ability’s buffs and AoE damage early. While players can avoid this by being mindful of their characters who use Pyro abilities, enemies that use Pyro attacks aren’t so easy to avoid.
Electro Elemental Resonance: The Electro Traveler is one of the best battery support characters in Genshin Impact, because of the energy regeneration that they provide to themselves and other characters, which scales with the Traveler’s own energy regeneration stat. The main downside of the Electro Traveler, though, is that their Elemental Skill has a slightly longer cooldown than the other Elemental Resonance Traveler builds. While this longer cooldown is seemingly only a minute difference, it ends up resulting in a significantly lower DPS compared to the other Elemental Resonances for the Traveler, hence why this character is better used as a support instead of a primary DPS role.
Geo Elemental Resonance: What makes Geo Traveler so strong is their short ability cooldowns that can lead to them having multiple Geo Constructs on the field at a time. This will provide ample opportunities for Geo Elemental reactions and generating energy for players using Geo team compositions in Genshin Impact. However, Geo Elemental Reactions are one of the weakest Elemental reactions in Genshin Impact against Elemental shields. Another flaw of this build is that it suffers from power creeping at higher levels since none of the Geo Traveler’s abilities or talents naturally scale with the character’s stats.
Hydro Elemental Resonance: Ever since it was introduced, the Hydro Traveler has arguably become the highest DPS build for the Traveler in Genshin Impact. What makes this build especially strong is that it has access to the HP-consuming damage buff that is normally exclusive to the 5-Star Fontaine Characters. Additionally, this build can also provide healing and shielding, resulting in an all-in-one support, DPS, and healing build.
Genshin Impact
- Released
- September 28, 2020
WHERE TO PLAY
Step into Teyvat, a vast world teeming with life and flowing with elemental energy.
You and your sibling arrived here from another world. Separated by an unknown god, stripped of your powers, and cast into a deep slumber, you now awake to a world very different from when you first arrived.
Thus begins your journey across Teyvat to seek answers from The Seven — the gods of each element. Along the way, prepare to explore every inch of this wondrous world, join forces with a diverse range of characters, and unravel the countless mysteries that Teyvat holds...
MASSIVE OPEN WORLD
Climb any mountain, swim across any river, and glide over the world below, taking in the jaw-dropping scenery each step of the way. And if you stop to investigate a wandering Seelie or strange mechanism, who knows what you might discover?
ELEMENTAL COMBAT SYSTEM
Harness the seven elements to unleash elemental reactions. Anemo, Electro, Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, Dendro, and Geo interact in all sorts of ways, and Vision wielders have the power to turn this to their advantage.
Will you vaporize Hydro with Pyro, electro-charge it with Electro, or freeze it with Cryo? Your mastery of the elements will give you the upper hand in battle and exploration.
BEAUTIFUL VISUALS
Feast your eyes on the world around you, with a stunning art style, real-time rendering, and finely tuned character animations delivering you a truly immersive visual experience. Lighting and weather all change naturally over time, bringing every detail of this world to life.
SOOTHING SOUNDTRACK
Let the beautiful sounds of Teyvat draw you in as you explore the expansive world around you. Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the soundtrack changes seamlessly with the time and gameplay to match the mood.
BUILD YOUR DREAM TEAM
Team up with a diverse cast of characters in Teyvat, each with their own unique personalities, stories, and abilities. Discover your favorite party combinations and level up your characters to help you conquer even the most daunting of enemies and domains.
JOURNEY WITH FRIENDS
Team up with friends across various platforms to trigger more elemental action, tackle tricky boss fights, and conquer challenging domains together to reap rich rewards.
As you stand atop the peaks of Jueyun Karst and take in the rolling clouds and vast terrain stretching out before you, you may wish to stay in Teyvat a little longer... But until you are reunited with your lost sibling, how can you rest? Go forth, Traveler, and begin your adventure!
- ESRB
- Teen / Alcohol Reference, Fantasy Violence, In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items), Users Interact
- Developer(s)
- HoYoverse (Formerly miHoYo)
- Publisher(s)
- HoYoverse (Formerly miHoYo)
- Engine
- Unity
- Multiplayer
- Online Co-Op
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC, iOS, Android
- Genre(s)
- RPG, Action, Adventure, Gacha, Open-World
- Metascore
- 86
- Platforms That Support Crossplay
- Mobile, PC, PS4 & PS5
