Genshin Impact 7.1 6th Anniversary Rate Up Banners – Best Banners to Roll On

Genshin Impact 7.1 6th Anniversary First Phase Rate Up Banners – Which Banner To Roll On

The first phase banners of Genshin Impact Version 7.1 6th Anniversary update will begin on September 23rd, 2026 and will last for a total of 21 days. The 2 5-Star Characters that will have their rated up banners during this phase are the brand new 5-Star Hydro Catalyst Character Voyanitsa and the brand new 5-Star Anemo Sword Character Vesna

Vodyanitsa

Vodyanitsa is a 5-Star character of the Hydro element that wields a catalyst as her main weapon. Her gimmick revolves around transforming into a mermaid to deal damage to enemies and summoning her microphone companion to deal off-field Hydro damage to enemies, allowing her to enable various Hydro, Cryo and Stellar-Swirl centric team comps.

Vodyanitsa’s skill kit is relatively simple but effective in nature, with her abilities granting allies off-field Hydro application and important buffs such as increased interruption and healing, while also debuffing enemies by reducing their Cryo, Hydro and Anemo Resistances.

Vodyanitsa’s main skill is her Elemental Skill, which allows her to turn into a mermaid for  a period of time to attack enemies and deal Hydro damage to them, then change into a performance microphone state. In this microphone performance state, a microphone will periodically attack nearby enemies alongside the active character while Voyanitsa is off-field, dealing Hydro damage to the enemies and reducing their Hydro and Cryo Resistances. While the microphone state is active, the active character will receive increased interruption resistance and will be healed periodically.

Thanks to her talents, Vodyanitsa can also help the Stellar-Swirl Elemental Reaction team by turning all Anemograna on the field into Mutated Anemograna, which reduces the Anemo resistances of enemies it hits. Additionally, whenever Vodyanitsa enters the Microphone state, she will also grant the entire party a stack-based buff that increases the Cryo, Hydro and Stellar-Swirl Damage output of the team proportional to Vodynaitsa’s Max HP. These buffs function similarly to how Shenhe’s talisman works, with the team’s Hydro, Cryo and Stellar-Swirl damage instances reducing the buff stacks. These special buffs affect both the on-field character and off-field characters, helping to maximize the damage output of the entire team.

Pull Rating: 9/10. One of the Best Hydro and Stellar Swirl Support Characters.

Vodyanitsa’s role as a powerful sustain character that can also provide powerful resistance reduction and damage buffs for the Hydro/Cryo team and the Stellar Swirl team makes her a very good character for players to roll on to both boost existing team’s damage output and to invest in future teams as well.

Vesna

Vesna is a 5-Star character of the Anemo element that wields a sword as her main weapon. She specializes in dealing constant Anemo and Stellar-Swirl damage to enemies while being supported by other members in the team, making her into a very powerful Stellar-Swirl DPS character.

Vesna’s skill kit focuses around her ability to enter her special Spirit Blade state to deal massive amounts of Anemo damage to enemies with her special 3-stages Elemental Skills and gaining special benefits whenever she triggers the Stellar-Swirl Elemental Reaction.

Vesna’s main skill is her Elemental Skill, which allows her to deal an instance of Anemo damage to enemies and help her enters the Spirit Blade State. While in this state, all of Vesna’s normal and charge attacks will be infused with Anemo and she will also summon a Spirit Blade to aid her in battle, generating 2 Spirit Blade Force when activating. By consuming Spirit Blade Force, Vesna will be able to launch a powerful enhanced Elemental Skill alongside the Spirit Blade against the enemies, dealing powerful damage to them. If she continues to consume Spirit Blade Force, she will enter the second stage of the enhanced Elemental Skill and deal even more damage. This can be continued to the Enhanced Elemental Skill’s 3rd stage attack by consuming a 3rd Spirit Blade Force before she exits the Spirit Blade State.

Vesna can perform a maximum of 3 stages of Enhanced Elemental Skill before she is forced to end her Spirit Blade State by consuming a total of 3 Spirit Blade Force. 2 Spirit Blade Force will be granted to her when she activates her Elemental Skill, while the 3rd Spirit Blade Force is granted when she uses her Elemental Burst, dealing massive amounts of Anemo damage to enemies and granting her 1 stack of Spirit Blade Force.

Whenever an ally trigger a Cryo Swirl, if Vesna is in the team, she will convert it into a Stellar-Swirl Elemental Reaction and enter the Radiance: Stellar Swirl state, allowing her abilities to gain additional Stellar related effects that change her damage from Anemo to Stellar-Swirl damage.

Pull Rating: 9/10. A Powerful Stellar Swirl On Field DPS Character

Vesna is the premium Stellar Swirl on-field DPS character, capable of dealing massive amounts of Stellar Swirl and Anemo damage to enemies. If players want to invest in a good Stellar Swirl damage team, then rolling for Vesna is highly recommended.

Genshin Impact Version 7.1 6th Anniversary Second Phase Rate Up Banners – Which Banner To Roll On

The 2nd phase rate up banners for Genshin Impact Version 7.1 6th Anniversary Update will start right after the first phase and last until the end of the update patch, lasting for a total of 21 days. The 2 characters on rate up will be the returning 5-Star Cryo Sword Character Skirk and the returning 5-Star Cryo Polearm Character Escoffier, alongside their signature Weapons.

Skirk

Skirk is a 5-Star Character of the Cryo Element that wields a sword as her main weapon. She specializes in dealing massive amounts of Cryo damage to enemies using her Normal Attacks, allowing her to nuke enemies when the team consists of a team of Cryo and Hydro characters.

Skirk’s gameplay is relatively simple: after using her Elemental Skill, Skirk will enter a special enhanced mode where all of her normal and charge attacks are infused with Cryo and deal enhanced damage. Additionally, she will gain a special form of energy that can be accumulated to unleash her Elemental Burst. When the team consists of only Hydro and Cryo element characters and they attack the enemies, Skirk will gain a stackable buff that massively boost her Normal and Charge Attack damage output against enemies. Furthermore, whenever a Cryo-related Elemental Reaction is triggered on the field, a special Void Rift will be generated, which Skirk can consume to further enhance her damage output.

Upon accumulating enough of her unique energy, Skirk can unleash her Elemental Burst, dealing multiple instances of Cryo damage to enemies. If Skirk is still in her special mode when this Elemental Burst is triggered, this Elemental Burst will be further enhanced and grants Skirk a special buff that last until her special mode is ended, allowing her to deal even more Normal Attack damage.

Pull Rating: 9/10. A Powerful Lunar-Charge Onfield DPS

Skirk is one of the best Cryo on-field Hypercarry DPS characters in the game mainly due to how high her damage modifiers and how potent her damage output can be when buffed up with all the best Cryo and Hydro support characters. If players are in need of a Cryo centric Main DPS character, rolling for Skirk is highly recommended.

Escoffier

Escoffier is a 5-Star Character of the Cryo Element that wields a polearm as her main weapon. She specializes in massively boosting the team’s damage output when there are only Cryo and Hydro characters in the team and provide the team with healing and off-field Cryo application.

Escoffier role’s in the team is very simple: she is an off-field Cryo Enabler character that can apply occasional Cryo marks on enemies with her Elemental Skill while also provide some healing to the team with her Elemental Burst.

The most important thing about Escoffier is her talent however, which allows her to massively reduce the enemies Cryo and Hydro resistances with her attacks based on how many Cryo and Hydro characters there are in a team, with a massive 55% Elemental Shred. 

Pull Rating: 9/10. A Powerful Cryo and Hydro Team Support Character

Escoffier’s role and abilities to be an off-field Cryo Enabler and support character alongside her amazing talent makes her one of the Cryo team’s most potent support characters if players can fulfill this condition as it basically means that as long as Escoffier is in the team, she can doubles the damage dealt by Cryo and Hydro characters.

Conclusion

And with that, we have gone over what we think are the best banners players should focus on during Genshin Impact Version 7.1 6th Anniversary Update Patch. 

Don’t miss out the chance to obtain these amazing characters and their Weapons by topping up in advance in Genshin Impact with the help of Enjoygm today!