“Granny Itztli”, one of the most powerful Shaman in Genshin Impact and the nation of Natlan, Citlali makes her debut in Genshin Impact as a powerful Cryo enabler. In this guide, we will go over how players can best build Citlali to make her one of the best support and sustain characters in Genshin Impact.
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Citlali Skill Kit & Playstyle Analysis
General Introduction
Citlali is a 5-Star Cryo character that wields a catalyst as her main weapon type. She specializes in providing the entire team with a massive shield and off-field Cryo damage and Cryo mark application in addition to Hydro and Pyro Resistance Shred, making her a prime enabler for the different Melt centric teams.
Skill Analysis & Leveling Priority
| Normal Attack: Calls upon secret arts passed down through the Masters of the Night-Wind from generation to generation, performing up to three strikes that deal Cryo DMG. Charge Attack: Enters Aiming Mode, and after Holding, consumes a certain amount of Stamina to call forth a Frost Star that deals Cryo DMG to opponents in its path. Plunging Attack: Gathers the power of Cryo and plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals Aoe Cryo DMG upon impact with the ground. |
| Leveling Priority: Low |
| Reason: Citlali’s rarely use her normal attack due to being mainly off-field, so players don’t need to level this up. |
| Elemental Skill: Invoking secret pacts passed down by her tribe over the millennia, Citlali deploys an Opal Shield and calls forth “Obsidian Tzitzimitl: Itzpapa,” a creature that is (reputedly) terrifying beyond compare, dealing Nightsoul-aligned AoE Cryo DMG. The Opal Shield’s DMG absorption scales based on Citlali’s Elemental Mastery, and absorbs Cryo DMG with 250% efficiency. When it is deployed, it will cause Citlali to briefly be affected by Cryo. After using this skill, Citlali gains 24 Nightsoul points and enters the Nightsoul’s Blessing state. Nightsoul’s Blessing: Citlali When Itzpapa leaves the field, Citlali exits the Nightsoul’s Blessing state. Itzpapa ·Itzpapa will follow the character. ·If Citlali has at least 50 Nightsoul points, Itzpapa enters the Opal Fire state and continuously consumes Nightsoul points to whip up a Frostfall Storm that follows the character and attacks opponents within its AoE, dealing Nightsoul-aligned Cryo DMG. ·When Citlali’s Nightsoul points are fully depleted, Itzpapa’s Opal Fire state also ends. |
| Leveling Priority: Highest |
| Reason: Citlali’s main damaging and support skill, so players need to level this up as much as possible to optimize her off-field damage and support effects. |
| Ultimate: Summons “allies” from the starry skies and the vast earth, hurling forth an ice storm to bombard the area in front and deal Nightsoul-aligned AoE Cryo DMG. This restores a set amount of Nightsoul points for Citlali, and also summons a Spiritvessel Skull near a maximum of 3 opponents within the AoE, with 1 Skull for each opponent. Spiritvessel Skulls explode after some time, dealing Nightsoul-aligned AoE Cryo DMG and restoring a set amount of Nightsoul points for Citlali. |
| Leveling Priority: High |
| Reason: Citlali’s main nuking skill, can be leveled up if players want to optimize Citlali’s own personal damage output during a rotation. |
| Passive Talent 1: While Itzpapa is on the field, after nearby party members trigger the Frozen or Melt reactions, the Pyro and Hydro RES of opponents affected by that reaction decreases by 20% for 12s. Additionally, Citlali will regain 16 Nightsoul points. Nightsoul points can be restored this way once every 8s. |
| Unlock Priority: Highest |
| Reason: Citlali’s main talent that allows her to regain Nightsoul points and reduce enemies’ resistances to pyro and hydro, helping to boost the damage output of the team. |
| Passive Talent 2: During the Elemental Skill Dawnfrost Darkstar, Itzpapa’s Frostfall Storm DMG is increased by 90% of Citlali’s Elemental Mastery. During the Elemental Burst Edict of Entwined Splendor, Ice Storm DMG is increased by 1200% of Citlali’s Elemental Mastery.In addition, when nearby party members trigger Nightsoul Bursts, Citlali regains 4 Nightsoul points. |
| Unlock Priority: High |
| Reason: Citlali’s important passive that help boost her personal damage output proportional to her Elemental Mastery, helping to make up for her lack of offensive stats. |
Playstyle Guide & Rotation
Citlali’s main skill kit and gimmick lies in her ability to provide Cryo marks to enemies even when she is off-field to help the on-field character to apply various Elemental Reactions to enemies.
Citlali’s Skill and Talent allows her to grant the active character a massive Cryo shield that protects the on-field character while also allowing her to periodically deal Cryo damage to enemies surrounding the active character, applying the Cryo marks onto enemies and reducing their Hydro and Pyro resistances. This makes her a good enabler for the Melt elemental reaction teams.
Citlali’s Elemental Burst allows her to deal a big burst of Cryo damage to enemies in front of her, applying the Cyro mark onto enemies.
Citlali’s overall skill kit makes her a prime off-field enabler for any Melt-centric Elemental reaction team comps, especially when she can also help sustain the team thanks to her amazing shielding effect.
Citlali Best In Slot & F2P Weapons
As Citlali serves as an off-field support and sustain character for the team, she wants weapons that can boost her own off-field damage, Elemental mastery and effects that provides the team with additional beneficial effects.
Citlali Best Weapon Choices
Some of Citlali’s Best Weapon Choices are:
 |  |  |
| Starcaller’s Watch | A Thousand Floating Dreams | Wandering Evenstar |
| Limited 5* Weapon | Limited 5* Weapon | 4* Weapon |
| Main Stat: 542 Attack |
| Sub Stat: 265 Elemental Mastery | |
| Starcaller’s Watch | Weapon Rating: Best In Slot |
| Effect: 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. | |
| Explanation: Citlali’s signature weapon that massively boost her Elemental Mastery and allows her to boost the damage output of the active character whenever she creates a shield, allowing her to max out both her damage and support potential. | |
| Main Stat: 542 Attack |
| Sub Stat: 265 Elemental Mastery | |
| A Thousand Floating Dreams | Weapon Rating: Best Alternative |
| Effect: 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. | |
| Explanation: An amazing alternative weapon for Citlali that provides her with a massive amount of Elemental Mastery and damage bonus, helping to optimize her damage and support effects. | |
| Main Stat: 510 Attack |
| Sub Stat: 165 Elemental Mastery | |
| Wandering Evenstar | Weapon Rating: Good Alternative |
| Effect: The following effect will trigger every 10s: The equipping character will gain 24% of their Elemental Mastery as bonus ATK for 12s, with nearby party members gaining 30% of this buff for the same duration. Multiple instances of this weapon can allow this buff to stack. This effect will still trigger even if the character is not on the field. | |
| Explanation: A decent alternative weapon for Citlalit that provides her and the entire team with a decently good Elemental and Attack stat boost. | |
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Citlali Best Artifacts & Stats
Citlali Best Artifact Set & Artifact
Citlali’s best Artifact set is the Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City set, which allows her to boost the team’s Elemental Damage whenever a Reaction is triggered and allow her to regain additional Elemental Energy when the Nightsoul effect is triggered.
 | Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City |
| 2-pcs: When a nearby party member triggers a Nightsoul Burst, the equipping character regenerates 6 Elemental Energy. | |
| 4-pcs: 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. | |
Citlali Best Main Stats & Sub Stats
As an off-field support sustain character that specializes in enabling different types of Elemental Reactions for the team, Citlali wants primarily Elemental Mastery Main and Sub stats to boost her damage output and her shield’s survivability
| Artifact | Main Stats |
| Timepiece | Elemental Mastery |
| Headpiece | Elemental Mastery |
| Cup | Elemental Mastery |
| Priority | Sub Stats |
| 1st | Elemental Mastery |
| 2nd | Energy Regen |
Important Stat Threshold:
– As an enabler character that relies on Elemental Reactions, Citlali wants to have as high Elemental Mastery as possible, with Energy Regen being a secondary priority.
Citlali Best Teams
As Citlali functions primarily as an off-field enabler for the different Burn and Melt centric team comps, she can be used as one of the Cryo enablers for various teams:
Mavuika Melt Team
 |  |  |  |
| Mavuika | Bennett | Citlali | Xilonen |
| Main DPS | Sub DPS/Support | Sub DPS/Support | Support/Sustain |
| Essential | Flexible | Flexible | Flexible |
This team revolves around taking advantage of Mavuika’s overwhelming Pyro damage output to deal Melt Elemental reaction damage to enemies on the field while being supported by her teammates and enabled by Citlali’s ability to apply Off-field Cryo mark. Mavuika is this team’s main DPS character, capable of consuming the Cryo marks on enemies with her abilities to trigger Melt and deal powerful damage to enemies. Citlali’s main role in this team is to provide off-field Cryo enabling effects, shielding and reducing the enemies’ Pyro resistances to initiate Melt and boost Mavuika’s damage output. Bennett and Xilonen are used in this team to help max out Mavuika’s damage output of powerful damage buffs and provide the team with additional healing effects.
Conclusion
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