The Queen of the Summer Festival is back in Genshin Impact through the Tapestry of Golden Flames Event Wish, so prepare to see fireworks when using her in your team. But to truly ensure she packs the truest potential of her explosive skillset, players will need to equip her with the best weapon available.
Yoimiya is a five-star Pyro playable character from Inazuma that uses a bow as a weapon. You’ll experience the best of her abilities by playing her in a primary damage dealer role because her abilities are specifically suited to performing in this role.
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The best bows for Yoimiya are the ones that amplify her damage-dealing capacity. She is a swift and brutal damage dealer when built right, but her one major weakness is that she only excels at single-target combat.
Players can do their best to combat Yoimiya’s weakness by ensuring she has a powerful weapon that will allow her to dish out brutal damage as needed. Choosing the right weapon for any Genshin character is a tough process since there are many factors and even more weapons to consider, but considering Yoimiya’s skills and the available weapons carefully makes the process much easier.
What’s the best weapon for Yoimiya in Genshin Impact?
To help Yoimiya function as the strongest damage-dealing force possible, players will want to equip her with a weapon with damage-dealing-focused statistics. The most crucial statistics are:
- Normal attack damage
- Attack
- Critical rate
- Critical damage
Yoimiya’s elemental skill scales off of her normal attack damage, so ensuring she has that statistic build-up is crucial to her success. After normal attack damage, the next three statistics players should focus on for Yoimiya are attack, critical rate, and critical damage since all three are essential for a strong DPS unit.
All of the best weapons for Yoimiya are discussed at the lowest possible level, so players will find more powerful success with them as they work on upgrading them over time.
Best five-star bows for Yoimiya in Genshin Impact
The best weapons to equip Yoimiya with are ones that match her five-star rarity status. Compared to the many other types of weapons in Genshin, the bow options seem especially abundant, so Yoimiya has a wide range of viable choices.
Thundering Pulse
The Thundering Pulse is Yoimiya’s signature weapon and the best one on the list. It works well with her preferred artifact set, which is Shimenawa’s Reminiscence, and boosts her base attack as well as her critical damage rate.
You’ll have to use Yoimiya’s elemental burst to fully use the weapon’s potential and you’ll need either a lot of luck or Primogems to get this bow, but its main statistics make it the best weapon for the Queen of the Summer Festival.
This bow featured buildable critical damage which will increase Yoimiya’s effectiveness as a DPS. The “Rule By Thunder” ability raises attack by 20 percent and applies the might of the Thunder Emblem. This ability can stack and will grant different buffs depending on how many stacks are present.
- With one stack present, normal attack damage is increased by 12 percent.
- With two stacks present, normal attack damage is increased by 24 percent.
- With three stacks present, normal attack damage is increased by 40 percent.
The equipping character can gain a stack of Thunder Emblem in a few different ways.
- One stack of Thunder Emblem will be gained when a normal attack deals damage.
- One stack of Thunder Emblem can be achieved when an elemental skill is cast.
- One stack of Thunder Emblem will be gained when energy is less than 100 percent.
Skyward Harp
The Skyward Harp bow is a solid choice for Yoimiya. Its attack, critical rate, and passive stats are a great match with her playstyle, especially if you refine it to rank five as it will guarantee a boost of 125 percent of physical attack damage.
The “Echoing Ballad” ability raises critical damage by 20 percent. Shots that successfully strike enemies have a 60 percent chance of inflicting an AoE attack within a small area.
If activated, the AoE attack deals 125 percent physical attack damage. This ability may only occur once every four seconds.
This weapon also comes with critical rate as its statistic which makes it an incredibly well-rounded weapon that packs a powerful damage-dealing skillset for Yoimiya to use.
Polar Star
The “Daylight’s Augury” ability increases elemental skill and elemental burst damage by 12 percent. It also grants one stack of Ashen Nightstar after a normal attack, a charged attack, an elemental skill, or an elemental burst hits an enemy.
Each stack of Ashen Nightstar that is gained will be active for 12 seconds and grants the following buffs depending on how many are present.
- With one stack of Ashen Nightstar, attack is increased by 10 percent.
- With two stacks of Ashen Nightstar, attack is increased by 20 percent.
- With three stacks of Ashen Nightstar, attack is increased by 30 percent.
- With four stacks of Ashen Nightstar, attack is increased by 48 percent.
All stacks are created independently of the others. Polar Star features critical rate as the statistic players can build up over time.
Aqua Simulacra
The Aqua Simulacra bow is a great option for its base attack and especially high critical damage rate, but you’ll be forced to attack the enemies at a close range because of its passive. Since Yoimiya’s normal attacks are automatic, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.
This weapon has critical damage players can build over time and comes with “The Cleansing Form” ability which raises health points by 16 percent. Additionally, when there are enemies nearby, the damage dealt by the equipping character is then raised by 20 percent.
This ability will activate whether the character is on-field or not. The Aqua Simulacra bow also packs critical damage as its buildable statistic.
Best four-star bows for Yoimiya in Genshin Impact
Four-star equipment will never be quite as impressive as five-star equipment, but obtaining weapons of a higher tier is costly and based on luck. Fortunately, many of the available four-star bows are extremely solid and are sure to help players find success when equipped on Yoimiya.
Rust
If you don’t want to depend too much on Event Wishes to get Yoimiya’s weapon, Rust can easily compete with five-star bows. When refined to rank five, its main stats won’t let you down compared to five-star weapons at low levels of refinement.
The decreased charged attack damage might throw you off, but Yoimiya doesn’t depend on her charged attack as its damage is close to insignificant in comparison to her other abilities.
The “Rapid Firing” ability of Rust raises normal attack damage by 40 percent at the cost of decreasing charged attack damage by 10 percent. With a swift and strong damage dealer like Yoimiya, this isn’t too big of a cost since she will generally not be using her charged attack as much as her other abilities.
Rust has attack as its secondary statistic which is one of the most important aspects to build for a DPS like Yoimiya.
Hamayumi
While many of the best weapons for Yoimiya are only available through Wishes, there are also a few options for those who don’t want to spend Primogems or money on her weapon. The Hamayumi is one such option.
It’s a bit tiring to get this bow since you need to gather all the supplies to forge it, but you won’t have to spend any Primogems on it and it will still boost Yoimiya’s attack stats, which is one of the most important aspects for her DPS role.
Hamayumi has attack as its secondary statistic and comes with the “Full Draw” ability. This ability raises normal attack damage by 16 percent and charged attack damage by 12 percent. When the equipping recruit’s energy reaches 100 percent, this effect is further raised by 100 percent.
King’s Squire
The King’s Squire bow is one of the newer ones to join Teyvat’s roster as it was added with the Sumeru update in Aug. 2022. This weapon has the “Labyrinth Lord’s Instruction” ability which grants the Teachings of the Forest effect after an elemental skill or elemental burst has been cast.
The “Labyrinth Lord’s Instruction” effect grants an elemental mastery increase of 60 and will last for 12 seconds or until players switch characters, whichever occurs first. When the effect ends or is removed, it then deals 100 percent of attack as damage to one nearby enemy.
Teachings of the Forest can only be activated once every 20 seconds. The King’s Squire bow has attack as the statistic players can build over time.
We gathered this information by playing Genshin Impact Version 3.7 “Duel! The Summoners’ Summit!” on PC.
