Alhaitham Guide and Best Builds (2024)

Last updated on Jan 24, 2024 at 07:37by Tectonix

Alhaitham's primary method of damage is his Dendro abilities, which arebased upon stacking Mirrors ( Chisel-Light Mirror).These Mirrors convert his damage to Dendro and aregenerated a multitude of ways; these are as follows:

• His first Ascension skill, the Four-Causal Correctionpassive (Charged Attack produces a Mirror);
• His Universality: An Elaboration on Form talent;
• His Particular Field: Fetters of Phenomena talent.

These will all produce Mirrors for him to amplify his damage. The build getsfun when using all these mirrors for a rapid application of Dendro. Combinedwith Hydro, this creates Dendro cores and then you can triggerthem with other elements like bombs. However, be aware that Alhaitham's EnergyRecharge requirement will need to be as high as 200% for solo Dendro teams andaround 150% for duo/triple Dendro teams.

Light of Foliar Incision is the obvious choice for a 5-star weaponfor Alhaitham, not only because of its CRIT DMG increase, but also because wegain several other increases from normal attacks: CRIT Rate, Elemental Skilldamage, and Normal Attack damage. This effect holds for 28 instances or 12seconds overall. While the attack buff only lasts for 12 seconds with no way toincrease its duration, it does not have a cooldown, which means it canessentially always be active.

The 4-star option, Wolf-Fang, offers an alternative CRIT statchoice, focusing on CRIT Rate instead ofCRIT DMG. The weapon's skill itself offers a flat boost toElemental Skill and Burst Damage. It also stacks CRIT Rate for both skills, upto 4 stacks total. This weapon can also be crafted and can easily be refined toits top rank.

Lastly, a note about Alhaitham's artifacts — most of his equipmentoffers boost to his Dendro Damage and Elemental Mastery. Thesecan be split into groups of 2 or full sets, but you are mainly looking for thecombination with the best sub stats. Alhaitham does need a strong amount ofEnergy Recharge (target above 150% minimum) so you can keep hisrotations quick. Typically, his Energy Recharge requirement will also heavilydepend on his team composition, with some characters acting as a battery forhim to generate energy particles from.

Alhaitham requires time on the field to generate Mirrors, which will be keyto his Dendro application for the generation of Dendro cores— essentially bombs for your team. He can be played in several different ways; from shortburst combos with a high Energy Recharge requirement to a longer combo rotationfocusing on maximizing your mirror count and uptime. Which of these two methodsyou choose will highly depend on your teammates and how much time you need torotate all their skills onto the field. Remember, Alhaitham has the advantageof being extremely flexible in his gameplay, so he can split up his field timequite easily, focusing on getting the best results out of his teammates.

As for you team, Alhaitham's DPS should always be your top priority forkeeping him buffed and constantly dishing out damage with his Dendro attacks.He typically plays with Hyperbloom orQuickbloom teams to cause elemental chaos against yourenemies. These units should also focus on strong Elemental Mastery builds toadd to your teams overall DPS. This playstyle is very fast, and with well-timedrotations — using all your characters skills — you will see sometruly powerful elemental reactions.

Alhaitham is an on-field DPS with excellent attack power and mediocresurvivability. With that in mind, we will be targeting off-fielders and supportcharacters that can offer Elemental Reactions for his Dendroabilities to trigger, Damage buffers to keep Alhaitham's DPS high, and finallyhealers or shielders to keep him on the field when taking any damage.

For this Quickbloom team, Alhaitham is our main driver forElemental reactions, fighting on-field the majority of time using his mirrors.Furina and Baizhu will combine theirelemental abilities to produce Dendro cores all around thebattlefield. To create the Hyperbloom reaction,Kuki Shinobu has an excellent kit to use or you can useRaiden Shogun for a large Electro burst totrigger the Dendro cores. Once this triple combination is out on thebattlefield, Alhaitham can use his elementalabilities to help keep the reactions going, as he fights against the enemies.

This Aggravate build depends on leavingElectro effects on the field, while using Alhaitham's dendroattacks to trigger multiple instances of Aggravate.The fun element of this build then uses Kaedehara Kazuha topull enemies into groups with his Chihayaburu and his Kazuha Slash to combine elements for a huge boost in damage.This team does function without a healer so we use Beidou's Stormbreaker for the damagereduction boost to keep us in the fight while using food if necessary.Rotations for this build are very forgiving and the main idea is to simply keepsome Electro elements damaging enemies on the field while using Alhaitham.

This team has a lot of flexible slots to play around with. The setup doeswork best with a high HP Zhongli build for shields so you canignore the majority of the enemies damage. We will have a ton of Dendroapplication on field between our Dendro flex slot andAlhaitham, as for our Electro component inthe build, this will depend on your preferred playstyle.