Venti is a beloved character in Genshin Impact, captivating players with his unique charm and powerful abilities. This guide provides insights into effectively building and playing Venti, helping players harness his capabilities and enhance gameplay.
Who is Venti
Venti is a versatile Anemo character who wields a bow, serving primarily as an exceptional support unit. His strength lies in his unparalleled crowd control, capable of grouping multiple enemies together. He also excels at generating energy for his team, making him a valuable asset in various team compositions. His role often involves initiating combat by pulling enemies into a single location, setting the stage for devastating elemental reactions. Beyond crowd control, his energy regeneration ensures that other characters can frequently use their powerful Elemental Bursts.
Mastering Venti’s Abilities
Venti’s Elemental Skill, “Skyward Sonnet,” has two distinct uses. A tap creates a small Anemo field at the target’s location, dealing Anemo damage and launching enemies into the air. Holding the skill allows Venti to create a larger wind current, lifting himself and nearby enemies, providing a vantage point for plunging attacks or evasion. This skill also generates a good amount of elemental particles, contributing to his team’s energy needs.
His Elemental Burst, “Grand Ode,” is Venti’s signature ability, manifesting as a massive Anemo vortex. This vortex continuously pulls in nearby enemies, dealing Anemo damage over time. When the vortex comes into contact with Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, or Electro, it absorbs that element and deals additional elemental damage of that type through a “Swirl” reaction.
This makes his Burst incredibly potent for both crowd control and spreading elemental effects across grouped enemies. Proper positioning of “Grand Ode” is crucial to maximize its crowd control and elemental absorption, ensuring enemies remain within its pull radius.
Building Venti for Success
Optimizing Venti involves selecting weapons that enhance his energy recharge or elemental mastery. The Elegy for the End bow is a premier choice, offering significant Energy Recharge and a passive effect that boosts the team’s Elemental Mastery and Attack. Favonius Warbow is another excellent option, providing substantial Energy Recharge and generating colorless particles, further aiding team energy. Stringless is a strong four-star option for increasing his Elemental Skill and Burst damage through Elemental Mastery.
For artifacts, the 4-piece Viridescent Venerer set is almost universally recommended for Venti. This set boosts Anemo Damage and, more importantly, decreases the Elemental RES of enemies to the element infused in a Swirl reaction by 40% for 10 seconds. This significantly amplifies the damage of other elemental characters in the team. Main stats should prioritize Energy Recharge on the Sands, Anemo Damage Bonus on the Goblet, and either Crit Rate/Damage or Elemental Mastery on the Circlet, depending on team needs and weapon choice. Substats should focus on Energy Recharge, Elemental Mastery, Crit Rate, and Crit Damage to balance his supportive capabilities with personal damage.
Venti’s Lore and Legacy
Venti is not merely a bard but the current Anemo Archon, Barbatos, one of the Seven Archons governing Teyvat. He is the deity of freedom, who liberated Mondstadt from the tyranny of the aristocracy over a millennium ago. Despite his divine status, Venti prefers to appear in a human form, living among the people and upholding his ideals of freedom through song and wind. He rarely directly intervenes in human affairs, believing that true freedom comes from self-reliance.
Advancing Venti’s Power
Strengthening Venti involves Ascension and Talent leveling. Ascension requires specific materials like Vayuda Turquoise gemstones, Hurricane Seeds from the Anemo Hypostasis, Cecilia flowers found in Mondstadt, and Slime-related drops from various Slime enemies. Talent leveling requires Freedom talent books from the Forsaken Rift domain and materials from the weekly boss, Andrius, the Wolf of the North. Constellations, obtained by acquiring duplicate copies of Venti, add new effects or enhance existing ones.