ULTIMATE Xilonen Guide! [Best Weapons, Artifacts, Teams, and MORE] Genshin Impact 5.1

This is an updated guide to Xilonen, the upcoming 5-star Geo character wielding a sword. Rather than being a main D.P.S., Xilonen is actually a support character. Xilonen is a defense scaler similar to most of the Geo characters in the Genshin Impact roster. Xilonen does not do as much damage as a primarily on-field main D.P.S. but is incredible as a support and can heal allies. In fact, Xilonen seems to be not too far off the support capabilities of Kazuha in teams that cannot fully utilize his swirl.

When in Nightsoul's Blessing: Blade Roller, Xilonen can only use normal attacks and not charged attacks. Both her normal and plunging attacks will now be based on her defense and deal Geo damage. But this is not too important because you do not want her to be on field for too long.

Xilonen’s Elemental Skill, Yohual's Scratch, deals Nightsoul-aligned Geo damage based on her defense; the attack is a rush forward. Xilonen will gain 45 Nightsoul points and enter the Nightsoul's Blessing state, shifting to the Blade Roller mode. Xilonen has three samplers, and based on her teammates elemental types, she will decrease opponents corresponding elemental resistance. The initial sample will be Geo, and depending on the teammate, one sample will change to their corresponding element: Pyro, Hydro, Cryo, and Electro. In the Nightsoul's Blessing state, the Geo Source Sample she carries will remain active throughout. She can trigger her talent, Netotiliztli's Echoes, to regenerate Nightsoul points for herself. When her Nightsoul points hit maximum, she will consume all her Nightsoul points and activate the three source samples she has on hand for 15 seconds. Nightsoul's Blessing: Xilonen continuously consumes Nightsoul points. Xilonen's movement speed and climbing speed increase, and she can perform high-speed leaps in Ocelot Form while climbing for a 9-second time limit. Since Xilonen’s Elemental Skill has a cooldown of only 7 seconds, you should be able to easily rotate between your teammates and use Xilonen’s Elemental Skill after a full rotation. Because Xilonen can trigger the effect of decreasing enemies elemental resistance off-field, you do not want her to be on the field often and instead run her with an on-field main D.P.S. You also want to ensure that at least 2 source samples have undergone elemental conversion to fully utilize her effects. So you want at least two characters of different elemental types on your team.

Xilonen’s Elemental Burst, Ocelotlicue Point, deals Nightsoul-aligned A.O.E. Geo damage based on Xilonen's defense. If she has at least two sources that have undergone Elemental Conversion, Xilonen heals nearby active characters at intervals based on her defense. If she has less than 2 source samples that have undergone elemental conversion, Xilonen deals Nightsoul-aligned A.O.E. Geo damage based on her defense twice. Prioritize having at least two sources that have undergone elemental conversion so that you can heal your team since dealing extra damage as a support is not necessary. But also, it may extend rotation time if there is an extra animation for the elemental burst, which may keep Xilonen on the field for longer.

Xilonen’s ability level priority is elemental skill, then elemental burst, and lastly normal attack. Normal attacks are not too necessary to level up as you want to keep her off-field so that your on-field main D.P.S. characters can deal damage.

While in the Nightsoul's Blessing state, Xilonen’s talent 1, Netotiliztli's Echoes, allows her normal and plunging attacks to gain 35 Nightsoul points upon hitting an opponent if she has at least 2 source samples that have undergone elemental conversion. If she has less than 2 source samples that have undergone elemental conversion, the damage dealt is increased by 30%.

Talent 2 - Portable Armored Sheath: While in the Nightsoul's Blessing state, when Xilonen's Nightsoul points reach maximum, she will trigger an effect equal to that of her Nightsoul Burst. This effect can be triggered once every 14 seconds. Additionally, when nearby party members trigger a Nightsoul Burst, Xilonen's defense is increased by 20% for 15 seconds. To make full use of Xilonen's talent two, you want to have three Natlan teammates to reduce the cooldown of Nightsoul Burst to nine seconds. But this is not a priority, and she can be played on non-Natlan teams.

Talent 3 - Night Realm's Gift: Blessing of Forge-Fire seems to purely be an exploration talent.

If you are free to play, you can avoid Xilonen’s constellations. If you are a whale, constellation two is a great stopping point since it increases stats based on teammates elemental type. Geo: critical rate increases by 30%. Pyro: attack increases by 40%. Hydro: Max H.P. increases by 40%. Cryo: critical damage increases by 50%. Electro: Restore 20 Energy, Elemental Burst Cooldown decreased by 5 seconds. Constellation 1 seems to be good as well because when Xilonen's source samples are active, she can also increase nearby active characters' interruption resistance. Depending on how much interruption resistance this provides, Xilonen may not need to run Zhongli or any other shielders at Constellation 1. In fact, she will provide a shield-like effect to allies.

If you do not use any Geo teammates, her energy recharge requirements are high at around two hundred percent. However, if Xilonen has one Geo teammate, her energy recharge requirements decrease to around 150%.

For Xilonen’s sands main stat, use either defense percent or energy recharge. For Xilonen’s goblet main stat, use either geo damage percent or defense percent. For Xilonen’s circlet main stat, use critical rate, critical damage, or defense percent.

For Xilonen’s substat priority, prioritize energy recharge, then a crit ratio of one to two, and lastly defense percent.

Obviously Xilonen’s best weapon is her five-star signature sword, Peak Patrol Song. It has a defense substat of 82.7%. Its effect increases defense by 10% for 6 seconds for 2 stacks and can trigger every 0.1 seconds. At 2 stacks, normal attack critical rate increases by 1 percent and critical damage by 8 percent for every 1000 defense Xilonen has up to 3.2% critical rate and 25.6% critical damage. Increases teammates all elemental damage bonus by 8% up to 25.6% for 15 seconds.

Since Xilonen’s elemental skill, Yohual's scratch, changes source samples depending on if the character is Pyro, Hydro, Cryo, or Electro, you want to have teammates of these elemental types. So, a mono-geo team with Xilonen is not optimal. Since Xilonen wants teammates to use Nightsoul Burst if she uses the Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City artifact set, Xilonen needs Natlan teammates. So far, Mualani is the only Natlan character that would change Xilonen’s source samples.

Xilonen only requires two source samples to have undergone elemental conversion to activate additional effects. So, she could probably get away with running a geo teammate alongside two Pyro, Hydro, Cryo, or Electro teammates. A geo-teammate would reduce Xilonen’s energy recharge requirements to around 150%. The best geo teammates for Xilonen are Zhongli due to his shield, Albedo due to his sub-D.P.S. capabilities and particle generation, Chiori as an alternative to Albedo, fulfilling the same role, and Geo Traveler for free-to-play players, as the traveler is good at geenerating particles and provides a critical rate buff.

Xilonen's best Pyro support teammates are Bennett because of his healing and buffing, and Xiangling because of her off-field damage. On-field pyro main D.P.S. options include Arlecchino and Hu Tao. In a Hu Tao team with Yelan, Xingqiu, and Kazuha, Xilonen can replace Kazuha to provide even better support. An Arlecchino team could be herself, Xilonen, Bennett, and Kazuha. Alternatively, you could replace Kazuha with Furina for more buffs, and with Xilonen’s and Bennett’s heals, you should be able to maintain Furina’s buffs. Other healer options that synergize with Xilonen to replace Bennett include Mika, Charlotte, Kokomi, Barbara, Kuki, and Qiqi. Xilonen's best Hydro off-field D.P.S. teammates are Xingqiu and Yelan. They both achieve the same thing by dealing off-field hydrodamage. Xilonen's best Electro off-field D.P.S. teammate is Fischl. Xilonen's best Cryo off-field D.P.S. teammate is Rosaria. If you want to include Xilonen in a Navia team, you want to have Bennett and Xiangling as teammates. For a mono-geo team, Itto, Chiori, and Zhongli are possible. Chiori can be replaced with Albedo, and Zhongli can be replaced with Gorou.