Genshin Impact Kujou Sara build and materials guide

Find the best weapons and artifacts for Kujou Sara
Genshin Impact Kujou Sara build and materials guide
Genshin Impact Kujou Sara build and materials guide /

Protect Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho, God of Thunder with the best Genshin Impact Kujou Sara build and become the greatest Raiden Shogun fan of all time. Yes, you’ll be unable to find a greater simp for Inazuma’s Archon than this tengu, the general of her armies and an Electro 4-Star character wielding a bow as her main weapon.

Sara’s Elemental Skill, Tengu Stormcall, grants her Crowfeather Cover for a period of time. The time needed to charge up her Normal Attack is reduced thanks to this effect. Using a Charged Attack consumes the effect, but creates a Crowfeather at the target location. This will trigger Tengu Juurai: Ambush after a short while, dealing Electro Damage and granting an active character in range an Attack bonus based on Sara’s own Attack. When Tengu Juurai: Ambush hits an enemy, Sara restores Energy to every party member based on her Energy Recharge.

Genshin Impact Kujou Sara artwork.
Kujou Sara is commanding the forces of Raiden Shogun and is perhaps a little too devoted to her / HoYoverse

Her Elemental Burst, Subjugation: Koukou Sendou, casts down the Tengu Juurai: Titanbreaker, dealing Electro Damage in an area of effect. Titanbreaker will then split up into four Tengu Juurai: Stormcluster, which deal Electro Damage as well. Both provide the same Attack bonus as Tengu Juurai: Ambush.

Best Kujou Sara weapons – Genshin Impact

Though Kujou Sara is a support character, she needs to stack lots of Attack to maximize the Attack bonus provided to her allies alongside Energy Recharge to restore more Energy to them. Elegy for the End is an excellent weapon for this purpose, providing more Energy Recharge as well as boosting the wielder’s Elemental Mastery, which is great for maximizing the damage of reactions. Elemental Mastery and Attack get both boosted while the wielder is off the field, which is going to be the case a lot with Sara.

Here are the best weapons for Kujou Sara in Genshin Impact:

  • Elegy for the End (5-Star bow)
  • Skyward Harp (5-Star bow)
  • Alley Hunter (4-Star bow)
  • Mouun’s Moon (4-Star bow)
  • Sacrificial Bow (4-Star bow)
  • Favonius Warbow (4-Star bow)
Genshin Impact's Kujou Sara aiming with her bow.
Sara is dedicated to her craft / HoYoverse

Best Kujou Sara artifacts – Genshin Impact

Since Sara is going to fill a support role and will likely have plenty of Energy to use her Elemental Burst a lot, you practically can’t go wrong with giving her Noblesse Oblige as an artifact set. It will maximize the Elemental Burst Damage of Sara’s own ability and provide a hefty Attack bonus to all allies after using it.

You’ll want the following stat distribution on Kujou Sara’s artifacts:

  • Flower: HP (main stat), Attack %, Energy Recharge %, Elemental Mastery, Critical Hit Damage or Critical Hit Rate (secondary stats)
  • Plume: Attack (main stat), Attack %, Energy Recharge %, Elemental Mastery, Critical Hit Damage or Critical Hit Rate (secondary stats)
  • Sands: Attack % (main stat), Energy Recharge %, Elemental Mastery, Critical Hit Damage, Critical Hit Rate (secondary stats)
  • Goblet: Electro Damage % (main stat), Attack %, Energy Recharge %, Elemental Mastery, Critical Hit Damage or Critical Hit Rate (secondary stats)
  • Circlet: Energy Recharge % (main stat), Attack %, Elemental Mastery, Critical Hit Damage, Critical Hit Rate (secondary stats)
Genshin Impact's Kujou Sara unleashing her Elemental Burst.
Sara calls upon her powers as a tengu in battle / HoYoverse

Best Kujou Sara teams – Genshin Impact

Kujou Sara goes especially well with Main DPS characters that also have an Electro Vision, though she can practically accompany any Main DPS that can make use of her off-field effects.

  • Raiden Shogun (Main DPS), Nahida (Sub DPS), Sara (Support), Kokomi (Support)

This is a Hyperbloom team in which Raiden Shogun will be on the field most of the time. Nahida uses her Elemental Skill to apply Dendro to enemies, which Kokomi’s off-field ability can trigger to create Bloom. Sara and Raiden Shogun are there to trigger the Hyperbloom reaction at this point, creating lots of Energy for the team to recharge all Elemental Bursts.

Alternatively, Lisa, Beidou, or Yae Miko will work as the Main DPS, while Collei or Dendro Traveler can replace Nahida. Hydro healers like Barbara or Furina can step in for Kokomi.

Genshin Impact's Kujou Sara at the head of an army.
In the Inazuman civil war, Sara campaigned against Kokomi's forces / HoYoverse

Kujou Sara ascension materials – Genshin Impact

You’ll want to quickly raise Kujou Sara’s level when you pull her, which means that you’ll need to farm her ascension materials. You’ll also require some material to upgrade her talents.

Here’s what you need to get Kujou Sara to level 90:

  • Vajrada Amethyst Sliver x1
  • Vajrada Amethyst Fragment x9
  • Vajrada Amethyst Chunk x9
  • Vajrada Amethyst Gemstone x6
  • Damaged Mask x18
  • Stained Mask x30
  • Ominous Mask x36
  • Dendrobium x168
  • Storm Beads x46
  • Mora x2,092,530

Farming Vajrada Amethyst is pretty straightforward, as you can reliably get it from the Thunder Manifestation on Seirai Island that you need to farm for Storm Beads anyway. Masks are dropped by Hilichurls, so they’ll be one of the materials you have the most of anyways. Dendrobium grows only in Inazuma and you should specifically look for it on Nazuchi Beach, amidst all the shipwrecks there. Mora can easily be farmed in Golden Ley Line Blossoms.

Genshin Impact's Kujou Sara after her Elemental Burst.
Sara has an air of elegance around her / HoYoverse

Here’s what you need to upgrade all of Kujou Sara’s talents to their maximum level:

  • Damaged Mask x18
  • Stained Mask x66
  • Ominous Mask x93
  • Teachings of Elegance x9
  • Guide to Elegance x63
  • Philosophies of Elegance x114
  • Ashen Heart x18
  • Crown of Insight x3
  • Mora x4,957,500

To enhance Kujou Sara’s talents you’ll have to farm even more Hilichurls and Ley Line Blossoms. Books of Elegance are available from the Violet Court Domain in Inazuma on Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday. Ashen Heart is a boss material from fighting La Signora at Tenshukaku. Crowns of Insight are available through time-limited events as well as regional reward tracks such as Inazuma’s Thunder Sakura, Sumeru’s Tree of Dreams, and Fontaine’s Fountain of Lucine.

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Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg