The best charged target shot characters in Genshin Impact

Genshin follows a minimal set of influence fighting rules. Instead of going through different variations of combos and attacks, most of the casts you play with just have their normal and charged attacks, as well as their elemental skill and elemental burst. Most niche characters to apply Plunge Attacks, like Xiao, or a hold mechanic in their skills like Chaska.

However, Genshin's bow characters are dotted with an attack type not available to other weapon users, Aim Shot. Although it's not a big part of most character kits, there are those who have unique, special animations and effects for their charged target shots. From characters that are just a gimmick to those tied to them as a core gameplay mechanic, here's every character ranked with a special aim shot in Genshin Impact!

8 Yomiya

Yomiya A pyro DPS specializes in single target material due to his pyro-infused normal attack. However, another part of his kit that is often overlooked is his charge level two fully charged aim-shot. After charging up a bit longer than other aimed shots in the game, Yoimiya can fire a Pyro Arrow, followed by three smaller arrows that home in on enemies.

Unfortunately, there's a reason most people don't talk about it. Scalings on Kindling Arrows are extremely weak, and the time required to charge them makes it even worse. The only good thing about Yoimiya's Aimed Shots is that they can help locate puzzles or chests.

7 Farujan

Farujan Being the only support on this list makes it very difficult to rank him over the others. While his charged attack can certainly deal a decent amount of damage, its main use is for grouping allies and buffing.

For Faruzan, his special target shot is locked behind his elemental skill. Once you've cast it, your next charged attack is automatically enhanced. This attack distorts the space around it to hit enemies anywhere, and also grants anemo DMG bonus to nearby allies with her Ascension passive.

6 Yellen

Every five seconds Yellen is out of combat, his next aimed shot turns into a breakthrough barb and instantly charges, dealing AOE hydro DMG equal to about 20 percent of his maximum HP at level nine.

Yellen's elemental skill has a chance to reset the cooldown of Breakthrough Barb based on how many enemies are hit. You can see if a breakthrough barb can be triggered by checking to see if Yellen's bracelet is flashing.

Unlike Yoimiya, this damage is critical to his kit, dealing almost half the damage of his elemental skills. The skill is also AOE and can proc reactions, letting you hit a large number comfortably. However, since you can usually only use it once per fight, we can't keep up with Yellen despite the decent damage.

5 Sethos

Sethos Genshin Impact has one of the most interesting kits, you have two ways to play him. You can either use his Elemental Burst to infuse his normal attacks with Electro, making him an Electro Yoemia, or you can choose another playstyle he has, based on Charged Attack.

Sethos' charged attack has a special charge that pierces through all enemies and deals damage based on his Elemental Mastery. Despite its other universal raw damage, the attack usually takes a while to charge up, but Sethos' passive lets him charge up instantly by expending energy. This creates a very unique character where you have to decide which path to take, with both of them good options!

4 Tighnari

Tighnari A Dendro is a hypercarry that deals a lot of damage using a spread reaction. This is because, in addition to the normal elemental scaling of the spread reaction, Tighnari's base damage is based on his EM due to this Ascension passive.

Tighnari's Special Aimed Shot fires four clusterbloom arrows that are a fraction of the damage of his charged attack. The reason this increases his DPS more than you would before is because the spread scales with how many times you hit the enemy, so triggering five instances of spread from a single charged attack makes him one of the best dendro characters in the game. Additionally, after you use his Elemental Skill, you can immediately charge up your next three targeted shots!

3 to take

to takeThis is one of the strongest characters on the list in terms of DPS alone. His passive gives him such an absurd DMG bonus when hitting enemies afflicted with pyro that he does damage compared to other characters' vapors.

Lini is one of the more uncomfortable characters to play because of her limited team options. He's got damage, but without proper defensive utility, he can die very easily before hitting his first targeted shot.

Linnie's level two charged shot fires a prop arrow that gives her bonus pyro DMG and summons an adorable Grin-Malkin Hat. This cat in the hat then stays on the field and drags enemies, exploding after a certain period of time or when Lini uses her elemental skill, the damage from this explosion is treated as charged attack damage.

2 count

count Jensin Impact was the first proper Aim Shot DPS that players got to see. Despite being way past her prime, she still serves as one of the best characters in her role and is a very solid Carrie outside of it. Ganyu's Aimed Shot, if charged up to level two, Frostlake Arrow deals AOE Cryo damage.

The multipliers on this are extremely high, allowing Ganu to deal unreal levels of damage even to her freeze teams without using reactions. However, when it comes to DPS, Ganyu really shines when her Frostlake Arrows melt. Overall, Ganyu may not be the best DPS character in Genshin anymore, but he remains near the top in both damage and comfort!

1 chaska

Chasca is Genshin Impact's first multi-elemental DPS, relying on your allies' elementals to deal six instances of charged attack damage using a hold version of her elemental skill. This skill has very high multipliers, putting even Ganu's absurd speed values ​​to shame.

Although Chaska can't reliably proc reactions like vaporize or melt to increase her damage, this ability to deal massive raw damage makes sense. Another thing that might make you prefer Ganyu or Lina over Chaska is that she can't use traditional charge attack like most characters. Amos' bow Or three-star options like Slingshot.