Genshin Impact Beidou abilities: Skills, Talents, Constellations, more

Stephanie Zucarelli
Beidou from Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact’s Beidou is one of the strongest 4-star characters you can get on your team. If you want to know more about how to get the best of the renowned captain of The Crux, here’s everything you need to know about Beidou’s abilities in Genshin Impact.

Genshin Impact offers a plethora of characters for you to choose from when building a team that matches your playstyle. Beidou is a great 4-star character with long-ranged attacks and a unique Passive Skill that can unleash an Electro-based attack that deals serious damage after building some of her Constellations.

Beidou is a captain of the pirate crew The Crux, and she doesn’t forgive anyone who wants to bring harm to her allies. Waiting for her in the character banner or the standard banner is quite worthwhile since is one of the few characters who can counter-move.

Here’s everything about Beidou’s abilities in Genshin Impact.

Beidou from Genshin Impact
Beidou’s a great character to have if you plan to build her Constellations.

Genshin Impact Beidou Normal Attack details

Genshin Impact’s Beidou Normal Attacks are called Oceanborne, where she typically slashes her enemies with her sword. Here are all the details on Beidou’s Normal Attacks:

  • Normal Attack: Performs up to 5 consecutive strikes.
  • Charged Attack: Drains Stamina over time to perform continuous slashes and at the end, she deals a final boosted slash.
  • Plunging Attack: Beidou plunges from mid-air to strike the ground, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.

Genshin Impact Beidou Elemental Skill details

Beidou’s Elemental Skill is called Tidecaller and is based on Electro DMG. This makes her excellent to pair with Dendro and Hydro teams to maximize damage with Elemental Reactions. Here are all the details on Beidou’s Elemental Skills:

  • Tap: Accumulating the power of lightning, Beidou swings her blade forward fiercely, dealing Electro DMG.
  • Hold Attack: Lifts her weapon up as a shield, which possesses 250 % Electro DMG Absorption Efficiency and applies the Electro element to Beidou upon activation.
    • Max DMG absorbed scales off Beidou’s Max HP.
    • Attacks using the energy stored within the greatsword upon release or once this ability’s duration expires, dealing Electro DMG.
    • DMG dealt scales with the number of times Beidou is attacked in the skill’s duration.
    • The greatest DMG Bonus will be attained once this effect is triggered twice.

Genshin Impact Beidou Elemental Burst details

Elemental Burst: Stormbreaker

  • When Normal and Charged Attacks hit, they create a lightning discharge that can jump between opponents, dealing Electro DMG. Increases the character’s resistance to interruption, and decreases DMG taken. A maximum of 1 lightning discharge can be triggered per second.
Beidou from Genshin Impact
You can get Beidou from in the character or standard banner in Genshin Impact.

Stats:

  • Skill DMG: 121.6 to 274
  • Lightning DMG: 96 to 216
  • Duration: 15s
  • CD: 20s
  • Energy Cost: 80

Genshin Impact Beidou Constellation details

While Beidou is one of the strongest 4-star characters, a lot of her power is locked behind Constellations in Genshin Impact, so you’ll want to get at least C2 for decent damage output. Here are all the Beidou’s Constellations in Genshin Impact, from C1 to C6.

ConstellationSkill nameEffect
C1Sea Beast’s ScourgeWhen Stormbreaker is used:
-Creates a shield that absorbs up to 16% of Beidou’s Max HP for 15s.
-This shield absorbs Electro DMG 250% more effectively.
C2Upon the Turbulent Sea, the Thunder ArisesStormbreaker’s arc lightning can jump to 2 additional targets.
C3Summoner of StormIncreases the Level of Tidecaller by 3. The maximum upgrade level is 15.
C4Stunning RevengeUpon being attacked, Beidou’s Normal Attacks gain an additional instance of 20% Electro DMG for 10s.
C5Crimson Tidewalker:Increases the Level of Stormbreaker by 3. The maximum upgrade level is 15.
C6Bane of Evil:During the duration of Stormbreaker, the Electro RES of surrounding opponents is decreased by 15%.

Genshin Impact Beidou Talent passives

Beidou’s unique abilities consist of her counter-moves, since she’s one of the few characters to have them. These are usually dealt as Talent Passive and sometimes require exact timing to activate. Here are all of Beidou’s passives in Genshin Impact:

  • Retribution: Counterattacking with Tidecaller at the precise moment when the character is hit grants the maximum DMG Bonus.
  • Lightning Storm: Gain the following effects for 10s after unleashing Tidecaller with its maximum DMG Bonus.
    • DMG dealt by Normal and Charged Attacks is increased by 15%. ATK SPD of Normal and Charged Attacks is increased by 15%.
    • Greatly reduced delay before unleashing Charged Attacks.
  • Conqueror of Tides: Decreases swimming Stamina consumption for your own party members by 20%. Not stackable with Passive Talents that provide the exact same effects.

And that’s every ability, Talent, Constellation, and Passive you need to know from Genshin Impact’s Beidou. If you want to know more about the game, you can check our articles below.

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Stephanie is a Games Writer at CharlieIntel. After graduating as a journalist, she started working as a tech writer for Infobae, Channel 9, and Rolling Stone. She's currently focused on covering Diablo 4, Baldur's Gate 3 and Fortnite, but can't resist anything related to The Sims 4 and Stardew Valley. You can contact her at [email protected].