Collei Best Build Guide

Comprehensive Collei guide for Genshin Impact. Learn Collei's best build, team, kit, and materials for this 4-Star Dendro Sub-DPS Bow user!

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Collei Character Overview, Base Stats, and Tier

Character Profile

Gacha Art	Rarity
	Element	Dendro
	Weapon	Bow
	Ascend Stat	ATK% 24.0%
	Region	Sumeru
	Birthday	May 8
	Roles	Off-Field DPS
How To Get	- Available in all Banners at a low drop rate - Obtain for free by progressing through the Spiral Abyss

Base Stats

Collei is a 4-star Dendro character that wields a Bow in Genshin Impact. Her gameplay focuses on being a quick-swap Dendro support, enabling elemental reactions like Quicken, Bloom, or Burning. Her Elemental Skill, "Floral Brush," throws a boomerang that deals Dendro damage twice: once when thrown and once on its return. Her Elemental Burst, "Trump-Card Kitty," summons "Cuilein-Anbar" to create a zone that deals periodic AoE Dendro damage, making her a reliable off-field enabler. Lore-wise, Collei is a Forest Ranger trainee under Tighnari in Sumeru, once afflicted by Eleazar and burdened by her past in Snezhnaya, now striving to grow stronger and protect the rainforest she calls home.

Collei's Tier & Rating

What Kind of Character is Collei?

In battle, Collei is a 4-Star Off-Field Dendro Support or Sub-DPS that is usually used in teams where her Elemental Burst, that applies Dendro, can be used to trigger certain reactions with. Her Burst is her most important ability in a lot of her teams, so she will want to build around ensuring she's able to use it every rotation.

Collei was never a main-stay in the meta due to her very simple kit, which lacks innate buffing capabilities and has weak damage scaling that makes her personal DPS very much negligible. She is still usable in teams that can make use of her Off-Field application, but often the alternatives, like Nahida, are going to provide more in comparison.

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Roles & Playstyle Of Collei and Her Strengths and Weaknesses

Off-Field Dendro Applicator and Sub-DPS

Collei's typical use cases involve being the Dendro source of various teams that want to benefit from a Dendro reaction. She'd ideally equip the Deepwood Memories set to shred the enemy's Dendro RES.

Pros and Cons of Support Collei

Best Build for Collei

Collei satisfies her role as a Dendro Support and Sub-DPS in a very direct way, considering how her kit and abilities aren't very complex. Because of this, it's easy to see that she has a clear build path that best utilises her in said niche. See below for recommendations:

Weapon	Elegy for the End └ Weapon gives some Elemental Mastery to the party, which is a decent buff in a Bloom team.
Best Artifact	Deepwood Memories
Artifact Main Stats	Sands: Energy Recharge or Elemental Mastery Goblet: Dendro DMG Bonus Circlet: Elemental Mastery
Priority Sub-Stat	Energy Recharge > Elemental Mastery > CRIT Rate or DMG
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Stat Goals For Off-Field Sub-DPS Collei

Since Collei relies on her burst to fulfill her role on a team, you'll want to prioritize supplying her enough Energy Recharge so she's able to readily use her Burst every rotation seamlessly. Her energy needs will generally hover around 160%-200% depending on team setup and if her weapon has Energy Recharge or an energy related-passive.

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Best Weapon for Collei

Collei will prefer to have weapons that can help her meet her Energy needs. See below for the recommendations:

Premium Weapons for Off-Field Dendro Sub-DPS Collei

	Weapon	How to Get Rating
Best	Elegy for the End	Get from Limited Banner - Energy Recharge secondary stat helps Collei to consistently have her Burst charged up every rotation. - Gives her extra utility since the weapon comes with party buffs in the passive. - Good for teams that appreciate the Elemental Mastery and ATK% buff.
2nd	Favonius Warbow	Get from Banners - Similar to other of her better weapon choices, this weapon has an Energy Recharge secondary stat that makes using Collei's Burst every rotation easier. - Requires you to build some amount of CRIT Rate on her so she can consistently trigger the passive. - Best at R5 so the chance to drop an Energy particle from the passive is guaranteed on a CRIT hit.
3rd	Sacrificial Bow	Get from Banners - Passive has a chance to refresh the cooldown of an Elemental Skill, which allows for Collei to gain more energy. - Best at R5, since the passive now has 100% chance of triggering. - Energy Recharge secondary stat is also greatly appreciated by a Burst-oriented support.

Although Collei can make use of CRIT main stat bows for her personal damage, realistically her DPS contribution is almost negligible. Energy weapons are just far more useful for her, since her role in a team is to ensure there is always a supply of Off-Field Dendro to trigger reactions.

Free To Play Friendly (F2P Weapons) for Off-Field Sub-DPS Collei

	Weapon	How to Get Rating
Best F2P	Favonius Warbow	Complete Mondstadt Archon Quest Act 3 - Similar to other of her better weapon choices, this weapon has an Energy Recharge secondary stat that makes using Collei's Burst every rotation easier. - Requires you to build some amount of CRIT Rate on her so she can consistently trigger the passive. - Best at R5 so the chance to drop an Energy particle from the passive is guaranteed on a CRIT hit.
2nd	End of the Line	Purchase from Fishing Merchant - Energy Recharge secondary stat allows Collei to be a sufficient Off-Field Dendro applicator. - Damage passive is decent but it isn't incredibly impactful overall.

For Free-to-Play options, the free Favonius Warbow you get from completing a quest in the Mondstadt Archon Quest is the most optimal choice. It ticks off all the boxes that Collei needs in a weapon, ranging from Energy Recharge as the secondary stat, and a passive that helps her be a little more useful to the team as a whole, since anyone can benefit from the Energy Particle generated by the passive.

Collei Best Artifacts

Collei's usability in a team is linked to the set she equips most of the time, since this will be her only source of utility or buffing for her teammates. See the recommendations below:

Artifact	Recommendation Details
Deepwood Memories	★★★★★ - Collei is typically slotted in Dendro teams for her Dendro application. Because her personal damage isn't very impactful, she's a good candidate to hold this Artifact set to buff the main source of DPS on the team by shredding Dendro RES.
Instructor	★★★★・ - You can have Collei use this set instead in teams that want or appreciate more Elemental Mastery but someone else is already equipped with the Deepwood set. - This is a 4-star Artifact set that can't be farmed directly from a domain, so if you plan to use this, make sure to save any you get from farming Elite Enemies and Bosses.
Flower of Paradise Lost Gilded Dreams	★★★・・ - Collei will sometimes be the trigger for the Blooms in a Bloom team, and you can use this as a reason to equip more offensive sets like these on her if she's in a dedicated Bloom team, particularly with Nilou, and if someone else is already holding the Deepwood Memories set. - These sets are almost equal in performance in a Bloom team, so use whichever you find is more convenient to farm for you.
Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City	★★・・・ - Collei can still activate the 12% DMG buff from the 4-piece effect of this set even if she doesn't have a Nightsoul Burst, provided she triggers a reaction. - Collei can also get energy if the team includes a character with a Nightsoul Burst.

Recommended Artifact Stats

	Main: Flat HP Sub: Energy Recharge / Elemental Mastery / CRIT Rate (for Favonius Warbow)
	Main: Flat ATK Sub: Energy Recharge / Elemental Mastery / CRIT Rate (for Favonius Warbow)
	Main:Energy Recharge Sub: Elemental Mastery / CRIT Rate (for Favonius Warbow)
	Main:Dendro DMG Bonus Sub:Energy Recharge / Elemental Mastery / CRIT Rate (for Favonius Warbow)
	Main: Elemental Mastery or CRIT Rate (for Favonius Warbow) Sub: Energy Recharge / Elemental Mastery / CRIT Rate (for Favonius Warbow)

Energy Recharge Should Be Your Priority

Collei wants to aim for 100% uptime on her Elemental Burst every rotation, meaning she needs to have a decent amount of Energy Recharge (ER) to achieve this as quickly as possible. Other stats typically won't matter much for her, so you can focus most of your resources into supplying her enough ER, rather than trying to increase her personal DPS.

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Best Team Comp Collei

Nilou Bloom Team

Support	DPS	Support	Support
Collei	Nilou	Lauma	Kokomi
Details
- Collei can hold Deepwood Memories for a Lunar-Bloom team with Nilou and Lauma. - Nilou turns normal Blooms into Bountiful Blooms, which have better damage and wider AoE. - Lauma transforms the Bountiful Blooms into Lunar-Blooms that she uses for her Hold Skill. Her most important contribution however is enabling the Blooms to CRIT. - Kokomi applies Hydro and acts as the main sustain.

Collei is a decent fourth slot in a Nilou team with Lauma, where she'll act as the primary holder of the Deepwood Memories set for the Dendro RES shred. Because the trigger for the Blooms tends to vary, Collei will be building some Elemental Mastery to ensure any Bloom reaction she triggers will still result in decent damage.

Other Team Comps For Collei

Collei Aggravate Team

Team		Detail
Collei	Clorinde	- Collei can be the Dendro applicator for an Electro On-Field DPS to trigger Aggravate off of. - Clorinde is an Electro DPS who does enough fast hits for Aggravate to be beneficial for her. - Fischl also greatly benefits from Aggravate due to how often she hits with Oz. - Lan Yan is the primary sustain thanks to her Shields, while also reducing Electro RES by equipping the Viridescent Venerer set.
Fischl	Lan Yan

F2P Friendly Team Comp

Team		Detail
Collei	Shinobu	- A F2P-friendly team comp using free or easily obtainable characters. - Collei and Dendro Traveler apply enough Dendro for Xingqiu to create Dendro Cores. - Shinobu triggers Hyperbloom with her Elemental Skill and is the primary healer of the comp. Anyone among the team can be the On-Field driver.
Xingqiu	Traveler

Team Rotation of Collei and Combos

Basic Team Rotation for Off-Field Support or Sub-DPS Collei

Collei has a similar ability combo that is shared by a lot of Off-Field supports. Most of the time, the On-Fielder wants to take up most of the field-time to deal damage, so Collei just takes a few seconds to release her Skill, deploy her Burst, then swap out. She'll typically be switched into towards the end of the rotation before your On-Field DPS or driver due to her extremely short durations.

Basics Of Using Collei

Collei is an Off-Field Denro Sub-DPS who is mainly used to apply Dendro to nearby enemies in a small area. Her primary source of elemental application is her Burst, which throws out a doll that bounces around in a small zone, dealing AoE Dendro DMG in the process for a set duration.

Elemental Skill Releases a Boomerang

Collei's Skill functions similarly to a boomerang. Upon activation, she'll throw out a Floral Ring that flies off in the direction she's facing in, dealing Dendro DMG to enemies it passes through. The ring eventually makes its way back to her after some time.

Elemental Burst Applies Dendro

In most of her ideal teams, Collei uses her Elemental Burst to apply Dendro to a select number of enemies within an area. This is good for teams that appreciate this sort of application, such as a Bloom team with Nilou. She can also be flexed into various Dendro reaction teams such as Hyperbloom, Burgeon, Aggravate and Spread comps.

Passive Can Extend Burst Duration and Provide More Application

One of Collei's passives increases the duration of her Burst up to a max of 3 additional seconds once any character close to her Burst zone triggers any Dendro-related reaction. This helps to make her a more reliable Off-Field Dendro applicator since the initial duration of her Burst, which is 6 seconds, can be a bit too short.

Her other passive creates a ring around the active character that occasionally applies Dendro to nearby enemies, which also helps boost her elemental application rate.

Elemental Skill, Burst and Abilities Guide for Collei

How To Use Collei's Skills & Passives

Off-Field Dendro Application for Dendro-Based Teams

Typically Collei's rotation won't take more than using her Skill then her Burst for most of the teams you can slot her into. Since her Burst duration can be short, especially without Constellations, you'll always want to use her before your On-Field DPS to maximize the usage of Collei's Burst.

Elemental Skill Releases a Returning Projectile

Icon	Elemental Skill Summary
Floral Brush	Throws out a Floral Ring that deals 1 instance of Dendro DMG to targets it comes into contact with. The Floral Ring will return after a set time, dealing Dendro DMG once again.

Collei's Skill functions similarly to a boomerang. Upon activation, she throws out a projectile called a Floral Ring towards the direction she's facing. It deals Dendro DMG to every enemy it hits on its way out and way back. Do note that this ability doesn't have any homing or tracking capabilities, making it liable to miss.

Elemental Burst Applies Dendro in a Small Area

Icon	Elemental Burst Summary
Trump-Card Kitty	Trusty Cuilein-Anbar comes to save the day! Throws the doll named Cuilein-Anbar, causing an explosion that deals AoE Dendro DMG, creating a Cuilein-Anbar Zone. Cuilein-Anbar will bounce around within this zone, dealing AoE Dendro DMG.

Collei's highlight ability, and where most of her usability in her teams comes from. She tosses out a doll in the direction she's facing, where the doll creates a zone that applies Dendro to nearby enemies with decent speed. The range of the application is quite small, but it's good when paired with other AoE Dendro applicators such as Dendro Traveler.

Collei wants to be built with enough Energy Recharge to be able to use this ability on-demand.

Passives Increase Her Application and Burst Duration

Icon	Passive Summaries
Floral Sidewinder	- When a party member triggers Burning, Quicken, Aggravate, Spread, Bloom, Hyperbloom, Burgeon, or Lunar-Bloom before the Floral Ring returns, it grants the Sprout effect upon return. - Sprout continuously deals Dendro DMG equal to 40% of Collei’s ATK to nearby opponents for 3s. - Triggering another Sprout during its duration removes the initial one. - Sprout DMG is considered Elemental Skill DMG.
The Languid Wood	- When a character within the Cuilein-Anbar Zone triggers Burning, Quicken, Aggravate, Spread, Bloom, Hyperbloom, Burgeon, or Lunar-Bloom, the Zone’s duration is increased by 1s. - A single Trump-Card Kitty (Burst) can have its duration extended by up to 3s this way.

As seen above, both Collei's Ascension Passives enhance her support quality in her teams by increasing her Burst duration and adding another source of Dendro application beyond just her Elemental Burst, at the cost of this application being primarily melee in range.

Constellations Enhances Her Supportive Capabilities

Icon	Constellation Summaries
C1: Deepwood Patrol	When in the party and not on the field, Collei's Energy Recharge is increased by 20%.
C4: Gift of the Woods	- Using Trump-Card Kitty (Burst) will increase all nearby characters' Elemental Mastery by 60 for 12s (not including Collei herself).
C6: Forest of Falling Arrows	- When the Floral Ring hits, it will create a miniature Cuilein-Anbar that will deal 200% of Collei's ATK as Dendro DMG. Each Floral Brush can only create one such miniature Cuilein-Anbar.

Collei starts gaining better utility and usability as a supportive Off-Field character as you gain more of her Constellations. C1 allows her to get more Energy Recharge for no cost since she's usually Off-Field anyway. Her C4 offers a small Elemental Mastery buff. Her C6 effectively increases her Dendro application rate, which helps to very slightly elevate her performance in her teams, though not by a lot.

Should You Pull for Collei's Constellation Or Best Weapon?

Any Constellation Level is Good to Have

C6 is Ideal But Not Neccessary

With max constellations, Collei's ability as a support that applies Dendro is supplemented with some buffs, slightly better personal damage, and increased Energy Recharge to help charge her Burst. These added bonuses from getting her to C6 will be nice to have, but she will still function as intended in her Dendro-oriented teams at C0. You can stop at any constellation level for Collei without noticing a sizeable difference between each one.

Collei's Constellations & Effects

Collei's Constellation Name is Leptailurus Cervarius

Leptailurus Cervarius

Ascension Materials for Collei Talents & Level

Character Level Talent

Materials Needed for Level Ascension

Materials Needed To Get To Lvl. 80
Nagadus Emerald Sliver x 1 Nagadus Emerald Fragment x 9 Nagadus Emerald Chunk x 9 Firm Arrowhead x 18 Sharp Arrowhead x 30 Weathered Arrowhead x 12 Rukkhashava Mushrooms x 108 Majestic Hooked Beak x 26
Materials Needed To Get To Lvl. 90
Nagadus Emerald Sliver x 1 Nagadus Emerald Fragment x 9 Nagadus Emerald Chunk x 9 Nagadus Emerald Gemstone x 6 Firm Arrowhead x 18 Sharp Arrowhead x 30 Weathered Arrowhead x 36 Rukkhashava Mushrooms x 168 Majestic Hooked Beak x 46

Rukkhashava Mushroom Farming Locations

Farming Locations
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Rukkhashava Mushrooms Location & Farm Routes

Level 1	Default
Level 2	Teachings Of Praxis x3 Firm Arrowhead x6
Level 3	Guide To Praxis x2 Sharp Arrowhead x3
Level 4	Guide To Praxis x4 Sharp Arrowhead x4
Level 5	Guide To Praxis x6 Sharp Arrowhead x6
Level 6	Guide To Praxis x9 Sharp Arrowhead x9
Level 7	Philosophies Of Praxis x4 Weathered Arrowhead x4 Tears Of The Calamitous God x1
Level 8	Philosophies Of Praxis x6 Weathered Arrowhead x6 Tears Of The Calamitous God x1
Level 9	Philosophies Of Praxis x12 Weathered Arrowhead x9 Tears Of The Calamitous God x2
Level 10	Philosophies Of Praxis x16 Weathered Arrowhead x12 Tears Of The Calamitous God x2 Crown of Insight x1
Level 11	Unlocked via Constellation
Level 12	Unlocked via Constellation
Level 13	Unlocked via Constellation

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