Genshin Impact | Columbina Best Build & Abilities Guide

Pre-release Columbina guide for Genshin Impact. Learn Columbina's best build, best team, and best artifacts for Columbina the 5-Star Hydro Sub-DPS Catalyst user.

This article assumes that Columbina scales from HP and Elemental Mastery based on her Kit as a Hydro and Lunar Reaction Enabler.

Columbina Character Overview, Base Stats, and Tier

Character Profile

	Rarity
	Element	Hydro
	Weapon	Catalyst
	Ascend Stat	TBA
	Region	Nod-Krai
	Birthday	TBA
	Roles	Off-Field DPS Support
How To Get	Can only be pulled during Columbina's Limited-Time Banner (Currently not available)

Columbina is a 5-Star Hydro character that uses a Catalyst in Genshin Impact. She specializes in boosting Lunar Reaction DMG and applying Hydro off-field. Her Elemental Skill, "Eternal Tides," applies Hydro off-field while giving Columbina Gravity based on the Lunar reactions dealt, once maxed it will deal Elemental DMG based on the reaction that generated more Gravity. Her Elemental Burst, "Moonlit Melancholy," creates a field that boosts Lunar Reaction DMG. Lorewise, Columbina is the reincarnation of the Frost Moon and the Moon Goddess of Nod-Krai.

Columbina is a Hydro Sub-DPS and Lunar Reaction Support. She can be used outside of Moonsign teams since she enables all Lunar Reactions to happen. Her Skill applies Hydro and can deal Lunar Reaction damage while her Burst deploys a field that buffs Lunar Reaction damage.

Roles & Playstyle of Columbina and Her Strengths and Weakness

Columbina works the best as a Lunar Reaction support that applies Hydro and boosts the damage of Lunar Reactions. She can also enable all Lunar Reactions and since she doesn't have an Ascendant Gleam effect, she can be used with a non-Moonsign DPS as well.

Pros and Cons of Support Columbina

Best Build for Columbina

Columbina is built like a standard HP-scaling DPS since her buffs and damage scales on her Max HP.

Columbina Works Best as a Lunar Reactions Support

Weapon	Nocturne's Curtain Call
Best Artifact	Silken Moon's Serenade x4
Artifact Main Stats	Sands: HP% Goblet: HP% Circlet: CRIT Rate or DMG
Priority Sub-Stats	CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG > Energy Recharge > HP%
Recommended Team

Columbina can be built with a lot of HP since Hydro DMG Bonus doesn't work in Moonsign teams. She'll also need enough Energy Recharge to consistently use her Burst.

Columbina's Recommended Talent Priority

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Best Weapon for Columbina

As a Support and Sub-DPS, Columbina only needs HP and CRIT stats from her equipment. She can use damage-oriented weapons or a support weapon like Thrilling Tales.

Premium Weapons for Lunar Reactions Columbina

	Weapon	How to Get Rating
Best	Nocturne's Curtain Call	Get from Limited Banner - Signature weapon of Columbina that likely boosts her performance greatly.
2nd	Surf's Up	Get from Limited Banner - Mualani's Signature Weapon that's only available for pulling when she's on rate up. - CRIT DMG stat stick but can provide 20% HP increase as well.
3rd	Tome Of The Eternal Flow	Get from Limited Banner - Neuvillette's Signature Weapon that's only available for pulling when he's on rate up. - Also a CRIT DMG stat stick but provides 12% HP increase, 8% lower than Surf's Up.
4th	Sacrificial Jade	Get from Battle Pass - Has a higher HP buff but its CRIT Rate stat is of weaker value compared to CRIT DMG.
5th	Thrilling Tales Of Dragon Slayers	Get from Banners - Support-oriented weapon that can easily max out on refines since it's a 3-Star. - Boosts Columbina's HP and allows her to buff the next character with ATK%. - Columbina's rotation changes with her swapped in before the DPS.

Nocturne's Curtain Call is likely to be Columbina's best weapon. If you don't want to pull for it, you can use any HP and CRIT DMG boosting weapons or use Thrilling Tales for support purposes.

Free-to-Play Friendly (F2P Weapons) for Lunar Reactions Columbina

	Weapon	How to Get Rating
Best F2P	Prototype Amber	Craftable (Forgeable) Weapon - A support-oriented HP stat stick that allows Columbina to provide small healing and restores Energy for her.
2nd (Forge)	Ring of Yaxche	Natlan Craftable (Forgeable) Weapon - HP stat stick. - Still obtainable but it's fine to leave it at R1 since the effect isn't good on Columbina who is mostly off-field and doesn't deal Normal Attack DMG.
3rd (Event)	Ash-Graven Drinking Horn	Get from Limited Event - Obtained from Version 5.0's flagship event. - Currently unobtainable but works as an HP stat stick that can deal AoE Physical DMG based on Columbina's HP.

For F2P weapons, Columbina can only use HP stat sticks. Prototype Amber is the only weapon that she can fully utilize while both of the Natlan catalysts are damage-oriented and often require her to be on-field.

Columbina Best Artifacts

As a Sub-DPS and Support, Columbina is better with a support set since she'll be mostly used in Moonsign teams where normal damage buffs from artifact sets have little impact in the reaction damage. See the recommendations below:

Artifact	Recommendation Details
Silken Moon's Serenade	★★★★★ - Best support set for Columbina in Moonsign teams. - Columbina herself doesn't need much EM but the DPS characters she buffs do.
Tenacity Of The Millelith	★★★★ ・ - 2nd best set for support. - Use only if using Columbina in a non-Moonsign DPS team or if someone else is using Silken Moon set.
HP% Energy Recharge	★★★ ・ ・ - If you are still farming for Columbina's full set, you can use these 2-piece set effects as temporary artifacts. - Columbina has a low Energy cost on her Burst so she can use two HP 2-piece sets (Tenacity and Vourukasha).

Recommended Artifact Stats

	Main: Flat HP Sub: CRIT Rate or DMG / Energy Recharge / HP%
	Main: Flat ATK Sub: CRIT Rate or DMG / Energy Recharge / HP%
	Main: HP% Sub: CRIT Rate or DMG / Energy Recharge
	Main: HP% Sub: CRIT Rate or DMG / Energy Recharge
	Main: CRIT Rate or DMG Sub: CRIT Rate or DMG / Energy Recharge / HP%

Focus on HP and CRIT Stats for Damage

Columbina is built similarly to Furina, another Hydro Sub-DPS who can give a powerful buff to the team. Columbina's buffs and damage scale on her HP so you can also turn her into a Sub-DPS. She'll likely need a good amount of Energy Recharge as well since her buff comes from her Burst.

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Best Team Comp Columbina

Lunar-Charged Team with Columbina

Sub-DPS	DPS	Shielder	Support
Columbina	Flins	Ineffa	Sucrose
Details
- Columbina's best team is Lunar-Charged with 2 other Moonsign characters. She can also be used in other Moonsign DPS teams with Nefer or Zibai. - Flins and Ineffa can deal more damage in this team with Columbina boosting the reaction damage and Sucrose shredding Elemental Resistances for them.

Columbina can be used in any Moonsign DPS team but she can contribute the most in Lunar-Charged and Lunar-Crystallize since everyone's damage is calculated in it unlike in Lunar-Bloom where only certain characters can deal Lunar-Bloom damage.

Other Team Comps for Columbina

Lunar-Bloom Team with Columbina

Team		Detail
Columbina	Nefer	- Lunar-Bloom team where Columbina applies Hydro and supports Nefer. - The three (3) Special Dew made by Columbina can be used by Nefer as Verdant Dew, allowing her to spam her Charged Attack more. - Sustainless team since Nahida can't be easily replaced since there's no good healer or shielder that scales on EM and can apply Dendro off-field.
Lauma	Nahida

Lunar-Crystallize Team with Columbina

Team		Detail
Columbina	Zibai	- Lunar-Crystallize Team with Columbina and Illuga supporting Zibai. - While Zhongli doesn't scale on DEF for the Ascendant Gleam buff, his shield and RES shred make him a good sustain slot in. - Zhongli can be replaced with C6 Gorou for better buffs and interruption resistance.
Illuga	Zhongli

Free To Play Team Comp for Columbina

Team		Detail
Columbina	Noelle	- F2P Lunar-Crystallize team with Noelle as the main damage dealer. - Noelle is able to create a lot of Crystallize shards due to her lack of ICD on her Burst's attacks, making her a great Lunar-Crystallize 4-Star DPS.
Illuga	Gorou

Team Rotation of Columbina and Combos

Basic Team Rotation for Support Columbina

Similar to Furina, Columbina is best used at the start in order to stack Gravity and activate her buffs for Lunar reactions. She'll be able to enhance the reactions that happen during ability usage of the other characters.

Basics Of Using Columbina (Beginner Guide)

As a Moonsign character, Columbina can enable all Lunar Reactions and acts as a Lunar Reaction DMG support. She can increase the Moonsign Level by 1 as well.

Use Elemental Skill to Start Applying Hydro for Reactions

Since all Lunar Reactions require Hydro and someone to enable the reaction, Columbina can be slotted into any team with Electro/Dendro/Geo to enable any of the Lunar Reactions. Her Skill is her way of applying Hydro off-field and it also allows her to deal Electro/Dendro/Geo DMG as Lunar Reaction DMG.

Can Enable All Lunar Reactions

When Electro-Charged, Bloom or Hydro Crystallize is triggered, it will be changed to Lunar-Charged, Lunar-Bloom or Lunar-Crystallize if Columbina is on the party. All three can happen at the same time if you have an Electro, Dendro and Geo character with Columbina.

Passive and Burst Can Increase Lunar Reaction Damage

Columbina's Burst can buff Lunar Reaction damage massively while her Passive that activates the reactions has a small damage buff for it as well. She's also able to increase the Moonsign level by 1, allowing Ascendant Gleam effect to activate if there's another Moonsign character with her.

Elemental Skill, Burst and Abilities Guide for Columbina

How To Use Columbina's Skills & Passives?

Hydro Sub-DPS And Lunar Reactions Support

Columbina is primarily a Lunar Reactions support and Hydro Sub-DPS with great application for triggering Lunar Reactions. She can also be used as a Bloom DPS with her Hydro-infused attacks.

Charged Attack Can Do Lunar-Bloom DMG

Columbina's Charged Attack can do a special attack if there's Verdant Dew that it can consume. This attack does Dendro DMG that's considered as Lunar-Bloom, allowing it to be enhanced by Columbina's Burst buff as well.

Enables All Lunar Reactions

Columbina can enable Lunar-Charged, Lunar-Bloom and Lunar-Crystallize to occur in the party. This means non-Moonsign DPS characters can be used with her if you want to make use of the CRIT attacks that Lunar Reactions can do. However, Lunar-Bloom doesn't deal damage and Columbina is the one who becomes the DPS if using a Bloom team.

Summary of DPS Characters that Can Work with Columbina
Hydro	- Any HP-scaling DPS can work well with Columbina since Hydro resonance can boost both Columbina and their HP. - ATK-scaling DPS can also work for boosting the overall damage for Lunar-Charged.
Electro	- EM and ATK-scaling DPS characters work better since Lunar-Charged uses both for damage. - ATK-scaling DPS can deal more raw damage and can boost Lunar-Charged DMG through Ascendant Gleam effect.
Geo	- DEF-scaling DPS characters are preferred but a DPS like Navia can be used since she can deal great damage as well.

Elemental Skill Applies Hydro Off-Field And Gain Gravity

Columbina's Elemental Skill is her main source of Off-Field Hydro application used to support her teammates. She will gain Gravity stacks based on the Lunar reaction triggered and consumes it to do a special attack.

Gravity Effects Based on Lunar Reaction
Lunar-Charged +	- Deals a single hit of AoE Electro DMG and is considered as Lunar-Charged DMG.
Lunar-Bloom +	- Shoots 5 Sigils dealing Dendro DMG and is considered as Lunar-Bloom DMG.
Lunar-Crystallize +	- Deals a single hit of AoE Geo DMG and is considered as Lunar-Crystallized DMG.

Elemental Burst Provides Buffs For Lunar Reactions

Columbina's Elemental Burst creates a field that buffs the damage of Lunar Reactions and gives it reaction-specific buffs.

Can Revive Characters In Nod-Krai

Columbina has a special utility passive that allows her to revive a character if they die while in Nod-Krai. It also allows her have similar interactions with kuuvahki-influenced animals like Lauma.

Who Is Columbina?

Formerly the Damselette of the Fatui Harbingers

Before Nod-Krai's official release, Columbina was shown in a trailer to have gone rogue and left the Harbingers. Sighted in Nod-Krai, the Fatui set out to retrieve her but Columbina doesn't wish to return and remained in Nod-Krai.

Kuutar, the Moon Maiden

Columbina's true identity is the reincarnation of the Frost Moon. She was named Kuutar by the Frostmoon Scions which means Moon Goddess. As the Moon Goddess, she is the "Archon" of Nod-Krai though her source of power precedes the Gnoses that Archons use.

Friends with Sandrone and Arlecchino

Despite her departure from the Fatui, Sandrone and Arlecchino still treated her well as their friend. Columbina used to join Sandrone's tea parties along with Arlecchino, Capitano and Childe.

Columbina Voice Actor & Their Notable Roles

English Voice Actor: Emi Lo

Japanese Voice Actor: Lynn

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