Columbina Best Build Guide

Comprehensive Columbina guide for Genshin Impact. Learn Columbina's best build, team, signature weapon, kit, and materials for this 5-Star Hydro Sub-DPS Catalyst user.

Columbina Character Overview, Base Stats, and Tier

Character Profile

	Rarity
	Element	Hydro
	Weapon	Catalyst
	Ascend Stat	CRIT Rate 19.2%
	Region	Nod-Krai
	Birthday	January 14
	Roles	Off-Field DPS Support On-Field
How To Get	Can only be pulled during Columbina's Limited-Time Banner (Currently not available)

Base Stats

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's Tier & Rating

Columbina is a Hydro Sub-DPS and Lunar Reaction Support. Since she does not have an Ascendant Gleam effect, she can be used outside of Moonsign teams and simply act as a buffer for Lunar Reactions. 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 doesn't scale much on her HP. She only needs 7k HP to max her Passive's reaction buff.

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

Stat Goals For Support Columbina

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 - Columbina's Signature Weapon - Boosts her HP and greatly buffs her CRIT DMG when Lunar Reactions are triggered. - Recovers Energy for her as well
2nd	Surf's Up	Get from Limited Banner - CRIT DMG stat stick that can provide 20% HP increase as well
3rd	Tome Of The Eternal Flow	Get from Limited Banner - 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	Nightweaver's Looking Glass	Get from Limited Banner - Better if you're planning on playing Columbina as a support for Lunar-Bloom. Not ideal for a Main DPS Columbina build
6th	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 Columbina's best weapon since it boosts both her HP and CRIT DMG. If you don't have 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 Reaction 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

Columbina's artifact set depends on whether Silken Moon is being used by someone else. If someone else is using it, you can use Aubade to buff the Lunar Reaction DMG instead.

Artifact	Recommendation Details
Aubade of Morningstar and Moon	★★★★★ - Columbina's best artifact set since it not only increases her EM, but it also increase Lunar Reaction DMG to up to 40%. - Will require switching Columbina out for the 4-piece set bonus to apply. - This set focuses on the Sub-DPS of Columbina.
Silken Moon's Serenade	★★★★★ - Energy Recharge will allow Columbina to consistently have her Burst up - Will increase the party's EM, as well as provide increase in Lunar Reaction DMG. However, it's only 10% compared to Aubade of Morningstar and Moon's 40%. - This is the better artifact to equip when paired with a more damage focused Lunar Reaction dealer like Ineffa.
Tenacity Of The Millelith	★★★・・ - Not the best, but will work when Columbina is in a non-Moonsign team - Great for a Support build
Night Of The Sky's Unveiling	★★★・・ - For on-field Columbina, which is strong especially when paired with Lauma, this is the best set to use.

Recommended Artifact Stats

	Main: Flat HP Sub: CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG / Energy Recharge / HP%
	Main: Flat ATK Sub: CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG / Energy Recharge / HP%
	Main: HP% Sub: CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG / Energy Recharge / EM
	Main: HP% Sub: CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG / Energy Recharge / EM
	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 only needs 7k HP for her Passive's buff but this is easily achieved so you can also turn her into a Sub-DPS. She'll need a good amount of Energy Recharge as well since her buff comes from her Burst.

For the Artifact set, you can either focus on the personal damage of Columbina and use Aubade of Morningstar and Moon or Silken Moon's Serenade for a higher up-time of Burst and additional support to Lunar Reaction teams.

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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) Moonridge Dew 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

Bloom Team with Driver Columbina

Team		Detail
Columbina	Lauma	- Bloom team with Columbina as the On-Field Driver. - Lauma and Baizhu help apply Dendro while Nilou and Lauma boost Bloom DMG dealt.
Baizhu	Nilou

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. Her ability duration are lengthy and she can enhance the reactions that happen during ability usage of the other characters.

Basics Of Using Columbina

As a Moonsign character, Columbina's Ascendant Gleam effect increases her Elemental Skill's range. She can enable all Lunar Reactions and acts as a Lunar Reaction DMG support.

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.

Skill Range is Smaller if Solo Moonsign

Columbina's Ascendant Gleam effect only affects her Elemental Skill's range. Since it follows the active character and applies Hydro to surrounding enemies, the range increase can be good if the on-fielder is a medium ranged character. As shown above, her Skill's range is 2x2 tiles while with multiple Moonsign characters, it becomes 3x3 tile range.

Can Enable All Lunar Reactions

Columbina can enable all three Lunar Reactions if there's an Electro, Dendro or Geo characters applying the required Element aside from Hydro since Columbina applies it. However, all three can't happen at the same time since Crystallize when there's Lunar-Charged defaults to Electro Crystallize.

Columbina Lunar Reaction Combinations
+	- Can inflict Hyperbloom if not using Nefer. - Recommended to use a Hydro on-fielder since Columbina's application is a bit slower.
+	- Dendro and Geo don't interact with each other, allowing for Hydro Crystallize to happen. - Also recommended to use a Hydro on-fielder because of Columbina's application.

All of the Lunar Reactions scale on Elemental Mastery but the direct reaction damage that 5-Star Moonsign characters can do scale on their preferred stat. To know more about the Lunar Reactions, click on the button below!

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 happen if there's another Moonsign character with her.

Can Deal Lunar Bloom DMG Through Charged Attack

▲ Full Moon in Charged Attack means it will deal Lunar-Bloom DMG while Crescent Moon will do Hydro DMG.

Columbina can use her Charged Attack to apply Dendro via Lunar-Bloom but it's not recommended that she's used as a Lunar-Bloom DPS since her damage is lower compared to Nefer. She can be used as a Bloom Driver instead with Nilou and Lauma buffing Bloom DMG.

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.

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

Prioritize Nocturne's Curtain Call

Nocturne's Curtain Call is a damage-oriented weapon that boosts Columbina's HP and CRIT DMG. While it doesn't provide buffs to the team compared to her C1, its effect of buffing Lunar Reaction CRIT DMG can help greatly in boosting the damage of the team.

Constellation 2 is a Good Stopping Point

Columbina's 2nd Constellation gives a buff based on her HP depending on the Lunar Reaction dealt by the active character. ATK for Lunar-Charged, EM for Lunar-Bloom, and DEF for Lunar-Crystallize. It increases her HP by 30%, allowing you to build both damage and HP on her for buffs.

Columbina's Constellations & Effects

Columbina's Constellation Name is Columbina Hyposelenia

Columbina Hyposelenia

Ascension Materials for Columbina Talents & Level

Character Level Talent

Materials Per Ascension Level

Lvl 20	Varunada Lazurite Sliver x1 Winter Icelea x3 Slime Condensate x3
Lvl 40	Varunada Lazurite Fragment x3 Radiant Antler x2 Winter Icelea x10 Slime Condensate x15
Lvl 50	Varunada Lazurite Fragment x9 Radiant Antler x4 Winter Icelea x20 Slime Secretions x12
Lvl 60	Varunada Lazurite Chunk x6 Radiant Antler x8 Winter Icelea x30 Slime Secretions x18
Lvl 70	Varunada Lazurite Chunk x3 Radiant Antler x12 Winter Icelea x45 Slime Concentrate x12
Lvl 80	Varunada Lazurite Gemstone x6 Radiant Antler x20 Winter Icelea x60 Slime Concentrate x24

Materials Per Talent Ascension

Lvl 1	Default
Lvl 2	Teachings Of Moonlight x3 Slime Condensate x6
Lvl 3	Guide To Moonlight x2 Slime Secretions x3
Lvl 4	Guide To Moonlight x4 Slime Secretions x4
Lvl 5	Guide To Moonlight x6 Slime Secretions x6
Lvl 6	Guide To Moonlight x9 Slime Secretions x9
Lvl 7	Philosophies Of Moonlight x4 Slime Concentrate x4 Mask Of The Virtuous Doctor x1
Lvl 8	Philosophies Of Moonlight x6 Slime Concentrate x6 Mask Of The Virtuous Doctor x1
Lvl 9	Philosophies Of Moonlight x12 Slime Concentrate x9 Mask Of The Virtuous Doctor x2
Lvl 10	Philosophies Of Moonlight x16 Slime Concentrate x12 Mask Of The Virtuous Doctor x2
Lvl 11	Unlocked via Constellation Levels
Lvl 12	Unlocked via Constellation Levels
Lvl 13	Unlocked via Constellation Levels

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Columbina Skills & Talents Details

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.

Wears a Blindfold Willingly

Columbina herself didn't accept any of the names the people of Teyvat gave her and along with her unwillingness to see the false reality, she wears a blindfold. In the Nod-Krai Archon Quest, Columbina accepted her name as Columbina Hyposelenia.

Friends with Sandrone, Signora 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, Signora, Capitano and Childe.

Columbina Promotional Videos

Check out the official character preview videos for Columbina from Genshin Impact's YouTube account!

Columbina Voice Actor & Their Notable Roles

English Voice Actor: Emi Lo

Japanese Voice Actor: Lynn

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