Genshin Impact: You Should Make Sure You're Playing Xilonen's Rotation Correctly

Playing Xilonen’s rotation correctly in is crucial to her relevance in team comps and getting it wrong can make her useless. Xilonen is a 5-star Geo character being added with Version 5.1. The playable unit, who is also debuting as an important story NPC in the update, is a support character. Xilonen’s main ability is to inflict RES shred against opponents, making them more susceptible to DMG. After farming Xilonen’s materials in and working on her build, she should be a valuable addition to the player’s team comp, as long as they execute her rotation accurately.

In addition to that, Xilonen can also heal herself or active teammates via her Elemental Burst. It is arguable that, from an initial standpoint, Xilonen’s gameplay kit is a bit more complicated than those of other characters. With her, there is a specific order of actions that players must execute to ensure she can successfully apply the correct RES shred on enemies, and, knowing when to activate Xilonen’s Elemental Burst is also important. This is because the moment of activation will determine who gets healed by her abilities or if she will deal extra damage to opponents in .

Xilonen’s RES shred abilities are directly linked to her Elemental Skill. However, applying this effect is not as simple as using the Skill and swapping characters. Instead, the type of RES shred is related to three Samplers, each of which corresponds to different Elemental Types. They are all aligned with Geo by default but can change depending on the party’s Elemental Types. The next step is to activate her Samplers since this is exactly what will apply the RES shred on opponents. This will make them more susceptible to the damage from the Elemental Types aligned with Xilonen’s Samplers.

If Mualani in is on Xilonen’s team, one of her Samplers will be Hydro-aligned. Once activated, this Sampler will make nearby enemies more susceptible to Mualani’s Hydro DMG, for example.

While the change from Geo to other Elemental Types will occur