Updated SAYU GUIDE: Best Support Build, Gameplay Tips, Teams, Showcase | Genshin Impact 2.6 

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I think sayu's biggest weakness is the lack of grouping. Every other anemo can group at least a little. But otherwise she has plenty of use to any team comp with the VV and healer combination

I play Sayu in what my daughter and I named the „Cutie Squad“. That would be Klee, Qiqi, Diona and Sayu. Far away from optimal but great fun for the two of us. She has got Klee and Diona and I play Qiqi and Sayu. The advantage beeing we both have a healing/protecting unit and damage. So for the dailies I can go and do the fighting and she does the talking quests. For spheres and Bosses we use other teams but open open world exploring is huge fun with this team. Thanks for your guides! We use your tipps a lot.

Being honest Sayu is the best overworld exploring unit, I know it may not be too attractive to some but I genuenely think she doesn't need to be meta in the Abyss. She is Anemo so adding anothet anemo unit to the team reduces stamina consuption, she goes super fast with her skill while not consuming stamina, she wields a claymore which is useful for farming ore, she can create Cryo Bridges (albeit after getting infused) and she is competent enough to hold herself in battle with overworld Mobs and she helps catch Crystalflies and other critters. On top of that she is a healer which facilitates not needing to go to an statue to heal. I love her for that. The only thing I absolutely hate about her is hiw HYV made it so when she is in her Windwheel state she can't get doen or climb even the smallest ridges. I wish they changed that or at least somehow gave her the option to toggle whether you want to be stopped in ridges or don't mind jumping off

Note that if you are using Sayu's roll to speed around in the overworld, you actually DO want to cancel out of it right before it ends by switching characters. This will bypass the ending animation so you can continue moving instead of being locked in place with the kick.

I love Sayu. She’s always on my exploration team when new regions are unlocked along with Kazuha, Noelle, and Traveler.

Finally, got her C6 super happy about. I use her on a mono electro team with Raiden, Yae and Sara. She gets alot of field time.

Awesome Sevy! You've covered it all. Been running Sayu since her release, Level 90, C6, 6/11/9, full EM VV build, Bloodtainted R5... Most fun team comp with Sayu which I call "Rolling Death": Raiden, Xingqiu, Qiqi, Sayu - everyone uses their E in that order for uptime, then roll into a pack of enemies!

I’m building overload Sayu because I like the overload reaction and Sayu has the speed to chase after knocked-back enemies while still applying damage. I’m using The Bell however as the shield makes it easier for her to stay rolling and I don’t have to change my teamcomp to put in a shielder.

Nice video on Sayu :D I play her in a roll comp, consisting of Sayu/Kaeya/Xianling/Raiden Shogun. The way the rotation works is so perfect. When you are done rolling for 10 seconds, you burst with Raiden and recover everyone's energy. After her burst everyone's stuff is back on again. It's so smooth.

I love sayu :) I use her with Xiao and albedo. She heals Xiao and her burst can proc albedos flower when Xiao is in the air

You and Xlice have become the two sources I go to when looking for guides. Thank you!

Thank so much for the guide. I rarely use Sayu in combat ( i struggle to control her spin on the keyboard), but she's always present in exploration parties. I am using the proverbial Rain Slasher as well.

Thank you very much for uploading this video. Was a couple a days ago when I wrote in Jean video and now seeing this is a great hurray! 🙌🏻 I will share it with a friend that I just recommended your channel. Keep going the great work, you are awesome 👌🏻 👏🏻

You do amazing job at doing this are usually when I look this stuff up a lot of people just don’t put a lot of sensible stuff like this in here so thank you for the video

I like to use the Physical-Shatter Sayu and Roll Sayu to Utilize more on her EM more for Mobs.

I went from having C2 Sayu to C4 Sayu with this last banner. I’m so stoked and excited to make her even stronger. I love exploring but get really impatient with just walking/sprinting. Sayu is the best 🥰💜💜💜

I'm so happy you made this video since I literally just got 2 copies of Sayu AND favonius great sword, so I was pretty stoked on what to do with her. Tysm for this guide 💕

YOOOOO your so close to 100k hope you get there soon

Though I’ll normally default to the Katsuragikiri, the Wolf’s Gravestone has been really fun to run on my C1 Sayu in order to have double-buffing alongside VV.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER

Sayu is one of my favorites! So happy to see a guide for her 😆

Sayu is exactly like Jean, Zhongli and Kokomi to me. She is a much needed Flexible VV Healer that I can slot in on many teams like my freeze and yoimiya teams. People keep saying that Sayu does less damage compared to sucrose but all the meta teams that are "recommend" has no healer or comfort character that isn't a 5 star character? Sayu is a great unit that can nicely provide much needed comfort and survivability. She is 100% underrated. As much as I would want to use sucrose to do more "meta" damage, I'm faced with rifthounds and Pyro abyss lecters who constantly keep all my teams HP in red. I'll take the extra 10 seconds to clear floor 12 on first or second try than have to restart 20 times so that I can perfect dodge all these corrosion and pyro lecter attacks. Some issues I faced is just how overly reliant Sayu is on her C1. Her off field swirling is essential the way I use her and she can't do that if she needs to heal constantly. Prior to C4/C6, her EM build is also kind of difficult to manage since you need to balance high EM, ER% and Attack%.

Thanks for the amazing video! I wanted a teamcomp where she could roll for the entire duration haha so I chose to pair her with Xiangling and Ganyu to roll during their burst, it works so well :)

LOVE the team template format in this one

I got my first mona and sayu at the last week of yoimiya's banner. When raiden came out I played sayu/raiden/mona/sara which made a super fun exploration team. It also allowed my sayu to use painslasher :)

I love using Sayu in co-op! Just rolling around shredding resistance and keeping everyone alive is so much fun

Amazing video Sevy! I learn a lot from you about the game and content making

Your thumbnails are SO GOOD

I love Sayu she will always hold a place in my heart

I keep sayu in my team while I am exploring it really saves so much time

best genshin content on RU-vid thank you!!!

Thank u so muchchchc IVE wanted to build sayu again cos she was in my main team for a very long time till i got kokomi a long while ago

Yeeey :) my first Anemo character aside from Anemo traveler 🥰🥰 thank you for this 🍀

Rolling with Sayu is a fun and effective way to trigger Fischl's ascension 4 passive that deals damage when doing reactions, because an electro-infused swirl from sayu counts. So i've had a lot of success using those two alongside a raiden where sayu fills in raiden's cooldown on her burst

I've been using Sayu for quite some time now. Rosaria+Shenhe+Electro Traveler+Sayu. Great comp, great sinergy. I recomend building her to spam her Burst, because of her long duration and the fact that it deals cryo damage when it swirls. Sayu NOT HAVING CC is a better option than Jean when you dont want to throw enemies away from your Killing zone, and aplies VV super fast. Using her for Swirl and VV aplicatoin works perfect and as she does cryo damage in the process, she also uses Shenhe quills, even off fleld. I go for ER/ATT/EM prioritizing EM and ER substats. I recomend 160/180 ER to get her Burst as fast as possible, so you can use it in conjunction with Rosaria's and Shenhe's. I tried Jean in this role, and her Elemental skill pushing enemies away from the death circle, is too annoying. Another thing to note, ii you wish to replace Rosaria or Traveler for Chongyun, you can have her ult going almoust continually with good ER, because of the Cooldown reduction from Chongyun's Skill. It will be 17 secs CD with 12 sec duration. Once you start getting the burst back from CD they align perfectly for a quick swap team. Full cryo Rosaria+Chongyun+Shenhe+Sayu is incredibly strong, and again, Jean pushing enemies away from all the area damage is not good, and Sayu fits this team like a glove. One last thing, you forgot to mention her talent Someone More Capable that gives healing to off field characters everytime she swirls. 300 HP + 1.2 HP per EM point. It adds up with her C4 and her C6, solving ER issues and giving EM points more value. If you wish to try another nice comp is Rosaia+Shenhe+Mona+Sayu. Spaming her burst keeps enemies loked down because it swirls the Frozen Status, doing a double swirl, and a lot of damage. Super confy permafreeze. Take note that Sayu's burst swirls 7 times per cast... the exact amount of Quills from Shenhe's Skill... Trust me, it's incredibly safe team. I havent tried her on Tazer tho. I thnk her Burst spam gameplay would be particularly strong in such teams.

Thanks again for new guide

Something which I never see anyone mention about Sayu (which is why I just realised this myself) is that her C6 adds to her burst multiplier, so you need EM to increase the multiplier, but also ATK because that's what the multiplier scales off of.

I used Sayu over jean in a pseudo sunfire setup and I liked her more than jean cause her circle is so much bigger and easy to play around and her skill adds to the team's maneuverability. Probably less damage mathematically but she just felt better than jean when paired with bennet xingqiu and raiden in 2.6 12-1 first half.

I hope you do a kaeya guide! I love listening to your videos, I’ve rewatch your videos a lot!

Hello miss Sevy! Can you make a guide on Bennett? I really love your videos and it really helped me because I just started out genshin last month. I saw one of your video and it intrigued me playing the game and I'm already AR47! I really hope you make one!

sayu helped me in my mid game. now at ar 53, im thinking of bringing her back doing EM. but good point for you to emphasize on ER sayu as well. i think she would be a good addition for clearing abyss

I love Sayu. I've got her at a C6, tripple crowned talents, and an r2 90th level wgs and full VV gear. She usually gets paired up with Yoimiya, Fischl and Diona. With Fischl being swapped for Raiden depending on how I want Yoimiya's damage to act. I love your videos by the way. They are some of the best out there for Genshin!

Planning on becoming a sayu main after I end up building every single character I wanna build, so ty for this!

THIS! I NEEDED THIS!! She's so fun to play when I was doing her trial. As soon as I used her skill, I instantly went "Yup. Amazing overworld explorer. Done deal. Ayaka banner! Here I come!". *Sighs* When can I warmly greet you to my chaotic yet fun team, Ayaka...

🌸😹It such a thrilling character Sayu is and though I do not utilize her often, she certainly has a place within my heart!😹🌸

2 2pc attack sets are what work for me. With a favonius greatsword she's my xiao battery and healer and it works really well.

I love how PHEC is the acryonym that makes most sense, even from a gameplay point of view xD PHEC elements

If sayu had a little bit of crowd control her Held E would be so useful because she destroys em pretty easily

I use lil ninja as transportation and healer, but only if I REALLY don't feel like using Barbara and Xingqiu. Having Sayu as a back up has helped me out a bit and while I still don't have Jean, at least she is a decent replacement. Not to mention, smol lazy ninja is too adorable to ignore and thanks to Lilypichu, I can't unhear Sayu getting angry and cursing lol. How can someone that adorable have that much cute anger but anyway, great small build guide on Sayu Sevy!

I really enjoy her e healing because she does damage while keeping the team alive. I am lower AR so about 600 hp her swirls give me from her e while I roll are quite useful.

Love your guides Sevy, very detailed as always. Would love to see an updated Mona guide. I am planning on building her but have no idea how to.

I'm trying so hard to get her c1 btw love your guides as always

I rock Sayu in my open world party all the time and she is hands down the best toon for artifact farming routes. Love her.

Hi there got to give you mad props for even making this since no one else seems to want to touch this subject with a 10-ft pole. She is my favorite character I have it level 90 and I've only taken her talents up to 666. Full send em. I have cleared every single abyss since I got her with 36 stars. Where you should be using her is any battle where you have to break elemental Shields. She is in my opinion the best character in the game to break Shields of any type. And if you want to get really dank.... You can run her with Raiden, xiangling, Barbra..... The trick is to watch when Barbara infuses herself with water to start her role at that exact moment which will infuse you with hydro. Now you have a sukokomon ball. Every time you hit anybody you apply hydro and swirl the element off of them while simultaneously lighting their ass on fire and hitting them with raidens e. Just use raiden when your done for recharge. Perfect for any raiden that's not built very well... But excellent if she is..... In fact you can actually full send em on Raiden like this but I wouldn't recommend it even though the 17K overloads are humorous. The whole Barbra thing is flexible with other hydro units that you can time applying hydro to yourself with. I just like to use her because why not use two of of what people generally consider the worst characters in the game on the same team..... Even if you are pairing them with possibly two of the best

I've been getting her cons in standard so its time to build her!

great video as always. Sevy can we get an updated thoma build?

I got sayu yesterday along with c2 jean which help me a lot in openworld

I use the fish with her, it fits her theme quite well lol. For people with C10000 Qiqi but no Jean, she is a very solid healer

Given that Crowd control refers to the ability to partially or completely disable one or more mobs, limiting the number of opponents actively fighting during an encounte, Xiaos unlimited Stagger works is infact a CC.

Sayu is really helpful in the desert since its a long walk there. Also the healing build helps over there. Will have to try 200% er build as I am not having good artifacts currently

I'm going to try the Sayu-Xiangling-Bennett-Kaeya comp cause it seems so fun

I really like Sayu a lot because she's my very first Anemo Character (excluding Anemo Aether) and especially her healing since she can heal the whole team upon casting her burst then all the healing goes to the active character. She kept my Characters alive when I was exploring the Tsurumi Island, because of the corrosion. I always have her in my Teyvat exploration team, btw she's friendship 10 and C3. I wish I could get her to C6 but I can't waste my guaranteed 5⭐pulls on the current banner because I want her Anemo Brother Kazuha.🤩🌬🍃

Wow thanks for the guide, as I'm currently building my Sayu now (she's currently lvl 60) and idk what to do to her.

I like using her for travelling purposes and healing in general~

I recently started building Sayu. She is easily an s tier unit for exploration. If you can already get 36 stars on abyss then Sayu absolutely should be your next unit to build. Speed, healing and one of the best passive in the game. Do yourself a favor and build her. You'll enjoy the game much more after you do.

I just got her C6 and I’m wanting to build her so this is great

Im already expecting a Sayu-Shinobu combo

I don't use sayu in abyss but I use her a lot for everything else, 10/10 adorable

Love Sayu so much fun to use. I have her 2pc Wander/Emblem. Em Sands/goblet/head & Rainslasher. She's at a little over 1k EM, 1800atk and 170% er. I've spent a lot of time getting her with really good sub stats though, she doesn't have much crit or cdmg because I mostly wanted to focus on min maxing her ult with Atk and Em for C6. I do really enjoy using her though I actually like pairing her with main Dps Jean because I like anemo res

sevvy, are you gonna do a Razor guide? yours are the only ones I watch and I already have him c4.

I have her on VV set, em em crit rate with favonius greatsword, she is definitely an underrated character

I love using kayea and xiangling with her I think kuki will add to the sayu beyblade build.

:-) happy to see a Sayu Guide. Wish I had her C6 then I’d go all in on her. Only C2 though and Venti only Anemo I’ve built so far. Hard decision her or Sucrose?!?

Just got her c1 and 2 and IM SO HAPPPYYY wanted her c1 so much when i first got her but she only came home twice so I'LL BE USING HER MORE (she was my healer before i got zhongli that made me just forget healing and just use nre) thanks for thiiiisss

I have a good build. Mainly focusing on EM. Team comp Sayu, Kuki , xingqui, Diana.. weapon rainslasher. It’s a lot of synergy here, the weapon gives EM buff which both boost her healing and skill damage exponentially. Use kuki skill and you have a constant ball of electro swirl high damage, plus healing for party with major healing for sayu, during skill cool down you’ll have a 20% attack buff because of electro or hydro application . You can also freeze and super conduct with this team. Diana shield protects while kuki ring deals aoe and heals while in rolling.

I've been using her on my f2p, low AR alt account as one of my main DPS characters!! Sad I can't get her higher than level 40 until I finish Liyue story (only just finished Mondstadt, and I'm taking everything slowly so I can relive the early story and sidequests

the sumeru flower weapon is her best in slot. gives em and em/attack. btw everyone

Sayu!! My anemo healer in abyss til I got Jean at AR58. My abyss team comp is Raiden, Xingqiu, Fischl and Sayu herself.

might not be efficiemt but i do sayu main with xianling in the bacground for my pyro, viridacent recently added to it makes for quite the crowd killer and even bigger mobs

as a low ar (me at ar37) she super helpfull on farming and exploration but yeah i kinda saw she has a slow amount of healing and de buff but still a super fun character shes always on my team

I use her on a blizzard team; Venti, Diona, Sayu, Shenhe. just focusing on aplying Cryo on everything with the Shenhe buff to cryo

For my Sayu build, I did 2 pc Gladiator 2 pc Wanderer, with atk, em, and er, with the Makhaira Aquamarine at r3; at c6, this made my Sayu a rlly good anemo sub dps without sacrificing any healing! Between her and jean, i feel her burst dmg is easier to proc because you dont have to knock enemies in or out of the field

My sayu for healing is c6 with skyward pride and is using two piece hued and Troupe with Attack goblet and sands with healing bonus circlet and my sub stats are em and flat attack or attack percent ,EM and ER is this a good build? (Edit) I heal 8k with 11 talent Q

I build her with split scaling mostly attack but at least 200 em. Also her whirlw8nd kick can pack a wallop with Good crit stats so thats also a viable build

For an update if you acquired the Mailed Flower and have no use on it for other characters it would work well with Sayu.

Haha, I somehow 9 starred abyss 12 the other day with a C2 full EM build Sayu in the team. I put her in the first half with venti, ayato, and xinqiu just because I felt like having double resonance for some reason (while I needed Kokomi to keep me alive in 12-2-2). I probably wouldn't recommend her there though since I forgot that the fire abyss guys did corrosion, which isn't great for area healing one person at a time (but rolling at the fire shields for repeatable swirl could help the team out a bit).

I have almost completed the tiny terror squad but she hasn't dropped yet on my recent banner roll and instead Ayaka came in. I guess that's kinda a win but I still wanna complete this squad as a troll team with 3 healers.

I would like to share the setup of my hybrid Sayu using the Royal Greatsword. This is more on Anemo dmg and healing, so Swirl dmg and EM beefing is less favored. For an ATK-built Sayu, Royal GS also helps Sayu's Anemo dmg. Since her Roll naturally does multiple hits, Sayu can easily utilize the weapon's passive, and is much better if R2 or higher. Goblet+circlet used is Anemo+c.dmg. A 2pc VV set is optional. The healer part of this setup relies on her Burst. So ER sands is a must (180+% total ER if no battery). When healing is the priority, simply replace the goblet+circlet with Atk+Atk/Heal. Also great if in a team with Hydro resonance (Xingq and non-healers). It's both challenging and fun to find a Sayu build that you'll be comfortable with. Have fun finding "your Sayu" ^^,

I'm currently using sayu with an aggravate team including raiden, fischl and dendro traveller. Sayu's swirls constantly heal, trigger fischl's a4 passive and raiden's E while being full of EM and VV acompanied by trav's 4set instructor EM bonus. Yeah, everything dies pretty past usually. You have to be careful to not let her get hit hard though, she has interruption resistance but not too high and she can die fast. She has excellent movility too. My outrider team is now raiden, fischl, sayu and heizou too. Pretty damn fun and suprisingly effective to a reasonable degree since damage output wasn't necessarily the main focus. They should have let Sayu heal with every swirl in my opinion (A1 passive). The 2 second window for her E to heal makes sure that you have to stay on field AND rolling for it to activate. I think she's pretty underrated, if I'm careful she provides everything I need in healing and anemo support while batterying herself and her electro companions. Constellations make her way better too, and I just have her at c0. I'm f2p (started playing on november I think) and Sayu was my first anemo unit besides anemo trav., and healer besides barbara and noelle, while I was wishing for raiden. I also happen to be a lazy b*stard who seems incapable of growing up, so she has a special place in my heart. PS: I have Sucrose and I know technically she has more value, but I haven't raised her yet. I'm also waiting to get Keqing and just got Mistplitter (YES! , I couldn't get engulfing lightning last time) for her in this banner.

I'm prepping a Yelan team with Klee, Xiangling and Sayu/Jean. Mostly Klee as a driver and Yelan doing the vape on pyro application of the Xiangling and Klee. Having a hard time figuring out which would be better between the two anemo. Jean has higher numbers and burst, but Sayu seems to have more automatic anemo to swirl both elements much easier. Thoughts?

Catching myself a Sayu was my primary goal with Ayaka's banner - and I'm diligently farming to bring my freshly pulled Sayu up to lvl70 as I farm for another 10x Ayaka banner pull via dailies & events. Sayu is SO MUCH FUN to play, squishy as she currently is, and she's made me freshly excited about playing in Genshin's open-world, now that the only quests left for me are locked behind commisions. Rolling around as I experiment with Team Comps & build up my non-Rosaria characters has made the game fun again, stuck as I am with underleveled characters and f2p resources. I hope the pulls I've saved up will score me a Sayu constellation (or a Razor) because she is SUCH a delight to play, "meta" or no. My Bubble Barbara then DPS Ningguang reached lvl10 friendship JUST as I pulled a Sayu so I couldn't have gotten her at a better time. The comment section has given me great ideas to try & the guide has made me actually understand Sayu's burst mechanic! I've thus far used it by kicking it about because I CAN even though its AoE range is large enough to compensate for poor placement - bumping the daruma around the field is just another fun thing about having Sayu. I wonder how long I could bump it around while in Sayu's pinwheel mode..? TIME TO PLAY PINBALL!

My domain healer sayu doing 15k per kick 👁👄👁 w venti’s old artifacts

I did get her and got her to c1 but i have not used her. I did play her in the try on the last banner and thought it was fun.

I freaking love sayu.

so like... if you have c6 sayu and you build her mostly atk and then team her up with say albedo or sucrose who can give her some em...or does donated em not work with the c6?

Spent 70 wishes this patch to get Sayu, got her and even c2'd, I LOVE HER SO MUCH she's the replacement jean for my xiao, except I have her on Wolf's Gravestone :)

Hey Sevy, is it possible to do a Mona guide? Her burst mechanic is kinda complicated, i mean the things she applies and the timing to do reactions etc...

Would you make a Razor guide in the future? I'm trying to build my Razor and I want to hear your recommendations for our good boy.

Shatter Sayu team comp to some extent decent. Full EM build with Chongyun and Xingqiu. Last character can be another cryo or hydro ehe.