What Does Noelle Scale With? A Comprehensive Guide to Genshin Impact’s Beloved Character
In Genshin Impact, understanding what characters scale with can be the key to success. Knowing how to maximize your party’s potential and build effectively is crucial in the early stages of the game, and later on, to tackle challenging content like the Abyss Order and WoFat dungeons. In this article, we’ll explore what Noelle, the shields-wielding four-star support character, scales with. We’ll discuss the implications for build selection and strategies in the game.
**Noelle Scaling with Defense (DEF)**
Noelle is a formidable support character that scales off of Defense, making it essential to have a character with high Defense to enable her abilities to shine. DEF scaling contributes to her ability to regenerate health, attack damage while using her elemental burst, and increase overall team defenses. As DEF increases, Noelle becomes a significant asset to the team.
Elemental Skill Scaling
When using Noelle’s Elemental Skill, Harvest Waltz, which applies shield and heals, DEF stat plays a critical role. The skill scales off Noelle’s current Defense to determine the heal and damage absorption. If you intend to use Harvest Waltz frequently, build your party around high-DEF setups to maximize this effect.
Elemental Burst Scaling
Noelle’s elemental burst, Burgeon, is crucial for inflicting damage, and in this case, Defense does not play a significant direct role. Burgeon’s damage depends on attack power, Noelle’s level, and other non-DEF stat scaling sources. If you are using Noelle as your primary DPS (Damage Per Second) build, prioritize critical rate/critical damage to enhance burst damage.
Artifacts and Sets for Noelle
Choosing the right artifacts and sets can significantly influence Noelle’s performance. The current meta focuses on the use of DEF percentage increase substats to synergize with Noelle. For non-DEF setups, like elemental reaction team compositions, you can still build on Noelle while incorporating defensive elements. This can come in the form of support artifacts like a DEF-reducing crown, supporting the team in general by reducing damage. Some suggestions for artifacts to build into Noelle can be the following:
- Husk of Opulent Dreams: +60% to DEF for one enemy who is attacked (when Elemental Skill is channeled)
- Maiden Beloved: Increase elemental master level bonus and +45% to defense (party members) by 18%
- Ocean-Hued Clam: Increased elemental master level bonus by 12.6%
- Eye of Perfection: Decrease duration of crowd-controlled enemies to 1 turn
These artifacts aim to provide significant DEF bonuses for your other party members or reduce harm through healing or reduction of damage over time, reflecting her versatile yet support-orientated gameplay style**
Build Compositions: Noelle or Zhongli? Which is More Powerful?
The effectiveness of Noelle depends primarily on her position within a team. Compare this situation to Zhongli’s role, often referred to as the de facto defender. While they have complementary roles, neither should solely rely on the shield to manage the overall team defense.
To gain a deeper understanding of shield performance, view this ranking of Genshin’s Shields for character abilities in game.
**Comparison and Rationales for Defenses against Zhongli and Baizhu in Defense Percentage Breakdown | Characters | DEF Stat |
|---|---|---|
| Zhongli (Base) | 30% | |
| Noelle (Base) | 20% |
The graph above demonstrates Noelle, with her Base Defense ability, absorbs up to 20% damage on average. Noelle primarily relies on shielding through noelle’s harvest waltz. Although it heals, this comes with fewer damage absorption levels, leading to reduced defenses from Elemental Skills (HS/HB) than the total damage taken through a higher defense ability
Noelle’s base healing through his harvest waltz takes less damage percentage for team defense and defense damage due to no shield (higher damage) ability to reflect her defense contribution, hence, in various defensive levels. As both of his defense, when applying Harvest waltz has to determine the defense
To use Noelle or Zhongli as defensive elements without relying solely on shield capacity, use elements for health and other elementals with specific health management strategies for an optimized use of defense without Noelle’s primary DEF (support) build style
Defense, a characteristic skill set the character for shields
Based on these discussions, some conclusions can be drawn and the role Noelle plays.
The above article presents our perspective based on current updates on both the Noelle build concept and her usage, together with some data points with respect to shielding abilities while comparing it
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Final Points: Genshin’s Beloved Noelle Support
It is crucial in this content to be careful, use the shield elements wisely since they do offer less durability and a reduction in this shield defense Noelle performs as a result, by building with it to understand how the Noelle build style of play helps the character scale better