This article explores the capabilities of Anfa, a new character in Genshin Impact, focusing on her kit, specifically her electrocharge-focused gameplay, and various team compositions. The article is based on gameplay and analysis performed right after pulling the character with minimal testing.
Kit Rundown: Electrocharge Emily
Anfa is described as an "electrocharge Emily" – a copy-type medium female model who deals off-field damage through her skill, which relies on a specific reaction. This reaction, lunar charge, is crucial for maximizing her talent damage, though much of that damage isn't considered skill damage. Her skill has almost 100% uptime, and her burst does some damage while refreshing the skill's duration.
Lunar Charge Explained
Triggering Electrocharge with Anfa in the team converts it to Lunar Charge, summoning a thundercloud above the enemy. While visually distinct, Lunar Charge functions similarly to electrocharge, consuming electro and hydro auras over time to deal damage.
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Damage Calculation: While Hoyo has presented Lunar Charge as superior, it deals roughly similar damage to electrocharge in practice.
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Crit and Multi-Unit Contribution: Lunar Charge can crit, and multiple units can contribute to its damage. However, there's a steep fall-off after the second unit. The unit with the highest EM contributes full damage, while the second only contributes half. Contributions from the third and fourth units are negligible.
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Base Damage and EM Scaling: Lunar Charge has a lower base damage and EM scaling compared to regular electrocharge.
Consistency in Taser Teams
The key benefit of Lunar Charge is providing consistency to Taser teams.
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Reaction Triggering: It ensures that the character with the highest damage contribution (typically with a good mix of EM and crit) consistently triggers the reaction.
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Hit Interval: Lunar Charge normalizes the hit interval, dealing damage every 2 seconds to hydro- and electro-affected enemies. This makes it more viable in single-target scenarios without sacrificing AoE efficacy.
Skill and Burst Mechanics
Anfa's skill places a robot named Brigita and generates a shield based on Anfa's attack.
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Brigita: The robot teleports to enemies and deals AoE damage, with a chance to generate particles on each hit. It is not a stationary turret and can be pushed around.
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Rotation Flexibility: Both the shield and Brigita last longer than the skill's cooldown, allowing for flexible rotation lengths.
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Burst: The burst deals AoE damage and re-summons Brigita, refreshing its duration. If Brigita's duration has expired, the burst will summon a new one.
Ascension Passives
Her ascension one passive is the majority of Anfa’s damage. If there are thunderclouds created by the lunar charge reactions nearby when Brigita unleashes her attack, she gets an initial instance of damage of 65% of Anfa’s attack. This is considered lunar charge damage. The other way that being transformative reaction damage affects it, is that it isn’t buffed by damage percent stats. It's buffed by EM. Her A4 passive grants an EM buff to Anfa and the on-field character based on her attack. Her final passive increases lunar charge base damage based on her attack.
Team Compositions and Synergies
Anfa has no direct team requirements, needing only hydro to deal lunar charge damage.
Testing Electrocharge Teams
The video tests a range of electrocharge team compositions, highlighting potential synergies and drawbacks.
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Traditional Epha Taser: Anfa replaces a unit in a standard Epha, Fishial, and Kazua setup. Oruron's synergy is limited due to his reliance on damage percent buffs, which Anfa doesn't benefit much from.
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Yae Miko Variant: Anfa, Yae Miko, Shingcho, and Kazua provided good results, where Yae could take some field time.
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Fischl and Epha Variation: Fina's healing provides defensive utility, improving the feel of Epha.
Sethos Electrocharge Team
The video tests Sethos, Anfa, Yalon, and Sucross. It suggests building Sethos with EM to synergize with lunar charge.
Huttowo Overvape Team
This team consists of Huttowo, Anfa, Shingcho, and Sucross. It utilizes the overvape reaction (overload + vaporize) where electro protects the hydro aura, allowing more reactions to occur.
Cyno Quickbloom Team
The team uses Cyno, Nahida, Anfa, and Shingcho. This comp benefits from Anfa's particle generation, which helps Cyno meet his energy needs. Shingcho is crucial as a solo hydro applicator.
Gear and Artifacts
The video explores weapon and artifact options for Anfa.
Weapons
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Knotcross Spear: A good generalist option providing high base attack and EM. The passive provides energy regeneration, almost solving Anfa's energy needs.
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Favonius Lance: Solves energy needs through its substat and passive.
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The Catch: A solid free-to-play option, providing high base attack and attack percent.
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Five-Star Options: Any five-star stat stick works.
Artifacts
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Gilded Dreams (4-piece): Currently her best set, but not by a significant margin.
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Two-Piece Combinations: Any mixture of EM and attack set bonuses.
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Tenacity of the Millelith (4-piece): Can be used to buff the team without sacrificing too much of her personal damage.
Conclusion
Anfa is a cool character with unique synergies, especially in electrocharge-based teams. She is an electrocharge Emily with an added shield, more flexible team options, and a lesser reliance on traditional damage stats, making her a valuable addition to various team compositions. Her versatility and defensive utility make her a promising unit for future exploration and team building.