Chixia Guide – Builds, Teams, and How to Play

Overview

Chixia is a free 4★ ranged Fusion character who performs best as a main-dps that takes up a lot of field time. Surprisingly, even as a free character, Chixia can output a respectable amount of single-target damage.

The problem lies in the nature of her kit, namely the Forte Circuit, which can be broken down into two parts. The first is Thermobaric Bullets, which is casted by holding E while you have bullets in the Forte Gauge. Once Chixia has consumed 30 bullets, she can then cast Forte Skill: Boom Boom. 

In a perfect world scenario, Chixia’s personal damage output is definitely on the higher end when considering that she is a 4★. However, problems start to occur when enemies attack her mid-rotation. If Thermobaric Bullets is interrupted or canceled early, she loses the cast of Boom Boom, which heavily stunts her damage output and energy generation.

Rotations

Rotation should always be taken with a grain of salt. Enemies are NOT sandbags and WILL ATTACK YOU. Several factors such as Parries, Dodge Counters, and being knocked back will affect how you approach the rest of your rotation.

Follow-up/Burst Rotation

For Chixia’s combo, you will always want to spend at least 30 bullets on Forte: Thermobaric Bullets to ensure you can cast Forte Skill: Boom Boom. At high investments, you will have an extra 10 bullets from her Inherent Skill, making this easier to accomplish consistently.

Sample Team Rotation with Mortefi and Verina

Parry Windows

Disclaimer: This is a work-in-progress section and will be updated as we learn more.

Character Synergies

	Mortefi
	Chixia’s rotation has several skill casts with high hit counts, allowing her to easily trigger the followup damage from Mortefi’s Resonance Liberation.
	Buffs
	• 38% Heavy ATK DMG Deepen • 20% Teamwide ATK Buff (R6) • Moonlit Clouds and Impermanence Heron

	Taoqi
	A good portion of Chixia’s damage is classified as Resonance Skill DMG, so she highly appreciates the buffs that Taoqi’s Outro Skill provides.
	Buffs
	• 38% Resonance Skill ATK DMG Deepen • Moonlit Clouds and Impermanence Heron

	Verina
	Verina synergizes well with all main/sub-dps characters, and Chixia is no exception. She provides a team-wide All DMG Deepen and ATK buff. On top of this, Verina’s combos are short and do not take up a lot of field time.  Additionally, Verina has no problems running Rejuvenating Glow and Bell, offering the team a good mix of offensive and defensive utility.
	Buffs
	• 15% Team-wide All DMG Deepen • 20% Team-wide ATK buff • Rejuvenating Glow and Bell-Borne Geochelone

	Baizhi
	Baizhi is usually left as an alternative/backup pick, sharing similar buffs with Verina. Baizhi’s Outro only buffs the next character switching in, so you will need to adjust your rotation accordingly. Additionally, the ATK buff is NOT teamwide and requires your main-dps to interact with an item.
	Buffs
	• 15% All DMG Deepen • 15% ATK buff • Rejuvenating Glow and Bell-Born Geochelone

	Jianxin
	Mostly brought into stages that have enemies you want to gather. While this may sound underwhelming, there are stages in ToA that have multiple enemies in the same wave. She has the option of using Originite: Type IV for easy access to Rejuvenating Glow set effect at the cost of her own damage.
	Buffs
	• Gather • Rejuvenating Glow with Originite: Type IV and Bell-Borne Geochelone

Team Comps

Skill Priority

Main-DPS 

1. Forte Circuit
2. Resonance Liberation
3. Resonance Skill
4. Intro Skill = Basic Attack

Most of Chixia’s damage comes from her Forte Gauge and Resonance Liberation. In a normal rotation, Chixia will almost never use her Basic Attack.

Weapons

Chixia’s best weapon is Static Mist for its high base ATK, Crit Rate, and Energy Regen. The next best alternatives are Novaburst and Pistols#26 for their generic buffing effects. Note that Pistols#26’s damage output can drop off significantly when Chixia is hit by an attack. 

Both Undying Flame and Thunderbolt provide the same buffs and are perfectly fine 4★ alternatives. Between the two, it’s worth noting that Thunderbolt has worse base stats but scales better with dupes. 

Cadenza should be avoided like the plague, as it is a more utility-focused weapon that can shorten rotations. On a main-dps that wants to stay on-field to deal damage, this is a damage loss.

Weapon Name	Comparison	Notes
Static Mist	R0: 100%	The perfect weapon for Chixia. It provides everything She needs: ER, high base ATK, and crit rate.
Novaburst	R0: 81.57%	On paper, this is another decent weapon that increases Chixia’s ATK by up to 12%. However, this requires dodging multiple times mid-combo to gain stacks.
Undying Flame	R0: 79.69%	Has an easy-to-trigger effect that buffs most of her kit.
Pistols#26	R0: 78.96%	A great weapon that matches Novaburst, assuming you never get hit.
Thunderbolt	R0: 77.75%	Chixia appreciates the additional Resonance Skill damage.
Cadenza	R0: 60.62%	This weapon loses all its value on Chixia, as she prefers to stay on-field to deal damage.
Pistol of Night	R5: 71.32%	Budget alternative

Echoes

Molten Rift: The clear winner when you are going for a main-dps Chixia. Provides a hefty Fusion DMG% buff for 15 seconds after using a skill. With Chixia’s playstyle requiring you to weave in your skills mid-rotation, you should have no problems maintaining uptime on its buff. 

Lingering Tunes: On Chixia, Lingering Tunes is not a terrible alternative since she spends a decent amount of time on-field. This can definitely be a set you can consider if you have better substats on your Echoes. 

Set Effect	Comparison	Notes
Molten Rift 5pc	100%	Provides a large Fusion DMG buff and has access to Inferno Rider.
Lingering Tunes 5pc	87.92%	Lingering Tunes’ only downside is being forced into Mech Abomination.
Lingering Tunes + Molten Rift 2pc	88.81%	This set combination should be treated as a transition set, rather than something to be used in the endgame.

Active Echo Recommendation

Molten Rift - Inferno Rider: For  main-dps purposes, Inferno Rider provides a useful 12% Fusion DMG buff. You can also switch to another character during its 3rd hit. This animation cancel can be important to deal more damage, avoid attacks, or generate additional Resonance/Concerto Energy.

Lingering Tunes - Mech Abomination: The only notable effects this Echo has on Chixia are its ATK buff and fast animation. Chixia also cannot take full advantage of the damage dealt by this Echo, as it scales with Electro DMG.

Mainstat and Substats

Cost	Stat
4	Crit Rate/Crit DMG
3	Fusion Bonus Damage%
3	Fusion Bonus Damage%
1	ATK%
1	ATK%

Sub Stat Priority

Energy Regen (30 to 50%) = Crit Rate = Crit DMG > ATK% > ATK