Candace is a 4-star Hydro Polearm character in Genshin Impact.Our Candace guide and build will focus on Candace's best weapons,best artifacts, skills, constellations and Candace's best teams.
Last updated on Feb 12, 2025 at 07:15by Shikhu 1 comment
C Rank
Hydro Element
Polearm Weapon
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Rarity
Shara Kirby EN Voice Actor
Yuzuki Ryoka JP Voice Actor
1.
Candace Strengths and Weaknesses
Strengths
The unique ability to provide a Hydro Infusion.
Elemental Burst increases the amount of Elemental DMG a Characters Normal Attacks deal.
Great AoE Hydro Application.
Weaknesses
Incredibly High Energy Recharge requirements.
Low overall DMG output, primarily acting instead as a buffer.
C1 and C6 are incredibly important to Candace's overall functionality.
2.
Candace Build Guide, Best Artifacts, Weapons and Talent Priority
Candace is best built as a suppor role taking advantage ofher Hydro infusion, Normal Attack DMG bonuses and AoE Hydroapplication.
BiS Weapon | Favonius Lance |
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Best Artifacts |
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Main Stats |
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Substat Priority |
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Talent Priority |
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With Candace having incredibly high Energy Recharge requirements,her best build options tend to be those which help to ease this. Favonius Lance is therefore her best weapon for most situations.Alternatively, if you are aiming to increase Candace's personal DMG, you can useweapons such as Staff of Homa or Engulfing Lightning insteadin her build.
Build Candace with Emblem of Severed Fate or Noblesse Oblige. Emblem is generally the best allowing you toeffectively use the 4-piece bonus of the artifact set as well as heavilybenefitting from the +20% Energy Recharge. Noblesse however can be a greatoption in teams that want a lot of ATK %.
Candace's most important Talent is her Elemental Burst which is the focusof most of her supportive utility. Her Elemental Skill can also be useful tolevel but it is not worth levelling her Normal Attacks when played off-field.
2.1.
Candace's Energy Recharge Requirements
Candace has incredibly high Energy Recharge requirements with herElemental Skill only generating 2-3 particles. As a result of her lowpersonal DPS you also do not want to be funnelling particles to her eitherwhich only increases her build requirements further.
Your Energy Recharge requirements will depend on how menu Hydrocharacters you have in your team as well as if you use her Elemental Skill onceor twice in a rotation.
1 Skill | 2 Skill | |
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1 Hydro | 280-300% | 250-270% |
2 Hydro | 240-260% | 200-220% |
3 Hydro | 200-220% | 170-190% |
3.
Candace Combos and Skills Explained
Candace's Elemental Skill Sacred Rite: Heron's Sanctumhas 2 different modes with different uses:
- Tap - Dashes forward dealing Hydro in front of Candace.
- Hold - Allows candace to block incoming attacks. The shield is also chargedfor a period of time, when released or when the shield is broken she willdeal AoE Hydro DMG in front of herself. This charges instantly withher A1 Aegis of Crossed Arrows.
Tapping the Skill generates 2 Energy particles while Holding the skillgenerates 3 instead.
Candace's Elemental Burst Sacred Rite: Wagtail's Tide is themain way in which she helps to support your team. This provides the"Prayer of the Crimson Crown" buff to your active character.
This buff allows your active character to deal increased ElementalDMG with their Normal Attacks, deals AoE Hydro DMG periodically and also providesan Elemental Infusion to applicable characters.
4.
Candace's Best Team Compositions
Candace's best team compositions tend to revolve aroundBloom, Vaporize andHyperbloom team compositions allowing us to utiliseher AoE Hydro application.
4.1.
Candace With Mualani Team Compositions
Main DPS | Sub DPS | Sub DPS | Support |
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Mualani | Candace | Xiangling |
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Candace buffs Mualani while also enabling easysetups for either Kaedehara Kazuha and VV or Xilonen and Scroll.
4.2.
Candace in Arlecchino Vaporize
Main DPS | Sub DPS | Support | Support |
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Arlecchino | Candace | Kaedehara Kazuha | Bennett |
This can be a great Arlecchino team, Candace providesenough Hydro application to allow Arlecchino toVape as much as Yelancan in other team compositions for Arlecchino. While Yelan providessignificantly higher amounts of off-field DMG, Candace insteadprovides a Normal Attack buff as well as AoE Hydro application whichcan turn her into a competitive option.
4.3.
Nilou Bloom With Candace
Main DPS | Sub DPS | Support | Support |
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Nahida | Candace | Nilou | Yaoyao |
Candace can be great in Bloom teams especiallywith Yaoyao. This is because of Candace's HydroElemental Infusion which can be used with Yaoyao to providemore value while Yaoyao has to stay on field for 5 seconds during herElemental Burst.
4.4.
Hyperbloom Candace Teams
Main DPS | Sub DPS | Support | Support |
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Nahida | Candace | Baizhu | Kuki Shinobu |
Candace can also be played in Hyperbloom teamsusing characters such as Nahida and Baizhufor Dendro application. In this team, Kuki Shinobuprovides more than enough Electro application to sustainElemental Reactions.
5.
Candace's Ascensions, Talents and Constellations
Candace's Ascensions Candace's Talents Candace's Constellations
5.1.
Candace's Ascension Passives and Materials
Unlock | Ascension Passive | Explanation |
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With Character | To Dawn's First Light | Decreases climbing Stamina consumption for your own party members by 20%. Not stackable with Passive Talents that provide the exact same effects. |
1st Ascension | Aegis of Crossed Arrows | If Candace is hit by an attack in the Hold duration of Sacred Rite: Heron's Sanctum, that skill will finish charging instantly. |
4th Ascension | Celestial Dome of Sand | Characters affected by the Prayer of the Crimson Crown caused by Sacred Rite: Wagtail's Tide will deal 0.5% increased DMG to opponents for every 1,000 points of Candace's Max HP when they deal Elemental DMG with their Normal Attacks. |
Candace requires a range of materials to ascend to the 6th ascension.Starting from the second ascension she gains HP % while levelling,giving a total of 24% Bonus HP % at the final ascension.The total cost to upgrade all ascensions is:
Source | Quantity |
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Mora | 412,500 Mora |
Boss Material | 46x Light Guiding Tetrahedron |
Ascension Material |
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Local Specialty | 168x Henna Berry |
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5.2.
Candace's Talents
Listed below is each talent alongside the talents explanation of how they work.
Type | Talent Name | Skill Explanation |
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Normal | Gleaming Spear - Guardian Stance | Normal Attack Performs up to 4 consecutive spear strikes. Charged Attack Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to lunge forward, dealing damage to opponents along the way. Plunging Attack Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact. |
Elemental Skill | Sacred Rite: Heron's Sanctum | Candace's fighting style is capable of warding off an entire tide of foes.
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Elemental Burst | Sacred Rite: Wagtail's Tide | Raising her weapon on high, Candace calls upon a divine blessing that deals AoE Hydro DMG based on her Max HP and continuously confers the Prayer of the Crimson Crown on your active character. Prayer of the Crimson Crown has the following properties:
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To upgrade a single talent to level 10, it costs:
Source | Quantity |
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Mora | 1,652,500 Mora |
Special Material | 1x Crown of Insight |
Boss Material | 6x Tears of the Calamitous God |
Domain Material |
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5.3.
Candace's Constellations
Candace's most valuable constellations are Returning Heiress of the Scarlet Sands (C1) and The Overflow (C6) which both help to significantly increaseher supportive utility.
# | Name | Explanation |
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C1 | Returning Heiress of the Scarlet Sands | The duration of Prayer of the Crimson Crown effect triggered by Sacred Rite: Wagtail's Tide is increased by 3s. |
C2 | Moon-Piercing Brilliance | When Sacred Rite: Heron's Sanctum hits opponents, Candace's Max HP will be increased by 20% for 15s. |
C3 | Hunter's Supplication |
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C4 | Sentinel Oath | Shortens the Hold CD of Sacred Rite: Heron's Sanctum to be the same as that of the Tapping CD. |
C5 | Heterochromatic Gaze |
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C6 | The Overflow | When characters (excluding Candace herself) affected by the Prayer of the Crimson Crown caused by Sacred Rite: Wagtail's Tide deal Elemental DMG to opponents using Normal Attacks, an attack wave will be unleashed that deals AoE Hydro DMG equal to 15% of Candace's Max HP. This effect can trigger once every 2.3s and is considered Elemental Burst DMG. |
5.4.
Changelog
- 12 Feb. 2025: Reviewed for 5.4.
- 03 Feb. 2025: Guide updated to 5.3.
- 30 May 2024: Guide added.
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