Genshin Impact Elements: All Seven, Every Reaction, and How to Use Them

Seven elements drive every fight in Genshin Impact. Understanding how they interact can make a major difference to your team’s damage, survivability, and utility. While the system can look complicated at first, each reaction follows a clear set of rules.

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Genshin Impact has a total of seven Elements.
The four reactive Elements, Pyro, Hydro, Electro, and Cryo, react with other elements prioritized in that order. The remaining three are Anemo, Geo, and Dendro.
The reactive elements can React with the other six, while the latter three can only react with the four reactive elements.
Certain characters, like Columbina and Sandrone, can enable special forms of these reactions named Stellar and Lunar Reactions.

The Seven Elements at a glance

Every playable character is associated with one of seven elements: Pyro, Hydro, Cryo, Electro, Anemo, Geo, and Dendro.

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The Seven Elements at a glance