Varesa guide
' Varesa is a plunging focused electro DPS. Her playstyle is very fun with the potential for high damage. She has a unique mechanic with her energy, being able to use two different types of elemental bursts. If you want to play Varesa, it is highly recommended that you invest in building Iansan as well.
Fiery Passion is an alternative way to describe Varesa's Nightsoul Blessing state. Varesa is unique in comparison to other Natlan characters because she can gain Nightsoul points through her plunge attacks, in addition to her elemental skill and burst. She is also the only character in the game who can enable a plunge attack without a skill or burst (or falling) involved - Varesa's charged attacks launch her into the air. When using Varesa, you will want to use charged attacks in your combo in order to plunge.
With footwork swift as lightning and fierce as thunder, Varesa displays the true spirit of the lucha libre, rushing forward and dealing Nightsoul-aligned electro damage. Varesa's skill has two charges and gains an additional charge when entering her Fiery Passion state. Varesa's tap and hold skill are different, you will typically only want to use the tap skill for combat and hold skill for exploration.
Leaps into the air before using the momentum of the drop to unleash a powerful flying kick, dealing Nightsoul-aligned AoE Electro damage to opponents, restoring her nightsoul points to maximum, and entering the Fiery Passion state. Varesa has two different elemental bursts. Glory Vent! takes more energy and is considered elemental burst damage, while Apex Drive has no cooldown, takes about half as much energy, and is considered plunging damage. Apex Drive can be used after completing a plunge attack in her Fiery Passion state, and is a more optimal choice.
A1 Passive: Plunging multiplier increase. Increase is greater if she's in Fiery Passion.
A4 Passive: 35% attack increase based on Nightsoul bursts. 2 stacks but can only realistically get 1 in 90% of teams. Not worth fishing for the second stack.
Normal Attack
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Skill
| Artifact Sets | DPS% | Description |
|---|---|---|
 4pc Long Night's Oath |
115.3% | Her signature set that offers a lot of damage %, but barely outperforms codex |
 4pc Obsidian Codex |
115.2% | Good for all Natlan DPSs, but Varesa is at risk of overcapping on crit rate and it has some downtime |
2pc Oath, 2pc Atk%, |
100% | Can be used while farming a full set, but it's a significant damage loss |
Sands ATK%
Goblet Electro Dmg%
Circlet Crit DMG/Rate
ER to 120-135%
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Crit Rate (MAX 60% if Codex)
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Crit DMG
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ATK%
As Varesa's burst does a significant amount of damage and helps maintain her Fiery Passion state, it is recommended to build enough er to be able to use Apex Drive twice per rotation. Varesa ascends with crit rate which can make Codex difficult to build around. If using a crit rate weapon, Night's Oath is highly recommended. Attack goblet can perform okay on Night's Oath
| Weapon name | DPS% | Description |
|---|---|---|
 [R1] Vivid Notions |
127% | Gives attack and a lot of crit dmg |
 [R1] Kagura's Verity |
106% | Elemental damage bonus and crit dmg |
 [R1] Lost Prayer |
105% | Not recommended with codex. Gives crit rate, movement speed, and elemental damage bonus |
 [R1] Tome/[R1] Surfs Up |
105% | Crit dmg stat sticks |
 [R5]Widsith |
100% | 2/3 of the passives are helpful, 1 is useless |
 [R1] Crane's Echoing Call |
98% | Helpful passive but the lack of crit hurts |
 [R5] Flowing Purity |
93% | Attack % & elemental damage bonus |
| Constellation | C0% | Description |
|---|---|---|
 C1 |
112% | Increased Plunging Attack multiplier both in and out of Fiery Passion state and of the Apex |
 C2 |
135% | Enters Apex Drive after Plunging Attack regardless of Fiery Passion state. Restores energy after plunging. 3 more apex's, higher fieldtime but it's worth for the damage gain |
 C3 |
145% | +3 Burst levels. Decent damage increase |
 C4 |
163% | Good on paper, but doesn't work well with combos. Good for nuking |
 C5 |
174% | +3 NA levels. More valuable than C3 |
 C6 |
242% | Energy restoration on small burst cast, crit rate and crit dmg increase, nightsoul point restoration for exploration. Increased field time but its worth for the damage gain |
An electro teammate is highly recommended in order to help with Varesa's energy, running her as solo electro or a team that cannot enable electro resonance results in a significant damage loss.
Varesa's best teammate. Flat atk, scroll holder, with cons can give atk % and additional dmg %
Scroll holder, atk % at c6. That's about it
Better than solo electro
Best team archetype even without c6. Res shred, atk%, dmg % at c6
Strong personal damage and on field dmg % buff
Big atk buff and healing. Need to switch to mid fieldtime to keep up res shred, about equal to Mavuika in team damage
Off field application and okay damage. Extends rotations
Best option outside of overload. Potent flat dmg buff and healing, VV is inconsistant and her kit doesnt synergize with varesa super well so she ends up being a lot worse DMG wise
Decent personal damage and teamwide dmg %
Res shred, healing, a bit more atk % via her a4 passive but its still not 100% uptime unless you swap to Xilonen mid fieldtime. A lot worse than Furina but still okay
If you're struggling to make a team, you should have either Chevreuse, Mavuika, Furina or Xianyun, at least one of them. In that case, you should pair that character with Varesa and Iansan and some other support who is a flex slot, for example: Varesa Iansan Furina Jean, Varesa Iansan Mavuika Xilonen