Nahida, also known as the Dendro Archon Kusanali, is finally here in Genshin Impact Version 3.2! Read on for her skills, talents, materials, and more here.

Her Ascension Stat is Elemental Mastery, earning up to 115 Bonus EM at level 90. She is a 5-star Dendro Catalyst. Her birthday is on October 27th, so we won't get a birthday present from the young Archon until next year.

Nahida Ascension Materials

To fully level up Nahida from level 1 to level 90, these are all the materials she needs.

  • 168 Kalpalata Lotus
  • Primary Ascension Materials (drops from Jadeplume Terrorshroom and Dendro Hypostasis):
    • 1 Nagadus Emerald Sliver
    • 9 Nagadus Emerald Fragment
    • 9 Nagadus Emerald Chunk
    • 9 Nagadus Emerald Gemstone
  • Fungi drops:
    • 18 Fungal Spores
    • 30 Luminescent Pollen
    • 36 Crystalline Cyst Dust
  • Dendro Hypostasis drops:
    • 46 Quelled Creeper
  • 420,000 Mora
  • 412 Hero’s Wit + 2 Wanderer’s Advice (or equivalent EXP)

Nahida Talent Materials

Each of Nahida's three battle talents require the following materials to be ascended to level 10.

  • Fungi drops:
    • 6 Fungal Spores
    • 22 Luminescent Pollen
    • 31 Crystalline Cyst Dust
  • Talent Level-Up Materials:
    • 3 Teachings of Ingenuity
    • 21 Guide to Ingenuity
    • 38 Philosophies of Ingenuity
  • Shouki no Kami Weekly Boss Drops:
    • 6 Puppet Strings
  • 1 Crown of Insight
  • 1.6525 million Mora

Nahida Skills

Normal Attack: Akara

Normal Attack

  • Performs up to 4 attacks that deal Dendro DMG to opponents in front of her.

Charged Attack

  • Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Dendro DMG in front of her after a short casting time.

Plunging Attack

  • Calling upon the might of Dendro, Nahida plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Dendro DMG upon impact with the ground.

Elemental Skill: All Schemes to Know

Sends forth karmic bonds of wood and tree from her side, dealing AoE Dendro DMG and marking up to 8 opponents hit with the Seed of Skandha.

When held, this skill will trigger differently.

Hold

  • Enters Aiming Mode, which will allow you to select a limited number of opponents within a limited area. When Aiming Mode ends, this skill deals Dendro DMG to these opponents and marks them with the Seed of Skandha.
  • Aiming Mode will last up to 5s and can select a maximum of 8 opponents.

Seed of Skandha

  • Opponents who have been marked by the Seed of Skandha will be linked to one another up till a certain distance.
  • After you trigger Elemental Reactions on opponents who are thusly linked together and when they take DMG from Dendro Cores (including Burgeon and Hyperbloom DMG), Nahida will unleash Tri-Karma Purification on this opponent and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on her ATK and Elemental Mastery.
  • You can trigger at most 1 Tri-Karma Purification within a short period of time.

“Lo, the god of grass and trees shines her ultimate truth into the void, illuminating the origin and destruction of the three karmas.”

The Seed of Skandha mark lasts for 25 seconds. On tap, the skill will go on a 5 second cooldown, and 6 seconds when held. The damage from Tri-Karma Purification goes from (103.2% ATK + 206.4% Elemental Mastery) at level 1 to (245.1% ATK + 490.2% Elemental Mastery) at level 15. The interval between Tri-Karma Purification triggers is 2.5 seconds.

For those who like optimizing or theorycrafting: Nahida's E skill technically does not have an ICD.

Elemental Burst: Illusory Heart

Manifests the Court of Dreams and expands the Shrine of Maya.

When the Shrine of Maya field is unleashed, the following effects will be separately unleashed based on the Elemental Types present within the party.

  • Pyro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the DMG dealt by Tri-Karma Purification from “All Schemes to Know” is increased.
  • Electro: While Nahida remains within the Shrine of Maya, the interval between each Tri-Karma Purification from “All Schemes to Know” is decreased.
  • Hydro: The Shrine of Maya’s duration is increased.

If there are at least 2 party members of the aforementioned Elemental Types present when the field is deployed, the aforementioned effects will be increased further.

Even if Nahida is not on the field, these bonuses will still take effect so long are party members are within the Shrine of Maya.

“Perhaps all that dwell under the bowers of trees are naught but a fleeting upside-down dream in the eyes of the God of Wisdom.”

The base duration of the Shrine of Maya is 15 seconds, and Illusory Heart is on a 13.5 second cooldown with a 50 Energy Cost.

The DMG bonus granted by having Pyro party members are as follows:

  • Level 1 (1 Pyro Character/2+ Pyro Characters): 14.9% / 22.3%
  • Level 10 (1 Pyro Character/2+ Pyro Characters): 26.8% / 40.2%
  • Level 15 (1 Pyro Character/2+ Pyro Characters): 35.3% / 53%

The CD Decrease granted by having Electro party members are as follows:

  • Level 1 (1 Electro Character/2+ Electro Characters): 0.25s / 0.37s
  • Level 10 (1 Electro Character/2+ Electro Characters): 0.45s / 0.67s
  • Level 15 (1 Electro Character/2+ Electro Characters): 0.59s / 0.88s

The Duration Extension granted by having Hydro party members are as follows:

  • Level 1 (1 Hydro Character/2+ Hydro Characters): 3.34s / 5.02s
  • Level 10 (1 Hydro Character/2+ Hydro Characters): 6.02s / 9.03s
  • Level 15 (1 Hydro Character/2+ Hydro Characters): 7.94s / 11.91s

Nahida Passive Talents

On All Things Meditated

  • Nahida can use All Schemes to Know to interact with some harvestable items within a fixed AoE.
  • This skill may even have some other effects…
    • This pertains to the fact that you can aim her Elemental Skill at various NPCs to “read their thoughts.”

Compassion Illuminated

  • When unleashing Illusory Heart, the Shrine of Maya will gain the following effects:
    • The Elemental Mastery of the active character within the field will be increased by 25% of the Elemental Mastery of the party member with the highest Elemental Mastery.
    • You can gain a maximum of 250 Elemental Mastery in this manner.

Awakening Elucidated

  • Each point of Nahida's Elemental Mastery beyond 200 will grant 0.1% Bonus DMG and 0.03% CRIT Rate to Tri-Karma Purification from All Schemes to Know
  • A maximum of 80% Bonus DMG and 24% CRIT Rate can be granted to Tri-Karma Purification in this manner.

Nahida Constellations

Nahida's Astrolabe name is Domina Sophia. This pertains to her identity as the Dendro Archon of Sumeru, the land of Wisdom.

The Seed of Stored Knowledge

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  • When the Shrine of Maya is unleashed and the Elemental Types of the party members are being tabulated, the count will add 1 to the number of Pyro, Electro, and Hydro characters respectively.

The Root of All Fullness

  • Opponents that are marked by Nahida’s own Seed of Skandha will be affected by the following effects:
    • Burning, Bloom, Hyperbloom, Burgeon Reaction DMG can score CRIT Hits. CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG are fixed at 20% and 100% respectively.
    • Within 8s of being affected by Quicken, Aggravate, Spread, DEF is decreased by 30%.

The Shoot of Conscious Attainment

  • Increases the Level of All Schemes to Know by 3.
  • Maximum upgrade level is 15.

The Stem of Manifest Inference

  • When 1/2/3/(4 or more) nearby opponents are affected by All Schemes to Know‘s Seeds of Skandha, Nahida’s Elemental Mastery will be increased by 100/120/140/160.

The Leaves of Enlightening Speech

  • Increases the Level of Illusory Heart by 3.
  • Maximum upgrade level is 15.

The Fruit of Reason’s Culmination

  • When Nahida hits an opponent linked by All Schemes to Know‘s Seeds of Skandha with Normal or Charged Attacks after unleashing Illusory Heart, she will use Karmic Oblivion on this opponent and all connected opponents, dealing Dendro DMG based on 200% of Nahida’s ATK and 400% of her Elemental Mastery.
  • DMG dealt by Karmic Oblivion is considered Elemental Skill DMG and can be triggered once every 0.2s.
    This effect can last up to 10s and will be removed after Nahida has unleashed 6 instances of Karmic Oblivion.

Other Nahida Details

Nahida's special dish is called Halvamazd, made by cooking Candied Ajilenakh Nut with her.

  • Effect: Increases all party members’ DEF by 282 for 300s. In Co-Op Mode, this effect only applies to your own character(s).
  • Description: Nahida’s specialty. It is said that “mazd” means “wisdom” in Sumeru, and such delicate “wisdom” is simply irresistible. There is a gentle smile in Nahida’s eyes: “The sea anemone has helped the little fish and witnessed its growth, so it’s only natural for the little fish to give something back.”

The Dendro Archon's outfit is called “For All Knowledge, a Verse.”

  • Description: Nahida’s outfit. Only the oracles that interpret knowledge may robe the God of Wisdom, and so even the smallest ornament is viewed by believers as holy writ.

Her voice actor for the English dub is Kimberley Anne Cambell, Tamura Yukari for Japanese, and Park Shi-Yoon for Korean.