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Genshin Impact Amber Guide - best build, strengths and weaknesses

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Genshin Impact Amber Guide - best build, strengths and weaknesses
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Updated on: July 24, 2021

Welcome to PocketGamers' detailed Genshin Impact Amber guide! Amber is an archer and the only Outrider in the Knights of Favonius. She takes her role as a knight seriously and tries to play by the rules, but her love for gliding overcomes everything else.

Don’t let her morals fool you, however, as she’s as nice as they come. Friendly to all, stranger or not, and she strives to be as good of a knight as her grandfather, who was a defender of Mondstadt.

In the guide below you will find the following features: 

Character Appearance

Genshin Impact Amber

Amber Element / Tier / Rarity / Weapon

Pyro / C Tier / 4* Rarity / Bow

Amber has great support capabilities and offers Geo protection with her shields. She can do Geo damage for longer thanks to her Elemental Skill and Burst lasting longer than most characters.

How to get Amber

Complete the Wind-Riding Knight Quest, spend Wishes in the Wanderlust Invocation, or she sometimes shows up in Paimon’s Bargains.

Genshin Impact Amber Combat Info (Strengths and Weaknesses)

Strengths

  • Amber can focus on taking down enemies from a distance and focus on hitting their weak points with higher precision
  • Her Elemental Skill is a good distraction against mobs of enemies.
  • You can use her Pyro to solve environmental puzzles.

Weaknesses

  • Amber has a low base HP and damage amount.
  • You’ll be waiting a while for her skills to cooldown.
  • Requires a lot of resources to make her a halfway decent character with a bunch of perks locked beyond Ascension phases.

Best Build for Amber in Genshin Impact

Pair Amber with the Skyward Harp weapon and Noblesse Oblige artifact set to use her as a decent Pyro support character. This is a great setup to increase her Crit damage as well as her Elemental Burst damage, allowing her to spread Pyro around while controlling enemies with her Skill. Her Burst can also then be effective to take down shields.

Amber - Best Artifacts and Weapons

Noblesse Oblige

Energy Recharge / Pyro DMG / ATK% Set Bonuses:
  • (2) Elemental Burst DMG +20%.
  • (4) Using an Elemental Burst increases all party members' ATK by 20% for 12s. This effect cannot stack.
How to Obtain: Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern Domain rewards

Skyward Harp

  • Base Attack: 48
  • Rating: 5*
  • Bonus Effect: CRIT Rate 4.8%
Skill: Increases CRIT DMG by 20%. Hits have a 60% chance to inflict a small AoE attack, dealing 125% Physical ATK DMG. Can only occur once every 4s. How to Obtain: Gacha pull

Best Party Members to match Amber with in Genshin Impact

Premium (Gacha) Team

In Genshin Impact Amber should be used as a way to inflict elemental combos and as support. If you pair her with Chongyun, you can use his Elemental Skill to inflict Melt on enemies, causing extra damage. Fischl can use Oz to cause the Overcharge combo to create a lot of damage and stays on the field even when switching to a different character. Bennett will act as a healer and support with his attack buff from his Burst. Pairing the two Pyros will also give you a boost in Resonance.

F2P Team

While it’s not the best option, if you were hard-pressed, you could use Amber as a means to set up combos and act as a sub-DPS, but Xiangling will be the main damage dealer in this party. Not only will you have a bunch of Pyro about, but your Resonance will be better for it. Kaeya can swap in to provide Melt reactions, and Barbara should be able to handle heals and create Vaporize reactions from your Pyro pals.

Talents / Skills / Passive

Genshin Impact Amber talents

Sharpshooter - Normal Attack

Normal: Perform up to 5 consecutive shots with a bow.

Charged: Perform a more precise Aimed Shot with increased DMG. While aiming, flames will accumulate on the arrowhead. A fully charged flaming arrow will deal Pyro DMG. Plunge Attack: Fires off a shower of arrows in mid-air before falling and striking the ground, dealing AoE DMG upon impact. Skill Attributes:
  • 1-Hit DMG 36.1%
  • 2-Hit DMG 36.1%
  • 3-Hit DMG 46.4%
  • 4-Hit DMG 47.3%
  • 5-Hit DMG 59.3%

 

  • Aimed Shot - 43.9%
  • Fully-Charged Aimed Shot - 124%
  • Plunge DMG - 56.8%
  • Low/High Plunge DMG - 114% / 142%

Explosive Puppet - Elemental Skill

The ever-reliable Baron Bunny takes the stage.

Baron Bunny: Continuously taunts the enemy, drawing their fire. Baron Bunny's HP scales with Amber's Max HP.

When destroyed or when its timer expires, Baron Bunny explodes, dealing AoE Pyro DMG.

Hold: Adjusts the throwing direction of Baron Bunny. The longer the button is held, the further the throw.  Skill Attributes
  • Inherited HP - 41.4%
  • Explosion DMG - 123%
  • CD - 15s

Fiery Rain - Elemental Burst

Fires off a shower of arrows, dealing continuous AoE Pyro DMG.

Skill Attributes
  • Fiery Rain DMG Per Wave - 28.1%
  • Total Fiery Rain DMG - 505%
  • Duration - 2s
  • CD - 12s
  • Energy Cost - 40

Every Arrow Finds Its Target - 1st Ascension Passive

Increases the CRIT Rate of Fiery Rain by 10% and widens its AoE by 30%.

Precise Shot - 4th Ascension Passive

Aimed Shot hits on weak spots increase Base ATK by 15% for 10s.

Gliding Champion - Unlocked Automatically

Decreases all party members’ gliding Stamina Consumption by 20%.

Talent Leveling Materials

Gained from Enemy Drops (Ranged Hilichurl):

  • Firm Arrowhead
  • Sharp Arrowhead
  • Weathered Arrowhead

Acquired from Domains (Monday/Thursday/Sunday):

  • Teachings of Freedom
  • Guide to Freedom
  • Philosophies of Freedom

Obtained after defeating Bosses (Dvalin):

Dvalin’s Sigh

Constellations

Amber constellation

One Arrow to Rule Them All

Fires 2 arrows per Aimed Shot. The second arrow deals 20% of the first arrow’s DMG.

Bunny Triggered

Baron Bunny, new and improved! Hitting Baron Bunny's foot with a fully charged Aimed Shot manually detonates it. Explosion via manual detonation deals 200% DMG.

It Burns!

Increases the Level of Fiery Rain by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.

It's Not Just Any Doll...

Decreases Explosive Puppet's CD by 20%. Adds 1 additional charge.

It’s Baron Bunny!

Increases the Level of Explosive Puppet by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.

Wildfire

Fiery Rain increases the entire party's Movement SPD by 15% and Base ATK by 15% for 10s.

Genshin Impact Amber Ascensions costs

Phase 1
  • Lv.20→Lv.40
  • Mora Cost: 20,000
  • Small Lamp Grass ×3
  • Agnidus Agate Sliver ×1
  • Firm Arrowhead ×3
Phase 2
  • Lv.40→Lv.50
  • Small Lamp Grass ×10
  • Agnidus Agate Fragment ×3
  • Firm Arrowhead ×15
  • Everflame Seed ×2
Phase 3
  • Lv.50→Lv.60
  • Mora Cost: 60,000
  • Small Lamp Grass ×20
  • Agnidus Agate Fragment ×6
  • Sharp Arrowhead ×12
  • Everflame Seed ×4
Phase 4
  • Lv.60→Lv.70
  • Mora Cost: 80,000
  • Small Lamp Grass ×20
  • Agnidus Agate Chunk ×3
  • Sharp Arrowhead ×18
  • Everflame Seed ×8
Phase 5
  • Lv.70→Lv.80
  • Mora Cost: 100,000
  • Small Lamp Grass ×45
  • Agnidus Agate Chunk ×6
  • Weathered Arrowhead ×12
  • Everflame Seed ×12
Phase 6 (MAX)
  • Lv.80→Lv.90
  • Mora Cost: 120,000
  • Small Lamp Grass ×60
  • Agnidus Agate Gemstone ×6
  • Weathered Arrowhead ×24
  • Everflame Seed ×20

Base Stats

At Level 1, Amber starts with 793 HP, 19 ATK, and 50 DEF.

Wishes / Availability

Amber can be received in the Wanderlust Invocation Standard Wish. This is always available.

You know, we also have a Genshin Impact tier list if you want to check how well Amber performs in comparison to other characters! Also, stay aware, soon enough we plan to make a Genshin Impact characters hub with all of the available characters and their detailed guides!

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