Gorou is a 4-star Geo Bow character in Genshin Affect who focuses on buffing your staff’s DEF and Geo DMG. When you’ve constructed him up, right here’s how you can make the very best use of him!

Gorou’s equipment, defined

Gorou’s Ability creates a round discipline that buffs anybody inside it. The buffs you get rely on what number of Geo characters are in your staff, together with Gorou himself. So as, they’re:

• 1 Geo character: flat DEF enhance
• 2 Geo characters: interruption resistance
• 3 Geo characters: Geo DMG bonus

These buffs are cumulative, so when you have three or extra Geo characters in your staff, you’ll obtain all three buffs.

Gorou’s Burst creates the identical discipline that his Ability does, however it now follows you round. It additionally offers a little bit of Geo injury at intervals and pulls Crystallize shards in in direction of you, creating small shields. Casting Gorou’s Burst may even grant a small DEF% buff from his Ascension 1 passive, on prime of the opposite buffs listed in his Ability description. At Constellation 6, Gorou’s Burst grants a priceless Geo CRIT DMG buff based mostly on the variety of Geo characters in your staff.

Easy methods to play Gorou in a rotation

The best option to play Gorou is to use his Ability, then Burst, then swap to your Geo DPS character. Then, use your Geo DPS unit’s combo to deal injury. If Gorou’s buff runs out partway by way of your combo (denoted by his pet acquainted disappearing), you’ll be able to swap again to Gorou to forged his Ability.

For Itto, this implies utilizing his Burst, then Regular Assault, then Ability, then two Regular Assaults earlier than spamming Charged Assaults. After the final Charged Assault in his particular combo, Itto will do a last slam. You may lengthen the combo after the slam by doing three or 4 extra Normals, then one other collection of Charged Assaults and one other Ability. In shorthand notation, this appears to be like like:

N1 E N2 C4 N3 C4 E

For Noelle, this implies utilizing Noelle’s Ability, then Burst, then spam Regular Assaults. You may select to omit her fourth Regular Assault out of your combos since these hits have a smaller No matter you resolve, attempt to cancel out of her third or fourth Regular Assault animations by dashing.

Greatest groups for Gorou in Genshin Affect

Gorou gives buffs to Geo DPS characters who scale with DEF. As of Model 4.7, the next characters profit from Gorou’s buffs.

Gorou’s greatest groups ought to embrace one on-field Geo DPS (Itto or Noelle) and one further Geo character. Albedo and Chiori make the very best use of Gorou’s buffs, however you’ll be able to select to make use of one other Geo character as a substitute. Navia, Yun Jin, and Zhongli can’t use Gorou’s DEF buff, however they may activate the third degree of Gorou’s buffs.