Elemental Reactions
Introduction
Elemental reactions can be a way to further increase your damage. There are 2 types of reactions: amplifying and transformative. Amplifying reactions include melt and vaporize reactions, while transformative reactions include swirl, superconduct, electrocharge, overload, burning, shatter, and crystallize. Melt and vaporize reactions provide a direct damage increase based on your own raw damage while transformative reactions generate extra damage separately from your character’s damage.
Are transformative reactions worth building?
Not every transformative reaction is worth an investment of increased EM, for example: electro-charged and overloaded damage isn’t worth improving generally except for some characters like overload Yoimiya or overload Lisa build because of how erratic the activation can be. Superconduct damage is negligible and is only used for physical DPSes to further improve their damage by decreasing the physical RES of enemies in the area. Crystallize reactions don’t do damage, but instead make a shield that is honestly not that useful due to its fragility. Burning reactions aren’t that controllable as of now because we don’t have any dendro characters. Shatter is also not a great reaction and not worth building around. Unlike the others, Swirl reactions are very powerful for characters like Kazuha, Venti, Sunfire Jean ( Jean + Bennett burst combo), and Sucrose and benefit greatly from building EM.
List of possible reactions
Pyro + Hydro -> Vaporize Reaction
Pyro + Cryo -> Melt Reaction
Pyro + Dendro -> Burning Reaction
Hydro + Cryo -> Freeze Reaction
Frozen enemy + Heavy attacks -> Shatter Reaction
Electro + Hydro -> Electro-charge Reaction
Electro + Cryo -> Superconduct Reaction
Electro + Pyro -> Overloaded Reaction
Anemo + Pyro/Cryo/Hydro/Electro -> Swirl Reaction
Geo + Pyro/Cryo/Hydro/Electro -> Crystalize Reaction
Dendro + Pyro → Burning Reaction
Dendro + Hydro → Bloom Reaction (which creates Dendro Core)
Dendro Core + Pyro → Burgeon Reaction
Dendro Core + Electro → HyperBloom Reaction
Dendro + Electro → Quicken Reaction
Quickened Enemies + Dendro → Spread Reaction
Quickened Enemies + Electro → Aggravate Reaction
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