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

1. Pyro + Hydro -> Vaporize Reaction

2. Pyro + Cryo -> Melt Reaction

3. Pyro + Dendro -> Burning Reaction

4. Hydro + Cryo -> Freeze Reaction

5. Frozen enemy + Heavy attacks -> Shatter Reaction

6. Electro + Hydro -> Electro-charge Reaction

7. Electro + Cryo -> Superconduct Reaction

8. Electro + Pyro -> Overloaded Reaction

9. Anemo + Pyro/Cryo/Hydro/Electro -> Swirl Reaction

10. Geo + Pyro/Cryo/Hydro/Electro -> Crystalize Reaction

11. Dendro + Pyro → Burning Reaction

12. Dendro + Hydro → Bloom Reaction (which creates Dendro Core)

    • Dendro Core + Pyro → Burgeon Reaction

    • Dendro Core + Electro → HyperBloom Reaction

13. Dendro + Electro → Quicken Reaction

    • Quickened Enemies + Dendro → Spread Reaction

    • Quickened Enemies + Electro → Aggravate Reaction