Whenever a new update launches inGenshin Impact, apart from all the latest content you can explore, there’s also a repetitive cycle of building new characters. This character building requires you to choose the right weapons and artifacts for the unit while also upgrading them, which takes fewer resources for a four-star.

Ifa is one such four-star, and he was released during the Version 5.6 update as an Anemo Catalyst user. Ifa’s kit allows him to both be a sustainer and a support for the team, and he can massively boost the damage of Electro-Charged teams specifically once you build him properly.

Genshin Impact Ifa flying across fontaine.

Imaginarium Theater

A Tier

Being a Natlan character, Ifa also has an inherent ability that makes exploration more seamless in the form of flight.After pressing the Skill, he can hover in midair with Cucucu, his Saurian companion. You can increase or decrease your height in this mode, but the former consumes Nightsoul very quickly anddoesn’t give you a lot of height unless you have Phlogiston.

Ifa’s flight mechanic feels a lotless clunky compared to Chasca,allowing for a better experiencewhile trying to go from one place to another.

Genshin Impact Ifa with sacrificial fragments in hand.

This already makes Ifa a good character for exploration even if you don’t have him built since he canjust be in the fourth slot of your team and help you cross gaps when needed. However, he’s a good unit even when it comes to the open-world combat. Ifa’s main gimmick is that he can support the Electro-Charged reaction while being on the field and healing the entire party.

Since you usually battle a group of enemies in both the open world and the Imaginarium Theater, he can be a good pick. However,he doesn’t work as well in Spiral Abyss since you usually fight bosses in itand Electro-Charged reaction isn’t the best.

Genshin Impact Ifa with viridescent venerer set.

Ifa’s Kit, Explained

Here’s everything you need to know about the different abilities possessed by Ifa and how you can use them:

Ifa’s Constellations, Explained

Being a four-star character, you can get Ifa’s constellations quite easily by eitherpulling on the character banner when he’s featuredor randomly getting it on other banners. With that in mind,he also gets a lot of important buffs from these constellationsthat make him more viable:

Ifa’s second constellation is already a good stopping point sincehe doesn’t get a lot of value past that.

Genshin Impact Ifa team with ororon, raiden shogun, and yelan.

Moreover, you’ll be able to get him to C6 eventually with passive summoning.

Best Ifa Weapons

Now that you understand how Ifa works, we can dive into his build that firstrequires you to choose the best weapon for him available in your account. Ifa’s healing from the Skill scales on Elemental Mastery, and the extra damage he deals with Swirl also gets buffed with higher EM, making it the most important stat for him.

This can be reflected in Ifa’s weapon choices as well,with the best one being Sunny Morning Sleep-In. However, you have quite a few other choices if you don’t have access to that:

Synergy With Ifa

Sunny Morning Sleep-In

This is Yumemizuki Mizuki’s signature weapon, and since she’s added to the standard banner, it’ll likely not get a rerun for a long time. However, if you already have it,you can enjoy a whopping 265 EM by just upgrading it to level 90.

It further increases yourEM by 120 after triggering Swirl, 96 after your Skill (Plunge Attack) hit opponents, and 32 when your Burst hits opponents. Since Ifa can trigger all of these, this weapon is the best in slot for him.

A Thousand Floating Dreams

While this weapon shares a similar EM secondary stat as the one above, it gives significantly less value since it’ll mostly give youextra Elemental DMG bonus for your party members being from a different element.

However, it can increase your entire party’s EM,which helps a ton with the increased Electro-Charged damage.

Sacrificial Fragment

While this weapon can give you up to 221 EM on the secondary stat, its passive is quite useless for Ifa.His Skill cooldown starts after he lands on the ground, which makes it unable to reset with the weapon.

Hakushin Ring

This weapon can work surprisingly well on Ifa since it can give the otherElectro characters in your team a 20 percent Elemental DMG bonus.

However, because of its secondary stat being Energy Recharge,you’ll have to farm a lot more EMon his flower and feather artifacts.

Mappa Mare

This is a craftable four-star catalyst that only gives you 110 EM at the maximum level. However, when you trigger an Elemental Reaction, Ifa canget up to 32 percent Elemental DMG bonus with it.

While it might seem like this weapon has more buffs than Sacrificial Fragment,EM is far more important on Ifathan Elemental DMG.

Magic Guide

Finally, if you don’t have any of the above weapons, you can use this three-star to get 187 Elemental Mastery and increased damage sinceyou’ll be attacking Electro or Hydro opponents often.

Best Ifa Artifacts

Once you’ve equipped Ifa with a good weapon, the main grind to building a character starts sinceyou now have to put the right artifacts on him with some specific stats. Artifact sets can get special bonuses if you have two or four pieces from the same set, which is important for Ifa,with the best artifact set being Viridescent Venerer.

Outside of that, he doesn’t have too many options quite as valuable, but here’s what you can use:

Viridescent Venerer

Apart from increasing his Anemo DMG, this set also further buffs his Swirl damagewhile reducing the opponent’s RES to the Swirled element, which will be both Electro and Hydro in his case.

Gilded Dreams

This set can also be a great choice on Ifa asit can give him up to 230 EM after triggering the Swirl reactionsince all his party members will be from a different element.

Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City

This set can work as a decent alternative as it regenerates some HP for himwhile increasing the party’s Elemental DMG by 40 percent. However, it gives less value since his team gets most of the damage from reactions and not personal character damage.

Since Viridescent Venerer is available much earlier than the other two sets here,you should mostly work on getting together that one for Ifa.

Ifa Artifact Stat Priority

Apart from the artifact set bonuses, you also have to focus on the main and sub-stats of each artifact on Ifa. However, this is quite easy since both theflower and feather pieces have a permanent main stat in the form of HP and ATK respectively. Here’s what you can choose for the main and sub-stats on the rest of his pieces:

Sub-Stats

Elemental Mastery > Energy Recharge > ATK Percent

While Ifa doesn’t need a lot of ATK Percent, it can be a decent third stat to have on your artifactsto increase his personal damage a bit.

Best Ifa Teams

Now that you have your Ifa built with the perfect weapons and artifacts, you’re able to finally use him in the open world and endgame modes. However, he’s largely useless by himself sincehe’s a support that needs Electro and Hydro off-field characters in his teamspecifically to work. While this is niche, he still has a couple of decent options:

Ifa’s F2P Team

Ifa, Ororon, Xingqiu, Fischl

Ifa’s Tonicshots count as normal attacks, whichmakes him work with Yelanand Xingqiu since he can trigger their additional attacks.

As a four-star character, Ifa has quite a lot of uniqueness to his playstyle. Firstly, he’s a sustainer who needs to stay on-field to get the maximum value from his kit,which means that you need off-field damage characters with him. Secondly, he only buffs Swirl and Electro-Charged damage, which means that his team members have to be Electro or Hydro.

Ororon is a staple in his team since he can continuously increase his Nightsoul Pointswhenever the party triggers a Nightsoul Burst or Electro-Charged reaction. This will help offset the Nightsoul Point requirement for Ifa’s passive, especially if you have the second constellation, which makes it a lot easier.

Ororon works a lot like Ifa in a way wherehe doesn’t have as much personal damage, but buffs Electro-Charged reaction itself.

Apart from Ororon, you may pick one Hydro and Electro applicator based on the availability on your account. Thebest choice for this isYelanandYae Mikosince both of them also have a bunch of off-field damage. However, you can also replace them with Xingqiu or Fischl if you don’t have either of those characters, respectively.

Raiden Shogunis also a great pick for Ifa since she candeal a ton of damage with her Burst and regenerate Energy for the party. However, she will slow down the team’s rotation a bit, andRaiden gets the most damage in Quicken teams.