Raiden Guide

Raiden is an Electro Polearm Character that specializes as a Burst Support.

Overview

Raiden is a popular strong and flexible Burst Support who can offer utility in the form of Energy, buffs, and Electro application to the rest of her team. While not as widely able to slot into other existing teams as the two archons preceding her, Zhongli and Venti, she offers the potential to build a full team around her.

Elemental Skill: Transcendence: Balefule Omen

The Raiden Shogun unveils a shard of her Euthymia, dealing Electro DMG to nearby opponents, and granting nearby party members the Eye of Stormy Judgment.

Eye of Stormy Judgment: When characters with this buff attack and deal DMG to opponents, the Eye will unleash a coordinated attack, dealing AoE Electro DMG at the opponent’s position. Characters who gain the Eye of Stormy Judgment will have their Elemental Burst DMG increased based on the Energy Cost of the Elemental Burst during the Eye’s duration.The Eye can initiate one coordinated attack every 0.9s per party. Coordinated attacks generated by characters not controlled by you deal 20% of the normal DMG.

Raiden’s Elemental Skill’s perks include permanent uptime, large range, DMG% buffs, and damage. Always try to start a fight by casting her Elemental Skill to ensure maximum uptime. Additionally, the skill only activates on damage, so hitting a shield or anything that does not show a damage number will not trigger her Skill.


Elemental Burst: Secret Art: Musou Shinsesu

Gathering truths unnumbered and wishes uncounted, the Raiden Shogun unleashes the Musou no Hitotachi and deals AoE Electro DMG, using Musou Isshin in combat for a certain duration afterward. The DMG dealt by Musou no Hitotachi and Musou Isshin’s attacks will be increased based on the number of Chakra Desiderata’s Resolve stacks consumed when this skill is used.

Chakra Desiderata: When nearby party members (excluding the Raiden Shogun herself) use their Elemental Bursts, the Raiden Shogun will build up Resolve stacks based on the Energy Cost of these Elemental Bursts.

Musou Isshin: While in this state, the Raiden Shogun will wield her tachi in battle, while her Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks will be infused with Electro DMG, which cannot be overridden. When such attacks hit opponents, she will regenerate Energy for all nearby party members. Energy can be restored this way once every 1s, and this effect can be triggered 5 times throughout this skill’s duration. While in this state, the Raiden Shogun’s resistance to interruption is increased, and she is immune to Electro-Charged reaction DMG. While Musou Isshin is active, the Raiden Shogun’s Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attack DMG will be considered Elemental Burst DMG.

The defining feature of Raiden and the most important part of her kit. While in the Burst, she gains a unique set of special attacks similar to Childe’s Elemental Skill or melee form, but for a fixed duration of 7 seconds.Teammate Bursts give Raiden an amount of Resolve stacks based on how much their Bursts cost. So, teammates with higher Burst costs make Raiden stronger.

Constellations

C1: Ominous Inscription

More Resolve is more damage. Allows you to reach max Resolve stacks fairly easily with a second Electro or with 3x non-Electro 80 cost Bursts.

C2: Steelbreaker

Raiden’s best Constellation by far, at just C2. This Constellation is not necessary for Raiden to be a good DPS by any means, it just takes her from strong to even stronger. On its own, the DEF Ignore equates to around 43% increased damage for hits affected by it.

C3: Shinkage Bygones

+3 to her Burst. Incredible boost in damage.

C4: Pledge of Propriety

Very situationally useful. You never want to use Raiden’s Burst first in a rotation, as all of her Energy will go to waste. So, this Constellation only really benefits her teams 2nd rotation, which may or may not be useful depending on the content and how invested you are.

C5: Shogun’s Descent

+3 to her Skill. Levels are always good.

C6: Wishbearer

Not very good. Currently there isn’t much to any application for it beyond lowering rotation time for a few teams by about 2 seconds, but there is a lot of uncertain potential to it with future released characters.


Teams

Raiden is an amazing Support who excel with teammates with high Burst costs.

Raiden + Kazuha + Kujou Sara

Raiden + Xinqiu + Xiangling

Raiden + Sucrose + Fischl

Raiden + Xiangling + Bennett