The five-star Hydro Bow character Tartaglia, also equally known by his codename “Childe,” is a reckless and dangerous warrior in Genshin Impact. His skills lend themselves to a DPS-focused role, so you’ll need to build up his damage-dealing skills to ensure Tartaglia brings his warrior prowess to the battlefield.
Tartaglia is a powerful force, but you’ll need to equip him with the best weapon to maximize his damage-dealing potential.
What’s the best weapon for Tartaglia (Childe) in Genshin Impact?
The best weapon for Tartaglia is one that builds his DPS abilities, including attack, critical rate, and critical damage. All of Tartaglia’s skills are focused on damage-dealing, so you’ll want to enhance his DPS abilities through the weapon you choose for him.
The eleventh Fatui Harbinger can be a powerful character when built right, but he is also not a versatile one. While other five-star characters like Yelan, Raiden Shogun, and Nahida can seamlessly flow between roles on any given team, Tartaglia’s skillset only allows him to function as the primary damage-dealing unit within a team. And while he is pretty good in this role, he isn’t as great as many other five-star characters, and most can outperform him with ease.
Although Tartaglia is a five-star character, he is generally considered one of the worst compared to the other powerful characters across Teyvat. He is by no means bad and certainly can excel on the battlefield, but his rigidity and restrictions make him a bit tedious to work with.
Tartaglia wields a bow, which means most of his attacks take place from a ranged distance. The Hydro character also has a unique ability that allows his bow to be swapped for a polearm-like weapon composed entirely of water using his elemental burst. He will never wield a real polearm, so you’ll only need to equip him with a powerful bow.
Tartaglia’s (Childe’s) best weapon in Genshin Impact
The best weapon for Tartaglia overall is the five-star Polar Star bow, which is his signature weapon. This bow was designed to complement his unique abilities, so it’s the best option for him.
If you can’t obtain this weapon, there are many other solid options for him that build his DPS skills.
Best five-star bows for Tartaglia (Childe) in Genshin Impact
Pairing a five-star weapon with a five-star character is always the best choice if possible because anything less means that the character won’t be performing to the best of their ability. Polar Star is the best five-star choice for Tartaglia.
Polar Star
Of all the bows available in Genshin, the one that generally works best for Tartaglia is Polar Star. The “Daylight’s Augury” ability of this weapon increases elemental skill and elemental burst damage by 12 percent.
Additionally, when the wielder of this weapon uses a normal attack, a charged attack, an elemental skill, or an elemental burst that hits an enemy, they will then gain a stack of Ashen Nightstar for 12 seconds. Depending on how many stacks of Ashen Nightstar are present, the wielder of this weapon will deal out increased attack.
- One stack of Ashen Nightstar will grant the wielder a 10 percent attack increase.
- Two stacks of Ashen Nightstar will grant the wielder a 20 percent attack increase.
- Three stacks of Ashen Nightstar will grant the wielder a 30 percent attack increase.
- Four stacks of Ashen Nightstar will grant the wielder a 48 percent attack increase.
Each of the stacks of Ashen Nightstar gained through a normal attack, charged attack, elemental skill, and an elemental burst are calculated and counted separately from the others. Polar Star also has buildable critical rate.
Thundering Pulse
The “Rule By Thunder” ability of this bow grants a 20 percent attack increase and also grants the might of the Thunder Emblem. Depending on how many stacks of Thunder Emblem are attained, the wielder of this weapon will be granted different levels of attack increase.
- With one stack of Thunder Emblem, normal attack damage will be increased by 12 percent.
- With two stacks of Thunder Emblem, normal attack damage will be increased by 24 percent.
- With three stacks of Thunder Emblem, normal attack damage will be increased by 40 percent.
Thunder Emblems can be gained in three different ways, with each individual way calculated independently from the others.
- One stack is gained for five seconds when a normal attack deals damage.
- One stack is gained for 10 seconds when an elemental skill is used.
- One stack is gained until energy is full when energy is less than 100 percent full.
Thunder Pulse has critical damage as its secondary statistic that you can raise over time.
Amos’ Bow
The five-star Amos’ Bow has the special “Strong-Willed” ability that increases normal and charged attack damage by 12 percent. Additionally, after either a normal or charged attack has been shot, the damage dealt is further raised by eight percent for every 0.1 seconds that the arrow is in the air. This bonus can be gained up to five times.
Amos’ Bow has buildable attack, which is a solid option for enhancing Tartaglia’s DPS abilities.
Skyward Harp
Critical damage is one of the best statistics to build in a primary damage dealer and the Skyward Harp centers around this feature. The “Echoing Ballad” ability of this weapon increases critical damage by 20 percent.
This ability also grants hits a 60 percent chance of creating a small area of effect attack with each hit. The attack will deal 125 percent physical damage and has a chance of occurring once every four seconds.
Skyward Harp comes with critical rate as its secondary static, so you can greatly enhance this part of Tartaglia’s skillset by equipping him with this bow.
Best four-star bows for Tartaglia (Childe) in Genshin Impact
The best four-star bow for Tartaglia varies depending on how you want to build him and what the team he is placed on looks like, but The Viridescent Hunt and Rust are the best four-star choices overall.
Ideally, you’ll want to work toward obtaining a five-star weapon for Tartaglia. This can be a rather difficult task, but many solid four-star placeholder weapons exist that you can use until you can attain one of the superior five-star options.
The Viridescent Hunt
The “Verdant Wind” ability of this weapon causes all normal and charged shots that hit an enemy to have a 50 percent chance of generating a cyclone. If summoned, then this cyclone will continuously draw in all nearby enemies and deal 40 percent of attack as damage to them every 0.5 seconds for a total of four seconds. This ability may only be activated once every 14 seconds.
You can raise Tartaglia’s critical rate by enhancing this bow.
Rust
The four-star Rust bow comes with a bit of a catch, but it is generally worth it for players primarily relying on normal attacks and elemental skills. The “Rapid Firing” ability increases normal attack damage by 40 percent at the cost of decreasing charged attack damage by 10 percent.
With Tartaglia, players will likely not use charged attacks too often because he is meant to be a rapid damage-dealing force, and charged attacks take quite some time to use. Rust is a solid option because it will bolster his damage output in the way that matters most for his primary damage-dealing role.
Rust has attack as its secondary statistic that you will see increase over time.
Hamayumi
Another great choice, especially for players struggling to attain any of the other weapons from wishes, is the craftable Hamayumi bow. The “Full Draw” ability of this weapon increases normal attack damage by 16 percent and charged attack damage by 12 percent.
When the character who wields this bow reaches 100 percent energy, then this effect is further increased by 100 percent. Players seeking to build Tartaglia’s overall damage output will find that this is a strong and easy choice.
The four-star Hamayumi bow has buildable attack for Tartaglia.
The Stringless
Although the “Arrowless Song” ability of this weapon is simple, it is quite effective. Elemental skill and elemental burst damage are granted a 24 percent increase with this weapon equipped. Much of Tartaglia’s big damage output comes from his elemental abilities, which makes this an excellent choice for increasing the elemental damage he deals against enemies.
This bow has buildable elemental mastery, which is a powerful boost if you are building Tartaglia’s team around elemental reactions.
King’s Squire
The “Labyrinth Lord’s Instruction” ability of this weapon makes it so that when the wielder of this weapon casts an elemental skill or elemental burst the Teachings of the Forest effect will then be activated to increase elemental mastery by 60 for 12 seconds. This ability will last the full 12 seconds or until the character wielding this weapon leaves the battlefield.
When the Teachings of the Forest effect comes to an end, it will then deal 100 percent of attack as damage to one enemy that is nearby. This effect can be activated once every 20 seconds and this weapon also has buildable attack.
