Genshin Impact Weapon Tier List [December 2023]

In Genshin Impact, players can pick weapons from five weapon types: swords, claymores, polearms, catalysts, and bows. Of course, having such a massive weapon pool does not mean all of them are effective and the best in the game. That is why we have curated the Genshin Impact weapon tier list to find and rank the best weapons from each category. The five tiers we choose to rank each weapon type are based on our experience and online research.

Here’s a complete summary of the Genshin Impact Weapon Tier List:

All weapons that do not fall under our five-tier rankings are the worst in the game. They offer little to no value while playing with them on base stats or after upgrades. So, steer clear of the ones we did not mention here and try to get the ones we have ranked all the best weapons in Genshin Impact, or you could say best to worst.

All Genshin Impact Weapons Comparison

Genshin Impact Swords Tier List

Swords playstyle is for the players who do not want the fast swing attacks of polearms, and at the same time, do not want the sluggish feel of claymores as well. In Genshin Impact, swords are pretty much the middle ground for melee-based combat.

S-Tier

All the swords mentioned under S-tier are the best in the game, whether you are fighting one-versus-one or with a crowd.

Mistsplitter Reforged

Mistsplitter Reforged reigns supreme as the best sword in Genshin Impact. It offers a 12-24% Elemental damage boost and accumulates Mistsplitter’s Emblem for each element used. The Elemental damage scales with the character’s type, reaching 16-56% based on stack levels (1-3). Ideal for characters relying on elemental infusions, it’s the top-tier choice.

Primordial Jade Cutter

Freedom-Sworn

A-Tier

The A-tier swords are not the top-tier in Genshin Impact, but still, they are pretty useful in the game.

Summit Shaper

Aquila Favonia

Skyward Blade

B-Tier

The B-tier ranking Genshin Impact weapon list swords are not the best in the game but certainly not the worst as well. They offer little value as compared to the top-tier ones. Nevertheless, they are still above-average swords in the game.

Festering Desire

The Black Sword

Blackcliff Longsword

Amenoma Kageuchi

C-Tier

The swords falling under the C-tier ranking are below-average and are only good if you do not have above-tier swords.

The Flute

Based on the weapon’s refinement level, the Flute can deal area-of-effect damage of 100/125/150/175/200% to nearby enemies. Whenever the wielder lands a charged or normal attack, they receive a “Harmonic”. After acquiring a total of five Harmonics, the passive ability is triggered and can last for a maximum of 30 seconds.

Favonius Sword

The Alley Flash

Sacrificial Sword

Sacrificial Sword is all about resetting the cooldown timer. Whenever the wielder deals damage to an opponent by using the elemental skill, there is a 40/50/60/70/80% chance that the elemental skill goes on cooldown. Even though the passive of the Sacrificial sword sounds promising on paper, it is penalized by the long duration of the trigger in the field. This skill can trigger after every 30/26/22/19/16s, depending on the weapon refinement level.

Prototype Rancour

The wielder of the Prototype Rancour sword receives an increase in attack and defense by 4/5/6/7/8% for the next six seconds. The weapon’s passive ability can stack four times and can trigger after every 0.3 seconds a player lands a hit on an opponent. Besides increasing the overall attack and defense of the wielder marginally, there is nothing special the Prototype Rancour does.

Harbinger of Dawn

Iron Sting

Iron Sting, like Prototype Rancour, gives its wielder a marginal increase in elemental damage. The character who wields this sword receives 6/7.5/9/10.5/12% on all damage whenever the enemy gets hit by elemental damage. The damage buff lasts for six seconds and can stack two times.

D-Tier

These swords have very limited passive ability application when it comes to receiving buffs on the field.

Sword of Descension

Royal Longsword

Lion’s Roar

Lion’s Roar sword’s passive ability increases the wielder’s overall damage by 20/24/28/32/36% only if the enemy is hit by an electro or pyro-based attack. The weapon has decent potential; however, it is held by the harsh conditions put upon its passive ability.

Skyrider Sword

Skyrider Sword comes with a below-average attack of 38 and does not offer much besides increasing the attack and movement speed. Depending on the weapon refinement, whenever the wielder uses the elemental burst, the weapon grants for twelve seconds 12/15/18/21/24% increase in attack and movement speed.

Fillet Blade

Fillet Blade has excellent potential, but its passive is bound by an extensive trigger time. Moreover, the weapon’s passive only lands increased damage on a single target.

Genshin Impact Claymore Tier List

Claymore is a slow-swing but heavy-hitting weapon in Genshin Impact that favors muscle more than speed. Claymores are slow, but they hit hard and deal much more damage per swing than swords and polearms. Below is the Genshin Impact Claymore Tier List.

S-Tier

All the S-tier Claymore weapons are the best in the best in the game. They hit the hardest of all other weapons from the same category and their passive is very useful while fighting in the field.

Skyward Pride

Skyward Pride is by far the best all-rounder, support-style claymore that does not deal the most serious damage in its class but still is favored by many players. With a 48 base attack, whenever the wielder uses elemental burst, charged, or normal attack, the landing hit creates a vacuum, dealing 80/100/120/140/160% to all enemies falling in the weapon’s path.

Wolf’s Gravestone

The best part about Wolf’s Gravestone is that the weapon not only buffs the wielder’s damage but also increases the teammate’s damage as well. The wielder of this claymore gets 20/25/30/35/40% attack buff while the party gets 40/50/60/70/80% for twelve seconds.

A-Tier

The claymores falling under the A-tier ranking of the Genshin Impact weapon tier list are near perfection. They will get the job done, but they will leave a tangible feeling of not doing more.

The Unforged

This claymore is centered around a shield to work more effectively. The Unforged can increase the shield strength by 20/25/30/35/40%. Every hit can buff the attack by 4/5/6/7/8% for at least eight seconds.

Song of Broken Pines

While equipping the Song of Broken Pines, all of the characters’ attacks cause various buffs that favor the wielder and party members. Normal and charged attacks grant Sigil of Whispers and consuming it gives all teammates the “Millennial Movement: Banner-Hymn” effect for twelve seconds.

B-Tier

All B-tier claymores are average performers as compared to top-tier ones. Their passive is useful but does not offer too much to the table as the high-tier claymores.

Prototype Archaic

Prototype Archaic Claymore rewards its wielder a 50% chance to land 240/300/360/420/480% extra damage in a small radius to all foes. Of course, the higher percentage depends on the overall weapon’s refinement level. The trigger time of 15 seconds holds this weapon from becoming top-tier in its class.

Serpent Spine

Serpent Spine grants its wielder a higher percentage of damage, but the trade-off is that it also takes more damage. Your character can land 6/7/8/9/10% extra damage on a target by remaining for every four seconds on the field. However, the overall damage taken is also increased by 3/2.7/2.4/2.1/1.8%.

Favonius Greatsword

Characters who rely on energy will find Favonius Greatsword suitable for their playstyle. Based on the weapon’s refinement level, the critical hits can generate one elemental orb, regenerating six energy with 60/70/80/90/100% occurrence chance. This passive can trigger after every 12/10.5/9/7.5/6s.

Blackcliff Slasher

Blackcliff Slasher Claymore’s passive grants an additional damage buff of 12/15/18/21/24% for 30 seconds to its wielder after killing a foe. The wielder can stack the passive three times.

C-Tier

The C-tier claymores have a reasonable attack power, not the highest in its class but not the lowest as well. The passive of these weapons come near to B-tier claymores but still lack punch.

Whiteblind

Whiteblind is an average four-star claymore that is better than most three-star ones, but still, there is room for improvement. The weapon’s wielder receives a 6/7.5/9/10.5/12% increase in attack and defense for six seconds after landing normal or charged attacks. The passive can be stacked four times.

Katsuragikiri Nagamasa

Katsuragikiri Nagamasa Claymore buffs the elemental skill damage of a wielder by 6/7.5/9/10.5/12%. The trade-off is that the character loses three energy after landing a hit on an opponent using the elemental skill. However, the character also regenerates 3/3.5/4/4.5/5 energy for six seconds.

Sacrificial Greatsword

Sacrificial Greatsword works similarly to its counterpart Sacrificial Sword. Every time the wielder damages an enemy using the elemental skill, the skill can cancel the cooldown with a 40/50/60/70/80% chance of occurring after every 30/26/22/19/16s.

Snow-Tombed Starsilver

Lithic Blade

Lithic Blade favors the wielder of the party members from Liyue. If they are, the character wielding this claymore receives a 7/8/9/10/11% increase in attack and a 3/4/5/6/7% overall increase in critical rate. Once again, the damage and crit rate scaling depends on the weapon’s refinement level.

Skyrider Greatsword

For a three-star claymore, the Skyrider Greatsword is a decent weapon in Genshin Impact. The wielder can increase overall attack by 6/7/8/9/10% on every charged and normal attack for six seconds.

D-Tier

All the D-tier claymores are underperformer weapons in the game. The wielder of these weapons will struggle while taking out crowds of enemies or a formidable foe, one-versus-one.

Royal Greatsword

One of the last in the Genshin Impact Claymore Tier list is the Royal Greatsowrd. The Royal Greatsword Claymore’s passive provides a marginal increase in overall critical rate and stacks. However, when the wielder lands a crit hit, all the stacks are removed, making this weapon a bad choice to go with.

The Bell

While having The Bell Claymore equipped, any damage the wielder takes is absorbed, and a shield is generated. The shield is triggered after every 45 seconds and lasts only up to 10 seconds. The delayed trigger time and smaller shield duration make the passive ability ridiculous and straight-up bad.

Rainslasher

Rainslasher is another great claymore weapon whose passive offers damage buff only if an enemy takes a hit from an Electro or Hydro-based attack. This condition severely limits the overall efficiency of the weapon.  

Debate Club

Debate Club is a three-star claymore whose passive does AoE damage. Whenever the wielder does a normal, charged attack or an elemental skill-based hit on a foe, the AoE damage buff increases by 60/75/90/105/120% for 15 seconds.

Genshin Impact Polearms Tier List

Polearms are fast like a small-sized dagger. In Genshin Impact, this weapon type allows the character to maintain a distance and keep hitting the opponent from a safe distance.

S-Tier

The S-tier ranking Genshin Impact weapon tier list polearms are the best in its class of weapons. Their passive is pretty strong and allows the wielder to survive longer by receiving increased damage and HP.

Primordial Jade Winged-Spear

Primordial Jade Winged-Spear offers a small damage increase of 3.2/3.9/4.6/5.3/6.0 for six seconds. However, the stacks can get up to seven times, increasing the overall damage to a much higher value. 

Staff of Homa

If your character needs frequent health point regeneration and an extraordinary amount of damage buff from a polearms weapon, then Staff of Homa is the right pick. This weapon can increase the wielder’s HP by 20-40%. Moreover, when the wielder’s health falls below 50%, the Staff of Homa offers additional weapon damage.

A-Tier

The A-tier ranking polearms come very close to the S-tier weapons of the same category. However, they lack finesse and have a little less effective passive than the top-tier polearms in Genshin Impact. Still, they are the best polearms than most in its class in the game.

Skyward Spine

Skyward Spine weapon has the potential to become a top-tier polearms weapon in Genshin Impact. This is because the weapon offers an increase in critical rate and normal attack speed. Moreover, all charged and normal attacks get a 50% chance to trigger a vacuum blade, dealing 40-100% AoE damage attack.

Engulfing Lightning

Engulfing Lightning favors characters who rely on energy-recharging weapons. This weapon increases the overall attack by 80/90/100/110/120% and gives the wielder 30/35/40/45/50% of energy recharge that lasts for 12 seconds. 

Vortex Vanquisher

Vortex Vanquisher is yet again another shield-centric weapon in Genshin Impact. Landing hits on enemies increases the shield strength by 20-40% and increases the overall attack by 4-8% for eight seconds. The passive can stack at least five times and can trigger after every 0.3 seconds.

B-Tier

The B-tier polearms have average attack and passive effectiveness in the game. Still, they are miles better than low-ranking weapons of the same category.

Crescent Pike

Crescent Pike is a decent polearms weapon in Genshin Impact. Every time the wielder picks up an elemental particle or orb, the character’s charged, and normal attacks increase by 20/25/30/35/40% for five seconds. 

The Catch

The Catch weapon is centered around increasing the overall elemental burst damage and critical rate by 16/20/24/28/32% and 6/7.5/9/10.5/12%, respectively. The characters who are heavily focused on DPS will find little use of this weapon.

Blackcliff Pole

For a four-star polearms weapon, the Blackcliff pole offers a decent amount of increase in attack. The passive of this weapon triggers whenever the wielder kills a foe, increasing the attack by 12/15/18/21/24% for 30 seconds. Blackcliff Pole’s passive can at least get three stacks.

Deathmatch

The Deathmatch comes with a base attack of 41/454, and it shines the best while fighting with two or more two enemies in proximity. It is because the weapon’s passive only triggers and applies damage and defense buff of 16/20/24/28/32% and 16/20/24/28/32% if two or more enemies are nearby.

Prototype Starglitter

Prototype Starglitter weapon’s passive offers increased charged and normal attack damage by 8/10/12/14/16% for twelve seconds after the wielder uses an elemental skill. Moreover, the weapon’s passive can get at least two stacks.

Kitain Cross Spear

Hitting an enemy with Kitain Cross Spear’s elemental skill will increase its elemental damage by 6/7.5/9/10.5/12%. Moreover, the wielder also loses three energy but recovers it over two seconds, at least 3/3.5/4/4.5/5 Energy. 

C-Tier

All the C-tier polearms pretty much fall below the satisfactory level. Their attack and passive have limited application in the field. Still, they outshine most under-performer polearms in Genshin Impact.

Lithic Spear

Lithic Spear increases the wielder’s attack and critical rate by 7/8/9/10/11% and 3/4/5/6/7% if there is a member in the team from Liyue. The weapon’s passive can gain at least four stacks.

Favonius Lance

Favonius Lance, like other Favonius counterpart weapons, is an energy-centric weapon in Genshin Impact. Landing critical hits with this weapon grants the wielder a 60/70/80/90/100% chance to get three clear particles. These later generate at least six energy for the wielder of Favonius Lance.

Dragon’s Bane

Dragon’s Bane comes with a base attack of 41/454. The weapon can increase the overall attack of the wielder if an enemy is hit by Pyro or Hydro based attacks. In that case, the character can land 20/24/28/32/36% of increased damage on an enemy.

D-Tier

The D-tier polearms are straight-up the least desirable weapons in its class. Their passive does not offer enough value to the wielder as compared to other polearms of high-tiers.

Dragonspine Spear

Dragonspine Spear comes with a base attack of 41, and all normal and charged attacks have a 60/70/80/90/100% to create an Everforst icicle on a target. This status effect later deals AoE hit of 80/95/110/125/140% of attack power.

Royal Spear

The Royal Spear weapon increases the wielder’s critical rate, marginally increasing the overall damage of the character. The weapon can increase the crit rate by 8/10/12/14/16%, and the passive can at least have five stacks.

White Tassel

White Tassel is a three-star weapon whose passive increases the attack damage of normal attacks by 24/30/36/42/48%. Other than that, the weapon does not offer enough value to the table.

Halberd

Like White Tassel, Halberd is also another three-star weapon that buffs normal attacks by 160/200/240/280/320%. Even though the overall damage output is higher than White Tassel, Halberd’s passive only trigger every 10 seconds, making it the weakest polearms weapon in our D-Rank Genshin Impact weapon tier list.

Genshin Impact Catalysts Tier List

Catalysts are an elemental means of offense in Genshin Impact, which replaces the charged and normal attack with elemental damage. The nature of the elemental attack depends on the character in the game.

S-Tier

There is just one catalyst that outshines others in its class when it comes to landing overall elemental damage. It offers the highest value while having it equipped on a character.

Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds

A-Tier

The A-tier catalysts come significantly closer to becoming the top-tier ones in the game. However, they lack the touch that makes them the perfect ones. Still, they are pretty much powerful, useful, and valuable catalysts in the game.

Skyward Atlas

Skyward Atlas is another excellent catalyst that buffs the character’s elemental damage by increasing it to 12-24%. Moreover, whenever the wielder hits an enemy with normal attacks, the character gets a 50% chance to receive the favor of the clouds. They attack enemies in the character’s proximity, dealing 160-320% attack for 15 seconds.

Memory of Dust

The Memory of Dust is a shield-centric catalyst in Genshin Impact. By equipping it, the wielder receives 20/25/30/35/40% of the shield strength. Moreover, attacking enemies gives 4/5/6/7/8% increased attack for eight seconds, which can be stacked five times.

B-Tier

All B-tier catalysts are average performers as compared to top-tier ones. Their passive is useful but does not offer too much to the table as the high-tier catalysts.

The Widsith

The passive of Widsith works every 30 seconds and lasts for 10 seconds. Whenever a character enters the field, they get a theme song in a random configuration, rewarding the catalyst wielder with three stats; Aria, Interlude, and Recitative. The Widsith is an excellent catalyst; however, its half-minute trigger condition is too much of a wait time.

Solar Pearl

Solar Pearl’s passive triggers by landing normal attacks which increase the character’s elemental burst and elemental skill damage by 20/25/30/35/40%. The unique thing about this catalyst is that using the latter abilities also buffs the former. The passive effects last for six seconds. 

Mappa Mare

Whenever the wielder triggers an elemental reaction, the Mappa Mare catalyst gives 8/10/12/14/16% elemental damage that lasts for ten seconds. The wielder can stack it two times.

Wine and Song

Winge and Song catalyst buffs stamina at the expense of landing normal attacks and vice-versa. The character’s stamina consumption is reduced by 14/16/18/20/22% for five seconds whenever the wielder hits foes with normal attacks.

C-Tier

The C-tier catalysts have reasonable elemental damage, not the highest in its class but not the lowest as well. The passive of these weapons come near to B-tier catalysts but still lack punch.

Dodoco Tales

Dodoco Tales catalyst buffs the charged attack damage by 16/20/24/28/32% only after the wielder lands normal attack hits on foes. Moreover, when the charged attacks hit an enemy, the overall attack increases by 8/10/12/14/16% for six seconds.

Favonius Codex

Thrilling Tales of the Dragon Slayers

This catalyst gets triggered after switching the character from one to another. Doing so gives the next character attack buff of 24/30/36/42/48% for ten seconds. The limited usage of this catalyst is why it is a C-ranking catalyst in the best weapons of Genshin Impact.

Sacrificial Fragment

Sacrificial Fragment catalyst’s passive has 40/50/60/70/80% chance to finish the elemental skill cooldown after hitting a foe with it. The passive gets triggered every 30/26/22/19/16 seconds only.

Eye of Perception

For a four-star catalyst, Eye of Perception does not offer much to the table. It is because the weapon has a 50% chance of triggering its passive, and that also has 12/11/10/9/8 seconds of cooldown.

Blackcliff Agate

Blackcliff Agate is another four-star catalyst that does not offer much value while equipping, mainly because passive only triggers after killing a foe. Otherwise, the catalyst can increase the base attack for 30 seconds by 12/15/18/21/24%.

D-Tier

All the D-tier catalysts are underperformers in their class. The wielder of these weapons will struggle while taking out crowds of enemies or a tough foe, one-versus-one.

Hakushin Ring

The reason Hakushin Ring sits in the D-tier is that its passive does not directly buff the wielder. However, the party members caught in the elemental reaction get 10/12.5/15/17.5/20% elemental damage buff.

Royal Grimoire

Royal Grimoire gives a smaller percentage increase of 8/10/12/14/16% to the wielder’s critical hit rate after hitting an enemy. The passive can last up to five stacks. However, landing a critical hit also removes the stacks.

Prototype Amber

Prototype Amber regenerates the wielder’s energy and party members’ HP by 4/4.5/5/5.5/6% in six seconds.  

Frostbearer

Using the normal and charged attacks on foes creates an Everfrost icicle, allowing the wielder to deal 80/95/110/125/140% area-of-effect attack.

Twin Nephrite

Twin Nephrite only increases attack and movement speed for 15 seconds by 12/14/16/18/20% only after the wielder kills an opponent.

Genshin Impact Bows Tier List

Bows are a shoot-from-a-distance kind of weapon in Genshin Impact whose charged attacks infuse a character’s elemental nature into the arrow. This weapon’s normal attacks allow a character to fire simple arrows in quick succession.

S-Tier

There is just one bow that is extraordinary when it comes to offering the best and most useful passive along with the highest attack in Genshin Impact.

Skyward Harp

A-Tier

The A-tier Genshin Impact bows are not the best in their class, but still, they are second to none in Genshin Impact. They have strong passive, and the charged attack is pretty useful.

Amos’ Bow

Amos’ Bow significantly increases the aimed shot and normal ones’ damage by 12/15/18/21/24%. The weapon’s base attack is 46, which is slightly low. However, Amos’ Bow makes up for it by increasing the overall DPS.

Elegy for the End

Elegy for the End increases the wielder’s elemental mastery by 60/75/90/105/120. The wielder gains a Sigil of Remembrance after hitting an opponent with the elemental damage. Once the character has got 4 of these, all of them can be consumed to increase elemental mastery for the party.

Thundering Pulse

Thundering Pulse significantly increases the wielder’s attack by 20/25/30/35/40%, giving a buff to normal attacks.

B-Tier

The B-tier ranking Genshin Impact weapon tier list bows are not the best in the game but certainly not the worst either. They offer little value as compared to other top-tier bows in its class. However, they can still be pretty useful if used properly in certain conditions.

The Viridescent Hunt

The Viridescent Hunt is a four-star bow that is perfect for crowd control. Whenever the wielder hits an opponent with a normal or aimed shot, they get a 50% chance to regenerate a cyclone. All enemies in the proximity receive 40/50/60/70/80% of base attack damage.

The Stringless

The Stringless bow buffs the overall DPS of the wielder by increasing the elemental burst and elemental skill damage significantly by 24/30/36/42/48%.

Rust

Rust bow offers a trade-off by decreasing the charged attack’s damage by 10% at the expense of granting 40/50/60/70/80% increased normal attack damage.

Alley Hunter

The Alley Hunter bow works when its wielder is out of the field in the party. The bow builds up damage every second by 2/2.5/3/3.5/4%. After entering the field, the damage percentage starts dropping.

C-Tier

The bows falling under the C-tier ranking are below average and are only good if you do not have above-tier bows in the game.

Windblume Ode

Windblume Ode increases the wielder’s attack for six seconds by 16/20/24/28/32% only after using an elemental skill on an opponent.

Hamayumi

Hamayumi bow drastically increases the overall damage of normal and charged attacks by 16/20/24/28/32% and 12/15/18/21/24% only if the wielder’s energy peaks at 100%.

Sacrificial Bow

Sacrificial Bow comes with a 40/50/60/70/80% chance to reset its cooldown after the wielder damages an enemy with elemental skill.

Mitternachts Waltz

Mitternachts Waltz increases the overall normal attacks after hitting an enemy with elemental or vice versa by 20/25/30/35/40%.

Favonius Warbow

Favonius Warbow can generate six energy only after the wielder lands a critical hit, which has 60/70/80/90/100% to get three clear particles.

Blackcliff Warbow

Blackcliff Warbow buffs the wielder’s attack by 12/15/18/21/24% only after killing an enemy. The effect lasts for 30 seconds and can be stacked three times.

Compound Bow

Compound Bow buffs the aimed shot and normal attacks by 4/5/6/7/8%. The bow also increases the normal attack speed for six seconds.

D-Tier

All the D-tier Genshin Impact bows are underperformer weapons in the game. The wielder of these weapons will struggle while taking out crowds of enemies or a formidable foe while taking the fight head-on.

Sharpshooter’s Oath

Sharpshooter’s Oath is a three-star weapon that can increase the wielder’s damage for the enemy’s weak spots by 24/30/36/42/48%.

Slingshot

Hitting an enemy within 0.3 seconds after firing an arrow will increase the wielder’s normal or charged attack damage by 36/42/48/54/60%.

Prototype Crescent

When the wielder hits an enemy’s weak spot, the character receives an increase in attack damage by 36/45/54/63/72% and movement speed by 10%.

We spent considerable time playing Genshin Impact, and this tier ranking is the culmination of long hours of gameplay and research. Moreover, we acknowledge that the tier ranking of each weapon we have set up may differ from what you have experienced in the game.

That is why our tier ranking is solely based on our taste and experience and is not up for discussion or criticism. Remember that this is strictly Best Weapons In Genshin Impact; thus, if you want a general Genshin Impact Tier List; read our different in-depth articles.

You may find this interesting: Hades Weapons Tier List.