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- Charlotte’s Overall Best Team: Premium Freeze
- Charlotte’s Best F2P Team: Melt
Charlotte is a four-star unit released in Genshin Impact‘s 4.2 update. She is a good healer designed to synergize with other Fontaine characters. For instance, she has a talent that makes her healing bonus increase by 5 percent per Fontaine character in her party other than herself.
Thus, Charlotte shines the most in her role as a healer when she is paired with other Fontaine units. However, she can work well with other teams, too, and provide a modest boost in the offensive while she’s at it. Her play style requires some on-field time to make her really work out, so all her team compositions should consider this.
Charlotte’s Overall Best Team: Premium Freeze
Charlotte is assumed to have been released as a dedicated support for Lady Furina, the Hydro Archon, given how well their kits synergize with one another.
While Furina drains the team’s HP to boost her DMG, Charlotte can heal them, making them play off each other. As such, it is no surprise to see them grouped together. This team is composed of:
- Neuvilette: DPS (on-field)
- Furina: Sub DPS (off-field)
- Kaedehara Kazuha: Reaction Support
- Charlotte: Reaction Support, Healer
This rotation is relatively simple, given that you will not need to do much back-and-forth switching. In practice, it works something like this:
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Character |
Action |
|---|---|
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Furina |
Trigger Furina’s Elemental Burst and Elemental skill while she’s in her Ousia state, summoning the members of the Salon Solitaire to deal DMG and apply hydro to mobs. Note the use of Fruina’s Ousia state Elemental Skill will begin to drain the entire team’s HP. |
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Kaedehara Kazuha |
Support Furina’s Hydro application by following up with Kazuha’s Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst. This will group the enemies in one place while also further spreading Hydro through the corresponding swirl reaction. |
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Charlotte |
Trigger Charlotte’s Elemental Skill by pressing down until the camera angle captures up to five enemies. This will boost the DoT of her skill and extend its duration, allowing her to serve as the Cryo applicator in this composition. Her attacks will trigger Frozen on enemies affected by Hydro. To maximize the efficiency of this composition, you will also need to trigger her Elemental Burst. |
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Neuvilette |
As is usual for the on-fielder, he should be your last unit. He should remain on the field for eight to ten seconds at a time, perhaps even longer, using his charged attack to deal large amounts of DMG to Frozen enemies. |
This team would also accept Wriothesley instead of Neuvillette as an on-field DPS, though Neuvillette’s synergy with Furina is rather hard to outclass.
They are ideal teammates due to Neuvillette’s intrinsic HP mechanics, making him a unit that can easily help Furina cap her Fanfare points and has good survivability even without a healer’s input.
This, of course, reduces the impact of Charlotte’s healing on him, but it also helps to ensure she can focus on her role as a Cryo applicator. Furthermore, Neuvillette self-heals, but all other teammates will still need a healer.
Charlotte’s Best F2P Team: Melt
When Charlotte is placed in teams that are not composed of other Fontaine characters in its majority, the buff from her fourth ascension talent grants her Cryo DMG bonus instead of a healing bonus.
While she remains a support unit at heart, pairing her with innately strong supports like Bennet and Xiangling can push her toward filling the shoes of a DPS and doing it quite well.
This is especially useful against enemies with poor Cryo and Pyro resistance.
Strategize well, and Charlotte may yet become the centerpiece of the team. To achieve this, use the following team:
- Charlotte: DPS (on-field)
- Rosaria: Sub DPS (on-field)
- Xiangling: Reaction Support
- Bennett: Reaction Support, Healer
This rotation will need you to distribute on-field time quite well. In practice, it isn’t too obvious who’s meant to shoulder the duty as the main on-field unit. It follows these general principles:
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Character |
Action |
|---|---|
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Charlotte |
Use her Elemental Skill to apply Cryo to up to five enemies. Don’t forget you will benefit more from holding down the skill until the camera view has expanded as much as possible. |
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Bennett |
Use his Elemental Burst to trigger Melt on enemies affected by Cryo, creating an AoE where your characters will be healed and receive attack buffs. |
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Xiangling |
Trigger her Elemental Skill to summon Guoba, who will deal Pyro DMG at intervals and cause enemies to become affected by Pyro. |
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Rosaria |
Using her Elemental Skill will help you to trigger Melt on enemies affected by Pyro. |
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Xiangling |
Use her Elemental Burst to support rapid and powerful Melt reactions. |
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Charlotte |
Trigger her Elemental Skill again to re-apply Cryo to enemies. Xiangling’s Pyronado and Charlotte’s Skill’s DoT will proc Melt a few times. Triggering her Elemental Burst can also aid in generating reactions. While she’s on the field, complement with Normal and Charged Attacks. |
This rotation shows the essence of how to play this team. You will probably require several rotations and will even need to quickly flip-flop between all units in a somewhat disorderly fashion.
Charlotte Bloom Team
Charlotte’s role in Bloom teams is limited to crowd control. This is not her ideal role, though as a Cryo Catalyst wielder, she is uniquely useful for freezing enemies in place.
This composition should still consider a strong grouper like Kazuha to further strengthen crowd control, as Bloom Cores have a delay of roughly six seconds before they explode and deal Dendro DMG.
Furthermore, Kazuha can move Dendro Cores, grouping them along with mobs.
Another important consideration for a Bloom team that uses Charlotte and Kazuha for their respective crowd control abilities is that neither is a good teammate for Nilou on paper, as her kit has Elemental restrictions.
Keeping all this in mind, Charlotte’s ideal Bloom team will be something like this:
- Yelan: DPS, Reaction Support
- Nahida: Sub DPS (off-field)
- Kaedehara Kazuha: Reaction Support
- Charlotte: Reaction Support, Healer
This team has a simple rotation, following similar rules to any Nahida/Yelan Bloom team:
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Character |
Action |
|---|---|
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Yelan |
Trigger Yelan’s Elemental Burst to activate Exquisite Throw and make the active character prone to triggering Hydro application with normal attacks at one-second intervals. |
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Kaedehara Kazuha |
Support Yelan’s Hydro application by following up with Kazuha’s Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst. This will group the enemies in one place while also further spreading Hydro through the corresponding swirl reaction. |
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Nahida |
Hold down Nahida’s Elemental Skill to capture up to eight enemies, applying and locking the Seed of Skandha on them. While they are affected by Hydro, Dendro cores will be generated. It is important to remember that only up to five Dendro cores will exist at a time, and attempting to create more will cause them to explode, regardless of the wait time. This can play in your favor but also against you without proper crowd control. |
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Charlotte |
This is where Charlotte comes in. Triggering her Elemental Skill by pressing down until the camera angle captures up to five enemies will apply a Focused Impression mark on them. This will inflict them with Cryo and cause Cryo DoT at certain intervals. Coupled with Yelan’s Hydro application, Charlotte can consistently trigger Frozen to hold enemies still and ensure Dendro Cores will cause the intended DMG when they explode. |
You may consider switching this team from Bloom into Hyperbloom by replacing Kauhza with Kuki Shinobu.
She serves as a good Electro Reaction Support for Hyperbloom.
Though Hyperbloom teams do not have a high need for crowd control, and Shinobu is a healer herself, so this would change Charlotte into a less functional teammate.
This is common for Hyperbloom/Hyperfridge drivers.
Another viable teammate for either of these compositions is Xingqiu, who can easily replace Yelan as they have kits that are similar in terms of utility.