Genshin Impact has some goofy and funny characters and personalities but the character that is arguably the goofiest is Hu Tao. She is the 77th head of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor in Liuye and manages Liuye funeral business as her ancestors used to do. Aside from her odd marketing tactic that always revolves around asking the opposing party to prepare for death and incineration, she is one of, if not, the strongest Pyro characters in the game.
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In fact, she's so strong for a DPS character that we had no choice but to place her in the S-tier of our Genshin Impact Character list. If you already have Hu Tao in Genshin Impact or are planning to pull her in the future, in this guide let's look at the best builds, weapons, artifacts and team compositions for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact.
The best way to build Hu Tao is by giving her the Crimson Witch of Flames 4-piece artifact set and the Staff of Homa Polearm, her signature weapon. 2-piece Crimson Witch gives a 15% Pyro damage boost while 4-piece increases Overloaded, Burning and Burgeon damage by 40% and Vaporize and Melt damage by 15%. There is no other artifact like Crimson Witch of Flames for Hu Tao in Genshin Impact.
As for the sub-stats of the artifacts, you need to focus on Crit rate, Crit Damage and Pyro damage bonus in all but HP% on Sands. The second best artifact set for Hu Tao is the 4-piece Shimenawa's Reminiscence which gives a character an 18% attack bonus and a 50% normal, charged and dashing attack damage by sacrificing 15 energy. This should work well with characters like Hu Tao and Xiao as most of their damage comes from their dashing and charged attacks respectively. Similarly, the complete list of good artifact sets for Hu Tao is as follows:
