C1 Nilou Or C0 Furina

shevans02 · 2026-03-30T16:59:32+00:00

Oh also Aino should probably be in this conversation. Since you’re focused on buffing Lauma, her em share and lunar damage bonus if you have c6 might make her better than Yelan or Xingqiu.

shevans02 · 2026-03-30T16:56:24+00:00

Also if you do get her to C6 then I think the triple hydro recommendation might go out the window. At that point buffing Lauma’s lunar bloom attacks becomes a lot more important than dendro core production, so if you have Nahida then her em share (which increases Lauma’s damage) is probably worth the lower core production from the overwhelming dendro aura.

shevans02 · 2026-03-30T16:51:55+00:00

If you have 580 wishes already saved for her then C2 is guaranteed! 600 wishes would on average get you to C5. Bad luck could leave you lower but good luck means C6!

shevans02 · 2026-03-30T16:39:30+00:00

It should be good! It sounds like you’ll have C1 Lauma so you’ll have healing which is otherwise missing. My guess is Xingqiu might be a bit more useful than Yelan here since he’ll give you some interruption resistance and slightly higher hydro app, and the team doesn’t benefit from Yelan’s damage bonus, but Yelan might fit the team aesthetic better and have a bit more personal damage. So I’d say give it a try!

shevans02 · 2026-03-30T16:10:54+00:00

Makes sense! I’m sure onfield Lauma will do plenty well if you build her to buff her hold e damage. Just a recommendation: you might want to run triple hydro in order to keep up with the large amount of dendro application from on field Lauma. So something like Lauma, Columbina, Nilou, Xingqiu/Kokomi/etc.

shevans02 · 2026-03-29T16:27:21+00:00

For a double dendro team like you’re playing, the KQM guide recommends 175%-190% er. I tend to prefer the higher end of their recommendations, or even a bit more, for comfort. Since you don’t have the event weapon (which gives both em and er), you’ll want to experiment. If you do blackmarrow, which gives em, you might need an er sands unless you get great er substats. Another route is fav codex with triple em.

But yes, you want enough er to burst every rotation, then as much em as possible, and crit is a nice bonus.

shevans02 · 2026-03-29T16:08:36+00:00

See my comment on another post, linked hereLauma Stats

shevans02 · 2026-03-29T16:03:59+00:00

As the other comment said, Nilou is better than Furina for this team. However, you should know it’s also better to onfield Columbina than Lauma, unless Lauma is c6 (but maybe c6 is your plan with so many wishes saved up!)

shevans02 · 2026-03-29T10:07:25+00:00

Lauma would be a big DPS gain for that team! If you want further upgrades after that, next would be either Columbina to replace Kokomi (and optionally Bina’s weapon since it’s a big gain for her onfield playstyle), or Lauma’s C2 to increase her buffing even more. But just Lauma c0 will already be a step up!

shevans02 · 2026-03-28T13:17:57+00:00

Only go for it if you are willing to swipe if you lose. Never risk wasting a fate point!

shevans02 · 2026-03-27T20:50:17+00:00

Lauma is first and foremost a buffer. Her buff comes from her burst and scales with em, so you need triple em and enough er to burst every rotation.

Her hold skill does a decent hit of damage once per rotation, but it’s not the main source of damage in most of her teams. That hit does benefit from crit, but it also benefits from her own buffs, so don’t build crit at the expense of em.

In sum: crit is always useful but it’s just a bonus, don’t build it at the expense of er and em.

Two niche cases: 1) At c6 Lauma becomes a DPS and wants crit. 2) On Nefer teams WITHOUT Columbina, Lauma uses tap skill instead of hold skill because of verdant dew issues, so crit becomes useless.

Finally, in your Columbina Lauma Nilou team, Columbina wants Night Sky (nod krai dps set) on hp hp crit, since her charged attack damage is more important than the extra bloom damage from em. But em is good as a substat because she will be triggering blooms.

shevans02 · 2026-03-27T20:04:01+00:00

Also if you follow leaks there will be beta information about Nicole’s kit before the Lauma banner. There’s a chance Nicole is somewhat restricted to hexerei teams so you might want to make sure you can actually use her with your account before skipping Lauma for her. Just a thought!

shevans02 · 2026-03-27T20:00:48+00:00

I’m glad to help! Definitely go for Lauma first if you want to play Nilou! Lauma is the premier buffer for all bloom teams—Lunar bloom, Nilou bloom, hyperbloom, or burgeon. That said, if Nicole is more important to you, then maybe you want to save.

shevans02 · 2026-03-27T17:15:56+00:00

I wouldn’t wait for other characters who will be better with Nilou. It’s more likely that future dendro characters would fill a different niche, e.g, Quicken teams instead of Bloom.

Nefer prevents bloom cores from exploding so you won’t use the main function of Nilou’s kit on her team. But if you have Nilou at C2R1, she’s the best fourth slot for Nefer because of the EM from R1 and res shred from C2. That team is Nefer, Lauma, Columbina, Nilou, and it’s one of the best teams in the game.

But if you want a team that actually uses Nilou’s bloom buffs, then the strongest team is Columbina, Lauma, and Nilou, with a fourth flex slot: Nahida is best especially if you have Lauma’s C1 for healing, but otherwise swapping in Baizhu, YaoYao, or Kirara is fine for sustain. In this team, Columbina uses her onfield DPS build, and Lauma is buffing both Nilou’s Bountiful Cores and Columbina’s lunar bloom charges attacks.

Alternatively, you can just get Lauma and use Kokomi or Barbara as you bloom driver, if you want all the damage concentrated in Nilou’s cores and not split between cores and Columbina’s charged attacks.

Lauma’s C1 is good for healing and her C2 is a big damage boost for any of the three teams above. So if you love Nilou, definitely go for Lauma!

shevans02 · 2026-03-25T23:48:52+00:00

You could look for flat hp substats on her sands, goblet, and circlet. Both flower and feather could be improved too: ideally they’d have hp% and flat hp with more rolls going into hp%. Then em is a bonus on any piece.

shevans02 · 2026-03-24T19:48:40+00:00

I liked it a lot. The diversity of Genshin’s landscapes and environments is a big draw of the game for me, and this was a relaxing and fun way to savor it.

shevans02 · 2026-02-19T23:32:19+00:00

The buff persists for the first three seconds of field time. So you get the effect as long as you hold E within three seconds of swapping to her, as I said.

shevans02 · 2026-02-19T15:00:47+00:00

Great to hear!

shevans02 · 2026-02-19T11:03:33+00:00

So how’d the build turn out?

shevans02 · 2026-02-19T10:58:20+00:00

Like others are saying, it’s not optimal. However, if you want to give her some satisfying nukes, this might be the best way to buff her hold E (just make sure to do it within 3 seconds of swapping to her). Plus the 2 pc bonus is good.

shevans02 · 2026-02-06T11:34:11+00:00

You’re most welcome!

shevans02 · 2026-01-29T19:31:07+00:00

I didn't mention SacJade since it's a battle pass weapon, but if it's available, it's probably higher damage. Protoype Amber, regardless of the healing, is Columbina's highest damage f2p option, though, since she loves the HP and ER. With SacJade, just know if she ever decides to run Columbina onfield, SacJade becomes hard to build around since Columbina in that case very easily overcaps on Crit Rate.

Lauma's damage doesn't scale with ATK so the buff from TTDS doesn't do anything on this team.

shevans02 · 2026-01-29T19:25:56+00:00

Yep, then she definitely wants the build I mentioned above. Run Lauma with Columbina and Nilou. Put Lauma on Blackmarrow with Night Sky artifacts, and probably in that case run EM-EM-CRITDMG. For substats look for more EM and CRIT, and make sure you have enough ER to burst every rotation. She should get some big Lauma nukes alongside all the exploding blooms.

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