Genshin Impact: 11 Best Five-Star Weapons (2024)

A good weapon can make your life easier in Genshin Impact. They provide different stats and passive effects that can help you get through hard content if given to the right characters, as they can drastically improve their offensive or supportive capabilities in battle.

Weapons in Genshin Impact can be acquired either through forging, doing quests or events, or wishing on the permanent or limited banners. They can range from one to five-star rarity with varying degrees of power and usefulness as their rarity increases. In most cases, five-star weapons provide a huge damage boost compared to other weapons, making them worth getting for your characters. Here are the best five-star weapons and which characters to give them to.

Beacon Of The Reed Sea

• Class: Claymore
• Best On: All ATK-based claymore characters, especially Dehya

Despite the firey mercenary Dehya receiving the short end of the stick as a DPS, she was given one of the best claymores as her signature weapon. Beacon Of The Reed Sea provides the same 40 percent ATK buff as Wolf’s Gravestone and The Unforged, which are also five-star claymores but with the advantage of having a CRIT Rate secondary stat, which makes balancing CRIT ratios easier.

To trigger the passive, you need to use your character’s Elemental Skill or receive damage. If the user isn’t protected by a shield, they also get 32 percent HP, which allows them to tank hits like it’s nothing.

Staff Of Scarlet Sands

• Class: Polearm
• Best On: All Elemental Reaction-based polearm characters, especially Cyno and Xiangling

Coming from the same weapon series as the first weapon, Staff Of Scarlet Sands is a phenomenal option on polearm characters whose damage revolves around Elemental Reactions, such as its owner, Cyno. It provides extra ATK based on your Elemental Mastery, which doubles the purpose of building EM.

Additionally, you get more of this effect if you can frequently hit an enemy with your Elemental Skill. It provides a 40.2 percent CRIT Rate as a secondary stat, which allows you to go all in on CRIT Damage.

Key Of Khaj-Nisut

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• Class: Sword
• Best On: Nilou, Furina, Kuki Shinobu, Kirara, Layla

The last one from the Sumeru desert series, Key Of Khaj-Nisut is an amazing support weapon that allows the user to buff your entire team. This weapon can provide up to 86.2 percent HP to the user, which is extremely useful on shielders, healers, and other HP-scaling supports.

When your Elemental Skill hits opponents, your Elemental Mastery is increased based on your max HP. After triggering this effect three times, your team’s EM is also increased based on the user’s max HP.

Engulfing Lightning

• Class: Polearm
• Best On: Raiden Shogun, Xiangling, Rosaria, Shenhe

Engulfing Lightning is the signature weapon of the Electro Archon Raiden Shogun. Aside from her, it’s also a good fit for characters who focus on Elemental Burst damage as it revolves around Energy Recharge. With a 55.1 percent ER substat, this weapon is great on characters with high Elemental Burst costs to help you get your Burst back faster.

You get extra ATK based on the amount of ER you have over 100 percent, up to a whopping 80 percent ATK. Additionally, your ER increases for a set time after you use your Elemental Burst.

Primordial Jade Cutter

• Class: Sword
• Best On: All ATK-scaling sword characters

The Primordial Jade Cutter has no rightful owner in terms of being a signature weapon, but it’s because of this that it’s become such a versatile weapon for a lot of sword characters such as Keqing. It has low base ATK for a five-star weapon, but its power lies in its massive 44.1 percent CRIT Rate substat. This makes getting the perfect CRIT ratio a breeze.

Its passive provides extra ATK based on the user’s max HP. However, even if the user isn’t necessarily HP-based, they still get a lot of value from this weapon as it also provides a good amount of HP, which complements its passive.

Polar Star

• Class: Bow
• Best On: All ATK-based bow Characters

Polar Star is a solid bow that buffs both Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst damage. It provides a generous 33.1 percent CRIT Rate, which, like all CRIT weapons, helps you achieve a balanced CRIT Ratio.

Additionally, you get multiple ATK buffs when your Normal Attack, Charged Attack, Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst hit an opponent. This allows ATK-scaling bow characters to make use of this weapon no matter what their method of dealing damage is. Overall, it’s a well-rounded option and a complete upgrade to Skyward Harp, another CRIT Rate bow.

Staff of Homa

• Class: Polearm
• Best On: All DPS polearm characters, especially Hu Tao and Xiao

Staff Of Homa is one of the most desired weapons in Genshin Impact. With an abundance of DPS characters wielding a polearm, there’s no doubt that this weapon is in such high demand, especially with its huge 66.2 percent CRIT Damage substat.

Like Primordial Jade Cutter, it increases your HP and ATK based on your max HP. Additionally, it provides even more ATK when you’re under 50 percent HP. But even if you can’t force your characters to go under half HP, it’s still a top-tier weapon due to its immense CRIT value.

Freedom Sworn

• Class: Sword
• Best On: All Support sword characters, especially Kazuha, Jean, and Traveler

Many folks argued that Freedom Sworn didn’t match the character it was meant for, which was Kazuha. But what it lacks in coherence, it makes up for in its amazing supportive capabilities. It also provides Elemental Mastery, which increases your Elemental Reaction damage.

Freedom Sworn is part of the Millennial Movement weapons, providing teamwide buffs and giving your support characters even more value. When you trigger any Elemental Reaction twice, your entire team will receive extra ATK as well as a buff to their Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attack damage.

Elegy For The End

• Class: Bow
• Best On: Yelan, Kujou Sara, Fischl, Diona, Amber, Collei

Just like its sword counterpart, Elegy For The End is a powerful support weapon that provides a massive increase to your team’s overall damage. It has an Energy Recharge secondary stat, allowing you to use your Burst more often, which is important for most supports.

When your Elemental Skill or Burst hits an enemy four times, your entire team receives a boost in their ATK as well as Elemental Mastery. This is an exceptional weapon in team compositions that focus on Elemental Reactions.

Mistsplitter Reforged

• Class: Sword
• Best On: All DPS sword characters, especially Kamisato Ayaka, Keqing and Alhaitham

With a whopping 674 base ATK, Mistsplitter Reforged is tied with Aquila Favonia for providing the highest base ATK among all swords in Genshin Impact, which makes it perfect for ATK-scaling characters such as Ayaka. Paired with its 44.1 percent CRIT Damage stat, it’s definitely a weapon worth trying your luck on.

By default, this weapon provides a good amount of Elemental Damage Bonus. Furthermore, you get additional Elemental Damage Bonus by fulfilling any of the following criteria: Normal Attack deals Elemental Damage Bonus, casting an Elemental Burst, or when Energy is less than 100 percent.

Aqua Simulacra

• Class: Bow
• Best On: All DPS bow characters

Unlike other weapons that provide specific stats such as ATK, HP, or Elemental Mastery, Aqua Simulacra provides a Damage Bonus to all elements. This means any bow character can make use of its passive regardless of what stat they scale with, making it the most flexible weapon in the game.

Despite its base ATK being on the lower side, it provides a towering 88.2 percent CRIT Damage, the highest from any weapon. Moreover, you only need to be around an enemy to trigger its passive. That’s literally it. With all those qualities combined, it’s safe to say that Yelan’s signature is the best weapon to get in Genshin Impact.