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Genshin Impact: Complete Razor Buff Guide (Artifacts, Teams & Weapons) - Is He Better Than Raiden?!
This comprehensive guide explores Razor's buff in Genshin Impact, detailing his new abilities, the best artifacts, weapons, and team compositions to maximize his potential as an Electro DPS. It even compares his performance to other popular characters like Raiden Shogun.
1. 🐺 Introduction to Razor's Buff and Recap of Original Gameplay
- ✅ Razor receives a significant buff that potentially places him in the top 3 Electro DPS.
- ✅ Recap of Razor's gameplay before the buff: an offensive character with a skill that deals Electro damage and gives him up to three Electro stacks (20% recharge per stack).
- ✅ Razor's ultimate summons a wolf that accompanies his normal attacks, dealing Electro damage and increasing his attack speed.
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1. 🐺 Introduction to Razor's Buff and Recap of Original Gameplay
- ✅ Razor receives a significant buff that potentially places him in the top 3 Electro DPS.
- ✅ Recap of Razor's gameplay before the buff: an offensive character with a skill that deals Electro damage and gives him up to three Electro stacks (20% recharge per stack).
- ✅ Razor's ultimate summons a wolf that accompanies his normal attacks, dealing Electro damage and increasing his attack speed.
00:35 - 01:45
2. ⚡ Electro Stack Mechanics and Razor's Initial Problems
- ✅ Razor's gameplay revolves around his ultimate and Electro stacks to quickly recharge his ultimate (80 energy cost).
- ⚠️ Main problem before the buff: it took too long to accumulate enough Electro stacks to regenerate the ultimate, requiring a lot of energy recharge at the expense of offensive stats.
- ⚠️ As a 4-star DPS character from 1.0, his multipliers were lower than those of more recent 5-star characters.
02:17 - 03:45
3. ✨ Razor's New Buffs: Exer Mechanic, Passives, and C6 Constellation
- ✅ Razor becomes an Exer character after completing his quest, requiring a second Exer character in the team to activate his new passive.
- ✅ New passive (Witches' Eve, Lightning Surge): increases the ultimate's damage multiplier by 70%.
- ✅ During the ultimate, excess Electro stacks deal AoE Electro damage and regenerate energy.
- ✅ The C6 constellation allows you to recover Electro stacks much faster (three stacks every 10 seconds outside of the ultimate) and increases crit rate by 10% and crit damage by 50%.
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4. 🔄 Changes in Razor's Rotation and Optimization Tips
- ✅ Razor's rotation changes with the buff, allowing for more frequent energy recharge.
- ✅ The character won't need as much energy recharge as before, allowing you to prioritize offensive stats.
- ✅ Tip: animation cancel after the 3rd normal attack to optimize damage (3 normal attacks, a dash).
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5. ⬆️ Razor's Talent Priority
- ✅ The talent priority remains unchanged: normal attacks and the ultimate are equally important, and skills are leveled up secondarily.
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6. 🛡️ Recommended Artifacts and Stats for Razor
- ✅ There is no perfect artifact set for Razor because his damage is half Electro and half Pyro/Physical.
- ✅ The best current compromise is the Gilded Dreams set (attack bonus and elemental mastery).
- ✅ The Echoes, Gladiator, or double attack mixes are also viable.
- ✅ In terms of stats, use an attack percentage goblet because the damage comes from two elements.
- ✅ If Razor is the only Electro character on the team, aim for 130-140% energy recharge. With Fischl, 100-110% is enough.
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7. ⚔️ Best Weapons for Razor
- ✅ The three best weapons are Mavuika's weapon, the Beacon (Deya's weapon), and the Serpent Spine (if refined to level 5).
- ✅ Alternatively, all weapons that give crit are relevant.
- ✅ If none of these weapons are available, the two-handed sword from the Fontaine forge can do the trick.
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8. 🤝 Team Compositions for Razor: Introduction and Challenges
- ✅ Team compositions for Razor have changed a lot since the last guide.
- ✅ Although few teams are very effective in endgame content (because Razor remains a 4-star character), some are really good with his buff.
08:02 - 09:40
9. 🔥 Chevreuse Team: Composition, Synergies, and Alternatives
- ✅ The team with Chevreuse requires Bennett constellation 6 to give a Pyro infusion to Razor.
- ✅ Composition: Chevreuse, Bennett (C6), another Exer character (like Durine or Fischl).
- ✅ Advantages: resistance reductions (Durine, Chevreuse), attack bonus (Chevreuse, Bennett), Pyro/Electro damage bonus (C6 Chevreuse).
- ✅ Replacing Durine with Fischl is possible (for Fischl C6 bonuses), but skipping Bennett's Pyro infusion can lower performance.
- ✅ This team can do more damage than a Ryon C0 instead of Razor.
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10. 💧 Other Team Compositions: Overvape and Double Geo
- ✅ Vaporize team (overvape): Razor, Furina, another Exer character (Fischl, Sucrose, Albedo, Durine), Bennett.
- ✅ Double Geo team: Razor, Furina, Albedo (Exer character).
- ✅ These two teams are okay, but less effective than the overload team.
- ✅ In these scenarios, use the Marechaussee Hunter set on Razor.
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11. 🌱 Bloom Team: Razor Elemental Mastery
- ✅ Bloom team: Razor (max elemental mastery), the OMA (or Naïda), Bennett, Jinqu.
- ✅ Razor can proc a lot of elemental reactions (hyperbloom, bloom, electro-charged, overload).
- ✅ The OMA is generally better than Naïda in this scenario.
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12. 🎉 Conclusion: Is Razor Really a Viable DPS in 2025?
- ✅ The buff is a "huge win" for Razor players.
- ✅ He rises to the same level as off-meta five-stars, comparable to Gaming.
- ✅ Besides the increased damage, his quality of life has been improved (less energy recharge needed).
- ✅ He can be a good DPS for the early game.
- ⚠️ He is very dependent on his C6. Without constellation 6, energy recharge problems persist.