Skirk in Genshin Impact: Detailed Guide and Best Build

В Genshin impact Sinner's Disciple Skirk is the main damage dealer, playing from a special stance after using an elemental skill. At this time, she attacks with normal blows under infusion. Her skill set is interesting in that the activation of the ult does not depend on energy, but requires stacks of Serpentine Cunning. In addition, playing for this character, you will have to collect many other different stacks for her personal strengthening.

The Abyssal Swordswoman is a Cryo elemental character, but unlike other characters of this element, her signature reaction is exclusively Freeze without Anemo , since the ive assumes a group exclusively of Cryo and Hydro allies. Otherwise, she is a standard damage dealer from ATK and crits, which somewhat simplifies the build, allowing you to not look for energy recovery.

Rating	Presumably S+ position in dash list
Rarity	⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
when added to the game	June 18, 2025 (patch 5.7)
How to get a character	character event prayer
Element	Cryo
Weapon	One handed sword
Gender	Female
To which group does	Unknown
constellation name	Crystalline
Home region	Unknown
Birthday	23 November
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Age	Unknown
Growth	160-165 see
special dish	Unknown
Voice actresses	English voice actress: Cat Protano. Japanese voice actress: Noto Mamiko. Chinese voice actress: Xie Ying. Korean voice actress: Seo Dahye.

History (biography)

Skirk is a mysterious swordswoman and mentor. Harbinger of Tartaglia, who lives in the Abyss, the darkest corner of Teyvat. From Tartaglia's stories, we can learn that at the age of 14, he fell into a crack in the ground and found himself in the Abyss, where he was found by a strong and powerful woman in battle. She became Ajax's master, taught him the art of combat, inciting conflicts and surviving in the Abyss, after which he returned home and met her again only in the Hydro region.

How to Get Skirk in Genshin Impact

Skirk will be released in update 5.7, which will take place on June 18.

Characteristics: what increases with elevation

As levels increase, her critical damage increases, and stats such as HP, ATK, and defense also grow. The table shows all the stat values ​​at different stages of leveling:

Level of	Base HP	Basic Attack	Basic protection	Base Crit Damage	Critical Damage with Elevation
1	967	28	63	50%	0%
20	2508	72	163	50%	0%
40	4992	144	324	50%	0%
50	6421	186	417	50%	9.6%
60	8055	233	523	50%	19.2%
70	9501	274	617	50%	19.2%
80	10956	317	711	50%	28.8%
90	12417	359	806	50%	38.4%

Since K/U increases with ascension, the final value of this characteristic at level 90, without taking into artifacts and weapons, will be equal to 88.4%.

Abilities

Skirk is a standard primary damage dealer whose main goal is to deal as much damage as possible on the battlefield. She plays from a special stance, Seven-Phase Flash, during which her attack type changes and their damage increases. The main feature is complete independence from energy, which is replaced by stacks of Serpentine Cunning.

The character is fully revealed only in squads consisting of Cryo and Hydro heroes, since skills can only receive full buffs when this condition is met. Reactions with the ice element create Void Tears, which the heroine must absorb to strengthen herself.

Basic skills (active skills)

To make it easier to understand the gameplay, you need to study the skills and the principles of their operation in detail.

ive skills

Skirk's additional abilities that do not require leveling up, but are opened automatically as the character levels up:

The order of leveling talents

Elemental Skill (E) = Elemental Burst (Q) > Normal Attacks (optional)

Since the swordswoman is the main damage dealer, it is advisable to pump her main abilities up to level 10. Priority of investments:

• Elemental Skill - enters the Seven-Phase Flash stance. Since all the heroine's hit percentages come from this skill, it needs to be developed to the maximum level.
• Explosion of the elements — has the same level of usefulness as the elemental skill. The ult both deals its own damage and provides multipliers that increase the numbers for absorbing Void Rifts, so it needs to be pumped up in parallel with the E-shka.
• Normal attacks - not required to develop, since all percentages come from the elemental skill.

Constellations

The best constellations of Skirk are С1, С2 и С6.

• first constellation Generates an additional hit after consuming Void Rifts. Since this action is mandatory in the rotation and must be repeated up to 3 times, it will always add up to 1500% of the Crystal Blade's bonus damage.
• Second constellation Slightly increases the swordswoman's regular ult and basic attacks during Seven Phase Flash, which are the core of her gameplay.
• sixth constellation, like the first one, is connected with the absorption of Void Tears, and gives additional stacks after this action. Spending each of them hits the enemy, which greatly increases the overall benefit of the heroine, and somewhat increases survivability.

How to play as Skirk

The heroine's rotation requires careful analysis and understanding of the actions, since the character is dependent on the stance and wants a constant set of stacks for buffs. When playing for her, you must first enter the mode Seven-phase flash with the help of a skill, during which the heroine hits enemies mainly with normal blows. In the battle, periodically appear Tears of Emptiness from reactions that need to be absorbed either by charges, which will have to be built into the rotation, or by activating the ult.

Note that the swordswoman almost never uses Elemental Burst outside of Seven Phase Flash, as it doesn't really make sense and wastes Serpentine Cunning.

Rotation

Procedure: use sub-dd and skills > elemental skill Skirk (E) > Elemental Burst (Q) > Charged Up > 10 normal attacks.

So the overall rotation looks like this:

1. The fight is started by s and secondary damage dealers, who provide buffs and hit from the pocket to implement the ive and accumulate the effect of Death's Crossing.
2. After switching to Skirk, you must use an elemental skill and enter Seven-Phase Flash mode.
3. If you already have the ult, use it to buff your normal attacks and absorb the first Void Rift. If you don't have an elemental burst ready, activate the charge to absorb the Void Rift and gain Serpentine Cunning to activate the elemental burst.
4. Use another charge to absorb the second or third Void Rupture depending on the previous order of actions. Three Ruptures must be absorbed before normal attacks can deal damage.
5. Perform 10 normal attacks as the buff from the Chaos: Devastation ult only applies to that many uses.
6. Repeat the steps as your skills cooldown and the Seven Phase Burst state ends, and also constantly consume Void Rifts as you rotate.

Advantages and disadvantages

Like other characters, she has her own strengths and weaknesses that you need to consider before you roll and build Skirk:

Advantages	Disadvantages
Easy Assembly. The heroine plays from the Serpentine Cunning and does not need to restore energy, like other damage dealers, which allows her to fully focus on ATK and crits in artifacts and weapons.	Tied to Hydro and Cryo characters. Although she can be placed in teams through Melt and other reactions if desired, she can only fully reveal herself and deal maximum damage in groups consisting entirely of these elements. For this reason, the heroine is severely limited in possible squads and cannot play with many strong allies.
Simple use. The swordswoman deals all damage with normal attacks under the buff of the ult, so the gameplay for her is quite easy to master. In addition, since she does not require energy, it is easier to control the set of elemental explosion.	Needs Escoffier. Since the girl is too dependent on the composition of the squads, she has few options for s and sub-DDs that can fully realize her ive. At the moment, only Escoffier can consistently strengthen her, giving everything necessary for comfortable gameplay.
Convenient travel around the world. Long pressing an elemental skill allows you to move quickly by hovering above the ground, which is convenient for exploring the open world.	Strong signature weapons and constellations. Swordswoman has quite a few suitable alternatives, but the signal gives a large number of stats that would otherwise take a long time to collect in artifacts.
High damage. Has strong abilities that will allow her to complete the current content in the game.

Leveling

Resources for leveling up a character consist of items from different regions.

Elevation

For a successful ascension, you should have in your inventory:

• Shards, fragments, pieces and precious Shivada jades - for the stages of Cryo Heroes' promotion.
• Clutch, sophisticated dynamic gears and gears of mechanisms - dropped during liquidation meks within the Hydro region.
• Atokpana.
• Binding Gaze - Resource from the enemy Twilight Papilla.
• ×420 hero experience for leveling up.

Talents

When developing ability levels, the following resources will be useful:

• Ascended Paragon: Steed - Boss reward in Mondstadt "Game in front of the gate".
• Teachings, guidelines and philosophy about "Rivalry" - talent books from the Pyro Kingdom dungeon "Fiery Ruins". They are mined by Mondays, Thursdays и Sundays.
• Gears from mechs, as with leveling up.
• Crown of Insight - useful for increasing abilities to level 10.

Best Builds for Skirk

The Sinner's Disciple takes the position of the main damage dealer in the team, so her build should maximize her combat potential. She does not need energy recovery, and when pumping, she gets additional critical damage, which makes her friendly to the selection of the necessary stats. The heroine in most cases does not play through the Melting reaction, so there is no need for mastery of the elements, which allows for more emphasis on ATK and crits.

Recommended characteristic values

Thus, the Skirk build implies the priority of attack power. The ATK stat should be in the clock and secondary stats of other artifacts. The crown should contain K/U or K/Sh depending on what the character needs most for balance at a particular moment.

In most situations, it is better to take the cup Cryo. However, if you play in the same group with archer Ye Lan, let's say the option ATK cup due to the high affix rate from the bonuses of these heroines.

Since the heroine plays mainly with Cryo and Hydro characters, she does not need the Elemental Mastery indicator. However, when playing with alternative builds, for example, through Melt, you can collect this stat in sub-stats.

Special attention should be paid to her elemental explosion. The girl activates the ult from the number of stacks of Serpentine Cunning, and not from energy, so in artifacts and weapons it is worth abandoning this characteristic both among the main stats and secondary ones.

Optimal build values:

• ATK: approximately 2000 and above depending on the presence of various buffers in the team.
• Crete. chance: 75%-80% for stable damage output. When playing in traditional groups, Freeze will add 15% K/Sh from Cryo Resonance on top, which will allow you to get closer to the total value of 90/95%. If you take Rosaria, also take her buff into .
• Crete. damage should be in a ratio of 1:2 with K/W. As a minimum value, you can take about 160%, but the upper value of KU is not limited.
• Energy recovery: not required.

Best weapon

The most suitable equipment contains ATK, K/U or K/Sh in the main stats, and also has useful ives. One-handed swords with energy recovery are not suitable due to the uselessness of this stat. As for the main source of damage of the Abyssal mentor, she most often uses normal and charged strikes in combat.

Name	ive	Recommendation
Azure Glow ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 48-674 Crete. chance: 5.2%-22.1%	For 12 sec. after using an elemental skill, attack power increases by 24%-48%. If the equipped character runs out of energy during this time, this characteristic will be additionally increased by 24%-48%, and critical damage will increase by 40%-80%.	Signa Skirk, which gives her a lot of the main stat, as well as K/Sh and K/U. Since the heroine has no energy at all, the second part of the ive will be active all the time.
Haran Geppaku Futsu ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 46-608 Crete. chance: 7.2%-33.1%	Gives 12%-24% elemental damage bonus. When allies use E, the bearer gains 0.5 stack of Spike Wave every 1 sec. You can have up to 2 stacks in total. When the bearer deals elemental damage, all Spike Wave stacks are spent, and the character gains the Wave Chaos effect, increasing the damage of a normal attack by 20%-40% for each stack for 8 sec.	Another strong sword with a high base and crit chance. ively increases the character's Cryo damage and regular punches, which the Sinner's Disciple uses most often.
Primordial Jade Cutter ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 44-545 Crete. chance: 9.6%-44.1%	Increases HP by 20%-40%. Grants an attack bonus equal to 1.2%-2.4% from max. HP.	Universal equipment with a high critical chance for stat balance. Converts the wearer's health to the main stat of the Sinner's Apprentice.
Cleaving Mist ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 48-674 Crete. damage: 9.6%-44.1%	Increases elemental damage by 12%-24%, and also gives the Fog Cutter Emblem, each level of which gives a buff 8%-16%, 16%-32% or 28%-56% to the character's elemental damage. Emblem levels can be obtained by dealing damage with normal attacks while infused (lasts 5 sec), by activating the ult (lasts 10 sec), and when the hero's energy has not reached 100%.	The second universal option, however, requires focusing on the critical chance in artifacts. It has a high base and gives a lot of elemental damage when collecting all three stacks, which is possible with precise adherence to the heroine's rotation.
Grand finale of the depths ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 44-565 Attack Power: 6%-27.6%	Activation of E-shki once every 10 sec. increases attack power by 12%-24% for 15 sec., and also gives Life Debt equal to 25% of max. HP. After Life Debt is removed, attack power increases by an additional 2.4%-4.8% from the removed debuff value (max. 150-300 units) for 15 sec.	The best epic weapon for this character. It is a crafted sword, so it will give a large number of stats when fully awakened. However, it forces you to take a healer to the team to remove the Life Debt.
Eshu's Disaster ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Base stat: 44-565 Attack Power: 6-27,6%	Increases normal and charged attack damage by 20-40%, as well as a critical hit chance with normal and charged attacks on 8-16%, if the character is protected by a shield.	The sword was available in an event in patch 5.2. Increases the main characteristics, as well as the damage of normal and hold attacks. If there is a shielder in the team, for example, Diona, Layla or Dahlia, then it also gives a critical chance for these attacks.
Uraku Misugiri ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 44-542 Crete. damage: 19.2%-88.2%	Normal attack damage increases by 16%-32%, and E-shki - on 24%-48%. After a nearby ally deals Geo damage, these effects are further increased by 100% for 15 sec. The wearer's defense is increased by 20%-40%.	Equipment that will enhance punches and survivability due to defense. Other ive effects will not work - there are usually no Geo heroes in the squad.
Spade Slicer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 46-608 Attack Power: 10.8%-49.6%	Increases shield strength by 20%-40%. On hit, increases attack power by 4%-8% for 8 sec. The effect stacks up to 5 times and occurs once every 0.3 sec. Under the protection of a shield, the attack power bonus of this effect increases by 100%.	The weapon gives a lot of ATK, but you will have to gain crits entirely in artifacts. It only works fully with shielders, which limits the composition of the team.
The Black Sword ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 42-510 Crete. chance: 6%-27.6%	Increases normal and charged attack damage by 20%-40%. Crete. hit by these types of attacks once every 5 sec. restore health in quantity 60%-100% from attack power.	Sword with crit chance and increased all damage from hand, as well as additional healing. Brings good stats only on full awakening, which is expensive, since the weapon is from the Battle .
Montenegrin Longsword ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Base stat: 44-565 Crete. damage: 8%-36.8%	Defeated enemies increase their attack power by 12%-24% for 30 sec. The effect stacks up to 3 times.	Not a bad piece of equipment that can be equipped if available. Gives a little K/U. The ATK buff only works after defeating enemies, so it doesn't work well on bosses.

Best Artifacts

Artifacts on Skirk should increase any type of her damage - Cryo damage or normal hits. As an analogue, you can consider 2+2 set combinations or ATK sets.

Detachments

Teams for Skirk should mainly consist of Cryo and Hydro characters, so that ives that increase damage work. If desired, the heroine can stand in teams from the Melting reaction, which partially compensates for non-working ive skills, but in most cases this is irrational, although possible.

It is also worth mentioning that the Sinner's Disciple most often uses normal attacks in combat, so despite the gameplay from the stand, sub-DDs with abilities from combat from the hand work with her.

Best characters

Since the heroine occupies the position of the main damage dealer, to fully reveal her potential, she requires strong sub-DDs and s in her squad. It is better to choose allies with long-term ability work, so as not to switch during the stance.

Priority Allies

Several companions whose gameplay is fully compatible with the swordswoman's mechanics:

Sub-dd

Besides the most suitable ones, there are several other heroes that can the squad as an epic alternative.

Sapports

characters that increase damage or survivability of the team:

Top Teams

There are only a few viable squad options:

• via pure Freeze (priority);
• Freeze or mono-Cryo with Shen He and a strong buffer of another element.

Ideally, the heroine's party should consist only of Hydro and Cryo characters, since otherwise her ives will not work. At the same time, it is possible to assemble experimental squads through Melting or add heroes of other elements to teams from Freezing, but in this case, the Sinner's Disciple's allies must compensate for the loss of her buffs with their own buffs.

Groups from pure Freeze

Squads with Hydro and Cryo reactions:

Cryo+Hydro units with a buffer of another element

Among such teams you can find both a combination of ice and water elements, and pure ice, but their main difference from the previous set is the presence of blacksmith Shilonen. Note that no other s are suitable at the moment, as they are not capable of giving such a strong buff. Also, for such groups, the presence of Shen He is a must.

It's better to take Kazuha in Hydro + Cryo combination, and Shilonen in mono-ice, so that there is no risk of breaking the statues of enemies.

Compositions via Melting

If desired, the girl can play through Melting, but such squads will show themselves much worse than the previous options. You should not deliberately play with Pyro allies, use these groups only if there is a poor selection of heroes on the and no alternatives.

Is it worth knocking out?

If all conditions are met, Skirk can be considered the strongest ice damager in the game, but she is also quite demanding. The girl plays exclusively with ice and water characters, because otherwise her ive skills, which significantly increase damage numbers, do not work. Groups through Melt are rather forced exceptions and are not so effective.

These disadvantages are compensated by a fairly simple build, since the swordswoman only needs the ATK stat and crits, and there is no need for energy recovery at all due to the presence of Serpentine Cunning. This makes it easier to select artifacts, but at the same time makes many weapon options useless that have this stat among the main ones. An additional plus: the heroine mainly uses normal attacks, which makes her friendly to all types of sub-DD.

Which is better: C1 or signal

When it comes to choosing a weapon or first constellation, there are a few things to consider:

• C1 increases the numbers significantly after consuming Void Rifts. Since this action is an integral part of the rotation, the additional damage will be activated constantly.
• Skirk's signature weapon, Azure Radiance, provides a lot of useful stats to balance stats such as ATK, K/S, and K/U, making it slightly stronger than other legendary options.

Thus, if the heroine has analogs among the equipment, for example, Haran Geppaku Futsu, Cutting Mist or Precious Pool, then the choice should be made in favor of the constellation. Otherwise, it is better to choose a signature sword.

Is it worth knocking out if there is no Escoffier?

Escoffier can rightfully be called her signature , since she single-handedly performs many useful functions:

• Is a Cryo character for mutual activation of ive abilities that work on the team composition.
• In a squad of Cryo and Hydro characters, it reduces resistance to these elements by 55%. Considering that the presence of Anemo in swordswomen's groups is not welcome, she will replace the role of a buffer for cutting resistances.
• Provides healing, which is beneficial when using Furina, and a lot of pocket damage.

The presence of a cook significantly increases the Sinner's Disciple; without her, the group's damage drops by about 30%. If Escoffier is not on the , but there is Shen He and strong sub-DD, Skirk will still be able to close the content, albeit with less efficiency. However, if all the companions of the listed elements are weak, it is better to skip the swordswoman and wait for a more versatile damage dealer.

We hope this guide helped you in Genshin Impact to create the best build for Skirk so that she can cover all the relevant content in the game. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them in comments. stay tuned builds on our website.