Childe (Tartaglia) Guide and Best Builds (2024)

Last updated on Jun 05, 2024 at 11:00by Shikhu

Tartaglia's primary build is that of a Main DPS where he is on-fielddealing powerful Hydro DMG and facilitating variousElemental Reactions.

All of Tartaglia's 5-star options listed are incredibly competitive andcan be better than other weapons with the right setup and situation. Polar Star as his signature weapon tends to be his BiS and will beif you are able to get 2-3 stacks at the start of your rotation. Withoutthese stacks, weapons such as Aqua Simulacra tend to be morepowerful.

Nymph's Dream is Tartaglia's best artifact set having amazingsynergy with Polar Star due to both having similar stack mechanics. Heart of Depth is his second best option but Tartaglia can not fullyutilise its effects.

With regards to substats, Tartaglia focuses on CRIT Rate, CRIT DMGand ATK % with a Hydro DMG goblet to increase his ElementalDamage. CRIT Rate can actually be more important to Tartaglia due to itapplying Riptide with his 4th Ascension Passive Sword of Torrents.

Tartaglia's Energy Recharge requirements vary based onif you are using your Elemental Burst in your Ranged Stance or Melee Stanceas well as if any party members use a Favonius weapon. For example, it iscommon for Kaedehara Kazuha to use a Favonius Sword.

Another aspect to consider which is not included inside the table isthe Energy gained from Foul Legacy: Understream (C1) whichgenerates 4 Energy per enemy defeated with Riptide.

It can be hard to know exactly how many enemies would be defeated in asingle rotation with different fights having differing amounts of enemies.That being said, it is roughly 15% less for every enemy who would be defeatedthat rotation. I would just be careful when considering it as not allfights will have easy enemies to pick off for Energy.

Tartaglia's gameplay revolves around his 2 different stances. MeleeStance and ranged stance. These are activated when using hisElemental Skill Foul Legacy: Raging Tide. A veryimportant thing to consider is that "The longer Tartaglia stays in his MeleeStance, the longer the CD." You generally only want to stay in hisMelee Stance for around 10 seconds so that the cooldown does notget too long.

Tartaglia's Elemental Burst Havoc: Obliterationalso changes depending on what stance he is in. His rangedstance doing Ranged Stance: Flash of Havoc andin Melee stance, Melee Stance: Light of Obliteration.

The Ranged Burst applies Riptide andgives 20 Energy back, the Melee Burst deals more DMG andutilises Riptide to deal further damage afterwards. Riptide isexplained below.

Tartaglia's gameplay primarily revolves around his Riptide mechanic which marks opponents and can then dovarious effects. You can mark opponents with Riptide in the following ways:

• Charged Attacks while in his Bow stance.
• Ranged Stance: Flash of Havoc, his Elemental Burst while in Bow stance.
• CRIT Hits in Melee stance due to Sword of Torrents (A4).

Once an enemy is marked, you can then utilise Riptide to deal damagein these ways:

• Riptide Flash - A fully-charged Aimed Shot that hits an opponent affectedby Riptide deals consecutive bouts of AoE DMG. Can occur once every 0.7s.
• Riptide Burst - Defeating an opponent affected by Riptide creates a Hydroburst that spreads Riptide to nearby opponents hit.
• Riptide Slash - Hitting an opponent marked by Riptide with a melee attackperforms Riptide Slash that deals AoE Hydro DMG.
• Riptide Blast - When his Elemental Burst hits an opponent affected byRiptide, it clears their Riptide status and triggers a Hydro Explosion thatdeals AoE Hydro DMG. This is considered Elemental Burst DMG.

Hitting enemies with Riptide triggers independent versions of Riptide Slash.This makes it important to try and group enemies ideally withAnemo characters.

Tartaglia also has the ability to prestack the effects of his bestweapon Polar Star and his best artifact set Nymph's Dream.This equipment gains DMG stacks when Normal, Charged, Skill and Burststake place and hit opponents.

To "prestack" means to pre-emptively gain these stacks before dealing yourmost powerful hits from your Elemental Skill and Burst. One rotationfor this is Skill > Normal Attack > Charged Attack.

Listed below are some team comps which can be used with Tartaglia such ashis most popular International team composition andvariants.

This is by far Tartaglia's most popular team composition, generallywith Kaedehara Kazuha instead of Sucrose.Xiangling provides consistent Pyroapplication as well as Pyro Resonancewhen paired alongside Bennett who provides healingand powerful ATK buffs. Your Anemo character helps to groupenemies for Riptide as well as RES Shred when using Viridescent Venerer

Tartaglia can also be played in Hyperbloom teams,his on-field Hydro application allows you to not needcharacters such as Xingqiu or Yelan.Instead, having an off-field Dendro and Electrocharacter for Elemental Reactions. Tartaglia will also want a secondHydro character for additional Hydro appliationso that during the downtime on his Melee Stance, there are stillreactions ongoing.

Kuki Shinobu is the preferred Electro character forHyperbloom with her ability to both heal andeffectively apply Electro although Baizhu orYaoyao make great Dendro options instead. Depending on howoften your Dendro character can apply Dendro for reactions, you may want 2Dendro characters.

Electro-Charged, also known as Taser focuses onthe Elemental DMG dealt mainly by Tartaglia and Beidou. WithBennett providing increased ATK buffs and healing as neededand Fischl acting as a battery and additional off-fieldElectro DMG.

I wanted to also list this team more so to explain a "Team Composition"which has started to occur more since the release of Neuvillettewhich players may see in Neuvillette showcases or duringSpiral Abyss data/rankings. In this team, Tartaglia has nofield time in this team and provides no benefit outside of his Master of Weaponry Passive which helps toincrease the Normal Attack level for Neuvillette therefore dealing more damage.