Genshin Impact captured players' attention with its open world and fun game mechanics, but a heavy draw were the numerous playable characters attainable through the game's Wish system. Wishes act like loot boxes, allowing players to unlock new characters and weapons. Each character has their own distinct backstory and personality, as well as an elemental designation. Players can create a team of up to four characters to use on their adventure, and each element can be combined with another to create compounding, devastating attacks.
When Genshin Impact players are choosing their team of four, they have a number of Cryo users to choose from. Each has their own special attacks and talents that give them boosts for HP regeneration or increasing DMG output or CRIT chance. All characters can be upgraded via Ascension using materials and Mora, the game's currency, to increase their attack power to the highest possible level. Characters also gain Talents with certain Ascension levels.
Updated September 9th, 2022 by Declan Lowthian: When constructing a Genshin Impact team, its important to identify the best character for each role. We've revamped this list to highlight the highest attack stats among Genshin's many Cryo users.
10 Diona
Starting: 18-46, Max: 198-212
Diona is a bartender at the Cat's Tail tavern and wields a bow for those long-range attacks. Her normal attack includes up to five consecutive shots, a charged precision shot, and a mid-air volley dealing AoW damage. Her elemental attack, Icy Paws, fires an icy paw that turns into a shield that will absorb damage. She can fire up to five paws consecutively.
Diona's second attack is Signature Mix, where she throws out a "cold brew beverage" that deals Cryo damage and creates a Drunken Mist that continues to deal Cryo damage.
9 Kaeya
Starting: 19-48, Max: 208-223
Kaeya is the cavalry captain of the Knights of Favonius. He uses a sword with a standard attack of up to five consecutive strikes. His elemental attack, Frostgnaw, lets him fire an icy blast forward, dealing Cryo damage to enemies. Glacial Waltz, his second elemental attack, allows Kaeya to summon three icicles that circle him.
These icicles work as a shield that delivers Cryo damage to any enemy they touch for as long as their duration lasts. With the Talent Cold-Blooded Strike, Kaeya regenerates HP equal to 15% of his attack power with every strike from Frostgnaw. He is also one of the first characters Genshin Impact players get access to.
8 Chongyun
Starting: 19-48, Max: 208-223
Chongyun is an exorcist from Liyue who wields a Claymore. He has a standard four-strike normal attack, a powerful charged strike, and a mid-air plunge attack with a wide AoE. Though claymore attacks are slower, Chongyun has the Talent called Steady Breathing which increases attack speed by 8%.
With his elemental attack Spirit Blade: Chonghua's Layered Frost, he smashes his sword on the ground dealing Cryo AoE damage. The explosion then becomes a frost field which gives any sword, claymore, or polearm weapon a Cryo infusion. Spirit Blade: Cloud-Parting Star, his second attack, is a summoning attack that calls three large blades to crash down from the sky, dealing Cryo damage.
7 Aloy
Starting: 18-47, Max: 217-234
As part of a crossover event with Guerrilla Games, players unlocked Aloy, the star of Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West. She has a four-shot normal bow attack as well as a charged-up precision arrow and an AoE arrow volley.
With her elemental attack Frozen Wilds, Aloy launches a Freeze Bomb that explodes on impact and then has little bomblets that explode around the area of impact, both dealing Cryo damage. With her second attack, Prophecies of Dawn, she launches a cryo power cell and then shoots it with an arrow, dealing a large amount Cryo damage to the explosion area.
6 Rosaria
Starting: 20-52, Max: 223-240
Rosaria is a nun at the Church of Faviona in Mondstadt. She wields a polearm and, while the standard attack allows up to five strikes, her charged attack thrusts her forward dealing damage along the way. Rosaria uses Ravaging Confession to teleport behind the enemy and stab them in the back, dealing Cryo Damage. Unfortunately, this cannot be used on larger enemies.
With her second elemental attack, Rites of Termination, Rosaria swings her polearm around her, damaging enemies, and then summons an ice lance that slams the ground, dealing Cryo AoE damage to any enemies in its radius.
5 Qiqi
Starting: 22-58, Max: 267-287
Qiqi works at the Babu Pharmacy in Liyue Harbour under the care of Baizhu after she was resurrected as a zombie. Her sword has standard attacks, but her elemental attacks are where she flourishes. Adeptus Art: Herald of Frost is an attack where Qiqi uses the Icevein Talisman to bring forth the Herald of Frost, which deals damage.
While active, the Heral of Frost follows Qiqi, dealing damage to enemies, periodically generates the active character's HP, and generates HP for party members when Qiqi uses normal and charged attacks. Adeptus Art: Preserver of Fortune, her second attack, releases the Adeptus power inside Qiqi, marking enemies with the Fortune-Preserving Talisman that deals Cryo Damage. Whichever character then damages a marked enemy regenerates HP.
4 Shenhe
Starting: 24-61, Max: 282-304
Shenhe is a disciple of the Cloud Retainer after experiencing a traumatic event in her childhood. She wields a polearm that gives her up to five consecutive strike attacks. Her attack Spring Spirit Summoning grants all nearby party members the Icy Quill effect which increases the damage to normal, charged, and plunging attacks as well as elemental bursts and skills.
This can also be used two ways: Pressing the button command makes Shenhe rush forward with the spirit and deal Cryo damage, while holding button command sends the Talisman Spirit out to damage itself. With her second attack, Divine Maiden's Deliverance, she releases the Talisman Spirit, so it goes on its own to deal damage to enemies.
3 Ganyu
Starting: 26-68 Max: 311-335
Ganyu is the General Secretary of the Liyue Qixing and wields a bow with up to five consecutive shots as a normal attack. Her charged attack can fire two different arrows based on charge level. Level one is an ice arrow, while level two is the Frostflake arrow that explodes on impact.
Trail of Qilin is an elemental attack that lets her drop an Ice Lotus that serves as a distraction target for enemies while dealing Cryo Damage. Her second attack, Celestial Shower, summons a Cryo Pearl that rains down shards of ice that deal Cryo AoE damage to any enemies in the radius.
2 Eula
Starting: 27-69, Max: 318-342
The captain of the Reconnaissance Company with the Knights of Favonius, Eula wields a claymore that can deal up to five consecutive strikes with her normal attack as well as a charged attack and mid-air plunge AoE attack. Her elemental attack Icetide Vortex allows Eula to slash swiftly, dealing Cryo damage.
When these slashes connect, Eula gains up to two stacks of Grimheart which her resistance to interruption and Defense. Holding the attack allows her to consume these stacks to inflict heavy damage. Her other attack, Glacial Illumination, also increases her resistance to interruption while summoning a Lightfall Sword that charges with each connected attack. It then explodes dealing massive damage.
1 Kamisato Ayaka
Starting: 27-79, Max: 318-342
Kamisato Ayaka is known as the model of perfection from the Kamisato Clan. She has the standard five strike normal attack as well as a charged strike and mid-air plunge. She has three elemental attacks to use. Kamisato Art: Hyouka launches ice at nearby opponents and increases her normal and charged attack damage by 30% for 6 seconds.
Kamisato Art: Soumetsu summons a snowman that unleashes a storm of ice wind that damages enemies and explodes, dealing more damage, at the end of its duration. Kamisato Art: Senho is a nifty alternate sprint attack that cloaks Kamisato in a fog of ice. When she reappears, she freezes any nearby enemies and her normal sword attacks are infused with Cryo damage for a short duration.