Xiangling: Pyronado Snapshots, Guoba Does Not Carry

Guoba Attack plants Guoba, who breathes Pyro a few times and drops a chili pepper. The pepper is a small attack buff if you pick it up. Guoba is the particle skill and the Pyro applier. He is not the reason the enemy's health bar moves in a serious fight. Cast him when you need energy or a Pyro aura for Kazuha, not as the damage button.

Pyronado spins a flaming pole around the active character. It keeps spinning after Xiangling leaves the field, and it records buffs when she presses the button. Bennett's attack bonus, Noblesse, and a food or potion that is already on her are in the snapshot. A buff you apply after the cast is not. The wheel also needs a lot of energy. Without a battery, you will normal-attack on Xiangling waiting for a burst that should have been spinning already.

The wheel Vaporizes when Hydro is already on the enemy. Xingqiu's burst is the usual Hydro, because the rain swords keep applying while someone normal-attacks. Cast Xingqiu before or after the wheel, then normal-attack on a driver so the swords keep coming. If you stand still and wait for Guoba to Vaporize the wheel by himself, most of the spins are raw Pyro.

Bennett is the other required slot for the snapshot, not just for the heal. The order is Bennett burst, Xiangling steps in, Xiangling burst, Xiangling skill if you still need particles, then the driver. Reversing Bennett and Xiangling is the mistake that makes a good build look weak.

Four-piece Emblem of Severed Fate. Energy recharge sands until the burst is ready every rotation, then you can look at attack. Pyro goblet, crit circlet. The Catch gives energy recharge and burst damage and it is the weapon to use until a five-star polearm is clearly ahead on both stats. Level the burst first. Guoba's talent is a distant second. Her normal attack is not the wheel.

Give her a second Pyro in the team for particles, and that second Pyro is Bennett. A team that asks Xiangling to fund an eighty-energy burst alone will feel the gap on the second chamber, not the first.