Genshin Impact comes with a compelling story campaign, and combat mechanics which makes it stand out from other popular titles in the genre. Since the release, Mona has distinguished herself among the best characters in the game. She is a 5-star rarity character who can “divide”: she’s able to do great damage at high level but is used more as a support to allow other DPS to come and hit the monster, we can consider her as a hybrid character.
Mona Character Introduction
Mona is an astrologist who takes her passion seriously. She combines her astrology skills with hydromancy, which makes her a well-known, if still growing astrologist. In part due to her astrology, Mona can tell whether or not a person is lying and can even sense their intentions just from a single glance.
Element: Hydro
Weapon: Catalyst
She’s more of a support than a damage dealer, with most of her attacks either offering up decent crowd-control or an illusion that attracts enemy fire.
A mysterious young astrologer who proclaims herself to be “Astrologist Mona Megistus,” and who possesses abilities to match the title. Erudite, but prideful. Though she is often strapped for cash and lives a life of thrift, she is resolved to never use astrology for profit… It is this very resolution that has caused her to constantly fret about money.
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Her most appealing trait is her Elemental Skill, the source of her high mobility. With a press, she summons a Phantom to take hits in her team’s place, rapidly applying Wet to all targets nearby when it eventually explodes. By holding the skill, however, she can summon the illusionary Phantom after phasing in and out of sight, allowing her to quickly drop the Phantom into melee range.
Mona’s Appearance
Mona is a young adult with light skin, a curvy build, and pale green eyes. She has long black hair which she wears in two pigtails, and wears a compass like gold earring. The end of Mona’s pigtails end in two more gold compass decorations.
Mona wears a purple and black leotard with gold lining. She wears purple sleeves and black gloves, along with a short purple cloak with a red lining and a furry black collar. Mona wears black tights with a golden decoration around her right leg.
Mona’s Skills Talents
| Type | Name | Info |
| Combat Talent – Normal/Charged Attack | Ripple of Fate | Normal Attack: Perform up to 5 water splash attacks that deal Hydro DMG. Charged Attack: Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to deal AoE Hydro DMG after a short casting time. Plunging Attack: Gathering the might of Hydro, Mona plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all enemies in her path. Deals AoE Hydro DMG upon impact with the ground. |
| Combat Talent – Elemental Skill | Mirror Reflection of Doom | Creates an illusory Phantom of fate from coalesced waterspouts. The Phantom has the following special properties: – Continuously taunts nearby enemies, attracting their fire. – Each secondes, 4 time, deals AoE Hydro DMG. – When its duration expires, the Phantom explodes, dealing AoE Hydro DMG. Hold: Utilizes water currents to move backwards swiftly before conjuring a Phantom Only one Phantom created by Mirror Reflection of Doom can exist at any time. When the Phantom explodes and hit at least an ennemis, generate 3 elemental particles. |
| Combat Talent – Alternate Sprint | Illusory Torrent | Mona cloaks herself within the water’s flow, consuming stamina to move rapidly. When under the effect of Illusory Torrent, Mona can move at high speed on water. Applies the Wet status to nearby enemies when she reappears. |
| Combat Talent – Elemental Burst | Stellaris Phantasm | Mona summons the sparkling waves and creates a reflection of the starry sky, applying the Illusory Bubble status to the opponents in a large AoE. Illusory Bubble: Traps opponents inside a pocket of destiny and also makes them Wet. Renders weaker opponents immobile. When an opponent affected by Illusory Bubble sustains DMG, it has the following effects: Applies an Omen to the opponent, which gives a DMG Bonus, also increasing the DMG of the attack that causes it. Removes the Illusory Bubble, dealing Hydro DMG in the process. Omen: During its duration, increases DMG taken by enemies. |
Mona’s Passive Talents
| Type | Name | Info |
| Passive Talent 1 | Come ‘n’ Get Me, Hag! | After she has used Illusory Torrent for 2s, if there are any enemies nearby, Mona will automatically create a Phantom. A Phantom created in this manner lasts for 2s, and its explosion DMG is equal to 50% of Mirror Reflection of Doom. |
| Passive Talent 2 | Waterborne Destiny | Increases Mona’s Hydro DMG Bonus by a degree equivalent to 20% of her Energy Recharge rate. |
| Passive Talent 3 | Principium of Astrology | When Mona crafts Weapon Ascension Materials, she has a 25% chance to refund a portion of the crafting materials used. |
Mona’s Constellations
| Level | Name | Effect |
| 1 | Prophecy of Submersion | The effects of Hydro-related Elemental Reactions are enhanced for 8s after any of your characters in the party hit an enemy affected by an Omen: – Electro-Charged DMG is increased by 15%. – Vaporize DMG is increased by 15%. – Hydro Swirl DMG is increased by 15%. – The duration for which enemies are Frozen is increased by 15%. |
| 2 | Lunar Chain | When a Normal Attack hits, there is a 20% chance that it will be automatically followed by a Charged Attack. This effect can only occur once every 5s. |
| 3 | Restless Revolution | Increases the Level of Stellaris Phantasm by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
| 4 | Prophecy of Oblivion | When any character in the party attacks an enemy affected by the Omen status effect, their CRIT Rate is increased by 15%. |
| 5 | Mockery of Fortuna | Increase the Level of Mirror Reflection of Doom by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
| 6 | Rhetorics of Calamitas | Upon entering Illusory Torrent, Mona gains a 60% increase to the DMG her next Charged Attack per second of movement. A maximum DMG Bonus of 180% can be achieved in this manner. The effect lasts for no more than 8s. |
Best Artifacts and Weapons for Mona
Mona excels at empowering DPS units through the use of her Burst Skill making energy recharge incredibly valuable.
The best Artifacts for Mona should increase her various Elemental stats, since she is extremely flexible regarding this. On this matter, the Noblesse Oblige set is great for people who want to focus on increasing Elemental Burst DMG. A more common set, the Exile set is great for increasing Mona’s Elemental Recharge by 20%. The Instructor set is also great, and extremely common in Genshin Impact, since it will increase Mona’s Elemental Mastery.
The Favonius Codex is the best weapon for Mona, since critical hits will generate an Elemental Orb, which will restore 6 Energy. This is especially important for causing damage, and for triggering quick Elemental Reactions alongside Electro users like Lisa. The spellbook can be hard to obtain through gacha pulls, but the Otherworldly Story is more common and still works pretty well. It will increase Mona’s ATK and Energy Restore, and the Orbs it generates can also restore Mona’s health.
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