Genshin Impact welcomes Dehya to the lineup

Dehya, the Eremite mercenary from Sumeru, is the newest 5-star Pyro character to be released into the game, available now. 

With Phase I of the 3.5 update on March 1st, Dehya was officially released into the game, at the same time as Cyno’s re-release. 

So who is Dehya? 

Dehya is a 5-star Claymore-wielding Pyro-elemental Eremite mercenary from the Sumeru region. The Eremite faction has a long history within the game’s Sumeru region. They are a band of warriors who do not pledge allegiance to any nation and operate as mercenaries for the highest payer.

But Dehya isn’t just a merciless fighter, like most characters in Genshin Impact, she also has a soft side and is very likable, as demonstrated in her backstory when she used all of her savings to help an orphanage in Sumeru. 

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Dehya has a flexible role and is most like playing the role of a Tank.

She is considered an A or S-tier Pyro DPS character whose kit revolves around her Elemental Burst, which depends on 8 or more seconds of field time in a rotation. However, her Skill is primarily useful as a support option to provide interruption resistance, damage mitigation, and slow Pyro application to more easily trigger Burgeon Reactions. This Skill, however, only works when Dehya is off-field and demands an entirely different stat setup.

Dehya Elemental Skill: Molten Inferno

This art of Dehya’s own invention changes its method of use depending on the combat situation.

Indomitable Flame

• This skill will be unleashed should there be no Fiery Sanctum field created by Dehya herself present at the time.
• Deals AoE Pyro DMG, and creates a field known as Fiery Sanctum.

Ranging Flame

• This skill will be unleashed should a Fiery Sanctum field created by Dehya herself already exist.
• Dehya will perform a leaping attack, dealing AoE Pyro DMG before recreating a Fiery Sanctum field at her new position.
• A Fiery Sanctum field created this way will inherit the remaining duration of the previous field.
• Ranging Flame can be used only once throughout a single Fiery Sanctum field’s duration.

Fiery Sanctum

• When an opponent within a Fiery Sanctum field takes DMG, the field will unleash a coordinated attack, dealing AoE Pyro DMG to them based on Dehya’s ATK and Max HP. This effect can be triggered once every 2.5s.
• Active characters within this field have their resistance to interruption increased, and when such characters take DMG, a portion of that damage will be mitigated and flow into Redmane’s Blood.
• Dehya will then take this DMG over 10s. When the mitigated DMG stored by Redmane’s Blood reaches or goes over a certain percentage of Dehya’s Max HP, she will stop mitigating DMG in this way.
• Only 1 Fiery Sanctum created by Dehya herself can exist at the same time.

Dehya Elemental Burst: Leonine Bite

Unleashing her burning anger and casting her inconvenient blade aside, Dehya enters the Blazing Lioness state and increases her resistance to interruption.

• In this state, Dehya will automatically and continuously unleash the Flame-Mane’s Fists, dealing Pyro DMG based on her ATK and Max HP, and when its duration ends, she will unleash an Incineration Drive, dealing AoE Pyro DMG based on her ATK and Max HP.
• If a Fiery Sanctum field created by Dehya’s own Elemental Skill “Molten Inferno” exists when this ability is unleashed, Dehya will retrieve it, and then create another field once Blazing Lioness’s duration expires. This field will take on the retrieved field’s duration at the moment of its retrieval.
• In this state, Dehya will be unable to cast her Elemental Skill, or perform Normal, Charged, and Plunging Attacks. “Normal Attack: Sandstorm Assault” and Elemental Skill “Molten Inferno” will be replaced by “Roaring Barrage.”

Roaring Barrage

• Unleashing Roaring Barrage within 0.4s after each Flame-Mane’s Fist strike will increase the speed at which the next Flame-Mane’s Fist strike will be triggered.

For full details of Dehya’s talents, passives, constellations, team format, weapons, and artifacts check out her official Genshin Impact profile HERE.

Genshin Impact is now available on Mobile, PC, PS4, and PS5. A Switch version is in development.