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Weapon Infusion

📄️ Weapon Infusion

Elemental Infusions

Weapon Gauges​

By: Monochrom9#8058
Added: 2021-06-17 (v. 1.6)
Last tested: 2021-06-17 (v. 1.6)
Discussion

Finding:
Weapon infusions that are not explicitly stated to be "unable to be overwritten" operate through applying Elemental gauges to the weapon itself. The Pyro > Cryo > Electro paradigm of infusion overwriting is a result of gauges. interacting with each other in specific ways that yield the appearance of a hierarchy, but is not true.

Evidence:

Conclusion:
Weapon Elemental Gauge Units or WU, can be used to describe the strength of Weapon infusions. Keqing infuses her weapon once on double casting E and Diluc infuses his weapon every 0.5 seconds if it isn't imbued with Pyro. The duration of these gauges differs between characters. Reactions on weapons follow the known reaction modifier rules from other types of Elemental application, and similar to Self-auras, can oscillate directly between elements without shifting to Physical.

Weapon Infusion Reaction Location​

By: @f99shi, @lesterberne, @sanestemufan, @beew_69, @nekorul
Added: 2025-03-01 (v. 5.3)
Last tested: 2025-02-28 (v. 5.3)
Discussion

Finding:
Weapon Infusion reactions occur at the location of the last character swap, if the active character's weapon is sheathed prior to its infusion.

Evidence:

  • Kazuha C6:
    • credit: @weeb - YouTube (using E to get the infusion)
    • credit: @weeb - YouTube (using Q to get the infusion -> weapon unsheathed during Q animation, before infusion)
    • credit: @weeb - YouTube (swapping twice to determine if the location is the last swap)
  • Dori C6:
  • Keqing:
    • credit: @f99shi - YouTube (using E before the setup, and another E after the setup)
    • credit: @f99shi - YouTube (using EE after the setup -> weapon unsheathed at initial E cast, before infusion)
    • credit: @Lesterberne - YouTube (using E before the setup, then N1 and another E after the setup)
  • Lynette C6:

Kazuha's Q and Keqing's initial E cast unsheathe their swords before an infusion can occur. In such scenarios, the reaction behaves as expected by triggering at that weapon's location. Similarly, doing a Normal Attack counts as unsheathing your sword.
In scenarios where the active character's weapon is sheathed before an infusion, the reaction occurs at the location of the last swap.

Significance:
When doing Kazuha/Lynette C6 Weapon Swirl setups, be careful of the location.

Arrow Infusion

Arrows are self applied aura entities​

By: OAKUM#0832
Added: 2021-07-08 (v. 1.6)
Last tested: 2021-07-08 (v. 1.6)
Discussion

Finding: Arrows are self-applied aura entities.

Evidence:
Venti’s arrows are swirled in the rain and Amber’s arrows are vaporized in the rain, showing that arrows are self-applied aura entities.

Conclusion: Arrows are entities that are infused with the same aura they apply.