How Many Characters Are There in Genshin Impact

Hritwik Raj

Published: Dec 8, 2020 03:34 am

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Being one of the most well liked gacha-based role-playing game of year 2020, Genshin Impact imprints an adventurous journey with tons of characters to meet, an open world to explore, dungeons and domains to conquer, world bosses to defeat and much more onto the players mind.

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As a gacha-game, Genshin Impact‘s playable characters, weapons and items are the premier content of the game. Second to that, we have new regions, quests, dungeons, bosses, etc.

Genshin Impact offers a plethora of unique and memorable characters – whether we talk about some of the NPCs or the playable characters, the game has lot to offer. Now, as a gacha-game when players talk about how many characters are there in Genshin Impact ?, we generally talking about the number of playable characters.

As of now, there are around 26 playable characters in Genshin Impact, with tons of new characters ready in line waiting for release. Players can get new characters primarily by performing wishes(gacha-rolls) using Primogems, Acquaint Fate, or the Intertwined Fate.

Also, being generous towards the free to play players, the game provides starter characters like Lisa, Kaeya and Amber. Moreover, there are certain timed events and challenges, that, upon successful completion grants free playable characters like Barbara, Fischl and Xiangling.

Each character in Genshin Impact solicit their powers from an Archon, a god like figure representing a particular element and region in the game. In total there are around seven elements as well as Archons in Genshin Impact, the elements and currently known Archons are –

List of Elements in Genshin Impact

Anemo – Air
Geo – Earth
Electro – Electricity
Dendro – Nature
Hydro – Water
Cryo – Ice
Pyro – Fire

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All Known Archons in Genshin Impact

Original Name	Regional Alias	Current Persona	Element
Barbatos	Lord Barbatos	Venti	Anemo
Morax	Rex Lapis	Zhongli	Geo
Baal	The Raiden Shogun	Unknown(Female)	Electro
Unknown	The Lady of Fire	Murata	Pyro
Unknown	The Tsaritsa	Unknown(Female)	Cryo

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With all the game related Jargons explained, now let’s move on to the list of all playable characters in Genshin Impact.

SNo.	Name	Element	Weapon	Gender
1	Amber	Pyro	Bow	Female
2	Bennett	Pyro	Sword	Male
3	Diluc	Pyro	Claymore	Male
4	Klee	Pyro	Catalyst	Female
5	Xiangling	Pyro	Polearm	Female
6	Barbara	Hydro	Catalyst	Female
7	Mona	Hydro	Catalyst	Female
8	Tartaglia	Hydro	Bow	Male
9	Xingqiu	Hydro	Sword	Male

10	Ningguang	Geo	Catalyst	Female
11	Noelle	Geo	Claymore	Female
12	Beidou	Electro	Claymore	Female
13	Fischl	Electro	Bow	Female
14	Keqing	Electro	Bow	Female
15	Lisa	Electro	Catalyst	Male
16	Razor	Electro	Claymore	Male
17	Chongyun	Cryo	Claymore	Male
18	Diona	Cryo	Bow	Female
19	Kaeya	Cryo	Sword	Male
20	Qiqi	Cryo	Sword	Female
21	Jean	Anemo	Sword	Female
22	Sucrose	Anemo	Catalyst	Female
23	Venti	Anemo	Bow	Male
24	Traveler	Adaptive	Sword	Male, Female
25	Zhongli	Geo	Polearm	Male
26	Xinyan	Pyro	Claymore	Female

Genshin Impact is a free to play gacha-based role-playing game currently available on PC, PS4, Android, and iOS.

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Hritwik Raj

Hritwik is a guides writer who has been writing about video games for almost a decade. He is a Computer Science graduate who has always been into gaming. Most of the time, you will find him covering News and Guides for various publications. And when he is not working, you will find him fighting with his friends about how good of a gamer he is. His favorite games include Fallout 76, Borderlands 2, Call of Duty, Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Souls series, Genshin Impact, and The Last of Us.