Genshin Impact: How to Use Arlecchino's Delusion Power

In Genshin Impact Version 7.1, using Arlecchino's toggleable Delusion power requires setting up off-field elemental buffs first, triggering her stance at the start of her field window, and swapping her out before continuous HP drain drops her health to critical levels.

Managing the Delusion Stance and HP Drain

Activating the Delusion power puts Arlecchino into an empowered combat stance that alters her normal and charged attacks. This mode applies an extra Pyro-Delusion damage instance on hit and increases attack speed, with damage scaling independently of her base stats.

Because the stance continuously drains Arlecchino's HP while active, survival depends on your team structure and visual monitoring:

Visual Indicator: Watch her aura color. A distinct aura shift signals that the stance is active, while a fading aura indicates the state has expired and damage output has dropped.
Off-Field Healers: Teammates with passive, off-field healing allow Arlecchino to remain in her empowered stance longer without field time interruptions.
High-Uptime Shielders: A strong shield prevents enemy attacks from compounding the stance's natural health drain.
Hit-and-Run Strategy: If your team lacks off-field healers or shielders, deactivate or disengage from the stance after short attack bursts to let supports restore her health pool safely.

Recommended Combat Rotation

Aligning Arlecchino's stance with external elemental buffs maximizes damage efficiency during high-output windows.

Deploy Support Abilities: Switch to off-field support characters to apply elemental status effects, elemental resistance shred, and defensive shields or healing.
Activate Delusion Power: Swap to Arlecchino and toggle her Delusion stance to begin the main damage window.
Execute Attack Combo: Perform a 3-hit normal attack string followed immediately by a dash cancel to preserve positioning and attack pace.
Disengage and Restore: Swap Arlecchino off the field before her HP hits a dangerous threshold, allowing support units to heal her and refresh team buffs for the next cycle.

Scenarios and Build Adaptations

The effectiveness of the Delusion state varies depending on enemy counts and artifact selection:

Context	Recommended Action	Key Benefit
Single-Target Bosses	Maintain full stance duration during burst windows.	Maximizes single-target DPS against phase-shifted or high-HP bosses.
Mob Groups / Crowd Control	Deactivate Delusion or shorten stance windows.	Prevents rapid HP loss when exposed to incoming crowd-control attacks.
HP Fluctuation Artifacts	Equip sets triggered by HP changes or healing.	Converts the stance's self-damage penalty into extra defensive or offensive stats.
Max HP Shield Artifacts	Equip sets granting shield strength based on HP limits.	Offsets continuous drain risk with stronger damage absorption.