Genshin Impact is a game that is constantly expanding its lore, with a vast amount of new regions, characters and enemies added on each update. This includes the Electro Archon herself, Raiden Shogun, who, despite being an archon, will still be able to join you in your journey through Teyvat.

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Raiden Shogun is an excellent character to have on your team as a Main DPS. To make sure that she's performing on the battlefield as best as she can, you must ascend her until she reaches level 90, and level up her talents to maximize her damage output. Here's everything you need to know about it.

Updated December 28, 2022, by Santi Leguiza.

Raiden's Ascension Materials

As the Electro Archon representing Inazuma, Raiden Shogun will need several items that are only obtainable throughout this region, in addition to Gems and Boss drops. The full list goes as follows:

Ascension Phase

Maximum Level

Mora

Crystal

Regional Specialty

Mob Drops

World Boss Drops

1

40

20,000

1x Vajrada Amethyst Sliver

3x Amakumo Fruit

3x Old Handguard

N/A

2

50

40,000

3x Vajrada Amethyst Fragment

10x Amakumo Fruit

15x Old Handguard

2x Storm Beads

3

60

60,000

6x Vajrada Amethyst Fragment

20x Amakumo Fruit

12x Kageuchi Handguard

4x Storm Beads

4

70

80,000

3x Vajrada Amethyst Chunk

30x Amakumo Fruit

18x Kageuchi Handguard

8x Storm Beads

5

80

100,000

6x Vajrada Amethyst Chunk

45x Amakumo Fruit

12x Famed Handguard

12x Storm Beads

6

90

120,000

6x Vajrada Amethyst Gemstone

60x Amakumo Fruit

24x Famed Handguard

20x Storm Beads

Where To Find Vajrada Amethyst Crystal

Vajrada Amethyst crystal can be found in all of its forms by defeating some of the Normal and Weekly Bosses. These will drop different amounts and categories of Vajrada Amethysts depending on the level of difficulty, so it's suggested to form a team as powerful as possible before trying to farm those fights. The list goes as follows:

Normal Bosses

  • Coral Defenders
  • Electro Hypostasis
  • Electro Regisvine
  • Primo Geovishap
  • Thunder Manifestation

Weekly Bosses

  • Stormterror - Confront Stormterror
  • Azhdaha - Beneath the Dragon-Queller
  • Tartaglia - Enter the Golden House
  • Ei - End of the Oneiric Euthymia
  • Scaramouche - Joururi Workshop

After finishing each fight, you need to interact with the Trounce Blossom by spending 40 Original Resin to get the rewards.

Where To Find Amakumo Fruit

Amakumo Fruitis a regional fruit and an item that can only be found around Seirai Island. While there are a lot of spawn points to harvest, you will need a total of 168 copies of this item, so it might take a longer time than expected to get them all.

Where To Find Old, Kageuchi, And Famed Handguards

Every kind of Handguard can be obtained after defeating Nobushi andKairagi-type enemies, enemies that can be found around the many islands of the Inazuma region. Defeating them at different difficulty levels will award you rarer kinds of Handguards, so keep that in mind.

Alternatively, you can obtain Kageuchi and Famed Handguards through alchemy, by offering three of the lesser version of the handguard and some Mora in an alchemy station. You will need 18 Old, 30 Kageuchi, and 36 Famed Handguards in total.

Where To Find Storm Beads

You can get the Storm Beads to drop from the Thunder Manifestation, a Normal Boss located on Seirai Island. The Thunder Manifestation won't be available to fight until you have completed a short questline called "Seirai Stormchasers", located on Seirai Island.

After you defeat this powerful foe, you must interact with the Trounce Blossom and spend 40 Original Resin to get the rewards from this fight, and you'll get up to two or three Storm Beads depending on your world level. You will need a total amount of 46 Storm Beads to fully ascend Raiden Shogun.

Raiden's Talent Materials

Not only Raiden needs to level up, but also her powerful techniques. Once you're done with her ascension materials, you will need to invest in her Talents so they inflict more damage, and the list of materials to achieve that goes as follows:

Talent Level

Mora

Talent Books

Mob Drops

Weekly Boss Drops

2

12,500

3x Teachings of Light

6x Old Handguard

N/A

3

17,500

2x Guide to Light

3x Kageuchi Handguard

N/A

4

25,000

4x Guide to Light

4x Kageuchi Handguard

N/A

5

30,000

6x Guide to Light

6x Kageuchi Handguard

N/A

6

37,500

9x Guide to Light

9x Kageuchi Handguard

N/A

7

120,000

4x Philosophies of Light

4x Famed Handguard

1x Molten Moment

8

260,000

6x Philosophies of Light

6x Famed Handguard

1x Molten Moment

9

450,000

12x Philosophies of Light

9x Famed Handguard

2x Molten Moment

10

700,000

18x Philosophies of Light

12x Famed Handguard

2x Molten Moment 1x Crown Of Insight

​​​​One of the most common materials for every character's Talents comes in the form of a scroll or book. The Light scrolls needed for Raiden can be farmed from the Violet Court Domain, located in Inazuma on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday. Depending on its difficulty level, this domain will match you against Treasure Hoarders, Nobushi, and Kairagi enemies. Keep in mind that with a higher Adventure Rank, you will be able to get higher and rarer rewards.

Last, the Boss drop Molten Moment drop can be gathered from the weekly Boss La Signora, whom you can fight in Inazuma City after unlocking her through the Main Quest. In addition, if you wish to max up a Raiden Shogun talent, you must use a Crown of Insight, an item that is usually rewarded in limited-time Events.

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