Glossary of Genshin Impact Terms: Glossary

In Genshin Impact, the glossary of terms allows newcomers to quickly integrate into the gaming community, in which veterans often use abbreviations, nicknames and anglicisms. Often these words are also used in manuals and articles on the game, so we advise you to always keep a glossary at hand.

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Hero stats

Stat (or stat) is a characteristic, parameter, indicator or attribute of a character, enemy, boss or any other creature in the game.
Substat (or substat) is a secondary weapon parameter (possesses one substat) or artifacts (zero to four substats).

Native – a personal characteristic of the hero, pumped along with increasing his level (not displayed separately in the hero's parameters).
Basic (white) attack – the sum of the hero's attack power without bonuses, artifacts and weapons, as well as weapon attack excluding bonus and substat.
Green attack – includes everything that does not fit the boundaries of the “white attack”, the sum of the parameters of ATK and ATK% (in sets of artifacts, in secondary characteristics and weapon bonuses, in Abyss bonuses, event bonuses, elemental resonance, food bonuses, skill and constellation bonuses).

CA is short for “Attack Power”.
SK (Crit Chance) is short for “Critical Hit Chance”. This parameter shows the probability with which the hero inflicts critical damage on the enemy.
KD (critical damage) – short for “critical damage”. This parameter indicates how much damage the hero will inflict on the enemy when a crit chance occurs.

BL is short for “heal bonus”.
MS is short for elemental mastery.

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EAT – also means mastery of the elements, but already in English (elemental mastery).
DEF – can indicate the characteristic Defense or the need to go on the defensive.
Flat – an indicator without percentages (example: HP and HP%).

Flat (for example, a flat attack) – see above.
Affix – indicates a bonus of a specific type of damage, presented as a percentage, for weapons, hero skills and artifacts.
Passive – can indicate a weapon bonus or a hero's passive skill.

RE is short for energy recovery. Demonstrates the amount of replenished energy required to perform an elemental explosion from one energy sphere.
EP – also means energy recharge, but in English (energy recharge).
Recharge – also means energy recovery (recharge – “recharge”).

Stamina is the name of the Stamina parameter, which is necessary for performing charged strikes, as well as flying, climbing vertical surfaces, fast running and swimming.
Cooldown – the length of time between uses of the ability.
CD (cooldown or cooldown) – see above.

Consta (or constellation) – indicates the constellation of the hero.
C[number] (for example, C6) – indicates the number of constellations that the hero has activated.

Elements and elemental reactions

Vape (vaporise) – denotes the elemental reaction Vapor (Pyro + Hydro).
Melt (melt) – denotes the elemental reaction Melting (Pyro + Cryo).
Conduct (superconduct) – denotes elemental reaction Superconductor (Electro + Cryo).

Inflate – indicates elemental reaction Dispersion (Anemo).
Clay – indicates Geo element.
Anime – indicates Anemo element.

Statue – indicates a mob that has been Freezed (Cryo + Hydro).
Permafreeze – means keeping enemies in a state of never-ending Freeze.
Reverse – means the backlash that occurs when a strong status is interrupted by a weak one (for example, the reverse of Par looks like this: first, enemies are hit by Hydro, and then only by Pyro attacks ).

Watermelons – denote Dendro nuclei that appear when creating the Budding (Hydro + Dendro) reaction.
Kavun (in Ukrainian) – see above.
ICD – cooldown time for applying status (status can be applied again after a certain period of time).

Talents, abilities and skills

C hands (for example, to deal damage from the hand) – indicates a normal attack.
Plunge (or plunging attack) – indicates a falling attack.

An elemental (elemental) skill (skill or elemental skill) is a special ability of a hero that imposes an elemental status and allows you to accumulate energy for an elemental explosion. E”) – see above.
Abilka – indicates an elemental skill.
Charged – a blow carried out by long pressing the attack button (can be carried out both with normal attacks and with elemental skill) and consumes stamina.

Hold – from the English word “hold” (hold), means a charged attack.
An elemental explosion (explosion, ult or elemental burst) is the most powerful ability of the hero, spending accumulated energy.
Q, kyuushka (got such a name, since it is used on the PC with the “Q” key) – see above.

Cancel (or cancel) – means canceling or disrupting the animation of a hit (for example, the final one in a combo) by performing a jump, sprint, skill, or step forward.
White damage is called physical damage without elemental damage.
Infusion – denotes the transformation of attacks that begin to deal a certain elemental damage.

Stand – denotes a creature that appears from the hero's spiritual power (for example, Razor has a Wolf when the elements explode).
Hat – denotes a phantom that appears when Mona's elemental skill is activated.
Summon (Summon or summon) is a character's summoning creature (for example, the red bull Usi for Itto or the Kuylen-Anbar doll for Collea).

Blink (or blink) – indicates a lightning movement over short distances (both heroes and some mobs can turn this).
Jerk – indicates a quick movement to the side, carried out by pressing the fast run button.

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Shift – see above (given its name because the dash on PC is activated by pressing the “Shift” key).
Dash – see above.
Sprint – indicates a fast run .

Kite (or kite) – means dodging enemy attacks by quickly changing your location.
Dodge (or dodge) – means avoiding damage by performing certain actions, for example, performing a dash, exploding elements, and so on.
Invul – means the length of time at which the hero becomes invulnerable to enemy attacks (for example, when dashing or activating an explosion).

Stagger (stun, stugger or stun) – indicates a stunned or paralyzed state in which it is impossible to move or attack (for example, when a mob is knocked down by Overload).
Screed – denotes the ability to drag objects to a certain point. It can be possessed by some Anemo fighters, monsters and weapons.
Absorption – means absorbing Anemo status from enemies, the surrounding world or the hero himself, in order to then inflate this status.

Rotate – indicates the order attacks.
DOT (or damage of time) – denotes an ability that deals damage several times over a certain period of time.
Tick - Indicates damage dealt at a specific frequency throughout the duration of the DOT.

Stack – Indicates a unit of added effect of a weapon, skill or artifact when gradually stacking.
Stack (or stack) – indicates an action, while any effect is summed up several times.
Nuke – indicates the infliction of gigantic damage in a short period of time; huge one-time damage.

Snapshot (or snapshot) – means the preservation of bonuses or debuffs after the activation of the skill and until its completion, even if the item or skill that imposed the buff has ceased to function.
Adaptive – means the preservation of bonuses or debuffs only for that period of time , while the skill or item that applied the buff is in effect.
Particle – indicates a small energy sphere that accumulates energy for an elemental explosion.

Rofle – see above.
Sphere – see above.

Weapons

BP weapon – refers to the weapon issued for the 30th level of the Battle Pass after purchasing the Pearl Anthem or the Pearl Choir.
Catalyst – refers to the weapon (catalyst) used by mages (looks like a book or orb).
Gu Hua – the previous name of the two-handed sword “Prototype: Archaic”.

Stonecutter – the previous name of the one-handed sword “Prototype: Malice”.
Resentment is the previous name of the “Prototype: Starlight” spear.
Sickle is the previous name of the “Prototype: Crescent Moon” bow.

Herald is the name sometimes given to the one-handed sword “Dawnbringer”.< /li>
Casino (or cazik) – this is sometimes called the Wanderer's Song catalyst due to the randomness of its bonus.
Mappa (or Mappa mare) – this is sometimes called the Sea Card catalyst.
Aquila (Aquila Favonia or Aquila Favonia) – this is sometimes called the one-handed sword “Falcon Sword”.

Thongs (Stringless or Stringless) – this is sometimes called the “Stringless” bow.
Sos – this is sometimes called the “Heavenly Axis” spear.
Ritual memoirs – the previous name of the catalyst ” Ceremonial Memoirs.

Ritual refers to any type of weapon in the Ceremonial series.
The Bible (or Quran) is sometimes referred to as the Prayer to the Holy Winds catalyst.
Donut (or Bagel) – this is sometimes called the catalyst “Eternal Moonlight”.

Chandelier – sometimes referred to as the “Kagura Truth” catalyst.
R[number], P[number] or R[number] (for example, R2, R3 or R4) – shows the level of awakening of a particular weapon
BiS (or Best in Slot) – indicates the best weapon for the hero, which is not necessarily signature.

Signature (or signature) – indicates a weapon specially created for a specific hero, and are taken into account not only the characteristics of the character, but also his appearance.

Artifacts

Set (set) – a complete set of artifacts with one name, including 5 parts: flower of life, feather of death, sands of time, goblet of space and crown of the mind.
Set-bonus – denotes a buff given for 2 or 4 parts of one set of artifacts.
Solyanka – denotes a set of artifacts that are collected from various sets. This happens when stats are prioritized over artifact bonuses.

Antiset – refers to a set of artifacts that provides protection from a certain element and increases damage by the corresponding elemental status (an example of such a set is “Calming Thunder”).< /li>
The head (hat) is sometimes called the crown of the mind.
The pot is sometimes called the goblet of space.
The clock is sometimes called the sands of time.

BiS (or Best in Slot) – indicates the best set of artifacts for a hero, which is not necessarily a signature one.
Signature (or signature) – indicates a set of artifacts specially created for a specific hero, moreover not only the characteristics of the character are taken into account, but also his appearance.
Casino set – this is sometimes called the set “Echoes of the offering” because of the randomness of its bonus given for 4 parts.

The guide is in the process of being written…