Sethos Genshin Impact character artwork
Genshin Impact Talents & Skills Guide

Sethos talents, skills, passives and Constellations

Talents & Skills Guide

Deals Electro area damage and retreats, recovering energy when its hit triggers an eligible Electro-related reaction. Converts normal attacks into piercing, mastery-scaled Electro Dusk Bolts treated as charged damage; aimed shots become unavailable.

12 ability entries1 Normal Attack1 Elemental Skill1 Elemental Burst3 Passive Talent6 Constellation
Talent controls: Normal Attack, Elemental Skill and Elemental Burst have separate buttons. Tap, hold, recast and airborne requirements vary by talent. Passives and Constellations trigger through their listed conditions; they do not have separate activation commands. Energy, cooldown and unlock requirements appear with the talent.

Normal Attack

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Royal Reed Archery
Normal Attack
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
PC: Left Mouse Button | PlayStation: Circle | Xbox: B | Mobile: Attack icon. Charged attack: hold Attack where supported; plunging attack: press Attack while airborne.

Basic attacks form a 3-hit sequence. Elemental attacks use Electro. Charging enables aimed bow shots. Plunging damages enemies on landing.

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Elemental Skill

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Ancient Rite: The Thundering Sands
Elemental Skill
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
PC: E | PlayStation: R2 | Xbox: RT | Mobile: Elemental Skill icon. Use the tap, hold or recast variant described for this talent.

Deals Electro area damage and retreats, recovering energy when its hit triggers an eligible Electro-related reaction.

Cooldown / cost: CD: 8.0s

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Elemental Burst

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Secret Rite: Twilight Shadowpiercer
Elemental Burst
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
PC: Q | PlayStation: Triangle | Xbox: Y | Mobile: Elemental Burst icon. Requires sufficient Energy and an available cooldown.

Converts normal attacks into piercing, mastery-scaled Electro Dusk Bolts treated as charged damage; aimed shots become unavailable.

Cooldown / cost: CD: 15.0s; Energy Cost: 60

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Passive Talent

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Black Kite's Enigma
Passive Talent
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Requires the listed talent unlock or trigger.

Stored energy accelerates aimed charging; Shadowpiercing Shots consume the counted energy and level-one shots consume half.

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The Sand King's Boon
Passive Talent
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Requires the listed talent unlock or trigger.

Periodically grants mastery-scaling Shadowpiercing damage for four hits or five seconds after the first hit.

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Thoth's Revelation
Passive Talent
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Requires the listed talent unlock or trigger.

Marks nearby Sumeru regional resources on the minimap.

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Constellation

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Sealed Shrine's Spiritsong
Constellation
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Unlock the corresponding Constellation level.

Shadowpiercing Shots gain fifteen percentage points of critical rate.

Requirements / unlock: Constellation 1

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Papyrus Scripture of Silent Secrets
Constellation
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Unlock the corresponding Constellation level.

Energy-consuming shots, skill reaction recovery or burst use grants stacking ten-second Electro bonuses.

Requirements / unlock: Constellation 2

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Ode to the Moonrise Sage
Constellation
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Unlock the corresponding Constellation level.

Adds three talent levels to Normal Attack: Royal Reed Archery, with a maximum level of 15.

Requirements / unlock: Constellation 3

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Beneficent Plumage
Constellation
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Unlock the corresponding Constellation level.

Hitting multiple enemies with Shadowpiercing Shots or Dusk Bolts grants nearby allies eighty mastery.

Requirements / unlock: Constellation 4

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Record of the Desolate God's Burning Sands
Constellation
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Unlock the corresponding Constellation level.

Adds three talent levels to Secret Rite: Twilight Shadowpiercer, with a maximum level of 15.

Requirements / unlock: Constellation 5

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Pylon of the Sojourning Sun Temple
Constellation
Controls: PC keyboard/mouse / PlayStation / Xbox / mobile — default bindings
How it is used
Automatic effect; no separate button sequence. Unlock the corresponding Constellation level.

A Shadowpiercing hit periodically refunds the energy spent accelerating its charge.

Requirements / unlock: Constellation 6

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Plan a team around these talents

Read the Elemental Skill and Burst separately from passive talents and Constellations. A listed Constellation effect should only be included in your plan when unlocked.

GetCheatBeacon's practical checklist for Sethos:

  • Which talent needs field time, and which can contribute after switching characters?
  • What Energy, cooldown or unlock requirements are listed for the effect you want?
  • Which teammate covers the gap in your current party?
  • Test a rotation you can repeat before investing further. This reference is not a ranked artifact or weapon build.

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