Genshin Impact: Internal Cooldown Guide

Genshin Impact's combat system is extremely nuanced. However, at its core, it revolves around utilizing different characters to trigger Elemental Reactions for damage. While there are certain exceptions that are self-sustained, such as the Physical DPS Eula , most Genshin Impact characters favor a more team-based playstyle.

Since these reactions are extremely strong, Hoyoverse has put a strict ICD (Internal Cooldown) on how quickly a character can use them. Here's everything you need to know about it, as well as how you can potentially bypass ICD.

What Is ICD?

ICD is short for Internal Cooldown, which is a stopgap measure programmed into Genshin Impact to stop characters from triggering too many reactions

. This is both time-based and hit-based, and follows a similar sequence for most characters.

For example, if you're using Sangonomiya Kokomi to break the Pyro Hypostasis's shield, the first attack she does will take away a portion of it. However, when you hit it again, you'll notice the shield does not lose HP. This is because Kokomi follows the three-hit rule of standard ICD.

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What Is Standard ICD?

Most characters in Genshin Impact follow a standard ICD. This is 2.5 seconds or once every three hits of a particular skill. In the Kokomi example, you'll notice her third hit also does not deal any damage to the shield, but the fourth one does. This is because the fourth hit completes the three-hit rule, being the third hit after the last application.

The ICD timer and hit-count both reset after an Elemental Reaction is triggered. If Kokomi has done two attacks after her first, but the 2.5 seconds pass and she applies Hydro with the third attack, the fourth will not apply Hydro.

It's also important to note that this Internal Cooldown is specific to the enemy, not your character. For example, if you're fighting two enemies afflicted with Pyro, the first attack on each enemy will Vaporize.

Similarly, this ICD is tied to the specific skill causing the reaction. If you use Kokomi's Normal Attack to deal damage to a shield, using either her Elemental Burst or Charged Attack immediately afterward will take away the shield as well.

Why Does ICD Exist?

There are a few reasons why characters and enemies alike need a cooldown to their elemental application. First, this makes it so continuous reactions do not occur, as doing so could overload the game and result in crashes.

It's also a way to make the game more balanced, since, otherwise, characters that hit faster would always be better.

Additionally, it lets Hoyoverse come up with more game mechanics that would be trivialized if every single hit of fast-hitting abilities, such as Amber's Elemental Burst or Fischl's Oz's attacks, triggers reactions. Not having this is what makes enemies like the Abyss Herald so fearsome.

Can You Bypass ICD?

ICD is hard coded into the game, so there aren't any ways of breaking the rule. However, there are characters that don't follow standard ICD. If you're facing enemies with huge elemental shields or using a character like Hu Tao who needs to Vaporize all her hits to deal proper damage, you can utilize these characters.

For characters with skills that do not have ICD, you can further leverage the advantage by using animation cancels to cause even more reactions.

Character	Skill	ICD (Seconds)	ICD (Hits)
Nahida	Tri-Karma Retribution from Elemental Skill	0s	0
Xiangling	Elemental Skill	0s	0
Xiangling	Elemental Burst: Pyronado	0s	0
Hu Tao	Charged Attack	0s	0
Ganyu	Level Two Aimed Shot	0s	0
Bennett	Elemental Skill:	0s	0
Tighnari	Level Two Aimed Shot	2.5s	4
Yelan	Elemental Burst	2s	0
Yae Miko	Elemental Burst	0s	0
Kaedehara Kazuha	Elemental Burst	0s	0
Sucrose	Elemental Burst	0s	0
Amber	Elemental Burst	1s	0
Diluc	Elemental Burst	5s	5
Diluc	Elemental Skill	0s	0
Candace	Elemental Burst (Including Wave Impact and C6 Damage)	0s	0
Rosaria	Elemental Skill, Elemental Burst	0s	0
Venti	Elemental Burst	1s	3
Collei	Elemental Skill	0s	0
Collei	Elemental Burst	3s	3
Fischl	Oz's Coordinated Attack and C6 Damage (shared ICD)	5s	4
Fischl	Fourth Ascension Passive (A4 Passive)	0.5s	0
Kokomi	Elemental Skill	0s	0
Chongyun	Elemental Burst	0s	0
Tartaglia "Childe"	Riptide Slash Passive, Elemental Burst(s)	0s	0
Xinyan	Elemental Skill	0s	0
Nilou	Tranquility Aura from Elemental Skill	1.9s	4
Barbara	Melody Loop from Elemental Skill	2.5s	3
Cyno	Passive: Featherfall Judgement	2.5s	3

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