Venti is the first playable character the player encounters after beginning the game. He is seen interacting with Dvalin (Stormterror) and immediately takes off after being alert of the travelers presence. He can be later found as a bard below the Anemo Archon’s statue in Mondstat City. With great combat and mobility, Venti is still one of the best characters in the game.
| Rarity | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Element | Anemo |
| Weapon | Bow |
| Birthday | June 16th |
| Special Dish | A Buoyant Breeze |
| Region | Mondstat |
How to get Venti in Genshin Impact?
Venti is obtainable by wishing on the “Ballad of Goblets” event wish banner. He is also playable during the Archon quest in the final battle against Dvalin and during his story quest.
Combat Info
Ascensions and Stats
| Ascension Stage | Level | Base HP | Base ATK | Base DEF | Ascension Stat (Energy Recharge) |
| 0 | 1/20 | 820 | 20 | 52 | - |
| 20/20 | 2127 | 53 | 135 | ||
| 1 | 20/40 | 2,830 | 71 | 180 | - |
| 40/40 | 4,234 | 106 | 269 | ||
| 2 | 40/50 | 4,734 | 118 | 301 | 8% |
| 50/50 | 5,446 | 136 | 346 | ||
| 3 | 50/60 | 6,112 | 153 | 388 | 16% |
| 60/60 | 6,832 | 171 | 434 | ||
| 4 | 60/70 | 7,331 | 183 | 465 | 16% |
| 70/70 | 8,058 | 201 | 512 | ||
| 5 | 70/80 | 8,557 | 214 | 543 | 24% |
| 80/80 | 9,292 | 232 | 590 | ||
| 6 | 80/90 | 9,790 | 245 | 622 | 32% |
| 90/90 | 10,531 | 263 | 669 |
Talents
Divine Marksmanship | Normal Attack
Skill Attributes
Skyward Sonnet | Elemental Skill
O wind upon which all hymns and songs fly, bear these earth-walkers up into the sky!
Press
Summons a Wind Domain at the opponent's location, dealing AoE Anemo DMG and launching opponents into the air.
Hold
Summons an even larger Wind Domain with Venti as the epicenter, dealing AoE Anemo DMG and launching affected opponents into the air.
After unleashing the Hold version of this ability, Venti rides the wind into the air.
Opponents hit by Skyward Sonnet will fall to the ground slowly.
In the days when gods and men walked the earth together, the heavens were filled with countless songs. This melody has long since then been forgotten.
Skill Attributes
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |
| Press DMG% | 276 | 296.7 | 317.4 | 345 | 365.7 | 386.4 | 414 | 441.6 | 469.2 | 496.8 | 524.4 | 552 | 586.5 |
| CD | 6.0s | ||||||||||||
| Hold DMG% | 380 | 408.5 | 437 | 475 | 503.5 | 532 | 570 | 608 | 646 | 684 | 722 | 760 | 807.5 |
| CD | 15.0s |
Wind’s Grand Ode | Elemental Burst
Fires off an arrow made of countless coalesced winds, creating a huge Stormeye that sucks in opponents and deals continuous Anemo DMG.
Elemental Absorption
If the Stormeye comes into contact with Hydro/Pyro/Cryo/Electro, it will deal additional elemental DMG of that type.
Elemental Absorption may only occur once per use.
Many hymns written in the praise of the Anemo Archon have been lost to time. This one sings of his mastery over the wind.
Embrace of Winds | Ascension Phase 1 Passive
Holding Skyward Sonnet creates an upcurrent that lasts for 20s.
Storm Eye | Ascension Phase 4 Passive
Regenerates 15 Energy for Venti after the effects of Wind's Grand Ode end. If an Elemental Absorption occurred, this also restores 15 Energy to all characters of that corresponding element.
Wind Rider | Off-field Passive
Decreases gliding Stamina consumption for your own party members by 20%.
Not stackable with Passive Talents that provide the exact same effects.
Talents Upgrade
| Level | Materials Required | Mora Cost |
| 2 | Teachings of Ballad x 3, Slime Condensate x 6 | 12500 |
| 3 | Guide to Ballad x 2, Slime Secretions x 3 | 17500 |
| 4 | Guide to Ballad x 4, Slime Secretions x 4 | 25000 |
| 5 | Guide to Ballad x 6, Slime Secretions x 6 | 30000 |
| 6 | Guide to Ballad x 9, Slime Secretions x 9 | 37500 |
| 7 | Philosophies of Ballad x 4, Slime Concentrate x 4, Tail of Boreas x 1 | 120000 |
| 8 | Philosophies of Ballad x 6, Slime Concentrate x 6, Tail of Boreas x 1 | 260000 |
| 9 | Philosophies of Ballad x 12, Slime Concentrate x 9, Tail of Boreas x 2 | 450000 |
| 10 | Philosophies of Ballad x 16, Slime Concentrate x 12, Tail of Boreas x 2, Crown of Insight x 1 | 700000 |
| Total | Slime Condensate x 6, Slime Secretions x 22, Slime Concentrate x 31, Teachings of Ballad x 3, Guide to Ballad x 21, Philosophies of Ballad x 38, Tail of Boreas x 6, Crown of Insight x 1 | 1652500 |
Constellation
| Level | Name | Effect |
| 1 | Splitting Gales | Fires 2 additional arrows per Aimed Shot, each dealing 33% of the original arrow's DMG. |
| 2 | Breeze of Reminiscence | Skyward Sonnet decreases opponents' Anemo RES and Physical RES by 12% for 10s.Opponents launched by Skyward Sonnet suffer an additional 12% Anemo RES and Physical RES decrease while airborne. |
| 3 | Ode to Thousand Winds | Increases the Level of Wind's Grand Ode by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
| 4 | Hurricane of Freedom | When Venti picks up an Elemental Orb or Particle, he receives a 25% Anemo DMG Bonus for 10s. |
| 5 | Concerto dal Cielo | Increases the Level of Skyward Sonnet by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15. |
| 6 | Storm of Defiance | Targets who take DMG from Wind's Grand Ode have their Anemo RES decreased by 20%. If an Elemental Absorption occurred, then their RES towards the corresponding Element is also decreased by 20%. |
Availability
Paimon’s Bargains
- Venti is/will not be available through Paimon’s Bargains since he is a 5 star character.
Event Wishes
- Venti appears in the event wish banners “Ballad in Goblets”.
Personality
Character Profile defines Venti as “One of the many bards of Mondstadt, who freely wanders the city's streets and alleys”.
With an easy-going personality, Venti is either asleep or found drunk out of his mind. As the Anemo Archon he represents the people of Mondstat, who believe that he wants them to be free in the City of Freedom. He is known to be asleep for years, appearing only in the middle of crises that Mondstat faces. Venti keeps a low profile on his status as the anemo archon but he is not shy to reveal his status when it is required.
Unlike other bards in Mondstat, Venti plays his songs in exchange for wine. His child-like appearance has misled bar owners into thinking that he is underage and refuse to serve him alcohol. It is understood after Act I of his story quest that he drinks to forget about his old friend who had fallen in the resistance.
Venti finds himself allergic to cats. Whenever he is performing, he has to make sure that there are no cats around as he would start uncontrollably sneezing. His favorite fruit is apples and calls it the fruit of gods but to the contrary, he is absolutely appalled by the existence of melted cheese pancakes. He calls it a “smelly, sticky, slimy disgusting mess”.
Playing pranks is also a trait of the anemo archon. Venti sings in his ballads that he replaced the Cryo Archon’s scepter with a hilichurl’s wooden club. He also forged a contract with Rex Lapis to play a prank on the soldiers of the aristocracy to make them think they were going to be slaves.
Appearance
Venti has a “teen” body type and is 5’5" / 165.1 cm. He sports a green hat with a cecilia flower on it while his hair is dark blue and is braided. The braids are of dark blue slowly fading into aqua color. His eyes resemble the colour of anemo, aqua green. He wears a green cape with the back-side being off-white along with a brown bowtie, white shirt and a brown corset. His shorts are the same color as that of his cape and hat. He also wears a white stocking underneath his shorts.
After receiving the power of an archon, Venti assumed his friend’s appearance. The vision he is seen carrying around is simply made of glass. It does not possess any abilities apart from turning into a lyre called Der Frühling. This lyre has a brown body along with blue strings and cecilias on it.
Character Stories
Character Details
An unknown bard that came from nowhere.
He sometimes sings outdated songs, other times he hums new ones that none have ever heard of. He likes apples and lively atmospheres, but hates cheese and anything that is slimy.
When channeling Anemo, it appears in the form of out-stretched feathers, because he likes things that look light.
Story 1
Back when traveling bard Venti had only been in Mondstadt for a few months, his income was far less than the other more established bards in town. But once he had a few Mora in the pot from his performance, you could be sure he would hurry off to spend it at the same place every time - one of the city's taverns.
Unfortunately for Venti, his childlike appearance meant that his attempts to acquire alcohol failed at every turn.
The first time he was refused service, he was heard grumbling: "I'm sure there were no such preposterous regulations last time I was here..." Once he realized that the same rule applied to all taverns in town, he decided he would have to change his approach... The strategy he developed was drinking on the job - that is to say, playing the lyre while holding his wine cup in his mouth, urging his audience to buy him a drink from the bar if they liked his performance instead of giving him Mora.
The novelty of this made him quite popular in Mondstadt.
There was just one snag—he couldn't help but sneeze if a cat came close...
And if he happened to be holding a wine cup in his mouth when it happened... needless to say, it would spell disaster.
Venti, therefore, has one golden rule when selecting a spot to perform and that is that there must be no cats in the vicinity.
Easier said than done—the stray cats of Mondstadt seem to be quite drawn to him.
Story 2
There is a towering oak tree at the center of Windrise, said to have sprouted when Vennessa ascended to the heavens a millennium ago.
In the past few months, travelers resting in the shade of the great oak sometimes hear a young boy singing the tales of Barbatos, the Anemo Archon.
Unlike the ruling deities of other nations, Barbatos has long left Mondstadt. In fact, the only visible proof of his connection with Mondstadt is the Statues of The Seven that appear across the land—and even then, the resemblance is vague at best. Fortunately, Barbatos' past deeds are recorded in books and epics, sung and passed on by the bards.
In contrast to these more canonical works, Venti's ballads tend to include bizarre adventures and acts of mischief, such as the time that Barbatos pinched the Cryo Archon's scepter and replaced it with a hilichurl's wooden club...
Worshippers of Barbatos are quick to decry these frivolous tales as blasphemous fabrications. But whenever someone confronts Venti about this, his response suggests that he has not an ounce of remorse.
"How can you know that they're fabrications?"
He has a point—even the most devoted nun could not possibly know the details of all Barbatos' deeds from a millennium ago.
Only Venti knows the truth behind his song lyrics, and it is a truth he hides behind an enigmatic smile.
Reason being, yes; Venti's tall tales of Barbatos' unorthodox exploits are entirely fabricated.
Hey, Venti finds that a few drinks really get his muse going.
Can you really blame him?
Story 3
Around 2,600 years ago, the Archon War had yet to end, and the world had yet to fall under the dominion of The Seven.
In those days, the city called "Mondstadt" was surrounded on all sides by gales impenetrable even to the birds of the air. Their ceaseless howling ground the soil and rock of that city into smooth, flowing dust.
The Lord of Wind who lived in his high tower was Decarabian, God of Storms. He squinted from on high at his subjects, who bowed before him in unceasing wind, and, believing them submissive, thought this good.
In those days, Venti was but a single thread of the thousand winds that roared through the northern lands.
He who would in latter days be known as "Barbatos" was but a tiny elemental spirit, without a shred of divine dignity, a breeze that brought subtle changes for the better, or tiny seeds of hope. In Mondstadt of old, Venti met a young boy. This lad knew how to play the lyre, and longed to write the greatest poem of all.
"I do so wish to see the birds in flight."
So said the boy who had never seen the blue sky, eagles, or the green grass, his voice almost utterly drowned by the wind.
"Friend, will you not come along?"
Story 4
The elemental being Venti obtained the feather of an eagle for the lad living in that storm-shrouded city, who had never seen a bird in his life.
Then, war broke out in Mondstadt, in the name of freedom.
With the feather tucked away in his breast pocket, Venti watched the fall of the eccentric ruler amid the wrack and ruin of revolt together with his friend.
The ruler had believed that he had given his subjects a city free from the bitter cold, and to the end, he believed that they had loved him as he loved them.
Yet, despite the victory, Venti was never able to give that feather to the lad, for that lad had fallen in the battle for the sake of song, sky, and birds, and for the people who, like him, had dwelled within the storm-wall. With the crumbling of an ancient seat of divinity, a new god was born. The Anemo Archon Barbatos felt power flowing at his fingertips.
His first use of this power was to reconstitute himself in the likeness of that young lad.
For only if he wore human shape could he play the lyre that the lad so loved.
Plucking its strings, he scattered the ice and snow and split the mountains with a divine wind.
He bade Mondstadt become a city of freedom, a nation without a king.
In the future, he believed, it would become a better, more romantic city.
"Surely, he too would have wanted to live in such a place."
Thus, a new age began for Mondstadt.
Story 5
The Anemo Archon cannot take credit for everything in Mondstadt.
Credit should be given where credit is due, I shall sing now the praises of things beauteous and true:
We thank the West Wind, whose enduring caress
Brings the blossoms of Spring, by whose scent we are blessed.
Finches, ducks, rabbits and boars,
Mondstadt's revival bid them thrive evermore.
In summer the lion walks the plains,
No words one finds to praise it but these:
Do you sweat out your water to make way for the wine?
Comes the heat of the summer from your mane of sunshine?
The mountain mouths and gorges low like drunkards wayward lie...
But the East Wind cares not, for it doesn't walk — it flies!
Over the fruit trees it brushes low,
And its wings brings the harvest of things that grow.
The North Wind in the silent forest slumbers,
And around it pace the wolves in their numbers.
Though most have never a glimpse of them seen, for the Wind knows that none is of winter too keen,
Yet the Anemo Archon glimpses and sees, that it dreams each night of warm reverie.
—As the four seasons in turn shall say their piece, so the four winds too shall never cease.
Of course, to look at it differently, I am the one who should be credited here, and not they.
Credits should be given where credits belong — if not for the bard who pens the song, then who shall ensure that these tales are passed on?
Where The Wind Doth Not Blow
After 1,600 years of history, Mondstadt's "freedom" had sunk to a heretofore unseen low. Barbatos, unwilling to become a tyrant, had departed. But he had never imagined that those to whom he had gifted freedom would make for themselves a tyrant.
The aristocracy ruled Mondstadt with a cruel hand, bringing slaves into this land and ignoring the cries of the oppressed.
Thus the Anemo Archon returned after these 1,600 years to what was once the City of Freedom. He heard the cry of the slave girl Vennessa, and together with her raised a rebellion that overthrew the aristocracy.
—Now, the above is what all know to be the official history of Mondstadt.
The story has an interesting, little-known twist, however. The one who united the people of Mondstadt in this conflict was indeed the hero Vennessa—but that which caused many of the aristocracy's troops to turn coat was a "treachery against the wind."
A secret treaty was found, a betrayal of the city—the aristocrats had forsaken the wind, and sold everything in Mondstadt to the Geo Archon of the neighboring land.
At the treaty's end was carved an insignia inimitable by all save the deity so named: Rex Lapis.
How the soldiers that had once oppressed the slaves shuddered when they saw that they too would become slaves in a foreign land.
The news, and the conflict, spread like wildfire, consuming the aristocracy. It was only many years later that historians would discover that this treaty was fake.
As it turned out, Venti had once practiced the art of forgery in order to play pranks on the Geo Archon, but would never deceive the god of wealth and transactions. Even so, his adeptness would come into play after several hundred years.
What a happy coincidence.
Vision
The Seven Archons do not need Visions, for they already have great power.
Yet Barbatos was fond of the mortal world, and wanted to roam Mondstadt more freely as "Venti". As such, he constructed a glass ornament very much like the Visions worn by those chosen by the gods.
The imitation has no special abilities, nor does Venti rely on it to channel elemental power.
However, since Venti does not keep the Holy Lyre der Himmel by his side, and since he is too lazy to bring a normal lyre, he gave his fake Vision the ability to turn into the wooden lyre "Der Frühling."
Namecard
Icon
Profile Background
Party Background
Constellation
Carmen Dei
Quests and Events
Archon Quests
- Act I: The Outlander Who Caught the Wind
- Forest Rendezvous
- Act II: For a Tomorrow Without Tea
- All parts following and inclusive of Unexpected Encounter
- Act III: Song of the Dragon and Freedom
- All parts
Story Quests
- Carmen Dei Chapter (Venti's story)
- Act I: Should You Be Trapped in a Windless Land
- All parts
- Leo Minor Chapter (Jean's Story Chapter)
- Act I: Master's Day Off
- Margaret's Longing
- Master's Day Off (Quest)
Events
- Invitation of Windblume
- Act I: Ode to Flower and Cloud
- Act II: Missive of Cloud and Fog
- Act III: Realm of Fog and Wind
- Act IV: Dream of Wind and Flowers
- Midsummer Island Adventure
- Part I: Mysterious Islands: Journey to the Unknown
Web Events
- Side by Side We Venture
- An Unforgettable Journey
Character Interactions
| Characters | Stories | Voices |
| Barbara | No | Yes |
| Diona | No | Yes |
| Eula | No | Yes |
| Rosaria | No | Yes |
| Klee | No | Yes |
| Keqing | No | Yes |
| Mona | Yes | Yes |
| Raiden Shogun | No | Yes |
| Razor | No | Yes |
| Xiao | Yes | Yes |
| Zhongli | Yes | Yes |
Trivia
- Venti is the first ever character to have his own banner after the public release of the game.
- Although he looks 15, Venti is actually more than 2600 years old.
- While Xiao was suffering from Karmic debt, Venti saved him by playing the flute.
Explainer Video
FAQs
Is Venti a boy or a girl?
Venti, although referred to as “he”, is actually agender. This is because he was an elemental being before taking this form.
Is it still possible to get Venti?
Unless the character event wish banner specifies that venti is available, it is not possible to get Venti in-game. However, you can still play him during the Archon quest and his story quest.
Will Venti have another rerun banner?
Although not confirmed, this is highly possible since Tartaglia (Childe) got two rerun banners. However, it is not speculated to anytime soon.
Final Thoughts
Venti is one of the, if not the best support in-game especially against a group of units. With his strong grouping ability and ability to swirl along with a bonus damage to the element infused in the swirl, he can be the worst nightmare of many lightweight characters. While his initial kit is best as support, his constellations help him become a stronger anemo dps. Venti can clear domains with a lot of mobs and spiral abyss with ease due to his high energy recharge and can dish out high amounts of swirl damage if paired with an elemental mastery bow.
Venti has a striking, childish personality which makes him fun to be around. He is mischievous and sings songs about the things that are dear to him.
