Role: Quickswap Cryo DPS / Cryo Battery
Best For: Players who want a quickswap Cryo character who can deal Burst damage while generating Cryo particles for the team.
1. Recommended Artifacts
4-Piece Emblem of Severed Fate — A strong option for Reverse Melt Aloy because a significant portion of her damage comes from her Elemental Burst, while the Energy Recharge helps maintain consistent Burst usage.
Alternative: 4-Piece Noblesse Oblige works well when using Aloy as a Cryo battery and support, while 4-Piece Blizzard Strayer is useful for her personal damage in Freeze teams.
2. Recommended Weapons
Premium: Polar Star
Alternatives: The First Great Magic, Skyward Harp, The Stringless
F2P: Prototype Crescent / Song of Stillness
Polar Star provides strong CRIT and offensive bonuses for Aloy’s Skill and Burst. Prototype Crescent can perform well when its weak-point passive can be activated, while Song of Stillness is a more convenient craftable alternative when its healing requirement can be maintained.
3. Recommended Teams
Reverse Melt: Aloy + Bennett + Xiangling + Kazuha
Melt: Aloy + Xiangling + Kazuha + Diona
Freeze: Aloy + Yelan + Shenhe + Kazuha
Aloy works particularly well as a quickswap character: use her Skill and Burst, generate Cryo particles, then switch to another character rather than keeping her on-field for extended periods.
4. Main Stats / Substats
Sands: ATK% / Elemental Mastery for Melt
Goblet: Cryo DMG Bonus
Circlet: CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG
Priority: Energy Recharge until needed → CRIT → Elemental Mastery in Melt → ATK%
Aloy’s stat requirements depend somewhat on the team. Elemental Mastery becomes valuable when she triggers Reverse Melt, while Freeze and Mono Cryo builds generally prefer ATK and CRIT after meeting her Energy requirements.
5. Playstyle
Use Aloy’s Elemental Skill to throw a Freeze Bomb that explodes and creates Chillwater Bomblets. Her Skill can generate several Cryo particles, allowing Aloy to help recharge other Cryo characters.
Her Elemental Burst has a low Energy cost and deals a single large instance of Cryo damage, making it especially suitable for quickswap rotations and Reverse Melt. For this playstyle, prioritize her Burst first and Skill second.
6. F2P
Aloy has useful craftable weapon options such as Prototype Crescent and Song of Stillness, so a premium 5-star Bow is not required for her basic quickswap role.
F2P players can also use Aloy primarily as a Cryo battery and Burst support rather than investing heavily into her on-field Normal Attacks. Her short Burst cooldown and low Energy cost make 4-Piece Noblesse Oblige particularly practical when nobody else on the team is using it.
*StoryBillion Tip: Aloy does not need to stay on-field to provide value. Her Skill generates Cryo particles and her Burst is cheap and fast to use, so switching her in for Skill and Burst before returning to your main damage dealer is often the simplest way to use her effectively.
