Genshin Impact Best Food and Potions for Hard Fights

The best food in Genshin Impact depends on the job. A cheap healing dish such as Sweet Madame keeps you alive, Teyvat Fried Egg brings a fallen character back, an attack dish such as Adeptus' Temptation goes in before a boss, and a potion matches the element of the fight. One attack dish, one defense dish and one potion can run together, so the real question is which ones to bring.

How to cook in Genshin Impact

You cook at a stove or a cooking pot in any city or camp, or at a campfire you light with a Pyro attack. Interact with it, pick a recipe you know and have the ingredients for, and cook.

• Recipes. You start with a few. Restaurants such as Good Hunter in Mondstadt and Wanmin Restaurant in Liyue sell more, and others come from quests, chests and city reputation. Use the recipe from your inventory to learn it.
• Manual cooking. A pointer moves along a bar. Stop it inside the highlighted zone for the best version of the dish, which has the strongest effect. A bad stop gives a weaker one.
• Auto cooking. After you cook a dish perfectly enough times, the game lets you auto-cook it in batches.
• Processing. The Process tab of the stove turns raw goods into flour, sugar, cream, butter and similar ingredients. It takes real minutes, so start it before you need them.

Some characters have a specialty. When you choose them as the cook for one particular recipe, they sometimes make their own version of it with a stronger effect.

Ingredients come from the open world, from shops in each city and from expeditions.

Healing and revive food

Recovery dishes restore HP to one character. A character who has fallen needs a revive dish first: a healing dish does nothing for them.

Two cheap recipes cover most of the game:

• Sweet Madame is made from fowl and sweet flowers, both easy to find around Mondstadt. It is a reliable heal you can cook by the dozen.
• Teyvat Fried Egg needs one bird egg, which makes it the cheapest revive dish there is. Steak, made from raw meat, does the same job.

Every character also has a fullness limit. Each recovery dish fills it, and a character who is full can't eat another one until some time passes. In a long boss fight, one strong dish is better than several weak ones in a row. Keep the cheap dishes for exploring and cook a few stronger recovery recipes for bosses.

In co-op, food only works on your own characters. You can't revive a friend's character with a dish.

Attack and defense dishes

Attack dishes raise the whole party's ATK, and the better ones add CRIT Rate, for about five minutes. Adeptus' Temptation is the strongest of them, but its ingredient list is long, so save it for fights that matter. Jade Parcels is the step below it, and the simple attack dishes from city restaurants do a smaller version of the same job.

Defense dishes raise the party's DEF, and some also strengthen shields. Fisherman's Toast is an early, cheap one. They help most when a boss hits the whole area and dodging everything is not realistic.

Two rules decide what stacks:

• Only one dish of each kind is active. A second attack dish replaces the first.
• Different kinds run together: one attack dish, one defense dish and one adventurer's dish at the same time.

Adventurer's dishes are the third kind. They lower the stamina you spend on sprinting, climbing or gliding, and they last longer, so they belong to exploration more than to combat. On Dragonspine, Goulash slows the Sheer Cold bar, which makes long climbs there much easier.

Genshin Impact potions: oils and resistance

Potions are not cooked. You make them at the crafting bench from common materials and a little Mora, and you use them from the inventory like food. They come in two families:

• Essential oils raise the damage of one element: Flaming Essential Oil for Pyro, Frosting Essential Oil for Cryo, Shocking Essential Oil for Electro, and so on for the other elements.
• Resistance potions lower the damage you take from one element: Heatshield Potion against Pyro, Frostshield Potion against Cryo, Insulation Potion against Electro.

Choose by the fight. Take the oil for the element of your main damage dealer, or the resistance potion for the element the boss attacks with, such as Heatshield against the Pyro Regisvine. A potion lasts about five minutes and runs on top of your dishes.

The NRE gadget and where food is not allowed

Opening the inventory in the middle of a fight is slow. The NRE (Menu 30) fixes that. It is a gadget that holds one healing dish and one revive dish and eats the right one at a single press of the gadget button. Its blueprint is a reward of Mondstadt's reputation, and you craft it at the bench. If you fight bosses often, it is one of the first gadgets to make.

Food has limits too:

• In the Spiral Abyss you can't eat or drink anything, and the NRE doesn't work. Healing has to come from your team, which is why a healer or a shielder matters there. The Spiral Abyss guide covers team building for it, and shield or healer helps you choose between the two.
• Buffs run out. Eat right in front of the boss, not at the teleport point.

A simple menu before a boss

1. Check two things: the element the boss attacks with, and the element of your main damage dealer.
2. Eat one attack dish. Add a defense dish if your team is fragile.
3. Use one potion: the essential oil for your damage dealer's element, or the resistance potion if the boss's hits are the bigger problem.
4. Put a healing dish and a revive dish in the NRE.
5. Start the fight at once, while the timers run.

Don't spend your best dishes on a fight you already win. Keep Adeptus' Temptation for the boss that beat you last time.

Frequent questions

What is the best food for healing in Genshin Impact?

For everyday use, Sweet Madame: it is cheap and its ingredients are everywhere. For bosses, cook the strongest recovery recipe you own, because the fullness limit stops you from eating many dishes in a row.

What is the best revive food?

Teyvat Fried Egg, because it costs one bird egg. Steak is the alternative when you have more raw meat than eggs. A revived character comes back with little HP, so follow with a healing dish.

Can I use food in the Spiral Abyss?

No. Food, potions and the NRE are all disabled inside. Build the team so it can heal or shield itself.

Do food buffs stack?

One of each kind does. An attack dish, a defense dish and an adventurer's dish can be active together, and a potion adds to them. Two dishes of the same kind don't stack: the newer one replaces the older.

Food is cooked, not bought

No top-up puts dishes in your bag. Ingredients come from the world and recipes from playing, so a stocked kitchen is a matter of habit, not money. Genesis Crystals are for something else: they convert into Primogems for wishes, and a stronger team needs fewer dishes to win.

If you want to top up, you can get Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals on Mas4Games, loaded by UID and server. The store asks for your UID and server only, never for a password, and the help center has live support if you have a question about an order.