Spiral Abyss Guide: Floors, Stars and Building Two Teams

The Spiral Abyss is Genshin Impact's permanent combat challenge: twelve floors of timed fights that pay Primogems for the stars you earn, with the upper floors resetting on a regular schedule. The shortest Spiral Abyss guide fits in one line: build two balanced teams, give each a healer or a shield, and plan for the clock.

What the Spiral Abyss is and how to unlock it

The Spiral Abyss opens at Adventure Rank 20. Its entrance is a portal in the sky near Cape Oath in Mondstadt. Glide into it once and the Abyss stays on your map as a teleport point.

It has two parts:

• Abyss Corridor (Floors 1 to 8): a one-time climb whose rewards never reset. Clearing Floor 3 gives you Xiangling and clearing Floor 4 gives you Collei, both free.
• Abyssal Moon Spire (Floors 9 to 12): the real endgame. These floors reset on a regular schedule, and after every reset you can earn their Primogems again.

Each floor has three chambers. Inside, you cannot eat food, and your characters' HP and Energy carry over from one chamber to the next on the same floor. A healer or a shield is part of the plan, not an extra.

How stars and rewards work

Every chamber gives up to three stars. In most chambers they depend on how much time is left when the last enemy falls, and a few chambers ask you to protect a monolith instead. The conditions are written on the chamber's screen.

On the top floors, where each chamber is fought in two halves, the third star asks you to finish both in about three minutes in total.

Stars pay out per floor. Chests open at three, six and nine stars, and on Floors 9 to 12 those chests hold the Primogems. The game keeps your best result for each chamber, so you can come back later in the same cycle and turn a two-star chamber into three. You also need enough stars on a floor to open the next one, and the locked floor's screen says how many.

Spiral Abyss team guide: building two teams

From Floor 5 on, every chamber is split into two halves, and each half needs its own team of up to four characters. A character can be in only one team. So the Abyss tests your whole account: eight built characters, not four.

Build each team as a complete unit:

1. A main damage dealer who stays on the field.
2. A teammate who applies a second element from off the field, so the team has a reaction to play around.
3. A support who buffs the team or groups enemies.
4. A healer or shielder, because there is no food to save you.

The common mistake is one perfect team and one team of leftovers. Both halves share the clock, so two solid teams score more stars than a great one and a weak one. Split your best supports between the teams. If you own Bennett and another strong healer, they belong on different sides.

Invest in order, too. Finish your first team (levels, weapons, talents, artifacts) before you spread resources over the second. Supports cost less to build than damage dealers: the right main stats and enough Energy Recharge for an Elemental Burst every rotation go a long way. Our Genshin team building guide explains the four roles and the reactions in detail.

Read the floor before you fight

The line-ups on the upper floors change from cycle to cycle, so learn where to look instead of memorizing enemies. The floor's screen shows three things:

• Ley Line Disorder: rules that apply to the whole floor. They may strengthen one element or one kind of attack, or punish a habit.
• Blessing of the Abyssal Moon: a buff for the upper floors that changes with each cycle and usually rewards one playstyle. If one of your teams can use it, build your plan around that team.
• The enemies of each half, with their levels. The same team plays the same half in all three chambers, so check all three before you decide which team goes first.

Then match your teams to what you see. Elemental shields break fastest under the element that reacts with them: Hydro against a Pyro shield, Pyro against a Cryo shield. Crowds of small enemies call for an Anemo character who pulls them together, such as Sucrose, Kazuha or Venti. A single boss with a large health bar wants your best single-target damage.

Genshin Impact Spiral Abyss tips for beating the timer

• Spend Bursts by wave. A Burst used on the last weak enemy of a wave is a Burst you will miss when the next wave appears.
• Keep a fixed rotation. Support skills first, then the main damage dealer, in the same order every time.
• Fix the easy things first. When damage is short, raise the main damage dealer's weapon and talents, and check that every artifact has the right main stat. Perfect sub-stats come last, and our guide to CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG shows what to aim for.

Do not aim for full stars in your first cycles. Clear what you can, collect those Primogems, and treat every floor you could not finish as a list of what to build next.

Frequent questions about the Spiral Abyss

When does the Spiral Abyss reset?

Floors 9 to 12 reset on a regular schedule, and the Abyss screen shows the time left in the current cycle. Floors 1 to 8 never reset.

How do you clear the Spiral Abyss without five-star characters?

With well-built four-star characters. Xiangling, Xingqiu, Bennett, Fischl and Sucrose all appear in strong Abyss teams. Expect to invest more and to play more cleanly, and leave full stars on the last floor for later.

Can I play the Spiral Abyss in co-op?

No. The Spiral Abyss is single-player only.

Primogems, wishes and Genesis Crystals on Mas4Games

Every cycle you clear adds Primogems to your next wishes, and the Abyss itself shows you which role your account is missing. If you decide to top up for that character, the paid currency is Genesis Crystals, which convert to Primogems. You can have Genshin Impact Genesis Crystals on Mas4Games loaded with only your UID and server, never a password, and the help center has live support.