Sucrose is regarded as one of the best support characters inGenshin Impact. Her Elemental abilities are excellent for crowd control, and she’s great for boosting the player team’s Elemental Mastery. Sucrose also works well as a sub-DPS character, able to group enemies together while dealing decent damage. Overall, with the right weapon and artifacts, Sucrose is an excellent addition to many different teams, even at a low level.
Sucrose’s skill in battle stems from her alchemical knowledge, which is what makes her such a great Anemo character inGenshin Impact. In fact, her character’s backstory revolves around her dedication to alchemy and how she can use it to serve life.
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Genshin Impact’s Sucrose and Her Paradise
Beforethe events ofGenshin Impact, Sucrose lived a normal childhood in Mondstadt. Her parents were kind, and she had her best friends to keep her company. Sucrose also heard stories of a beautiful, perfect faraway land, with pink flowers that towered over people, small fairies that hovered about, and unicorns roaming the lands. Sucrose and her two closest friends believed this place was paradise. If they were somehow able to get there, they’d surely live their happily ever after.
Unfortunately, the three friends would never arrive at this paradise together. Both of Sucrose’s friends disappeared from Mondstadt for different reasons, leaving her alone. Still, Sucrose wanted to honor their friendship, so she decided to build her own paradise: a place for her and her two best friends. She did this by devoting herself to bio-alchemy, which would allow her to fill her paradise with beautiful flowers. This ultimately shapedSucrose’s character and skills inGenshin Impact.
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Sucrose as Albedo’s Assistant in Genshin Impact
Sometime later, Sucrose ended up becomingthe assistant of prolific alchemist Albedo inGenshin Impact. While Albedo was interested in creating life through alchemy, Sucrose focused more on modifying what life already existed, andGenshin Impact’s junior alchemist has yielded some excellent results. For instance, she’s created multiple strains of the common Sweet Flower. One iteration has a much greater nectar yield, which the people of Teyvat started using to create sugar. One grows a flower six times the normal size, which is a fitting addition to Sucrose’s paradise.
That said,Sucrose had strict requirementsfor the flowers that would be part of her paradise; specimens would have to pass through multiple experiments to win their place. However, while the experiments were no problem, Sucrose struggled with coming up with the plants’ nomenclature. She wanted their names to be unique, but could only think of names like “grassflower,” flowergrass,” and “multigrassflower.” Eventually, she gave up with the naming business and simply used the more complex specimen identifiers she had in her notes.
However, Sucrose’s devotion to her craft has a downside, as she struggles to break away from her experiments to rest. At one point, Albedo noticed that his junior alchemist was working herself to exhaustion, so he ordered her to rest for seven days. It only took her one day to get bored from “resting,” so the following morning she showed up to work anyway, telling Albedo that having nothing to question or research was torture rather than rest. She would much ratherstudy the world ofGenshin Impactthan sit idly at home.
Sucrose also has a sort-of relationship with the bartenderDiona, another playable character inGenshin Impact. The two share the same set of feline ears, so Sucrose wanted to study their connection. Unfortunately, she was not the best at social interactions, so she resigned herself to simply observing Diona from afar. Sucrose observed (some might say stalked) Diona for an entire month, and in the end she concluded that she and Diona shared a similar genome but a different ancestry, adding a note that she was unable to get a bone sample for further testing.
This difficulty with social settings extends to a majority of Sucrose’s interactions.Genshin Impact’s Anemo alchemistmay be fascinated by life in all its forms, but she can’t seem to grasp the nuances of manners, emotions, and other such “unquantifiable variables.” Even so, she tries her best to put herself out there. At least twice a week, she leaves the comfort of the lab to visit the butcher, the Adventurers’ Guild, and the hunters of Springvale. From them, she requests quality bones from a variety of creatures to experiment upon.
The merchants, adventurers, and hunters soon grew accustomed to her awkward requests, even setting aside the best, rarest bones for her. Not long after, bone-collecting became Sucrose’s new hobby. She’d thankKatheryne ofGenshin Impact’s Adventurers’ Guildwhenever she reserved strange sets of bones for her, and Sucrose eventually started piecing them together to build a collection of skeletons.
Sucrose’s Anemo Vision
InGenshin Impact, Sucrose first acquired her Anemo abilities while she wasexperimenting on Dandelion Seeds. It was her 159th experiment on the matter, and when she started pouring her alchemical mixture into the cauldron, it immediately hit a boiling point. The laboratory filled with steam, but unfortunately the Dandelion Seeds had burned to a crisp. However, a Vision also appeared in the cauldron, submerged under the alchemical mixture.
Sucrose, being the curious alchemist that she is, lit the flame again to see how the burnt Dandelion Seeds and her Vision would react to the chemicals of her formula. The unorthodox experiment amounted to nothing, but the junior alchemist eventually took her newfound Vision.Sucrose’s Talents allow her to explorethe world outside Mondstadt, and even other regions. This no doubt helped her further her bio-alchemical research, bringing her one step closer to creating a personal paradise.
Genshin Impactis available now on Mobile, PC, PS4, and PS5. A Switch version is in development.
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