Genshin Impact Escoffier banner, abilities, and materials

Who is Escoffier in Genshin Impact? As the owner of a popular restaurant, Escoffier is used to supporting other people as she cooks up various meals for her customers. This five-star Cryo, Polearm user utilizes her culinary skills in battle to freeze enemies while healing her allies, making her a must-have character for tackling the most challenging Spiral Abyss tiers.

Based on what we’ve seen from the Genshin Impact beta leaks, it looks like Escoffier is set to become one of the best characters for Cryo teams. Assuming she doesn’t receive a nerf between now and the Genshin Impact 5.6 release date, Escoffier will easily end up among the strongest characters on the Genshin Impact tier list. Here’s everything you need to know about Escoffier, including her banner release date, abilities, and the materials you should hunt for before she joins the free PC game next month.

Genshin Impact Escoffier banner release date speculation

Escoffier is going to arrive alongside the Genshin Impact 5.6, though we don’t know for certain when her banner is likely to launch. If Escoffier arrives with the first phase of banners, she will be available on Wednesday, May 7, 2025.

Genshin Impact Escoffier abilities

This information comes from the Genshin Impact 5.6 beta which is subject to change. Special thanks to the HomDGCat Wiki for providing the information.

Normal Attack – Kitchen Skills

• Normal attack: Performs up to three spear strikes.
• Charged attack: Consumes a fixed amount of stamina and performs an upward thrust.
• Plunging attack: Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging enemies along the path and dealing AoE damage upon impact.

Elemental Skill – Low-Temperature Cooking

Take command of Escoffier’s All-Spectrum Multi-Use Cooking Mek to aid you in battle. Tapping the elemental skill button freezes enemies, and holding the button protects your teammates. After dealing damage to nearby enemies, Cold Storage mode activates follow mode on the Cooking Mek to fire Ousia-aligned Cryo projectiles every few seconds.

• Tap: Activate the Cooking Mek’s Cold Storage mode to deal AoE Cryo damage to nearby enemies.
• Hold: Activate Cooking Mek’s Off-the-Cuff Cookery mode.

Elemental Burst – Scoring Cuts

Escoffier breaks out her knives to showcase her incredible skills using her elemental burst, dealing AoE Cryo damage while healing all nearby party members. The strength Escoffier’s healing is dependent on her total attack stat.

Escoffier passive talents

• Better to Salivate Than Medicate: After casting her elemental burst, Escoffier gains the Rehab Diet effect which heals her for nine seconds. This effect restores health to nearby active characters every few seconds based on a percentage of Escoffier’s total attack.
• Inspiration-Immersed Seasoning: Depending on the number of Cryo or Hydro members in your party, Escoffier lowers the Cryo and Hydro resistance of any opponents that take damage from her elemental skill or elemental burst for 12 seconds.
• Constant Off-the-Cuff Cookery: Off-the-Cuff Cookery mode utilizes elemental energy from enemies on the battlefield to create meals. After cooking a certain number of meals, you must wait seven days to create more.

Escoffier Constellations

• Pre-Dinner Dance for Your Taste Buds (1): As long as your party members are either Hydro or Cryo, all nearby party members gain 60% increased Cryo critical damage by 60% for 15 seconds after using Escoffier’s elemental skill or elemental burst.
• Fresh, Fragrant Stew Is an Art (2): When Cooking Mek triggers Cold Storage mode, Escoffier gains the Freshly-Prepped Delicacy effect for 15 seconds which gives her five Cold Dish stacks. You can use a Cold Dish stack by dealing Cryo damage with your party members (apart from Escoffier), increasing the damage dealt by 240% of Escoffier’s attack power. More stacks will be used depending on the number of enemies hit by your Cryo attacks.
• The Bakery Magic of Caramel Browning (3): Increases the level of Low-Temperature Cooking by three. The maximum upgrade level is 15.
• Secret Rosemary Recipe (4): Increase the length of the Rehab Diet effect by six additional seconds. During this effect, Escoffier has the chance to increase her healing by 100% and restore two Energy when triggering healing through Rehab Diet. This chance corresponds to Escoffier’s Crit Rate, and this effect can be triggered seven times during the same Rehab Diet duration.
• Symphony of a Thousand Sauces (5): Increases the level of Scoring Cuts by three. The maximum upgrade level is 15.
• Tea Parties Bursting With Color (6): Cooking Mek’s Cold Storage Mode fires off another Cryo projectile when your active character deals damage using a normal, charged, or plunging attack. This projectile deals 350% of Escoffier’s total attack as AoE Cryo damage, and it’s considered as elemental skill damage. This effect can be triggered once every 0.5 seconds, and it is triggered six times during one instance of Cold Storage Mode.

Escoffier materials

You can save yourself a lot of time ahead of the launch of Genshin Impact 5.6 by finding all the character and talent materials for Escoffier.

Here are all the Genshin Impact Escoffier ascension materials:

Character Materials

Talent materials

That’s all the information there is to know about Escoffier in Genshin Impact. For more on the anime game, we highly recommend checking out our list of the available Genshin Impact codes to claim in-game freebies.