by Yanqing is a five-star character who belongs to the Hunting Track on Honkai Star Rail . He is a character with quite high damage percentages in his abilities and stands out for being able to apply a large number of buffs when using them.
A curiosity about this character is that he can empower himself by entering a state called Empathic Thrust that gives him numerous benefits such as increasing some of his parameters, producing additional hits and having a greater chance of freezing the hit target. His Ultimate also boosts certain aspects of Yanqing, but it has a tremendously high energy cost.
That being said, below we will see a complete analysis of this character and of course his best Builds , Cones of Light, Artifacts, Ornaments and others. Let’s go there!
ATTRIBUTES OR STATS
These are the Attributes or Stats that Yanqing will have at the maximum level:
- HP: 892
- ATK: 679
- DEF: 412
- SPD: 109
It has quite high ATK and Base SPD ; in the ATK area she is above other lane characters like Seele , but she doesn’t quite surpass Seele’s SPD. However, regarding her HP and DEF, she leaves a lot to be desired, but it is typical for Hunting characters.
YANQING SKILLS
These are all of Yanqing’s Skills. The numbers/percentages are what you have at the lowest level:
BASIC ATK: COLD LIGHT, FROST EDGE
Deal 50% Cold Damage to a single enemy of your choice.
BASIC ABILITY: STONEDRAKES EDGE
- Basic Skill Point Consumption: 1
This Basic Skill attacks a single enemy dealing 110% of Yanqing’s ATK as Cold Damage and activates the Empathic Riposte effect for 1 turn (explained below).
ULTIMATE ABILITY: SWALLOW’S RAINY CHASE
- Energy Cost: 140
When casting this Ultimate, Yanqing himself increases his Critical Chance by 60% and his Critical Damage by 30% for one turn (the latter bonus will only activate if Yanqing is under the effects of Empathic Riposte). Finally, Yanqing will attack a single enemy dealing 210% of its ATK as Cold Damage.
TALENT: SHARP COMPANION
His Talent activates an effect called Empathic Riposte, this effect makes Yanqing less likely to take a hit, increases his CRIT Chance and CRIT Damage by 15% each. Other benefits that this effect provides when hitting an enemy are on the one hand, a base chance of 50% to activate an additional attack that deals 25% of Yanqing’s ATK as Cold Damage and on the other hand a base chance of 65% Freeze the enemy for one turn.
Enemies afflicted with Freeze will be unable to act and will be hit for 25% of Yanqing’s ATK as Cold Damage. But if Yanqing takes damage, he will lose all the effects of Empathic Rift .
TECHNIQUE: SWORD MASTERY
When using this Technique, Yanqing’s damage is increased by 30% for two turns against enemies with 50% or more HP.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS
We can unlock them in the Strokes upon reaching a certain Ascension Level.
- Ascension Tier 2 – Frozen Perk
- When hitting an enemy with a weakness to Ice Release, it will additionally receive an attack that deals Ice Damage based on 30% of Yanqing’s ATK.
- Ascension Level 4 – Head High
- When Empathic Riposte is active, Yanqing will now also gain 20% RES to Effect.
- Ascension Tier 6 – Steel of the Steppe
- Upon landing a critical hit, your SPD will be increased by 10% for 2 turns.
EIDOLON
These are the improvements that the character obtains through the Eidolon:
- E1 – Neat Blade : If the enemy Yanqing attacks is Frozen, it will immediately deal 60% of Yanqing’s ATK as Cold Damage.
- E2 – Clear Mind : When Empathic Riposte is active, energy recovery is increased by 10%.
- E3 – Born Swordsman : +2 levels to Basic Skill and +1 to Basic Attack.
- E4 – Relent Piercing : While Yanqing’s HP is at 80% or higher, his penetration to enemies’ Ice Resistance will increase by 12%.
- E5 – Born To Fight : +2 levels to Ultimate and Talent.
- E6 – Footwork : If when eliminating a Yanqing enemy he is still under the positive effects of his Ultimate Ability, these will be extended for one more turn.
His Eidolons aren’t bad but they aren’t great, as is often the case with Permanent Gachapon characters. The only one that is really worth more is E6, which allows us to extend the tremendous positive effects of his Ultimate for another turn , but an Eidolon that allows him to maintain his Empathic Rib for one more turn would have been more interesting.
YANQING’S BEST BUILD
It is another Main DPS focused on dealing damage to a single character, so we will seek to increase its damage as much as possible . The particularity that Yanqing has is that he will not need much CRIT Chance, since every time he is under the effects of his Talent he will gain +15% CRIT Chance and when he rolls his Ultimate Ability he will gain 60% of the same statistic for one turn.
The thing is, it’s not easy to cast his Ultimate often because it has an excessively high energy cost, so it is highly recommended to equip him with an artifact that gives him Energy Recovery and take Tingyun as a partner to help him recover energy with the purpose of being able to roll the Ultimate Ability the most times to keep Yanqing with a high Critical Chance.
BEST LIGHT CONES
These are the best Light Cones for Yanqing sorted from best to worst (they all come highly recommended anyway) and trying to add both 5-star and 4-star options. Here we will list the effects in Level 1 Overlay.
- At Night ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: +18% Critical Chance. For every 10 points of Speed that its wielder has once the 100 border is exceeded, the damage of the Basic Attack and Basic Ability will increase by 6% while the Critical Damage of the Ultimate Ability will increase by 12% (this effect is can stack 6 times max).
- Sleep Like a Log ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: +30% CRIT Damage. When a Basic Attack or Basic Ability does not critically strike, the wearer’s CRIT Chance is increased by 36% for 1 turn (this effect can be activated 1 time every 3 turns).
- Game of Swords ⭐⭐⭐⭐: When the bearer of this Cone of Light hits the same target multiple times, it increases the damage dealt to that enemy by 8%. This effect can be stacked up to five times and will be lost if we change targets.
- The River Is Born in Spring ⭐⭐⭐⭐: When the bearer of this Cone of Light enters combat, his SPED is increased by 8% and the damage he deals by 12%. These effects will disappear if the character takes damage, but at the end of the next turn they will become available again.
- Only Silence Remains ⭐⭐⭐⭐: +16% to Attack. If there are only 2 or fewer enemies on the battlefield, the Critical Chance is increased by 12%.
- Return to Darkness ⭐⭐⭐⭐: +12% Critical Chance. After landing a critical hit there is a 16% chance to nullify a positive effect the enemy has (this effect can only be activated once per attack).
BEST ARTIFACTS AND ORNAMENTS
We will start with the Artifacts and Ornaments. These are the statistics that we recommend for each piece in order to maximize its damage.
- Torso : CRIT Damage.
- Legs : SPEED or ATK%.
- Plane Sphere : Ice Damage.
- Union Rope : Energy Recovery.
Substats:
- CRIT Damage
- ATK %.
- SPEED
- Effect Resistance.
- Prob. CRIT.
Your best Artifact Set would be the following:
Glacial Forest Hunter
- 2 pieces : +10% Cold Damage.
- 4 pieces : +25% Critical Damage for 2 turns after using the Ultimate.
And now his best Ornament Sets:
Space Seal Station
- 2 pieces : +12% ATK and +12% bonus ATK if character has 120 or more Speed.
In the case of Yanqing, what rents us the most will be this set that will increase its ATK by 24%, as it has a good Base SPD, it will not need much investment in this parameter to be able to get the full ATK bonus that this set can provide. of ornaments.
BEST TEAMS
We will give some examples of equipment and recommended routes , but in the end what you should do is take into account the enemy’s weaknesses when building.
Composition Single Target
Against a single enemy, ideal for bosses:
- 1 Hunt : Yanqing.
- 1 Nihility : Peel or Welt .
- tingyun .
- 1 Conservation/1 Abundance : Fire Pathfinder or Natasha .
Multi-Target Composition
For the other types of combat, multiple enemies:
- 1 Hunt : Yanqing.
- 1 Lore : Jing Yuan or Herta .
- 1 Harmony/ 1 Nihility : Asta or Sampo .
- 1 Conservation/1 Abundance : Fire Pathfinder or Bailu .
ASCENSION MATERIALS
These are the Traces and Character Ascension Materials that Yanqing needs:
- Thief’s Instinct.
- Arrow of the Beast Hunter.
- Eye of the Gale (Paralyzed Shadow – Iceberg Form).
- Lament of the Guardian ( Cocolia, Mother of Falsehoods ).
- Footprints of Fate (for the highest level).
