Honkai Star Rail: Tingyun Build

Tingyun, a mesmerizing four-star fox girl in Honkai Star Rail, stands out as the most coveted four-star buffer in the game. Following the path of the Harmony, she brings exceptional utility to any hypercarry DPS team. Let’s explore the best build, light cones, relics, and team compositions for maximizing Tingyun’s potential.

Overview of Tingyun’s Best Build

Tingyun, a lightning damage dealer, excels in a support role. Here’s a snapshot of her optimal build:

• Best Light Cone: Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds
• Alternative Light Cones: The Battle Isn’t Over, Chorus
• Best Relic Set: Band of Sizzling Thunder
• Best Planar Ornament Set: Space Sealing Station
• Main Stats:
  • Body: Attack
  • Feet: Attack
  • Link Rope: Energy Regeneration
  • Planar Sphere: Lightning Damage Increase
• Sub-Stats: Crit Damage, Crit Rate, Break, Attack

How to Utilize Tingyun

Tingyun shines as a support, providing significant buffs to her allies’ attack and damage. Her buffs, while powerful, are single-target, making her ideal for hypercarry teams where she can concentrate on boosting one dominant DPS.

Skill Priority:

1. Skill
2. Ultimate
3. Talent
4. Basic Attack

Trace Priority:

1. Jubilant Passage (A6)
2. Nourished Joviality (A2)
3. Knell Subdual (A4)

Best Light Cone for Tingyun

Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds is Tingyun’s signature light cone, enhancing her support capabilities by randomly applying one of three effects at the start of the battle and each time Tingyun acts:

• Increase all allies’ attack
• Increase all allies’ crit damage
• Increase all allies’ energy regeneration

Alternative Light Cones:

• The Battle Isn’t Over: Boosts Tingyun’s energy restoration rate and restores a skill point when she uses her ultimate on an ally, which also grants the ally ten energy.
• Chorus: Increases all allies’ attack upon entering battle.

Best Relics for Tingyun

• Band of Sizzling Thunder:
  • Two-piece set: Increases lightning damage by 10%.
  • Four-piece set: Boosts Tingyun’s attack by 20% for one turn after using her skill.
• Thief of Shooting Meteor:
  • Two-piece set: Enhances break effect by 16%.
  • Four-piece set: Further increases break effect and regenerates energy upon inflicting weakness break.

Planar Ornaments:

• Space Sealing Station:
  • Two-piece set: Increases attack by 12%, and an additional 12% when Tingyun’s speed reaches 120 or higher.

Stat Recommendations:

• Main Stats: Attack (Body), Attack (Feet), Energy Regeneration (Link Rope), Lightning Damage Increase (Planar Sphere)
• Sub-Stats: Crit Damage, Crit Rate, Break, Attack

Tingyun’s Abilities

• Basic Attack: Dislodged (Single Target): Deals lightning damage equal to 50% of Tingyun’s attack to a single enemy.
• Skill: Soothing Melody (Support): Grants an ally Benediction, increasing their attack by 25%, up to 15% of Tingyun’s current attack, and additional lightning damage.
• Ultimate: Amidst the Rejoicing Clouds (Support): Regenerates 50 energy for an ally and increases their damage by 20% for two turns.
• Talent: Violet Sparknado: When Tingyun attacks, the ally with Benediction deals additional lightning damage.
• Technique: Gentle Breeze: Regenerates 50 energy upon use.

Tingyun’s Eidolons

Eidolons, similar to Genshin Impact’s constellations, provide special buffs when you pull duplicate characters. Tingyun’s eidolons enhance her support abilities and improve her team’s performance:

• E1: Increases Benediction ally’s speed after using her ultimate.
• E2: Benediction ally regenerates energy after defeating an enemy.
• E3: Boosts the levels of her ultimate and basic attack.
• E4: Enhances Benediction’s damage multiplier.
• E5: Increases the levels of her skill and talent.
• E6: Increases energy regeneration from her ultimate.

Ascension and Trace Materials

Ascension Materials:

• Immortal Scionette/Aeroblossom/Lumintwig
• Lightning Crown of the Past Shadow

Trace Materials:

• Harmonic Tune, Ancestral Hymn, Stellaris Symphony
• Destroyer’s Final Road
• Tracks of Destiny
• Credits

By following this guide, you can maximize Tingyun’s effectiveness in Honkai Star Rail. For more on the game, check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list, codes, and upcoming events to stay ahead.