A name you may or may not recognize is Genshin Impact’s Lynette, a quiet and mysterious character from the Fontaine region. Lynette appears alongside her brother, Lyney, in the Teyvat Chapter preview from Genshin’s debut. The two make up a pair of performers, specializing in magic shows… and mischief.
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Here’s everything in our Genshin Impact’s Lynette build guide:
What’s the best Genshin Impact Lynette build?
Lynette is a four-star anemo DPS that uses a sword, whose kit focuses on agility and grouping thanks to her shadow sprint.
Rarity | ★★★★ |
Element | Anemo |
Weapon | Sword |
Best weapon | Freedom Sworn |
Substitute weapons | Sacrificial Sword, Favonius Sword |
Best artifact set | Viridescent Venerer |
Artifact substitutes | Desert Pavilion Chronicle |
Main stats | Sands – Energy recharge Goblet – Anemo damage bonus Circlet – Elemental mastery |
Sub-stats | Elemental mastery, energy recharge, crit rate, crit damage |
As a four-star, Lynette doesn’t have a signature weapon, but the absolute best weapon for her is Freedom Sworn. Alongside that, you want plenty of elemental mastery and energy recharge to keep her reactions going and her burst charged. The best artifacts to equip Lynette with is a full set of Viridescent Venerer.
You can get Lynette for free when you hit adventure rank 25, and she’s a great anemo character to use if you don’t have Kazuha. She doesn’t require heavy investment and can slot into a lot of teams – plus, she deals ouisa aligned damage, which can help with a lot of exploration in Fontaine.
How do I use Lynette?
For newer players, or those of us without a Kazuha, Lynette is a good, free unit that can provide a taunt to draw enemies away from you in battle. If the taunt comes into contact with hydro, pyro, cryo, or electro, it gains that element and fires Vivid Shots containing that element, so you can easily use Lynette as a swirl-enabler.
What are the best Lynette weapons?
Lynette doesn’t rely on any particular stat to get good numbers out of her, so as an anemo unit, we recommend going for an elemental mastery or energy recharge weapon to ensure she gets plenty of uptime on her burst and can swirl all the elements nicely.
Freedom Sworn | Stat: Elemental mastery Skill: Increases damage by 10%. When Lynette triggers an elemental reaction, she gains a Sigil of Rebellion. If she has two Sigils, each nearby party member gains Millennial Movement: Song of Resistance for 12 seconds. This increases attack by 16% |
Weapon banner |
Favonius Sword | Stat: Energy recharge Skill: Crit hits have a 60% chance to generate a small amount of elemental particles, restoring energy for Lynette |
Gacha |
Sacrificial Sword | Stat: Energy recharge Skill: After damaging an opponent with an elemental skill, there is a 40% chance to end the skill’s cooldown |
Gacha |
Crossing of Fleuve Cendre | Stat: Energy recharge Skill: Increases Lyney’s elemental skill crit rate by 8%, and increases energy recharge by 16% for five seconds after using her elemental skill |
Fontaine fishing association |
The Black Sword | Stat: Crit rate Skill: Increases Lynette’s normal and charged attack damage by 20%. Additionally, she regenerates 60% of her attack as HP when normal and charged attacks crit on hit. This can happen once every five seconds |
Gacha |
Wolf Fang | Stat: Crit rate Skill: Damage dealt by Lynette’s elemental skill and burst increases. When an elemental skill or burst hits an opponent, the crit rate increases 2%. These effects last ten seconds, exist separately, and can stack four times |
Battle Pass reward |
What are the best Lynette artifacts?
When you’re equipping Lynette with artifacts, you should aim for a set of Viridescent Venerer. This is generally the best set for any anemo character that swirls elements, which Lynette does. You can also go for Desert Pavilion Chronicle, too – we all know how farming for artifacts goes, so aiming for two, two-piece sets can be a better option.
Viridescent Venerer | Two pieces: Increases anemo damage Four pieces: Increases swirl damage by 60%, and decreases enemy’s elemental resistance to any elements infused in the swirl by 40% for 10 seconds |
Obtain from the Valley of Remembrance domain |
Desert Pavilion Chronicle | Two pieces: Increases anemo damage Four pieces: When Lynette’s charged attacks hit an opponent, her normal attack speed increases by 10%, and normal, charged, and plunging damage increases by 40% for 15 seconds |
Obtain from the City of Gold domain |
Gladiator’s Finale | Two pieces: Increases attack 18% Four pieces: Increases Lynette’s normal attack damage by 35% |
Drops from weekly and world bosses, Artifact Strongbox, |
Emblem of Severed Fate | Two pieces: Increases energy recharge 20% Four pieces: Increases Lynette’s elemental burst damage by 25% of her energy recharge. A maximum of 75% damage can be obtained this way |
Obtain from the Momiji Dyed Court |
Artifact stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Sands: Attack
- Goblet: Anemo damage bonus
- Circlet: Crit rate or damage
Sub-stats:
- Attack/%
- Crit rate/damage
- Energy recharge
What are the best Lynette team comps?
Lynette, while not being the strongest swirler out there, is a good option if you don’t have a Sucrose or Kazuha at your disposal – especially as everyone gets her for free very early in the game.
What are Lynette’s abilities?
Here are all of Lynette’s skills, including her combat abilities, passive talents, and how she helps Travelers in the overworld.
Active skills
Normal attack | Rapid Ritesword Normal: Performs up to four rapid strikes. Charged: Consumes stamina to unleash two rapid strikes. Plunging: Lynette plunges from mid-air to strike the ground dealing AoE damage on impact |
Elemental skill | Enigmatic Feint Lynette executes an Enigma Thrust, dealing anemo damage. This restores her HP based on her max HP. Tap: Lynette uses an enigma thrust. Hold: Lynette shifts into the Pilfering Shadow state to apply Shadowsign to nearby opponents. At the end of this state, she unleashes an Enigma Thrust. Lynette approaches opponents marked with a sign to specifically target them. Only one opponent can have this mark at one time |
Elemental burst | Magic Trick – Astonishing Shift Lynette uses astonishing magic to create a giant Bogglecat Box appear, that taunts nearby opponents. It deals anemo damage at regular intervals. When the Box comes into contact with hydro, pyro, cryo, and electro, it gains that element and additionally fires Vivid Shots that deal that element as damage |
Passive skills
Sophisticated Synergy | Within ten seconds of Lynette using Astonishing Shift, if there are two or more elemental types in the party, each member’s attack increases |
Props Positively Prepped | After Lynette’s Bogglecat Box performs an elemental conversion, Lynette’s elemental burst deals 15% more damage. This persists until the Box’s duration ends |
Loci-Based Mnemonics | Lynette shows the location of recovery orbs on the minimap. Additionally, aquatic stamina and HP gained from touching orbs increases by 25% |
What are Lynette’s constellations?
If you happen to get more than one copy of Lynette while pulling on the banners, you can unlock a constellation, which in turn, provides a new talent for her.
C1 | A Cool Blade Like a Shadow When Enigmatic Feint’s thrust hits an opponent with Shadowsign, a vortex appears that pulls in nearby opponents |
C2 | Endless Mysteries Whenever Lynette’s Bogglecat Box fires a vivid shot, it fires an extra one |
C3 | Cognition-Inverting Gaze Increases the level of Magic Trick – Astonishing Shift by three |
C4 | Tacit Coordination Increases Enigmatic Feint’s charge by one |
C5 | Obscuring Ambiguity Increases the level of Enigmatic Feint by three |
C6 | Watchful Eye When Lynette uses Enigmatic Feint’s thrust, she gains an anemo infusion and an extra 20% anemo damage bonus for six seconds |
What are Lynette’s ascension materials?
Lynette’s ascension materials include Fontaine-specific items added with her release. She needs a new boss drop – Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia – and a regional Fontaine flower called a lumidouce bell. The overworld enemy drops she needs are dropped by the mechanical humanoid enemies.
20➔40 | 20k mora One vayuda turquoise sliver Three lumidouce bells Three meshing gears |
40➔50 | 40k mora Three vayuda turquoise fragments Ten lumidouce bells 15 meshing gears Two Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia |
50➔60 | 60k mora Six vayuda turquoise fragments 20 lumidouce bells 12 smechanical spur gears Four Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia |
60➔70 | 80k mora Three vayuda turquoise chunks 30 lumidouce bells 18 smechanical spur gears Eight Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia |
70➔80 | 100k mora Six vayuda turquoise chunks 45 lumidouce bells 12 artificed dynamic gears 12 Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia |
80➔90 | 120k mora Six vayuda turquoise gemstones 60 lumidouce bells 24 artificed dynamic gears 20 Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia |
Here are the locations for each of Lynette’s ascension materials:
- Vayuda turquoise – these gems drop from normal and weekly bosses, especially Dvalin, the Anemo Hypostasis, and the Solitary Suanni
- Lumidouce bells – these flowers grow in Fontaine around the Beryl and Court of Fontaine areas
- Meshing gears, mechanical spur gears, dynamic gears – these items drop from Fontaine’s mechanical enemies
- Artificed Spare Clockwork Component – Coppelia – this piece drops from Fontaine’s Icewind Suit boss – before entering the fight, make sure to pick the Dirge of Coppelia option
What are Lynette’s talent materials?
Lynette requires the Fontaine talent book of order, along with plenty of mechanical enemy drops. She also needs the everamber drop from the weekly Apep boss in Sumeru for her later talent levels.
1➔2 | 12.5k mora Six meshing gears Three teachings of order |
2➔3 | 17.5k mora Three mechanical spur gears Two guides to order |
3➔4 | 25k mora Four mechanical spur gears Four guides to order |
4➔5 | 30k mora Six mechanical spur gears Six guides to order |
5➔6 | 37.5k mora Nine mechanical spur gears Nine guides to order |
6➔7 | 120k mora Four artificed dynamic gears Four philosophies of order One everamber |
7➔8 | 260k mora Six artificed dynamic gears Six philosophies of order One everamber |
8➔9 | 450k mora Nine artificed dynamic gears 12 philosophies of order Two everamber |
9➔10 | 700k mora 12 artificed dynamic gears 16 philosophies of order Two everamber One crown of insight |
To find these talent items for Lynette, head to these locations:
- Order talent books – farm these talent books in Fontaine’s Pale Forgotten Glory domain on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Meshing gears, mechanical spur gears, dynamic gears – these items drop from Fontaine’s mechanical enemies
- Everamber – these are drops from the weekly Apep boss, found in Sumeru
Talent priorities
- Elemental burst > elemental skill > normal attack
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