Honkai Star Rail’s Tingyun is a stunning four-star fox girl, who also happens to be the most desirable four-star buffer in the game. Treading the path of the Harmony, she offers incredibly valuable utility, and can be a boon to any hypercarry DPS. So let’s dive into her best light cones, relics, team comps, and more.
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Here’s everything in our best Honkai Star Rail Tingyun build.
What’s the best Honkai Star Rail Tingyun build?
Tingyun is a four-star buffer who deals lightning damage. She treads the path of the Harmony, meaning she’s best suited to a support role.
Here’s a brief overview of her best build:
| Best light cone | Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds |
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| Best relic set | Band of Sizzling Thunder |
| Best planar ornament set | Space Sealing Station |
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Tingyun’s best light cone is Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds, and her best relic set is Band of Sizzling Thunder. Her best planar ornament set is Space Sealing Station. When building Tingyun, we recommend boosting her attack, crit, energy regen, and break effect.
In terms of her attacks, you should level up her skill first, then her ultimate, then her talent, then her basic attack. And, when it comes to her traces, you should level up Jubilant Passage (A6) first, then Nourished Joviality (A2), then Knell Subdual (A4).
How to use Tingyun
Tingyun is an incredibly valuable support, offering her allies powerful buffs to attack, damage, and even raw multipliers. However, all of her buffs are single-target only, meaning she performs best in hypercarry teams where she can focus all of her efforts on one powerful DPS.
Widely considered as the best four-star support in the game, Tingyun’s skill applies the benediction buff to one ally, boosting their attack by up to 50%. It also allows the buffed ally to deal additional lightning damage equal to 40% of their attack, which essentially provides a raw damage multiplier to their attacks.
The benediction buff lasts for three turns, which makes it especially valuable for Honkai Star Rail Seele’s Resurgence ability, characters with follow-up attacks, and pretty much any character’s ultimates, as none of these impact the buff’s duration.
Tingyun’s ultimate is also super valuable, offering a hefty 50 energy to the target ally, whil also increasing their damage by up to 50% for two turns. This makes her a blessing to any ultimate-reliant DPS, but is welcome to just about any ally.
On top of all of this, her talent and traces all offer very welcome bonuses, including a nice boost to her personal damage that allows her to quickly take down adds so the main DPS can focus on the boss, more speed after she uses her skill, and other handy benefits.
With all this in mind, the best way to use Tingyun is as a support in a hypercarry team. Pair her up with a powerful main DPS, then have her apply her skill to them every three turns. Use her ultimate to boost their energy and attack, then watch them tear straight through the opposition. It’s as simple as that!
What’s the best light cone for Tingyun?
Tingyun has her own light cone called Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds, which compliments her kit perfectly. As such, we recommend you use that with her if you manage to pull it.
If you’re looking for an alternate, make sure it aligns with the path of The Harmony. The Battle Isn’t Over and Chorus are good options.
| Light cone | Effect | How to obtain |
| Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds | Randomly applies one of the following effects at the start of the battle and whenever Tingyun takes action:
The effect cannot be identical to the last effect applied and replaces the previous effect. The applied effect expires when Tingyun falls in battle. Effects of the same type cannot stack |
Gacha |
| The Battle Isn’t Over | Increases Tingyun’s energy restoration rate by 16% and restores one skill point whenever she uses her ultimate on a target ally. The target ally also restores ten energy. This effect can only trigger once per turn | Gacha or the Starlight Exchange store |
| Chorus | After entering battle, increases all allies’ attack. Effects of the same type can’t stack | Gacha |
What are the best relics fo Tingyun?
We’re still working out the best relics for Tingyun. Currently, we believe Band of Sizzling Thunder is the best set for Tingyun’s personal damage, whereas Thief of Shooting Meteor is a great option to help her break enemy weaknesses and use her ult more often.
While not perfect for Tingyun’s kit, Space Sealing Station is the best available planar ornament set. It boosts her attack, buffing the effect she applies to allies.
| Relic set | Effect | Obtained from |
| Band of Sizzling Thunder | Two pieces equipped: increases lightning damage by 10% Four pieces equipped: increases Tingyun’s attack by 20% for one turn after she uses her skill |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Holy Hymn in the Xianzhou Luofu’s Cloudford |
| Thief of Shooting Meteor | Two pieces equipped: increases break effect by 16% Four pieces equipped: increases Tingyun’s break effect by 16%. Tingyun regenerates three energy when she inflicts weakness break on an enemy |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch in Jarilo-VI’s Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone |
Planar ornaments
| Relic | Effect | How to obtain |
| Space Sealing Station | Two pieces equipped: increases Tingyun’s attack by 12%. When Tingyun’s speed reaches 120 or higher, her attack increases by another 12% | Immersion Reward devices in World 3 of the Simulated Universe |
Relic stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Body: Attack
- Feet: Attack
- Link rope: Energy regeneration
- Planar sphere: Lightning damage increase
Sub-stats:
- Crit damage, crit rate
- Break
- Attack
What are Honkai Star Rail Tingyun’s abilities?
Here are all of Tingyun’s attacks, skills, talents, and techniques.
Active skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Basic: Dislodged (single target) | Tingyun deals lightning damage equal to 50% of her attack to a single enemy |
| Skill: Soothing Melody (support) | Grants a single ally with Benediction to increase their attack by 25%, up to 15% of Tingyun’s current attack. When the ally with Benediction attacks, they deal additional lightning damage equal to 20% of their attack once. Benediction lasts for three turns and is only effective on the most recent receiver of Tingyun’s skill |
| Ultimate: Amidst the Rejoicing Clouds (support) | Tingyun regenerates the target ally’s energy by 50 and increases their damage by 20% for two turns |
Talent:
| Skill | Effect |
| Violet Sparknado | When Tingyun attacks an enemy, the ally with Benediction immediately deals additional lightning damage equal to 30% of their attack to the same enemy |
Technique:
| Skill | Effect |
| Gentle Breeze | Tingyun immediately regenerates 50 energy upon using her technique |
Traces:
| Trace | Effect |
| Nourished Joviality | After using her skill, Tingyun’s speed increases by 20% for one turn |
| Knell Subdual | Increases basic attack damage by 40% |
| Jubilant Passage | Tingyun immediately regenerates five energy at the start of her turn |
What are Honkai Star Rail Tingyun’s eidolons?
Like constellations in Genshin Impact, eidolons are special buffs you can unlock after pulling more than one copy of a character. Here are each of Tingyun’s eidolons.
| Eidolon | Effect |
| E1: Windfall of Lucky Springs | The ally with Benediction’s speed increases by 20% for one turn after Tingyun uses her ultimate |
| E2: Gainfully Gives, Givingly Gains | The ally with Benediction regenerates five energy after defeating an enemy. This effect can only trigger once per turn |
| E3: Halcyon Bequest | Increases the level of Tingyun’s ultimate by two (up to a maximum of level 15), and her basic attack by one (up to a maximum of level ten) |
| E4: Jovial Versatility | Increases the damage multiplier of Benediction by 20% |
| E5: Sauntering Coquette | Increases the level of Tingyun’s skill by two (up to a maximum of level 15), and her talent by two (up to a maximum of level ten) |
| E6: Peace Brings Wealth to All | Increases the energy Tingyun’s ultimate regenerates for the target ally by ten |
What are Honkai Star Rail Tingyun’s ascension materials?
You can get Tingyun all the way up to level 80, but you need to use a certain set of materials at specific intervals in order to raise her ascension level. Here are all of Tingyun’s ascension materials.
| Required level | Credits | Materials |
| 20 | 3.2k | Four immortal scionette |
| 30 | 6.4k | Eight immortal scionette |
| 40 | 12.8k | Five immortal aeroblossom and two lightning crown of the past shadow |
| 50 | 32k | Eight immortal aeroblossom and five lightning crown of the past shadow |
| 60 | 64k | Five immortal lumintwig and 15 lightning crown of the past shadow |
| 70 | 128k | Seven immortal lumintwig and 28 lightning crown of the past shadow |
Here’s where to get all of Tingyun’s ascension materials:
- Immortal scionette / aeroblossom / lumintwig – drops from the mara-struck enemies on the Xianzhou Luofu, from the Honkai Star Rail Simulated Universe and assignment rewards, or from the embers exchange store.
- Lightning crown of the past shadow – drops from the Honkai Star Rail stagnant shadow in Jarilo-VI’s Backwater Pass
What are Tingyun’s trace materials?
You can upgrade each of Tingyun’s attacks and skills by leveling up her traces – but this requires a specific set of materials.
Here are all the materials you need in order to get all of Tingyun’s traces to max level:
- 28 immortal scionette, 42 immortal aeroblossom, and 42 immortal lumintwig
- Obtain from mara-struck enemies on the Xianzhou Luofu, the simulated universe, assignment rewards, or the embers exchange store
- 12 harmonic tune, 54 ancestral hymn, 104 stellaris symphony
- Obtain from the crimson calyx in Jarilo-VI’s Robot Settlement, the Herta Space Station and Jarilo-VI world shops, or the embers exchange store
- 12 destroyer’s final road
- Obtain from the Doomsday Beast boss in Herta Space Station’s Supply Zone: Echo of War
- Five tracks of destiny
- 2.4 million credits
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