Wuthering Waves Jinhsi casts a striking figure as the magistrate of Jinzhou, who works tirelessly to ensure the safety of the city. She’s a five-star character that uses the spectro element in-game and shakes up your team compositions with her strong kit, including a summonable Jue to deal plenty of damage.
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Here’s everything in our Wuthering Waves Jinhsi guide:
Wuthering Waves Jinhsi build overview
Jinhsi is a five-star resonator that uses a broadblade weapon, and the spectro element.
| Element | Spectro |
| Rarity | Five-star |
| Role | DPS |
| Best weapon | Ages of Harvest |
| Best echo | Jué |
| Best echo set | Celestial light |
| Main stats | Spectro damage bonus Crit rate/damage Attack |
Jinhsi, the Magistrate of Jinzhou, was born with her innate spectro power. She resonates directly with Jué, the big dragon sentinel in the Mt Firmament area. We go through her backstory in the main quest of Wuthering Waves, but to sum up, she nearly passed as a child but was saved by Jué – hence their connection and her high standing in Jinzhou. She strives to take care of her citizens and protect the city.
The best build for Jinhsi uses her signature Ages of Harvest broadblade with a five-piece set of celestial light echoes, including Jue or the Mourning Aix.
You can pair Jinhsi with characters that provide coordinated attacks for an extra boost, and use Verina, Taoqi, or Baizhi as support to keep her safe on field.
What’s the best weapon for Jinhsi?
The best weapon for Jinhsi, by far, is her signature broadblade Ages of Harvest. This adds a significant damage boost to most of her kit, and will make her an even better DPS. However, this weapon is only available when she is.
You can also use the Lustrous Razor for a boost to her energy regeneration. If you don’t have any five-star options (don’t worry, I don’t either), the Autumntrace and Helios Cleaver are still very well-rounded four-star options.
| Ages of Harvest | This grants Jinhsi a 12% spectro damage bonus. Using her intro skill gives her Ageless Marking, which grants an extra 24% resonance skill damage bonus for 12 seconds. Using her resonance skill gives her Ethereal Endowment, granting her a 24% resonance skill damage bonus for 12 seconds | Limited weapon banner |
| Verdant Summit | Increases the damage bonus of all resonance attributes by 12%. Every time Jinhsi casts her intro skill or resonance liberation, her heavy attack damage bonus increases by 24%. This can stack twice and lasts for 14 seconds | Limited weapon banner |
| Lustrous Razor | Increases Jinhsi’s energy regeneration by 12.8%. When she casts her resonance skill, her resonance liberation damage increases by 7%. This can stack three times and lasts 12 seconds | Standard weapon banner |
| Helios Cleaver | Within 12 seconds after casting her resonance skill, Jinhsi’s attack increases by 3% every two seconds, stacking four times. This can trigger once every 12 seconds. When the stacks reach four, all stacks reset within six seconds | All banners |
| Autumntrace | Increases Jinhsi’s attack by 4% when dealing basic or heavy attack damage, which can stack five times. This lasts for seven seconds and can trigger once every second | Battle pass reward |
What’s the best Jinhsi team comp?
Jinhsi, as your main DPS, benefits from a healer to keep her safe and buffers to improve her damage. Anyone who can provide coordinated attacks can add significant damage output, too – like Yinlin and Mortefi – thanks to Jinhsi’s Forte Circuit.
- Wuthering Waves Yinlin – now, Yinlin may boost electro damage, but her coordinated attacks are excellent in any party as they add a bit of extra damage from all directions.
- Wuthering Waves Mortefi – Mortefi boosts your main DPS’ heavy attack while also providing coordinated attacks with his resonance liberation – plus, he’s excellent at refilling his own concerto energy, so this will be available often.
- Wuthering Waves Yuanwu – Yuanwu, like Mortefi, can give another coordinated attack for Jinhsi to work with. If you don’t have a Yinlin, he’s a good alternative. he also requires very little time on-field, allowing you to focus on dealing damage with Jinhsi.
- Wuthering Waves Verina or Wuthering Waves Baizhi – chances are you’ll be heading into some fierce battles with Jinhsi, so we suggest taking Verina or Baizhi to provide healing. Verina can add a damage boost with her ultimate, while Baizhi at higher sequence nodes can resurrect a party member during battle, and add some extra damage.
Here are the best Jinhsi team comps:
 Jinhsi |
 Zhezhi |
 Shorekeeper |
Jinhsi |
 Yuanwu |
 Baizhi |
Jinhsi |
 Yinlin |
 Verina |
What are the best echoes for Jinhsi?
Here are the echo sets we recommend for Jinhsi:
- Five-piece set: Celestial light
- Four-piece set: Celestial light, lingering tunes
When picking an echo set for Jinhsi, aim for a five-piece set of celestial light echoes to activate the spectro buffs. If you’re not blessed with a good five-piece set, you can use two lingering tunes and two celestial light echoes to activate spectro and attack buffs.
The best main echo to equip Jinhsi with is Jue. Not only does this echo deal an instance of damage, but it extends Jinhsi’s spectro damage over time. The Mourning Aix is another great option as it boosts Jinhsi’s spectro and resonance liberation damage after using the echo’s skill.
| Jué | Summon Jué into the fight who deals AoE spectro damage. Jué also summons thunderbolts to strike enemies five times. Jué then spirals down to attack enemies twice. Using Jué gives your active resonator a Blessing of Time for 15 seconds that gives a 16% resonance skill damage boost, and an extra instance of spectro damage upon hitting a target with a resonance skill |
| Mourning Aix | Turn into the Mourning Aix to perform two attacks, dealing heavy spectro damage. After the transformation ends, Jinhsi’s spectro damage increases by 12%, and her resonance liberation damage by 12% for 15 seconds |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Crit rate/damage
- Spectro damage bonus
- Energy regeneration
- Attack
Sub-stats:
- Crit rate/damage
- Energy regeneration
- Attack
What are Jinhsi’s ascension materials?
As always, you’ll need a few materials to ascend Jinhsi:
| 20➔40 | 5k shell credits Four LF howler cores |
| 30➔50 | 10k shell credits Four Loong’s pearls Three elegy tacet cores Four MF howler cores |
| 50➔60 | 15k shell credits Eight Loong’s pearls Six elegy tacet cores Eight MF howler cores |
| 60➔70 | 20k shell credits 12 Loong’s pearls Nine elegy tacet cores Four HF howler cores |
| 70➔80 | 40k shell credits 16 Loong’s pearls 12 elegy tacet cores Eight HF howler cores |
| 80➔90 | 80k shell credits 20 Loong’s pearls 16 elegy tacet cores Four FF howler cores |
Here’s where to find all of Jinhsi’s ascension materials:
- Elegy tacet cores – this item drops from the Mourning Aix boss, in the Whining Aix’s Mire area
- Loong’s pearl – these are new items found in update 1.1’s Mt. Firmament area
- LF, MF, HF, and FF howler cores – obtain from normal enemies, the store, the weapon shop, or forgery challenges
- Shell credits – shell credits are the in-game currency, which you can obtain via farming, enemy and boss drops, through quests, or by selling things in the in-game store
What are Jinhsi’s forte materials?
Here are Jinhsi’s total forte materials and where to find or buy them:
- 25 LF howler cores, 28 MF howler cores, 40 HF howler cores, and 57 FF howler cores
- Obtain from normal enemies, the store, the weapon shop, or forgery challenges
- 25 waveworn residue 210, 28 waveworn residue 226, 55 waveworn residue 235, and 67 waveworn residue 239
- Obtain from the Eroded Ruins forgery challenge, via the synthesizer, Jinzhou’s weapon shop, or Jinzhou’s souvenir store
- 26 Sentinel’s dagger
- Obtain from the Sentinel Jue weekly challenge
- 2,030,000 shell credits
What are Jinhsi’s skills?
Let’s look at what Jinhsi can do during battle. Her kit dishes out plenty of spectro damage, and has a couple of different buildable boosts to add even more damage.
Active skills
| Basic attack | Jinhsi performs up to four consecutive strikes, dealing spectro damage |
| Heavy attack | Jinhsi performs a charged attack, consuming stamina, dealing heavy spectro damage |
| Mid-air attack | Jinhsi performs a plunging attack from mid-air, dealing a small AoE of spectro damage |
| Dodge counter | Using a basic attack after a successful dodge unleashes a counter-attack, dealing spectro damage |
| Resonance skill | Jinhsi dashes forward and deals consecutive strikes that deal spectro damage. After she uses basic attack four, or when she is not in Incarnation or Loong’s Halo, an alternative resonance skill becomes available within five seconds. This inflicts spectro damage and sends Jinhsi into incarnation. You can use this in mid-air |
| Resonance liberation | Jinhsi unleashes the power of invocation to deal heavy spectro damage. You can use this in mid-air |
Passive skills
| Intro skill | Jinhsi attacks the target, dealing spectro damage |
| Outro skill | Summoning the power of Jue the Sentinel, Jinhsi can gain Incandescence from Eras in Unity from damage of the same attribute once every second – lasting for 20 seconds |
| Forte circuit | Incarnation – While in Incarnation, Jinhsi’s basic attack becomes enhanced. Performing this attack counts as resonance skill damage, and you can cast this in mid-air. As well as this, her heavy attack, dodge, and resonance skill damage turn into Incarnation versions, where she can deal more damage, and use her skills in mid-air. Illuminous Epiphany – After basic attack four of Jinhsi’s enhanced string, she gains Ordination Glow. During this time, her basic attack becomes a heavy attack, and she can attack in mid-air by using stamina. Her resonance skill becomes Illuminous Epiphany, which detonates as Stella Glamor, dealing spectro damage. This consumes up to 50 Incandescence, and each point grants a damage bonus multiplier to Stella Glamor. Jinhsi gains Unison after using Illuminous Epiphany, which can trigger once every 25 seconds. Unison – While in this state, swapping to other party members removes the effect and triggers Jinhsi’s outro skill, along with the next party member’s intro skill. This also is consumed in place of concerto energy when the energy is full. Incandescence – Jinhsi can hold up to 50 Incandescence at a time. All party members gain Eras In Unity when used with her. This provides two effects: – Jinhsi gains one Incandescence every time a resonator uses their attribute damage. This can trigger once every three seconds – Jinhsi gains two Incandescence when resonators use coordinated attacks. This also triggers once every three seconds |
Inherent skills
| Radiant Surge | Jinhsi’s spectro damage bonus increases by 20% |
| Converged Flash | The damage multiplier of Jinhsi’s intro skill, Loong’s Halo, increases by 50% |
Skill priority
When looking to upgrade Jinhsi’s skills, you should prioritize them in the following way:
- Forte circuit > resonance liberation > resonance skill > intro skill > basic attack
What is Jinhsi’s resonance chain?
If you pull more than one Jinhsi on her Wuthering Waves banner – or purchase her wavebands from the store – you can unlock levels of her resonance chain, which grants extra abilities and boosts.
| Abyssal Ascension | When casting her basic attack Incarnation or resonance skill, Jinhsi gains one stack of Herald of Revival. This can stack four times and lasts six seconds. When using Illuminous Epiphany, she consumes all stacks. Each stack increases her resonance skill damage by 20% |
| Chronofrost Repose | Jinhsi restores 50 Incandescence while out of combat for more than four seconds. This can only trigger once every four seconds |
| Celestial Incarnate | Jinhsi gains one stack of Immortal’s Descendancy after using her intro skill (Loong’s Halo). each stack of Immortal’s Descendancy increases her attack by 25%. It can stack twice and lasts for 20 seconds |
| Benevolent Gaze | When she casts her resonance liberation or skill (Purge of Light or Illuminous Epiphany), all nearby resonators gain a 20% attribute damage bonus for 20 seconds |
| Frostfire Illumination | The damage multiplier of her resonance liberation (Purge of Light) increases by 120% |
| Thawing Triumph | The damage multiplier of Illuminous Epiphany increases by 45% and the damage bonus gained from consuming Incandescence increases by 45% |
While we wait for the next banner, why not turn your attention to your support characters like Wuthering Waves Sanhua, Wuthering Waves Aalto, and Wuthering Waves Jianxin to provide healing, shields, and buffs to your team?