Wuthering Waves’ Jiyan is quite the striking man, slashing onto the scene as the very first five-star character to feature on a limited banner. Wielding a broadblade and the power of aero, he’s a fierce fighter with a kit that focuses on dishing out heaps of devastating, wind-infused damage. In this build guide, we dive into Jiyan’s skills, best weapons and echoes, and more, so you can make the most of this heart-stopping husbando.
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Who is Wuthering Waves’ Jiyan?
Jiyan is a five-star aero character who uses the broadblade weapon type. He’s an incredibly powerful DPS with great AoE coverage, and his potent ultimate makes him a brilliant hyper carry.
Here’s a brief overview of our best Wuthering Waves Jiyan build.
| Best weapon | Verdant Summit |
| Best echo set | Sierra Gale |
| Main stats |
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| Sub-stats | Energy regeneration >= crit rate = crit damage > attack% > attack > heavy damage% |
He’s the commander of Midnight Rangers, and is well-known for his strong sense of justice and resolution. Jiyan was born into a family devoted entirely to medicine, and grew to be both skilled and attentive in nature. However, he’s since given up on his peaceful life in the world of medicine, instead choosing to take up arms as a soldier fighting against the Tacet Discords.
How to use Jiyan
Jiyan is an incredibly powerful DPS best suited to hyper carry teams. His main source of damage is his ultimate, through which he enters the Qingloong mode for a short period of time. While in Qingloong mode, his basic attack combo, heavy attacks, and dodge counters transform into a three-part heavy attack combo that summons a dragon around him, dealing heavy aero damage eight times per attack while also pulling in enemies. These attacks have brilliant range and immobilization abilities. Jiyan also has increased anti-interrupt for the ultimate’s duration, making him much less likely to be stunned or launched.
Naturally, this all adds up to make Jiyan’s ultimate an incredibly powerful skill, both for offensive and defensive play styles. As such, your main priority when using Jiyan should be buffing him as much as possible before using his ultimate.
Jiyan recharges his forte gauge by accumulating resolve with his basic attacks and intro skill. You can use half a bar (30 points) of resolve to enhance either his resonance skill (increasing its damage dealt by 20%), or to enhance his ultimate (which unleashes a draconic strike upon activation). As you can probably guess, we highly recommend saving his resolve and using it to empower his ultimate, as it has a much higher overall damage output.
Generally, Jiyan requires quite a bit of on-field time to make the most of his kit. Firstly, you should keep him on-field throughout the entirety of his ultimate’s duration in order to maximize his damage. However, you should also allow him to take to the field often between ultimates in order to make the most of his low cooldown resonance skill, as this allows you to regenerate enough resonance energy to recast his ultimate more frequently.
What are Jiyan’s stats?
Here are all of Wuthering Waves Jiyan’s stats at both level one and level 90 (max level). This doesn’t include bonuses from weapons or other equipment.
| Stat | Level one | Level 90 |
| HP | 839 | 10,488 |
| Attack | 35 | 438 |
| Defense | 97 | 1,186 |
| Max energy | 125 | 125 |
| Crit rate | 5% | 5% |
| Crit damage | 150% | 150% |
| Healing bonus | 0% | 0% |
| Aero damage | 0% | 0% |
What are Jiyan’s skills?
Here are all of Jiyan’s skills and abilities.
Jiyan active skills
| Skill | Effect |
| Basic attack: Lone Lance | Perform up to five consecutive attacks, dealing aero damage |
| Heavy attack: Lone Lance | Consume stamina to thrust forward, dealing aero damage |
| Heavy attack: Windborne Strike | Hold basic attack during a heavy attack to unleash a mid-air strike after the heavy attack ends, dealing aero damage |
| Heavy attack: Abyssal Slash | Release basic attack during a heavy attack to unleash an Abyssal Slash after the heavy attack ends, dealing aero damage |
| Mid-air attack | Consume stamina to throw a spear from the air and stab the ground, dealing aero damage. After the spear stabs the ground, you can launch an additional basic attack to deal more aero damage |
| Mid-air attack: Skyfall | After casting a heavy attack mid-air strike or the resonance skill Wind Sweep in the air, perform an aerial attack, dealing aero damage |
| Dodge counter | After a successful dodge, use a basic attack to attack the target with a spear, dealing aero damage |
| Resonance skill: Windqueller | Dash forward a set distance, dealing aero damage. You can cast this while in the air |
| Resonance liberation: Emerald Storm: Prelude | Jiyan enters the Qingloong mode. In this mode, use a basic attack or heavy attack to cast the Lance of Qingloong. Unleash a heavy attack Lance of Qingloong to perform up to three continuous attacks, dealing aero damage, considered as heavy attack damage |
| Intro skill: Tactical Strike | Jiyan wields his spear and stabs the target from the air, causing aero damage |
| Outro skill: Discipline | When the next character’s heavy attack hits a target, Jiyan summons Qingloong to launch a coordinated attack, dealing aero damage equal to a high percentage of Jiyan’s attack. This attack lasts for eight seconds and can trigger once every second, up to two times |
Jiyan passive skills
| Skill | Effect |
| Forte circuit: Qingloong at War | When casting resonance skill Windqueller, if Jiyan has 30 Resolve or more, he consumes 30 Resolve and increases Windqueller’s damage by 20% When Jiyan is in Qingloong mode, damage of resonance skill Windqueller increases by 20% and no longer consumes Resolve. Resonance Liberation: Emerald Storm: Finale – when casting resonance liberation Emerald Storm: Prelude, if Jiyan has 30 Resolve or more, he consumes 30 Resolve and casts Emerald Storm: Finale instead, dealing increased aero damage, considered as heavy attack damage. You can cast Emerald Storm: Finale in mid-air at low altitude Resolve – Jiyan can hold up to 60 Resolve. He gains Resolve when his normal attack Lone Lance or intro skill Tactical Strike hits a target. If Jiyan doesn’t hit a target within seconds, his Resolve begins to gradually decrease |
| Inherent skill: Heavenly Balance | After casting the intro skill Tactical Strike, Jiyan’s basic attack and heavy attack bonuses increase by 8% for 14 seconds |
| Inherent skill: Tempest Taming | When Jiyan hits a target, his critical hit chance increases by 1%. This stacks up to ten times, and each stack lasts for eight seconds |
What is Jiyan’s resonance chain?
If you manage to pull more than one copy of Jiyan, you can unlock the next skill in his resonance chain sequence. Here are Jiyan’s resonance chain skills.
| Resonance chain sequence | Effect |
| Sequence one – Benevolence | Jiyan can use his resonance skill Windqueller one more time. It also decreases the Resolve cost by 15 |
| Sequence two – Versatility | After casting intro skill Tactical Strike, Jiyan gains 30 Resolve, and his attack increases by 28% for 15 seconds. This effect can trigger once every 15 seconds |
| Sequence three – Spectation | When casting Windqueller, Emerald Storm: Prelude, Emerald Storm: Finale, or Tactical Strike, Jiyan’s crit rate increases by 16% and his crit damage increases by 32% for eight seconds |
| Sequence four – Prudence | When Jiyan casts Emerald Storm: Prelude or Emerald Storm: Finale, the heavy attack damage bonus of all team members increases by 25% for 30 seconds |
| Sequence five – Resolution | Increases the damage multiplier of Jiyan’s outro skill by 120%. When his attacks hit a target, his attack also increases by 3% for eight seconds, stacking up to 15 times. This effect immediately hits max when he casts his intro skill, Tactical Strike |
| Sequence six – Fortitude | Every time Jiyan uses his heavy attack, Tactical Strike, or Windqueller, he gains one stack of Momentum, stacking up to two times. Casting Emerald Storm: Finale consumes all Momentum, and each stack increases the move’s damage multiplier by 120% |
What’s the best weapon for Jiyan?
Wuthering Waves Jiyan’s best weapon is Verdant Summit, a five-star broadblade that offers a heavy boost to his personal damage.
If you haven’t got your paws on that yet, the four-star weapon Autumntrace is a strong alternative, offering a stackable boost to his attack whenever he deals basic or heavy attack damage.
| Jiyan weapon | Effect |
| Verdant Summit | Increases the damage bonus of all resonance attributes by 12%. Every time Jiyan casts his intro skill or resonance liberation, it also increases his heavy attack damage bonus by 24%, stacking up to two times. This effect lasts for 14 seconds |
| Autumntrace | When Jiyan deals basic attack damage, his attack increases by 4%, stacking up to five times. This effect lasts for seven seconds, and can trigger once every second |
What are the best echoes for Jiyan?
Here are the best echoes for Jiyan.
| Slot | Echo |
| Main echo | Feilian Beringal |
| Sub-echo slot one | Whiff Whiff |
| Sub-echo slot two | Chaserazor |
| Sub-echo slot three | Cyan-Feathered Hero |
| Sub-echo slot four | Chirpuff |
Equipping Jiyan with these echoes activates the following bonuses:
- Sierra Gale
- Two equipped: increases aero damage by 10%
- Four equipped: increases aero damage by 30% for 15 seconds after Jiyan uses his intro skill
- Moonlit Clouds
- Two equipped: increases energy regen by 10%
Stat recommendations
When picking echoes for Jiyan, we recommend prioritizing the following stats.
Main stats
- Crit rate/damage
- Aero damage
- Energy regen
- Attack%
Sub-stats
- Energy regeneration
- Crit rate / crit damage
- Attack%
- Attack
- Heavy damage%
What’s the best Jiyan team comp?
When picking the best team for Jiyan, we recommend pairing him up with a healer and a buffer to enhance his powerful kit. But, of course, some characters synergise with him better than others.
Here are Jiyan’s synergies:
- Wuthering Waves’ Mortefi – Mortefi is a great ally for Jiyan for many reasons. Firstly, Jiyan requires a lot of on-field time, whereas Mortefi requires very little. His outro skill also buffs heavy attack damage, which is very valuable to Jiyan as all of his attacks during his Qingloong mode are heavy. Additionally, Mortefi’s ultimate (resonance liberation) requires a high hit counter, which Jiyan can easily achieve with his own ultimate, and the heavy attacks of Jiyan’s ultimate trigger Mortefi’s additional coordinated attack. Therefore, we recommend using Mortefi’s ultimate, then quickly switching to Jiyan’s to use his, maximizing the damage of both moves
- Wuthering Waves’ Aalto – while his kit doesn’t compliment Jiyan’s quite as much as Mortefi’s does, Aalto is still a strong support for Jiyan, mostly thanks to his substantial aero damage buff. However, he doesn’t offer Jiyan any other buffs outside of this, and he requires a bit more field time, which isn’t ideal
- Wuthering Waves’ Verina – it should be no surprise that Verina’s here, as she’s undoubtedly the strongest healer and support in the game and a staple in pretty much any team comp. Her rotations are fast an easy to zip through, leaving plenty of time for Jiyan to take the field, and her outro skill offers a very welcome damage boost for 30 seconds. Basically, Verina synergizes with every character, so show her some love
- Wuthering Waves’ Baizhi – if you don’t have Verina at your disposal, Baizhi is a decent alternative. While she’s a little more restricted, her kit still offers similar buffs to Verina’s, in addition to some respectable healing
Keeping these synergies in mind, here’s the best Jiyan team comp:
| Slot one | Slot two | Slot three |
 Jiyan |
 Mortefi |
 Verina |
What are Jiyan’s ascension materials?
You can level Wuthering Waves’ Jiyan all the way up to level 90, but you need to use specific materials to ascend him at certain intervals along the way. We currently only know what you need to get him to rank four, but we’ll be sure to update this guide as we continue to ascend him.
Here are all of Jiyan’s ascension materials:
| Level | Shell credits | Materials |
| Rank one – level 20 | 5k | Four LF howler core |
| Rank two – level 40 | 10k | Three roaring rock fist, four pecok flower, and four MF howler core |
| Rank three – level 50 | 15k | Six roaring rock fist, eight pecok flower, eight MF howler core |
| Rank four – level 60 | 20k | Nine roaring rock fist, 12 pecok flower, four HF howler core |
Here’s where to get all of Jiyan’s ascension materials:
- LF, MF, HF, and FF howler cores – obtain from normal enemies, the store, the weapon shop, or forgery challenges
- Pecok flowers – gather in the overworld from around Taoyuan Village, southwest of Qichi Village, or purchase from Shifang Pharmacy in Jinzhou
- Roaring rock fist – obtain from the Feilian Beringal boss in Dim Forest, Giant Banyan
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