Best Honkai Star Rail Tingyun Build, Relics, and Light Cone
Support is the best offense!
UPDATE 16/12/2024: We have updated this guide with additional information on Tingyun's best relics, light cones, ascension materials, and what order to prioritise her Traces in.
The best Tingyun build in Honkai: Star Rail gives your party a formidable supporter who harries foes and keeps energy topped up.
Tingyun is one of the best support characters of our Star Rail tier list who shines even without the most optimized of builds.
She’s also not a free character, so your chances of recruiting Tingyun depend on which banner is running at the time.
Honkai Star Rail Tingyun Build
Tingyun is a 4-Star character from the Path of Harmony, wielding the Lightning element in battle.
Tingyun buffs your party based on her attack and keeps everyone’s energy topped up. Increasing her own attack should be your first priority, followed by raising her own energy regen or speed to help make the most of her ultimate.
Honkai Star Rail - Best Tingyun Light Cone
5-Star Tingyun Light Cone
But the Battle Isn’t Over is practically designed for Tingyun. Its base effect increases the user’s energy recharge by an amount that goes up when you ascend the Light Cone, and it replenishes one skill point when the equipping character uses their ultimate on an ally. Its second skill provides a strong attack buff to an ally when the equipping character uses their skill on that party member.
Tingyun’s skill already raises an ally’s attack anyway, so this Light Cone is an excellent way to set your strongest party member – an Erudition or Hunt character, ideally – up to deal some heavy damage.
4-Star Tingyun Light Cone
As a 5-star Light Cone, it’s also not likely something you’ll have easy access to early in the game. The 4-star Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds cone is a good second choice. Like The Widsith in Genshin Impact, this Light Cone grants a different effect at the start of a battle, including party-wide attack and critical hit buffs and energy restoration.
Dance! Dance! Dance! is another viable 4-Star Light Cone for Tingyun. After she uses her Ultimate, all allies actions will be advanced forward.
3-Star Tingyun Light Cone
Two of the 3-star Harmony Light Cones would work well with Tingyun. Chorus grants the entire party an attack buff at the start of a fight, and Meshing Cogs increases energy recharge after the equipping character deals damage or gets hit.
Honkai Star Rail - Best Tingyun Relics
The best Relic set for Tingyun is Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal, which provides the following:
- Two-piece effect: Increases Speed by 6%.
- Four-piece effect: When using a Skill or Ultimate on an ally, increase the allies' crit damae by 18% for two turns. This can stack twice.
Alternatively, you can try the Messenger Traversing Hackerspace set:
- Two-piece effect: Increases Speed by 6%.
- Four-piece effect: When using an Ultimate on an ally, increase the Speed of all allies by 12% for one turn.
If you don't yet have Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal or Messenger Traversing Hackerspace, you can try a combination of different sets:
- Band of Sizzling Thunder: Lightning damage +15 percent
- Musketeer of Wild Wheat: Attack +10 percent
Sizzling Thunder’s four-piece effect raises attack, but only after the user activates their skill. Tingyun’s skill raises an ally’s attack based on her own, so having the Relic’s attack buff come after her skill is pretty much pointless.
Wild Wheat raises speed by a small amount and basic attack damage by a larger amount. It technically works for Tingyun, but it’s not ideal.
Focus on attack, speed, and energy regeneration for your Relic substats.
Honkai Star Rail - Best Tingyun Ornaments
When it comes to Tingyun's Ornaments in Honkai Star Rail, you have two options to pick from:
- Space Sealing Station: Raises attack by 12 percent. After the user’s speed reaches 120, raises attack by a further 12 percent.
- Sprightly Vonwacq: Increases energy restoration by five percent. When the user’s speed reaches 145 or higher, their action is advance forwarded by 50 percent at the start of battle.
I’m more partial to Space Sealing Station at present. A five percent speed buff isn’t spectacular, though acting sooner once a battle starts does mean you have a chance to set up stronger attacks more quickly. If you have both Ornaments, tinker with them to see what you think fits your style best.
Tingyun Traces Priority
Tingyun's Skill is the highest priority when it comes to levelling up her Traces in Honkai Star Rail, as this is what we will use most frequently to buff our allies. Her Ultimate is also a very high priority because of the damage buffs it provides.
After this, focus on levelling Tingyun's Talent - this allows allies to follow-up attack if Tingyun is attacked by an enemy afflicted with Benediction. Last, but not least, you can put your hard-earned resources into Tingyun's Basic Attack.
- Skill
- Ultimate
- Talent
- Basic Attack
Honkai Star Rail - Tingyun Ascension Materials
To get Tingyun from Level 1 all the way to Level 80 in Honkai Star Rail, you will need the following Ascension Materials for her:
- 12x Immortal Scionette
- 13x Immortal Aeroblossom
- 12x Immortal Lumintwig
- 50x Lightning Crown of Past Shadow
- 246400x Credits
Is Tingyun good in Honkai Star Rail?
Tingyun might just be a 4-star character, but she worked her way up the Star Rail meta at launch and remains a strong support character that can be slotted into many teams. It’s not hard to see why, either. Her skill grants an attack buff that lasts for three turns and triggers a follow-up Lightning attack when the targeted ally lands a hit on an enemy. Her talent causes another Lightning follow-up from an ally when enemies attack her.
Tingyun’s ultimate restores 50 energy to a chosen ally and buffs their damage by 20 percent.
She’s an excellent support character even without an optimized build, and if you end up with her first and fourth Eidolons, her skill can raise an ally’s speed and add an extra 20 percent attack buff, respectively.
Despite being an Erudition character, Tingyun can deal a respectable amount of damage with her basic attacks and even more so if you buff her attack as we recommended. Her basic attacks deal Lightning damage too. She’s a handy way to wear down an enemy’s break meter, though she’s not strong enough to be your main Lightning damage dealer.
Should I pull for Tingyun in Honkai Star Rail?
If Tingyun shows up in a featured banner, she’s definitely worth trying to recruit. At the time of writing, the only way to recruit Tingyun is having her show up as a random character in a standard or featured banner pull. The odds of that happening are pretty low, though, so you might want to hold off trying until she’s a featured character for a banner.
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