Jiyan Guide – Builds, Teams, and How to Play

Overview

Jiyan is a limited 5★ melee Aero character who performs best as a main damage dealer. He performs best as a main-dps who wants to stay on-field during his Resonance Liberation. When Jiyan uses Resonance Liberation, he enters Qingloong Mode and changes all of his attack strings to Lance of Qingloong. To maximize his damage, you will want to focus on buffing Heavy ATK DMG, as the majority of his damage scales with it.

Jiyan’s Forte bar can be filled by performing Basic Attacks and Intro Skills. Once the bar has been filled halfway, his Resonance Skill receives a 20% DMG boost and Resonance Liberation now deals an additional instance of damage, and can be cast while in mid-air. Rotating to Jiyan via his Intro Skill is vital to ensure that he receives buffs AND starts the rotation with at least half of his Forte bar.  Note that the bar will be consumed if you cast Resoance Skill.

Rotations

Rotation should always be taken with a grain of salt. Enemies are NOT sandbags and WILL ATTACK YOU. Several factors such as Parries, Dodge Counters, and being knocked back will affect how you approach the rest of your rotation.

If you have low Energy Regen (15-20%), you WILL HAVE to Skill Swap Jiyan’s Resonance Skill often to have ult every rotation.

Sub-DPS

Jiyan Combo

Sample Team Rotation with Mortefi and Verina

Parry Windows

Disclaimer: This is a work-in-progress section and will be updated as we learn more.

Character Synergies

	Mortefi
	The signature duo and part of Jiyan’s best-in-slot team. With the majority of Jiyan’s damage coming from Heavy Attacks during his ultimate, you essentially double the amount of damage procs that Mortefi’s Resonance Liberation provides. On top of this, Mortefi also provides a Heavy ATK Deepen, further improving his damage output.
	Buffs
	• 38% Heavy ATK DMG Deepen • 20% Teamwide ATK Buff (R6) • Moonlit Clouds and Impermanence Heron

	Aalto
	In terms of buffing potential, Aalto comes close to Mortefi as he can buff all of Jiyan’s damage sources. However, he lags behind heavily when comparing their personal damage outputs.
	Buffs
	• 38% Heavy ATK DMG Deepen • 20% Teamwide ATK Buff (R6) • Moonlit Clouds and Impermanence Heron

	Verina
	Verina synergizes well with all main/sub-dps characters, and Jiyan is no exception. She provides a team-wide All DMG Deepen and ATK buff. On top of this, Verina’s combos are short and do not take up a lot of field time.  Additionally, Verina has no problems running Rejuvenating Glow and Bell, offering the team a good mix of offensive and defensive utility.
	Buffs
	• 15% Team-wide All DMG Deepen • 20% Team-wide ATK buff • Rejuvenating Glow and Bell-Borne Geochelone

	Baizhi
	Baizhi is usually left as an alternative/backup pick, sharing similar buffs with Verina. Baizhi’s Outro only buffs the next character switching in, so you will need to adjust your rotation accordingly. Additionally, the ATK buff is NOT teamwide and requires your main-dps to interact with an item.
	Buffs
	• 15% All DMG Deepen • 15% ATK buff • Rejuvenating Glow and Bell-Born Geochelone

	Jianxin
	Mostly brought into stages that have enemies you want to gather. While this may sound underwhelming, there are stages in ToA that have multiple enemies in the same wave. She has the option of using Originite: Type IV for easy access to Rejuvenating Glow set effect at the cost of her own damage.
	Buffs
	• Gather • Rejuvenating Glow with Originite: Type IV and Bell-Borne Geochelone

Team Comps

Skill Priority

Support

1. Resonance Liberation
2. Forte Circuit
3. Resonance Skill
4. Intro Skill
5. Basic Attack

Jiyan’s Resonance Liberation and Forte should be prioritized as it is the bulk of his damage. Basic Attack can be left at level 1, as it should never be used in an actual rotation.

Weapons

To no one’s surprise, Jiyan’s best weapon is his signature Verdant Summit. It provides a hefty 49% Heavy ATK DMG boostand a universal Resonance DMG bonus. Additionally, it has Crit DMG scaling as its main stat, allowing you to focus on Crit Rate Echoes.

Lustrous Razor is a 5★ standard weapon which beats out all 4★ alternatives. While the Resonance Liberation buffs do not improve Jiyan’s damage, the high base ATK, ATK%, and Energy Regen effects make up for it. Autumntrace at max dupes comes close to Lustrous Razor, but is heavily time-gated. 

For 4★ alternatives, we have Helios Cleaver and Broadblade#41 with both being decent options. Note that Broadblade#41 has Energy Regen for its main stat, which hurts Jiyan’s personal damage output.

Both 3★ alternatives perform similarly and lag behind all other 4★ weapons.

Weapon Name	Comparison	Notes
Verdant Summit	R1: 108.30	Jiyan’s Signature synergizes perfectly, providing 48% Heavy ATK buffs. To activate this effect, you NEED to enter with an Intro followed by Resonance Liberation.
Lustrous Razor	R1:100%	Jiyan highly appreciates the Energy Regen and ludicrous ATK scaling.
Autumntrace	R1: 79.93%	Easy-to-trigger Heavy ATK DMG buffs  and Crit Rate scaling.
Helios Cleaver	R1: 77.06%	Provides  a slowly stacking buff that scales terribly with more dupes.
Broadblade#41	R1: 69.07%	Assumes you do not lose uptime on its effects.
Guardian Broadblade	R5: 70.72%	Generic broadblade weapon with a Heavy ATK Bonus.
Broadblade of Night	R5: 70.24%	Same scaling as Guardian Broadblade worse

Echoes

Sierra Gale: A generic Aero set for main-dps characters and best-in-slot for a main-dps Jianxin. Its 5pc effect is easy to trigger and benefits her entire kit.

Set Effect	Comparison	Notes
Sierra Gale 5pc	100%	A 40% Aero buff is a 40% Aero buff, you can't really go wrong there.
Lingering Tunes 5pc	83.42%	Has potentially to be decent as Jiyan spends a decent amount of time on-field.
Sierra Gale + Lingering Tunes 2pc	87.82%	This set combination should be treated as a transition set, rather than something to be used in the endgame.

Active Echo Recommendation

Sierra Gale - Feilian Beringal: Its active Echo effect deals decent damage, can be swap canceled, and still grants its buffs even when swap canceled.

Lingering Tunes - Mech Abomination: The only notable effects this Echo has on Jiyan are its ATK buff and fast animation. Jiyan cannot take full advantage of the damage dealt by this Echo, as it scales with Electro DMG.

Mainstat and Substats

Cost	Stat
4	Crit Rate/Crit DMG
3	Aero Bonus Damage%
3	Aero Bonus Damage%
1	ATK%
1	ATK%

Sub Stat Priority

Energy Regen = Crit Rate = Crit DMG > ATK% > Basic ATK DMG% > ATK