Honkai Star Rail Tingyun Build: Best light cones, relics, abilities & more

If you're looking for the best Tingyun Build In Honkai: Star Rail, then your search ends here. Honkai: Star Rail, the highly anticipated RPG, is finally here, featuring a wide variety of characters with different abilities and elements. One such character, in particular, is Tingyun. She is a 4-Star Lightning character who is the head representative of the Whistling Flames.

Similar to other characters, pairing Tingyun with the best Light Cones and Relics is relatively crucial in order to get the most out of it. Therefore, we've compiled a guide on the best Tingyun build to yield the best out of this character.

The best Honkai Star Rail Tingyun build

Tingyun is most effective in a supporting role as she is a four-star lightning character who pursues the path of Harmony.

Her abilities have an enormous effect, improving your team's damage as well as their regeneration.

Best Light Cones for Tingyun

Tingyun's signature light cone, Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds, is the best light cone for her. Alternatively, you can use The Battle Isn't Over light cone if you don't have the Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds unlocked.

Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds

• Increase all allies' ATK by 10/12.5/15/17.5/20%, increase all allies' CRIT DMG by 12/15/18/21/24%, or increase all allies' Energy Regeneration Rate by 6/7.5/9/10.5/12%.
• The applied effect cannot be identical to the last effect applied and will replace the previous effect. The applied effect will be removed when the wearer has been knocked down.
• Effects of a similar type cannot be stacked.

The Battle Isn't Over

• Increases the wearer's Energy Regeneration Rate by 8/10/12/14/16% and regenerates 1 Skill Point when the wearer uses their Ultimate on an ally.
• This effect can be triggered after every 2 uses of the wearer's Ultimate.
• When the wearer uses their Skill, the next ally taking action deals 30/37.5/45/52.5/60% more DMG for 1 turn(s).

Best Relics for Tingyun

During our playthrough of Honkai: Star Rail, we found that Band of Sizzling Thunder is the best relic for Tingyun build as it significantly buffs the Lightning damage. Players can also equip Musketeer of Wild Wheat if they don't have the Band of Sizzling Thunder relic unlocked.

Here are the advantages of both relics:

Band of Sizzling Thunder

• 2 piece: Increases Lightning DMG by 10%.
• 4 piece: When the wearer uses Skill, it increases the wearer's ATK by 25% for 1 turn(s).

Musketeer of Wild Wheat

• 2 piece: ATK increases by 10%.
• 4 piece: The wearer's SPD increases by 6%, and Basic ATK DMG increases by 10%.

What are Tingyun’s abilities?

Dislodged: Normal Attack

Single ATK
Tingyun deals Lightning DMG equal to 50/100/110% of her ATK to a single enemy.

Soothing Melody: Skill

Support
Increases the ATK of a single ally by 25/50/55%, up to a value no greater than 15/25/27% of Tingyun’s current ATK and Blesses the ally. The Blessed ally deals additional Lightning DMG equal to 20/40/44% of their ATK when hitting enemies for 3 turns. Bless is only effective on the most recent receiver of Tingyun’s Skill.

Ritual of the Auspicious Cloud: Ultimate

Support
Regenerates 50 Energy for a target ally and increases the target’s DMG by 20/60/68% for 3 turn(s).

Violet Sharknado: Talent

Enhance
Upon hitting the enemy, Tingyun deals extra Lightning DMG equal to 30/60/66% of the ATK of the Blessed character.

Gentle Breeze: Technique

Support
Tingyun immediately regenerates 50 Energy upon using her Technique.