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Introduction
Lingsha is a 5★ Fire Abundance healer in Honkai: Star Rail accompanied by her incense beast, Fuyuan, who specializes in high-frequency AoE attacks and cleanses. During combat, Lingsha can utilize her abilities to manipulate Fuyuan’s actions to ensure that her team stays healthy. This quick guide will help you with her best Relics, Light Cones, teams, synergies, and more!
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Character Overview
Pros
- High attack frequency with significant AoE and Toughness DMG
- Strong emergency healing and AoE cleanse
- Applies a debuff that increases Break DMG
- Bunny
Cons
- Unable to cleanse allies during her own turn
- Low personal survivability and no one-shot prevention
- Cannot be played fully SP positive
Playstyle
The main priority of Lingsha’s gameplay is keeping Fuyuan active, as she cannot access the majority of her kit without them. As Lingsha’s Skill is the only way to increase Fuyuan’s action count, she does need to use it occasionally to prevent Fuyuan action count from being reduced to 0, but otherwise, it does not particularly matter for Fuyuan whether Lingsha uses Basic ATK or Skill, as both generate the same amount of Energy.
If debuff uptime or Break DMG is important to your team, her next priority is maintaining uptime on “Befog,” a potent 2-turn debuff that significantly increases the Break DMG enemies receive, which should ideally be applied before enemies are Broken.
If SP is available and enemies are Fire Weak, it is worth using Lingsha’s Skill even if Fuyuan already has a high action count for its AoE Toughness DMG.
Traces
Note: Trace levels shown are 1/10/12 (Basic ATK 1/6/7).
Trace Priority
≥ =
Ultimate ≥ Talent = Skill
As leveling Lingsha’s Ultimate increases the potency of the “Befog” debuff, it is worth raising this first if your team relies on Break DMG. Otherwise it should have the same priority as her Talent, as those two abilities form the core of her emergency healing.
Lingsha’s Skill does provide some healing, which makes it worth leveling, while Basic ATK does not and can be ignored.
Eidolons
Build
Light Cones
Scent Alone Stays True | Lingsha’s Best-in-Slot in all situations. Providing a solid chunk of Break Effect which increases both her healing and personal damage. Allows Lingsha to run an Energy Regeneration Rope without losing out on Break Effect. It provides a universally useful Vulnerability debuff with good uptime due to Lingsha’s fast Ultimate rotation. |
Night of Fright | Provides sufficient ERR for a 3-turn Ultimate when paired with a Planar Ornament set that provides 5% ERR. The additional healing on ally Ultimate use further improves Lingsha’s emergency healing abilities. Lingsha’s frequent healing also allows the entire team to have full uptime on the ATK buff, granting her further team support abilities. |
Echoes of the Coffin | Lingsha’s large amount of AoE attacks and ATK scaling on her healing make this Light Cone a solid option. The Energy it provides is sufficient for Lingsha to run a Break Effect Rope, and in enemy heavy content, it can even bring her down to a 2-turn Ultimate rotation. Thanks to this, Lingsha can maintain high uptime on “Befog,” especially helpful in Break DMG teams. |
Post-Op Conversation | At higher superimpositions, Post-Op Conversation allows Lingsha to run Break Effect Ropes while maintaining a 3-turn Ultimate. Its Outgoing Healing Boost provides a small increase to her healing as well. At S3–S4, Lingsha requires a 5% ERR Planar to consistently 3-turn Ultimate. At S5, Lingsha does not require external ERR sources to 3-turn Ultimate. |
What Is Real? | Improves Lingsha’s personal Break DMG and provides a slight increase to her ATK and Outgoing Healing Boost due to her A2 Bonus Ability’s Break Effect conversion. |
Multiplication | While Lingsha cannot afford to use Basic ATK on every action, Multiplication can still help with the team’s SP generation. |
Quid Pro Quo | Although usable on Lingsha and very useful when needed, due to her high attack rate stemming from Fuyuan and not her own turns and the lack of personal SPD boosts or Advances, she is not the best user of Quid Pro Quo. |
Relics
Relic Sets
2-Pc Combinations | For general use, 2-Pc combinations of synergistic sets with good substats are the best way to improve Lingsha’s stats if there is no beneficial 4-Pc Set Effect for the team or situation. Potential sets include 2-Pc Messenger Traversing Hackerspace, 2-Pc Break Effect sets, 2-Pc Passerby of Wandering Cloud, and 2-Pc ATK% sets. |
4-Pc Iron Cavalry Against the Scourge | The strongest set for Lingsha’s personal Break DMG. As Lingsha is already incentivized by her A2 to build around 200% Break Effect, hitting 250% for the extra DEF Ignore for Super Break DMG is quite realistic when combined with Imaginary Trailblazer or other sources of Break Effect increases. |
4-Pc Thief of Shooting Meteor | A strong option for Pure Fiction stages with Fire Weakness, granting Lingsha some Break Effect as well as a noticeable amount of Energy to allow Lingsha to use her Ultimate more frequently for better Weakness Breaking and healing. |
4-Pc Passerby of Wandering Cloud | Grants Lingsha teams 1 more SP initially, which can be appreciated due to Lingsha’s required Skill usage to refresh Fuyuan’s actions. |
Planar Ornaments
Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern | Grants an unconditional SPD% bonus, as well as a large amount of Break Effect through its Set Effect, making Forge a great set for Lingsha. Its only drawback is its requirement for at least one enemy to have a Fire Weakness for its Set Effect to be activated. |
Talia, Kingdom of Banditry | A strong unconditional option for its Break Effect. Lingsha is already incentivized to build sufficient SPD, so meeting the condition for this set should not be a problem. |
5% ERR Planars | The 5% ERR planars pair well with Light Cones that provide at least 11% ERR to allow Lingsha to perform consistent 3-turn Ultimate rotations without an ERR Rope. Options include Sprightly Vonwacq, Penacony, Land of the Dreams, and Lushaka, the Sunken Seas. |
Other Supportive Planars | If Lingsha’s personal Break DMG is unimportant, and additional ERR is not required, Lingsha can hold any supportive Planar set to buff her team’s damage further. Options include Fleet of the Ageless and Broken Keel. |
Stats
Body | Boots | Sphere | Rope |
Outgoing Healing Boost > ATK% | SPD | ATK% | Energy Regeneration Rate | Break Effect |
Substats
SPD > Break Effect > ATK% > HP% ≥ DEF%
SPD allows Lingsha to better sustain her teams by allowing her to refresh her A6 Bonus Ability emergency heal, and also improves the uptime of the “Befog” debuff.
Break Effect increases Lingsha’s Break DMG, her main source of damage against enemies with Fire Weakness. Her A2 Bonus Ability also allows this to improve her healing.
ATK% primarily increases Lingsha’s healing, which is desirable to increase the entire team’s survivability, while HP% and DEF% can be useful to increase Lingsha’s personal survivability.
Break Effect Rope vs. Energy Regeneration Rate Rope
The choice of a Link Rope main stat on Lingsha primarily depends on her Light Cone options. To improve the uptime on her “Befog” debuff and emergency healing abilities, a 3-action Ultimate rotation is desired.
See the Energy Breakpoints section below for a more detailed breakdown.
CRIT
Building more ATK and CRIT to increase Lingsha’s direct damage can be considered in teams where her Toughness DMG is unnecessary and increased healing is not desired.
However, her low damage multipliers makes her personal damage fairly underwhelming even with strong supports, often making her better suited to build more SPD and “drive” the damage of other units such as Robin or Jade instead.
Energy Breakpoints
Reaching 116% ERR is required for Lingsha to consistently perform a 3-action Ultimate rotation.
Light Cone | Rope (+15) | 5% ERR Planar | Rotation (Actions per Ultimate) |
Echoes of the Coffin* | Break Effect | – | 3 Actions |
ERR | – | 2 Skill (2 Enemies) | |
Break Effect | – | 2 Skill (3 Enemies) | |
Any | ERR | – | 3 Actions |
S5 Post-Op Conversation | Break Effect | – | 3 Actions |
S3+ Post-Op Conversation | Break Effect | Yes | 3 Actions |
Night of Fright | Break Effect | Yes | 3 Actions |
* Fuyuan is assumed to take at least 2 actions per Ultimate, and hit the indicated number of enemies every time.
Notable Synergies
Break Units
Firefly | Firefly’s Weakness implant allows Lingsha to always be able to reduce enemy Toughness as well as activate the Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern Planar set’s bonus Break Effect. Firefly’s HP drain upon using her regular Skill can also trigger Lingsha’s A6 emergency heal for additional Toughness DMG. Firefly also greatly appreciates the “Befog” debuff Lingsha provides, which can significantly increase the team’s damage output. | ||
Imaginary Trailblazer | Lingsha’s high Toughness DMG, inclination to build Break Effect, and general Break DMG amplification makes her a great pairing with Imaginary Trailblazer who enables Lingsha to deal significant Super Break DMG. The additional Break Effect that Trailblazer provides also helps Lingsha hit the 200% Break Effect required to cap her A2 Bonus Ability as well as the 250% Break Effect requirement for the Iron Cavalry Against the Scourge Relic Set, boosting Lingsha’s personal damage even further. | ||
Ruan Mei | Ruan Mei’s Weakness Break Efficiency buff paired with Lingsha’s potent Break DMG amplification makes them a great pairing for any Break team. Ruan Mei also further buffs the entire team’s Break Effect, and the Weakness Break extension is useful for any teams that can take advantage of the longer damage window such as Super Break teams. | ||
Boothill | Boothill benefits from the Break DMG Vulnerability from “Befog”, and Lingsha’s Toughness DMG can help whittle down larger Toughness bars for him. However, it is possible for Lingsha to steal Breaks from Boothill, as her A6 emergency healing that causes Fuyuan to immediately attack cannot be reliably controlled, and both her Basic ATK and Skill attack the enemy. Her SP use every 2–3 turns can also be noticeable if Boothill uses SP-hungry teammates such as Bronya, making her a better teammate for Boothill’s Super Break teams where she can also contribute damage. |
Follow-Up Units
Lingsha’s frequent attacks can ‘drive’ the damage of units that benefit from their allies attacking often.
Himeko | Due to their shared Type, when Himeko can Break, so can Lingsha. Her AoE attacks quickly generate Charge points, especially helpful in Pure Fiction, and synergize with Himeko’s own AoE attacks to quickly kill waves. | ||
Jade | Lingsha’s frequent AoE attacks make her an excellent Debt Collector for Jade, providing the largest number of stacks of any current character. This makes them an extremely potent combination in content such as Pure Fiction, especially with Fire Weak enemies. | ||
Robin | Although not a follow-up unit herself, Robin’s damage and Energy generation increases as her teammates’ attacks increase, and Lingsha has a particularly high amount of AoE attacks. Robin’s ATK and follow-up buff can improve Lingsha’s own damage, but this is not too significant compared to Robin’s own damage. | ||
Feixiao / March 7th (The Hunt) / Topaz / Moze | Characters like Feixiao, March 7th (The Hunt), Topaz, and Moze all appreciate Lingsha’s consistent high attack frequency to help trigger their follow-ups more frequently. |
Other Units
Debuff-Reliant Units: Acheron, Dr. Ratio | Lingsha applies a 2-turn debuff on her Ultimate, which can help units such as Acheron and Dr. Ratio, as well as anyone equipping 2-Pc or 4-Pc Pioneer Diver of Dead Waters. |
Teams
General Sustain
Lingsha is an excellent general healer that can slot into any team, due to possessing a teamwide emergency heal and cleanse.
Example Teams
A strong option, especially for Pure Fiction, consisting of only permanently available characters. Herta and Serval provide strong AoE coverage, while Asta provides potent buffs, and also slightly increases Lingsha’s healing with her ATK% buff.
This team takes full advantage of Firefly’s ability to implant Fire Weakness on enemies, allowing Lingsha to help quickly reduce enemy Toughness. Ruan Mei is a staple of any Break team, both allowing the team to Break enemies significantly faster and increasing their Super Break DMG. Imaginary Trailblazer grants a significant Break Effect boost to the entire team, and further enhances the team by allowing Lingsha to also deal significant Super Break DMG.
Note that Lingsha generally does lower initial Break DMG than Firefly, so carefully managing who Breaks the enemies can be important to maximize the team’s damage.
As a sustain option with a debuff, Lingsha can generate Slashed Dream points for Acheron to accelerate Acheron’s Ultimate frequency. Lingsha’s high Toughness DMG can also occasionally grant further Slashed Dream points for Acheron if her Basic ATK, Skill, or Fuyuan Break enemies and inflict Burn. Pela and Jiaoqiu provide potent buffs and frequent debuffs, forming a solid core that can quickly generate Slashed Dream points while significantly amplifying Acheron’s damage.
Damage Driver
In these teams, Lingsha’s high hit rate is used to “drive” the damage of units that rely on others’ attacks.
Example Teams
Lingsha provides a large amount of AoE Toughness DMG, quickly accumulating Charge stacks for Himeko against Fire Weak enemies, which helps alleviate Himeko’s low AoE Toughness Reduction during her own turns. Herta forms a potent core with Himeko, allowing them to quickly dispatch large waves of enemies, while Ruan Mei provides strong buffs and helps Himeko generate Charge as swiftly as possible.
This team takes advantage of Lingsha’s consistent high action frequency to generate “Flying Aureus” for Feixiao and Energy for Robin. March 7th (The Hunt) has excellent synergy with Feixiao, providing a large amount of points of “Flying Aureus” and potent buffs while dealing high personal damage herself.
Robin in particular is an exceptional support in this team, due to all the members’ high attack frequency often triggering her Ultimate damage and accelerating her Energy generation significantly.
Designating Lingsha as the Debt Collector for Jade allows her to generate a large amount of Charge points for Jade through her ample amount of AoE attacks. This team is especially potent against content like Pure Fiction with a high number of enemies. As Lingsha wants to use her Skill every turn for the AoE coverage, a support pairing with SP positivity, such as Ruan Mei and Robin, is a strong option. Ruan Mei provides SPD and solid damage buffs, while Robin provides potent follow-up attack buffs and appreciates the high attack frequency of Jade and Lingsha.
Credits
Authors
Soul Fish
skylarke
Editors
Ley
EdisonsMathsClub
Publishers
Chase
doomuh
References
Detailed Rotation Breakdowns by Soul Fish 🐟
Changelog
- 10 October 2024 – Published for v2.5