Lingsha guide                        

Table of contents:

1. Lingsha Overview
2. Kit Breakdown
3. Eidolons
4. Synergy with other characters
5. Lingsha Build (Break, General and Crit)
6. Invest in Eidolons or LC?
7. Team Examples
8. Summary (TL;DR)
9. FAQ
10. Credits
11. Calculation Assumptions

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Lingsha Overview

Description - Lingsha is a 5 star fire abundance unit with the main focus of her kit being around sustaining, boosting break damage and having a FUA in the form of Fuyuan. Let’s take a closer look at each part of her kit.

Talent - Let’s first begin with her talent since that is the most important part of her kit. Her talent will summon Fuyuan on the field. Fuyuan has 90 base spd and starts with 3 initial actions. Fuyuan will deal FUA aoe fire damage whenever she attacks with also 1 additional single target instance of damage which will prioritise non-broken fire weak enemies. Fuyuan also heals the entire party (all her healing is based on attack) when she attacks and dispels 1 debuff from each ally. The amount of actions Fuyuan has is also capped at 5, and Fuyuan will disappear whenever Linghsa is knocked down or Fuyuan has 0 actions.

Basic - Her basic is just the basic single target damage which deals fire damage so nothing interesting here.

Skill - Her skill is the way you will gain Fuyuan actions though. When Lingsha uses her skill, she will deal aoe fire damage and heal the entire team. Using her skill also adds 3 actions to Fuyuan and advances Fuyuan by 20%.

Ultimate - Linghsa will deal aoe fire damage and heal the entire party. Her ult also inflicts the “Befog” debuff on enemies. At lvl 10 this will increase the break dmg taken by enemies by 25% for 2 turns. Her ult also advances Fuyuan by 100% so will attack immediately after the ult.

Traces - Her first trace will make it so whenever any ally takes dmg or consumes hp, and         their Hp is below 60%. Fuyuan will immediately attack and won’t consume any of the actions. This attack can only be triggered once every 2 turns. Her second trace makes it so her basic regenerates 10 more energy which puts it at 30 energy which is the same amount as her skill. Her third trace makes it so her atk and outgoing healing bonus is increased by respectively 25%/10% of her be with a maximum of 50% atk and 20% outgoing healing bonus. Which makes it so the trace is maxed out at 200% be.

Technique - For her technique she will immediately spawn Fuyuan at the start of battle and also inflict the “Befog” debuff on enemies for 2 turns.

Minor traces - Her minor traces will increase Be (37.3%) , Hp (18%) and Atk (10%).

Kit Breakdown

As told earlier, Lingsha’s main focus is around improving break damage and having a FUA. Break damage is only improved by her ult debuff, but Lingsha also has really high personal toughness damage which leads to faster breaking and so also faster clears. Her bunny, skill and ultimate are all aoe which makes her an excellent sustain for pf especially if the enemy is fire weak. Fire break is tied with Physical as the strongest break so she will deal a good amount of damage when she breaks.

Something interesting you may have noticed with her first trace is that the trigger for the emergency heal is 60%, which is exactly the amount Firefly will be left at when she uses her skill. We will get into teams later, but you can already see she has synergy with her.

Emergency heal also has the added bonus of not changing the AV of Fuyuan in any way. You can think of this like how Seele’s “Resurgence” works. This leads to more Fuyuan actions in total as to if it was an 100% action advance which messes with the AV.

A tip I will already give and later repeat when talking about her build. Make sure to not use her ultimate when Fuyuan almost has her action. The ult is not like the emergency heal where it won’t change the AV. Her ultimate makes it so Fuyuan is advanced by 100% so using her ultimate right before Fuyuan acts makes it so you lose a Fuyuan action and as such have less healing, less cleanse and less damage. The same principle also applies to her skill since it advances Fuyuan by 20% and using it right before Fuyuan acts makes it so you waste action advance. This happens less often though so don’t be worried if you skill right before Fuyuan especially if Fuyuan has almost no actions left. I will later also give the spd breakpoints Lingsha has with regards to the amount of Fuyuan actions and how many times you use her skill.

Little note to when Fuyuan acts: As I said earlier, when Fuyuan acts she will deal aoe damage and 1 instance of single target damage. Both parts of this attack do toughness damage. This makes it so she has good toughness damage against single target enemies. Which enemy gets the damage depends on if they are fire weak and not broken. If the enemy is not fire weak or is broken, then it will be random if not then it will prioritise them.

Another note for when playing Lingsha: When using her in all end game modes she will start as any other character with half of her max energy so she will only need 2 skills or basics to get her ultimate (Remember the trace which gives +10 energy to basic). I would generally recommend to start the battle with 2 basics since using skill won’t grant another Fuyuan action unless your Lingsha is really slow, but that generally won’t be the case. Make sure to use skill after her ultimate though since you only have 1 Fuyuan action left, and then you are back up to 4 and have advanced Fuyuan without wasting any AV.

Eidolons

Synergy with other characters

Before discussing her build and giving team examples. I wanted to give an explanation as to which characters work well with Lingsha and why.

Lingsha Build

Lingsha can be used in 2 main ways depending on her team. You either build her for break when using her with someone like Firefly, or you build her as a general sustain when using her outside of break. There is a third way you can build her which is known as critsha (Crit Lingsha), but this is more an off-meta build so I’ll only go briefly over it.

Relics (Break build)

Iron cavalry is actually her only option when going for break teams. You can also use the general builds I will discuss in a moment on her, but they will lead to lower damage and I generally don’t recommend them in break teams unless you don’t want to farm 2 relic sets for her and want to use her in more than just break. The only general relic set I would recommend for Lingsha in break is 4-pc Thief.

Relics (General build)

Relics (Crit Build)

There are more sets you can mix and match, like 2-pc fire damage or maybe even 2-pc Pioneer. But since Critsha is already something I wouldn’t recommend. I won’t go too deep into this, and I would just say that it most of the time depends on which set you have the best subs on. Try out different sets and see which works best for you.

Planar Sets

Planars (Break build)

As with the relics. You can also use the general planars on her in break teams, but I would recommend those even less than with the relics since most of them don’t give any good buffs for break teams.

Planars (General build)

You can maybe also look at other Planar sets like Penacony, but those don’t really allow for that many buffs and are pretty situational so generally these are going to be ones you want to look for.

Planars (Crit build)

Just like with Relics, there are more options for her crit build like Sigonia, Space Sealing Station, Rutilant arena, Inert Salsotto, … But I won’t be going over every of these options since that would take too much time, and like with relics. Test out for yourself what works best and what stats you need most. Most of the time the one with the best subs will be the best one for her.

Relic mainstats & Desired Substats & Stat Goals

Relic Mainstats

Body - Since Lingsha already gets a good amount of Atk% from other sources like her trace and from her Sphere. She much rather wants OHB% to make sure she heals as much as possible. The difference in healing is about 14% so make sure to only use Atk% if you have really good subs on it and know that you don’t need the extra healing.

Boots - You always want your sustain to be as fast as possible. Using spd boots is a must so make sure you use it on her even if the substats aren’t that good on it.

Sphere - Atk% is the only main stat on a sphere that she wants. It makes sure your Lingsha will heal even more and is just the best option for her.

Rope - Using Err% makes it so you get enough energy to allow for a 3-turn rotation so that she only has to use basic/skill or any combination of these two three times to get her ultimate. With post-op conversation you will get enough Err% from the light cone to make sure she can have 3-turn rotations. And so you rather want Be% to max out her trace.

As for the Critsha build just use the usual main stats that any dps uses. Cr%/cd%,spd/atk%,fire dmg%/atk%,Atk%/Err%. What is best will depend on the team and substats so try out for yourself what works best.

Desired Substats

Spd (Look at Soft Stats for desired breakpoints) > Be% (until 200%) > Atk%

Stat Goals

Light Cones (Break and General build)

All of these Light cones can help Lingsha or the team in some way so look at which ones you have and which helps your team the most.

Light Cones (Crit build)

All of the Abundance light cones are made to help your team or make sure the wearer heals even more. Because of that we don’t really have any crit based LC’s for her and so these two are really the only good options for her when you want to use a Crit based Lingsha build.

Trace Priority

Talent >= Ultimate > Skill >>> Basic

Levelling both the talent and Ultimate are important for Lingsha. Her talent will be the one to do most of the healing so make sure that is levelled up. Her Ultimate also provides healing and also gives the “Befog” debuff which is pretty important for in break teams which take advantage of this debuff. Her skill also provides a good amount of healing, but a lot less than the rest so this is less important. Basic does almost nothing so there is no point in levelling it.

Invest in eidolons or lc?

Before I start discussing if you rather want to go for eidolons or Lc. Let me show first the increase in damage with each eidolon. This is for a Firefly team with Firefly E0s1, Ruan Mei e0s5 MOTP, Hmc E6s5 MOTP, Lingsha E0s1. All the assumptions for these calcs are in the Calculation Assumptions section. Credits go to perucia_, on Reddit u/perucia_ and on discord @perucia_.

As you can see the biggest increases of team damage are S1 and E1, with E1 giving a bigger increase than S1. Of course E6 gives the actual biggest increase, but that is to be expected with almost every character. What I do want to tell though is that these calcs are done with a superbreak team. Let’s now discuss break and general apart.

Best investment for Break teams

E1>S1

This is pretty simple to explain. Just look at the calcs above and you can see that E1 provides a bigger increase in damage than S1. The increase from E1 will be felt even more in actual practice because you will break faster with E1 which allows for even faster clears. Her S1 still is a big increase in break teams, but E1 is just a lot more valuable.

Best investment for General teams

S1>E1

While E1 does a lot in break. Outside of break, and especially if the enemy isn't fire weak. E1 doesn’t really do a lot. More toughness damage from Lingsha doesn’t matter if the enemy isn’t fire weak and the enemy also isn’t broken long enough for the 20% def reduce to do a lot. S1 on the other hand will provide a 18% vulnerability debuff on the enemy for 2 turns. While this probably won’t have 100% uptime if the enemy is fast or you don’t break fast enough. It still has pretty good uptime and with no other sources of vulnerability is an 18% increase of all types of damage. E1 does still have use outside of break especially if the enemy is fire weak, but S1 just has a lot more use. E1 could especially be good in Apocalyptic Shadow if the enemy is fire weak since Lingsha will help break the enemy even faster.

Conclusion

For break E1, For general S1.

Which investment is best depends on where you want to use her so first think about what teams you want to use her in before deciding if you rather want E1 or S1. Anything past E1 also generally isn’t worth it unless you are going for E6.

Team Examples

Now that we have covered everything there is to tell about Lingsha. Let’s start with giving some examples of teams she will be good in and where you will most likely use her in.

Summary (TL;DR)

Relic sets

• For Break: 4-pc Iron Cavalry
• For General: 2-pc spd + 2-pc spd or 2-pc spd ( + 2-pc be% or +2-pc Hb% or +2-pc Atk%), you always want 2-pc spd
• For Both: 4-pc Thief
• For Crit: 4-pc Quantum or 4-pc Wind-Soaring

Planar sets

• For Break: Forge of the Kalpagni or Talia
• For General: Broken Keel or Vonwacq
• For Crit: Duran or BananAmusement

Light Cones

• For Break and General: Scent, Dream’s Montage, Post-op, QPQ, WIR
• For Crit: Echoes of the Coffin, Scent

Relic Mainstats

• Body: OHB%>Atk%
• Boots: Spd
• Sphere: Atk%
• Rope: Err% (Be% if using Post op)

Desired Substats

• Spd (Look at Soft Stats for desired breakpoints) > Be% (until 200%) > Atk%

Stat Goals

• Spd: 160-150-143-133 (Ideally as high as possible)
• Be%: 150-175%
• Atk: 2000-2400

Trace Priority

• Talent >= Ultimate > Skill >>> Basic

Best investment

• For break: E1>S1
• For general: S1>E1
• For whale: E6

FAQ

Do I need Lingsha?

I always find it hard to answer this question, since it always depends on each account. What characters do you have?; What teams do you want to invest in?; Do you have 2 limited sustains already? Usually these are the questions I would ask before I can even begin to answer the question. Lingsha does her job as a sustainer more than well enough. If you don’t have 2 limited sustain characters then getting her will always be a great investment. Sustains are always less desirable when you already have 2 of them, so most of the time sustains have less value than other characters. Aside from sustaining, Lingsha will also do a good job at improving your break and FUA teams depending on who you have already. She has good synergy with a lot of characters, and can also be played as a Dps herself for things like PF.

Is Lingsha still an upgrade over E6 Gallagher for e0 ff?

Short answer, Yes.

Long answer, she still is an upgrade but you have to be more manageable with your SP and make sure you time everything a bit more. In long battles (5 or more cycles) you are going to notice that you have almost no SP left and will struggle with keeping everyone’s ult up or with using Skill on Firefly. Most of the time SP isn’t a problem though unless you have really long battles, in which case you have to be really careful. Something else to consider is the amount of cleanse and healing Lingsha does. Lingsha heals and cleanses quite a lot so in terms of comfort Lingsha will also be a great addition. Especially against fast enemies where Gallagher can struggle against and where he has to use more SP which can mess up rotations if you use Multiplication Gallagher. With Lingsha it doesn’t matter how fast the enemy is as long as she can use her skill from time to time.

How does Lingsha's skill affect Fuyuan and what spd breakpoints do you have with Fuyuan in regards to number of skills?

This is a pretty easy one to answer. Each time you use skill you advance Fuyuan by 20%. This means more skills means more advance. Most of the time using skill spam won’t give  you more Fuyuan actions as compared with only 1 skill since 20% advance really isn’t a lot.

As I said earlier the Spd breakpoint with 1 skill is 150. If you are at or under this spd then Fuyuan will have acted 2 times before Lingsha has acted 3 times. That’s why you want to wait with ult until after Fuyuan has acted when you are over 150 spd to maximise the amount of Fuyuan actions. If you skill spam with her then the spd you have to be under is 169 (nice).

Is Lingsha only usable in break?

I think I have spent a good amount of time in this guide talking about her synergy with other characters which aren’t break ones, so you probably know the answer by now. Lingsha has far more options than break and even if she doesn’t buff the team that much, she still is a sustain which is always something you want to have. Even then her toughness reduction capabilities against fire-weak enemies even in non break teams are always great especially in PF and AS.

Is Lingsha Sp negative?

Generally, no. Her usual rotation is Basic/Basic/Skill which is +⅓ over a rotation. She is perfectly capable of only using 1 skill per rotation, but using more skills means more toughness damage and healing. It won't give her more Fuyuan actions most of the time, but still gives a bit more damage. If you have the extra Sp then use skill on her, but most of the time you rather want someone else to use the Sp. Using more skill also changes the spd you have to be under for more Fuyuan actions which means you spend less AV waiting for Fuyuan which can be worth it depending on your goal.

How does Lingsha compare to Aventurine?                                                                    First of all, both of these characters are quite different in their kit and what they do so comparing the two of them is already going to be quite difficult. Lingsha has 2 main places where she shines. FUA and Break teams. Aventurine shines in FUA, and Acheron teams. In terms of FUA teams their performance will be similar. The number of attacks they have is constant with Lingsha, but can vary with Aventurine. Aventurine will have more attacks if the enemies attack a lot or deal a lot of aoe-attacks. Lingsha has more if the enemy has less of those or is just broken a lot. While Aventurine has a bit higher personal dmg than Lingsha. Lingsha makes up for it by having access to Quid Pro Quo which can make a big difference since it allows Robin to ult more and have better ult uptime. In actual combat they will be similar, and so for FUA teams either of them will be a good addition. Outside of FUA teams both also bring a lot to the table. Aventurine is mainly in Acheron teams because of Trend, and Lingsha in break teams because of her toughness damage and all the reasons we discussed in the rest of the guide. In teams in general both will be good general sustains and will be able to slot into every team. Both also have good personal dmg, and a debuff in their kit which increases dmg a bit so they have that similar to. In the end both have their uses and will be good additions to your account. Personally, I would say go for the one you like more.

Credits

First of all I would like to give my thanks to perucia_ (On reddit u/perucia_ and on discord @perucia_). He helped me a lot with making the calcs which a lot of the information in this guide is based around. He himself also provided a good amount of the calcs used here so here are the links to both his and my calcs.

Per’s calcs

Lorandos’s calcs

Secondly I would like to thank the members of Lingsha Mains discord server for helping me come up with ideas incorporated all throughout the guide and coming up with questions in the FAQ. A lot of info from the Guide here also comes from talking with people there so if you go there you can always ask additional questions you have about Lingsha.

Other than that I also want to give a quick thanks to the Honkai Star rail wiki and to the website Hakush.in for providing a lot of the images used in the guide here and making it easy to look things up.

Thank you for reading the guide, and if you have any questions about Lingsha then you can always ask me on reddit or discord for extra info.

May your Lingsha pulls been blessed by Lingsha herself and good luck using her.

Calculation Assumptions

Let’s first start by giving Perucia_’s assumptions:

Team & Build Assumptions

- All characters are lvl 80 with fully maxed traces.

- All light cones used are lvl 80.

- All 4-star characters are assumed to be E6.

- All 4-star light cones (and Herta store light cones) are assumed to be S5.

- All relics are +15 with relatively relatable rolls.

- All battles last for 5 cycles (550 AV).

Enemy Assumptions

- Enemies are considered to be lvl 95, with 20% res to all elements except fire.

- There are 2 enemies, with speeds of 145.2 and 158.4 respectively.

- Enemies are assumed to have a rotation of 1 attack - 1 attack - 2 attacks.

- Enemy attacks have a 25%/20%/55% AoE/Blast/ST split.

- Enemy targeting is based on the team's aggro distribution.

Lingsha Assumptions

- Relic Mainstats: OGH Body, SPD Boots, ATk% Sphere, BE Rope for PostOp S5, ERR Rope for signature lc.

- Relic Set: 4pc thief of shooting meteor unless otherwise specified.

- Planar Set: Kalpagni for Firefly teams, broken keel for others.

- Substat Rolls: 12 SPD rolls, 12 BE rolls.

And now my own Assumptions:

• 5 star character = e0s1 unless stated otherwise
• 4 star character = e6 s5 with bis 4 star cone unless Herta Store Light cone best option
• Calc done with 550 AV (5 cycles)
• Boss has 480 toughness, 158 spd, lvl 95 and fire weak (so ice and imaginary resist)
• Elite has 300 toughness, 130 spd, lvl 95 and fire weak (so ice and imaginary resist)
• Characters lvl 80 with 6/10/10/10 talents and all traces unlocked with Lvl 80 Light cone
• Relics are +15
• Each sub stat 2 rolls, and 24 points to additionally add to subs with it costing 2 points when over limit
• Going to assume that aoe boss attacks generate 5 energy team wide
• Going to assume that Elite does 2 single target attacks against random teammate generating 5 energy
• Lingsha stats, build and sub stat points can be found in the sheet under Lingsha V6 E0s1 or Lingsha V6 E0s5 post op