CHEN QIANYU

Overview

Chen Qianyu is the perfect entry point for Physical team compositions. As a 5-star unit, she delivers impressive damage while being incredibly F2P friendly.

What makes Chen special is her role as team rotation lubricant. She smoothly connects other characters' abilities while maintaining consistent stagger and lift pressure on enemies.

Build Chen if you want a reliable Physical sub-DPS that works in virtually any team composition. She's especially valuable for players who don't have access to 6-star characters yet.

How to Play

Chen excels at managing enemy state with her Lift and Stagger abilities. Her Combo Skill triggers automatically when enemies become Vulnerable, making her incredibly user-friendly.

Focus on using her Battle Skill to apply Lift, then follow up with normal attacks to build Stagger. When enemies become Vulnerable from allies, her Combo Skill will automatically activate.

Save her Ultimate for moments when you need maximum damage output or when other team members have set up Vulnerability stacks. The 7-sequence attack devastates staggered enemies.

Skill Breakdown

Normal Attack - Soaring Break: Your bread-and-butter damage dealer. The 5-sequence combo builds consistent damage, while the finisher near staggered enemies deals massive damage and recovers SP.

Battle Skill - Ascending Strike: Use this to apply Lift to targets. This sets up enemies for additional damage and helps maintain crowd control during tough encounters.

Combo Skill - Soar to the Stars: Automatically triggers when enemies become Vulnerable. This dash attack hits multiple enemies and applies Lift, making it perfect for crowd control scenarios.

Ultimate - Blade Gale: Your burst damage button. The 7-sequence slash deals massive Physical damage, with the final hit dealing even more. Best used on staggered or vulnerable enemies.

Slashing Edge Talent: Stack this up to 5 times for a permanent 40% ATK boost. Each skill hit adds a stack, so use your abilities frequently to maintain maximum damage output.

Best Weapons

Rapid Ascent is Chen's best-in-slot weapon. The 43.3% Physical DMG boost is already incredible, but the additional 33.6% damage after applying Lift makes it perfect for her playstyle.

Eminent Repute serves as a solid alternative. The ATK boost plus Vulnerable consumption bonus works well in teams that stack multiple Vulnerability debuffs, though it requires more team coordination.

Best Gear Sets

The Swordmancer Set (3pc) is Chen's optimal choice. It enhances your Stagger efficiency by 20% and adds Physical proc damage, directly complementing her role as a stagger specialist.

This set makes every ability more effective at controlling enemy state while adding bonus damage. It's the perfect foundation for Chen's support-dps hybrid role.

Essence Stats

Prioritize ATK% and Physical DMG as your main stats. These directly amplify all of Chen's damage output and scale well with her talent-based ATK bonuses.

For substats, focus on CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG to maximize burst potential. Additional ATK% helps reach damage breakpoints, and Stagger Efficiency enhances her crowd control capabilities.

Team Compositions

Chen shines in Physical compositions alongside characters like Da Pan and Pogranichnik. She provides the stagger maintenance needed for these damage-focused teams to function optimally.

She also works wonderfully in F2P teams with Endministrator and Ardelia. Her consistent damage and crowd control make difficult content much more manageable for new players.

Characters that apply Vulnerability or benefit from staggered enemies are Chen's best friends. She helps enable their abilities while they amplify her damage output.

Tips & Tricks

• *Use Estella to trigger Chen's combo ability unexpectedly - she can apply Vulnerability through solidification effects
• *Time Chen's Ultimate with big stagger windows from allies like Pogranichnik for devastating burst damage
• *Stack ATK buffs before using Ultimate for maximum damage output from the 7-sequence attack
• *Combine with teams that stack multiple Vulnerability debuffs to trigger her combo skill more frequently

Pro player tip: Chen can help stagger bosses every 10 seconds when paired correctly. Line up her abilities with other Physical ults for incredible damage windows.

Skill Priority

Level Ultimate first - it's your main damage dealer and scales incredibly well with investment. The 7-sequence damage makes it worth every resource.

Battle Skill comes second for the consistent Lift application and damage. This skill is frequently used and benefits greatly from level ups.

Combo Skill third since it's your primary Vulnerable response tool. The automatic trigger makes it invaluable for team rotations.

Normal Attack last - while important for building SP and stagger, it scales less dramatically than your active abilities.