Guide to Chun Yun in Genshin Impact: builds and leveling

In Genshin Impact Chun Yun is not the best cryo character or master of two-handed swords. However, he is a reliable workhorse, capable of effectively assisting other heroes on your team. In this guide, we will look at the best builds, weapons and artifacts for this fighter, as well as reveal useful information about his leveling.

Characteristics of Chun Yun

Skills

We are talking about the typical owner of a two-handed weapon. His basic attacks are slow but powerful, and his charged strike causes the sword to spin (spin until it runs out of stamina), allowing the character to deal damage to multiple enemies at once.

In this particular case, the character's ult "Spirit Blade: Cloud-Parting Star" looks relatively simple. She summons 3 spiritual blades that slam into the ground and then explode, dealing AoE damage. Again, this works well against large enemy groups.

His base skill is a small AOE explosion that leaves behind a frozen field that turns all damage from normal attacks with swords, two-handed swords and polearms into cryo damage. This means that you can easily inflict such statuses as "Melting", "Elemental Reaction: Frozen" and "Superconductive Damage" on enemies with one character.

As for passive skills, they look like this:

Steady Breathing (Ascension 1) - Characters who wield a sword, two-handed sword, or polearm in the field created by Spirit Blade: Chonghua's Cold have an 8 percent increase in their simple attack speed.
Rimechaser Blade (Ascension 4) - When the ice field disappears, another spirit is summoned to strike nearby enemies for 100% of the damage of Chonghua's Chill. All enemies hit by the spiritual blade have their resistance to Cryo damage reduced by 10 percent for 8 seconds.
Gallant Journey - Sending a character on an expedition to Liyue reduces the time it takes to complete it by 25%.

Talents

New talents require character Serendipity to activate, so getting new perks is almost entirely down to your luck.

Level 1 - Ice Unleashed: The final blow of the hero's simple attack creates three ice blades, each of which deals Cryo damage equal to 50 percent of the character's attack power.
Tier 2 - Atmospheric Revolution: The cooldown time for elemental skills and elemental blasts used in the ice field created with Chonghua's Cold has been reduced by 15 percent.
Level 3 - Cloudburst: Increases the level of That Which Fell From the Sky by 3. Max level 15.
Level 4 - Frozen Skies: The Achievement: Hero recovers 1 energy every time he hits an enemy under the effects of Cryo effects. This bonus can only trigger once every 2 seconds.
Level 5 - The True Path: Increases the level of the Chonghua Cold skill by 3. The maximum level is 15.
Level 6 - Mondstadt: Blessing to the Four Spirits: That Which Fell From the Sky deals 15% more damage to enemies with less health than the hero. This skill also summons 1 additional spiritual blade.

Best builds for Chun Yun

Basic Cryo DPS

Although this character can be equipped like other two-handed sword users, that is, by giving him the Gladiator’s Finale set, his true power lies in the explosion of the elements. Many of its constellations greatly enhance this ability. For this reason, we decided to put together a build that enhances this skill. In this case, you can take as a weapon:

Wolf’s Gravestone (5-star) - Increases attack by 20%. Successfully hitting an enemy below 30% health increases the attack power of the entire team by 40% for 12 seconds. The effect appears once every 30 seconds.
Skyward Pride (5-Star) - Increases damage dealt by 8%. When using an elemental explosion and a successful normal or charged strike, a blade is created that deals 80% damage to all enemies in its path. Lasts 20 seconds or fires 8 blades.
Prototype Archaic (4-star) - After hitting, normal or charged attacks have a 50% chance to deal additional damage equal to 240/300/360/420/480% of the character's attack power to all nearby enemies. Only fires once every 15 seconds. Can be scrapped.
Skyrider Sword (3-star) is a good budget option that increases the hero's attack power by 10 percent for 6 seconds when hitting an enemy with a simple or charged blow. The effect stacks up to 4 times.

As for artifacts, we advise you to collect the full set of Ceremonies of the Ancient Nobles. If you wear 2 items, then the damage from the elemental explosion will increase by 20 percent. If you collect all 4 elements, then using this ability will increase the attack indicators of all team members by 20 percent. The effect lasts 12 seconds. You can get this set in the dungeon "Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern" .

If you are unable to assemble this set yet, then you can use two incomplete sets:

Gladiator’s Finale - 2 items: Increases attack power by 18%. Can be obtained from elite bosses.
Blizzard Strayer: 2 items - Increase Cryo damage by 15%. Can be found in the dungeon "Peak of Vindagnyr".

Minor Cryo DPS

Melting is one of the most powerful elemental reactions in the game, and Chongyun can easily cast Cryo status on enemies with his elemental skill. All this makes him an extremely useful support character when working with the main Pyro damage dealer. This build further enhances his Cryo abilities. As a weapon you can take:

Skyward Pride (5-Star) - Increases damage dealt by 8%. When using an elemental explosion and a successful normal or charged strike, a blade is created that deals 80% damage to all enemies in its path. Lasts 20 seconds or fires 8 blades.
Favonius Greatsword (4-Star) – Critical hits have a 60% chance to create elemental particles that restore 6 energy. Happens every 12 seconds.

If we talk about artifacts, then two sets are suitable for him, and you can either combine them with each other, or just collect full sets:

Blizzard Strayer: 2 items - increase Cryo damage by 15%; 4 items - when fighting enemies with Cryo effect or Freeze, the probability of inflicting crits increases by 20 and 40%, respectively. Can be found in Peak of Vindagnyr Dungeon.
Ceremonies of the Ancient Nobles: 2 items - Elemental explosion damage increased by 20 percent; 4 items - Using this ability increases the attack of all team members by 20%. The effect lasts 12 seconds. You can get this set in the Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern dungeon.

Combination with other characters

Chongyun is mainly used as a secondary DPS capable of dealing decent damage. However, it is still necessary only to obtain cryoeffects and a combination of elements. However, if you wish, you can try to make him the main damage dealer in the team:

Main DPS: Chongyun
Secondary DPS: Fischl
Traveling Doctor: Qiqi
Support: Venti

If you use it for its intended purpose, then the optimal squad will look like this:

Main DPS: Diluc
Secondary DPS: Chongyun
Traveling Doctor: Jean
Support: Mona

Leveling Chun Yun

How to improve skills

For this you will need the following materials:

Teachings, Guides, and Philosophies of Diligence - These can be obtained from the Heart of the Flames dungeon on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Shattered, Filthy and Sinister Masks - Drop from Helichurls or can be crafted with Alchemy.
Dvalin’s Sigh - Dropped by Stormterror Elite Boss.

Elevation

You will need several unique resources to level up Chun Yun:

1st Ascension (Max Level 20) - 1 Shivada Jade Sliver, 3 Cor Lapis, 3 Damaged Mask.
2nd elevation (max level 40) - 3 Shivada Jade Fragment, 2 Hoarfrost Core, 10 Cor Lapis, 15 Damaged Mask.
3rd elevation (max level 50) - 6 Shivada Jade Fragment, 4 Hoarfrost Core, 20 Cor Lapis, 12 Stained Mask.
4th elevation (max level 60) - 3 Shivada Jade Chunk, 8 Hoarfrost Core, 30 Cor Lapis, 18 Stained Mask.
5th Ascension (max level 70) - 6 Shivada Jade Chunk, 12 Hoarfrost Core, 45 Cor Lapis, 12 sinister masks.
6th Ascension (max level 80) - 6 Shivada Jade Gemstone, 20 Hoarfrost Core, 60 Cor Lapis, 24 sinister masks.

The Cor Lapis is a local curiosity of Liyue. IN separate guide we have indicated where it can be found. Hoarfrost Core and Shivad Jade drops from Fern Cryo, Borealis, ancient geovishap And Cryo Hypostasis.