Chen Qianyu
Endfield Industries
Main Agility · Sub Strength
Chen Qianyu exists to keep Physical crush setups fed so Mi Fu never stalls — infliction and enabler duty, not a second carry. That is a narrower yes than pulling a premier buffer: you take her because your Physical team is missing the setup beat. If Mi Fu or Rossi is your endgame plan and the clear feels starved for enablement, she is worth the pull; if you do not run Physical crush, leave her alone.
Chen Qianyu is a 5★ Physical Sub DPS (Sword). Chen is a Vulnerable application monster, with her Battle Skill applying it directly, while her Combo Skill lifts enemies, which also adds one stack.
Overview
Quick Build
Weapon
Rapid Ascent
offers all the attributes Chen Qianyu needs: Agility, Physical damage, and bonus damage against staggered enemies. Physical have a much easier time staggering enemies, so you will be able to benefit from the bonuses of this weapon quite regularly with Chen, so make sure you got your Battle Skill and Ultimate locked and loaded before a Stagger when wearing this.
Gear Set
Swordmancer
The Swordmancer set is a great choice for Chen, further boosting her ability to stagger and deal damage to the enemy. Physical teams are all about staggering enemies to set up big Physical bursts, so you might end up having multiple characters in the team that are all decked out in this set.
Main Stats
Body Agility · Hands CRIT / Physical DMG · Kits Arts Intensity / Physical DMG
Priority
Substats
Agility > Arts Intensity > HP%
Priority
Swordmancer Light Armor
Agility, Strength, Arts Intensity
Swordmancer TAC Gauntlets
Agility, Strength, Ultimate DMG%
Swordmancer NAV Beacon
Agility, Strength, Physical DMG%
Swordmancer NAV Beacon
Agility, Strength, Physical DMG%
Strengths
- Battle Skill "Ascending Strike" — SKILL DESCRIPTION: Performs an uppercut slash at the target enemy, dealing Physical DMG and Lift.
- Combo Skill "Soar to the Stars" — COMBO TRIGGER: When an enemy becomes Vulnerable. SKILL DESCRIPTION: A slashing dash that passes through the target enemy and deals Physical DMG and Lift to all
- Ultimate "Blade Gale" — SKILL DESCRIPTION: A 7-sequence slash attack that deals Physical DMG with each sequence to the target enemy. The final slash sequence deals even more DMG.
- Chen is a Vulnerable application monster, with her Battle Skill applying it directly, while her Combo Skill lifts enemies, which also adds one stack.
Weaknesses
- Needs the right element pairing — off-element squads leave Chen Qianyu's kit half-used.
- Investment cost is real before the kit feels smooth in longer fights.
Skill Priority
Chen Qianyu's main use is to stagger enemies by interrupting them with your Battle Skill.
Level after higher priorities — supports the combo skill role in the rotation.
Level after higher priorities — supports the basic attack role in the rotation.
Finish after core combat skills are comfortable.
Stat Priority
Chen is a Vulnerable application monster, with her Battle Skill applying it directly, while her Combo Skill lifts enemies, which also adds one stack.
This makes her particularly useful in teams that can trigger her Combo skill almost on cooldown.
Use these notes as the operator priority order inside the comps above.
Weapons
Main Attribute Boost [L] · Critical Rate Boost [L]
Battle skills and ultimates gain Physical DMG Dealt +15/27/42%. Against Staggered enemies, battle skills and ultimates also gain DMG Dealt +35/63/98%.
Why it works —offers all the attributes Chen Qianyu needs: Agility, Physical damage, and bonus damage against staggered enemies. Physical have a much easier time staggering enemies, so you will be able to benefit from the bonuses of this weapon quite regularly with Chen, so make sure you got your Battle Skill and Ultimate locked and loaded before a Stagger when wearing this.
Agility Boost [L] · Critical Rate Boost [L]
ATK +7/12.6/19.6%. When the wielder's skill applies Vulnerability, during the next ultimate cast within 30.00s, the wielder gains DMG Dealt +12/21.6/33.6%. Max stacks for effects of the same name: 3.00. Duration of each stack is counted separately. Effect only triggers once every 0.5s.
Why it works —gives Agility and Critical chance making this a fairly viable weapon for Chen. The special effect of the weapon works wonders with Chen due to the nature of Physical Operators being able to apply Vulnerable quite easily, further boosting her ultimate DMG.
Agility Boost [M] · Physical DMG Boost [M]
ATK +5/9/14%. When the wielder deals a Physical Status, the wielder gains ATK +7.5/13.5/21% for 20.00s. Max stacks for effects of the same name: 2.00. Duration of each stack is counted separately. Effect only triggers once every 0.1s.
Why it works —boosts Chen's Agility and Physical DMG. The weapon buff itself is decent, but Chen cannot apply Vulnerable directly, instead relying on her Combo Skill to lift enemies, which will in turn cause Vulnerable.
Agility Boost [S] · Physical DMG Boost [S]
When the wielder's battle skill hits the enemy, the wielder gains ATK +12/21.6/33.6% for 20.00s. Effects of the same name cannot stack.
Why it works —Triggering Chen's Combo Skill is quite simple, so maintaining uptime on the passive skill is not difficult at all.
Gear
Swordmancer is Chen Qianyu's BiS. Extra Stagger Efficiency and Physical DMG let her set up Crush windows for the whole Physical team — the job her kit is built around.
Swordmancer Light Armor
Agility, Strength, Arts Intensity
Swordmancer TAC Gauntlets
Agility, Strength, Ultimate DMG%
Swordmancer NAV Beacon
Agility, Strength, Physical DMG%
Swordmancer NAV Beacon
Agility, Strength, Physical DMG%
Bonekrusha is the Combo-stacking alternative. Stronger Battle Skill spikes once you can feed Combo casts reliably, at the cost of Swordmancer's Stagger focus.
Bonekrusha Poncho
Bonekrusha Wristband
Bonekrusha Figurine
Bonekrusha Mask
Team Compositions
Chen Qianyu setup seat in Mi Fu's Crush core — Stagger/Lift first, then Pogranichnik amp and Mi Fu dump.
Lifeng makes Physical Crush and Vulnerability cycles reliable. He is enablement for Chen Qianyu's Physical dumps, not a second main carry.
Mi Fu is the Physical Crush carry — she applies Crush and Physical Susceptibility, then dumps inside Vulnerability windows the supports open for Chen Qianyu's lane.
Chen Qianyu is the Physical setup piece — Lift and Stagger first so Crush/Vulnerability carries can dump.
Pogranichnik amps Physical Vulnerability and Physical DMG. He is the Vanguard seat that makes Chen Qianyu's Physical dump windows worth taking.
Skills & Potentials
Skills & Talents
BASIC ATTACK: An attack with up to 5 sequences that deals Physical DMG. As the controlled operator, Final Strike also deals 16 Stagger. DIVE ATTACK: Basic attack performed in mid-air becomes a dive attack that deals Physical DMG to nearby enemies. FINISHER: Basic attack performed near a Staggered enemy becomes a finisher attack that deals massive Physical DMG and recovers some SP.
SKILL DESCRIPTION: Performs an uppercut slash at the target enemy, dealing Physical DMG and Lift.
COMBO TRIGGER: When an enemy becomes Vulnerable. SKILL DESCRIPTION: A slashing dash that passes through the target enemy and deals Physical DMG and Lift to all enemies along the way.
SKILL DESCRIPTION: A 7-sequence slash attack that deals Physical DMG with each sequence to the target enemy. The final slash sequence deals even more DMG.
Operator Agility +20.
After hitting an enemy with skills, Chen gains ATK +8% for 10s. This effect can reach 5 stacks.
Interrupting the enemy's charge up deals another 10 Stagger.
Potentials
DMG Dealt +20% to enemies below 50% HP.
Is it worth getting?
Solid damage / uptime node. Grab it when duplicates show up; do not hard-pity for it.
Agility +15, Physical DMG Dealt +8%.
Is it worth getting?
Solid damage / uptime node. Grab it when duplicates show up; do not hard-pity for it.
Battle skill Ascending Strike, combo skill Soar to the Stars, and ultimate Blade Gale improved: DMG Multiplier is increased to 1.1 times the original.
Is it worth getting?
Solid damage / uptime node. Grab it when duplicates show up; do not hard-pity for it.
Ultimate Blade Gale improved: Ultimate Energy cost -15%.
Is it worth getting?
Meaningful combat spike if you are committing copies; not mandatory for clearing.
Combo skill Soar to the Stars improved: Length of cooldown -3s.
Is it worth getting?
Meaningful combat spike if you are committing copies; not mandatory for clearing.
P0 clears content. First meaningful duplicate target is P5 if you are already investing. First stop: P5. Endgame target: P5.
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