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The combat inGenshin Impactheavily relies on the composition of your team, since each character wields an element that can activate unique effects. While most characters enjoy combining these elements to achieve large amounts of damage, Lyney operates differently than other Pyro-DPS characters.++
Released for the first time with Genshin’s 4.0 update, Lyney is a five-star bow user who uses Pyro-infused charged attacks to deal massive amounts of damage. Unlike other characters in the game, Lyney has a passive that increases his damage against enemies who are already suffering from the effects of Pyro, making team compositions of multiple Pyro characters extremely advantageous.
Fiery Swirls
Most of Lyney’s teams revolve around constantly activating his Ascension Four passive, since correctlyutilizing this ability ensures that Lyney will always deal 60 to 100 percent extra damage.Specifically, this ability ensures that Lyney will deal 60 percent extra damage to characters that are suffering from Pyro, and each other party memberthat also wields a Pyro visionwill increase his damage by 20 percent.
The easiest way to activate this passive is to utilize strong Pyro supports such as Bennett and Xiangling, since they provide extra damage, buffs, and an easy way to generate Pyro particles to ensure your Elemental Bursts are always ready to use. The final slot on this team can be filled by an Anemo support like Kazuha, since he caneasily group enemies and provide your team with even more Elemental Buffs.
You can always substitute Kazuha with a different Anemo support character, such as Sucrose, Venti, or Lynette.
While the Anemo support may not provide the final 20 percent damage bonus from Lyney’s Ascension Passive, their utility on the battlefield can not be underestimated. These units are so overpowered becauseeveryAnemo character can use the Viridescent Venerer artifact set,which boosts swirl damage and even shreds elemental resistances if used correctly.
To achieve the full power of the Viridescent Venerer artifact set, you will need to swirl the element that you want to deal damage with. In this case, ensure that you are always swirling Pyro, as this will decrease Pyro Resistance by 40 percent.
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Bennett
Enter the battle byactivating Bennett’s elemental burst,which will buff and heal your teammates while the aura is active.
Xiangling
Quickly switch into Xiangling andactivate her Elemental Burst,which spawns a Pyronado that snapshots the Bennett buff. This snapshot ensures that even when Bennett’s buff expires, the Pyronado still deals the same amount of damage.
Kazuha
After activating these two Elemental Bursts, you can switch into Kazuha and swirl Pyro. You can swirl byeither using his Elemental Skill or Elemental Burst.
Lyney
As the main DPS, Lyney will always be the last member of the rotation. Switch to him andtry to shoot off a couple of charged shots,then use his Elemental Burst and Skill to recover health.
Mono-Pyro
If you are not interested in swirling Pyro and instead want to play a team with only Pyro characters, then we suggest adding a defensive Pyro unit to your team. Dehya is a great addition, as she is available on the Standard Banner andcan provide your team with resistance to interruption and damage mitigation.
If you do not have Dehya unlocked, you can also utilize a Pyro shielding unit like Xinyan. You can also replace Dehya withZhongli,but since he is a Geo unit, he will not activate Lyney’s Ascension Passive buff.
While the buff you gain from playing four Pyro units together is incredibly strong,it is extremely important to note that certain enemies have resistance or immunity to the Pyro element.For example, Pyro slimes will not take any damage from your Pyro attacks, so this team is best used when you know what kind of enemies you are up against.
Dehya
Begin the fight by activating Dehya’s Elemental Skill, as this ability creates an aurathatincreases your resistance to interruption while charging arrows, and also mitigates the amount of damage you take.
Switch into Bennett to lay down his Elemental Burstwithin Dehya’s Skill,thus providing your team with Healing and an ATK buff.
Activate Xiangling’s Elemental Burst to summon her Pyronado, andmake sure you are in range of enemieswhen the ability is spinning.
Use Lyney’spowerful charge shotsto deal damage, then heal back any missing health with his Elemental Burst and Skill.
While Thoma may seem like a fantastic Pyro shielding option for this team, we do not recommend adding him to your party. Specifically, his Pyro shields require you to basic attack multiple times to achieve maximum shield strength, but Lyney’s main source of damage is from charged shots.
Vaporizing Justice
Theintroduction of Furinahas shaken many different team compositions, as she can provide massive buffs to your character’s damage at the risk of draining your entire team’s HP. Luckily for Lyney,he already consumes his own HP by launching charged shots, so long as he has more than 60 percent of his maximum HP.
Whenever Lyney consumes his own HP to fire a charged attack, he will generate a Prop-Surplus Stack. These stacks can be consumed by activating your Elemental Skill, and each stack increases the healing you receive.
This synergizes perfectly with a character like Furina,since her Elemental Burst applies a party-wide buff that gains Fanfare stacks whenever you gain or lose HP,which in turn buffs your damage and healing. Coupling this composition with a healer like Jean will greatly boost your damage, as she can shred enemies with the Viridescent Venerer artifact set and fully heal your entire team with her Elemental Burst.
While this team does not benefit from activating Lyney’s full Ascension Four passive, you can still use a character like Xiangling to activate the 18 percent ATK buff from Pyro Resonance and deal extra vaporize damage.
You should activate Jean’s Elemental Burstwhen your entire team has less than 50 percent HP,as this will instantly generate the maximum amount of Fanfare stacks that Furina needs.
The overall rotation may change depending on your HP levels, it should look something like this:
Furina
Begin the fight byactivating Furina’s Elemental Skill in her Ousia state, as this summons three turrets that deal Hydro damage and constantly drain your HP. you’re able to also activate your Elemental Burst to begin accumulating Fanfare stacks from the HP drain.
If everyone in your party starts the fight at full health, then you can switch to Xianglingand activate her Elemental Burst to deal vaporize damage with Furina’s Turrets.
Jean
Once everyone in your party has had their HP significantly drained, you should switch to Jean andactivate her burst to instantly earn the maximum amount of Fanfare stacks.
Now that Furina’s buff is fully activated, you may switch to Lyney and begindealing damage with his charged attacks.Once his HP is drained, you can activate his Elemental Burst and Skill to safely heal.
Keep in mind that the rotations of this specific team composition are somewhat flexible, sinceXiangling and Jean can easily swap places depending on the HP of your party.The most optimal way to play this team is to switch to Jean and fully heal your team before Xiangling takes the field, but this requires you to enter every fight with all of your characters already damaged.
