Genshin Impact Yun Jin Build and Lore

Name: Yun Jin (that’s her whole name, with Yun as her surname and Jin as her first name)

Vision: Geo

Birthday: 21 May

Constellation: Opera Grandis

Titles: Stage Lucida, Current Director of the Yun-Han Opera Troupe

Genshin Impact Yun Jin is a powerful support character that can deal damage as much as support the party. While Gorou thrives in an all-Geo element party, Yun Jin works best with one with varied elements.

Opening Flourish makes Yun Jin swing her polearm in an arc. You can charge up this attack by holding the button. The attack has two charges that depend on how long the button is pressed or how much Yun Jin is attacked as it charges. When you’ve unlocked her first Ascension passive, time the press precisely as she gets hit. It will automatically let her strike back with the full charge of the attack.

Cliffbreaker’s Banner is her Burst, where Yun Jin releases a blast of Geo DMG and grants the whole party the Flying Cloud Formation buff. When it’s active, the character’s Normal Attacks are boosted by a percentage of Yun Jin’s DEF. With her second Ascension Passive, it gets further increased by a ratio of her DEF. The additional boost depends on the number of unique elements in the party.

Yun Jin is a versatile character that can fit in most parties (just not one that’s uniformly one element). Her position depends on how you build her.

Genshin Impact Yun Jin Builds

On-Field DPS

This focuses on her regular attacks, which need Physical DMG Bonuses. It also needs some Energy Recharge because of her Burst. Remember, it can buff normal attacks, which you’ll use with this build.

Possible Sets: Retracing Bolide, Pale Flame

Main Stats: ATK%/Energy Recharge, Physical DMG Bonus, Crit Rate/DMG

Substats: Crit DMG/Rate, ATK, ER

Burst Support

Yun Jin can keep up her Burst’s buff as much as possible with this build. Focusing on Energy Recharge will help, and increasing her DEF will be effective. The boost scales with her DEF, so more of it will make it stronger.

Possible Sets: Husk of Opulent Dreams, Noblesse Oblige, 2x Emblem of Severed Fate and 2x Husk

Main Stats: 3x DEF, or Energy Recharge timepiece and 2x DEF (a Crit Rate hat might be needed if using the Favonius Lance)

Substats: DEF, Energy Recharge, Crit Rate (if using the mentioned weapon)

Weapons

Yun Jin doesn’t have a signature weapon, similar to most of the 4-star characters in the game. Here are the most recommended polearms to equip:

As a DPS

• Vortex Vanquisher
• Primordial Jade Winged-Spear
• Crescent Pike
• Deathmatch

As a Burst Support

• Engulfing Lightning
• Favonius Lance
• The Catch
• Prototype Starglitter

Genshin Impact Yun Jin Lore (Backstory)

Yun Jin started to have an interest in opera when she was young. With an opera troupe director for a father and a famous opera singer for a mother, their child would inevitably follow in their footsteps. While most kids would switch passions at the drop of a hat, she stuck to her training. Even when it became painful or tiring, little Jin persevered and became the splendid performer she is today.

Liyue Opera demands much from its performers. Yun Jin, however, meets those demands, whatever they may be. From a delicate heroine to a demon-slaying maiden, she can play any role well. What’s even more impressive is that she writes these operas herself!

Her name has spread throughout Liyue as one of the best opera performers because of this. People from all over Liyue started to visit the Heyu Tea House more often to figure out her performance schedule. Of course, Fan Er’ye, the owner of the teahouse, is glad about this as it meant more customers for him.

The Yun-Han Opera Troupe was started by her grandfather and most of those who joined then stayed with the troupe until it fell into Yun Jin’s hands. They’re elders and still hold to the traditional Liyue Opera. More than that, they also nag her about her diet and who she hangs out with. This puts Yun Jin in a tight spot, as she doesn’t like opera about adepti too much. There’s also the fact that the elders nag her about traditions and the old ways of the opera.

Yun Jin has no qualms about the old ways, but she feels that adapting to the times would be better. She thinks that she doesn’t truly connect with characters that are adepti, and that’s what traditional Liyue opera is about.

She likes rock and roll and listens to Xinyan’s concerts at every chance. With the elders breathing down her neck, opportunities come less often than she’d like. Once, she’d been invited to Xinyan’s home and discovered a more feminine side to the bold and ferocious facade of the rocker. It isn’t said whose idea it was, but the pair talked with Fan Er’ye and set up an alternate identity for Xinyan. That’s so Yun Jin could hang out with Xinyan more.

Xinyan became Xingyan, the adopted daughter of the teahouse owner. With her grace and poise, the elders approved of ‘Xingyan’ while still keeping Yun Jin away from Xinyan. Yun Jin is pleased, as at least she can hang out with her friend and discuss things more often.

As for her plays, she felt there was nothing more to impart with the stories of the adepti with the opera’s long history. She had exhausted every bit of legend and folklore in Liyue and felt that there needed to be a change. The usual operas were no longer what she wanted to perform.

She only realized what kind of play she wanted to show when she started performing ‘Snow Treading.’ It was a play about a strenuous walk through the snow. The first time she performed it, it happened to snow, and she has never felt more in tune with the character she’s playing. That’s what she was looking forward to performing. Since then, Yun Jin has started making and performing operas about humans and their feelings and emotions.

Instead of the adepti, she’ll write and play the role of everyday people. This kind of opera might not be as popular as the ones she used to perform, but she’s satisfied even if only a few will remember these plays.

You might wonder why people call her Sir Yun, despite being a girl. It can be said that she inherited the name from her father, but it also doesn’t explain the appellation. The name came from a fan jokingly calling her Sir Yun after a performance. Another fan protested, saying, “How can a lady be called Sir?” Yun Jin then briefly explained that knowledgeable people can be called sir. Youth and gender are not limits to being knowledgeable.

This impressed the fans who attended the performance, and the story spread throughout the harbor. Because of that, a trend of people calling her Sir Yun started, even among her acquaintances.