Lan Yan build guide · GenGuru: Your guru for Genshin Impact

Overview

Shielder
Anemo support

Lan Yan is a 4-star Anemo catalyst user who protects the team. Her skill dashes at an enemy and gives a shield based on her ATK. If the dash touches Hydro, Pyro, Cryo or Electro, the shield converts to that element and her follow-up rings also deal some damage of that element. Her burst pulls nearby enemies together and hits them with Anemo several times.

Her main job is to carry Viridescent Venerer and Swirl the team's element to lower enemy resistance, while her shield keeps the main damage dealer from being interrupted. Build her for Energy Recharge and ATK, since ATK feeds her shield. Elemental Mastery boosts her own damage but matters less than a reliable shield.

Weapons

Best first. Every catalyst on this list links to its page.

Angelos' Heptades ★★★★★
ATK for her shield, and creating the shield gives her Energy and raises the active character's damage based on her ATK. A very strong fit for her support job.
Favonius Codex ★★★★
Energy Recharge and extra particles help her and the team burst more often.
Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers ★★★
A 3-star that gives a big ATK boost to the next character you swap to. Very good on a support who spends little time on the field.
Wandering Evenstar ★★★★
Elemental Mastery for her own damage, and it shares some ATK with the team.
Sacrificial Fragments ★★★★
A skill reset lets her renew her shield sooner and adds extra Swirls.

Artifact sets

Viridescent Venerer 4-piece
The main reason to use her. Swirls lower the swirled element's resistance for the whole team.
Tenacity of the Millelith 4-piece
Use this only when someone else already carries Viridescent Venerer. Her skill hits trigger the party ATK and Shield Strength bonus.

Main stats and substats

Sands: ATK% or Energy Recharge or Elemental Mastery
Goblet: ATK% or Elemental Mastery
Circlet: ATK% or Elemental Mastery
Substats: Energy Recharge > ATK% > Elemental Mastery > CRIT Rate

Talent priority

Elemental Skill Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance
Elemental Burst Lustrous Moonrise

Teams

Arlecchino with a shield
- Lan Yan
- Arlecchino
- Xilonen
- Bennett
Lan Yan Swirls Pyro to lower its resistance, and her shield keeps Arlecchino attacking without interruptions.
Mavuika Vaporize
- Lan Yan
- Mavuika
- Furina
- Bennett
Lan Yan Swirls Pyro or Hydro to lower that element's resistance, and her shield protects the team from enemy hits while Mavuika is on the field.
Budget National
- Lan Yan
- Xiangling
- Xingqiu
- Bennett
A classic 4-star team where Lan Yan fills the Anemo slot, Swirling Pyro for Xiangling and adding a shield.

Tips

Aim her skill dash at an enemy that already carries another element, so the shield and rings take that element.
Use her burst to pull enemies together before your main damage dealer's big attacks.
Her shield is based on ATK, so do not drop ATK entirely for Elemental Mastery.

Base stats at level 90

Base HP: 9244
Base ATK: 251
Base DEF: 580
ATK: 24.0%

Talents

Normal Attack Black Pheasant Strides on Water

Normal Attack Wields her Feathermoon Rings to perform up to 4 attacks, dealing Anemo DMG. Charged Attack Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to throw out a Feathermoon Ring, dealing Anemo DMG. Plunging Attack Gathers the power of Anemo and plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Anemo DMG upon impact with the ground.

Elemental Skill Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance

Summoning forth the Swallow-Wisp Shield, a secret art passed down across generations, Lan Yan dashes forward and, upon making contact with her target, will leap back into the air. The Swallow-Wisp Shield's DMG absorption scales based on her ATK, and has a 250% absorption efficiency against Anemo DMG. While in mid-air due to the effects of her Elemental Skill: Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance, pressing her Elemental Skill again or pressing Normal Attack will cause Lan Yan to hurl her Feathermoon Rings at an opponent, and they will spin between nearby opponents twice upon hit, dealing Anemo DMG. Holding the Skill will cause it to behave differently. Hold Enter Aiming Mode to adjust the dash direction.

Elemental Burst Lustrous Moonrise

Lan Yan creates a Feathermoon Swallow Array, pulling in nearby opponents and objects and dealing multiple instances of AoE Anemo DMG.

Passive talent Four Sealing Divination Charms

When the dash from the Elemental Skill Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance hits a target, if it interacts with Hydro/Pyro/Cryo/Electro, the Swallow-Wisp Shield will undergo Elemental Absorption, with the converted shield absorbing DMG from the corresponding element with 250% efficiency. Additionally, if this use of Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance causes the Swallow-Wisp Shield to undergo Elemental Absorption, the Feathermoon Rings that Lan Yan throws at her foes additionally deal Elemental DMG equal to 50% of the original in the corresponding Elemental Type. This DMG is considered Elemental Skill DMG.

Passive talent Skyfeather Evil-Subduing Charm

The Elemental Skill Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance and the Elemental Burst Lustrous Moonrise deal increased DMG equal to 309% and 774% of Lan Yan's Elemental Mastery respectively.

Passive talent Thought and Intent, Like Silken Scent

When Lan Yan is in the party, your characters will not startle Crystalflies and certain other animals when getting near them. Check the "Other" sub-category of the "Living Beings / Wildlife" section in the Archive for creatures this skill works on.

Constellations

C1 "As One Might Stride Betwixt the Clouds"

After triggering the Elemental Absorption from the Ascension Talent "Four Sealing Divination Charms," this instance of Lan Yan's Elemental Skill Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance will produce another Feathermoon Ring when they are thrown at opponents. You must first unlock the Ascension Talent "Four Sealing Divination Charms."

C2 "Dance Vestments Billow Like Rainbow Jade"

While the Swallow-Wisp Shield is active, when your active party member's Normal Attacks deal DMG, 40% of the Shield's DMG absorption will be restored, up to its original maximum absorption. This effect can occur once every 2s.

C3 "On White Wings Pierce Through Cloud and Fog"

Increases the Level of Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.

C4 "With Drakefalcon's Blood-Pearls Adorned"

After Lan Yan uses her Elemental Burst Lustrous Moonrise, the Elemental Mastery of all nearby party members increases by 60 for 12s.

C5 "Having Met You, My Heart is Gladdened"

Increases the Level of Lustrous Moonrise by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.

C6 "Let Us Away on Sylphic Wing, the Silvered Ornaments to Ring"

Swallow-Wisp Pinion Dance gains 1 additional charge.