Honkai: Star Rail – Lingsha build and ascension guide

Make your opponents go up in smoke with the best Honkai: Star Rail Lingsha build and keep your allies healthy with the power of aromatic therapy. This 5-Star follower of The Abundance is dealing Fire DMG and can summon a creature called Fuyuan to heal and cleanse her allies.

Lingsha’s Skill, Smoke and Splendor, deals Fire DMG based on her ATK to all enemies on the field, heals allies based on her ATK, and summons Fuyuan. Fuyuan gets its own place on the turn order and has its action advanced forward.

Fuyuan has a maximum action count of five (starting with three), which can be refreshed with every Skill use. On its turn, Fuyuan makes a Follow-Up Attack that deals Fire DMG based on Lingsha’s ATK to all enemies, healing all allies based on her ATK, and dispelling one debuff on them. In addition, Fuyuan deals extra Fire DMG based on Lingsha’s HP to one random enemy, though it will prioritize enemies with Fire Weakness and an active Toughness bar.

Lingsha’s Ultimate, Dripping Mistscape, deals Fire DMG based on her ATK to all enemies, healing all allies based on her ATK. It also advances forward Fuyuan’s action and inflicts Befog on all enemies. This debuff lasts two turns and increases the Break DMG taken by the targets.

By pulling additional copies of Lingsha, you can raise her Eidolon Levels and unlock more power. Level 1 increases her Weakness Break Efficiency and reduces the DEF of any Weakness Broken targets. Level 2 allows her Ultimate to buff all allies’ Break Effect for three turns. Level 4 automatically restores HP to the lowest-health ally when Fuyuan takes action. Level 6 reduces the All-Type RES of all enemies when Fuyuan is on the field and allows Fuyuan to execute additional instances of its extra attack.

Honkai: Star Rail – Lingsha: best Light Cones

All of Lingsha’s moves scale with her ATK, making any Light Cone providing more of this stat a great choice, such as Luocha’s Echoes of the Coffin. Lingsha’s own signature Light Cone, Scent Alone Stays True, on the other hand supports her role as a damage amplifier. It provides her with more Break Effect and allows her to inflict another debuff with her Ultimate, which increases the damage taken by those afflicted by it — a damage amplification bonus that can be boosted when a certain Break Effect threshold is reached.

Lingsha can actually convert some of her Break Effect into ATK thanks to one of her Traces, making Scent Alone Stays True her best option overall.

Best Light Cones for Lingsha in HSR:

• Scent Alone Stays True (5-Star)
• Echoes of the Coffin (5-Star)
• What Is Real? (4-Star)
• Night of Fright (5-Star)
• Time Waits for No One (5-Star)
• Warmth Shortens Cold Nights (4-Star)
• Hey, Over Here (4-Star)
• Shared Feeling (4-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Lingsha: best Relics

As indicated above, ATK and Break Effect are the two crucial stats for Lingsha, benefiting both her offensive and healing capabilities. In addition, you will want SPD and Energy Regeneration on her, allowing her to take action early on to bring Fuyuan onto the field and cast her Ultimate as often as she can — its debuff will assist the entire team.

Although a Lingsha built with lots of CRIT DMG and CRIT Rate can work in certain teams, this is not her optimal playstyle. Instead, we’d recommend boosting her own survival chances by getting things like HP or Effect RES to pad out her sub stats.

Best Relic Sets for Lingsha in HSR:

• Thief of Shooting Meteor / Watchmaker, Master of Dream Machinations / Iron Cavalry Against the Scourge (2) + Messenger Traversing Hackerspace (2) – +16% Break Effect, +6% SPD.

Best Planar Ornaments for Lingsha in HSR:

• Talia: Kingdom of Banditry (2) – +16% Break Effect, +20% Break Effect when the wearer’s SPD is 145 or higher.
• [vs. Fire Weakness / on Firefly team] Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern (2) – +6% SPD, +40% Break Effect for one turn when the wearer hits an enemy with Fire Weakness.

Best stats for Lingsha in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), SPD, Break Effect, ATK %, ATK
• Hands – ATK (Primary), SPD, Break Effect, ATK %, HP % or Effect RES
• Body – ATK % (Primary), SPD, Break Effect, ATK, HP % or Effect RES
• Feet – SPD (Primary), Break Effect %, ATK, ATK, HP % or Effect Resistance %
• Planar Sphere – ATK % (Primary), SPD, Break Effect, ATK, HP % or Effect RES
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), SPD, Break Effect, ATK %, ATK

Honkai: Star Rail – Lingsha: best team comps

Lingsha provides universal benefits for all team compositions, but shines even brighter when used with Break or Follow-Up Attack teams.

• Firefly (Main DPS), Trailblazer (Harmony) (Sub DPS), Ruan Mei (Support), Lingsha (Support)

Lingsha is obviously fishing in the same pond as Gallagher, though she’s not as much a straight upgrade as you may think. Gallagher has enormous damage potential on a Break team and even Lingsha can’t consistently outperform him in this regard. However, Lingsha is much better when it comes to actually keeping the team alive with her status effect cleanse being a major benefit. 

No matter which healer you choose, the core trio of Firefly, Trailblazer, and Ruan Mei remains intact with Trailblazer and Ruan Mei boosting Firefly’s Super Break DMG into the heavens. Fugue is an able replacement for Trailblazer in this comp.

• Feixiao (Main DPS), March 7th (Hunt) (Sub DPS), Topaz (Sub DPS), Lingsha (Support)

Lingsha is the first healer to feature Follow-Up Attacks, making her a natural fit for any FuA team. Characters like Feixiao and Acheron, who can easily inflict Weakness Break, greatly benefit from her Ultimate’s debuff and Lingsha herself can actually deal immense Break DMG.

• The Herta (Main DPS), Trailblazer (Remembrance) (Support), Ruan Mei (Support), Lingsha (Support)

Lingsha also works great as a healer for The Herta’s teams. Since her attacks hit every enemy on the field, they generate a ton of Energy for The Herta, allowing her to get her Ultimate going at a faster pace.

Honkai: Star Rail – Lingsha: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Lingsha ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of her talents.

Lingsha requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x308,000
• Immortal Scionette x15
• Immortal Aeroblossom x15
• Immortal Lumintwig x15
• Raging Heart x65

You can collect Immortal Scionettes, Aeroblossoms, and Lumintwigs from enemies on the Xianzhou Luofu as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Immortal Scionettes are one of the base materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material. Raging Heart is dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Dewlight Pavillion) or gained through exchange. The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes found on several worlds.

Lingsha requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x3,000,000
• Immortal Scionette x41
• Immortal Aeroblossom x56
• Immortal Lumintwig x58
• Alien Tree Seed x18
• Nourishing Honey x69
• Myriad Fruit x139
• Auspice Sliver x12
• Tracks of Destiny x8

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Alien Tree Seeds, Nourishing Honey, and Myriad Fruit can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (Fyxestroll Garden). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by investing lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Auspice Sliver is a rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Skysplitter) domain, while Tracks of Destiny can be obtained during time-limited events, the Embers Exchange, the Nameless Honor, or as a Simulated Universe Points Reward.