Genshin Impact Chongyun build | Pocket Tactics
With help from our Genshin Impact Chongyun guide, you’ll soon master this four-star, claymore-wielding cryo exorcist. Featuring his skills, ascension materials, constellations, best artifacts, best weapons, and more, this Genshin Chongyun build is sure to help you make the most of his unique and powerful kit.
We’ve also got handy guides for other popular characters: take a look at our Genshin Impact Yoimiya, Genshin Impact Amber, and Genshin Impact Hu Tao guides if you need some help. If you’re currently a bit low on mora, take a look at our Genshin Impact codes list to help line your pockets with some extra currency. You can also check out our Genshin Impact tier list and Genshin Impact next banner guide to see who ranks the best and when to wish for them.
Let’s take a look at everything you need to know about Genshin Impact’s Chongyun.
What’s the best Genshin Impact Chongyun build?
Chongyun is best suited for a sub DPS role, and his normal attacks can be converted into cryo damage. We recommend using him in a party with pyro characters to help trigger melt, or electro characters for superconduct.
With the right artifacts and weapons equipped, Chongyun’s energy recharge potential is huge, meaning you can have his skill and burst active almost all the time.
What are the best Genshin Impact Chongyun weapons?
Our preferred claymore for Chongyun is the Skyward Pride, but as it’s a five-star weapon, it can be hard to acquire. If you’re looking for something in the meantime, we recommend aiming for the Sacrificial Greatsword to maximise his skill uptime even more.
| Weapon | Effect | How to obtain |
| Skyward Pride | Bonus stat: energy recharge Skill: Increases all damage by 8%. After using an elemental burst, normal or charged attack, on hit, creates a vacuum blade that does 80% of Chongyun’s attack as damage to opponents along its path. Lasts for 20 seconds or eight vacuum blades |
Gacha |
| Sacrificial Greatsword | Bonus stat: energy recharge Skill: After dealing damage to an opponent with an elemental skill, the skill has a 40% chance to end its own cooldown. Can only occur once every 30 seconds |
Gacha |
| Luxurious Sea Lord | Bonus stat: attack Skill: Increases elemental burst damage by 12%. When Chongyun’s elemental burst hits opponents, there is a 100% chance of summoning a huge onrush of tuna that deals 100% of Chongyun’s attack as AoE damage. This effect can occur once every 15 seconds |
Moonlight Merriment event |
| Debate Club | Bonus stat: attack Skill: After using an elemental skill, normal or charged Attack, on hit, deal an additional 60% attack damage in a small area. Effect lasts 15 seconds. Damage can only occur once every three seconds |
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What are the best Genshin Impact Chongyun artifacts?
Both artifact sets we’ve chosen can help maximise Chongyun’s DPS. Feel free to equip two from each set, or all four if you can get your hands on them. Although beware, only use a four piece set of Noblesse Oblige for Chongyun if no other character has the set equipped, as the effect doesn’t stack.
You can use a two piece set of Blizzard Strayer with practically any artifact set that gives an attack% bonus if you’re looking for a cheaper way to build Chongyun.
| Artifact set | Effect | How to obtain |
| Noblesse Oblige | Two equipped: elemental burst damage +20% Four equipped: increases all party members’ attack by 20% for 12 seconds after using an elemental burst. This effect cannot stack |
Clear Pool and Mountain Cavern domain in Minlin, Mt. Aozang, or from the Noblesse Oblige Artifact Strongbox |
| Blizzard Strayer | Two equipped: cryo damage +15% Four equipped: increases Chongyun’s crit rate by 20% when he attacks an enemy affected by cryo. His crit rate increases by an additional 20% if the enemy is frozen |
Peak of Vindagnyr domain on Dragonspine, in Mondstadt |
| Brave Heart | Two equipped: attack +18% Four equipped: increases damage by 30% against enemies with more than 50% HP |
Various domains, bosses, and chests |
| Resolution of the Sojourner | Two equipped: attack +18% Four equipped: charged attack crit rate +30% |
Various domains, bosses, and chests |
Artifact stat recommendations
If you’re aiming for a shatter team without Chongyun at C6, you should aim for all elemental mastery main stats. For pretty much every other team comp, aim for the following.
Main stats
- Sands – elemental mastery or attack%
- Goblet – cryo damage
- Circlet – crit rate or crit damage (try to maintain a 1:2 ratio)
Sub-stats
- Elemental mastery
- Crit rate/crit damage
- Attack%
What are Genshin Chongyun’s skills?
Active skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Demonbane (press) | Performs up to four strikes |
| Demonbane (hold) | Consumes stamina to deal AoE damage to nearby enemies, ending with a powerful slash |
| Demonbane (plunging) | Deals AoE damage upon impact with the ground |
| Spirit Blade: Chonghua’s Layered Frost | Deals AoE cryo damage, and leaves behind a Frost Field that converts all normal and charged attacks for sword, claymore, and polearm wielders to cryo damage |
| Spirit Blade: Cloud-parting Star | Summons three spirit blades that explode on impact with the ground, dealing AoE cryo damage and launching enemies |
Passive skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Steady Breathing (unlocked at ascension one) | The Frost Field created by Chonghua’s Layered Frost also increases sword, claymore, or polearm-wielding characters’ normal attack speed by 8% |
| Rimechaser Blade (unlocked at ascension four) | When the Frost Field expires, a spirit is summoned who strikes nearby enemies with AoE cryo damage, reducing their cryo resistance by 10% for eight seconds |
| Gallant Journey (unlocked automatically) | Liyue expeditions take 25% less time |
What are Genshin Chongyun’s constellations?
Leveling up constellations improves your character’s performance in battle, but you need to pull more than one copy of the character to unlock them. Here are all of Chongyun’s constellations.
| Constellation | Effect |
| Ice Unleashed | The last attack performed in a normal attack combo releases three ice blades, each dealing 50% of Chongyun’s attack as cryo damage |
| Atmospheric Revolution | Elemental skills and elemental bursts used within the Frost Field have their cooldown time decreased by 15% |
| Cloudburst | Increases the level of Spirit Blade: Cloud-parting Star by three |
| Frozen Skies | Chongyun regenerates one energy every time he hits an enemy with the cold or frozen status effect. Can only occur once every two seconds |
| The True Path | Increases the level of Spirit Blade: Chongyun’s Layered Frost by three |
| Rally of Four Blades | Spirit Blade: Cloud-parting Star deals 15% more damage to enemies with a lower percentage of max HP than Chongyun. Also summons an additional spirit blade |
What are Genshin Chongyun’s ascension materials?
Make sure you keep hold of all your Cor Lapis, as you’re going to need a lot to ascend Chongyun!
| Required level | Mora | Materials |
| 20 | 20,000 | One Shivada Jade Sliver, three Cor Lapis, three Damaged Masks |
| 40 | 40,000 | Three Shivada Jade Fragment, two Hoarfrost Core, ten Cor Lapis, 15 Damaged Masks |
| 50 | 60,000 | Six Shivada Jade Fragment, four Hoarfrost Core, 20 Cor Lapis, 12 Stained Masks |
| 60 | 80,000 | Three Shivada Jade Chunk, eight Hoarfrost Core, 30 Cor Lapis, 18 Stained Masks |
| 70 | 100,000 | Six Shivada Jade Chunk, 12 Hoarfrost Core, 45 Cor Lapis, 12 Ominous Masks |
| 80 | 120,000 | Six Shivada Jade Gemstone, 20 Hoarfrost Core, 60 Cor Lapis, 24 Ominous Masks |
What are Genshin Chongyun’s talent level up materials?
Here are all the talent level-up materials you need to ascend one of Chongyun’s talents to level ten.
| Level | Mora | Materials |
| Two | 12,500 | Six damaged mask, three Teachings of Diligence |
| Three | 17,500 | Three stained mask, two Guide to Diligence |
| Four | 25,000 | Four stained mask, four Guide to Diligence |
| Five | 30,000 | Six stained mask, six Guide to Diligence |
| Six | 37,500 | Nine stained mask, nine Guide to Diligence |
| Seven | 120,000 | Four ominous mask, four Philosophies of Diligence, one Dvalin’s Sigh |
| Eight | 260,000 | Six ominous mask, six Philosophies of Diligence, one Dvalin’s Sigh |
| Nine | 450,000 | Nine ominous mask, 12 Philosophies of Diligence, two Dvalin’s Sigh |
| Ten | 700,000 | 12 ominous mask, 16 Philosophies of Diligence, two Dvalin’s Sigh, one Crown of Insight |
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