Advanced Jianxin Build Guide for Beginners [2024]

Jianxin is a type of character in Wuthering Waves that can shift between a supportive role and a damage dealer role, making her a valuable addition to your team combinations.

Once you’ve unlocked Jianxin, you should use this guide to find the best ways to build and use her in Wuthering Waves.

Overview of jianxin’s Roles

• Support:
  • Crowds control, shielding, and healing.
  • Provides Liberation Damage Deepen, enhancing the damage of other characters.
• Hybrid DPS:
  • Substantial damage multipliers, though not the top-tier main DPS.

Jianxin’s Key Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths:

• Decent enough to support a hybrid DPS role.
• Fits well as both DPS and support.
• Effective at managing enemies and providing shields and healing.
• High utility with massive range and decent damage, though it can’t pull bosses or elite enemies.
• Provides significant damage reduction and shielding, with a trick to achieving 100% damage reduction under certain conditions.

Weaknesses:

• Requires significant field time for her forte circuit, which cannot be swap-cancelled.
• Needs to stay stationary for maximum effect, especially problematic in an endgame where bosses hit hard.
• High energy regeneration is needed to maintain her abilities, varying by the role she’s filling.

Jianxin Abilities

• Normal Attack: A 4-hit combo that pulls enemies.
• Resonance Skill: Parry stance counters attacks with extra stamina.
• Ultimate Skill: Area damage and enemy pull, ineffective against bosses.
• Forte Circuit: Gains stacks through actions, leading to shields and damage at different stages.
• Passives: Buffs damage and increases shield strength.

Jianxin Build Recommendations:

• Support Build: Focus on Forte Circuit and Liberation skills.
• Main Attacker Build: Focus on Forte Circuit, then basic attacks and resonance skills.
• Quick Swap Playstyle: Use resonance skills and quick swap tactics.

Jianxin Equipment Suggestions:

Weapons:

• Originite Type IV Gauntlet: Healing and buffs.
• Marcato: Energy regeneration.
• Abyss Surge: Maximum damage output.
• Other good options: Gauntlets 21, Hollow Mirage, Stonard, and Gauntlets of Night.

Echo Sets & Skills:

• Bell Borne Geochelone: Damage reduction.
• Rejuvenating Glow Set: Support role.
• Moonlit Clouds Set: Sub damage.
• Offensive sets like Sierra Gale: Main damage.

Jianxin Team Compositions:

• Support Role: Fits any team needing sustain and crowd control, e.g., Havoc Rover, Danjin, Jianxin.
• Sub Damage/Buffer Role: Works with characters who benefit from extra damage, e.g., Calcharo, Jianxin, Verina.
• Main Damage Role: Standard teams with a sub-damage and buffer character, e.g., Verina or Baizhi.

Jianxin Rotations:

• Pure Support Rotation: Use ultimate -> quick skill tap -> basic attack -> switch characters.
• Sub Damage/Buffer Rotation: Like support but with an added focus on swapping for buffs.
• Main Damage Rotation: Activate all buffs -> ultimate -> resonance skill -> spam basic attacks.
• Quick Swap Damage Rotation: Focus on resonance skills and swap-cancel tactics.

Jianxin Talent Priority

How to Make Jianxin Invincible

• Pair Forte Circuit’s 50% damage reduction with the Bell Borne Echo for an additional 50%.
• Results in 100% damage reduction for 3 hits.

Managing Jianxin well can unlock her full potential, helping your team in both support and damage roles. If you find this guide helpful, you should also check Clever Ways to Level Up Fast in Wuthering Waves.