Honkai Star Rail's standard banner unit Yanqing is one of the best early game DPS characters in the game! He has a unique and fun play style, where he basically controls flying swords! However, he has one huge downside to his kit, which makes building a team around him quite difficult.
Everyone who is just the tiniest bit into the lore of Honkai Star Rail, knows about Jingliu and her past. She plays an important part in the history of the Xianzhou Luofu and was probably general Jing Yuan's biggest influence at times.
Her life took an unexpected turn when she fell under Mara's ownership, which made her attack the ones she loved the most. This difficult path is depicted in a special way in her gameplay kit: She drains her teammates lives. And of all things Yanqing is supposed to be a good team member for her?
Honkai Star Rail: Jingliu & Yanqing Have An Unexpected Synergy
During her absence, the circle continues and her techniques and wisdom got passed onto the next generation, being Jing Yuan's student Yanqing.
Even Yanqing's fighting style, which is a pretty special technique, where he controls flying swords, is heavily influenced by Jingliu. This can be seen by how both of them are holding their swords in the same, strange way.
But there is another interesting thing about their combat styles. Yanqing's passive “Soul Steel Sync” makes him more powerful the longer he does not get hit by any damage. This is why, players assumed that they should avoid putting Jingliu and Yanqingtogether, since Jingliu drains their mate's HP. However, it turns out that the damage inflicted by Jingliu does not stop Yanqing's passive!
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This is a huge thing, because you can play mono freeze comps like this by putting both of them in the same team! I would definitely try it out, but I unfortunately couldn't get a single Yanqing copy as of right now …
Yanqing always looked up to other swords masters and especially to Jing Yuan, who took him in to teach him how to fight. This is the reason for his anger towards Jingliu, who tried to kill his master. The fact that Yanqing and Jingliu now have a special interaction can really not be a coincidence!
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