Jianxin stands out as a 5-star Aero Gauntlet character celebrated for her adaptability, seamlessly fitting into various roles: DPS, Hybrid, and Support. Her capacity to perform in each of these positions, albeit with varying degrees of proficiency, establishes her as a truly multi-faceted character.
This versatility makes Jianxin exceptionally valuable in Overworld exploration. She brings a toolkit that includes enemy grouping, shield generation, self-healing, and respectable damage output. While perhaps not the top-tier DPS, and better suited as a Hybrid, Jianxin is most frequently recognized for her Support capabilities, particularly her enemy-grouping prowess in endgame content. However, it’s crucial to acknowledge her exceptional comfort and hybrid utility in Overworld scenarios, arguably making her one of the best choices for this type of content.
Jianxin’s kit revolves around several key elements: her Outro skill, Forte Circuit, Resonance Skill, and, most notably, her Ultimate.
Skill Breakdown: Understanding Jianxin’s Abilities
Resonance Skill: Parry and Counter
Jianxin’s Resonance Skill initiates a Parry stance, enabling her to counter incoming enemy attacks. Successfully parrying not only negates damage but also generates Concerto energy and a significant portion of her Forte bar. However, this skill demands precise timing and anticipation of enemy attacks. In many situations, a simple dodge might suffice, diminishing the parry’s unique advantage. Furthermore, relying on parries can potentially forfeit opportunities to reduce an enemy’s stagger bar, which might be more strategically beneficial in certain combat scenarios.
Outro Skill: Resonance Liberation Amplifier
Her Outro skill significantly boosts the Resonance Liberation damage for the subsequent resonator entering the field, increasing it by 38%. This provides a substantial damage multiplier, particularly beneficial for characters like Calcharo and Xiangli Yao, who heavily rely on Resonance Liberation damage. The challenge lies in Jianxin’s Concerto energy generation, which is not particularly efficient. Consequently, this Outro skill sees limited use, especially considering that both Calcharo and Xiangli Yao benefit from quick-swap team compositions, a playstyle that is incompatible with Jianxin’s Outro skill due to its expiration upon character swap.
Forte Circuit: Sustain and Shield
Jianxin’s Forte Circuit is a cornerstone of her kit, providing self-healing, a damage reduction stance, sustained area-of-effect damage, and a potent shield. Upon activation, she enters a stance that mitigates incoming damage by 50%, which can stack with other damage reduction effects, such as the Bell-Borne Geochelone Echo, potentially achieving complete damage nullification for a few hits. After channeling for 6 seconds, she generates a strong shield, enhancing survivability. However, the 6-second channeling duration presents a significant drawback. Enemies can easily move out of range during this time, and the prolonged channeling disrupts team rotations, especially for a support character like Jianxin, who often isn’t the primary damage dealer. Tanking hits while channeling to generate the shield can also significantly weaken it before it’s even fully formed. Moreover, this Forte Circuit becomes impractical in Hologram boss fights unless paired with the Bell-Borne Geochelone Echo, and even then, surviving for 6 seconds under boss attacks is not guaranteed, undermining its utility in such encounters.
Ultimate Skill: Crowd Control and Damage
Jianxin’s Ultimate is arguably the most consistently useful part of her kit. It pulls in surrounding enemies while dealing continuous damage for approximately 3 seconds. While it has a high Resonance Energy cost of 150, this can be mitigated by equipping Energy Regen focused Echoes. The 20-second cooldown is manageable, the pull range is effective, and it generates a good amount of Concerto Energy, facilitating access to her Outro skill. This grouping ability is a rare and valuable asset, shared by very few characters, with Shorekeeper being the only other support character offering similar crowd control.
Jianxin in Action: Roles and Builds
Overworld Comfort Hybrid
Jianxin truly shines as a comfortable Hybrid character for Overworld exploration. Her ability to fulfill multiple roles—dealing damage, providing support, and ensuring survivability—makes her exceptionally self-sufficient and adaptable to various Overworld challenges. For players seeking a reliable and versatile character for general exploration and daily content, Jianxin is an excellent choice.
Tower of Adversity Support: Niche Grouping
In the context of the Tower of Adversity, Jianxin finds a viable niche as a low-investment grouping support. Her Ultimate’s crowd control capability becomes particularly valuable in the middle floors of the side towers within the Hazard Zone, which often feature waves of smaller enemies vulnerable to area-of-effect damage and grouping. Equipping her with the 3-star Originite: Type IV weapon further enhances her support role by providing consistent healing. This weapon, combined with the Rejuvenating Glow Echo set, allows Jianxin to buff the ATK of the entire party with minimal on-field time, requiring only a single basic attack every 30 seconds to trigger the set effect. Building Jianxin with Energy Regen as the primary stat minimizes investment, allowing players to allocate resources to more damage-centric teams. This low-investment support build enables players to efficiently clear the middle floors of the Tower, leveraging Jianxin’s grouping capabilities to streamline combat encounters.
Conclusion: Jianxin’s Strengths and Limitations
In summary, Jianxin is a highly versatile and comfortable character, particularly well-suited for Overworld content. Her hybrid nature allows her to contribute to various team compositions and handle diverse combat scenarios. However, her versatility also comes at a cost. She is spread somewhat thin across multiple roles and doesn’t truly excel as a top-tier DPS or dedicated support in highly specialized team compositions. Her primary niche emerges as a low-investment grouping support for content like the Tower of Adversity, where her Ultimate skill and ease of building provide significant value. While Jianxin is undoubtedly a viable and useful character, especially for players seeking a flexible and low-maintenance team member, it’s important to be aware of her limitations and build teams around her strengths to maximize her potential.
