Lan Yan in Genshin Impact: How to get her and skills

Lan Yan is a playable character in Genshin Impact, available for players to use in their quests. To form a strong team of adventurers, it’s crucial to understand each character’s strengths and the best strategies for utilizing them. This guide will cover how to unlock Lan Yan, her distinctive traits, and her abilities to help you fully harness her potential and create a solid build.

How to Acquire Lan Yan in Genshin Impact

Like many characters in the game, players can obtain Lan Yan through the Gachapon Wishes, using either Destinies or Protogems collected during gameplay. As a four-star character, she has favorable odds of being acquired through this method, whether from permanent or limited-time banners.

The initial chance to get Lan Yan will arise from two active Gachapon banners in the latter half of version 5.3 of the game. These banners, named “Cinders of the Bonfire” and “Ray of the Night,” will be available starting January 21, 2025.

Traits of Lan Yan

Below is the basic overview of Lan Yan and her main characteristics:

“A wicker weaver from the Chenyu Valley, she is quick-witted, resilient, and as agile as a mountain spring.”

• Rarity: 4 stars.
• Weapon Type: Catalyst.
• Element / Vision: Anemo.
• Team Role: Support.
• Region: Liyue.

Abilities and Skills of Lan Yan

Next, we will examine all of Lan Yan’s unique combat abilities. Remember that these skills can be unlocked as you level her up, enhancing her power.

Talents

Here are the normal attacks, talents, and elemental abilities of Lan Yan:

• Normal Attack: Water Pheasant:
  • Normal Attack: Performs up to four strikes with her plumaluna rings, dealing Anemo damage.
  • Charged Attack: Using stamina to launch a plumaluna ring, inflicting Anemo damage.
  • Plunging Attack: Channels wind power and dives down to hit the ground, dealing Anemo damage to foes in her descent.
• Briznafénix Dance: Creates a briznafénix shield, swiftly dashes forward, and rebounds into the air upon contact with the target. The shield’s damage absorption is based on Lan Yan’s attack, having 250% effectiveness against Anemo damage. While airborne from her elemental skill, she can launch plumaluna rings at enemies if she reuses her skill or performs a normal attack. These rings will revolve around nearby enemies twice after hitting, causing Anemo damage. Holding this ability allows her to aim and adjust the dash direction.
• Lunar Aurora: Lan Yan conjures a silver swallow plumalunar formation to draw nearby enemies and objects, delivering multiple hits of Anemo damage in an area.
• Fragrant Heart: While Lan Yan is in the party, her allies will not scare away crystaloptera or other creatures.
• Racular Blade: When the elemental skill dash hits a target, if it contacts Hydro, Pyro, Cryo, or Electro, the briznafénix shield changes element. The new shield has 250% efficiency in absorbing the corresponding element. If this change occurs, the plumaluna rings launched by Lan Yan gain a 50% damage bonus based on the corresponding element, classified as Elemental Skill damage.
• Celestial Exorcism Talisman: Damage from the elemental skill, Briznafénix Dance, and the ultimate ability, Lunar Aurora, increases by 309% and 774% respectively, based on Lan Yan’s Elemental Mastery.

Constellation

Here are the six tiers of Constellation and passive skills of Lan Yan:

• If someone walks among the clouds… After activating the elemental change from “Racular Blade,” when Lan Yan uses her elemental skill, Briznafénix Dance, to launch plumaluna rings at enemies, she will send an additional ring. This requires unlocking the passive talent “Racular Blade.”
• Jadeiridiscent Dance Attire: When your active character inflicts damage with a Normal Attack while the briznafénix shield is active, 40% of the shield’s damage absorption is restored, up to its original amount. This can only happen once every 2 seconds.
• White Phoenix Piercing Clouds: Enhances the skill level of Briznafénix Dance by +3, which can be increased to level 15.
• Blood Pearls of Dragon Raptor: After using the ultimate ability, Lunar Aurora, the Elemental Mastery of all nearby party members rises by 60 points for 12 seconds.
• The Happiness of Seeing You: Boosts the skill level of Lunar Aurora by +3, which can also reach level 15.
• Soaring like a Silver Phoenix: Increases the charges of Briznafénix Dance by 1.