Qingxiao

S1 gives Qingxiao three upgrades: 16% Crit Rate for all of her damage, a second Swordlight Ward stack for more protection, and Juque Perdition as an automatic extra Basic Attack hit. Heavy Attack - Stringblade fills both Ward stacks, so the defensive benefit requires no change to her inputs.

The first-rotation damage uses this action order: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1 > Juque Perdition (automatic) > Basic (Mid Air) 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1, 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. Qingxiao starts combat with 25 Exorcising Seal stacks, and Basic (Mid Air) 1 consumes all 25 to trigger Juque immediately after it. Each consumed seal makes the target take 4% more damage from that Juque, so consuming 25 seals gives this hit 100% increased damage taken. The Juque hit is automatic, so it requires no extra input and adds no time to the rotation.

That first Juque deals 107,443 Average DMG, helping raise the first-rotation total from 1,827,176 at S0 to 2,154,383 at S1. The 25 seals are granted only when Qingxiao enters combat, and S1 cannot restore them after they are consumed. The second rotation therefore uses the same action order without Juque after Basic (Mid Air) 1, but the 16% Crit Rate still raises its total from 2,167,484 to 2,430,847.

S1 is a strong opening-rotation damage and comfort upgrade, but its extra Juque hit does not repeat in later rotations until S6 gives Qingxiao a way to generate new seals.

S2 improves Heavy Attack - Stringblade in two ways: the hit gains 40% DMG Multiplier, and it applies 6 Mindlock stacks instead of 3. The 6 stacks replace the original 3; they are not added on top of them.

The damage values use this action order: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1 > Juque Perdition (automatic in the first rotation only) > Basic (Mid Air) 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1, 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. The second rotation follows the same order without the early Juque hit because the combat-entry seals were already consumed.

With these actions, Qingxiao reaches 11 Mindlock in the first rotation instead of 8, and 21 in the second rotation instead of 15. The higher count strengthens Heavy Attack - Stringblade, Ephemeral Transcendence Stages 1-4, Heaven's Reckoning, and Billows Beneath Heaven because those attacks scale with Mindlock. S2 also raises the maximum Mindlock and Gathered Mind count to 25, but it does not give Qingxiao 25 stacks automatically; she still has to build them through the listed actions.

Heavy Attack - Stringblade rises from 165,399 to 241,927 Average DMG in the first rotation and from 197,647 to 300,414 in the second. Total damage rises from 2,154,383 to 2,297,910 in the first rotation and from 2,430,847 to 2,687,075 in the second.

S2 requires no new action, but it is a major upgrade because it strengthens the Heavy Attack itself, raises every later hit that uses Mindlock, and gives S3 and S6 more Mindlock to scale from.

S3 is one of Qingxiao's largest damage upgrades because it strengthens Heaven's Reckoning and Billows Beneath Heaven near the end of her rotation, while also improving her Tune Strain - Interfered response. Billows gains 100% Crit DMG, but that bonus applies only to Billows and is not a 100% increase to all of Qingxiao's damage.

The damage values use this action order: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1 > Juque Perdition (automatic in the first rotation only) > Basic (Mid Air) 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1, 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. The second rotation follows the same order without the early Juque hit because the combat-entry seals were already consumed.

When Heavy Attack - Stringblade is used, World in Chorus gains stacks equal to Qingxiao's current Mindlock count. Each World in Chorus stack adds 3% DMG Multiplier to the later Heaven's Reckoning hit, and all of those stacks are consumed after Heaven's Reckoning. Qingxiao has 11 Mindlock at that point in the first rotation, giving Heaven's Reckoning 33% DMG Multiplier, and 21 in the second rotation, giving it 63%.

Gathered Mind also applies 2 Tune Strain - Interfered stacks instead of 1. This raises the active Interfered response from 2 to 3 stacks in the first rotation and from 3 to 4 in the second. It is still one Interfered application, so the extra stack does not create another Mindlock application by itself.

Heaven's Reckoning rises from 548,595 to 690,585 Average DMG in the first rotation, while Billows rises from 612,242 to 859,878. In the second rotation, Heaven's Reckoning rises from 681,223 to 962,576 and Billows rises from 763,199 to 1,065,938. Total damage increases from 2,297,910 to 2,754,412 in the first rotation and from 2,687,075 to 3,355,377 in the second.

S3 adds no new action, but its value becomes larger in later rotations because the higher Mindlock count gives Heaven's Reckoning more World in Chorus stacks.

S4 gives 20% ATK for 8 seconds to the character who inflicts Tune Strain - Shifting. Only the character who applies Shifting receives the ATK increase, so this is not a team-wide 20% ATK effect.

The damage values use this action order: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1 > Juque Perdition (automatic in the first rotation only) > Basic (Mid Air) 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1, 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. The second rotation follows the same order without the early Juque hit because the combat-entry seals were already consumed.

Qingxiao's Intro - Tonality Shift applies Shifting and activates the 20% ATK increase. The Intro hit cannot benefit from an effect that activates after it lands, so its damage stays at 10,919. Basic (Mid Air) 1 is the next hit and increases from 11,511 to 12,246 Average DMG, while later attacks benefit only if they land before the 8-second duration ends. S4 adds no extra hit or input.

Total damage rises from 2,754,412 to 2,922,427 in the first rotation and from 3,355,377 to 3,561,075 in the second. S4 is useful, but it is rated lower because it provides a short personal ATK increase without improving Qingxiao's stack mechanics or adding a new damage source.

S5 adds 100% DMG Multiplier to Resonance Skill - Severing Note: Judgement. It strengthens the existing Judgement hit during the Forte Skill part of Qingxiao's rotation; it does not create another hit or require another input.

The damage values use this action order: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1 > Juque Perdition (automatic in the first rotation only) > Basic (Mid Air) 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1, 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. The second rotation follows the same order without the early Juque hit because the combat-entry seals were already consumed.

Judgement rises from 36,348 to 72,697 Average DMG in the first rotation and from 39,058 to 78,115 in the second. Because S5 affects only this one existing hit, total damage increases by a much smaller amount: from 2,922,427 to 2,958,776 in the first rotation and from 3,561,075 to 3,600,133 in the second.

S5 also reduces Flight Qi cost by 30% while Qingxiao moves in Sword Flight. This makes exploration and flying more comfortable, but it adds no combat damage and does not change the action order shown above.

S5 is therefore a narrow improvement to one hit plus movement comfort, rather than a major upgrade to Qingxiao's full damage loop.

S6 is Qingxiao's largest full-kit damage upgrade. It makes the target take 40% more damage from four specific attacks: Heavy Attack - Stringblade, Heaven's Reckoning, Billows Beneath Heaven, and Juque Perdition. The 40% effect does not apply to Qingxiao's other attacks.

S6 also strengthens Qingxiao's Tune Strain - Interfered response by 20% as a separate effect. Once that response is active after Tune Break, it improves every eligible later hit, so Ephemeral Transcendence can gain damage even though it is not one of the four attacks listed above.

The first rotation uses this action order: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1 > Juque Perdition (25 seals, automatic) > Basic (Mid Air) 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1 > Juque Perdition (11 seals, automatic) > Basic 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. The second rotation uses: Intro > Basic (Mid Air) 1, 2, 3 > Basic (Ground) 1, 2 > Forte Skill > Heavy Attack > Basic 1 > Juque Perdition (21 seals, automatic) > Basic 2, 3, 4 > Heavy Attack > Liberation > Echo > Outro. Juque is inserted into these lines only to show when it triggers; both hits are automatic, require no extra input, and add no rotation time.

Heavy Attack - Stringblade now generates Exorcising Seal stacks equal to Qingxiao's current Mindlock count. Heavy Attack - Stringblade cannot consume those seals itself, so Basic 1, which is Ephemeral Transcendence Stage 1, consumes them and triggers Juque immediately afterward. This is why the first rotation generates 11 new seals at the first Heavy Attack and the second rotation generates 21.

Juque also gains two separate bonuses from Mindlock: 2% DMG Amplification per stack and 2% DMG increase per stack. The first 7 Mindlock stacks add another 5% per stack to each of those two bonuses, so they are calculated as two damage layers instead of one combined increase.

In the first rotation, the early Juque uses the 25 seals granted when combat starts and deals 147,698 Average DMG. It is the weaker Juque because it triggers before Tune Break and has only 1 Mindlock. The second Juque triggers after Basic 1 with 11 seals, 11 Mindlock, and the active post-Tune-Break response, raising it to 324,029.

The second rotation does not receive the 25 combat-entry seals again. Its first Heavy Attack instead generates 21 seals from 21 Mindlock, and Basic 1 triggers one Juque for 494,042 Average DMG.

S6 also raises the first-rotation Average DMG of Heavy Attack - Stringblade from 278,106 to 406,761, Heaven's Reckoning from 734,692 to 1,074,567, and Billows from 914,797 to 1,337,990. Total damage rises from 2,958,776 to 4,239,796 in the first rotation and from 3,600,133 to 5,343,811 in the second.

S6 is a major final upgrade because it strengthens Qingxiao's main finishers, improves her post-Tune-Break damage, and makes automatic Juque hits repeatable in later rotations.