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Genshin Impact’s Lantern Rite festival is an annual celebration in Liyue where everyone comes together to celebrate and claim rewards. As part of the celebration, players often get to pull for new characters who get featured and play a central role in the story surrounding the event.
One such character who was introduced alongside the 2025 Lantern Rite festival was Lan Yan. She is an Anemo Catalyst user in the game and if you’re interested in pulling for her, here’s a guide that will help cover all the necessary details.
Best Lan Yan Weapons
Lan Yan is aCatalyst user in Genshin Impact,and she primarily functions as a support. As such, you’ll need Catalysts that can buff her own abilities as well as allies.
Damage buffs won’t be as useful, so you canavoid all the Crit Catalysts. However, anything that canboost ATK, shield strength, and Swirl efficiencywill be perfect on Lan Yan.
Memory of Dust
Five Star
Memory of Dust is perfect for Lan Yan as this Catalyst boasts amassive base ATK, and it also comes with ATK percentas a secondary stat. Additionally, it also provides aboost to shield strength,which is perfect for Lan Yan.
Starcaller’s Watch
If you don’t want to use Lan Yan as a shielder, but insteadfocus on her Swirl ability, Starcaller’s Watch is a great choice. You will receive a lot ofElemental Mastery bonusboth from its passive and substats, while alsoproviding a shieldthat works on the active character.
Thisshield increases the damage the active character deals, further improving the teamwide utility of Lan Yan.
Skyward Atlas
Lan Yan’sshield strength scales off ATK,which makesSkyward Atlasa pretty good choice for her. This Catalyst providesa lot of Base ATK and comes with ATK percent substatswhich helps push the value of Lan Yan’s shield.
Oathsworn Eye
Four Star
If you’re looking for a powerful four-star option,Oathsword Eyeis fantastic due to itsATK percent substat. Additionally, it providesa lot of Energy Recharge through its passivewhich makes it easier for Lan Yan to use her ultimate ability.
Sacrificial Fragments
If you’re looking for a more affordable option for your Swirl Lan Yan, thenSacrificial Fragmentsis worth considering. You receiveElemental Mastery from its substatswhich improves the effectiveness of the Swirls and thereby boosts Elemental Reaction damage.
Best Lan Yan Artifacts
The Artifact choice for Lan Yan ispretty standard,regardless of whether you build her as a Shield support or a Swirl support. However, you have to ensure that, irrespective of your choice of Artifacts, sheis able to use both the 2-pc and 4-pc passiveseffectively.
Here are some of thebest Artifacts for Lan Yan:
Viridescent Venerer
Irrespective of how you build Lan Yan,Viridescent Venereris the best Artifact set for her. Apart from theAnemo DMG bonus,it alsoboosts Swirl Damageandreduces the RES of enemies. This means
regardless of your build, Lan Yan willincrease the damage output for her team.
Gladiator’s Finale
Since Lan Yan’s shield strength depends on herATK values,using 2-pc Gladiator’s
Finale is worth it. However, the4-pc stats don’t benefit her, so you don’t need to worry
Shimenawa’s Remiscence
Similar to Gladiator’s Finale,2-pc Shimenawa’s Reminiscence provides ATK boost,
and you canpair it with 2-pc Gladiator’s Finale.This will significantlyboost Lan Yan’s
shield and help you stay alive in battle for longer.
Lan Yan Stat Priority
The kind of stats you go for when building Lan Yandepends on how you want to use her. If you are using her purely for theshield,thenfocusing on ATK statswill be more beneficial. However, if you’re looking to use her as anAnemo support, thenElemental Masterywill be a better stat for her.
Here are the stats for Lan Yan as aShield support unit:
ATK Percent
Energy Recharge > Elemental Mastery
Here are the stats for Lan Yan as aSwirl support unit:
Elemental Mastery
ATK% > Energy Recharge
While building Elemental Mastery is fine on Lan Yan, going for shield strength is a lot more valuable when it comes to utility and viability.
Best Lan Yan Team Composition
Lan Yan, being an Anemo unit, canslot into a wide variety of teamsbecause of her ability to use the Viridescent Venerer set. Regardless of how you play her, she will bebuffing the damage output for her entire team,which is a trait that is hard to come by in this game.
Lan Yan
Support
In this team, Lan Yan willfunction as the shielder and trigger the Viridescent Venerer buff. Ideally, you don’t want to bring her at the very start. Bring her in after the Pyro applier has been activated their skill to Swirl the element.
Bennett
Bennett will function as a healer, damage buffer, and above all theprimary Pyro applier. He will drop his ultimate and Lan Yan will follow that by using her Elemental abilities and Swirl the element.
Mavuika
DPS
Mavuika is the primary DPSfor the team as she willtake the field at the very end,after all the units have used their skills and buffed her damage output.
Xilonen
Buffer
Xilonen will boost Mavuika’s damage significantlywhile also healing the team alongside Bennett. She can rotate anytime she wants as long as Mavuika receives her buffs. Since she is Geo, Xilonen does not react with Lan Yan’s Swirl.
Lan Yan will function as the Anemo support here as well. She willhelp Swirl the Cryo elementand increase the damage of the main DPS.
Wriothesley
Wriothesley is the primary Cryo unitof the team as he willdrop in at the very endafter Lan Yan has used her Swirl and Pyro applier has activated their abilities.
Xiangling
Sub-DPS
Xiangling in this team helps apply Pyrowhile also dealing damage. She will helptrigger the Melt reactiononce Wriothesley uses his abilities on the field.
Xilonen is the primarysupport of the teamas she willboost the Cryo and Pyro damageof the individual units while also healing the team and protecting them in end-game content.
Lan Yan will help provide shields while alsobuffing the Electro-Charged reactionquite a bit. The biggest
benefit of this team is that you canboost any of the two elements in the teamand that will boost the
Ayato
Ayato will be the primarysource of Hydro in this teamwhile also dealing massive Hydro damage.
Ororon
Ororon candeal damage while also acting as the primary source of Electroto trigger the Electro-Charged reaction.
Xilonenbuffs the damage outputfor both the Hydro and Electro unit while also healing the entire team andhelping with survivability.
Lan Yan Talent Priority
Despite how you decide to use Lan Yan, herprimary utility comes from the shield,followed by her ability to provide decent crowd control. This means you need to level up her abilities properly so that she can become viable for end-game content.
you’re able to also level up Lan Yan’s Normal Attack, but it doesn’t offer any value to her kit and unless you really like the character, its worth skipping.
HerElemental Skill is the most important part of the kitas it increases the overall shield strength.You can also level-up the Elemental Burstas it can deal damage while providingcrowd control.
