Honkai Star Rail Yunli build: Best Relic sets, Light Cones, teams, Traces priority, and materials

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Honkai Star Rail Yunli build guide (Image via HoYoverse) — Yunli in Honkai Star Rail (Image via HoYoverse)

Many players are looking for the best Honkai Star Rail Yunli build to make sure the DPS unit deals a ridiculous amount of damage while fighting. To build the perfect Yunli, Trailblazers will need the best Light Cones, Relics, Planar Ornaments, and fully leveled-up Traces.

This article lists everything you need to have the perfect Yunli in Honkai Star Rail.

Note: This article is subjective and solely reflects the writer’s opinion.

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The complete Honkai Star Rail Yunli build guide

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Yunli in Honkai Star Rail excels in dealing follow-up attack damage to enemies. Therefore, you should look for Relic sets and Light Cone that can amplify her follow-up attack damage.

What Traces should you prioritize for Yunli?

Since Yunli’s main source of damage is her Ultimate ability’s Parry counter, it is the most important ability that Trailblazers should level up first. Here is Yunli’s Trace priority order:

Ultimate > Passive Talent > Skill > Basic ATK

Best Relic sets for Yunli

The Wind-soaring Valorous Relic set (Image via HoYoverse)

Yunli can deal a significant amount of damage with her follow-up attacks. When building this 5-star Destruction unit, you should farm for Relics that boost FUA damage.

The best Relic sets for Yunli are as follows:

4-piece The Wind-soaring Valorous: The 4-piece set bonus boosts the wielder’s CRIT Rate and Ultimate damage for a turn when they trigger their follow-up attack.
4-piece The Ashblazing Grand Duke: This Relic set boosts the user’s ATK whenever they launch a follow-up attack. The ATK buff can stack up to six times which makes this set quite strong on Yunli.

Best Planar Ornament sets for Yunli

The Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves Planar Ornament set (Image via HoYoverse)

As for the best Planar Ornament sets for Yunli, there are two options:

2-piece Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves: This set grants the unique buff “Merit” when the wielder launches a follow-up attack. A stack of this unique buff boosts the wielder’s follow-up attack damage. When the user has five stacks in possession, their CRIT DMG gets boosted by an additional 25%.
2-piece Inert Salsotto: Passively boosts the wielder’s CRIT Rate. When the user’s CRIT Rate is more than 50%, their ultimate and follow-up attack damage receives a 15% damage boost.

The stat priority for both the Relic and Planar Ornament sets are as follows:

Main stats

Body: CRIT Rate/DMG
Boot: ATK%
Planar Sphere: Physical DMG Bonus/ATK%
Link Rope: ATK%

Sub-stats

CRIT DMG/Rate
ATK%
Flat ATK
Effect RES

Light Cone recommendation for Yunli

On The Fall on an Aeon Light Cone in Honkai Star Rail (Image via HoYoverse)

When building Yunli in Honkai Star Rail, you need to give her a proper Light Cone. As she is a limited-time character, her signature Light Cone, Dance at Sunset is the best option for her. However, Trailblazers can also use other 5 or 4-star alternatives on her.

The best Light Cones for Yunli are listed below:

Dance at Sunset: This is Yunli’s signature Light Cone, which can be obtained from its respective banner. This is the best option for her since it is tailor-made for her.
On The Fall on an Aeon: This Destruction Light Cone is a great F2P option for Yunli. Acquiring it is also easy since players need to save their Herta Bonds to purchase it from the Herta Store.
Under the Blue Sky: This is one of the best 4-star LC options for Yunli as it can passively boost the wielder’s ATK and CRIT Rate when they defeat an adversary.