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A young man carrying a longsword who is frequently seen at book booths. He has a chivalrous heart and yearns for justice and fairness for all.

Basic Mechanics​

Skill Mechanics​

Xingqiu E Double Vaporize​

By: Zeitraffer#1074

Finding:

How to Vaporize both of Xingqiu’s E slashes with either Guoba or Amber

Evidence:
Video

There are 2 methods of doing it. You can use Xiangling’s E and time it on Guoba’s attack. The easier method is by using Amber’s ult, you only need to cast E to do it.

Significance:

For one-shot (or two-shot) compilations, although I’m not sure if this team comp is better since you will lose Barbara’s E buff.

Xingqiu Rain Sword DMG Reduction is a conferrable attribute​

By: jamberry#7142
Added: 2021-07-18 (v. 1.6)
Last tested: 2021-07-18 (v. 1.6)
Discussion

Finding:
Xingqiu Rain Sword DMG reduction does not take the Hydro DMG bonus gained from Kazuha's A4 into account. Because it's an attribute sharing effect which scale based on a character's own attributes, therefore would not factor in to calculations of further similarly scaling attribute sharing effects.

Evidence:
Rain Swords Unbuffed
Rain Swords Buffed by Kazuha A4

Significance:
A team consists of Kazuha and Xingqiu may have marginally less survivability than they would, because damage reduction did not count as a conferrable attribute.

XQ rain sword Shattering cooldown​

By: Lee Roy Leoncio#3769
Added: 2021-09-06 (v. 2.1)
Last tested: 2021-09-06 (v. 2.1)
Discussion

Finding:
The shattering of Xingqiu's rain swords on his Elemental Skill has a cooldown of 1.5 seconds before another rain sword can be shattered.

Evidence:
YouTube

Significance:
The 4 swords cannot shatter simultaneously, so you can have a very small window of safety after one sword is shattered.

Xingqiu’s Rain Sword Damage Reduction does Snapshot​

By: wiremash#0433

Finding:

Xingqiu's Rain Swords Do Snapshot

Evidence: YouTube

Tested with C2 Barbara and compared the received damage with and without the Hydro buff.

Significance:

While Xingqiu's Burst Hydro Swords are dynamic, the damage reduction from the Rain Swords is snapshot (both E and Q).

Editor’s Note:

Verified. Also, a similar instance occurs when using Streaming Essential Oil (25% Hydro DMG% increase potion), so we know it's not limited to just Barbara.

Xingqiu Damage Reduction is Affected By Omni DMG Bonus​

By: Balakin1#7545
Added: 2022-05-05 (v. 2.6)
Last tested: 2022-05-05 (v. 2.6)
Discussion

Finding:
Xingqiu's damage reduction is affected by omni-damage bonus effects such as the one from Mistsplitter's passive.

Evidence:

Explanation/Math:
For the "DR in theory" values, it was 26% + .2 * (81.6% + x), with x being 12% and (12 + 16)% being added for MSR0 and MSR2 respectively, otherwise 0
For the "DR in practice" values, it was 1-(largest number)/(No E's largest number)
Note: there are 3 damage numbers because I finished gathering clips vs a lawachurl before someone suggested using an Electro crystal
TL7, 81.6% Damage bonus w/o weapon

No E: 771, 1543, 3086 (0% DR)
Sac : 445, 890, 1780 (42.32% DR in theory, 42.320% DR in practice)
MSR0: 426, 853, 1706 (44.72% DR in theory, 44.718% DR in practice)
MSR2: 414, 828, 1656 (47.92% DR in theory, 46.338% DR in practice)

Significance:
Better understanding of Xingqiu's Damage Reduction and how it interacts with different sources of Elemental DMG Bonus.

[Deprecated] Xingqiu E Dash Cancel Animation​

By: Charliex3000#9403
Added: 2021-03-18 (v. 1.4)
Last tested: 2021-03-18 (v. 1.4)

Finding:

XQ E dash cancel is faster than ult cancelling.

Evidence:

Video

38 frames to dash cancel, 71 frames to ult cancel, 92 frames without a cancel to swap.

Significance:

Dash to swap is faster since it takes longer without a cancel to swap.

Xingqiu actual Rain Sword ICD​

By: Tsym#2586
Added: 2021-09-22 (v. 2.1)
Last tested: 2021-09-22 (v. 2.1)
Discussion

Finding:
Xingqiu Orbital ICD is 2.25 Seconds

Evidence:
Imgur: Swirl goes off at 00:56, 03:11, and 05:27

Significance:
Better knowledge for teambuilding and rotations.

Rain Swords Don't Reduce Burgeon DMG​

By: igneus#7654
Added: 2022-11-29 (v. 3.2)
Last tested: 2022-11-11 (v. 3.2)
Discussion

Finding:
Xingqiu's Rain Swords don't reduce the Burgeon DMG dealt to the player.

Evidence:
Imgur

Significance:
Further understanding of how the damage reduction from Rain Swords works.

Burst Mechanics​

Introverted Rainswords​

By: Isetfire#0428
Added: 2022-10-14
Discussion

Finding:
Burst Cancelling by using a special interaction on Xingqiu creates 2 bugs:

  1. Xingqiu's Burst Rainswords will not proc when you use his Burst and activate a special interaction at the same time, but the Burst Orbitals will remain.
  2. Xingqiu's Skill will no longer create Skill Rainsword Orbitals after Burst cancel until the next normal Burst.

Evidence:

  1. No Rainsword procs:
  1. No Orbital generation on Elemental Skill:

Some details were already found by Rathalos#2875. Refer to the Burst Cancelling Sheet for more detail.
Google Docs Link

Significance:
Mostly Fluff, but may happen during quests and commissions.

Xingqiu's Q Damage Calculation is Dynamic​

By: IonFox#8887

Theory:

XQ ult is dynamic and not a snapshot.

Evidence: Video (source : @Ashen Cenpi)

XQ ult is cast and used against an enemy to determine a baseline.

  • NingGuang holding 4 petra creates a Hydro crystal and picks it up, granting the team 35% Hydro damage.
  • Hydro sword damage then observed to increase.

Note: Crystal is picked up after the 2nd wave of swords so Hydro RES Shred from C2 already accounted for.

Significance:

XQ ult is dynamic and not a snapshot, buffs/value changes received after casting still affect damage. Previous interaction with dragonslayers is likely a result of the dragonslayers bug currently floating around.

Xingqiu Sword Rain "Buffering"​

By: Charliex3000#9403
Added: 2021-03-21 (v. 1.4)
Last tested: 2021-03-21 (v. 1.4)

Theory/Finding/Bug:

XQ ult wave comes out if you are in an auto animation at the time the ICD ends. It does not actually buffer.

Evidence:

Video

  • First set of 2: Click-> wait 500 ms -> click -> wait 600 MS -> swap
  • Second set of 2: Click -> wait 500 ms -> click -> wait 400 MS -> swap

Significance:

Clears up how exactly "XQ buffers." Additionally pending some extra tests about how long the active window for an auto to proc rain swords it.

Xingqiu Hydro Aura Persistence​

By: Sayline#5959
Added: 2021-04-05 (v. 1.4)
Last tested: 2021-04-05 (v. 1.4)

Finding:
After Xingqiu's Burst ends, there is a period where you can still imbue a Hydro aura even if the orbitals visually disappeared. Upon further investigation, XQ's orbitals don't disappear completely, rather, they degenerate into Particles of Hydro that still appear around XQ for a set duration of time (about 47 frames from the moment the swords blink before exploding until the last bits of Hydro Particles disappear).

Evidence:

  • Vid 1: I used XQ's Burst here. Video was left to play a bit longer to show Elemental aura gauge unit for "invisible" Hydro aura (it is 1U).
  • Vid 2: I used XQ's Skill here. Same "invisible" Hydro aura is observed as with his Burst.
  • GIF 1: Portion of Vid 2 where XQ orbitals break, magnified. Using this clip, I counted 47 frames for Hydro Particle persistence, starting from the moment the swords blink prior to shattering, and ending at the few frames when XQ imbues Hydro on the Ruin Guard.
  • GIF 2: Slowed down version of GIF 1. Here, the Hydro Particles are easier to observe.

Significance:
Limit testing of XQ.

Xingqiu Q's Rain Sword Damage Reduction Overrides E's​

By: Charliex3000#9403
Added: 2021-10-17 (v. 2.2)
Last tested: 2021-10-17 (v. 2.2)
Discussion

Finding:
Xingqiu's Q/E damage reduction snapshots. But with Q always overriding E before swapping.
After swapping, the Damage Reduction uses the more recently cast Q/E.

Evidence:
Always takes Q prior to swapping:
Video
Video

Takes more recently cast Q:
Video

Takes more recently cast E:
Video
Video
Video

Significance:
We understand more about how XQ's damage reduction works. Additionally, this means that doing Q-N1-E with Mistsplitter XQ gives better damage reduction than E-Q-N1, especially if using C6 Bennett or Chongyun.

Xingqiu Burst and Long Normal Attack Animation Interaction​

By: Kaya#5005, Xandellicia#4609, Dooners#6709
Added: 2022-04-10 (v. 2.6)
Last tested: 2022-04-10 (v. 2.6)
Discussion

Finding:
It is possible to trigger Xingqiu Burst Sword Rain multiple times on a single Normal Attack if the animation is long enough.

Evidence:
All Testing was done on 2.6 at 60 FPS. Did on both high ping and low ping and seems that its not ping dependant. Looks like if the animation is longer than 1 second, it can proc 2 sets of waves. Although some animations take a long time they don't trigger it like Keqing's one.

Significance:
Documenting how on-normal-animation effects can actually trigger multiple times if the animation is long enough. Other units may exist or be added with normal animation triggers or super long animations that may take advantage of this.

Each Burst Wave Snapshots When Summoned​

By: lucianekat#7757
Added: 2022-07-28 (v. 2.8)
Last tested: 2022-07-28 (v. 2.8)
Discussion

Finding:
Each wave of sword rain attacks from Xingqiu's Burst snapshots buffs when summoned.

Evidence:

  • Without TTDS, Xingqiu's ATK was 1181 and one hit from his Burst did 432 damage on a CRIT: YouTube
  • With TTDS, Xingqiu's ATK was 1485 and one hit from his Burst did 544 damage on a CRIT: YouTube
  • In this video, I applied the TTDS buff to Xingqiu (ATK became 1485) and then summoned a wave of Xingqiu's sword rain attacks just before the TTDS buff ran out. The result was that the sword rain attacks did 544 damage on a CRIT (the damage of a hit buffed by TTDS). We know TTDS expired before the enemy was hit since Xingqiu's ATK was 1181 on the character screen just before the attack hit.

Significance:
Better understanding of Xingqiu's Burst and snapshotting. Although in practice, Xingqiu's Burst uses buffs dynamically, once a wave of sword rain attacks is summoned, that wave has snapshotted Xingqiu's stats and is NOT dynamic anymore.

Constellation Mechanics​

C6: Hence, Call Them My Own Verses​

Xingqiu C6 3rd Wave Applies Hydro Twice​

By: gacha4life#2525
Added: 2021-03-17 (v. 1.4)
Last tested: 2021-03-17 (v. 1.4)

Evidence:

Video

Significance: For vape comps with C6 XQ, every 3rd sword wave basically guarantees Hydro aura. For Electro-Charged comps, it makes it more likely for the Electro to be the trigger. Generally speaking, it gives XQ greater Hydro aura potential.

Miscellaneous​

Xingqiu EQE vs QEE​

By: Steno#0119
Added: 2022-03-16 (v. 2.5)
Last tested: 2022-03-16 (v. 2.5)
Discussion

Finding:
Xingqiu EQE leads to about a 0.5 - 1s longer rotation time on average compared to QEE or EEQ in teams where Xingqiu E CD gates the rotation time.

This is because when performing EQE, his E CD is not ticking down during Q cast, whereas with QEE, this problem is avoided.

Additional notes:

  • QEE has the highest damage from C4.
  • EEQ has the highest Energy potential for Xingqiu due to him catching Particles from both Es.
  • EQE is the easiest combo to perform since it does not require dash cancels. In terms of animation time, the three combos are close enough that human error renders the differences minimal.

Evidence:
Video 1: This clip compares EQE (left) and QEE (right) side by side with E CDs shown in the bottom right corners. The frame counter starts at the beginning of the first E press on both clips, and right clip starts to pull ahead by a larger margin for every rotation.

Video 2 (evidence for additional notes): Very rough comparison between the three combos, NOT FRAME PERFECT, this is meant to show how fast an average player would perform these combos.

Significance:
Optimizing rotation times on teams with Xingqiu.