Yun Jin is not a bad unit. Genshin Impact released Yun Jin in Update 2.4 and she’s a 4-star Geo polearm unit who plays a support role. With Yoimiya’s recent rerun currently live in Genshin Impact 2.8, we thought it would be a good idea to discuss the great synergy shared between these two characters where Yun Jin goes toe to toe with Bennett as Yoimiya’s best support.
Yoimiya and Yun Jin Synergy in Genshin Impact
Yoimiya is the strongest single-target DPS in the game so she’s a great choice to safely deal with world bosses and weekly bosses without risking close-range combat. Her primary damage comes from her normal attacks which turn into Pyro damage after casting her elemental skill.
Yun Jin is a support unit that buffs normal attacks and is thus best used as support for on-field or main DPS characters. She isn’t as viable as Bennett since he buffs all forms of DMG from his teammates. There are only a few DPS units that use normal attacks for their damage like Ningguang, Zhongli, Ayato, Noelle, Hu Tao, and Yoimiya.
Out of these Zhongli is better off used as a dedicated shielder, Noelle and Ningguang barely need Yun Jin’s buffs and Hu Tao will need to change her entire playstyle to accommodate Yun Jin as support. Only Ayato and Yoimiya can effectively use Yun Jin’s buffs and of these two Yoimiya is the one who best benefits from it.
How Yun Jin’s Buff Works
Yun Jin buffs the normal attacks of her teammates from her 12s elemental burst which converts her total DEF into a flat DMG buff (61% DEF at Talent Lv 11). This flat damage increase gets added to a character’s normal attacks before damage multipliers like Crit damage, Vaporise/Melt, elemental damage etc are counted.
This means that these multipliers will now account for the buffed normal attack as the base dmg which means an enormous overall increase in damage depending on how good your main DPS is with all the crit investment and dmg buffs. Yoimiya best benefits from this as she has one of the highest normal attack scaling and one of the highest normal attack multipliers as a single-target DPS.
The best artifact set that synergizes with this buff is Shimenawa’s Reminiscence which is also Yoimiya’s best artifact set. Yun Jin and Yoimiya thus naturally synergize well. With Yun Jin’s constellations- specifically C1, C2, and C6, she becomes the best support for Yoimiya even surpassing a fully built Bennett. At C6, Yun Jin increases the ATK speed of those within her elemental burst by a whopping 12%. With Yoimiya’s fast normal attack string, she can dish out another entire normal attack combo with this attack speed buff.
By having Yun Jin as your Yoimiya support you also relieve Bennett from this position thus allowing him to buff your other teams where he may be better used. If you have Yun Jin’s constellations and you consistently use Yoimiya as a DPS then we highly recommend you build Yun Jin as your Yoimiya support.