Da Pan Build Guide

Da Pan Chen Qianyu Akekuri Catcher

F2P Friendly team that uses Da Pan as your main DPS. Chen and Catcher provide Vulnerable Stacks and Akekuri gives some extra SP for your team. Use Skills to apply Vulnerable Stacks as needed, and cash out with Da Pan’s Combo Skill. The team can be upgraded as you get new operators. 

Da Pan Lifeng Chen Qianyu Ardelia

High-Cost version of the previous team. Lifeng also provides Vulnerable Stacks and Physical Susceptibility. Ardelia can apply Corrosion, more Physical Susceptibility and heal for your team. Keep in mind this team lacks Vanguard agents so you’ll need be careful about your SP consumption.

What about Endministrator / Pogranichnik?

Da Pan, Endmin and Pogranichnik all want to consume Vulnerable Stacks from enemies, this doesn’t mean you can’t run two (or all) of them together, but you’ll need to play around multiple Crush/Breach applications and know when to use them or you risk messing up with Da Pan’s Combo Trigger (4 Vulnerable Stacks).

Weapons

• Best-in-Slot: Exemplar
• Alt: Sundered Prince
• Alt: Ancient Canal

Da Pan benefits from all effects provided by Exemplar. Some of the Weapon effect requires using Battle Skills and Ultimates for increased Physical DMG%, but the stacks last long enough so you don’t need to worry about it, as you’ll naturally use these skills through the fight.

Sundered Prince is an Alternative Set in case you’re on-fielding Da Pan. It gives increased Stagger to your Final Strikes and an ATK Boost after hitting the enemy with your Final Strike. The ATK buff has a low duration so make sure to activate it before using your skills.

Ancient Canal is Da Pan’s Signature. It synergizes well with Da Pan’s gameplay, but it focuses on crushing enemies. Use it if you don’t have any of the other options above.

Gear

• Gear Set: Type 50 Yinglung
• Armor: Type 50 Yinglung Heavy Armor
• Gloves: Swordmancer TAC Gauntlets
• Kit 1: Type 50 Yinglung Radar
• Kit 2: Type 50 Yinglung Radar

Type 50 Yinglung increases the damage of Da Pan’s next Combo Skill based on the number of Battle Skills used by your whole team since the last Combo Skill. It’s really good to increase the Burst Potential of Da Pan’s Combo Skill, but it doesn’t provide a lot of value outside of this.

• Gear Set: Swordmancer
• Armor: Type 50 Yinglung Heavy Armor
• Gloves: Swordmancer TAC Gauntlets
• Kit 1: Swordmancer Flint
• Kit 2: Swordmancer Flint

Swordmancer increases the Stagger efficiency and deals extra damage after applying a Physical Status to enemies. This is a general use set that finds better value when using it alongside Sundered Prince.

Combo Skill > Battle Skill = Ultimate > Basic Attack

As a DPS, all of Da Pan Skills should be leveled up to maximize his damage potential, but the Combo Skill is your main source of damage on Da Pan, so leveling it up first is ideal. Battle Skill and Ultimate come next, both for the damage and Vulnerable application. Basic Attacks will always be used in the downtime, but you can leave it at a lower priority.

• P1 Fine Cooking
• P2 Harmonized Flavors
• P3 Model Employee
• P4 Special Blend
• P5 Fire it Up

Da Pan’s Potentials are purely for his own damage, both against groups of enemies or a single target.

Potential 1 incentivizes you to use Da Pan’s Ultimate to finish smaller enemies.

Potential 2 increases the duration and max stacks of his 2nd Combat Talent, giving you faster Combo Skills through the fight. This requires hitting 3 or more enemies with your Ultimate to get all 3 possible stacks, so you won't benefit from this on single-target content.

Potential 3 gives extra stats for Da Pan.

Potential 4 reduces the energy cost of your Ultimate, giving you more damage, vulnerable stacks and more stacks for your Combat Talent.

Potential 5 adds some value for Da Pan vs Single-Target content. If the Ultimate hits only a single enemy, it applies one extra Vulnerable Stack to the target. But it has a long cooldown, so you won’t notice it that much.

Keep in mind that vertically investing in Arknights Endfield is not recommended and you should treat these as a bonus damage/utility for your Operator.

The game plan is simple, you stack 4 Vulnerable and this triggers his Combo Skill. Activate it to apply Crush on the enemy and deal massive damage. His Battle Skill and Ultimate help you with this, but having other sources will help you to both activate his Combo Skill and also maintain Vulnerable Stacks on enemies, in order to benefit from the increased damage against Vulnerable enemies.

The Ultimate applies 2 stacks of Vulnerable and activates his 2nd Combat Talent for reduced Cooldown on his next Combo Skill, increasing the frequency that you burst down the Vulnerable Stacks on enemies.

Da Pan will release on January 22nd, 2026 along with the release of Arknights: Endfield.

Da Pan is a Standard Operator, meaning they are permanently available through the gacha system.