Lohen Build Guide

Lohen + Durin Melt

Lohen - Durin - Nicole - Xilonen or Citlali or Emilie

• Nicole is near necessary for this team to function at a high level. No other support can buff both Lohen and Durin at once to this extent. Alternatives can include the other of Xilonen or Citlali, Prune at C6, or someone like Bennett.
  
• Xilonen and Citlali RES Shred options available, with Xilonen being better for Lohen's damage and Citlali being better for Dark Mode Durin's damage.
• Citlali’s extra Cryo application and ability to consistently give Thrilling Tales of Dragon Slayers to Durin every rotation make her excellent for buffing Durin’s damage, but the only thing she gives to Lohen is Scroll of the Hero of Cinder City.
• Xilonen buffs both Lohen and Durin, but not as much as Citlali buffs Durin. Xilonen will typically only be able to give the Scroll buff to Durin, but her RES Shred is very good for Lohen. She also leads to shorter rotations than Citlali.
• Some lesser options include Prune (particularly at C6) and Sucrose.
  
• Emilie as the 4th slot will instead turn the team to a BurnMelt team where Lohen does most of the Melts. Lohen applies enough Pyro to flip the aura back to Cryo sometimes, but he will Melt more than not. This reduces Durin's damage share significantly, but it does include Emilie. Durin might want to use Light mode with Emilie instead of Dark Mode.

Lohen’s Cryo Elemental application has some intricacies, so make sure to perform Lohen combos that apply Cryo consistently enough for Dark Mode Durin to Melt all Meltable hits.

Example Rotation

1. Nicole Skill Revelation: Uncreated Light
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2. Durin Skill Binary Form: Convergence and Division + N1 Burst (Dark mode) Principle of Purity: As the Light Shifts
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3. Xilonen Skill Yohual's Scratch + N2
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4. Lohen on-field combo

Lohen Freeze

Lohen - Mona - Escoffier - Furina

• Mona is the only Hexerei unit that can slot in here. Lohen activates her own Hexerei buffs and lets her hold Celestial Gift, making her by far the strongest option here.
• Escoffier and Furina form the best available core. Sub-DPS damage for Lohen's Passives and strong buffs make them difficult to replace. Yelan can be decent over Furina.

This is the best team for Lohen's personal damage, but not his overall best. He can be competitive with a C0 Skirk on Finale of the Deep if Lohen is using a Polearm likePrimordial Jade Winged-Spear.

Example Rotation

1. Furina Skill Salon Solitaire + Burst Let the People Rejoice
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2. Escoffier Skill Low-Temperature Cooking + Burst Scoring Cuts
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3. Mona Skill Mirror Reflection of Doom + Burst Stellaris Phantasm + N3
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4. Lohen on-field combo

Lohen Stellar-Conduct

Lohen - Yae Miko - Nicole - ( Sandrone )

• Yae Miko is pesently indispensable to any Stellar-Conduct team, but this goes double for Lohen. He requires strong Sub-DPS, and there isn't anyone else that can achieve those requirements in this team.
  
• Nicole is similarly necessary to the function of this core. No other Hexerei unit will make this team nearly as strong. Fischl can slot in here, but she will be significantly worse.
  
• Sandrone is pesently required to activate the Stellar-Conduct reaction.

An option that Lohen is surprisingly decent at. He is currently nearly as good as Wriothesley and Cyno with all of them needing Sandrone in the last 4th slot, though this is likely to change with more dedicated Stellar-Conduct units. Teams with on-field Sandrone are stronger than all of the above.

Lohen benefits from the buff of the Polestar Field, and he is also able to slightly extend rotations if necessary due to Sandrone not having to switch in at all.

Example Rotation

1. Yae Miko Skill Yakan Evocation: Sesshou Sakura x3
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2. Nicole Skill + Burst Revelation: Ladder of Divine Ascent
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3. Lohen on-field combo

BiS Option: Disaster and Remorse

Lohen's Signature Weapon. Unfortunately does not offer any team DPS options, but it’s a big enough boost to his personal DPS that it rivals Durin's Athame Artis in terms of power in their teams together. About a 10-15% team DPS increase over Deathmatch.

Standard 5 star option: Primordial Jade Winged-Spear

Typically Lohen’s second best option – it has the same statline as his signature alongside a passive he can make good use of thanks to his rapid attacks. About 5% better than Deathmatch for team DPS.

Other 5* stat sticks:

Generally, most of them are a little bit better than Deathmatch and a bit worse than PJWS, and generally stay within that range. If you have PJWS, you should use it.

Best 4 star options:

Deathmatch

Lohen’s best 4* option. Ballad of the Fjords can also be very strong in a team like Emilie BurnMelt.

Missive Windspear

An entirely free option if you did the event that rewarded it, a little bit worse than Deathmatch at R1 in a team where the EM is relevant.

Best free option: White Tassel

The best entirely free option available to Lohen. About 5% worse than Deathmatch R1 in teams with Nicole, but quite a bit worse in teams without her due to the abysmally low Base ATK.

BiS Option: A Day Carved From Rising Winds

By far Lohen’s best set. He’s not well equipped to use any supportive sets, and Rising Winds tends to be the strongest set for any Hexerei on-fielder. Durin will also want to use this set usually, so getting good pieces on this set is very important.

BurnMelt alternative: Unfinished Reverie

Quite good when using the Emilie BurnMelt team, although still not quite as good as Rising Winds.

Freeze alternatives: Blizzard Strayer, Marechaussee Hunter

Can be good options for Freeze, although difficult to manage with Crit Rate that high. The latter is only usable with Furina.

2p2p Combos: Will do until you get a usable 4pc, but are clearly worse than those usable 4 pieces.

1. Elemental Skill
2. Elemental Burst

Lohen's Normal Attack and Charged Attack multipliers during his Special Skill State are found in his Elemental Skill Talent, making his NA Talent useless. Elemental Burst will be worth leveling, but will offer much less than the Skill talent.

Overview

Lohen’s main method of dealing damage on-field is entering the special ‘Masterstroke’ state through his Elemental Skill and unleashing rapid Normal Attacks, Charged Attacks to accumulate a resource called Joy while spending it with his empowered Elemental Skills or his Elemental Burst. His only requirement for accessing most of his kit’s power is having teammates that deal enough off-field damage to stack his ‘Will to Win’ resource.

Elemental Skill & Joy

Lohen’s Elemental Skill has an 18 second cooldown, and Masterstroke lasts for 13 seconds (slightly extendable through hitlag). During Masterstroke, Lohen’s Normal and Charged Attacks gain a non-overrideable Cryo infusion and increased damage, and will accumulate a special resource called ‘Joy’. Once Lohen has accumulated enough Joy, he will gain access to his Enhanced Elemental Skill called ‘Etched into Bone and Soul’. Lohen is able to use this Enhanced Skill strictly up to 3 times during a single instance of Masterstroke.

Lohen’s Masterstroke Charged Attack has a very high multiplier. Because of this, Lohen generally wants to opt for using it as much as possible. To do this, Lohen should seek to use N1C, that is, a Normal Attack immediately followed by a Charged Attack, as much as possible. These N1C chains end up being Lohen’s main source of damage.

When under Masterstroke, if any of Lohen’s attacks hit an enemy, he will generate 1 Cryo Particle. This has a cooldown of 2 seconds, so Lohen will generally generate 6 Cryo Particles during his field time.

Each Normal Attack or Charged Attack that hits an enemy will grant Lohen 17 Joy, and this effect has a cooldown of 0.1 seconds. To cast Etched into Bone and Soul, Lohen must accumulate the maximum of 100 Joy, and will consume that Joy on cast.

Will to Win Explained: Off-field DMG and Base ATK

Additionally, when teammates that are off-field deal damage to enemies, they will accumulate a resource for Lohen called ‘Will to Win’. Lohen is able to spend his Will to Win with his Enhanced Skill or his Elemental Burst, which will consume all Will to Win and deal increased damage based on the amount consumed.

At C0, Will to Win has a maximum of 100. Lohen is only able to gain it when teammates deal off-field damage, and there is a strict requirement on it: Lohen will accumulate 20 Will to Win if the off-field teammates’ damage instances deals an amount of damage equal or higher to 10 times Lohen’s Base ATK – NOT his Total ATK. Otherwise, Lohen will gain 1 Will to Win per damage instance.

Base ATK is the combination of a character’s Base ATK (in this case, Lohen’s 343 and change) and the Base ATK of the weapon they’re using – with his signature, which has a Base ATK of 674, each damage instance over 10170 DMG will give Lohen 20 Will to Win. This is not particularly difficult to achieve in Hexerei teams, as long as you’re using decent off-field buffing units like Nicole.

If an off-field damage instance is 30 times Lohen’s Base ATK or above (in the above example, 30540 damage), with his Ascension 1 Passive, that damage instance will generate another 60 Will to Win for Lohen.

If the amount of Will to Win Lohen consumes with his Enhanced Skill or his Elemental Burst is at 50 or more of its maximum and Hexerei: Secret Rite is active by having 2 or more Hexerei units in the party, Lohen’s NA and CA DMG will be increased by 40% for 6 seconds. This incentivizes Lohen to use his Enhanced Skill even more when Will to WIn is high.

Elemental Burst

Lohen’s Elemental Burst has an Energy cost of 60 on a 15 second cooldown, and deals significant Cryo DMG that additionally consumes all Will to Win and scales with the amount consumed. It should be used to replace other hits in Lohen’s rotation whenever it is available, so as to not needlessly extend the rotation, but building Energy Recharge specifically for it is not recommended.

Other Passive Effects

Lohen’s Exploration passive has a combat effect that gives him +1 talent level to Elemental Skill for 9 seconds upon entering Masterstroke, which is increased by 6 seconds if no other party member’s talent level is lower than his Skill talent level.

If an off-field teammate triggers an Elemental Reaction, Lohen will buff their and his own ATK by 15% with his Ascension 4 Passive.

Combo Optimizations

Lohen’s easiest to perform combo that’s also strong during his field-time is 12N1C alongside 3 Enhanced Skill casts. However, with good enough mechanics, he is able to get more N1Cs than 12. Generally, you will want to use 3 Enhanced Skills if possible, and it will usually result in more damage.

1. 2N1C + Enhanced Skill
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2. 6N1C + Enhanced Skill
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3. 2N1C + Enhanced Skill
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4. 2N1C AND / OR Elemental Burst

Using Elemental Burst can come in place of the 2N1C. You can opt to use them together, and whether that’s worth it or not will depend on rotation.

Lohen Cryo Application Intracacies

Lohen’s Cryo Application is more unique than most, and has a cap on how much Cryo he can apply within a few seconds despite how fast he attacks. A combo like 12N1C should apply Cryo consistently enough to Melt all of Durin, but it is worth experimenting and trying different combinations if it’s not working out for you.

Lohen was officially released as a 5-star Cryo character in Genshin Impact on June 9, 2026, during the Version 6.5 update (also referred to as Version Luna VII).