Buling Best Build Guide

Buling is a 4-star Electro Rectifier Support character with abilities ranging from healing, to Electro Flare application, to general and specialized buffs oriented towards Skill damage dealers. Specialized in buffing Skill damage Main DPS characters like Hsin, Carlotta and Phrolova, while retaining more generically applicable buffs for account-wide use, Buling is a character with easy gameplay yet pretty viable buffs that are definitely worth checking out.

Key Mechanics & Buffs

Buling’s kit allows her to provide the team with the following array of buffs & utilities when fully executing her rotation:

• 10% team-wide Skill DMG Bonus for 24s after casting her Enhanced Ultimate and any character’s Intro, which can go up to 25% when a Second Intro is cast (goes up to 50% at S6);

• 15% team-wide General DMG Amplification for 30s when casting her Outro (doesn’t expire when swapping);

• 25% team-wide ATK for 20s with the Rejuvenating Glow Echo set and Fallacy of No Return (which she should always run in her current teams);

• Healing on her Intro, some of her Heavy Attacks and her Outro (constant off-field healing to the active character);

• Periodic Electro Flare application via her Intro and enhanced Ultimate (turns into Electro Rage at 10 stacks or above - deals periodic damage to afflicted enemies, possibly enhanced if Electro Rage is also applied up to 10 stacks);

• Small amounts of enemy grouping via her Skill.

As can be seen above, a lot of her kit revolves around building up to an Enhanced Ultimate, and that is indeed the focus of her kit; obtained by activating 2 of her unique set of Heavy Attacks, Buling’s gameplay revolves around generating and consuming at least 4 Trigrams in order to access her Enhanced Ultimate to apply the majority of her buffs to then end her rotation.

Moveset & Rotation

Aside from some specific Heavy Attacks, Buling will always use almost all of her moveset to execute her rotations so all of her available moves are worth using. They all revolve around accomplishing the goal of generating enough Trigrams to access her enhanced Ultimate.

Buling possesses several ways to generate Trigrams, including her Basic 2, Basic 4, Skill and Mid-Air Attack. We make use of all of these features in her rotation. She can generate Thunder Trigrams and Mountain Trigrams, the former being acquired via her Basic 4, Skill and Mid-Air Attack while the latter is only acquired via her Basic 2. This causes an imbalance of Trigrams and she will tend to generate many more Thunder than Mountain Trigrams. Different Heavy Attacks exist depending on the combinations of Trigrams, but in practice we will use the “Mountain over Thunder” and “Twin Thunders” attacks to execute our rotations (since they can be generated in this order the quickest).

To do so, we generate a Mountain and Thunder Trigram by executing a Basic Attack 2 into Basic Attack 4 (without an Intro available, to generate extra Concerto Energy) or Mid-Air Attack (with an Intro available, since her Intro gives the Concerto needed for this), then we can use her Skill which directly combos into her Basic 4 for 2 quick extra Thunder Trigrams. Since we’re holding the max of 4 Trigrams, we can then cast her Heavy Attacks to access our Enhanced Ultimate and finish her rotation.

Buling’s Dodge Counter also allows her to directly transition into her Basic Attack 3, which means it’s perfectly usable to follow with the rest of your rotation if necessary. 

Meta Position & Conclusion

Buling’s meta position has changed a lot since her initial release. Most notably, the release of Hsin and Endstate Matrix have allowed her to find a lot more use on many accounts. She is generally always better than Baizhi, possesses 2 Vigor, and has a brand new Electro Flare and Skill Damage team synergy in the form of Hsin. This allows her to find use on the majority of the accounts in the game.

Indeed, she almost does not need any investment, as her Trial build does the job completely fine for Endstate Matrix at S2+ (for Energy Regen purposes). At S0, some uninvested Rejuvenating Glow echoes with enough Energy Regen to scrape by, make her very easily usable with minimal investment as well. She is optimizable for a bit more damage if you really want to, and her S6 is a big increase to her relevancy in teams like Phrolova and Carlotta, as it allows her to provide bigger Skill damage buffs (where she’d otherwise just be outclassed by Verina significantly, Buling matches her with her S6).

In conclusion, Buling is a decent F2P-friendly generalist Support. For budget Electro Flare/Skill damage teams, or just as a better generalist than Baizhi in Endstate Matrix, she is very likely to find a use case somewhere in your Matrix runs, even though it’s unlikely you use her in other places unless you’re a beginner. As a 4-star Support though, she gets the job done quite well, so consider giving her a go for your next Matrix run if you haven’t already.

Rotation & Gameplay

Buling’s gameplay loop is rather simple and leaves little room for optimization beyond learning her rotation correctly. Lacking in strong Swap Cancel windows and having a very straightforward rotation makes her a linear Support character that works in a simple, yet quite effective manner.

To generate her 4 Trigrams necessary to conclude her rotation, she must use several key abilities being her Basic 2, Basic 4, Skill and Mid-Air Attack, which we can combine to create the following rotatuions:

No Intro Rotation

As Buling is the Support of the teams where she’s involved, she will want to open the team’s rotation cycle without an Intro available, as follows:

• Basic 1

• Basic 2

• Basic 3

• Basic 4 (Cancel animation endlag via Skill)

• Skill

• Basic 4

• Heavy: Twin Thunders

• Heavy: Mountain Over Thunder (Cancel animation endlag via Ultimate)

• Ultimate: Flashing Thunder Spell - Harmony

• Outro

However, this rotation is also the fastest one she has, as her Intro is quite slow to cast and doesn’t provide much benefit other than extra Electro Flare application. For this reason, if her teammates (e.g Electro Rover) have a significant benefit in using their own Intro twice, she can do the above rotation indefinitely and let that extra Intro go to other characters on the team.

Intro Rotation

When Buling casts an Intro, she applies 4 stacks of Electro Flare to the enemy. It also gives her 10 extra Concerto Energy. This allows her to use the following rotation:

• Intro

• Basic 1

• Basic 2 (Cancel animation endlag via Jump) 

• Jump

• Basic: Mid-air Attack (Cancel animation endlag via Skill)

• Skill

• Basic 4

• Heavy: Mountain Over Thunder

• Heavy: Twin Thunders

• Ultimate: Flashing Thunder Spell - Harmony

• Outro

However, it’s quite a bit slower than rotating without an Intro, so if any of Buling’s teammates have a significant benefit from casting their own Intro twice, it’s recommended you do so.