Yanfei | Genshin Impact- Appearence, Personality, Rating, Best Builds and FAQs

To many in Liyue Harbor she is simply known as the “Law that walks” for her near encyclopedic knowledge of all of the country’s laws, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that’s all this antler-eared legal adviser is capable of! Yanfei is a Pyro Catalyst user who focuses on dealing damage with a rhythmic cadence of attacks in order to maximize her damage thanks to her seals mechanic. To really learn how to lay down the law with her and get the most out of her skill set, read this guide!

How to get Yanfei in Genshin Impact?

Yanfei is a 4-star Character that is always available across all banners. On occasion she gets a rate up banner alongside the featured 5 Star character for the cycle that greatly increases your chance of rolling her, so keep an eye out in order to maximize your chance of getting her!

1. Combat Info

→ Ascensions and Stats

→ Talents

Seal of Approval-Normal Attack

Normal Attack

Shoots fireballs that deal up to three counts of Pyro DMG.

When Yanfei's Normal Attacks hit enemies, they will grant her a single Scarlet Seal. Yanfei may possess a maximum of 3 Scarlet Seals, and each time this effect is triggered, the duration of currently possessed Scarlet Seals will refresh.

Each Scarlet Seal will decrease Yanfei's Stamina consumption and will disappear when she leaves the field.

Charged Attack

Consumes Stamina and all Scarlet Seals before dealing AoE Pyro DMG to the opponents after a short casting time.

This Charged Attack's AoE and DMG will increase according to the amount of Scarlet Seals consumed.

Plunging Attack

Gathering the power of Pyro, Yanfei plunges towards the ground from mid-air, damaging all opponents in her path. Deals AoE Pyro DMG upon impact with the ground.

Signed Edict-Elemental Skill

Summons blistering flames that deal AoE Pyro DMG.

Opponents hit by the flames will grant Yanfei the maximum number of Scarlet Seals.

Done Deal-Elemental Burst

Triggers a spray of intense flames that rush at nearby opponents, dealing AoE Pyro DMG, granting Yanfei the maximum number of Scarlet Seals, and applying Brilliance to her.

Brilliance

Has the following effects:

1. Grants Yanfei a Scarlet Seal at fixed intervals.
2. Increases the DMG dealt by her Charged Attacks.

The effects of Brilliance will end if Yanfei leaves the field or falls in battle.

Proviso-1st Ascension Passive

When Yanfei consumes Scarlet Seals by using a Charged Attack, each Scarlet Seal will increase Yanfei's Pyro DMG Bonus by 5%. This effect lasts for 6s. When a Charged Attack is used again during the effect's duration, it will dispel the previous effect.

Blazing Eye-4th Ascension Passive

When Yanfei's Charged Attack deals a CRIT Hit to opponents, she will deal an additional instance of AoE Pyro DMG equal to 80% of her ATK. This DMG counts as Charged Attack DMG.

Encyclopedic Expertise-Utility Passive

Displays the location of nearby resources unique to Liyue on the mini-map.

→ Talent Upgrade

→ Constellation

2. Availability

→ Paimon's Bargains

N/A

→ Event Wishes

As a 4-star Character,Yanfei can be found in the following Wishes

-Standard Wish Wanderlust Invocation (Indefinite)

-Beginners' Wish (Indefinite until all 20 wishes have been made)

-All Character Event Wishes and Weapon Event Wishes

Be on the lookout for when she is announced for a rate up on a Character Event Wish!

3. Personality

Yanfei is defined by her insatiable thirst for knowledge of all things law and her strong sense of freedom and justice. While she is the definitive expert of the law concerning Liyue she has also branched out her knowledge to that of other nations in Teyvat. While she does have her playful side, when she’s on the clock and on the case, Yanfei will leave no stone unturned and no loophole unabused in order to pull through for her clients. Uniquely, despite being a half-adeptus similar to Ganyu, she never signed a contract with Rex Lapis due to being born in an era of relative peace. Yanfei doesn’t let that concern her however, as her goal in life is simply to live an honest and happy life on her own terms.

4. Appearance

Yanfei wears a crimson Xiezhi hat that covers her shoulder length pink hair with whitish tips, as well as having two antlers protruding from the chopped sides of her hair that reveals her adeptus background. She has a red and black crop top with a scarf tied around her neck along with puffy white detached sleeves and a short dark red skirt with uneven black bloomers. She keeps her sizable law treatise on her right hip and wears wooly red and black boots. Her vision can be found on her right hip.

5. Character Stories

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Liyue is a port that prizes contracts and trade, and it is a place where wealth accumulates.

Merchants from various nations are active here, which has contributed to Liyue's abundance, but has also brought up many disagreements. The Tianquan, Ningguang, has written a very comprehensive compendium of laws to deal with this, but not everyone has the patience to study them.

Thus was born the role of the legal adviser in Liyue society. Highly familiar with Liyue's laws, they help those in need to navigate any contradictions, earning recompense for their efforts.

Yanfei is the premier legal adviser in Liyue Harbor.

She is always able to obtain the most benefits for her clients, insofar as the law will allow. Some even call her "the law that walks."

But in truth, what Yanfei — one of the few half-illuminated-beasts who have yet to sign a contract with Rex Lapis — really wants to do is live a free and happy life.

As for the copy of "The General Law of Liyue" that she carries around on her person, Yanfei has this to say:

"If you don't wish to be bound by the rules, you have to first understand them all."

→ Character Story 1

As the most sought-after legal adviser in Liyue Harbor, Yanfei's rates are also top-of-the-line.

Even so, she never lacks for people coming to seek appointments. After all, merchants are not stingy about mediation fees, but are very picky indeed about the mediator.

"Money is no object — we must have Yanfei come and settle this matter for us."

Many rate Yanfei in this fashion, not only for her quick-thinking or her masterful oratory, but also because she very greatly emphasizes the cornerstone of the law — "fairness."

Her mediations often end in win-win situations, and even merchants with daggers drawn will temporarily set their prejudices aside.

Though she is unbound by a contract, Yanfei has made her own contribution to the peace and prosperity of Liyue.

→ Character Story 2

As a legal adviser, Yanfei does have her fair share of weaknesses. An example is the mediation of civil disputes that involve emotions and relationships.

Divorces, inheritances, custody disputes, senior care, severances... The list continues.

It is said that upright officials are hapless in household affairs, and so it also is with Yanfei, who grew up surrounded by love — these matters fall right into her blind corner.

Sometimes, she will find that both sides have reason on their side, and other times she will find them to both be unreasonable. Child custody disputes are the absolute worst, as no matter how she settles them, the settlement will have a great psychological impact on the innocent children. Even if Yanfei chooses to soldier on, she will only tire herself out.

"Hopefully, everyone can meet the right person and be spared this particular grief."

→ Character Story 3

As a result of her greatly tolerant nature, Yanfei has a wide variety of personal relationships throughout Liyue.

There is no need to worry about rubbing a sore spot, and you'll be able to get along with her whether you're an avid conversationalist or not.

Of course, this is true as long as you don't attempt to debate with her or start a conversation about the legal profession... Yanfei in work mode is a completely different beast to deal with.

Additionally, Yanfei has cultivated the habit of being overly rigorous from her long years of studying the law. When chatting, Yanfei will vigorously eliminate any ambiguity or loopholes present in the discourse and can seem like a bit of a chatterbox. When she realizes this, Yanfei is wont to knock herself on the head with a book in irritation.

However, so long as she constantly bathes in a sea of legal literature, this habit will probably be quite hard to break.

→ Character Story 4

When investigating the law, Yanfei's habit is to look past the cold letters of the law to perceive their point of origin.

As such, she is also something of a master of "reading comprehension" in her relationships.

Once, the Traveler met Yanfei by chance and said, "Huh. Didn't expect to see you here."

This should have been a line that one might hear just about anywhere, but it wound up holding a completely different meaning for Yanfei.

"Didn't expect to meet you here" implied that the Traveler had at least thought about a scenario in which they would meet. Then why the use of "didn't expect"? One could only postulate that the Traveler had some expectation of where she might appear, and that her current location was not such a place. But whence came the expectation? Could it be that the Traveler had always been paying attention to her in secret?

"Does this mean that the Traveler...?"

Yanfei tossed and turned in bed that night, unable to sleep.

→ Character Story 5

Yanfei's most prized possession is the steelyard balance that her father gave her.

It is said that this balance was a treasure given by Rex Lapis that can be used to measure the value of all things. For convenience, Yanfei tends to use Mora to balance the scales, which is to say that she uses Mora to evaluate objects.

The prices of many objects have slowly changed over the years, but weighing an object with this balance only gives its value at the time Mora was created, leaving the rest to Yanfei to exercise her own wisdom and judgment.

Across the measurements of countless objects, Yanfei is able to see the changes in Liyue. Some objects that were once common have become vanishingly rare, and some exotic objects of the past have been rendered pedestrian today.

This steelyard balance reminds her that many things cannot be valued by the standards of the world.

Yanfei once tried to weigh the value of a Vision, but no matter how much Mora she added, the scales would not be balanced.

In frustration, she placed on the scale the box at her waist, which contained her heavy, handwritten legal notations. Only then did the weights at last even out.

→ Codex Finalem

This is the most special of the many legal treatises that Yanfei collects.

As opposed to the codices that grow heavier and more complicated with time, this book is unbelievably light and thin.

After opening it and getting past the prologue, one will find naught but the most basic few principles of the law inscribed.

As Yanfei sees it, this is the final form of the law. In the far future, the law will have entered into the people's hearts. All people will be amiable, modest, and live happily in this world. The halls of judgment will lie empty and the mountains of legalese shall be caked in years of dust.

Though this may sound like something very far off, for someone like Yanfei, through whom the blood of an illuminated beast flows, living till that day is hardly a great accomplishment.

"Hmm, but if I think about it more deeply, I'd be out of a job then, wouldn't I?"

After encountering one of Xinyan's performances by chance, Yanfei was quite taken by this new wave of performance art.

That said, learning an instrument from scratch proved to be a bit difficult, so after consulting a great many resources, Yanfei came to what she considered to be a decent backup plan.

If such a day were to arrive, she would just become a rapper.

For someone who can recite tens of thousands of words' worth of Liyue law from front to back within an hour, speed at least should be no challenge.

→ Vision

Yanfei's father is an illuminated beast, while her mother is an ordinary mortal merchant. Born into peaceful times, Yanfei did not sign a contract with Rex Lapis but does have one with her parents to "live happily."

As Liyue's leading legal exegete, she is no stranger to exploiting some existing loopholes in the law — at times for herself, and sometimes for others.

It has been made clear often enough that Yanfei is not a stickler for the rules and has no wish to be shackled by strictures.

Still, she contributes to the betterment of Liyue as she seeks her own pleasure, and will not use these loopholes for ill.

When making amendments to legal loopholes each year, Ningguang the Tianquan will often study Yanfei's doings, as if she were Liyue's unofficial legal troubleshooter.

In a sense, one could argue that Yanfei makes the laws better at the lowest possible price... This principle is also the reason why she has never been convicted of exploiting any such loopholes.

Yanfei believes in "no structure without laws," and what she wishes for is to "live as one pleases without overstepping."

Everyone in Liyue, adeptus or mortal, protects it in their own way.

That is why Yanfei possesses a Vision, one that is of equal weight to her principles.

6. Namecard

HOW TO OBTAIN: Reach Friendship Level 10 with Yanfei

Description: Justice, signed in scarlet.

7. Constellation

“Bestia Lustitia” meaning “Beast of Justice” in latin

8. Quests and Events

→ Archon Quests

N/A

→ Story Quests

World Quests

1. A Teapot to Call Home: Part I

→ Events

1. Moonlight Merriment
2. Three to Get Ready, and Here We Go

9. Character Interactions

Yanfei mentions the following characters in his/her voiceover lines

-Qiqi

-Ganyu

-Xingqiu

-Hu Tao

-Zhongli

-Ningguang

-Keqing

-Eula

Yanfei is mentioned by the following characters in their voiceover lines

-Eula

-Keqing

-Ningguang

-Ganyu

-Zhongli

10. Trivia

-Yanfei shares an English voice actor with Teucer, Childe’s little brother from his personal questline

- “Yanfei” is chinese for "smoky scarlet."

- The “Xiezhi”, a ox-like creature from Chinese mythology, is what most aligns with Yanfei’s adeptus features, as well as her unique Xiezhi hat.

11. Explainer Video

12. FAQs

What Role is best for Yanfei?

Being an on the field main DPS is basically the only real option for Yanfei, as her kit is exceedingly selfish and provides quite literally no benefit to her teammates, as well as having some key functions cease working if she ever leaves the field like her Elemental Burst

What Artifacts are good for Yanfei?

There are a few potential options here, and their effectiveness may vary on how your artifacts/weapon setup is. 4PC Wanderer’s Troupe (Elemental Mastery Increased by 80, Charged Attack DMG increased by 35% for Catalyst/Bow users) is a solid option given how focused Yanfei’s damage is around charged attacks in a reaction based party, as well as 4PC Crimson Witch of Flames (15% Pyro DMG, 40$ Overload/Burning DMG, 15% Melt/Vaporize DMG, Elemental Skill usage boosts 2PC effect by 50% stacking 3 times).

What weapons are best for Yanfei?

Both Skyward Atlas and Lost Prayer to the Sacred Winds are exceedingly powerful options, albeit gated by the fact they are both 5 star weapons that are hard to come by. For more attainable alternatives, consider Dodoco Tales if you were able to snag it during its event run,The Widsith or the Eye of Perception, both attainable from wish rolls.

13. Final Thoughts

Unlike the figurative mountains of case law she studies, Yanfei is relatively straightforward in what she wants to do in that she puts out immense amounts of damage as an on the field main DPS. While she may be someone inflexible in being unable to perform other roles, she makes up for it greatly with her relatively simple 1-2-3 cadence of spellcasting and being especially powerful in reaction based compositions. Properly invest in her and she will pay off big dividends in the near future.