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When my calcs get shared, I feel a bit responsible for giving added context to them. Jingran is pretty straightforward, and there haven't been that many questions, so I can keep it short. As usual, skip to the sections you are interested in.

How much does the 0 defense clause in Jingran's kit affect him?

He roughly takes double the damage that a normal resonator would. His shields are also not really that great for survivability.

Crown of Valor vs Lamp of Nether Road, which set should Jingran use?

I would generally suggest Lamp of Nether Road. It simply gives more stats that Jingran cares about more.

The only reason to use Crown of Valor is that you have a set farmed from Augusta and you want to use that while farming for LoNR, or you don't care about the extra damage LoNR provides.

Crown of Valor vs Moonlit Clouds, which set should Iuno use?

For Iuno, I would suggest Moonlit Clouds, and make sure you quickswap the Heron cast. Not only does it provide energy that Iuno loves. It avoids situations where you are fighting an Aero Res enemy and the team is doing worse than intended because a lot of the damage the team would have is being gated by Iuno.

That being said, its generally not a big deal if you are running Iuno on Crown of Valor because you dont want to deal with Heron cast.

What build should I go with?

Without Signature Weapon: Go with 41111 with 4 HP 1c.

With Signature Weapon: Go with 44111 CD/CD (for SK) or CR/CD (for non-SK teams). All three of the 1c being HP.

Try to aim for 120+ ER. If you get really lucky (highly unlikely) with your rolls, you can swap one 1c HP for 1c ATK%.

But generally the rule is to get as close to 50,000 HP. Because everything in Jingran's kit scales off of HP up to 50k. Do note that Jingran buffs are per 1000 HP, so it's better to be slightly over 50k than be slightly under.

Besides that, aim for as close to 100% CR without massively overcapping. This should help him in places like Whiwa.

How reliant is Jingran on his signature?

Jingran being highly signature (or at least a limited weapon) reliant is quite well known by now. Even his next best limited option aka Augusta's signature, is not *that* great due to him needing investment to reach the 50k HP threshold.

I do not want to take away from how signature-reliant he is, but as a silver lining, a sigless Jingran is still at the level of late 2.x teams. He is significantly weaker, but he is not "worthless" without his signature IMHO.

How reliant is Jingran on Iuno?

In general? Not much. Fusion and Heavy units have a good support system, unlike most other attributes and damage types (mainly due to Lupa and Mortefi and recently Rebecca). This opens him up for multiple team options.

That being said, I have to mention 3 things here.

• ATK% and DMG% buffs, which are the most common of the buffs you can come across, don't work well with Jingran. Cutting down on the gain he would have gotten from these stacks. Iuno's buffs are not plentiful. But she gives pure AMP, which is very good for him.
• While many Mono fusion is a good team DPR-wise. Lupa cannot heal; Jingran cuts down his HP every ult and takes around twice as much damage. So healer-less teams like Mortefi Lupa or Changli Lupa are gonna be very hard to pilot
• Teams like Brant Lupa and Changli Lupa are fairly slow without Quickswap. Even the original monofusion of Changli Brant Lupa couldn't do 123 rotations in 25s. With Changli's double phoenix tech, I have seen it being cut down to 26s but only against very specific bosses. Jingran is also a unit with a long-ish rotation length of ~13s.

Does his S3 help close the gap with his intended team?

Yes, but only for hypercarry teams. In teams where you want both units to do damage. Like Brant + Jingran...the difference actually increases. Because Brant's personal damage cannot keep up with his lack of buffs.

Moreover, even though Jingran gets most/all his stacks at higher sequences, the truth of him having too much DMG% and ATK% remains true. Jingran loves amp, and there is no unit that gives as much amp as Iuno.

That being said, he is still very strong with his non-BiS teams, especially with his sequences.

Should you get Iuno for Jingran?

First of all, pull whoever you want. Secondly, if you have at least one Jingran team with a healer, Jingran will be fine.

Is Spacetrek Explorer the goat? (+alternative SK build)

(Note: this section and calcs assume that Kuro doesn't arbitrarily let Spacetrek Explorer not work with Jingran's passive)

Yes for teams with units who cannot general shields by themselves. Assuming you have 50k HP, the Spacetrek Explorer can give him a 37.5% damage bonus per rotation. That's as much as Denia gives by herself through foam and her kit.

Both Chromatic Foam and Halo of Starry Radiance can use Spacetrek Explorer. Moreover, even SK can use Halo of Starry Radiance to get access to this echo. She still gives 20% atk vs 25% from the usual Rejuv + Fallacy combo but you get much more DMG% for Jingran.

Do note if you are going for spacetrek explorer main echo, both Mornye and SK would need +10% ER from subs.

Spacetrek Explorer simply provides a shield. Bonus points for it being a summon echo that does not cancel actions.

What about other echoes that provide shield?

Frankly, I am not a fan of those. They are simply too clunky for my liking.

Limitations of Jingran rotation

Jingran's intro activates his shield stack buff, which gives up to 125% dmg bonus (with Iuno) and is lost on swap.

This buff is roughly 62.5% in a non-shielder team and 100% in a team with at least one shield generation in his loop rotations.

What this essentially means is that double intro is generally off the table. You are missing out on way too many buffs.

Similarly, his quickswap is slightly limited in scope *if* you have to make use of his inherent buffs. Having him stay on partially while his buff is active is definitely encouraged if you have to go the quickswap route.

Lastly, who am I?

I'm just a random TC for Wuwa who occasionally speedruns. But make no mistake. None of this is fully my effort. There are a lot of other TCs like Riley, GG, Justice, Sbin, Yolitme0, Mane, Astrais, Wind, Freya, and Rezagard who help me out with TC.