Honkai: Star Rail – Lynx build and ascension guide

Help out your friends in need with the best Honkai: Star Rail Lynx build and add another healer to your collection. Lynx is the younger sister of Serval and Gepard, deals Quantum DMG, and is a follower of The Abundance.

Lynx’s Skill, Salted Camping Cans, provides the Survival Response effect to an ally for two turns, increasing their Max HP based on her own Max HP in addition to restoring their HP based on the same stat. If Survival Response is used on a Preservation character, their chance of being attacked is boosted.

Her Ultimate, Snowfield First Aid, heals all allies based on Lynx’s Max HP and dispels one debuff from everybody.

Lynx’s Talent, Outdoor Survival Experience, applies continuous healing for two turns to the target or targets after using her Skill or Ultimate. Again, this healing is based on her own Max HP. Targets affected by Survival Response regain additional HP.

Her Eidolon Levels, which can be raised by obtaining additional copies of her, provide further boosts to her abilities. Eidolon 1 increases the Outgoing Healing when healing characters below 50% of their Max HP. Eidolon 2 allows characters with Survival Response to withstand one debuff application. Eidolon 4 increases the ATK of characters with Survival Response by 3% of Lynx’s Max HP. Eidolon 6 increases the amount of Max HP added by Survival Response and increases the target’s Effect RES by 30%.

Honkai: Star Rail – Lynx: best Light Cones

Lynx wants the stats pretty much every healer wants: Max HP and Outgoing Healing. That makes the signature Light Cone of Bailu, Time Waits for No One, your best choice for her, as it boosts both of these values. In addition, this Light Cone converts some of that healing into more damage when allies attack.

Best Light Cones for Lynx in HSR:

• Time Waits for No One (5-Star)
• Night of Fright (5-Star)
• Warmth Shortens Cold Nights (4-Star)
• Post-Op Conversation (4-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Lynx: best Relics

As mentioned above, you’ll want to supply Lynx with more HP and Outgoing Healing through the Relics and Planar Ornaments you equip her with. SPD is another essential stat, while the rest of the slots can be filled with DEF and Effect RES to enhance Lynx’s survivability.

Best Relic Sets for Lynx in HSR:

• Messenger Traversing Hackerspace (4) – +6% SPD, +12% SPD for all allies for one turn when the wearer uses their Ultimate on an ally.
• Passerby of Wandering Cloud (2) + Longevous Disciple (2) – +10% Outgoing Healing and +12% Max HP.

Best Planar Ornaments for Lynx in HSR:

• Giant Tree of Rapt Brooding (2) – +6% SPD, +12%/20% Outgoing Healing if the wearer’s SPD surpasses 135/180.
• Fleet of the Ageless (2) – +12% Max HP, +8% ATK for all allies when the wearer’s SPD reaches 120 or higher.
• Broken Keel (2) – +10% Effect RES, +10% CRIT DMG for all allies when the wearer’s Effect RES is 30% or higher.

Best stats for Lynx in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), HP %, SPD, DEF %, Effect RES
• Hands – ATK (Primary), HP %, SPD, DEF %, Effect RES
• Body – Outgoing Healing (Primary), HP %, SPD, DEF %, Effect RES
• Feet – SPD (Primary), HP %, DEF %, Effect RES, HP
• Planar Sphere – HP % (Primary), SPD, DEF %, Effect RES, HP
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), HP %, SPD, DEF %, Effect RES

Honkai: Star Rail – Lynx: best teams

Lynx, of course, takes on the role of healer for any team she’s part of. She’s pretty much a straight upgrade over Natasha, but overshadowed by most other healers.

• Qingque (Main DPS), Silver Wolf (Support), Sparkle (Support), Lynx (Support)

Lynx’s remaining niche is serving as a healer on Mono-Quantum teams, such as this line-up built around Qingque. Sparkle supplies ample Skill Points for Qingque to gamble with, while Silver Wolf ensures that enemies have been implanted with Quantum Weakness on top of debuffing them.

Honkai: Star Rail – Lynx: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Lynx ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of her Traces.

Lynx requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x246,000
• Extinguished Core x12
• Glimmering Core x13
• Squirming Core x12
• Nail of the Ape x50

You can obtain Extinguished, Glimmering, and Squirming Cores from enemies on Herta Space Station as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Extinguished Cores are one of the base materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a consistent income of the material. 

Nail of the Ape is dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Scalegorge Waterscape) or gained through exchange. The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes around the cosmos.

Lynx requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x2,400,000
• Extinguished Core x28
• Glimmering Core x42
• Squirming Core x42
• Seed of Abundance x12
• Sprout of Life x54
• Flower of Eternity x105
• Regret of Infinite Ochema x12
• Tracks of Destiny x8

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Seeds of Abundance, Sprouts of Life, and Flowers of Eternity can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (Backwater Pass). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by using up lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Regret of Infinite Ochema is a boss material only gained from the Echo of War (Scalegorge Waterscape) domain by defeating Phantylia, while Tracks of Destiny can be obtained during time-limited events, the Embers Exchange, the Nameless Honor, or as a Simulated Universe Points Reward.