Chongyun Quick TL;DR DPS Build Guide

PSA #1: A DPS is the cool cat who makes everything look easy. He’s that one guy in your friend group that’s just super attractive because the rest of your friends are ugly D: (but you’re all beautiful in my eyes :D)
PSA #2: Both Chongyun’s abilities scale off ATK. He’s literally “ice ice baby” because he uses cryo and people think he’s “baby”

PSA #3: HIS E TURNS SWORDS, CLAYMORE, AND POLEARM WEAPON DAMAGE FROM PHYSICAL TO CRYO DAMAGE. This can be either amazing or really bad if you take Chongyun as support if your main DPS (Razor, Keqing, Diluc) have their own damage conversions!
If you have other cryo users, highly suggest that you take them over Chongyun for cryo application (especially if you have a sword/claymore/polearm DPS). While the character itself can be a great sub DPS/burst DPS for bow and catalyst users, it’s too troublesome in terms of total DPS output


Take advantage of the enemies hit by this passive, as it will greatly increase your cryo DMG output. It can be a bit wonky sometimes, as often times it will hit enemies behind your camera, so just be alert!

PSA #4: The description for the ultimate is a bit wonky. It actually spawns all 3 swords at the same time (the “short delay” and swords coming down 1 by 1 is misleading). Each sword does the ultimate’s damage% though; example: at level 1 the damage for the ultimate is pretty much 142% x3
WEAPON #1 (Recommended for creating a third ice age): Wolf’s Gravestone
How do I get it D: ? – It’s time to roll boys (gacha)

If you have Skyward Pride, it will perform much better than Wolf’s Gravestone at higher refinement. At R1 for both however, Wolf’s Gravestone’s ATK buff to the team provides too much overall value/DPS
WEAPON #2: (Recommended for early snowball fights): Debate Club
How do I get it D: ? – It’s time to roll boys (gacha)

This is an extremely solid early game weapon that can help clear up to World Level 5 content and even some early stages of Abyss. Highly recommended to swap to Prototype Animus or Favonius Greatsword later if possible (for better latent scaling)
Snow-Tombed Starsilver is bad due to it’s Phys DMG% scaling, as it’s effectively wasted the moment Chongyun E’s (which is the core of his kit)
ARTIFACT #1 (Recommended for causing hypothermia): Gladiator’s Finale
How do I get it D: ? – Any World Boss (40 Resin per run)

Once the new cryo artifact set comes out, it will be heavily tested to see if it can trump Gladiator’s Finale in DPS output
ARTIFACT #2 (Recommended for causing brain freeze): Martial Artist
How do I get it D: ? – Hidden Palace of Zhou Formula Domain (AR 30 locked, 20 Resin per run)

Icebreaker set is great IF YOU HAVE LOW CRIT%. The set itself loses overall DPS output once you have suitable CRIT% (typically above 50%).
PSA #5: You can run Sojourner or Instructor’s set as well. Elemental Mastery on Chongyun feels really nice, since you’ll be basically proc’ing a lot of cryo reactions when you use his E
Main stats:
Sands | Goblet | Circlet |
---|---|---|
ATK% | Cryo DMG% | CRIT% or CRIT DMG |
Substats: CRIT% > CRIT DMG > ATK > EM
If you want other characters let me know. Hope this helped. Bye.