[Guide] Honkai Impact 3rd – Should you pull Li Sushang

Jade Knight, or officially known as Li Sushang, is the S-Rank Psychic Valkyrie and the newest addition to Honkai Impact 3^rd following the release of version 6.1.

She is an Ice support whose main gimmick brings Elemental Breach and Ice damage buff to the table.

Li Sushang Kit Overview

Being an Ice Valkyrie, its enough to say all her attacks will deal Ice damage.

For her Leader skill, Realm of Taixuan, she increases the team’s total damage for their basic, combo and charge attacks and adds a bonus to Ice damage when your team is fully consists of Ice Valkyrie.

Li Sushang comes with a gauge called Blade Sanction and holding the attack button when the gauge is full will enter her into Sword Array mode.

When in Sword Array mode, you can tap the Ultimate button to do a Bolt Slash and 3 consecutives Bolt Slash followed by a Normal Attack makes her cast Back Wind Slash that boosts your team’s ranged Ice damage.

Li Sushang most notable passive is her Forge Blades where she follows up to deal Ice damage to enemies when your active team member uses a weapon skill, combo or charged attack.

Her Ultimate skill “The Crown of Eminence” is her main disposal to support Ice teams. At a high cost of 150, she will deal massive Ice damage and grants Elemental Breach to all your Ice Valkyries for 18s, resetting upon another trigger of her Ultimate.

Li Sushang Gear

Weapon	How to Get	Weapon Active Skill	Weapon Passive	Weapon Passive 2	Comment
Nocturnal Stealth: Beam	Nocturnal Stealth obtainable from Supply Drop (Gacha). PRI-ARM to get Nocturnal Stealth: Beam	Wield a Wave Splitting Edge towards targets, dealing 485.6% (800.0% at 6★) ATK of Ice DMG and forming a line of Torrent that lasts for 25s. Triggering it again resets the duration. While Torrent is on the field, it produces a wave each time a target takes Ice DMG, dealing 60.7% (100.0% at 6★) ATK of Ice DMG, up to 5 waves. CD: 2s. When Jade Knight casts this skill in Sword Array, she immediately connects it with a Back Wind Slash.	After using weapon skill, the team deals 20.0% more Ice DMG for 22s (cannot stack). Triggering it again resets the duration. Jade Knight equip bonus: Recover 12.0 SP each time Torrent produces a wave. CD: 2s.	Ice DMG dealt by Combo ATKs increases by 12.1 (20.0% at 6★). Total DMG dealt by the team increases by 6.1% (10.0% at 6★) (cannot stack).	Her BiS weapon is Nocturnal Stealth: Beam as not only does it helps her with regaining SP upon active, the PRI-ARM added passive increases the total damage for the entire team.
Cosmic Duality	Nebulous Duality obtainable from Supply Drop (Gacha) or Exchange Shop for 4000 Weapon Resonance. PRI-ARM it to get Cosmic Duality	The wielder gains Ignore Interrupt and 10% ATK Speed for 10s, during which she restores 8.2 (20.0 at 6★) HP and 3 SP per 0.5s.	Fu Hua equip bonus: Hitting an enemy with the final hit of any set of her combos boosts her Fire DMG by 13.3% for 15.6s (18.0% for 18.0s at 6★) (stacks up tp 3 times) and adds 1 charge (Max: 3). This effect can be triggered once every 2s; triggering it again resets the duration. Using the weapon active grants 3 stacks. When the wielder leaves the battlefield, each charge boosts teammates' Total DMG by 4.2% for 15.6s (5.0% for 18.0s at 6★) (triggering this effect again resets the duration), then all charges will be removed.	Whenever a team member casts Ultimate, the wielder restores 142.8 (300.0 at 6★) HP and 5.3 (10.0 at 6★) SP. Team-shared CD: 15s.	Cosmic Duality is the budget option for Li Sushang as its PRI-ARM passive and weapon active can help her with gaining SP to cast her Ultimate.

Top Piece	Middle Piece	Bottom Piece	Comments
Li Sushang: Shenzhou Reminiscence (T)	Li Sushang: Shenzhou Reminiscence (M)	Li Sushang: Shenzhou Reminiscence (B)	Shenzhou Reminiscence is the prime choice as not only does it overall massively increase the total ice damage for your entire Ice team but it also provides a better shield-breaking effect to your team.
Increases Total DMG by 5.0% (10.0% at 5★). When dealing DMG with Combo ATK, team's Ice DMG dealt increases by 15.0% (30.0% for 12.0s at 5★) (cannot stack). Triggering it again resets the duration.	Total DMG taken decreases by 15.0% (30.0% at 5★). Ice DMG dealt by Basic ATKs and Combo ATKs increases by 25.0% (50.0% at 5★).	Enter Reinforcement state for 18s after using at least 120/150 SP at once. Triggering it again resets the duration. In Reinforcement state, Ice DMG dealt by the team increases by 15.0%/30.0% (30.0%/55.0% at 5★) (cannot stack).
2-piece bonus: In Reinforcement state, add 1 stack of Menacing Sword Ki to targets for 18s when the team deals Ice DMG, up to a maximum of 10 stacks. Every stack increases Ice DMG taken by targets by 1.0%. When equipped by Jade Knight, maximum stacks for Menacing Sword Ki increases by 12 stacks. Additionally, if B-piece is equipped, triggering QTE can activate Reinforcement state equivalent to spending 150 SP.
3-piece bonus: Increases max stack of Menacing Sword Ki to 15 stacks. Enemies affected by Menacing Sword Ki takes additional 30.0% ATK of Ice DMG every second. Increases team's shield-breaking efficiency by 50.0%.
Turgenev (T)	Mei: Beach Party (M)	Turgenev (B)	Turgenev T and B works as the swords that she brings with her is considered summoned entities and the two stigmata increases the damage of those swords and the 2-piece bonus makes the marked enemies from the Turgenev passive take even more Elemental damage. Beach Party Mei is there to increase total Ice damage for your Ice team.
The host and her summoned entities gain 10.0% (20.0% at 5★) Ice DMG. Team and the host's summoned entities gain 9.0% (18.0% at 5★) Total DMG when there are Hunter Marked enemies on the field. This effect cannot stack.	The host gains 12% (18% at 5★) Total DMG. Enemies attacked by the host take 10% (15% at 5★) Total DMG for 4s. CD: 8.0s.	The host's attack triggers an explosion centering on the target, which inflicts a 6-sec Hunter Mark on enemies with no Hunter Mark within the explosion AOE. Explosion CD: 8s. Team and the host's summoned entities deal 18.0% (36.0% at 5★) more All Elemental DMG against Hunter Marked enemies; this effect cannot stack.
2-piece bonus: (Turgenev) Every 6 hits from the host or her summoned entities prolongs the Hunter Mark effect for 2s. Hunter Mark max duration: 12s. Combo counter resets when Hunter Mark disappears. Hunter Marked enemies receive 21.0% All Elemental DMG (cannot stack).

Li Sushang Team

First Slot	Second Slot	Third Slot
Main Ice DPS	Reverist Calico	Jade Knight

This team comp fully utilizes Li Sushang as a support, providing Elemental Breach and Increased Ice damage to the whole team.

Rotation wise, you would want to start with Pardofelis and immediately do a Combo Attack with her to trigger Li Sushang’s QTE. Swap her in as she immediately enters Sword Array Mode thanks to QTE and cast Back Wind Slash to increase your team’s ranged Ice damage.

Immediately after, hold the attack button to allow Li Sushang to use her charge attack and swap in Pardofelis mid-attack to user her Ultimate and Inflict Rime Trauma.

This is where your main DPS comes in. Just go ham with all the buffs from the two supports until the enemy dies and just repeat the rotation if it does not die.

Strength

Li Sushang brings to the team her Elemental Breach and massive buffs to Ice damage to the whole team from her base kit alone. The Shieldbreak she brings is also valuable to Captains that wants to tier in the Arena and stay in Nirvana rank.

Not to mention she also has a high hit count in her Sword Array Mode to take out those pesky enemies with hit count shield. With all of these, you can say goodbye to Haxxor Bunny for your third slot in your Ice team.

Weakness

Her main weakness comes from the main utility that she brings. Her elemental breach comes from her Ultimate and that very Ultimate costs a whopping 150 SP. That makes her Ultimate one of the highest cost Ultimate in the game and without her signature weapon, it would take a surmountable of effort to regain enough SP for a second cast.

Her damage outside of her Ultimate is also subpar. So much so, that you would not be able to fully utilize her kit when playing as a main DPS when her playstyle is mostly to activate her buffs and then swap in to the next character.

Should You Pull

She is farmable through the War Treasury and comes with a discounted price in version 6.1, so it’s advisable to not roll for her. Her weapons however, is a must pull if you are planning to have her in your team.

Without it, you will be struggling very much in terms of SP for the whole team as Pardofelis alone cannot provide enough SP for Li Sushang’s Ultimate even with her impressive SP recovery for the team.

Once you have her and her full gear, she would be indispensable for your Ice team for a long time and she could effectively replace Haxxor Bunny.

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Honkai Impact 3rd

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Release Date: 2016-10-14

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