Fenmane: Skills, Thunderwing Stance and Evolution

Fenmane enters Thunderwing Stance when it accumulates 30 Thunder Bound stacks, and the stacks come from lightning attacks. That is the whole entry condition. If your rotation drifts away from lightning damage, the counter stops moving and the stance never arrives.

Thunder Bound stacking is part of the wider lightning system, which the Lightning Combat Guide covers in full. For Fenmane specifically, the number to remember is 30.

Once the stance is up it lasts 10 seconds. That is not long, and it is why Fenmane rewards planning. You want to hit the thirtieth stack with a target in front of you and your big skills ready, not halfway through repositioning.

The stance changes Fenmane's ultimate ability in two ways at once. It fires additional arrows, and it deals an extra explosion of damage on top.

So the ultimate is worth holding. Fire it outside the stance and you get the normal version. Fire it inside the stance and you get the extra arrows and the explosion for the same cost. Across a fight, that gap is most of what separates a Fenmane player who tracks the stack counter from one who does not.

Ten seconds leaves room for the ultimate and more besides, which is where the rest of the kit comes in.

Thunderfeather Volley is the skill that scales most obviously with the stance. During Thunderwing Stance it deals double damage, reaching an effective power of 200. Outside the stance it is an ordinary skill. Inside it, it is the button you press.

Thunder Imprint works on a different principle. While the effect is active it stores the damage dealt to the target, and when the effect ends it releases all of that stored damage at once. Nothing you do during the imprint shows up immediately. It arrives in one lump at the end.

That is worth internalising, because it changes how a fight reads. Damage dealt into an imprinted target is not lost, it is banked. Spend the imprint's duration doing very little to that target and the payout is small to match.

Fenmane is an Electric-element Aniimo. Prismana Fenmane is its Prismana form, and it carries an exclusive Light-element skill.

That is the interesting part. A Prismana form here is not just a different look on the same kit. It puts a skill of another element on a creature whose entire identity, stack builder and stance included, is electric.

05Where to start

Play Fenmane backwards from the stance. Keep your attacks lightning so the stacks climb, hold the ultimate and Thunderfeather Volley for the ten seconds after the thirtieth stack, and remember that Thunder Imprint pays when it ends, not while it runs.