In Wuthering Waves, the first free playable character you will receive at the start is Yangyang from the Midnight Rangers. She can serve as a reliable support character or DPS, depending on your build. The hero specializes in restoring resonance energy to all team members and grouping enemies using resonance release. In this guide, we will tell you about the best builds for Yangyang: from weapon selection to team composition and a full set of skills.
Best Builds for Yangyang in Wuthering Waves
Yangyang is a 4-star Aero Resonator who uses a sword as her primary weapon. Below is the recommended gear and teams that will help players unlock the full potential of the hero and use her to the maximum.
Best Weapon: Emerald of Genesis
The best choice for Yangyang is the 5-star sword «Emerald of Genesis», which is considered the best weapon in the game. This sword is ideal for Yangyang, whether you prefer to play in a support role or as DPS. The weapon significantly improves energy regeneration, increases attack, and boosts critical hit chance. These bonuses make the character more effective in combat, helping her fully realize her unique abilities.
Best Main Echo: Impermanence Heron
Impermanence Heron is an excellent Echo choice for Yangyang as it enhances her support abilities. This world boss Echo not only increases Yangyang's damage but also helps restore resonance energy.
Best Echo Sonata Effect: Moonlit Clouds
Equipping the Impermanence Heron also achieves the Sonata Effect — Moonlit Clouds. This gives a massive attack boost of 22.5% for the new character after using Outro Skill and increases her own energy regeneration by 10%.
Best Teams with Yangyang
Yangyang can excellently play the support character, especially when there is a powerful DPS character in the team, such as Jiyan. Her main task is to enhance energy regeneration and damage. To create a balanced team, it is useful to add a support and healer character, such as Verina or Baizhi. If you want to focus on increasing Yangyang's damage, be sure to include Mortefi or Sanhua in the team — their skills will boost Yangyang's base and additional damage, compensating for her weaknesses.
- Rover (Spectro);
- Yangyang;
- Baizhi.
This team's composition is based on using Yangyang to restore energy with her Outro Skill, allowing Rover (Spectro) to quickly charge his Resonance Release. In the early stages of the game, Baizhi will act as a healer and can also increase the damage of all heroes.
- Yangyang starts the fight by accumulating energy for teammates until the Resonator icons of other characters are activated. Her ultimate skill allows her to gather small enemies into one group and then use the «Resonance» skill to deal damage before switching characters.
- When Rover (Spectro) is fully charged, switch to him to use his introductory skill, dealing spectral damage. Switching from Yangyang to Rover will restore resonance energy.
- Once Rover's «Resonance Release» skill is available, use it to deal area spectral damage. Then perform several basic attacks to charge his power gauge, use the resonance skill, and perform several basic attacks again.
- As soon as Yangyang's introductory skill is fully charged, switch back to her. If you need to restore health, switch to Baizhi and use healing skills.
- Repeat the sequence until all enemies are defeated.
All Available Yangyang Skills in Wuthering Waves
This section contains the character's active and passive skills, as well as their detailed description.
Yangyang's Active Skills
Yangyang has the following active skills:
- Basic Attack: Yangyang performs up to four consecutive strikes, dealing aero damage. Charged attacks and jump attacks consume stamina.
- Resonance Skill: Yangyang uses her sword to create a Wind Vortex, which pulls enemies into one point and deals aero damage over time.
- Resonance Release: This skill is somewhat similar to the previous one. When used, Yangyang creates a cyclone that pulls nearby enemies towards her, dealing aero damage.
- Introductory Skill: Yangyang launches the target into the air, dealing aero damage.
- Outro Skill: Yangyang restores four units of resonance energy per second for five seconds for the next character (or the nearest team member activating their outro skill).
Yangyang's Passive Skills
Yangyang also has the following passive skills:
- Feather Echo: When using different attacks, Yangyang can gain three Melodies. When this happens, she can use Stormy Strike after a charged attack. This strike deals aero damage. She can also perform basic attacks while in the air.
- Compassion: The character restores 30 stamina points after using the «Feather Element» aerial attack.
- Mercy of Lazulin: Yangyang's aerodynamic damage increases by 8% for eight seconds after using the introductory skill.
Yangyang's Resonance Chain Skills
Finally, if you have obtained multiple duplicates of Yangyang, you can unlock new sequences in the resonance chain, which provide the following skills:
- First Sequence: The introductory skill increases Yangyang's aerodynamic damage bonus by an additional 15% for eight seconds.
- Second Sequence: Charged (heavy) attack restores an additional 10 units of resonance energy to the heroine upon hitting the target. This effect can occur no more than once every 20 seconds.
- Third Sequence: The damage bonus from the «Resonance» skill is increased by 40%. The wind's pulling effect on surrounding targets is enhanced, and the range of action is increased by 33%.
- Fourth Sequence: The damage from the «Feather Element» aerial attack is increased by 95%.
- Fifth Sequence: The damage from the «Resonance Release» skill is increased by 85%.
- Sixth Sequence: After using the «Feather Release» ability in the air, the damage of all team members' attacks is increased by 20% for 20 seconds.
Yangyang's Strengths and Weaknesses
- Yangyang is the only character in the game capable of restoring energy with her outro skill. This makes her an ideal pair for a main fighter who relies on their ultimate.
- Mainly used as a sub-DPS, as she needs little time on the battlefield but deals significant damage.
- The hero's ultimate skill can group enemies in one place, which is convenient before switching back to the main damage dealer. Moreover, she can be obtained for free at the beginning of the game.
- At S0 level, Yangyang does not have abilities that would increase the overall damage of squad members or damage of a specific element unless you equip her with a special Echo set. However, at S6 level, her aerial attack after gaining 3 melodies increases the damage of all team members' attacks, which is her key advantage.
How to Play Yangyang in Wuthering Waves
Yangyang is an excellent character who can be useful both as a support hero and as a hybrid DPS for your other resonator characters. Her main advantage lies in enhancing teammates. As the first available game character, she will immediately join your team, and you will often control her in the early stages. However, over time, her base damage will significantly decrease, especially in battles with high-level opponents. Therefore, if you like Yangyang and want to increase her effectiveness, it is necessary to enhance her combat characteristics.
To boost her potential, it is worth assembling a team that complements her skills. For example, characters like Sanhua or Mortefi can help improve her play style with their abilities. If you prefer to use Yangyang in a support role, her ability to transfer resonance energy to other squad members will become an important element in the final stages of the game.
A key aspect of using Yangyang is improving her skills, especially her resonance chain. Focus on increasing damage by using powerful basic skills such as Azure Song, Resonance Release, and Wind Spirals.
- Charge Yangyang's strong chain;
- Use Yangyang's charged attacks;
- Use Yangyang's ultimate to gather enemies together;
- Activate Yangyang's outro skill;
- Charge a heavy attack during the «Resonance» skill;
- Switch characters after an aerial attack.
In the early stages, we do not recommend keeping Yangyang on the battlefield for a long time. However, by increasing her damage and gaining the ability to control groups of enemies with active skills, the hero can significantly enhance the abilities of other squad members.
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