In this Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build Guide we’re going to be covering an Aero support Yangyang build. This build focuses on supporting the main damage dealer, by giving buffs, and refunding Resonance and Concerto Energy. It’s a build capable of pairing with any dps character in the endgame modes.
Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build Guide
Yangyang is a guaranteed four star character, and the first character player gets after main character. She’s AOE sword user, with Aero element. Her main buff is refunding 4*5= 20 energy to next character on Outro skill. And her utility is gathering smaller enemies, with Resonance Skill and Liberation. At S6 she give additional ATK buff to all team.
In Addition to that, Yangyang can charge Concerto energy fast in her combo. So player can switch her in, do a quick combo, and switch her out with an Outro, enabling next character Intro. She has a simple kit that’s easy to master, befitting a starter character.
The flat energy she provides is more impactful on character with lower energy cost. If a character has high cost of 150 Resonance energy (Such as Jianxin), a mere 20 energy is only 13% of energy required. While a character who has 100 energy cost (Such as Danjin), gets 20% of its energy from Yangyang. Which helps doing shorter rotations, and more frequent switching.
Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build – Active Skills
Skill leveling Priority: Resonance Liberation > Forte Circuit > Basic Attack >> Skill > Intro.
Feather as Blade – Basic Attack
Yangyang’s normal attack is a simple 4 string combo, she only use once, to charge her Forte. Therefore, it’s not a huge priorty to level. To build up Forte charges and fill the bar, Yangyang needs to reach Normal 4, so she need her combo uninterrupted.
Heavy Attack: Zephyr Song is a special version of her heavy attack. Yangyang may trigger by using normal attack after a heavy attack, so she can regain another charge of her Forte. It may also trigger from normal attack after dodge attack, to charge her Forte even faster.
With S2, heavy attack refund 10 Resonance energy (on 20 seconds cooldown). Beware though, Heavy Attack consumes high stamina, while at same time could parry enemies attacks. So use wisely and precisely.
Zephyr Domain – Resonance Skill
The skill has standard 10 seconds cooldown, and creates a vortex that pulls enemies. At S3 (with three additional Yangyang’s dupes) the pull strength and reach extends, allowing better gathering. The gathering effect helps a bit against groups of enemies, especially if your dps has limited range and AOE. It’s also a form of Crowd control, with potential to knock down enemies and prevent them from moving and attacking for couple seconds.
Casting Resonance Skill fills one charge of Forte bar, so you should start Yangyang rotation with a skill. or a Resonance Liberation (if ready) then a skill.
Wind Spirals – Resonance Liberation
Casts even a stronger gathering vortex, that cost merely 100 Resonance energy. Recharging enough energy on Yangyang in short time is not hard, so she can do her rotation quickly, and dash out. Her Resonance Liberation help charging Concerto energy (for outro and intro skills). Therefore, it’s always better to fully charge and cast in every rotation.
Resonance Liberation deals decent damage, and the most damaging skill in Yangyang’s kit. So we give high priority to level before any other skill. And with S5, it gets even higher damage, making Yangyang a small sub-dps, not just a buffer.
Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build – Passive Skills
Echoing Feathers – Forte Circuit
In our Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build, Forte Circuit is very important part that brings the build together. It allow Yangyang to build 3 stacks of “Melody”, to unleash a rising heavy attack, followed by a mid-air attack. Yangyang stays on air after the mid-air attack, so she can use her plunge attack afterwards.
Yangyang unleashes her Forte special moves by filling the bar, and holding heavy attack to use Heavy Attack: Stormy Strike. Then hold again to use Mid-air Attack: Feather Release
These two attacks depletes a huge portion of enemy shields, and can also work as a parry, for even more shield breaking. They generate high Concerto energy, to shorten Yangyang field time, and trigger Outro and Intro skills pretty fast.
“Melody” can charge in various ways:
- Using Intro of Yangyang fills one charge
- Using skill fills one charge
- One more charge from normal attack 4.
- Using normal attack after Heavy attack (Heavy Attack: Zephyr Song).
So if you get into Yangyang with an Intro, you may use skill, and one normal attack combo to fill the bar. Or if you enter by switching normally without Intro (Concerto energy not full), you can use (Heavy Attack: Zephyr Song).
Inherent Skill – Compassion
Recover stamina upon using Mid-air Attack: Feather Release, which is enough to refund the heavy attack leading to it. So you can switch to next character with full stamina if needed.
Inherent Skill – Lazuline Mercy
A small Aero DMG bonus to Yangyang after using skill. Pretty insignificant overall, so skip to save resources.
Yangyang – Concerto Skills
Intro and Outro skills needs fully charged Concerto energy to cast. They are important to trigger certain Echo Sets bonuses and weapons, as well as giving significant energy regen buff in case of Yangyang.
Cerulean Song – Intro Skill
Yangyang Intro skill has a main utility of filling one charge of Forte, which help shorten Yangyang rotation. It deal small damage, but have other properties:
- Getting a damage buff from S1 for 8 seconds.
- Smaller dmg buff from Inherit skill – Lazuline Mercy
- Getting ATK buff from some weapon passives, such as Commando of Conviction, and
Sword of Night (Not Recommended)
Overall, if you switch from healer to Yangyang, you don’t have to use Intro. Spending more field time on Yangyang is usually better than spending it on healer. And shortening rotation is even better.
Whispering Breeze – Outro Skill
In our Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build, using Outro recovers 4 Resonance Energy per second in 5s for the next character. This is the core utility of Yangyang, and why we use her in first place.
There are set bonuses that may trigger with Outro skill, such as Moonlit Clouds, which grants the next character an ATK increases by 22.5% for 15s. So it’s pretty useful. Unless you use healing set and healing sword on Yangyang instead, to get team-wide buff upon using Resonance Liberation, which alter the use of Yangyang Outro.
In that case, you use Resonance liberation, trigger the team buff, then use Outro to refund energy on dps character. Then switch to another buffer, get another buff, then switch to the main dps with fully charged energy.
Yangyang playstyle and Rotation
Rotations of Yangyang varies a lot, changing with her role in team, and characters accompanying her.
For example using a none-healer team with main dps that can sustain herself, such as Jianxin. In that case, you want Yangyang to use the healer set, trigger team wide buff. Then switch to a another buffer who give damage multiplier on Outro, Such as Mortefi.
This comp differs with a healer comp with Verina, where Verina is the team buffer, and Yangyang is a switcher buffer. In such scenario, we finish Verina rotation, switch to Yangyang, then to main dps. or funnel energy with Yangyang Outro to the main dps. Then return to Verina, then Yangyang again for another Outro to the main dps.
While on field, Yangyang wants to to get off her Resonance Liberation first, then skill. Then continue charge her Forte, either by Normal attack after heavy attacks, or full normal attack combo. Then use two Heavy attacks to unleash the Forte. A well executed combo shall refund Concerto, to use Outro.
Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build – Weapons
For this Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build, gear is a crucial part, and Weapon is a major part of gearing. Yangyang dps scales with standard Crit, Attack, and Aero damage stats. However, as a utility character, her main focus is on Energy Regen, which should come first
Yangyang uses Sword, which has some interesting utility options.
Sword of Voyager – Three star
The get go support sword, with Energy Regen sub stat, and more flat energy refund when using Resonance Skill. It’s straight forward weapon to shorten rotation and ensure Yangyang always has a Resonance Liberation ready in each rotation.
As a three star weapon, you may get easily to S5, and have the passive effect does from refunding 8 energy to refunding 12 energy.
Originite: Type II – Three Star
Anther three star weapon, that comes with healing this time. The healing part is important to proc the healing set bonus, which is a buff to ATK. The buff lasts for 30 seconds, and a team-wide, so that help Yangyang to be flexible with her rotation, and allow other supports with a buffing Outro skills.
The buff requires using Resonance Liberation, so we have to build enough energy on Yangyang to ensure her Resonance Liberation is always ready each rotation. It also has 20 seconds cooldown, so player beware of using it earlier, to not waste the Liberation without getting buff.
Scale: Slasher – Four Star
This is the most suitable weapon for this Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build, if Yangyang doesn’t use healing set. It has high Energy recharge, and regain Concerto Energy upon using Resonance Skill. This shorten Yangyang rotation and on-field time, and help more uptime for dps characters. Also enable some special rotations that involve switching to Yangyang more than one time.
Use this as the ultimate weapon for Yangyang, as long as she play support. If you want to play Yangyang as a niche dps, you might consider other choices. But I’m not covering full dps build Yangyang in this guide.
Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build – Stats & Echoes
Similar to Relics from Honkai Star Rail, and Artifacts from Genshin Impact, Echoes in Wuthering Waves Yangyang Build works as gear. We have five slots to equip echoes, but the difference is, we are not strict to use certain echoes in certain slots.
In total, character have 12 points to distribute among Echoes. Meanwhile, Echoes has three grades, Common (1 cost), Elite (3 cost), Boss (4 cost). So the ideal distribution in endgame is (4,3,3,1,1). However, up to endgame and before fully optimize setup, there are several other combinations to maximize damage and stats in early game. Such as using four slots only with (3,3,3,3), or all five but get (4,4,1,1,1).
Reason for this is, some stats such as crit and elemental dmg% are more impactful on early game for a dps than ATK stat. While support characters might prefer Healing Bonus or energy Recharge over HP stat. Also in case of (3,3,3,3) setup, the flat ATK stat (On 3 and 4 cost echoes) is more useful than flat HP (on 1 cost echoes) on early game gear.
Yangyang Top Stats
We aim to get these main stats:
- Cost 1: ATK %
- Cost 3: Energy Regen + Aero DMG
- Cost 4: Crit Rate (or Healing Bonus in case of healing set and weapon)
The main goal of stats of Yangyang is getting enough Energy Recharge to always get Resonance Liberation off quickly, then switch out. Then get standard damage stats to make her contribute to team dps. With proper weapon, Yangyang has huge boost of Energy Recharge, so she most likely require only one stat in Energy Recharge.
Crit Rate is to balance the low base Crit Yangyang has, and to deal a bit of damage. Then the standard ATK, and Aero DMG.
For sub stats, we need Energy Recharge, Crit, and ATK. Resonance Liberation DMG is decent addition, since it offer Yangyang most damage increase.
Yangyang Echo Skill
On top of providing main and sub stats, each Echo provide a skill that can be used in battle. Only one skill can be acquired this way, and it comes from the top Echo on the Echoes page. Yangyang highly prefer Energy Recharge set, so we are restricted to and Echo skill from that set.
Yangyang can use a support Echo skill that provide more buffs to main dps. Best one is Impermanenance Heron, which require using Outro skill within 15 seconds after using Echo Skill. It gives damage buff to next character switch to by Outro.
Impermanenance Heron skill has two modes, press and hold. Pressing the skill will fly up, transform, charge, and swoop down on enemies. All these animations takes so long, so you might want to get yourself out of the animation lock. Make sure to have Outro skill ready, press Echo skill, then immediately switch to next character. The Impermanenance Heron will stay on field performing its animation, while your next character start dps.
The hold version takes longer animation, and allow the Heron to fly high above the ground, firing Havoc damage on enemies below. This version is very impractical and useless in combat. However, outside of combat, it can be used to travel and as exploration tool. It can cross between mountains and rivers and bigger spaces that jump and glide is not enough to cross.
If you use Yangyang as a healer, use Cruisewing Echo instead, to add a decent team heal to her kit. Note it has short 8 seconds cooldown, so you want to switch to Yangyang often for her healing role. There’s also Fission Junrock who leaves a healing aura on ground, but has longer 15 seconds cooldown.
Yangyang Team Composition
Teams in Wuthering Waves consist of three characters, and to build Yangyang right, we have to pair two suitable companions. Yangyang wants to take minimum field time, and have a main dps in her team to pass buffs to. Most of her buffs comes from Set, and Echo Skill. And by herself, she only provide Energy Recharge. So she can fit with any damage dealer, regardless of their archetype.
This is contrary to other supports who are more specialized, and give higher bonuses. And there’s also the possible use of Yangyang as a healer, so she open up the last slot for another support.
A main damage dealer of any specialization
Any damage dealer can actually use Yangyang, unless they don’t need their Resonance Liberation. The Energy Regen bonus to next character is unique for Yangyang, and no other character can do. It help reduce main dps need for Energy Recharge stats, and allow them to use Echoes with more damage sub stats.
Character such as Jiyan, Calcharo, Encore and Havoc Main Character (Burst rotation build) are best benefitted characters. As a healer though, more characters can use Yangyang, especially with the low number of healers at launch. AT Tower of Adversity endgame mode, you will need up to three teams, with three healers. Yangyang can fill as one of them.
A second Buffer, or a Healer
Depends on Yangyang role in the team, the third slot can be either a second buffer, or a healer. If you use a second buffer, certain dps character prefer certain supports:
- Jianxin or Yinlin with Calcharo (For Resonance Liberation buff)
- Mortefi with Jiyan. (For Heavy Attack buff)
- Danjin for Havoc Main Character (For Havoc DMG buff respectively)
- Sanhua with Encore (For Normal Attack buff)
All of these are not necessary if you can use a healer in the team, because Verina is the best healer. She’s also the best universal buffer in game, so no one competes with her. And with Verina being available to everybody through five star standard selector, there’s no excuse not to use her. The only restriction comes in Tower of Aversity with the need of three different teams.
Final Tips
Yangyang is a starter character, so every player will be using her as main support for at least some time. She makes rotations smooth early in the game, before everybody get proper Echo stats. Energy Recharge is not readily available for main damage dealers outside of Echo sub stats. So it will take a long time before you are able to switch Yangyang out of your team without feeling miserable.
Don’t be fooled with comparison spreadsheets that show higher numbers for other supports. Any calculated dps assumes best conditions, optimized Echoes, weapons, and rotations. All of these are pretty far ahead, and for some players will take months to reach. Until then, Yangyang and Verina is a good pair and easy solution for any main dps.
She gives you a chance to learn the game at early game without feeling bad about rotations, and can double as a healer if you push into endgame. But her performance drops a lot when all gear is optimized, and more support characters release in upcoming patches. Though getting her max dupes (S6) would prolong her usage, but it’s not worth going out of your way to get dupes for Yangyang.
Stay tuned for more Wuthering Waves Character Guides.
