In Wuthering Waves, the first freely playable character available at launch is Yangyang from the Midnight Rangers. She serves as both a dependable support and a capable DPS, depending on how she is built. The hero focuses on restoring resonant energy to teammates and grouping enemies with resonant release. This guide outlines the best builds for Yangyang, covering weapon choices, team composition, and skill usage.
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Best builds for Yangyang in Wuthering Waves
Yangyang is a 4-star Aero Resonator who wields a sword as her primary weapon. The guide lists recommended gear and units to help players unlock her full potential and maximize her effectiveness in battle.
Best weapon: Emerald of Genesis
The premier option for Yangyang is the 5-star Genesis Emerald Sword, widely regarded as the strongest weapon in the game. This sword suits Yangyang whether she leans toward support or DPS. It boosts energy regeneration, increases attack, and raises the chance of critical hits. These bonuses enable her to shine in battle and fully leverage her unique abilities.
Best basic echo: Transience Heron
Heron of Impermanence is a solid Echo choice for Yangyang because it strengthens her support capabilities. This World Boss Echo not only boosts Yangyang’s damage but also helps restore resonance energy.
Best Echo Sonata Effect: Moonlit Clouds
Equipping the Heron of Impermanence grants the Sonata effect Moon Clouds. It provides a 22.5% attack boost to a new character after using the Outro Skill and increases the user’s energy regeneration by 10%.
The best units for Yangyang
Yangyang shines as a support, especially when paired with a strong DPS like Jiyan. The core goal is to boost energy regeneration and damage. For a balanced setup, add a support character and a healer such as Verina or Baizhi. If the aim is to boost Yangyang’s damage, include Mortefi or Sanhua. Their skills amplify Yangyang’s base damage and provide extra offense to compensate for weaknesses.
Other recommended teammates
The squad often includes Rover (Spectro), Yangyang, and Baizhi. This lineup centers on using Yangyang to restore energy through her Outro ability, quickly charging Rover’s Resonance Release. In early stages, Baizhi acts as a healer and can further increase the team’s damage output.
The battle plan centers on Yangyang gathering energy for the team, enabling the other characters to activate their Resonator icons. Her ultimate groups enemies together, setting up a powerful follow-up from the team.
- Yangyang starts by amassing energy for teammates until the others’ Resonator icons light up. Her ultimate draws enemies into a cluster and then uses Resonance to deal damage before returning to a different character.
- When Rover (Spectro) is fully charged, switch to Rover to unleash an opening attack and deal spectral damage. Switching back to Yangyang restores resonant energy.
- Once Rover’s Resonance Release is ready, use it to deal area damage. Then perform basic attacks to recharge the power meter, trigger the resonance skill again, and attack some more.
- When Yangyang’s starting ability is ready, switch back. To heal, switch to Baizhi and use healing skills.
- Repeat the sequence until all enemies are defeated.
All available Yangyang skills in Wuthering Waves
This section describes the character’s active and passive skills with detailed explanations.
Yangyang active skills
Yangyang possesses the following active skills:
- Basic attack: Yangyang performs up to four rapid strikes, dealing aerial damage. Charged and jump attacks consume stamina.
- Resonance Skill: The sword creates a wind vortex that gathers enemies and deals Aero damage over time.
- Resonant Release: Similar to the previous, this skill summons a cyclone that pulls in nearby foes and deals aerial damage.
- Access Skill: This move hurls a target into the air, dealing aerial damage.
- Outro Skill: Yangyang restores resonance energy to the next character at a rate of four units per second for five seconds.
Passive skills Yangyang
Yangyang also has several passive abilities:
- Echo of feathers: By chaining different attacks, Yangyang earns up to three melodies. After collecting them, Stormy Strike becomes available post-charged attack and can also be used mid-air.
- Sympathy: The character gains 30 stamina after using the Feather Release air attack.
- Grace Lazulin: Aerodynamic damage increases by 8% for eight seconds after triggering the introductory skill.
Yangyang Resonance Chain Skills
After obtaining multiple Yangyang Replays, new sequences in the Resonance Chain unlock, granting these enhancements:
- First series: The introductory skill adds a further 15% aerodynamic damage for eight seconds.
- Second series: A charged attack returns 10 resonance energy to Yangyang when it connects, repeatable once every 20 seconds.
- Third series: Resonance skill damage increases by 40%, wind pull range extends by 33%.
- Fourth series: Feather Release air attack damage rises by 95%.
- Fifth series: Resonance Release damage increases by 85%.
- Sixth series: After using Feather Release in the air, all team members gain a 20% attack boost for 20 seconds.
Yangyang’s strengths and weaknesses
Advantages:
- Yangyang has a unique ability to restore energy with her finishing skill, making her ideal as a core support for teams relying on a strong ultimate.
- Commonly used as a sub-DPS, she delivers meaningful damage while spending little time on the battlefield.
- The ultimate groups enemies in one spot, setting up the main damage dealer and can be earned early in the game.
- At S0, Yangyang lacks party-wide damage boosts unless paired with a special Echo set; at S6, her air attack after collecting melodies increases team attack, which is a key benefit.
How to play Yangyang in Wuthering Waves?
Yangyang is a versatile character who works well as a support or as a hybrid DPS for other soundboard heroes. The main benefit is empowering teammates. As the first playable character, she joins early and players will often control her in the initial stages. Over time, her base damage may fall behind against tougher opponents, so investing in her stats is important.
To maximize potential, build a team that complements her skills. Characters like Sanhua or Mortefi can enhance her playstyle with their abilities. If a support role is preferred, Yangyang’s energy transfer will be crucial in late-game dynamics.
The key to using Yangyang is improving her resonance circuit. Focus on boosting damage with solid basics like Azure Song, Resonance Release, and Wind Spiral.
- Charge the strong Yangyang circuit
- Use charged Yangyang attacks
- Use Yangyang’s ultimate to group enemies
- Activate the Yangyang outro skill
- Perform a heavy attack during the Resonance skill
- Switch characters after an air raid
Initially, it may be best not to keep Yangyang on the battlefield too long. With increased damage and group-control abilities, she can significantly boost the performance of other team members.