WuWa. Wuthering Waves Yangyang Guide Character Build. Aero Sub DPS. Skill Priority.
Yangyang is a 4-star character available for free from the beginning of the game. She wields a 
Sword and uses 
Aero as her elemental damage. She is a mobile 
Sub DPS character with many wind effects to group enemies together.
Pros – Has some of the best disables for groups of enemies.
Cons – Lacks damage as a DPS and does not provide too many buffs to allies so she falls behind for bosses that aren’t affected by her wind.
Team Compositions – Yangyang is a great Sub DPS in quick swap comps that often want to do combos. She can pull enemies together easily for another character that has heavy AoE damage potential, or she can use her Outro that gives Resonance Energy to another character that has a high impact Ultimate.
Skills and Playstyle
Yangyang’s kit uses dashes and plunge attacks often to manage her Forte mechanic.
Resonance Skill (E) – Creates wind that deals Aero damage and slightly staggers enemies. Use whenever off cooldown to disable enemies and gain Forte.
Basic Attack – Basic Attacks are not too valuable as the chain can take a while, but it will give one Forte bar.
Heavy Attack – Dashes through the target and allows the Basic Attack after that to give you one bar of Forte. You must do both to get it. This is the fastest way to get your Forte stacks because it is quick and has no cooldown.
Forte Circuit – Her Forte gauge has three bars. You gain one bar at a time from various sources.
- Resonance Skill
- Heavy Attack + Basic Attack Combo
- Fourth attack in the Basic Attack chain
Once she has three bars of Forte, her Heavy Attack will add an upward motion after the dash, bringing lesser enemies into the air with her. From here you can use Left Mouse Button to do an Aerial Attack which will consume all bars of Forte and perform a massive wind attack towards the ground, consuming the Forte and dealing even more damage.
Resonance Liberation (R) – Creates an even larger wind field than her Resonance Skill and pulls enemies into the center more aggressively while dealing damage.
Rotation
- Intro > Aerial Attack > Heavy > Basic
- E > Heavy > Basic
- Forte Heavy Attack > Aerial Attack
- Q > R > Outro
If you aren’t saving your R to CC for your next character, use it at the start of your rotation to ensure that you get as much of it off as soon as possible and can resume gaining Resonance Energy.
Intro – Sends the enemy into the air, allowing you to follow up with an Aerial Attack
Outro – Gives 20 Resonance Energy over 5 seconds to the next character.
Yangyang Build Guide Progression
Ascension Materials
- Roaring Rock Fist – Defeat Feilian Beringal in Dim Forest – Costs Waveplates
- Wintry Bell – Pick these flowers around the Belle-Borne Ravine in Gorges of Spirits or Buy at the Shifang Pharmacy
- Rings – Looted from Exiles
Weapons
- Emerald of Genesis (Convene 5-star) – Crit Rate – Increases Energy Regen by 13% and increases ATK by 6% for 10 seconds when using a Resonance Skill, this stacks up to 2 times.
- Commando of Conviction (Convene 4-star) – ATK – Increases ATK by 15% for 15 seconds after Intro
- Lunar Cutter (Convene 4-star) – ATK – Increases ATK by 2% for every stack, stacking up to 6 stacks. Stacks begin at 6 when entering the battle but reducing by 1 every 2 seconds and after killing an enemy resetting the stacks to 6.
Echo Skill (Q) – Moonlit Clouds – Impermanence Heron – Transform to fly up and dive at the ground, after this hits increase your Resonance Energy by 10 and your Outro skill gives the next character 12% more damage for 15 seconds.
Echo Main Stat Priority
- 4 – Crit Rate
- 4 – Crit Damage
- 3 – Aero Damage
- 3 – Energy Regen
- 1 – ATK%
Sub Stat Priority
- Crit Rate
- Crit Damage
- ATK%
- ATK
- Energy Regen (Get at least 30%)
- Resonance Liberation
- Resonance
Skill Leveling Materials
- Rings – Looted from Exiles
- Metallic Drip – Forgery Challenge: Flaming Remnants in Port City Guixu – Costs Waveplates
- Unending Destruction – Defeat Scar at Chaotic Juncture: Ember in Central Plains – Costs Waveplates
Inherent Skill 1 – Recover 30 Stamina after using her improved Mid-Air attack with full Forte. Stamina is shared between all characters so this can be supportive, but using Yangyang also takes up plenty of Stamina to use Plunge Attacks and Heavy Attacks often.
Inherent Skill 2 – Increases Aero DMG bonus by 8% for 8 seconds after her Intro Skill.
Skill Priority
- Resonance Liberation
- Forte Circuit
- Resonance
- Intro
- Basic Attack
Sequence 1 – Increases Aero DMG bonus by 15% for 8 seconds after her Intro Skill.
Sequence 2 – Once every 20 seconds, her Heavy Attack can generate an additional 10 Resonance Energy when it hits.
Sequence 3 – Resonance Skill damage increased by 40% and the wind field’s pull is stronger and 33% larger.
Sequence 4 – Enhanced Mid-Air Forte Attack damage increased by 95%.
Sequence 5 – Resonance Liberation damage increased by 85%.
Sequence 6 – After casting the Enhanced Mid-Air Forte Attack, give all party members 20% increased ATK for 20 seconds.
Should you try to pull extra sequences for Yangyang?
Only if you really like Yangyang. The first three sequences don’t change much, and the last three are only damage modifiers. Those damage modifiers are pretty good, but she still fits more of a Sub DPS because of how her skills work, so only the third and sixth sequence are really worth which can be a steep investment.
Gameplay
Credit to Alec John for the video.