WuWa. Youhu Wuthering Waves Guide Character Build. Glacio Support. Skill Priority.
Youhu is a 4-star character that wields a 
Rectifier and uses 
Glacio as her elemental damage. She is a 
Support that can heal, buff, and improves coordinated attacks and scales healing off of ATK.
Pros – Provides plenty of stagger damage or what is called Vibration to CC enemies more easily.
Cons – Can be inconsistent due to the randomness of the roulettes of Antiques, although this does not make a big difference. Damage buffs are extremely specific to Coordinated Attacks which can be niche if you don’t build your comp around it.
Team Compositions – Buffs the Coordinated Attacks of allies, making her great for teams with off-field damage.
Skills and Playstyle
Basic Attack – Youhu’s Basic Attack is a chain of four attacks which fill her Forte bar with the final hit giving much more. The full chain can give her a full bar of Forte.
Heavy Attack – Holding down the Basic Attack will begin a roulette to the side of Youhu. Depending on when you release this will grant a specific Antique which can provide a range of benefits. If you hold this until it fully charges the Forte bar, you will perform a rolling attack.
Resonance Skill (E) – Heal all party members and gain an Antique.
Using a Basic Attack after gaining an Antique will create a different attack depending on the type of Antique and then confirm that Antique to use later for your Forte Heavy Attack.
Antique Effects
- Chime – Reduce enemy vibration strength
- Ruyi – Deal relatively decent damage
- Ding – Break enemy stance with a charged attack
- Mask – Pull enemies with a boomerang
Gaining these Antiques is random through using specific Lucky Draw skills except for the Resonance Liberation which allows you to choose your Antique.
- Heavy Attack
- Resonance Skill
- Resonance Liberation
- Intro
- Dodge Counter
Forte Circuit (Poetic Essence) – When four Antiques have been slotted, use a Heavy Attack to perform Poetic Essence to deal damage and gain 20 Concerto as well as an additional effect based on your roulettes.
- Free Verse (Four different) Reduce the vibration strength of enemies hit
- Antithesis (One Pair) Increases the damage of Poetic Essence by 70%
- Double Pun (Two Pairs) Restores HP for all party members
- Triplet (Three-of-a-kind) Increases Poetic Essence damage by 175%
- Perfect Rhyme (Four-of-a-kind) Gain all the effects of the other Poetic Essences
Resonance Liberation (R) – Four buttons will appear on screen, each next to an object that represents an Antique. Pressing the corresponding button will choose that Antique and grant it to you, allowing you to decide which Poetic Essence effect you will gain. Additionally Youhu gains 20 Concerto.
Rotation
Youhu wants to always follow the pattern of Lucky Draw > Antique Appraisal or to gain Antiques through specific skills and then to use a Basic Attack to confirm them. At four Antiques, use the Resonance Liberation when at 3 Antiques to confirm the fourth for the best pattern, prioritizing getting as many of one kind of Antique. Then use the Forte Heavy Attack to gain the Concerto and Poetic Essence effect.
- Intro > Basic Attack > E > Basic
- Heavy Attack > Basic Attack (repeat if more energy needed)
- R > Basic > Forte Heavy > Outro
Intro – Gain an Antique.
Outro – Increase the next character’s Coordinated Attack damage by 100% for 28 seconds.
Youhu Build Guide Progression
Ascension Materials
- Topological Confinement – Defeat Fallacy of No Return in Tethys’ Deep of Black Shores – Costs Waveplates
- Violet Coral – Pick these around the shores in Wuming Bay and Norfall Barrens or buy at the Shifang Pharmacy
- Rings – Looted from Exiles
Weapons
- Verity’s Handle (Convene 5-star) – Crit Rate – Increases Elemental damage by 12%. When using Resonance Liberation, gain 48% Resonance Liberation damage for 8 seconds. Using the Resonance Skill will extend this effect for 5 seconds up to 3 times.
- Abyss Surges (Convene 5-star) – ATK – Increases Energy Regen by 13%. Resonance Skill increases Basic Attack damage by 10% when it hits for 8 seconds. Basic Attacks increase Resonance Skill damage by 10% when they hit for 8 seconds.
- Stonard (Insider Podcast Lvl 30 4-star) – Crit Rate – Resonance Liberation damage increased by 18% for 15 seconds when using Resonance Skill.
- Marcato (Convene 4-star) – Energy Regen – Generates 8 Concerto Energy on Resonance Skill once every 20 seconds.
Echo Skill 1 (Q) – 
Rejuvenating Glow – Fallacy of No Return – Activate to damage nearby enemies and gain 10% Energy Regen and all party members gain 10% ATK for 20 seconds. Hold down to constantly unleash a flurry of attacks, which can be maintained while using other attacks.
Echo Skill 2 (Q) – Rejuvenating Glow – Bell-Borne Geochelone – Grants a buff for 15 seconds that gives 50% damage reduction on the next 3 hits and 10% damage while it persists. Transfers to your other characters.
Echo Main Stat Priority
- 4 – Healing
- 4 – ATK%
- 3 – Energy Regen
- 1 – ATK%
Sub Stat Priority
- ATK%
- ATK
- Energy Regen
Skill Leveling Materials
- Rings – Looted from Exiles
- Cadence – Forgery Challenge: Moonlit Groves in Wuming Bay – Costs Waveplates
- Monument Bell – Defeat the Belle-Borne Geochelone in Gorges of Spirits – Costs Waveplates
Inherent Skill 1 – Restore HP for all party members based on 30% of the healing provided by the Resonance Skill whenever using the Basic Attack to Appraise an Antique.
Inherent Skill 2 – Gain 15% Glacio damage bonus for 14 seconds after Intro.
Skill Priority
- Resonance
- Forte Circuit
- Resonance Liberation
- Intro
- Basic Attack
Sequence 1 – After casting a Lucky Draw, you have a 10% chance to gain immunity to damage and interruption for 5 seconds or until swapping characters.
Sequence 2 – Double the damage bonuses of the Forte Heavy Attack Poetic Essence.
Sequence 3 – ATK increased by 20%.
Sequence 4 – Resonance Skill has a 20% chance to refund its cooldown entirely.
Sequence 5 – Intro increases Youhu’s Crit Rate by 15% for 14 seconds.
Sequence 6 – Resonance Skill grants 1 stack of Sky Blue for 7 seconds which stacks up to 4 times and each stack increases Crit Damage by 15%.
Should you try to pull extra sequences for Youhu?
No. Mostly Youhu’s sequences grant extra damage which does not benefit your team much as she will not contribute much damage regardless as a support. However, if you want to use her as a more active damage dealer, these are not hard to obtain since she is a 4-star.
Gameplay
Credit to Maygi for the video.