158 articlesWhen choosing an ideal team in Wuthering Waves, your secondary DPS character plays a pivotal part in making your team feel complete. Your secondary DPS or Sub-DPS characters help boost the overall damage of your team and provide valuable utility that other characters might not bring.
Yangyang is one of the first Sub-DPS characters that most players will unlock quite early in the game. Despite being unlocked early, Yangyang is still a very good character in the right hands. She can provide a lot of extra damage to your team and help build up a lot of energy that your DPS characters will need.
Before you take Yangyang into the game, it’s very important to know what to build with her. Luckily for you, we have put together an ultimate guide to help bring out the best of what she has to offer.
Ultimate Yangyang Guide
When it comes to builds, the main things to consider in Wuthering Waves are Echos and weapons. Both of these help dictate your playstyle and have the biggest impact on your damage. Other that, it is also important to find the best possible team for your character.
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Echos
As a secondary DPS build, the best way to build Yangyang is by maxing out her damage. What makes Yangyang so good as a secondary DPS is her overall kit. By maxing her damage you will get a lot of extra damage for your team and on top of that add her utility into the mix.
For your main Echo, the best pick will have to be Feilian Beringal. Yangyang gets a huge boost from Feilian Beringal’s damage boost, which helps in maxing her damage.
If you want to go for a more support-like build, then you can also go for the Bell-Borne Geochelone. You will lose a lot of damage this way, and the Bell-Borne Geochelone Echo will help you boost the damage of your teammates instead.
For the stats, your priority will be:
- CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG
- Aero DMG
- ATK%
- Energy Regen
All of these stats fit well with what Yangyang does in the game. Boosting damage is usually the way to go with Yangyang. Again, for a more support-like build, you can give more priority to stats such as Energy Regen, but even for support having damage stats isn’t a bad thing.
Finally, for her Sonata skill you can go both 5-set or a double 2-set. For your 5-set, you will almost always want to go Sierra Gale. This will give you a good amount of damage to work with. For a double 2-set, you can again go Sierra Gale and combine it with something like Moonlit Clouds. In most cases, a 5-set Sierra Gale is the best option as the damage difference between that and the next best option is massive.
Weapons
The ideal weapon for Yangyang is almost always going to be the Emerald of Genesis. This fine work of art will help you increase your overall energy regen and at the same time, also boost your damage.
Alternatively, you can also choose to go for weapons like the Lunar Cutter or Commando of Conviction. These weapons are very strong in their own ways and can bring a lot to the table.
Again if we compare the damage of the Emerald of Genesis with the other 2 weapons, there is a big enough gap to make the Emerald of Genesis come out the clear favorite.
Ideal Team
Alongside the best build, it is also important to have the ideal team. As Yangyang is a secondary DPS character, you will need to have a main DPS and support character to go along with her. You can also opt to use Yangyang in a more supportive role and utilize another secondary DPS character in your team
The main reason for having a secondary DPS character in your team will be the help they provide to your main DPS. In Yangyang’s case, the main way she helps her DPS characters is by giving them an energy boost. Having a character like Jiyan as your carry will be very useful as Jiyan relies a lot on energy to be successful. Similarly, someone like Encore can also hugely benefit from Yangyang’s presence. Check out our ultimate Jiyan guide if you choose to go with this team composition!
Having selected a main DPS, you will also need to find the perfect third member to round out your team. For support, you can go for someone like Verina or Baizhi. Both of these characters are among the best supports in the game and can help make your team much stronger. Another option that you can go for is adding another secondary DPS character to your team. You can play Yangyang in a more supportive role and go for some secondary DPS character like Mortefi.
This isn’t the ideal way to play Yangyang, but it is doable if you desperately need the utility that she provides.
Overall Playstyle
Yangyang is overall a pretty simple character to understand. She will provide your team with good damage, but above that she is great for the utility she provides. Her utility mainly comes in the form of energy regen.
When playing her, the main thing to keep in mind is who you bring in after her. Her outro skill will give a big boost in energy regen, and this is best utilized by your DPS character. Other than that, you will want to use Yangyang in short durations.
