Xiangli Yao Build Guide: Echoes, Weapons & Teams | Wuwa 2.3

With the release of Wuthering Waves version 2.3 and the 1st ever Anniversary celebration patch for the game, the Anniversary banners rerun the 5* Electro Main DPS character - Xiangli Yao.

In this guide, we will go over everything players need to know about Xiangli Yao’s playstyle, abilities, skills and how to build him with the best weapons, Echo sets and team him up with the best teammates to maximize his full potential in Wuthering Waves 2.3.

 

Xiangli Yao Playstyle and Abilities

Xiangli Yao is a Limited 5 Star Electro Element Resonator that wield gauntlets as his weapons and serves as a main Electro Elemental on field DPS with his immensely simplistic yet powerful skill kit, allowing him to dish out massive amounts of damage in short amounts of time.

His main strong point and playstyle revolves around his ever changing Resonance Skills and his Forte Circuit, allowing him to switch between different modes with his skill to deal constant damage to enemies with his gauntlets.

Xiangli Yao’s normal attacks allow him to deal up to 5 consecutive Electro Elemental damage strikes to enemies. When hitting enemies with his normal attacks, Xiangli Yao will fill up his Forte Circuit’s ability Intuition and allows him to change his Resonance Skill’s phase when he accumulates enough Intuition points.

His main damaging gimmick revolves around his Resonance Skill, which normally deals an instance of Electro Damage to the enemy. When Xiangli Yao obtains enough Intuition points, however, his Resonance Skill will be changed to Decipher, dealing more Electro damage and is considered as Resonance Liberation damage instead. Finally, when he obtains enough Intuition and has performed his combo correctly, his Resonance Skill will be further enhanced into Law Of Reigns, dealing even more Electro Damage to enemies.

Xiangli Yao’s Forte circuit allows him to accumulate Intuition when he attacks enemies and grants him a special combo once his Resonance Liberation has been used. When under this form, performing specific combos in sequences will grant Xiangli Yao special Performance Capacity buffs, helping him deal more damage.

Finally, Xiangli Yao’s Resonance Liberation allows him to enter Intuition form immediately, enhances his normal attacks into special normal attacks and changes his Resonance Skill Damage into Resonance Liberation damage.

 

Xiangli Yao Skill Upgrade Priorities

As Xiangli Yao’s main source of damage comes from his Forte Circuit and Resonance Liberation, they are of the highest priority for players to upgrade. Leveling up Xiangli Yao’s Resonance Skill is also highly recommended as his damage will be massively enhanced when he enters his ultimate mode upon using his Resonance Liberation.

Res. Liberation = Forte Circuit > Res. Skill > Intro Skill > Basic Attack

As Xiangli Yao functions as the main DPS in a team, leveling all of his abilities and skills to maximize his damage output as best as you can is highly recommended.

 

Echo Set Recommendations

As Xiangli Yao is an Electro Resonator and an Electro Main DPS, if players want to focus mainly on boosting Xiangli Yao’s main damage output massively, then using the Void Thunder Echo Set will be his best in slot Echo Set.

Alternatively, if players want to use a more generic but still strong DPS Echo Sonata Set that focuses mainly on boosting his overall damage output, players can use the Lingering Tunes Echo Set for quick swap teams.

Echoes Main And Sub Stats Recommendation

For main and sub stats for Echoes, Xiangli Yao will want mostly Offensive Stats in order to massively boost his damage output, with a heavy emphasis on Critical Stats, Attack and LIberation Damage Increase.

The main stats that players should get are:

• 4 Cost Echo (Nightmare: Tempest Mephis): Crit Damage% / Crit Rate%
• 3 Cost Echoes: 2 Electro Damage%
• 1 Cost Echoes: 3 Atk% Echoes

Recommended Sub Stats: Crit Rate% / Crit Damage% > Resonance Liberation Damage% = Atk% > Other Stats

 

Weapon Recommendations

For Xiangli Yao, his best in slot weapon is of course his signature weapon, Verity’s Handle:

	Verity's Handle (5* Limited)
	Attack (587)
	Crit Rate (24.3%)
Gain 12% Attribute DMG Bonus. When using Resonance Liberation, the wielder gains 48% Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus for 8s. This effect can be extended by 5 seconds each time Resonance Skills are cast, up to 3 times.

Alternatively, some of the more F2P weapon options for Xiangli Yao includes:

	Abyss Surges (5*)
	Attack (587)
	Attack% (36.4%)
Increases Energy Regen by 12.8%. When hitting a target with Resonance Skill, increases Basic Attack DMG Bonus by 10%, lasting for 8s. When hitting a target with Basic Attacks, increases Resonance Skill DMG Bonus by 10%, lasting for 8s.

And

	Stonard (4* Battle Pass)
	Attack (412)
	Crit Rate (20.3%)
When Resonance Skill is cast, increases the caster's Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus by 18%, lasting for 15s.

 

Xiangli Yao Best Teammates & Synergy

As Xiangli Yao functions as the main DPS character in a Electro damage based team, his best teammates will includes characters that can either boost the overall Electro damage output for Xiangli Yao or characters that can boost the Resonance LIberation damage for Xiangli Yao to do even more damage when he is in his ultimate mode. Additionally, having a good sustain character will be crucial in a Xiangli Yao team due to his easy to interrupt skill kit.

Some of the strongest characters that can go together Xiangli Yao in a team are:

Yinlin: Yinlin is Xiangli Yao’s best teammate as not only can she deal massive amounts of Electro damage when she is on the field, Yinlin can still deal decent amount of Electro damage even when she is off field, allowing her to supplement Xiangli Yao’s overall damage output against enemies. Additionally, Yinlin’s Outro Skill allows her to boost the Electro damage output of the next ally, allowing her to boost the damage output of Xiangli Yao massively when he takes the field.

 

Shorekeeper: As the premium healer character with powerful buffs for the entire team, Shorekeeper can be used in the same team as Xiangli Yao to massively boost his damage output as well as boosting his survivability thanks to her healings.

 

Some best F2P characters that can go together with Xiangli Yao includes:

Yuanwu: Yuanwu is Xiangli Yao’s best F2P teammate as not only does Yuanwu boost the overall Electro damage of the team by creating electro Coordinated attacks to supplement Xiangli Yao damage when he is on field. Additionally, Yuanwu’s quick and easy to use skill kit allow him to quickly supply Electro energy for Xiangli Yao, allowing him to enter his Resonance Liberation mode way faster.

 

Baizhi: Baizhi is Xiangli Yao’s best F2P Buffer and Healer option as not only does she heal Xiangli Yao even when she is off field, she also boosts the damage of Xiangli Yao whenever he is healed.

 

Conclusion

With the return of Xiangli Yao in the upcoming Wuthering Waves Anniversary Character Rerun banner, if players are in dire need of a good and strong Electro DPS character or even if you only want to get him for his looks and charismatic personality, Xiangli Yao is a very good get for players who likes to play with a very dynamic playstyle.

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We hope that with this guide, players will have a better idea of how to play and build Xiangli Yao so that he can become the best Main DPS character for your best Electro Damage teams.