Find out Xiangli Yao build featuring the best echo sets, stats, and build the best team for this character down below.
Table of Contents
- Xiangli Yao Key Features
- Xiangli Yao Stats
- How to get Xiangli Yao
- Best Xiangli Yao Build Guide
- Best Weapons for Xiangli Yao
- Xiangli Yao Forte Priority
- Xiangli Yao Resonance Chain Priority
- Total Required Materials
- Best Team for Xiangli Yao
- How to Master Xiangli Yao
- How to Combo with Xiangli Yao
- Is Xiangli Yao Worth It?
- Conclusion
- Other Character Build Guide
Xiangli Yao Key Features
Here you can find Xiang li Tier rating, strengths and weaknesses, Stats, and How to get this character:
 Xiangli Yao | |
| Element | Electro |
| Weapon | Gauntlet |
| Rarity | Legendary |
Xiangli Yao is a strong Main DPS character that output very high normal attack and power res.liberation great for fighting agaisnt boos.
Xiangli Yao Tier Rating
Here are our Xiangli Yao tier ranking for each forte:
| Overall Tier: S | |
| Damage Output | S |
| Combo Chain | S |
| World Exploration | A |
Xinagli Yao is an S tier character that is free for all players to get, with high damage out inside S tier department, and A tier to use for World Exploration such as clearing echoes and reaching a certain spot.
Xiangli Yao Strengths and Drawbacks
Here are all of the strengths that empower Xiangli Yao and weaknesses that hold him down from being the best character in the game.
Strengths
| 1. Very powerful Res.Liberation. |
| 2. Great against single target. |
| 3. Easy to Combo. |
Weaknesses
| 1. Need high energy regen to be powerful. |
| 2. Require a good team build to shine. |
Overall, Xiangli Yao is good as an individual character but need a lot of energy regen and a good team around him to really shine during teamfight.
Xiangli Yao Stats
Note: This is Xiangli Yao base stats, no echo set or forte upgrade.
| Xiangli Yao Stats | Lv.1 | Lv.90 |
| HP | 850 | 10625 |
| ATK | 34 | 425 |
| DEF | 100 | 1222 |
| CRIT Rate | 5% | 5% |
| CRIT DMG | 150% | 150% |
How to get Xiangli Yao
You need to get 6,000 popularity points to get Xiangli Yao for free in the event down below:
- Moon's Grace.
The event has a duration of 21 days starting from September 7, 2024 to September 28, 2024.
Best Xiangli Yao Build Guide
Here is our recommendation on picking the best echo set for Xiangli Yao:
| Sonata Effect |  5x Void Thunder |
| Cost Pattern | 4 3 3 1 1 |
| 4 Cost [Main Stats] |  Tempest Mephis[Crit. Rate or Crit. DMG] |
| 3 Cost [Main Stats] | Any Void Thunder Echo [Electro DMG Bonus or Energy Regen] |
| 1 Cost [Main Stats] | Any Void Thunder Echo [ATK] |
We highly recommend the 5x void thunder sonata effect when building Xiangli Yao because this will increase Electro DMG by 15% stacking up to 2 times lasting 30 seconds when using Heavy Attack or Resonance Skill.
For the 4 Cost echo we suggest using Tempest Mephis with the main stats of Crit. Rate to improve your chance of crit during normal attack as well as powerful burst when using the echo.
3 Cost wise, you can get any Void thunder echo that has the main stats of Electro DMG Bonus or Energy Regen, if you feels like your team can't help Xiangli Yao to reach his ultimate quickly, you can choose energy regen.
Lastly, the 1 Cost you can pick any echo that has Void Thunder element and ATK as the main stats.
Best Echo Sub Stats
Tip: We know that Sub stats are random, however, if you want to get all 5 echo sub stats right you must farm a lot of echo. Try to aim for 3 correct sub stats if you don't want to farm as much.
Here are our recommend sub stats for all echoes to use with Xiangli Yao:
| Rank | Reason |
| 1. Energy Regen | Energy Regen is the most priority to Xiangli Yao, get this sub stats up to around 170 - 200% and you'll be able to reach his Res. Liberation faster. |
| 2. Crit Rate / Crit. DMG | Crit. Rate and Crit. DMG come after you get your energy regen to a certain requirement, this is limit less, get it up as high as you want. |
| 3. Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus | By now we all know that Xiangli Yao is very strong during his Res. Liberation so this DMG Bonus will improve him even more. |
| 4. Basic Attack DMG% | Getting this sub stats on Xiangli Yao echo will make his normal attack stronger. |
| 5. ATK% | Similar to Basic Attack DMG% but this will also make any of his attack stronger. |
| 6. Resonance Skill DMG Bonus | Since Xiangli Yao doesn't focus on skill that much, you can still get this substats and improve that as well. |
| 7. Flat ATK, DEF, HP | Lastly, is the 3 flat sub stats that you will get most of the time. |
Alternative Sonata Effects
In case you don't want to use 5x Void Thunder sonata effects you can try these alternative to see if it's good for your liking:
5x Lingering Tunes
This is the best alternative sonata effect that you can use with Xiangli Yao if you don't like the Void Thunder perks.
 5x Lingering Tunes |
By using 5x Lingering Tunes you will empowers Xiangli Yao field time by increases his ATK by 5% every 1.5 seconds stacking up to 4 times and increases 60% of outro skill DMG.
3x Void Thunder & 2x Lingering Tunes
This is another good sonata effect that you can use on Xiangli Yao:
| 3x Void Thunder | 2x Lingering Tunes |
There isn't anything unique that you can get from this sonata effect beside Electro DMG increases by 10% and ATK increases by 10%.
Best Weapons for Xiangli Yao
Here are our recommendation on picking the best Gauntlet for Xiangli Yao:
| 1. Verity's Handle | This is Xiangli Yao's signature gauntlet, which is now the strongest weapon that you can get for him to boost any type of damage the character use. |
| 2. Abyss Surges | This is the second best gauntlet for Xiangli Yao, improving energy regen, increase basic attack DMG, and resonance skill DMG when hitting a target wit resonance skill. |
| 3. Hollow Mirage | This weapon pair with Xiangli Yao during his res.liberation very well boosting his ATK and DEF by 5% stacking to 3 times. |
| 4. Stonard | This is also one of the best weapon for Xiangli Yao after using his skill, you will gain resonance liberation DMG bonus up to 54%. |
| 5. Gauntlets of Night | This weapon simply boost Xiangli Yao ATK when you switch from your sub DPS or healer. |
Overall, if you just unlock Xiangli Yao, the Gauntlets of Night can be a great weapon to start with, once you progress to level up we recommend getting Stonard or Hollow Mirage.
If you have Abyss Surges, use that and if you want to spend some dough on his signature weapon Verity's Handle, you can also do that to get his extremely huge power spike.
Xiangli Yao Forte Priority
Here is our recommendation that you should priority when upgrading Xiangli Yao forte:
Resonance Liberation > Forte Circuit > Resonance Skill > Normal Attack > Intro Skill
The first priority is to max out Xiangli Yao's resonance liberation to boost his power from his ultimate, then you can focus his Forte Circuit.
The third priority is his Resonance Skill then Normal attack and lastly finish it with the Intro Skill to boost his damage when swapping in.
Xiangli Yao Resonance Chain Priority
Since Xiangli Yao is a free character, his S0 is not as good as the other 5 star character, so we recommend get S2, S4, or S6 if you are a whale.
| Sequence | Details |
| Sequence 1 | Resonance Skill Law of Reigns additionally launches 6 Convolution Matrices at enemies, each dealing Resonance Liberation DMG equal to 8% of the skill's DMG Multiplier. |
| Sequence 2 | Casting Resonance Skill or Resonance Liberation Cogitation Model increases Crit. DMG by 30% for 8s. |
| Sequence 3 | Casting Resonance Liberation Cogitation Model increases the DMG of the following Resonance Skill moves by 63% for 24s. Decipher, Deduction, Divergence, and Law of Reigns. This effect can be triggered up to 5 times. |
| Sequence 4 | Casting Resonance Liberation Cogitation Model grants a 25% DMG Bonus to all team members' Resonance Liberation for 30s. |
| Sequence 5 | The DMG Multiplier of Outro Skill Chain Rule is increased by 22.2% The DMG Multiplier of Resonance Liberation Cogitation Model is increased by 100%. |
| Sequence 6 | The Hypercubes obtained from Resonance Liberation Cogitation Model are enhanced, increasing the DMG Multiplier of Resonance Skill Law of Reigns by 76%. |
Total Required Materials
Here are all materials that you need to farm in order to fully upgrade and ascension for Xiangli Yao and his forte.
Character Ascension
- 4x LF Whisperin Core
- 12x MF Whisperin Core
- 12x HF Whisperin Core
- 4x HF Whisperin Core
- 46x Hidden Thunder Tacet Core
- 60x Violet Coral
- 170 000 Shell Credits
Skill Upgrades (Total)
- 25x LF Whisperin Core
- 28x MF Whisperin Core
- 40x HF Whisperin Core
- 57x FF Whisperin Core
- 25x Cadence Seed
- 28x Cadence Bud
- 55x Cadence Leaf
- 67x Cadence Blossom
- 26x Unending Destruction
- 2 030 000 Shell Credits
These are the total materials that you need to farm in order to upgrade Xiangli Yao to the max which is level 90 and all the skills upgraded.
Best Team for Xiangli Yao
Here is our recommendation team for Xiangli Yao that make your game much better with him as a Main DPS.
Team 1
| Xiangli Yao |  Yinlin |  Verina |
This is the best Xiangli Yao team comp that you can use in Wuthering Waves with the synchronization of void thunder between Xiangli Yao and Yinlin generate such a huge damage burst then having Verina as an aggressive healer with her res. liberation adding even more bonus damage on top.
Character Swap Order
Start with Xiangli Yao res. liberation, then swap into Verina res.liberation, and instatly swap into Yinlin to get that damage burst, lastly you can swap back into Xiangli to finish off the enemy.
Team 2
| Xiangli Yao |  Jinhsi | Verina |
This is one of the best team for Xiangli Yao, Having 2 main DPS can really let you run through any boss in the game especially with Verina as your healer.
Character Swap Order
First, you always want to start with your Verina to get her res liberation up then you can swap into Jinshi in order to do her full combo which will take down the boss into 30 - 40% HP range, then swap into Xiangli Yao to finish the boss off with his ultimate.
This is a trick that minimize your risk of getting attack by the boss and too much and eliminate them very quick.
How to Master Xiangli Yao
Fortunately, XIangli Yao is not a super hard character to master, he just rely on his basic normal attack, and resonance liberation, beside that, the res. skill are just amplify more damage on top.
This is why you need another strong Main DPS to shred your enemy health down to around 50% to 60% and then instantly switch to Xiangli Yao to finish your enemy off.
How to Combo with Xiangli Yao
Combo allows your character to output heavier or higher damage compare to normal basic attack and the longer the combo chain the better the damage output and here are all the Xiangli Combo:
Ultimate Combo
| Res. Liberation > Skill 3: Devergence > BAx3 > Skill 4: law of Reigns > BA x3 > Skill 4: Law of Reigns |
This is the ultimate combo chain for Xiangli Yao, it deal massive damage that it should be the only one to learn and repeat.
Is Xiangli Yao Worth It?
It's absolutely worth it, because it's free and it's a very great character to use for outputting damage.
The other reason that make this character worth it, is that it's not hard to play. You just need to upgrade him into max level. Although this will require a lot of resource.
If you're a F2P player, his power spike might just be a little less compare to his S4 or S6 Xiangli Yao.
Conclusion
Overall, Xiangli Yao is a character that you shouldn't look passed. Try him out to see how good his damage is then consider it to either main it or not are your personal preference.
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End of Xiangli Yao Guide.