
Wuthering Waves · Build Guide
Cantarella Build
Best weapons, echoes & teams
Best Weapons
by calculated performance
Whispers of Sirens
R1BestCantarella's signature weapon is expectedly perfect for her, as it gives her a huge boost to many stats including CRIT DMG, ATK, Basic ATK DMG Bonus and can even ignore Havoc RES. These buffs activate naturally quickly in her rotation, making the weapon especially powerful.
100.0%

Rime-Draped Sprouts
R1Cantarella can make great use of the passive effects of Zhezhi's signature weapon since she heavily benefits from Basic Attack DMG Bonus. It also has CRIT DMG and ATK%, 2 stats Cantarella enjoys as a damage dealer. Having 3 uses of her Resonance Skill, Cantarella is able to exploit this weapon's passive effects well too. This makes this option an outstanding choice for her if you own it.
87.0%

Stringmaster
R1Yinlin's signature weapon is a versatile option that gives a lot great stats such as CRIT Rate, All-Type DMG Bonus and ATK, especially if the character deals off-field damage or uses Swap Cancels. Because of this, it almost always lands as the #1 or #2 weapon of choice for rectifier damage dealers. On Cantarella specifically, it's about equal to Zhezhi's Signature since she uses its passive well.
85.0%

Lethean Elegy
R1While this weapon theoretically could provide 8% DEF Ignore to Cantarella in teams where she can Swap Cancel it before casting her Intro, in practice in her best teams since Outro buffs will be active on all 3 team members at once this passive rarely sees any use since interrupting an Echo cast's damage for it is not worth it. Hence, it mostly acts as a CRIT Rate and ATK stat-stick for Cantarella.
84.5%

Luminous Hymn
R1Simple ATK and CRIT Rate stat-stick for Cantarella, who doesn't benefit from this weapon's Spectro Frazzle-related effects.
82.6%
Percentages show relative damage performance from calculations; some weapons bring un-quantifiable quality-of-life on top.
Best Echo Sets
5-Piece Sonata
Midnight Veil
Best set for Cantarella in all Havoc teams. Offers a 10% unconditional Havoc DMG% boost alongside adding a large Havoc Damage hit to the Outro of the wearer. Also grants the incoming resonator a Havoc DMG% boost when the wearer uses their Outro.
Example Loadout · 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 cost
5-Piece Sonata
Moonlit Clouds
Best set for Cantarella in all non-Havoc teams. This set sacrifices Cantarella's personal damage in order to provide higher buffing to a single character. It provides an extra 10% Energy Regen to the wielder unconditionally and gives 22.5% ATK to the incoming character for 15s after casting Outro skill, making it one of the strongest sets to buff any ATK-scaling DPS.
Example Loadout · 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 cost
Echo Main Stats
4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 costCRIT Rate / CRIT DMG
Havoc DMG
Havoc DMG > Energy Regen
ATK%
ATK%
Substats Priority
Energy Regen (Until Satisfied) > CRIT RATE = CRIT DMG > ATK% > ATK = Basic ATK DMG%
Skill Priority
Forte
Skill
Liberation
Basic
Intro
Best Teams
Havoc Diffusion Core
Alternative Team
Best Awakening Nodes
Priority nodes: S3 Lullaby of the Abyss · S2 Depths of Reverie · S6 One Infinite Night
Lullaby of the Abyss
★ PriorityJolt generates 1 additional Abyssal Rebirth and reduces Resonance Liberation cooldown by 3s.
+370% Liberation DMG · The DMG Multiplier of Resonance Liberation Flowing Suffocation is increased by 370%.









