Lingyang — Wuthering Waves 5-star Glacio Gauntlets resonator (Main DPS)

Wuthering Waves · Build Guide

Lingyang Build

Best weapons, echoes & teams

Skills

Basic Attack

Majestic Fists

Basic Attack

Lingyang performs up to 5 consecutive attacks, dealing Glacio DMG.

Basic Attack: Feral Roars

After Resonance Skill Furious Punches is cast, Basic Attack 5 is replaced with Feral Roars, dealing Glacio DMG.

Heavy Attack

Lingyang consumes STA to attack the target, dealing Glacio DMG.

Mid-air Attack

Lingyang consumes STA to perform a Mid-air Plunging Attack, dealing Glacio DMG.

Dodge Counter

Use Basic Attack after a successful Dodge to attack the target, dealing Glacio DMG.

Resonance Skill

Ancient Arts

Attack the target, dealing Glacio DMG.

Furious Punches

When Basic Attacks 3, 4, or 5 or Basic Attack Feral Roars hits the target, Resonance Skill Ancient Arts is replaced with Resonance Skill Furious Punches. Lingyang's Basic Attack cycle starts from Basic Attack 3 after casting Basic Attack Feral Roars and Resonance Skill Furious Punches in turn. Lingyang's Resonance Skill does not reset his Basic Attack cycle.

Resonance Liberation

Strive: Lion's Vigor

Attack the target, dealing Glacio DMG, and receive the blessing of Lion's Vigor.

Lion's Vigor

Lingyang gains 50% Glacio DMG Bonus.

Intro Skill

Lion Awakens

Lingyang enters the battlefield, dealing Glacio DMG.

Outro Skill

Frosty Marks

Lingyang releases a shock wave centered on the skill target, dealing Glacio DMG equal to 587.94% of Lingyang's ATK to targets within the range.

Inherent Skills

Lion's Pride

DMG of the Intro Skill Lion Awakens is increased by 50%.

Diligent Practice

Under the Forte Circuit Striding Lion state, within 3s after each Basic Attack, the next Forte Circuit Mountain Roamer will deal an additional Glacio DMG equal to 150% of Mountain Roamer DMG, considered as Resonance Skill DMG.

Tune Break

Active

Tune Break: Gauntlets

When the target's Off-Tune Level is full, the Resonator may cast Tune Break on the target.

Forte Circuit

Active

Unification of Spirits

Heavy Attack: Glorious Plunge

When "Lion's Spirit" is full, use Heavy Attack to perform Glorious Plunge, dealing Glacio DMG.

Mid-air Attack: Tail Strike

When "Lion's Spirit" is not full, use Basic Attack after Heavy Attack to perform Tail Strike, dealing Glacio DMG.

Striding Lion

After casting Heavy Attack Glorious Plunge, enter Striding Lion state. Also triggered after casting Intro Skill Lion Awakens or Resonance Liberation Strive: Lion's Vigor if "Lion's Spirit" is full. In the Striding Lion state: attacks can be launched in mid-air; "Lion's Spirit" is continuously consumed for up to 5s (up to 10s during Lion's Vigor); Basic Attack is replaced with Feral Gyrate (up to 2 consecutive attacks, Glacio DMG); Resonance Skill is replaced with Mountain Roamer (Glacio DMG); when "Lion's Spirit" is below 10, Basic Attack performs Stormy Kicks (Glacio DMG); Concerto Energy is restored when "Lion's Spirit" is consumed.

Lion's Spirit

Lingyang can hold up to 100 "Lion's Spirit". Restored when casting Resonance Skill Furious Punches, Intro Skill Lion Awakens, or Resonance Liberation Strive: Lion's Vigor.

Resonance Chain

Priority nodes: S6 Demons Tremble, Divine Power Nigh · S3 Jaw-Dropping Feats, Loud and Wide · S4 Immortals Bow, in Reverence Flawed

Demons Tremble, Divine Power Nigh

★ Priority

In the Forte Circuit Striding Lion state, during the first 3s after every Resonance Skill Mountain Roamer, the Basic Attack DMG Bonus for Lingyang's next Basic Attack is increased by 100%.

+100% Basic Attack DMG · In the Forte Circuit Striding Lion state, during the first 3s after every Resonance Skill Mountain Roamer, the Basic Attack DMG Bonus for Lingyang's next Basic Attack is increased by 100%.

Lingyang is a 5★ Glacio Gauntlets Main DPS in Wuthering Waves. The best build is Moongazer's Sigil with the 5-piece Endless Resonance echo set, using Mech Abomination as the main echo. The strongest team is Lingyang with Sanhua and Baizhi (glacio carry). At Level 90, aim for 15000+ HP, 1150+ DEF, 2100-2500+ ATK, 60-80%+ CRIT Rate, 215-260%+ CRIT DMG, 120-125%+ Energy Regen and 40-70%+ Glacio DMG Bonus.

Best Weapons

by calculated performance

Moongazer's Sigil

R1Best

Iuno's Signature is Lingyang's best choice by virtue of its really high CRIT Rate boost, its good ATK stats, and its 36% Liberation DMG DEF Ignore and 20% DMG Bonus effects which can fully apply to Lingyang's initial Ultimate cast. In other words, the CRIT and ATK stats are great for Lingyang and it makes his initial Ultimate cast damage go way up, which makes it the best choice.

106.2%

Blazing Justice

Zani's Signature offers high ATK, CRIT DMG and 8% DEF Ignore for 6s when casting Basic Attacks, which is easily upkept throughout most of Lingyang's rotation. Overall a very strong generalist Gauntlets choice.

105.3%

Verity's Handle

High Base ATK, a good CRIT Rate stat, 12% Attribute DMG Bonus unconditionally and 48% Liberation DMG Bonus when casting Ultimate as well. Xiangli Yao's weapon provides lots of good stats, making it a highly competitive weapon choice for Lingyang.

104.2%

Tragicomedy

ATK and CRIT Rate stat-stick for Lingyang, who barely benefits from this weapon's Heavy Attack DMG-increasing effect (he does benefit from it on his Glorious Plunge attack, but it's not enough to make it rank above other limited weapon options).

103.0%

Abyss Surges

Lingyang's best permanently available Gauntlets choice. Increases Energy Regen which alleviates his requirements and also provides a huge amount of ATK. The Basic and Skill DMG increases are also quite useful on Lingyang, making it a very strong choice overall.

100.0%

Percentages show relative damage performance from calculations; some weapons bring un-quantifiable quality-of-life on top.

Best Echo Sets

5-Piece Sonata

Endless Resonance

100%

Offers a 10% unconditional ATK% boost and an additional 5% ATK% for every 1.5 seconds the equipped character has been actively on-field, up to 20% after 6 seconds, totalling 30% additional ATK% after fully ramped. This set is completely incompatible with quickswap playstyles, but for the hypercarry playstyle Lingyang will generally use, this is his best set by a small margin.

Example Loadout · 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 cost

4Main

Mech Abomination

Abyssal Gladius

Abyssal Mercator

Calcified Junrock

Clang Bang

5-Piece Sonata

Frosty Resolve

98.90%

This set grants permanent Resonance Skill DMG% and even bigger Glacio and Skill DMG increases when casting Skill and Liberation respectively. While the second Skill DMG boost is not upkept consistently by Lingyang, he does benefit from the stat and the Glacio DMG boost is additionally appreciated, making it his second best set and his best set that can be used in quickswap compositions.

Example Loadout · 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 cost

4Main

Sentry Construct

Abyssal Mercator

Abyssal Patricius

Chest Mimic

CCL

Chop Chop: Leftless

5-Piece Sonata

Freezing Frost

97.80%

Offers a 10% unconditional Glacio DMG% boost and up to an additional 30% Glacio DMG% after you land 3 Basic or Heavy Attacks for a grand total of 40% additional Glacio damage after fully ramped.

Example Loadout · 4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 cost

4Main

Lampylumen Myriad

Autopuppet Scout

Glacio Dreadmane

Clang Bang

Excarat

Echo Main Stats

4 · 3 · 3 · 1 · 1 cost

CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG

Glacio DMG

Glacio DMG > ATK%

ATK%

Substats Priority

Energy Regen (Until Satisfied)Best

CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG

ATK%

ATK

Energy Regen (Until Satisfied) > CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG > ATK% > ATK

Skill Priority

Forte

Liberation

Intro

Skill

Basic

Best Teams

Glacio Carry

Lingyang

Sanhua

Baizhi

Alternative Team

Lingyang

Sanhua

Verina

Best Resonance Chain Nodes

Resonance Chain

Priority nodes: S6 Demons Tremble, Divine Power Nigh · S3 Jaw-Dropping Feats, Loud and Wide · S4 Immortals Bow, in Reverence Flawed

Demons Tremble, Divine Power Nigh

★ Priority

In the Forte Circuit Striding Lion state, during the first 3s after every Resonance Skill Mountain Roamer, the Basic Attack DMG Bonus for Lingyang's next Basic Attack is increased by 100%.

Lingyang build summary

Moongazer's Sigil is the weapon to build around. Without it, Blazing Justice, Verity's Handle and Tragicomedy are the next picks, in that order. Aether Strike is the budget option.

On the Endless Resonance set, run CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG on the 4-cost, Glacio DMG on the 3-cost, Glacio DMG > ATK% on the 3-cost and ATK% on both 1-costs. Substats in priority order: Energy Regen (Until Satisfied) > CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG > ATK% > ATK.

The Resonance Chain nodes worth pulling for are S6 (+100% Basic Attack DMG), S3 (+20% Skill DMG) and S4 (+20% DMG). Level Forte Circuit → Res. Liberation → Intro Skill → Res. Skill → Basic Attack.

Ascension needs 46× Sound-Keeping Tacet Core above everything else, and the full build — ascension plus every forte node — costs 2,200,000 Shell Credits.

Role: 5★ Glacio Gauntlets Main DPS
Best weapon: Moongazer's Sigil
Alternatives: Blazing Justice, Verity's Handle, Tragicomedy
Echo set: Endless Resonance
Main echo: Mech Abomination
Main stats: 4-cost CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG · 3-cost Glacio DMG · 3-cost Glacio DMG > ATK% · 1-cost ATK% · 1-cost ATK%
Substats: Energy Regen (Until Satisfied) > CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG > ATK% > ATK
Skill priority: Forte Circuit > Res. Liberation > Intro Skill > Res. Skill > Basic Attack
Best chain nodes: S6, S3, S4
Best team: Lingyang + Sanhua, Baizhi
Level 90 targets: 15000+ HP · 1150+ DEF · 2100-2500+ ATK · 60-80%+ CRIT Rate · 215-260%+ CRIT DMG · 120-125%+ Energy Regen · 40-70%+ Glacio DMG Bonus
Key ascension material: 46× Sound-Keeping Tacet Core
Full build cost: 2,200,000 Shell Credits

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best weapon for Lingyang?

Moongazer's Sigil is the best-in-slot weapon for Lingyang. Iuno's Signature is Lingyang's best choice by virtue of its really high CRIT Rate boost, its good ATK stats, and its 36% Liberation DMG DEF Ignore and 20% DMG Bonus effects which can fully apply to Lingyang's initial Ultimate cast. In other words, the CRIT and ATK stats are great for Lingyang and it makes his initial Ultimate cast damage go way up, which makes it the best choice. The next best options are Blazing Justice and Verity's Handle. Aether Strike is the strongest budget pick.

What echo set should Lingyang use?

Run the 5-piece Endless Resonance set on Lingyang. Mech Abomination is the recommended main echo. Main stats by cost: 4-cost CRIT Rate / CRIT DMG, 3-cost Glacio DMG, 3-cost Glacio DMG > ATK%, 1-cost ATK%, 1-cost ATK%.

What substats does Lingyang want?

On Lingyang, prioritise these echo substats: Energy Regen (Until Satisfied) > CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG > ATK% > ATK.

Which skills should you level first on Lingyang?

Level the forte nodes in this order on Lingyang: Forte Circuit → Res. Liberation → Intro Skill → Res. Skill → Basic Attack.

What is the best team for Lingyang?

Glacio Carry: Lingyang with Sanhua and Baizhi. Alternative Team: Lingyang with Sanhua and Verina. Sanhua enters with Intro, stacks Clarity, detonates all Ice Creations with Heavy Attack, Detonate, then Outros to grant Lingyang…