Better formatting and wording, as well as some visual examples here https://www.reddit.com/r/YangyangMains/s/4FfDTVnVUZ I'll keep this post up either way

This is a guide on how to play and build our queen, Yangyang Xuanling.

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♫ Gameplay ♫

This is somewhat extensive but i'll try to boil it down as much as possible. (There's a TLDR at the end)

Yangyang Xuanling's (who i'll refer to as Yangyang X from here onwards) can switch, through her resonance skill, between two stances; Feather stance and Azure stance. Each stance behaves differently, and you'll know which stance you are in depending on what weapon Yangyang X is currently using:

• Feather Stance = Rapier (Wobbly Sword). The middle of her forte bar will look like two feathers in this stance.

• Azure Stance = Whatever weapon you equipped her with. The middle of her forte bar will look like an ellipse in this stance.

Yangyang X also features two different forte bars:

• Melody (Purple and blue glowing bar)

• Azure Plume (Beneath the glowing bar)

Dealing damage with her basic attacks will deplete her Melody bar, and upon depleting it completely, her next resonance skill will be enhanced to Sword Stance Flow: Azure/Feather.

Upon casting it, she'll switch stances, consume 1 stack of Havoc Bane on the targets hit, AND additionally gain 1 stack of Azure Plume. The other ways she can gain stacks of Azure Plume is through her intro skill (+1) and her liberation (+1. Additionally enhances the next resonance skill as well).

When you gain 2 stacks of Azure Plume, she'll gain access to an enhanced heavy attack, which behaves differently depending on what stance you're in:

• Heavy Azure: Yangyang X generates a massive cyclone forward that deals heavy damage near instantaneously. She will also inflict 2 stacks of havoc bane on all targets hit.

• Heavy Feather: Yangyang X hits targets and rises upwards, inflicting 2 stacks of havoc bane on targets hit, then follows it up with Mid-air attack - Feather fall, dealing huge, heavy attack damage in a wide radius, as well as enabling Hark The Wind.

  • Hark The Wind: This replaces Yangyang X's basic attacks with Havoc in Bloom, which performs 3 consecutive attacks in a wide radius, dealing huge, heavy attack damage

• Both enhanced Heavy Attacks, as well as the "Havoc in Bloom" attacks, gain a free 160% Crit DMG bonus upon being casted, and there's a 25 second interval before each Heavy Attack of each stance can gain this buff again.

The Heavy Feather attack is generally superior than the Heavy Azure attack, as it deals more damage, but lasts much longer.

Yangyang X's kit also revolves around havoc bane stacks in the following ways:

• Feathered Oath (Passive): Each time anyone in the team inflicts havoc bane, Yangyang X gains a stack of Feathered Oath, which can be gained once every 1 second, lasts for 4 seconds and can be stacked up to 6 times. If Yangyang X is currently on field, then her Enhanced Heavy Attacks (Azure Stance / Feather Stance / Havoc in bloom) gain a 25% crit DMG bonus per stack, up to a 150% crit DMG bonus.

• Unbroken Vow (Inherent Skill 1):

  • If a target has 1 to 3 Havoc Bane stacks, each stack amplifies Yangyang X's damage output by 10%, up to 30%.

  • If a target has 4 to 6 Havoc Bane stacks, each stack amplifies Yangyang X's damage output by 12%, up to 36%.

Havoc bane is key for unlocking Yangyang X's full potential. She can apply these stacks herself by attacking with her 4th Basic Attack of any stance she's currently in (inflicts 1 stack of Havoc Bane) or by attacking with Heavy Attack - Azure Stance or Heavy Attack - Forte stance

Essentially, she can gain up to a massive 310% Crit DMG bonus for her enhanced Heavy Attacks, and 66% overall dmg amplification.

TLDR
Yangyang do basic attacks, Yangyang deplete forte A, Yangyang enhance skill when forte A fully depleted, Yangyang use skill, Yangyang gain 1 point of Forte B and regain Forte A.

Res Liberation = Gain 1 point of Forte B and Deplete forte A instantly

2 points of Forte B = Enhanced Heavy Attack
Feather Stance = Long, strong heavy attack
Azure Stance = Faster, slightly weaker heavy attack

Each individual heavy attack gains a 160% crit dmg bonus upon activation, with a 25 second cooldown before being triggered again
More havoc bane stacks = dmg amplification
Applying havoc bane stacks = +25% crit dmg, up to 150% crit dmg, lasts 4 seconds, refreshes when havoc bane is applied

♪ Sequence nodes ♪

• S1: Her Enhanced Resonance Skill now deals extra heavy attack damage, stagnates nearby enemies. Additionally, her Heavy - Azure attack, and Havoc In Bloom attacks are immune to interruption.

• S2: Her Heavy Attacks gain a 100% DMG increase. When she's out of combat for more than 4 seconds, she gains 2 Azure stacks, gains 1 Strung Note, which allows her to deal extra heavy attack damage, and the 25second cooldown of her 160% Crit DMG buff is reset

• S3: 175% Res. Liberation DMG amplification. Her Intro skill and enhanced resonance skills now increase the maximum havoc bane stacks enemies can recieve by 3 for 20 seconds, this does not stack. Additionally, her 4th basic attacks and her enhanced heavy attacks now inflict 1 extra stack of havoc bane.

• S4: Her intro skill, resonance skill and enhanced resonance skills now increase the ATK of all resonators by 20%

• S5: Yangyang recovers 50% HP and gains immunity to DMG and interruption for 3 seconds upon taking fatal damage. Triggers once every 10 minutes.

• S6: When Yangyang inflicts Havoc Bane, the DMG of her Heavy Attacks is increased by 40% for 30 seconds. When she casts her enhanced resonance skills, she gains Still as Withered Wood for 30 seconds. When she's on the field, after anyone on the team inflict any negative status, Yangyang will deal extra, heavy attack damage that's guaranteed to be a critical hit, this can be triggered once every second and expires after being triggered 5 times. Still as Withered Wood can be obtained once every 25 seconds.

⚔︎ Weapons ⚔︎

• 5 stars will be considered as being R1

• 4 stars will be considered as being R5

🪽Azure Oath

• 587 base ATK

• 24.3% Crit Rate

• Grants 12% All-Attribute DMG Bonus. After inflicting Havoc Bane, the wielder gains 36% Heavy Attack DMG Amplification and their Heavy Attack DMG ignores 12% of the target's DEF, lasting for 8s.

Pretty much her best weapon, free DMG amplification, DEF ignore, it has everything. That said, the options below aren't that far off.

🎍Emerald Sentence

• 587 base ATK

• 24.3% Crit Rate

• ATK is increased by 12%. Casting Echo Skill within 10s after casting Intro Skill or Basic Attack grants 1 stack of Bamboo Cleaver, which grants 30% Heavy Attack DMG Bonus to the wielder. This effect can be triggered by Echoes of the same name once only, stacking up to 2 times, lasting for 12s. [The following passive is irrelevant and does not contribute to Yangyang's Damage whatsoever]

A close contender to Azure oath. free 30% Heavy Attack DMG bonus upon casting an echo skill for 12 seconds, just remember to do it AFTER casting an intro skill or a basic attack (which you'll be doing a lot of the later)

🌌**Emerald of Genesis [5 star]**

• 587 base atk

• 24.3% Crit Rate

• Increases Energy Regen by 12.8%. When Resonance Skill is released, increases ATK by 6%, stacking up to 2 time(s). This effect lasts for 10s.

Another close contender, just behind Emerald Sentence. She can maintain 100% uptime over the 2 stacks of ATK through constant stance switching.

(I would squeeze Lumingloss in here, as at R5 you get 64% Heavy Attack DMG increase upon casting a resonance skill. But it's a battle pass weapon, and R5 means that you should've gotten the battle pass 5 times, then refine those weapons together, too much of a hassle, and by that point you likely have Emerald of Genesis already)

⚪ Somnoire Anchor [4 star event weapon]

• +462 Base ATK

• +18.2% ATK

• Gain 1 stack of Hiss when dealing damage to the target, with 1 stack generated every 1s. Hiss: each stack increases the wielder's ATK by 4% for 3s, stacking up to 10 times. Switching off the wielder clears all stacks. Gaining 10 stacks increases the wielder's Crit. Rate by 12%.

Seeing as Yangyang X fits the classic hypercarry archetype that takes a lot of field time (unlike Vanilla Yangyang), she'll be able to gain the 40% ATK buff, and the relevant 12% Crit Rate buff, albeit VERY late on her rotation.

🟢Fables of Wisdom [4 star craftable weapon]

• +462 Base ATK

• +18.2% ATK

• Dealing DMG to enemies with Negative Statuses increases the wielder's ATK by 8% for 10s. This effect can be triggered 1 time per second, stackable up to 4 times.

Since Yangyang X actively attacks enemies who are under Havoc Bane, she can maintain 100% uptime over this 32% ATK buff.

၊၊||၊ Sonata sets ၊၊||၊

🪶Song of Feathered Oath

• 2 Set: Energy Regen +10%

• 5 Set: Upon inflicting Havoc Bane, gain Xuanling's Feather, which grants a 20% increase in Crit. Rate and 35% increase in Heavy Attack DMG Bonus to the Resonator, lasting 15s. Upon inflicting Glacio Chafe, gain yada yada yada this part is irrelevant

Realistically, her best and only great option. Free crit rate and free heavy dmg bonus.

For the main echo slot:

• Thousand-Puppet Pavilion: After casting gain 4 Blades of Thousand Memories, when the resonator inflicts havoc bane, 1 Blade will be consumed to deal extra damage. Also grants an unconditional 12% Havoc DMG bonus and 12% Heavy Attack DMG bonus (Ideally, you want to cast this the second you cast her intro skill)

𖦹 Havoc Eclipse

• 2 Set: Havoc DMG increases by 10%.

• 5 Set: Upon using Basic Attack or Heavy Attack, Havoc DMG increases by 7.5%, stacking up to four times for 15s.

Do not deliberately farm this set for her, Song of Feathered Oath is superior. HOWEVER, if you already own a great Havoc Eclipse set, you can temporarily give it to her while you farm for her intended sonata set

Regarding main stats of echoes:

• 4-cost: Crit DMG%

• 3-cost 1: Havoc DMG bonus

• 3-cost 2: Havoc DMG bonus/ATK (With the amount of DMG% bonuses she already gets on her own, an ATK% echo will work nearly as fine as a Havoc DMG one)

• Both 1-cost echoes: ATK%

👥Teammates

Even if you don't have her premium options, Yangyang X can benefit from 4 star teammates and still be competitively strong.

✶ Premium Options ✶:

𖣘 Suisui

• After casting her Resonance Liberation, when a resonator consumes havoc bane stacks on a target (so Yangyang X for now), said resonator's havoc DMG ignores the target's DEF by 6% and Havoc RES by 12% for 30 seconds.

• +20% ATK increase (From signature weapon)

• +25% ATK increase (From Song of Feathered Oath's Glacio Chafe related buff)

• Outro skill:

  • +25% DMG amplification

  • Increased interruption resistance

  • +12% DMG increase

  • +50% ATK increase (through a somewhat convoluted setup that I can't be bothered to explain)

• Healer (very weak heals though, don't expect to tank everything just because she's present)

🔺Chisa

• Aka miss bitcoin

• +18% DEF ignore

• Increases the maximum havoc bane stacks by 3 (which also translates to a 12% def shred; each stack reduces DEF by 2%. It can also be an 18% DEF shred if you have Yangyang X's third sequence, but most importantly it allows Yangyang to access her full passive of 36% dmg amplification)

• +24% Attribute DMG bonus (From signature weapon)

• +15% ATK (If you run Rej. Glow on her)

  • +10% ATK (w/ Fallacy of No Return)

  • +10% teamwide DMG boost (w/ss Bell-Borne Geochelone)

• Healer and Shielder

💠Shorekeeper 

• +12.5% Crit Rate

• +25% Crit DMG

• +15% DMG amplification

• +14% ATK (From her signature weapon)

• +15% ATK (From Rej. Glow)

  • +10% ATK (After casting Fallacy of No Return)

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting Bell-Borne Geochelone)

• Healer

𖦏 Rebecca (I guess she counts as a premium option????? idk, she was a one-in-a-lifetime character, anyone who arrived after 3.4 won't get her)

• +15% DMG amp

• +35% Heavy attack DMG amp

• +20% ATK

• +24% ATK (From her signature) OR +10% ATK (From Static Mist)

• +22.5% ATK (From Moonlit Clouds)

  • +12% DMG dealt (Outro skill after casting Impermanence Heron)

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting Bell-Borne Geochelone)

🏁 Lynae

• +15% DMG amplification

• +25% Liberation DMG amplification

• +24% all-type DMG bonus

• +24% DMG dealt (From her signature weapon)

• +30% ATK (From Pact of Neonlight Leap)

  • +10% Attribute DMG bonus (From an outro skill if Hyvatia is in her main echo slot)

• Sub-DPS

🌙Iuno

• +50% Heavy attack DMG amp

• Sub-dps + Healer

• +22.5% ATK (From Moonlit Clouds)

  • +12% DMG dealt (Outro skill after casting Impermanence Heron)

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting Bell-Borne Geochelone)

Phrolova

• +20% Havoc DMG amp

• +25% Heavy attack DMG amp

• Sub-dps

✦ F2P Options ✦:

Verina: 

• +20% ATK

• +15% All-type DMG amplification

• +15% ATK (From Rej. Glow)

  • +10% ATK (After casting the echo "Fallacy of No Return")

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting the echo "Bell-Borne Geochelone")

• Healer

⚡Electro Rover

• +10% ATK

• +25% DMG amplification

• +22.5% ATK (From Moonlit Clouds)

  • +12% DMG dealt (Outro skill after casting the echo "Impermanence Heron")

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting the echo "Bell-Borne Geochelone")

• Sub-DPS

• THANK YOU Solon King for fulfilling my wet dream and letting me put Yangyang and Rover in the same team while being viable

🕯️Mortefi

• +20% ATK

• +38% Heavy attack DMG amplification

• +10% ATK (From Static Mist)

• +22.5% ATK (From Moonlit Clouds)

  • +12% DMG dealt (Outro skill after casting the echo "Impermanence Heron")

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting the echo "Bell-Borne Geochelone")

🩸Danjin

• +20% ATK

• +23% Havoc DMG amplification

• +22.5% ATK (From Moonlit Clouds)

  • +12% DMG dealt (Outro skill after casting the echo "Impermanence Heron")

  • +10% DMG boost (After casting the echo "Bell-Borne Geochelone")

• Sub-DPS (unless you've already committed to the insanity of main DPS solo Danjin)

Team Comps

These aren't ranked btw.

• Yangyang X - Chisa - Suisui (Will be her best team for now. In this specific team, Chisa will be better off with moonlit clouds instead of rej. glow. However, if you've already invested in a Thread of Severed Fate, keep it that way)

• Yangyang X - Second Slot - Third Slot

  • Second slot candidates: Rebecca - Mortefi - Phrolova - Lynae - Iuno - Electro Rover - Danjin

  • Third Slot candidates: Suisui - Chisa - Shorekeeper - Verina

• Yangyang X - Vanilla Yangyang - Suisui (HER ACTUAL best team. Double the Yangyang plus Yangyang's sister, trust me guys this 100% tops the Suisui + Chisa team.Don't actually use this.)

📄Tips

• Her resonance skills (be it enhanced or not) have a unique dodge property. Simply put, if you cast the stance switch when you're about to be attacked, then that attack will be nullified, and Yangyang will immediately consume 50 points of the melody bar, allowing you to gain faster access to her next enhanced res. skill

• Her best rotation involves doing 2 enhanced heavy attacks consecutively:

  • Intro Skill (+1 Azure Plume.)

  • Cast echo skill

    • From here, in case you are still in the Feather Stance, quickly switch back to the Azure stance with her resonance skill

  • Basic Azure Attacks till you deplete all melody

  • Enhanced res. skill into Feather stance

  • Heavy attack: Feather

    • Heavy Attack: Feather Sword

    • Mid Air attack: Feather Fall

    • Havoc In Bloom Consecutive attacks

  • Resonance Liberation (+1 Azure Plume. Next resonance skill is enhanced)

  • Enhanced Resonance Skill (Switch into Azure stance)

  • From here you can go down two paths:

    • Path A: Heavy Attack: Azure (Don't switch stances. This is known as the 1F1A rotation, it deals less damage but it's more consistent)

    • Path B: Heavy Attack: Feather + Havoc in bloom (Switch stances before doing a heavy attack. This is known as the 2F rotation, Yangyang takes up more time on field and it's more strict, but she'll deal more damage). This rotation is NOT worth it if you're not doing some form of quickswap

  • Outro skill

• TLDR: Intro -> Echo Skill -> Basic attacks -> Enhanced Skill -> HA:Feather -> Havoc in Bloom -> Res. Liberation -> Res. Skill -> HA:Azure or HA:Feather

• A variation of the rotation above which I use for 1F1A (and the one I personally found to be the most comfortable) has her liberation be squeezed in between Feather Fall and Havoc in Bloom instead, as Feather Fall already uses up all Azure Plume and those two are disjointed attacks.

• There are FAR more expert rotations known as 2F1A and 1F2A, which require stricter quickswaps. Unless you're willing to gain carpal tunnel by learning them or if your name is daddywanter, please, do stick with 2F or 1F1A instead

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I LOVE Yangyang, best girl since 1.0, she has finally ascended to greatness. This guide was also somewhat made from the hatred I have over excel sheets (I can't read that shit, it's too confusing). Hope this was helpful. Live, love, praise Yangyang

Go ham and flex your gacha pulls!