Wuthering Waves Reroll guide

Encore is a ranged main damage dealer who transforms into a melee powerhouse during her self-empowerment Ultimate. Encore has huge damage potential while her ultimate is active thanks to it empowering her combos making her a reasonable Hyper Carry target. But she can also be played as a Quick Swap powerhouse thanks to her easily swap-cancellable Resonance Skill and Forte Gauge Heavy Attacks. In this style, her Ultimate can be used to fill downtime during the teams' cooldowns making her a valuable addition.

Executing Encore's ultimate combo is easy, straightforward, and forgiving thanks to its damage being mostly spread out between each attack and possessing a semi-ranged component making it easy to land on enemies even at some distance.

In conclusion, Encore does exceptional damage during her burst windows whether that be her ultimate in Hyper Carry or her swap canceled resonance skills in quick swap - or a mix of both. She is a top-tier choice for the primary endgame mode - Tower of Adversity.

Pros & Cons

• A mix of ranged and melee in one character, offering good flexibility but may be a curse to some,
• Outstanding burst damage in both her modes of play
• Great Resonance energy generation for herself but also her team,
• Ultimate burst rotation and resonance skill swap cancel are easy to understand and execute
• Has a pet sheep.

• Forte-charged heavy attacks have a small input window that can leave Encore vulnerable,
• Cannot parry while in non-ultimate form with standard attacks making some specific bosses more challenging.
• Fusion Echo Inferno Rider while powerful is lackluster unless swap canceled. Other fusion Echoes outside this one are underwhelming.

Jianxin is a melee hybrid character that sits in between the support and damage dealer role. She offers the most diverse team benefits of any character currently on release which serves as both her biggest strength and weakness. Jianxin has it all, with her most defining features being her great sustain making her quite literally close to immune to all damage in overworld content with the exception of Holograms. On top of this, her huge Forte Gauge channels HUGE AoE making mopping up whole packs of weaker monsters easy.

So Jianxin sounds incredible!? Well, there is a catch to Jianxin and that is that while she’s a jack of all trades and straight-up a one-woman-army in the overworld much of her kit requires both a lot of field time and dedicated channeling time both of which make her far more difficult to use in extremely challenging content.

Despite Jianxia’s most defining ability being challenging to use in the hardest content, limiting her potential for damage and shielding, she can still thrive! Moving past her Forte, the Ultimate and Outro are valuable enough to position her as an incredible support with the former being the strongest grouping tool in the game and the latter empowering characters with substantial resonance Liberation damage in their damage profiles.

Pros & Cons

• One of the most diverse kits in the game - can perform all roles to some degree;
• Operates as a one-woman army in the overworld thanks to her kit having reasonable damage, good shields, and self-healing;
• Has the best grouping in the game via her ultimate;
• One of the easiest characters to use in the game;
• Gives free parries via her skill which can allow her to completely ignore certain boss mechanics.

• Ultimate jack of all trades, master of none. No effective use in the meta aside from grouping in spite of being able to fit all roles in a team;
• She stays completely still during her Forte channeling, which often causes her to lose some team damage or lose a bit of the shield she generates as she performs it;
• Her damaging weapon options are difficult to acquire (albeit not necessary when playing her as a support);
• Unable to do many useful things when her ultimate is on cooldown;
• Takes up a large amount of field time to provide her shields and buffs (long forte circuit channeling, slow concerto rotation);
• The free parry mechanic can be detrimental as it may notably prevent you from staggering enemies, especially bosses;
• Her survivability scales more heavily than others based on her investment which is a problem for a support character.

Let’s address the elephant in the room first: Calcharo is the hardest character to play at an optimized level. But don’t let that scare you too much. As an Electro Broadblade 5-star Main DPS from the standard banner pool, he shines the brightest in Hypercarry team archetypes where he has the potential to deal large bursts of damage during the state provided by his Ultimate.

Pros & Cons

• Good damage ceiling when played perfectly (especially with his hardest rotation, which makes him competitive with high tiers);
• More consistent with players willing to learn swap cancelling.

• The most inconsistent character in the game, who suffers the most from interruption, enemy movement and having to dodge;
• Making mistakes in his rotation will cause a lot of damage loss;
• Hardest rotation to execute in the game, costing him a fair amount of his damage potential when not performed;
• Realistically close to no AoE capability;
• Swap cancelling makes him lose damage potential despite giving more consistency;
• Only realistically works in a team with Yinlin, a limited 5 star;
• His Intro Skill costs a lot of time on Tower of Adversity runs due to a long wind-up animation.

Lingyang is a melee main damage dealer with one of the most unique play styles in the game which you’ll either love or absolutely hate. Similar to his peers - Calcharo and Encore - Lingyang deals the majority of his damage during his Ultimate which offers his an immense damage increase and accelerates his access to his special enhanced state that empowers all of his normal combos. But unlike the other two ultimate-focused standard characters, Lingyang spends the entirety of his ultimate in the air… yes Lingyang can fly for better or worse, meaning you’ll be attacking, dodging, and interacting with enemies in an entirely new dimension.

Somewhat lower damage than his competitors but with a unique playstyle - so what makes Lingyang a less attractive pick as a main damage dealer? His flying is the reason - it's both his biggest blessing and hindrance. While airborne the control you have as a player over direction, orientation, and most importantly dodging is far more limited. Additionally, it’s very possible to encounter issues with boss and enemy hitboxes while airborne, causing you to miss entire attacks and combos leading to large damage losses. Lower control over both offense and defense will lead to more dangerous fights and less consistent damage, making Lingyang a challenging character to play for lesser or equal rewards compared to alternatives.

Pros & Cons

• Can fly!
• Unique playstyle not found anywhere else,
• Gains the most free stats from his baseline S0 kit of any character thanks to ultimate boost,
• Button mashing friendly playstyle where you can’t really mess up,
• Works really well with Sanhua, a fellow Glacio character,
• Can juggle non-elite or boss enemies in the air, comboing them continuously and rendering them immobile.

• Falls slightly behind other damage dealers such as Calcharo, Jiyan, and Encore in the pure DPS department,
• Flying can be disorientating for some players,
• Flying mobility is limited to some extent making dodging enemy attacks harder,
• Some bosses have unusual hitboxes which can make striking them while airborne a challenge, resulting in damage losses.