Wuthering Waves Carlotta marks the first pistol-using five-star character, and boy, does she do it well. She excels as a ranged DPS, firing off icy shots at enemies across the field. Our build shows you the best weapons, echoes, and team comps to use Rinascita’s art investor in.
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Here’s everything in our Wuthering Waves Carlotta build guide:
What’s the best Wuthering Waves Carlotta build?
Carlotta is a five-star resonator that uses a pistol as a weapon, and the glacio element.
| Element | Glacio |
| Rarity | Five-star |
| Role | DPS |
| Best weapon | The Last Dance |
| Best echo set | Frosty Resolve |
| Best echo | Sentry Construct |
| Main stats | Crit rate/damage, attack, glacio damage bonus |
Carlotta is the debut character in Rinascita, and is part of the esteemed Montelli family. Thankfully, her kit matches up to her reputation as she’s a very good glacio DPS with plenty of boosted moves in her kit, and is easy to build.
With plenty of attack and good crit values, Carlotta can deal a lot of damage with and without a buffer or support in the team. She works best with a healer, and with Lumi for her skill boosts or Zhezhi to provide extra glacio attacks.
Carlotta’s skills go through upgrades as you use her in combat, with certain actions triggering boosted states. She essentially has two different ultimate – both with animations – and a stronger basic attack to use to take down enemies.
What’s the best weapon for Carlotta?
The best weapon overall for Carlotta is her signature five-star pistol, The Last Dance. While there’s no 50/50 on the weapon banner, some may not have the means to pull for it – but don’t worry, there are some excellent options outside of the limited five-star offering attack and crit boosts.
| The Last Dance | Stat: Crit damage Skill: Increases Carlotta’s attack by 12%. Every time she uses her intro skill or resonance liberation, her resonance skill damage bonus increases by 48% for five seconds |
Limited weapon banner |
| Static Mist | Stat: Crit rate Skill: Increases Carlotta’s energy regeneration by 12.8%. When she uses her outro skill, it increases the incoming resonator’s attack by 10%. This effect lasts for 14 seconds |
Standard weapon banner |
| Thunderbolt | Stat: Attack Skill: When hitting a target with basic or heavy attacks, Carlotta’s resonance skill damage bonus increases by 7%, stacking up to three times. This effect lasts for ten seconds and can trigger once every second |
Battle Pass reward |
| Undying Flame | Stat: Attack Skill: When using Carlotta’s intro skill, her resonance skill damage bonus increases by 20% for 15 seconds |
Gacha |
What are the best Carlotta team comps?
Carlotta is a great choice for main DPS in any team, though she can provide some buffs to teammates with her later resonance chains. We suggest using her alongside a healer and a buffer – Lumi, Shorekeeper, and Verina work well – and someone with co-ordinated attacks like Zhezhi or Jinhsi.
 Carlotta |
 Zhezhi |
 Shorekeeper |
Carlotta |
 Lumi |
 Verina |
Carlotta |
 Taoqi |
 Baizhi |
What are the best echoes for Carlotta?
Here are the echo sets we recommend for Carlotta:
- Five-piece set: Frosty resolve
- Two-piece sets: Frosty resolve, freezing frost, and lingering tunes
The frosty resolve set – added in update 2.0 – fits Carlotta very well as it gives a resonance skill damage boost with the two-piece set and a 22% glacio damage bonus with the full five-piece set.
We all know what grinding for a new set of echoes is like, so you can mix and match it with a two-piece set of freezing frost or lingering tunes for glacio damage and attack boosts.
| Sentry Construct | Each time Carlotta casts her resonance liberation, it charges the Strike Capacitor. Once Strike Capacitor is at max level, the echo cooldown will reset. Use the echo to transform into Sentry Construct and deal 270% glacio damage, and freeze targets. Carlotta also gains 12% glacio and 12% resonance skill damage bonuses |
| Lampylumen Myriad | Unleash a freezing shock by performing strikes, with the final strike dealing 191.82% glacio damage. Enemies will freeze on hit. Each shock increases Carlotta’s glacio damage by 4% and her resonance skill damage by 4% for 15 seconds, stacking up to three times |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Crit rate/damage
- Glacio damage bonus
- Attack
Sub-stats:
- Crit rate/damage
- Attack
What are Carlotta’s ascension materials?
| 20➔40 | 5k shell credits Four LF polygon cores |
| 40➔50 | 10k shell credits Four sword acorus Three platinum cores Four MF polygon cores |
| 50➔60 | 15k shell credits Eight sword acorus Six platinum cores Eight MF polygon cores |
| 60➔70 | 20k shell credits 12 sword acorus Nine platinum cores Four HF polygon cores |
| 70➔80 | 40k shell credits 16 sword acorus 12 platinum cores Eight HF polygon cores |
| 80➔90 | 80k shell credits 20 sword acorus 16 platinum cores Four FF polygon cores |
Here’s where to find all of Carlotta’s ascension materials:
- Platinum cores – this item drops from the Sentry Construct boss at the Averardo Vault
- Sword acorus – you can find these flowers near Averardo Vault in Rinascita
- LF, MF, HF, and FF polygon cores – obtain from normal enemies, the store, the weapon shop, or forgery challenges
- Shell credits – shell credits are the in-game currency, which you can obtain via farming, enemy and boss drops, through quests, or by selling things in the in-game store
What are Carlotta’s forte materials?
- 25 LF polygon cores, 28 MF polygon cores, 40 HF polygon cores, and 57 FF polygon cores
- Obtain from normal enemies, the store, the weapon shop, or forgery challenges
- 25 inert metallic drip, 28 reactive metallic drip, 55 polarized metallic drip, and 67 heterized metallic drip
- Obtain from the Flaming Remnants forgery challenge, via the synthesizer, Jinzhou’s weapon shop, or Jinzhou’s souvenir store
- 26 netherworld’s stare
- Obtain from the Scar weekly boss challenge
- 2,030,000 shell credits
What are Carlotta’s skills?
Active skills
| Basic attack | Carlotta performs up to two consecutive strikes, dealing glacio damage. Necessary Measures – When she has Moldable Crystals, Carlotta’s basic attack turns into Necessary Measures. She can chain up to three strikes, which each consumes a Crystal to deal glacio damage |
| Heavy attack | Carlotta hits enemies with a charged attack at the cost of stamina and deals glacio damage. Containment Tactics – When Carlotta’s Substance is full, her heavy attack becomes Containment Tactics. This consumes all Substance to deal glacio damage and reduce the cooldown of her resonance skill by six seconds |
| Mid-air attack | Perform a plunging attack at the cost of stamina to deal glacio damage. Using a basic attack after landing will cast Customary Greetings: Customary Greetings – Flip over the target and deliver a surprise shot, dealing glacio damage |
| Dodge counter | Press normal attack shortly after a successful dodge to deliver an extra shot, dealing glacio damage. This consumes a Moldable Crystal |
| Resonance skill | Deal glacio damage and inflict Dispersion on the target. Use Carlotta’s resonance skill again shortly after to cast Chromatic Splendor. Dispersion – Targets with Dispersion become immobilized for 1.5 seconds Chromatic Splendor – Consume all Moldable Crystals and deal glacio damage. Carlotta’s resonance skill enters cooldown after a while if Chromatic Splendor is not cast, or she switches off field |
| Resonance liberation | Deal glacio damage to all targets in an area (considered as resonance skill damage) and inflict Deconstruction on targets, then activate Twilight Tango. Carlotta can cast this in mid-air. Deconstruction – Dealing damage to targets inflicted with Deconstruction ignores 18% of their defense Twilight Tango – While in Twilight Tango, press normal attack or resonance liberation to cast Death Knell. Each Death Knell grants one Meta Vector. With four Meta Vectors, press normal attack or resonance liberation to cast Fatal Finale. All Substance is removed when activating and ending Twilight Tango. Carlotta can’t perform basic or heavy attacks while in Twilight Tango. Death Knell – Carlotta fires powerful shots with her musket and summons four crystal shards to attack, dealing glacio damage, which counts as resonance skill damage Fatal Finale – Deal glacio damage in an AoE which counts as resonance skill damage. Twilight Tango ends after casting Fatal Finale |
Passive skills
| Intro skill | Carlotta attacks the target, dealing glacio damage |
| Outro skill | Attack the target with glacio damage equal to 794.2% of Carlotta’s attack stat |
| Forte circuit | Heavy Attack – Imminent Oblivion – Carlotta activates Tinted Crystal every 22 seconds. When Substance is full, and she activates Tinted Crystal, hold her normal attack to consume all Substance and cast Imminent Oblivion. This deals glacio damage which counts as resonance skill damage, and reduces the cooldown of her skill by six seconds Final Bow – When Substance is full, Carlotta enters the Final Bow state. This increases the damage multiplier of her resonance liberation by 80%. This ends when Carlotta switches off field during Twilight Tango or when Twilight Tango ends Substance – Carlotta can hold up to 120 points of Substance. She can’t gain Substance while in Twilight Tango. She restores 30 points of Substance upon casting her intro skill, and ten points for every moldable crystal consumed when using her basic attack, dodge counter, or resonance skill Moldable Crystal – Carlotta can hold up to six Moldable Crystals. She can’t gain any when in Twilight Tango. She gains Moldable Crystals when casting basic attack, heavy attack, mid-air attack, intro skill, and resonance skill, as well as successfully dodging |
Inherent skills
| Flawless Purity | After casting her resonance skill, Carlotta performs a mid-air attack while being immune to any damage or interruptions. When Carlotta is on the team, the active character’s flight stamina cost reduces by 20 |
| Ars Gratia Artis | Carlotta’s intro skill, resonance skill, resonance liberation, and heavy attack can inflict Deconstruction |
Skill priority
- Resonance liberation > resonance skill > forte circuit > basic attack > intro skill
What is Carlotta’s resonance chain?
If you pull more than one copy of Carlotta, you can unlock her resonance chain:
| S1 | When Carlotta deals damage to a target inflicted with Deconstruction, the crit rate of this instance of damage increases by 12.5%. When her resonance skill hits a target inflicted with Dispersion, Carlotta additionally restores 30 points of Substance |
| S2 | The damage multiplier of Fatal Finale increases by 126% |
| S3 | Enables outro skill (Kaleidoscope Sparks). This deals one additional strike at the end of Carlotta’s outro skill, dealing glacio damage equal to 1032.18% of her attack. The damage multiplier of her resonance skill increases by 93% |
| S4 | Casting any of Carlotta’s heavy attacks grants all resonators in the team a 25% resonance skill damage bonus for 30 seconds |
| S5 | The damage multiplier of Carlotta’s heavy attack increases by 47% |
| S6 | Shots of Death Knell deal higher damage and shoot out double the number of crystal shards, representing a total increase of 186.6%. Shots also inflict Scattering on targets when hit, immobilizing targets. This effect lasts for 1.5 seconds, or until the target receives damage |
By now, you probably have some good standard banner characters like Wuthering Waves Jianxin and Wuthering Waves Calcharo to build. Or maybe you need a hand with DPS options like Wuthering Waves Changli and Wuthering Waves Xiangli Yao?