You can’t help but feel drawn to Wuthering Waves’ Lingyang thanks to his confidence and energetic personality. As a five-star glacio gauntlet-wielder, he makes up part of the standard banner roster, offering dynamic and powerful offensive options for your team. In this build guide, we take an in-depth look at his skills, stats, and resonance chain, as well as highlighting his best weapons and echoes.
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Here’s everything in our Wuthering Waves Lingyang build:
Who is Wuthering Waves’ Lingyang?
Lingyang is a five-star glacio character who uses the gauntlets weapon type.
As well as being a skilled fighter, he’s a talented and friendly member of the Jinzhou Liondance Troupe. Lingyang is extremely passionate about his role and he’s also exceptionally good at what he does. Plus, he’s got the most adorable little ears hidden in his hair – what’s not to love?
We’re still getting to grips with Lingyang’s kit and combat style following the Wuthering Waves release date, but we’ll be sure to update this guide as we learn more.
What are Lingyang’s stats?
Here are all of Lingyang’s base stat values at level one and level 90 (max level). These are the values before adding equipment and weapons.
| Stat | Level one | Level 90 |
| HP | 831 | 10,388 |
| Attack | 39 | 438 |
| Defense | 99 | 1,210 |
| Max energy | 125 | 125 |
| Crit rate | 5% | 5% |
| Crit damage | 150% | 150% |
| Healing bonus | 0% | 0% |
| Glacio damage | 0% | 0% |
What are Lingyang’s skills?
Here are all of Lingyang’s skills and abilities:
Lingyang active skills
| Skill | Effect |
| Basic attack: Majestic Fists | Perform up to five consecutive attacks, dealing glacio damage |
| Basic attack: Feral Roars | After casting resonance skill Furious Punches, replaces the fifth basic attack strike with Feral Roars, dealing glacio damage |
| Heavy attack | Hold the basic attack and consume stamina to deal additional glacio damage |
| Mid-air attack | Consume stamina mid-air to perform a plunging attack that deals additional glacio damage |
| Dodge counter | After a successful dodge, use the basic attack to deal glacio damage to the enemy |
| Resonance skill: Ancient Arts | Attack the target enemy, dealing glacio damage |
| Resonance skill: Furious Punches | When the third, fourth, or fifth basic attack strikes or any Feral Roars hit the target enemy, replace Ancient Arts with Swift Punches. If Lingyang uses his basic attack after casting Feral Roars and Swift Punches, the chain starts from the third basic attack strike. Using this resonance skill doesn’t reset his basic attack stage |
| Resonance liberation: Strive: Lion’s Roar | Attack the enemy, dealing large amounts of glacio damage, and receive the Lion’s Vigor blessing for 50 seconds. Lion’s Vigor – Increases Lingyang’s glacio damage bonus by 50% |
| Intro skill: Lion Awakens | Enter the battlefield, dealing glacio damage |
| Outro skill: Frosty Marks | Release a shock wave centered on the skill target which deals glacio damage equal to 587.94% of Lingyang’s attack to targets within range |
Lingyang passive skills
| Skill | Effect |
| Forte circuit: Unification of Spirits | Lion’s Spirit – Lingyang can hold up to 100 Lion’s Spirit. Casting Furious Punches, Lion Awakens, or Strive: Lion’s Vigor restores Lion’s Spirit. Heavy attack: Glorious Plunge – Lingyang’s heavy attack changes to Glorious Plunge when Lion’s Spirit is full. Mid-air attack: Tail Strike – when Lion’s Spirit is less than 100, use a basic attack after a heavy attack in mid-air to perform Tail Strike Striding Lion Casting Glorious Plunge makes Lingyang enter the Striding Lion state. When Lion’s Spirit is full, use a basic attack after casting Lion Awakens or Strive: Lion’s Vigor to enter the Striding Lion state. In the Striding Lion state, Lingyang can launch attacks mid-air and can get back in the air by using Glorious Plunge. Lion’s Spirit is continuously consumed and the Striding Lion state ends five seconds after it runs out. In the Lion’s Vigor state, Lingyang consumes Lion’s Spirit 50% slower, extending the Striding Lion state by up to ten seconds.Lingyang’s basic attack becomes Feral Gyrate, letting him perform up to two consecutive attacks that deal glacio damage. His resonance skill becomes Mountain Roamer.When Lion’s Spirit is less than ten, use basic attack to perform Stormy Kicks, after which the mid-air attack Radiant Plunge becomes available.Consuming Lion’s Spirit restores Concerto energy. |
| Inherent skill: Lion’s Pride | Increases Lion Awakens’ damage by 50% |
| Inherent skill: Diligent Practice | In the Striding Lion state, Mountain Roamer skills performed in the three seconds following a basic attack deal additional glacio damage, equal to 150% of Mountain Roamer’s damage, considered resonance skill damage |
What is Lingyang’s resonance chain?
If you manage to get your hands on multiple copies of Lingyang, you can unlock the next stage of his resonance chain. Here are all of Lingyang’s resonance chain skills.
| Resonance chain sequence | Effect |
| Sequence one – Lion of Light, Blessings Abound | During resonance liberation Lion’s Vigor, Lingyang’s anti-interruption is enhanced |
| Sequence two – Dominant and Fierce, Power Unbound | Lion Awakens additionally recovers ten resonance energy. This can trigger once every 20 seconds |
| Sequence three – Jaw-Dropping Feats, Loud and Wide | During Lion’s Vigor, Lingyang’s basic attack damage bonus increases by 20%, and his resonance skill damage bonus increases by 10% |
| Sequence four – Immortals Bow, in Reverence Flawed | Frosty Marks increases all team members’ glacio damage bonus by 20% for 30 seconds |
| Sequence five – Seven Stars Shine, Stepped upon High | Strive: Lion’s Vigor deals additional glacio damage equal to 200% of Lingyang’s attack |
| Sequence six – Demons Tremble, Divine Power Nigh | In the Striding Lion state, during the first three seconds after every instance of Mountain Roamer, the basic attack damage bonus for Lingyang’s next basic attack increases by 100% |
What is the best weapon for Lingyang?
Wuthering Waves Lingyang’s best weapon is Abyss Surges, a five-star pair of gauntlets that buffs his personal damage output and energy regeneration.
If you’re looking for a four-star alternative, we recommend Hollow Mirage as it provides a solid attack and defense buff each time you use Lingyang’s resonance liberation.
| Lingyang weapon | Effect |
| Abyss Surges | Increases energy regeneration by 12.8%. Hitting a target with Lingyang’s resonance skill increases his basic attack damage bonus by 10%, lasting for eight seconds. Hitting a target with basic attacks increases his resonance skill damage bonus by 10%, lasting for eight seconds |
| Hollow Mirage | Releasing Lingyang’s resonance liberation grants him three stacks of Iron Armor. Each stack increases attack and defense by 3%, stacking up to three times. When Lingyang takes damage, reduce the number of stacks by one |
What are the best echoes for Lingyang?
From our testing, these are the best echoes for Lingyang. You can either equip him with a five-piece set of Freezing Frost or of Lingering Tunes.
Freezing Frost echoes
| Slot | Echo |
| Main echo | Lampylumen Myriad |
| Sub-echo slot one | Roseshroom |
| Sub-echo slot two | Autopuppet Scout |
| Sub-echo slot three | Sabyr Boar |
| Sub-echo slot four | Glacio Prism |
Lingering Tunes echoes
| Slot | Echo |
| Main echo | Mech Abomination |
| Sub-echo slot one | Chasm Guardian |
| Sub-echo slot two | Flautist |
| Sub-echo slot three | Snip Snap |
| Sub-echo slot four | Zig Zag |
Equipping Lingyang with these echoes activates the following bonuses:
- Freezing Frost
- Two equipped: increases glacio damage by 10%
- Five equipped: increases glacio damage by 10% for 15 seconds after Lingyang uses his basic or heavy attack. This can stack up to three times
- Lingering Tunes
- Two equipped: increases attack by 10%
- Five equipped: Outro skill damage increases by 60% and while Lingyang is on the field, his attack increases by 5% every 1.5 seconds. This effect stacks up to four times
What’s the best Lingyang team comp?
When building a team for Wuthering Waves’ Lingyang, we recommend pairing him up with a support character and a healer for the best outcome. Feel free to experiment with the characters at your disposal, but Lingyang synergizes better with some characters than others.
Here are Lingyang’s synergies:
- Wuthering Waves’ Sanhua – to make the most of Lingyang as your main DPS, he requires a lot of field time, so Sanhua’s quick, burst-fuelled rotations suits him wonderfully, as does her outro buff, which increases his basic attack damage as he enters combat
- Wuthering Waves’ Zhezhi – Zhezhi is a great supportive sub-DPS option for Lingyang teams as her outro skill buffs the incoming character’s resonance skill and glacio damage, putting Lingyang in a great position to take down whatever threat he faces
- Wuthering Waves’ Verina – simply put, Verina is the best healer in the game right now, so any team can benefit from her presence. As well as keeping Lingyang and your other team members alive, she also dishes out some fantastic offensive and defensive buffs during combat
- Wuthering Waves’ Baizhi – if you don’t have Verina, Baizhi is your gal. She has similar healing and buffing capabilities to Verina, but she requires more field time and generally has a lower healing output. Plus, her outro buff only benefits the next character to enter the field, so you need to be careful with rotation sequencing. That being said, she’s a brilliant free-to-play option in a game with limited support units
Here’s an example of a strong Lingyang team comp:
 Lingyang |
 Sanhua |
 Verina |
Lingyang |
 Zhezhi |
Verina |
What are Lingyang’s ascension materials?
You can level Lingyang all the way up to level 90, but you need to use certain materials to ascend him at specific points along the way.
In order to fully ascend Lingyang, you need the following materials:
| Rank | Shell credits | Ascension materials |
| Rank one – level 20 | 5k | Four LF whisperin cores |
| Rank two – level 40 | 10k | Four MF whisperin cores, four coriolus, and three sound-keeping tacet cores |
| Rank three – level 50 | 15k | Eight MF whisperin cores, eight coriolus, and six sound-keeping tacet cores |
| Rank four – level 60 | 20k | Four HF whisperin cores, 12 coriolus, and nine sound-keeping tacet cores |
| Rank five – level 70 | 40k | Eight HF whisperin cores, 16 coriolus, and 12 sound-keeping tacet cores |
That’s everything you need to know about Wuthering Waves’ Lingyang. For more in-depth character builds, head over to our Wuthering Waves Yinlin, Wuthering Waves Rover, and Wuthering Waves Encore pages. If you fancy trying out a different open-world adventure, check out our Genshin Impact codes and Genshin Impact tier list.