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.

Jianxin is one of the most comfortable characters to play in overworld when built as a Hybrid character and serves as one of the top options right now in the supportive role in the endgame when built as such.

Pros & Cons

• Loaded kit - can nearly do it all,
• Operates as a one-woman-man army in the overworld thanks to her kit having reasonable damage, crazy shields, and self-healing,
• Can be played as a Support in ToA with great results,
• Can gather monsters to quickly deal with them with great AoE damage, which makes farming easier and makes some ToA stages far easier,
• Has an immunity parry mechanic on her skill which can allow her to completely ignore certain boss mechanics,
• Simple to play especially as a Support.
• A Deepen outro capable of buffing Resonance Liberation.

• Ultimate and Intro can't pull in boss or elite enemies making her signature supportive benefit less valuable on some endgame stages in ToA,
• Enemies with large bodies like wolves that while can be dragged will not clump up perfectly making AoE less effective,
• Long animations that require her to remain stationary for up to 6 seconds at a time which isn't always possible making a portion of her kit hard to use best case and not usable worst case in ultra endgame.

Calcharo is an ultimate-centric Electro main damage dealer who focuses on executing some of the longest combo sequences in the game for exceptionally high damage. While Calcharo has incredibly high theoretical damage potential he isn’t the easiest character to play. The reason for this is his long combo sequences and reliance on his empowered ultimate state to deal the bulk of his damage - one or two mistakes can seriously impact the flow of his burst rotation leading to the loss of much of his potential.

It is very important to note that Calcharo’s ultimate damage window is not easy at all to execute to the highest degree and even more so while trying to dodge boss mechanics and perform swap cancels between him and a teammate who can provide value in the time he is executing each Death Messenger. Failing to perfectly execute his full ultimate combo consisting of 3 Death Messengers will cost him a good chunk of his dps, resonance energy gain and concerto energy lowering his smoothness and total output.

In conclusion, Calcharo is a combo-heavy character with a lot of room for skillful play to dish out some of the most damage of all characters when paired with Yinlin, but if you mess up his rotation, his damage will suffer. Calcharo can be a top-tier choice for the primary endgame mode Tower of Adversity but only if you can pilot him effectively.

Pros & Cons

• Exceptionally high damage when perfectly played,
• Very active gameplay - there's always a button to press or combo to perform (though this can be a downside for some),
• High-skill ceiling with huge rewards,
• Great synergy with Yinlin, but he still has good team options before she is released.

• Hard to play with all the combos and skill weaving,
• Requires constant focus as there's very little room for error,
• Long animations on most powerful moves (while they can be 'skipped' using the swap cancel trick, not everyone will be able to abuse that),
• When not swap canceling Death Messenger can be damaged and even stunned during it.

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.