Wuthering Waves - Jiyan Build Guide: Best Echo Sets and Skills

Best Jiyan Build Guide for Wuthering Waves (WuWa)

Character Overview

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Gameplay Summary

Jiyan is a powerful main DPS character with excellent damage combo damage output, attack speed, and melee range. Jiyan stands out as an exceptional broadblade user among his peer, largely because of his extremely strong Resonance Liberation skill “Emerald Storm: Prelude” which gives him insane DPS in a very wide range.

Alongside Jiyan’s impressive offense is the general simplicity of his playstyle, making him a good choice for beginners and experienced players alike. You do not have to learn any complex quirks or mechanics to stack massive damage numbers against a variety of enemies in the game.

Because of Jiyan’s quick strikes in between combos, you can more easily cancel out into a dodge to avoid getting hit. He does lose out to Encore in terms of single-hit damage output, Jiyan more than makes up for it with his insane combo potential and simple but highly effective fighting style.

Basic Strategy

Build your Forte Circuit gauge by landing basic and heavy attacks.

Your goal in each battle is to build up Jiyan’s Forte gauge using basic and heavy attacks.

Doing so allows you to accumulate Resolve which will significantly improve the damage output of Resonance Skill Windqueller and after activating his Resonance Liberation Emerald Storm: Prelude.

Heavy attacks, in particular, grant Jiyan a lot of Resolve when you land them while launching the target into the air. You can then follow it up with basic attacks until you are able to use your Resonance Skill or Resonance Liberation.

In general, you will want to follow the combo rotation below to optimize the rate at which you gain Resolve when attacking an enemy.

Basic Attack → Heavy Attack → Basic Attack → Basic Attack → Basic Attack → Resonance Skill or Resonance Liberation

Use Resonance Skill or Resonance Liberation when your Forte Circuit gauge is at more than halfway full.

Use Jiyan’s Resonance Skill and Resonance Liberation when the gauge is more than half full. Both attack will consume 50% of the gauge to increase Jiyan’s damage output. This means that Jiyan’s value as a main DPS can only be maximized by triggering the attack boost from using up Resolve stacks.

Having Resolve is particularly important when activating Jiyan’s Resonance Liberation skill as you are able to trigger the powerful follow-up attack Emerald Storm: Finale only if you have at least 30 Resolve stacks accumulated.

After using Jiyan’s Outro Skill, perform a heavy attack with the entering character.

Once you have enough Concerto energy, use Jiyan’s Outro Skill to trigger a buff that significantly boosts the attack power of the entering character heavy attack.

Note that it is not recommended to use pistol characters for this as their heavy attack comes out slower than melee characters and is generally hard to use at close range. Because of this, try switching out to a melee character while right next to the enemy to ensure that the enhanced heavy attack will land.

Best Echo Set for Jiyan

Focus on enhancing damage output.

As an Aero main DPS, Jiyan benefits the most from gaining increased Aero damage output. Because of this, it is recommended to build him on the 5-piece Siera Gale Sonata Effect. Your 4-cost main slot Echo should be Feilian Beringal which increases critical hit rate. For sub slot Echoes, go for the 3-cost Cyan-Feathered Heron and FHoochief to gain Aero damage bonuses, and 1-cost Aero Predator and Fusion Warrior for increased attack damage.

Best Weapons for Jiyan (Broadblade)

5★ Verdant Summit

Weapon	Stats and Effects (Lv.1)
5★Verdant Summit	ATK: 47 Crit. DMG: 10.8%
	Rank 1 Swordsworn Increases the DMG bonus of all Resonance Attributes by 12%. Every time Intro Skill or Resonance Liberation is cast, increase Heavy Attack DMG Bonus by 24%, stacking up to 2 time(s). This effect lasts for 14s.
How to Get	Weapon Event Convene “Absolute Pulsation” (Limited Banner)

5★ Lustrous Razor

Weapon	Stats and Effects (Lv.1)
5★ Lustrous Razor	ATK: 47 ATK Boost: 8.1%
	Rank 1 Incision Increases Energy Regen by 12.8%. When Resonance Skill is released, Resonance Liberation DMG is increased by 7%, stacking up to 3 times. This effect lasts for 12s.
How to Get	Weapon Permanent Convene “Winter Brume: Broadblade” (Standard Banner)

Increase critical hit rate or critical damage output.

For Jiyan, try to get weapons that increase his critical hit rate or critical damage output to further boost his DPS as the team’s main attacker.

Currently, the best choice for him is Verdant Summit which is a limited 5★ broadblade weapon obtainable only from the Weapon Event Convene “Absolute Pulsation” banner. If you do not manage to get it, then Lustrous Razor is your next best option which provides a large attack boost alongside its already naturally high attack power.

Best Jiyan Teams

A strong team setup that revolves around using Jiyan is one that has Aalto and Verina.

Aalto’s has the best synergy with Jiyan out of all sub DPS characters in the game owing to the former’s ability to directly increase Aero damage output. This grants Jiyan even more terrifying DPS, especially when you have activated his Resonance Liberation Skill and follow-up attack.

Lastly, the team should have a dedicated support character with which Verina is the best choice. In addition to recoverin HP, Verina also can also apply an attack buff to further bank on Jiyan’s hyper-offense playstyle in the game.

Character	Ally 1	Ally 2
Jiyan (Aero)	Aalto (Aero)	Verina (Spectro)
	Jiyan is set as main DPS. Alto is set as sub DPS with main focus of buffing Jiyan’s Aero damage output. Verina is set as support to provide buffs + healing.

Wuthering Waves Best Team Setups

Jiyan Resonance Chain Build

Jiyan Forte Skills Build Priority

Basic Attack: Lone Lance

Resonance Skill: Windqueller

Forte Circuit: Qingloong at War

Resonance Liberation: Emerald Storm – Prelude

Intro Skill: Tactical Strike

Outro Skill: Discipline

Resonance Chain

Jiyan Ascension Materials (Per Level Cap)

Jiyan Stats (Per Level Cap)

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