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Yangyang: Xuanling

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Living smart-spender Yangyang: Xuanling guide for general players (not whale ceiling). 5★ Havoc Sword main DPS — Yangyang’s limited SP form (CN 秧秧·玄翎; also called Yangyang SP / Yangyang Alter). Heavy Attack DMG + Havoc Bane self-amps. Banner art: official Kuro key art (via Prydwen full art). Checked 7 Oct 2026 HKT.

Name check: Kuro / Game8 / Prydwen EN = Yangyang: Xuanling (colon). Not “玄灵” — official CN uses 玄翎.

Controls note: DualSense defaults: □ Normal Attack · △ Resonance Skill · R2 Resonance Liberation · R1 Dodge · L1+□ Echo · character switch = Intro/Outro. Hold □ = Heavy / most of her nukes. Rebinds differ, so match your own layout.

Brief summary

Yangyang: Xuanling is a hypercarry Havoc DPS. She burns Melody, swaps Azure / Feather sword stances, banks Azure Plume, then dumps enhanced Heavies. Havoc Bane on enemies fuels her Inherent Skill DMG Amp (up to 66% at 6 stacks) and Feathered Oath Crit DMG on her big hits. She applies Bane herself; Chisa raises the stack cap by +3 so she can actually hit that ceiling without S3.

Team core Partners Note
Premium Havoc Bane Chisa + Suisui Game8 / Prydwen / Beebom BiS
Heavy Attack hyper Rebecca + Chisa Free Rebecca (3.4 collab) is shockingly close to premium
Havoc Dual / WhiWa Phrolova + Shorekeeper Prydwen: best multi-wave pair
Tune Break Lynae + Mornye All-DMG Amp funnel
F2P Electro Rover + Verina (Game8) or Mortefi + Verina (Beebom) Rover on Moonlit Clouds

Pull / build when: you want a ToA / bossing Havoc carry. Prydwen: top-tier single-target, weaker multi-wave / WhiWa. S0R0 is fully playable; S3 is the sequence sweet spot; R1 is a real upgrade but not a hard gate (sword F2P options exist).

Build guide + echoes

Cost pattern: 4 / 3 / 3 / 1 / 1.

Use case 5-pc set Main echo Why
Default / BiS Song of Feathered Trace Thousand-Puppet Pavilion 2-pc +10% ER. 5-pc: +20% CRIT Rate + +35% Heavy for Havoc Bane appliers. Pavilion: +12% Havoc + +12% Heavy (Prydwen/Game8)
Alt 3-2 Thread of Severed Fate (3) + Havoc Eclipse (2) Reminiscence: Threnodian - Leviathan Game8 #2 while farming Feathered Trace
Early farm Havoc Eclipse (5) Nightmare: Crownless Temporary only

Main stats: 4-cost CRIT DMG with Azure Oath / other CR weapons, CRIT Rate without · 3-cost Havoc DMG ×2 (Prydwen: Havoc = ATK% on one slot is fine) · 1-cost ATK% ×2.

Substats: Energy Regen until comfortable → CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG → Heavy Attack DMG% ≈ ATK% → flat ATK. Set already gives 10% ER, so the ER floor is low.

Best weapon

Rank Weapon Prydwen % Notes
1 Azure Oath (sig, R1) 100 24.3% CR, +12% All DMG, after Havoc Bane: 36% Heavy Amp + 12% DEF ignore (8s)
2 Emerald Sentence R1 87.9 Same base CR; Heavy via Echo Skill stacks. Best non-sig limited
3 Everbright Polestar / Red Spring / Frostburn / Blazing Brilliance ~79.7–80.7 Stat sticks
Perm Emerald of Genesis R1 79.0 Best permanent. Saintontas: viable forever
4★ Lumingloss R5 (BP) 73.7 Best 4★; Heavy on Skill
No-gacha Fables of Wisdom R5 68.6 Prydwen best free craft

Gap: Sig is about +12.1% over Emerald Sentence and +21% over Emerald of Genesis (Prydwen, Chisa+Suisui calcs). Saintontas (pre-release weapon video) called the EoG gap “one of the smallest” for modern swords — disagree with Prydwen’s ~21%. Smart-spender call: S0 first, use EoG / Emerald Sentence, pull R1 only if you main her. Don’t starve character pity for R2+.

Target endgame stats (Lv.90, S0)

Stat Prydwen Notes
HP / DEF 15500+ / 1100+ —
ATK 2100–2300+ She lacks built-in ATK; echo ATK% matters
CRIT Rate 65%+ (before set) 5-pc adds +20% CR in combat — aim ~80–100% in fight
CRIT DMG 255–300%+ Self Crit DMG buffs stack high mid-rota
Energy Regen 107–119% Lower with Rebecca+Chisa, higher with Chisa+Verina. Game8 ~115%+
Havoc DMG% 30–60%+ —

Skill priority

Source Order
Prydwen Forte → Liberation → Basic → Intro → Skill (skip)
Game8 Forte → Liberation → Normal → Skill → Intro
Slyraf DPR share Forte ~58% · Liberation ~37% · Basic ~4% · Intro ~1%

Everyone agrees: Forte Circuit first, Liberation second, Skill last / skip.

Sequences + signature sweet spot

Stop Verdict
S0R0 Fully playable. Prydwen: F2P-friendly ceiling with Rebecca free + EoG
S0R1 Best weapon stop if you main her. +12–21% vs alts (Prydwen)
S1 Comfort: follow-up Shadow hit + Stagnation + interrupt immunity on key Heavies (Game8 ★4)
S2 Big personal: +100% on enhanced Heavy chain; out-of-combat Plume reset (Slyraf ~+40% personal)
S3 Best sequence breakpoint — Liberation +175% Amp, +3 Havoc Bane stack cap (Chisa optional), extra Bane on BA4/HA (Game8 ★5 “ideal stop”)
S4–S5 Team ATK / revive — skip unless going S6
S6 Whale: +40% Heavy Amp + guaranteed-crit Shadows on Neg Status (Slyraf ~+143% personal)

Definitive call: S0R0 → S0R1 (if maining) → S3R1. Skip S1–S2 as stops unless already going to S3. S3 is the real “I invested” node because it self-caps Havoc Bane without Chisa.

Best teams + full rotations (PS)

Yangyang: Xuanling loop (Game8 / Prydwen standard — hold □ for Heavies):

Intro → hold □ (Azure Heavy until string ends) → △ (stance → Feather) → hold □ (Feather Heavy → Feather Fall → Havoc in Bloom ×3; cancel Bloom endlag with R2) → R2 → △ (stance → Azure) → hold □ (Azure Heavy) → Outro

Cast L1+□ (Thousand-Puppet Pavilion) as she enters — summon echo ticks through the rota. Prydwen tip: in quickswap, depleting Melody so Intro can open on Sword Stance Flow: Feather enables a Double Feather rota (much higher DPS, harder).

1) Premium: Yangyang: Xuanling / Chisa / Suisui (BiS)

  1. Suisui: □ until Forte full → △ (stance) → mid-air □ plunge → □ ×4 → R2 → L1+□ → Outro to Chisa
  2. Chisa: □ full string → R2 → max Forte → △ → hold □ until Forte empty → Outro to Yangyang
  3. Yangyang: loop above → Outro to Suisui
  4. Repeat (skip Suisui’s opener after rota 1)

2) Heavy hyper: Yangyang: Xuanling / Rebecca / Chisa

  1. Chisa: △ → □ string → R2 → max Forte → △ → hold □ → Outro to Rebecca
  2. Rebecca: □ ×3 → △ → □ ×2 → hold □ → R2 (recast twice on hit) → Outro to Yangyang
  3. Yangyang: loop → Outro to Chisa

Mortefi / Iuno can replace Rebecca. Verina / Mornye can replace Chisa (lose Bane cap).

3) F2P: Yangyang: Xuanling / Electro Rover / Verina (Game8)

  1. Verina: build Concerto → R2 → Outro to Rover
  2. Rover (Electro): Intro → □ ×4 → △ → □ into R2 → △ → L1+□ → Outro to Yangyang
  3. Yangyang: loop → Outro to Verina

Alt F2P (Beebom): Mortefi + Verina for straight Heavy Amp if you lack Electro Rover investment.

4) Dual DPS / WhiWa: Yangyang: Xuanling / Phrolova / Shorekeeper

  1. Shorekeeper: Concerto + R2 Stellarealm → Outro to Phrolova
  2. Phrolova: Volatile Notes → Scarlet Coda → Resolving Chord R2 (Hecate) → Outro to Yangyang
  3. Yangyang: L1+□ → loop → Outro to Shorekeeper (detonate Stellarealm)
  • Debut: Voices on Azure Feathers, Version 3.5 Phase 1, 10 Jul → 30 Jul 2026 (Asia; Game8). Banner has ended as of 7 Oct 2026 — wait for a rerun.
  • Signature Azure Oath was on the matching Absolute Pulsation weapon banner.
  • Story unlock for Electro Rover (F2P partner) is Chapter IV Act II, Xuanling Sings, Storm Quelled (3.5).

Disagreements flagged

  • Sig vs EoG gap: Prydwen ~+21% · Saintontas (weapon overview) called it one of the smallest modern gaps. Use Prydwen numbers for planning; treat Saintontas as “playable without sig,” not “sig is worthless.”
  • F2P sub-DPS: Game8 Electro Rover (Moonlit) · Beebom Mortefi · Prydwen highlights free Rebecca. All work; Rebecca is the strongest free Heavy buffer if you own her.
  • 3-cost: Game8/Beebom prefer double Havoc · Prydwen rates Havoc+ATK% ≈ double Havoc.
  • Rotation opener: Game8/Prydwen open on Heavy after Intro · Slyraf opens on Liberation early to max Bane before the Heavy string. Both are published; Game8/Prydwen is the safe default.
  • WhiWa: Prydwen rates her clearly below peers in multi-wave; Game8 still lists dual-DPS Phrolova as viable. Plan her as a bossing pickup.
  • Master (Taiwan / 主人): No dedicated Yangyang: Xuanling video found on 主人Master的妮姬棕2鳴潮攻略本 as of 7 Oct 2026 (channel search returned unrelated/Suisui healer content only). Gap noted.
  • Kuro wuwaguide: SPA did not return readable kit text via fetch for role_id=1610 (Network Error / empty shell). Cross-check against Game8/Prydwen/official profile copy instead.

Sources (checked 7 Oct 2026 HKT)