Wuthering Waves Youhu build
The first post-release four-star is here – Wuthering Waves’ Youhu is an interesting and adorable addition to our teams, with great synergy for the best DPS units in the game. Our guide goes over the best build for her along with teams, and which skills to focus on first.
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Here’s everything we know about Wuthering Waves’ Youhu.
What’s the best Wuthering Waves Youhu build?
Youhu is a four-star character in Wuthering Waves who uses the glacio element and gauntlets to fight.
| Element | Glacio |
| Rarity | Four-star |
| Role | Support, sub-DPS, and healer |
| Best weapon | Marcato |
| Best echo set | Rejuvenating glow |
| Best echo | Bell-Borne Geochelone |
| Main stats | Healing bonus, energy regeneration, attack |
Youhu makes for a low-cost overall support, with healing abilities and some damage in her kit, along with an outro skill that grants a coordinated attack. This places her as a good member of Jinhsi and Zhezhi teams.
As for the best weapon to use, we recommend the Marcato gauntlets and a full set of rejuvenating glow echoes with attack and energy regen substats. A glacio damage boosting echo can help with her on and off-field damage, but prioritize the five-piece bonus first.
Youhu uses Antiques in combat and uses glacio to deal damage. Her kit has a ‘lottery mechanic’ – when in battle, Youhu picks a random Antique to use, which you can’t control. These include a boomerang-like weapon, a giant pot she can get into and move with, and other items she can hold to hit the target.
What’s the best weapon for Youhu?
The best weapon for Youhu is the Marcato gauntlet, as it gives her a big boost to energy regeneration along with concerto energy restoration. Other than that, you can use the five-star Abyss Surges to improve her damage, or the Gauntlets #21D for a similar effect.
| Marcato | Stat: Energy regeneration Effect: When Youhu releases her resonance skill, she restores concerto energy. This effect can trigger once every 20 seconds |
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| Abyss Surges | Stat: Attack Effect: Increases energy regeneration. When hitting a target with resonance skill, this gauntlet increases basic attack damage, lasting for eight seconds. When hitting a target with basic attacks, increases resonance skill damage by 10%, lasting for eight seconds |
Standard weapon banner |
| Gauntlets #21D | Stat: Energy regeneration Effect: When Youhu dashes or dodges, her attack increases. Her counterattack damage increases massively as well for eight seconds. When she performs a counterattack, she restores her HP by a small amount. This can trigger once every six seconds |
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| Celestial Spiral | Stat: Attack Effect: Casting Youhu’s resonance skill grants her resonance energy and increases her attack for 16 seconds. This effect can trigger once every 20 seconds |
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What are the best Youhu team comps?
As Youhu has healing abilities, you don’t necessarily need a strong healer with her. She’ll provide enough survivability in the overworld and easier combat challenges so you can get through without Verina, Shorekeeper, or Baizhi.
She also provides coordinated attacks, so Jinhsi massively appreciates her as a teammate, especially alongside Zhezhi or Yinlin.
What are the best echoes for Youhu?
Here are the echo sets we recommend for Youhu:
- Five-piece set: Rejuvenating glow
- Two-piece sets: Rejuvenating glow, moonlit clouds, freezing frost
While she isn’t specifically just a healer, a full set of rejuvenating glow will give the entire team an attack boost for 30 seconds after Youhu heals anyone. Using this with the Bell-Borne Geochelone as your main echo massively improves survivability and places Youhu firmly as a good all-around support unit.
| Bell-Borne Geochelone | Activating the Geochelone’s skill gives a shield to the character that lasts for three hits and provides a 50% damage reduction. Using this echo also deals heavy glacio damage one-time |
| Fallacy of No Return | Activating this echo summons the Fallacy, and deals a blast of spectro damage to enemies nearby equal to a segment of Youhu’s maximum HP. She then gains a 10% bonus energy regeneration, and all teammates get a 10% attack bonus for 20 seconds |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Energy regeneration
- Healing bonus
- Glacio damage boost
- Attack/%
Sub stats:
- Energy regeneration
- Attack/%
What are Youhu’s ascension materials?
You’re going to want to ascend Youhu, and to do that, you need the following materials:
| 20➔40 | 5k shell credits Four crude rings |
| 40➔50 | 10k shell credits Four violet coral Three topological confinements Four basic rings |
| 50➔60 | 15k shell credits Eight violet coral Six topological confinements Eight basic rings |
| 60➔70 | 20k shell credits 12 violet coral Nine topological confinements Four improved rings |
| 70➔80 | 40k shell credits 16 violet coral 12 topological confinements Eight improved rings |
| 80➔90 | 80k shell credits 20 violet coral 16 topological confinements Four tailored rings |
Here’s where to find all of Youhu’s ascension materials:
- Topological confinements – this item drops from the Fallacy of No Return boss
- Violet coral – you can find these on the shores of Norfall Barrens
- Crude, basic, improved, and tailored rings – 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 Youhu’s forte materials?
- 25 crude rings, 28 basic rings, 40 improved rings, and 57 tailored rings
- Obtain from normal enemies, the store, the weapon shop, or forgery challenges
- 25 cadence seeds, 28 cadence buds, 55 cadence leaves, and 67 cadence blossoms
- Obtain from the Moonlit Groves forgery challenge, via the synthesizer, Jinzhou’s weapon shop, or Jinzhou’s souvenir store
- 26 monument bells
- Obtain from the Bell-Borne Geochelone weekly boss challenge
- 2,030,000 shell credits
What are Youhu’s skills?
Here are all of Youhu’s skills, including an explanation of each Antique and how to get them.
Active skills
| Basic attack | Frosty Punches Performs up to four consecutive attacks, dealing glacio damage |
| Heavy attack | When Frost is full, hold the basic attack to cast Frostfall. If Youhu cannot cast Frostfall, she instead performs Lucky Draw once. Youhu obtains Frost when in the Fortune Rolling state and when basic attacks hit targets. Frostfall Dashing forward, Youhu deals glacio damage and performs Lucky Draw |
| Mid-air attack | Youhu plunges to the ground and deals glacio damage, using some stamina |
| Dodge counter | When Youhu has no Antiques, she can dodge incoming attacks and then perform an attack herself. She then performs one Lucky Draw |
| Resonance skill | Scroll Divination Youhu smashes the enemy with her scroll, which deals glacio damage while also restoring HP to party members. She performs Lucky Draw once. Lucky Draw Youhu gains one random Antique. Her next basic attack activates the corresponding Antique Appraisal. She can only have one Antique at a time, and any newly drawn ones will replace the existing one Antique Appraisal -Chime: Youhu attacks the enemy. This can reduce the enemy’s vibration strength -Ruyi: Youhu hits the enemy. Ruyi has a higher damage multiplier -Ding: Youhu rams a target with the Ding, and breaks their stance -Mask: Youhu throws a mask dealing damage. This can pull in enemies along the path |
| Resonance liberation | Fortune’s Favor Youhu throws her scroll at the enemy, causing a blast of glacio damage. On hit, four buttons appear – choose a button within the timeframe to obtain the chosen Antique. If none is chosen, Youhu gains a random Antique |
Passive skills
| Intro skill | Scroll of Wonders Youhu throws her scroll and performs a Lucky Draw |
| Outro skill | Timeless Classics The incoming team member has their coordinated attack damage amplified by 100% for 28 seconds |
| Forte circuit | Poetic Essence When Youhu has four Auspices, hold basic attack to release Poetic Essence, dealing glacio damage. This counts as resonance skill damage and restores HP for party members. She can hold up to four Auspices. She gains an Auspice through Antique Appraisal, and using basic attack when holding an Antique. Youhu unlocks Antiques when casting her resonance skill, intro skill, heavy attack, dodge counter, or resonance liberation. Youhu deals glacio damage to enemies in range, and obtains one effect based on her combination of Auspices: -Free Verse activates if Youhu has four different Auspicess. This reduces the vibration strength of enemies -Antithesis activates if Youhu has a pair of matching Auspices. This increases Poetic Essence’s damage by 70% -Double Pun occurs if Yohu has two matching pairs of Auspices. This restores additional HP to the party -Triplet occurs if Youhu has three identical Auspices. Increases Poetic Essence’s damage by 175% -Perfect Rhyme occurs if Youhu has four identical Auspices. Activates the effects of Free Verse, Double Pun, and Triplet. Casting Poetic Essence again removes all Auspices |
Inherent skills
| Treasured Piece | Youhu restores HP for all nearby party members based on 30% of the healing provided by her resonance skill, when Antique Appraisal is cast |
| Rare Find | Gain a 15% glacio damage bonus for 14 when using intro skill |
Skill priority
- Forte circuit > resonance skill > resonance liberation > normal attack > intro skill
What is Youhu’s resonance chain?
If you get more than one of Youhu on the banner – or buy her waveband from the store – you can unlock the following boosts.
| Waterside Respite | Youhu has a 10% chance to gain immunity to damage and interruption after casting Lucky Draw. This lasts for five seconds, or until she switches out |
| Sunroom Siesta | The damage bonus of Athithesis, Triplet, and Perfect Rhyme (as part of Poetic Essence) doubles |
| Restless Sleep | Youhu’s attack increases by 20% |
| Frosted Lullaby | Every time Youhu’s resonance skill is cast, there’s a 20% chance the skill does not enter cooldown |
| Dreamland Meander | When Youhu’s intro skill is cast, her crit rate increases 15% for 14 seconds |
| Slumber Evermore | When using her resonance skill (Antique Appraisal), Youhu gains one stack of Sky Blue, which can stack four times and lasts for seven seconds. Each stack increases her crit damage by 15% |
Wondering which DPS to build next? We can help you out with our build guides for Wuthering Waves Xiangli Yao, Wuthering Waves Jiyan, and Wuthering Waves Calcharo.
