Xiangli Yao Has Some Issues

Xiangli Yao is arriving for free to every player's roster in just a few weeks, and there is a lot to like. However, his kit has some complications that could keep you from reaching his maximum potential.

Find out what they are, and why they're a problem.

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[saintontas]

Tried some new music this time around. Let me know if it helps!

[DiaboAlpaca]

My god, you just scared the shit out of me, I thought it was something really problematic, but I can live without one or two buffs lost around.

[RTTUL]

Ok, but why is calcharo's name getting worse each new video about him 💀, from calcharo to cacharo to kakarot to calculator

[johnhallow]

Saintontas always finds a way to make everything sound like it's worse than it is lol

But I like that WuWa's community isn't an echo chamber and that people are free to criticize stuff without being ganged up on

[X_]

He's a Free Character. I think its fair for Kuro to put on a slight disadvantage since he does Massive amounts of DMG 😅

[TooManyDecibels]

Thankfully his attack animations being so fast help compensate for these issues.

The heavy attack animation is fast making it easier to weave into rotations.

His basic attacks are also really fast and basically have no recovery so you can likely deliver so many that the number of attacks makes up the slightly lower instances of landing a crit.

[CamronSaltado]

This all sounds like a big non-problem tbh. No one has him yet. All the optimal things will be figured out once he's here. A resonance skill and a heavy attack don't sound that hard to perform. We have to take a step out of our way to activate a buff. This is not a big deal. If thundering is too cumbersome, just use tempest. Crit rate on his weapon and lack of crit rate in his talent tree also not a big deal. So long as you can get to 50%+ you'll be fine. There's no need to be scared.

[ILOVEKAOCHAN]

based on the wording, you can trigger the effect by using a skill twice. The sentence specifies that the electro damage increase occurs "after releasing heavy attack or skill." Therefore, you can use two skills in succession to get the two stacks of +15 electro damage, for a total of +30 electro damage. There's no need to mix a heavy attack with a skill unless you want to. And also after trying him, you can do two resonance skills just by doing a resonance skill before his forte get full, then use that full forte to get the second 15 dmg

[CalcharoSupremacy]

dude, the character is not even out yet. people always say this stuff about every new character how about we decide when we actually get him and can test him more?

[Hyuinn]

1: Just use Lingering Tunes.
2: He needs double crit on every piece if he uses Crit DMG 4-cost? Really? Just like EVERYBODY ELSE? NO SHIT!

[davidweaver]

"When he's free you can't complain too much..."
Yes, but I'm petty, whiny, and lazy.

[StevenM]

Poor Cacharro, got powercreeped not even 5 months into the game

[carloconsignado]

Never realized that Void Thunder is indeed hard to use with Xiangli Yao. That's a good find, esp the 5pc echo set. I think the biggest hurdle here is the crit rate since we'll need every single crit rate from echo subs and that might not even be enough if we'll not be using Verity's Handle (I myself plan on using Abyss Surges with him). We'll probably need a new 4 cost echo on the latter versions to fit into his kit.

[KePzez]

a tricky hoop you say?
Fuck that we ball.

[bene_ml]

The main problem with calcharo was him being too vulnerable to attacks during his liberation and his playstyle upto some extent leaving him exposed. Xiangli Yao is still better than calcharo in regards to playstyle and easiness.

[Morichoradio]

Lee suffering from success in pgr lore

Xiangli yao suffering from success in wuwa meta

[pentapenta]

If only the echo worked like in illusive realm where you dont need to commit completely into the echo combo but can separate it into multiple activation in your rotation

[james-bxwr]

Wild thought but i think his lack of swap cancelling and the dmg bonus from his sig might make lingering tunes his BiS (crit, dmg bonus, dmg bonus, atk, atk). U can use a full electro team with quickswap calcharo (void thunder) yinlin during cal liberation then yinlin outro onto xiangli yao (lingering tunes) hypercarry. That's gonna be a really complex rotation tho

Also how kuro takes inspo from DMC - Vergil's yamato is calcharo, vergil's beowulf is xiangli yao hahaha

[rehcra]

If they didn't bugfix the Thundering Mephis Skin giving the Liberation dmg% buff on the first hit, Yao and Cal could be so much better.

[kenchen]

I feel like the Mephis just kind of suck as Echos... I'm hoping new glacial, electro, and fusion 4 cost echos are better than what we have right now.