Best team comps

Every Wuthering Waves team is exactly 3 Resonators, each locked to one job. The Main DPS spends the most time on-field and carries the bulk of total damage. The Sub-DPS swaps in for a short burst — dealing damage, applying a status, or landing a Deepen — then swaps back out. The Support/Healer covers healing, shields, or team-wide amplification, usually through a short Liberation or Outro window rather than staying on-field. Shorekeeper is the clearest example: near-continuous healing plus Crit buffs make her a near-universal third slot.

Attacking fills a Resonator's Concerto Energy; once it's full, swapping that character out triggers their Outro Skill — usually a buff or Deepen for whoever comes in — and the incoming Resonator immediately fires their own Intro Skill. Chaining these swaps mid-combo, known as quick-swapping, is the backbone of every rotation on this page. In Jinhsi Coord, for example, Yinlin's coordinated attacks feed Jinhsi's Incandescence stacks before the Outro window opens, turning the swap into a huge Liberation burst instead of a damage gap.

Deepen (DMG Amplify) multiplies with regular DMG Bonus instead of adding to it — 30% Deepen plus 30% DMG Bonus is a ×1.69 multiplier, not ×1.60 — so the right Deepen type matters more than a big number. Augusta is a Heavy-Attack DPS, so Iuno's Heavy Attack amplification is what actually raises her ceiling. Carlotta scales off Resonance Skill, exactly what Zhezhi's Skill-DMG amplification targets. Jiyan and Camellya follow the same logic with Heavy Attack and Basic Attack Deepen respectively — mismatch the type and the buff does almost nothing.

A mono-element team builds every Resonator's Echoes around the same elemental Sonata set, so 2-piece and 5-piece bonuses stack across all three members instead of splitting. Cartethyia Erosion is the clean example: Cartethyia, Ciaccona and Rover-Aero are all Aero, applying and amplifying self-Aero Erosion stacks the whole rotation. Sigrika Aero Echo is rated the best Aero team in the game for exactly this reason — full Aero and Echo Skill buff stacking across single-target and multi-wave content alike. The trade-off is flexibility: a mono team locks out mixing in whichever role is strongest that patch.

None of the 21 teams below require premium characters to start. Early Encore (Encore, Sanhua, Verina) and the free-starter cores F2P Spectro Rover and F2P Havoc Rover carry the early and mid game on 100% free units. Union Level 45 also unlocks one free 5★ standard weapon — Emerald of Genesis, Cosmic Ripples, or Static Mist are the strongest picks. From there, upgrade one role at a time: swap in Verina or Shorekeeper once pulled, then a premium coordinated attacker for the free Sub-DPS, working toward an SS-tier core like Aemeath Tune Rupture without rebuilding the whole team at once.