As we head into Kuro Game’s RPG, let’s take a look at Wuthering Waves Yinlin – who she is, how to build her, and what each of her skills do. Characters in Wuthering Waves each use one of six elements and one of five weapons – Yinlin uses a rectifier weapon and the electro element, and she’s a fierce sub-DPS armed with her Zapstring puppet.
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Here’s everything in our Wuthering Waves Yinlin guide:
Wuthering Waves Yinlin build overview
Yinlin is a five-star resonator that uses the electro element and a rectifier weapon.
| Element | Electro |
| Rarity | Five-star |
| Role | Sub-DPS |
| Best weapon | Stringmaster |
| Best echo set | Void thunder |
| Best echo | Impermanence Heron |
| Main stats | Electro damage bonus, crit rate, crit damage, attack |
Yinlin, previously an excellent Patroller in Jinzhou, is excellent at finding out information and infiltrating organizations. She naturally has her resonator abilities and uses them alongside her deployable puppet, Zapstring. Since awakening to her power, she hasn’t had any physical changes like other resonators.
She’s a sub-DPS that can boost your party’s electro damage with her outro skill. This means she is an excellent teammate for Wuthering Waves Calcharo and Wuthering Waves Xiangli Yao.
We recommend building her with a full set of void thunder echoes including a Thundering Mephis, and either the Stringmaster or Augment rectifier weapons.
How do I use Yinlin?
Yinlin’s kit can be a little confusing, so we’re here to break it down. First, you want to fill her forte gauge by using basic and skill moves against enemies and to get her ultimate ready. Using Yinlin’s ultimate just before releasing her forte circuit ensures that as many enemies get the Sinner’s Marks as possible. This then deals more damage to the marked targets.
While she deals a good bit of damage on her own, you want to ensure you use her outro skill to buff other electro characters’ damage when you swap off her.
What are the best weapons for Yinlin?
As a five-star, Yinlin has her own ‘signature’ five-star weapon called Stringmaster. If you don’t have Stringmaster, Augment is a good alternate option that increases her attack.
| Stringmaster | Increases the damage bonus of all of Yinlin’s resonance attributes by 12%. When a resonance skill hits a target, her attack damage increases by 12%. This can stack twice. When Yinlin is not on the field, her attack increases by an extra 12% | Weapon banner |
| Augment | When Yinlin uses her resonance liberation, her attack increases by 15% for 15 seconds | All banners |
| Cosmic Ripples | Increases Yinlin’s energy regeneration by 12.8%. When she hits a target with a basic attack, it increases her basic attack bonus by 3.2%, which can stack five times. This effect lasts for eight seconds | Standard weapon banner |
| Jinzhou Keeper | When using her intro skill, Yinlin’s attack increases by 8%, and her HP by 10%, which lasts for 15 seconds | All banners |
| Variation | When using Yinlin’s resonance skill, she restores eight concerto energy. This can trigger once every 20 seconds | All banners |
What are the best Yinlin teams?
Yinlin is a really capable sub-DPS with the ability to buff teammates, while unleashing coordinated attacks.
Best synergies for Yinlin
- Wuthering Waves Calcharo – Yinlin’s kit works perfectly with Calcharo as she can give him a huge boost to his electro damage. By swapping to him when his intro skill is ready, Yinlin’s outro skill gives him a 20% electro damage bonus and boosts his resonance liberation damage by 25%.
- Wuthering Waves Xiangli Yao – Xiangli works similarly to Calcharo in that he’s an electro DPS that appreciates Yinlin’s boost and coordinated attacks.
- Wuthering Waves Jinhsi – While you can’t use Yinlin’s electro boost with Jinhsi, she can make use of the extra coordinated attacks. The damage from Yinlin’s punishment marks counts as a coordinated attack, which goes towards stacking up elements of Jinhsi’s kit and giving her more damage potential.
- Wuthering Waves Verina – To keep you safe and in perfect health during battle, you should use Verina in any team. She can also boost your DPS’s damage with her inherent skill’s 20% attack buff, which stacks excellently with Yinlin’s own buff.
| Sub-DPS | DPS | Support |
 Yinlin |  Xiangli Yao |  Shorekeeper |
Yinlin | Calcharo | Flex healer |
Yinlin |  Jinhsi | Flex healer |
Yinlin |  Changli | Verina |
What are the best echoes for Yinlin?
Here are the echo sets we recommend for Yinlin:
- Five-piece set: Void thunder
- Two-piece sets: Void thunder, lingering tunes, moonlit clouds
Yinlin benefits from a full set of void thunder echoes. You can also go for a two-piece of void thunder and a two-piece of lingering tunes. The best echo to equip Yinlin with is the Tempest Mephis as it increases her electro damage and gives a heavy attack damage boost. Remember to keep an eye on both the main and sub-stats of each echo, as they can massively change Yinlin’s attack, crit rate, crit damage, and HP stats – plus give her an electro damage boost.
| Tempest Mephis | Transform into Tempest Mephis to perform a combo of melee attacks. After the final hit, this echo increases Yinlin’s electro damage by 12% and heavy attack damage by 12% for 15 seconds |
| Thundering Mephis | Transform into Thundering Mephis and deal six strikes. The final strike inflicts heavy electro damage. After the final hit, this echo increases Yinlin’s electro damage by 12%, and her resonance liberation damage by 13% for 15 seconds |
| Impermanence Heron | Transforming into the Impermanence Heron performs a dive attack, or holding the echo button lets you stay as the Heron and deal constant havoc damage for a few seconds. After the attack, the current character gains ten resonance energy and gains an outro skill boost for 15 seconds. This also gives a damage boost of 12% for the next character, for 15 seconds |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Electro damage bonus
- Crit rate/damage
- Energy regeneration
- Attack
Sub-stats:
- Crit rate/damage
- Attack
- Energy regeneration
What are Yinlin’s ascension materials?
| Level 20 | 5k shell credits and four LF whisperin cores |
| Level 40 | 10k shell credits, four coriolus, three group abomination tacet cores, four MF whisperin cores |
| Level 50 | 15k shell credits, eight coriolus, six group abomination tacet cores, eight MF whisperin cores |
| Level 60 | 20k shell credits, 12 coriolus, nine group abomination tacet cores, four HF whisperin cores |
| Level 70 | 40k shell credits, 16 coriolus, 12 group abomination tacet cores, eight HF whisperin cores |
| Level 80 | 80k shell credits, 20 coriolus, 16 group abomination tacet cores, four FF whisperin cores |
Here’s where to find all of Yinlin’s ascension materials:
- Group abomination tacet cores – this item drops from the Mech Abomination boss in the Court of Savantae Ruins
- Coriolus – these mushrooms grow in the Dim Forest area, especially around the Giant Banyan tree. You can also buy 15 of them from the Shifang Pharmacy periodically
- Whisperin cores – these enemy drops come from Predator and Warrior enemies, as well as Whiff Whaff, Tick Tack, Zig Zag, and Snip Snap enemies. You can also buy them from the weapon shop and gain them in 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 Yinlin’s forte materials?
- 25 LF whisperin core, 28 MF whisperin core, 40 HF whisperin core, and 57 FF whisperin core
- Obtain from enemies, forgery challenges, Jinzhou’s weapon shop, or the exchange store (oscillated coral)
- 25 lento helix, 28 adagio helix, 55 andante helix, and 67 presto helix
- Obtain from the Misty Forest forgery challenge, via the synthesizer, Jinzhou’s weapon shop, or Jinzhou’s souvenir store
- 26 dreamless feathers
- Obtain from the Statue of the Crownless: Heart weekly challenge (defeating the Dreamless weekly boss)
- 2,030,000 shell credits
What are Yinlin’s skills?
Below is a breakdown of Yinlin’s combat skills, both passive and active, and what each attack does on the battlefield. Note that upgrading her skills gives increased crit damage, not elemental damage, so you may want to up that using her weapons or echoes.
Active skills
| Basic attack | Zapstring’s Dance Yinlin commands her puppet Zapstring to attack up to four times, dealing electro damage |
| Heavy attack | Consuming a set amount of stamina, Zapstring attacks dealing heavier electro damage |
| Mid-air attack | Consuming more stamina, Yinlin retrieves Zapstring and plunges to the ground, dealing electro damage |
| Dodge counter | After a successful dodge, use Yinlin’s basic attack to hit a target. This deals electro damage |
| Resonance skill | Magnetic Roar Zapstring deals electro damage to the target and puts Yinlin in Execution Mode. Here, basic and dodge counterattacks trigger an Electromagnetic Blast when hitting a target. Each stage of basic attack and dodge counter can trigger one Blast only, up to four times. Electromagnetic Blast Yinlin attacks all targets marked with her Forte Circuit’s Sinner’s Mark, dealing electro damageLightning Execution Using Yinlin’s resonance skill again after using Magnetic Roar deals electro damage. If Lighting Execution is not activated or Yinlin switches out of combat, the skill goes on cooldown |
| Resonance liberation | Thundering Wrath Commands Zapstring to call upon thunder and deal heavy electro damage in a large AoE |
Passive skills
| Intro skill | Raging Storm Yinlin uses her puppet, Zapstring, to attack, causing an electro AoE |
| Outro skill | Strategist The next character has their electro damage amplified by 20%, and resonance liberation damage by 25% for 14 seconds or until they switch off field |
| Forte circuit | Chameleon Cipher When Yinlin’s Judgment Points are full, her heavy attack turns into Chameleon Cipher, which consumes all Judgment Points to attack the target with electro damage. When hitting targets with Sinner’s Marks, the Marks are replaced with Punishment Marks for 18 seconds Sinner’s Mark Zapstring’s Dance, Thundering Wrath, and Roaring Storm apply Sinner’s Marks to enemies when hit. The Mark removes when Yinlin exits combatPunishment Mark When a target marked with a Punishment Mark gets attacked, Judgment Strike falls, dealing electro damage to all targets with a Punishment Mark. This can trigger once a second |
Inherent skills
| Pain Immersion | After using her skill Magnetic Roar, Yinlin’s crit rate increases by 15% for five seconds |
| Deadly Focus | The damage of Lightning Execution hitting a target with a Sinner’s Mark increases by 10%, and Yinlin’s attack increases by 10% after triggering this effect. This lasts for four seconds |
Skill priority
- Forte circuit > resonance liberation > resonance skill > intro skill > basic attack
What is Yinlin’s resonance chain?
A lot of gacha games have unlockable extras if you manage to get more than one copy of the character. In Wuthering Waves, this is known as a ‘resonance chain’, with each level being a sequence.
| Morality’s Crossroads | Magnetic Roar and Lightning Execution deal 70% more damage |
| Ensnarled by Rapport | Electromagnetic Blast recovers five extra Judgment Points and five resonance energy on hit |
| Unyielding Verdict | Judgment Strike’s damage multiplier increases by 55% |
| Steadfast Conviction | When Judgment Strike hits a target, the attack of all team members increases by 20% for 12 seconds |
| Resounding Will | Thundering Wrath deals 100% extra damage to targets with a Sinner’s Mark or Punishment Mark |
| Pursuit of Justice | In the first 30 seconds after using Thundering Wrath, Yinlin’s basic attack triggers Furious Thunder when hitting a target. This deals electro damage equal to 419% of Yinlin’s attack stat. Every basic attack can trigger Furious Thunder once, up to four times maximum |
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