After what’s felt like an eternity,Wuthering Waves 2.0has finally been released, and with it came the newest five-star Resonator, Carlotta. Carlotta packs a serious wallop and introduces a new style of play not seen before her release, so if you’ve pulled her, or are planning to, here’s everything you need to know.
Best Carlotta Build in Wuthering Waves
Carlottla is aGlacio DPScharacter, and the first five-starPistoluser inWuthering Waves. Her weapon type comes with certain expectations, but I urge you to put these aside because Carlotta does not play like any other Pistol character before her. Carlotta is a unique combination of aBurstandDPScharacter, in that she has solid consistent damage, with a very powerful burst coming entirely from her Ultimate ability. In fact, her goal is to reach the most powerful state of her Ultimate before using it for maximum damage output. This requires you to pay attention to a number of factors and fits right into her gameplan.
Carlotta’s Gameplan
Despite appearances,Carlotta is a number-complex character, meaning the mechanics you need to be paying attention to often have little visual feedback. In Carlotta’s case, her most important mechanic isMoldable Crystals, which ties to almost every other mechanic she has access to. Moldable Crystals is a stacking buff (max six stacks) that she gains when performing many of her numerous actions. Without getting stuck in the weeds on this, her most reliable ways to gain Moldable Crystals are the following:
How to get Moldable Crystals
Carlotta consumes stacks of Moldable Crystals tocharge her Forte.The more crystals consumed, the faster her Forte charges.This is important to understand, so make note of it for now. We will return to it later. Here are the main ways she consumes Moldable Crystals:
How to consume Moldable Crystals
You are doing all of this gaining and consuming of Moldable Crystals to charge Carlotta’s Forte Bar to activate two special buffs upon completing filling:Tinted CrystalandFinal Bow.
Resonance Skill and Liberation
I’ve talked a bit about Carlotta’s Resonance Skill and Ultimate already, but there is a bit more to say about them separately.
Carlotta’s Resonance Skill,Art of Violence, is a two-part skill that requires two inputs to execute. The first part rewards you with three Moldable Crystals but also applies a very powerful debuff on the enemy hit calledDispersion. This debuffcompletely freezesany enemy hit by it for 1.5 seconds. This also works on bosses.
Her UltimateEra of New Waveis the source of her Burst damage, but the initial hit also applies a powerful debuff calledDeconstructionon any enemies hit by it. Deconstruction causes your damage to ignore 18% of the enemy’s defense, and this is the case for your entire team.
In Summary
With all of that said, in a nutshell, Carlotta gameplan is to:
Any additional buffs that support the above flow, like intro skills, weapons, or team composition mechanics, enhance Carlotta’s ability to perform.
Best Echoes for Carlotta in Wuthering Waves
With the release ofWuthering Waves 2.0, aslew of new Echo setsalso came into the picture, and one of them is extremely ideal for Carlotta. She hasthreeoptions to use, with the newest set being the best choice.
Carlotta is built like any other DPS character, so the ideal Echo setup for her is‘43311’, which refers to the Echo Costs for all five Echo equipment slots.
Best Weapons for Carlotta in Wuthering Waves
As the first five-star Pistol character inWuthering Waves, Carlotta doesn’t have many options for weapons to choose from. In fact, she only has two. The most recommended weapon is, naturally, her signature,The Last Dance. This Pistol gives her unconditional ATK% while significantly buffing her Skill Damage when her Intro Skill or Resonance Liberation (Ultimate) is cast.
The second option is the genericStatic Mist, which serves as a solid stat stick for Carlotta thanks to its Crit Rate substat. However, Carlotta is a main DPS character and cannot really take advantage of Static Mist’s ally buffing ability in any real way. Also, as a Standard five-star weapon, it will never compete with The Last Dance in any Echo setup, making it always the worst five-star option.
If you do not have The Last Dance or Static Mist,I strongly urge you to reconsider pulling for Carlotta, as there are no viable four-star weapon choices for her, and her performance will greatly suffer if you try to use one.
Best Team Compositions for Carlotta in Wuthering Waves
Carlotta likes to have a lot of field time to perform her combos and stack up her Moldable Crystals, but she isn’t required to be glued to it.Thanks to her versatility, she is actually rather flexible with several teammates and is a preferable option forhypercarryandquickswapsetups.
Carlotta/Zhezhi/Shorekeeper
This is the premium Carlotta team composition, and it performs extremely well thanks to both Shorekeeper’s and Zhezhi’s buffing mechanics. Carlotta naturally serves as the hypercarry, but before she takes the stage, you’ll want to open with Shorekeeper’s Ult into an immediate swap to Zhezhi. Zhezhi then generates her Concerto very quickly and, thus, provides Carlotta with a significant boost in Glacio and Skill damage with very little delay. By the time Carlotta switches in to dish out damage, all buffs should be active, which is ideal for Carlotta’s Ultimate, which should be used with Final Bow active.
If you prefer a quicker buff cycle, Shorekeeper can be swapped out with Verina for a similar effect.
Carlotta/Changli/Verina
This is Carlotta’s premium quickswap team composition, and it works well thanks to Carlotta’s and Changli’s longer-than-normal animations during combat. Long animations are a positive for quickswap teams because as long as a character is performing an animation, they will remain on the field and can be swapped back to without losing most buffs. This setup doesn’t really use a rotation as much as others, only needing Verina to perform her chores to get her ATK% buff going. Carlotta and Changli then swap between each other’s long animation attacks, performing their chores until it is time for them to unleash their big bursty attacks.
If Carlotta has activated her Ultimate while Final Bow is active,do not quickswap during it. If you do, Carlotta will lose the massive 80% damage buff to it, which is not good.
Carlotta/Sanhau/Shorekeeper
This is a strong hypercarry team composition that focuses on the extremely quick Concerto generation of Sanhau to get both Shorekeeper’s and Carlotta’s buffs up and going ASAP. Sanhau plays the role of sub-DPS buffer here and should be using theMoonlit Cloudsset for the additional buffs.
The traditional rotation for this comp is opening with Sanhau via using her Skill/Ultimate, then swapping to Shorekeeper before Sanhau’s Concerto is full. From here, Shorekeeper builds her Concerto and uses her Ultimate. With a full Concerto, swap back to Sanhau, who should already have a full Concerto, then immediately swap to Carlotta. Carlotta then remains on the field until it’s time to renew her Ultimate buff.
Sanhau does not buff Carlotta in any meaningful way outside of the Moonlit Clouds set, but the Basic Attack buff she does provide is not entirely useless to her; it is just not ideal.
Best Sequences for Carlotta in Wuthering Waves
Carlotta is a decently strong character at S0, and does not require Sequences to clear any of the content inWuthering Waves. That said, she certainly does benefit considerably from her first few, and you may want to consider going for them, thanks to their effects. Without a doubt,S3 is your best stopping point, but that is not exactly easy to get. If you’re interested in knowing what her Sequences do, then here they are, condensed for your clarity.
