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Portrait of Yaoyao

★★★★DendroPolearm

Yaoyao

Burgeoning Grace

Streetward Rambler's youngest disciple. A gentle and caring "little adult."

Region
Liyue
Released
Version 3.4
GenGuru tier
B Support

Overview

  • Healer
  • Off-field Dendro application

Yaoyao is a healer who also keeps Dendro on enemies. Her Elemental Skill drops Yuegui, a little device that lobs White Jade Radishes: they hit enemies with Dendro while everyone is healthy, and turn to the lowest-HP ally when someone drops to 70% HP or below. Her Elemental Burst makes the radishes heal the whole nearby party, but it ends when she leaves the field, so it is something you use while standing on her.

Her healing scales with Max HP, so build her for HP and enough Energy Recharge to bring the burst back when you need it. She is most at home in Bloom and Hyperbloom teams, where her steady Dendro feeds the reactions and her healing covers the damage Bloom cores do to your own party.

Weapons

Best first. Every polearm on this list links to its page.

  1. Dialogues of the Desert Sages ★★★★

    Lots of HP, and healing a party member refunds Energy. Yaoyao heals constantly, so the refund almost always triggers on cooldown.

  2. Favonius Lance ★★★★

    Energy Recharge on the stat line plus particles on a crit. A good pick if her burst is hard to bring back.

  3. Black Tassel ★★★

    A cheap 3-star with a large HP stat. Its passive only affects slimes, but the HP alone makes her heals bigger.

  4. Kitain Cross Spear ★★★★

    Elemental Mastery, a small Elemental Skill damage bonus and a net Energy gain after her skill hits. The Mastery only matters for Bloom reactions that her own Dendro triggers.

Artifact sets

  1. Deepwood Memories 4-piece

    The best team choice when no one else in the party wears it. It lowers enemy Dendro RES for everyone's Dendro hits.

  2. Song of Days Past 4-piece

    Turns her healing into extra damage for the active character. Pick this when another Dendro character already holds Deepwood.

  3. Ocean-Hued Clam + Tenacity of the Millelith 2-piece each

    Healing Bonus plus HP. An easy stopgap from pieces you probably already own.

Main stats and substats

Sands
HP% or Energy Recharge
Goblet
HP%
Circlet
Healing Bonus or HP%
Substats
Energy Recharge > HP% > HP > Elemental Mastery

Talent priority

  1. Elemental Burst Moonjade Descent
  2. Elemental Skill Raphanus Sky Cluster

Teams

  • Nilou Bloom

    Nilou's Bountiful Cores burst fast and hurt your own team. Yaoyao adds Dendro alongside Nahida and patches up the self-damage.

  • Alhaitham Hyperbloom

    Yaoyao supplies extra Dendro so Xingqiu's Hydro turns into Dendro Cores quickly, and Kuki turns them into Hyperbloom.

  • Budget Hyperbloom

    All 4-stars. Collei and Yaoyao keep Dendro up, Xingqiu brings Hydro, and Kuki triggers Hyperbloom while healing too.

Tips

  • Yuegui only throws radishes at allies when someone is at 70% HP or lower. While everyone is healthy and enemies are nearby, it throws at enemies, so the skill works mostly as an off-field Dendro source.
  • Her burst state ends the moment you swap away. Use it when you plan to stay on her for a few seconds, for example to heal everyone up between waves.
  • Use her skill on cooldown in reaction teams. Each cast brings out a new Yuegui, which keeps Dendro landing on enemies while you play other characters.

Other character guides recommend Yaoyao as a teammate in these teams.

See every team comp, grouped by reaction.

Base stats at level 90

Base HP
12289
Base ATK
212
Base DEF
751
HP
24.0%

Talents

Normal Attack Toss 'N' Turn Spear
Normal Attack Performs up to 4 consecutive spear strikes. Charged Attack Consumes a certain amount of Stamina to lunge forward, dealing damage to opponents along the way. Plunging Attack Plunges from mid-air to strike the ground below, damaging opponents along the path and dealing AoE DMG upon impact.
Elemental Skill Raphanus Sky Cluster
Calls upon "Yuegui: Throwing Mode," a special device created by a certain adeptus to help Yaoyao solve her problems. This skill will be used differently in Holding Mode. Hold Enters Aiming Mode to adjust the throw direction. Yuegui: Throwing Mode Throws out White Jade Radishes that will explode upon hitting characters or opponents, dealing Dendro DMG to opponents within a certain AoE, and healing characters within that same AoE based on Yaoyao's Max HP. If a radish does not hit either an opponent or a character, the radish will remain where it is and explode on contact with a character or opponent, or will explode after its duration expires. Yuegui: Throwing Mode will choose its radish-throw targets. ·If all nearby characters have more than 70% HP remaining, then it will throw the radish at a nearby opponent. ·If nearby characters have 70% or less HP remaining, it will throw a radish at the character with the lowest HP percentage remaining. If no opponents exist nearby, Yuegui will also throw White Jade Radishes at characters if they all have more than 70% HP and less than 100% HP remaining. Otherwise, it will throw radishes into the area at random. A maximum of 2 instances of Yuegui: Throwing Mode can exist at any one time.
Elemental Burst Moonjade Descent
At the enjoinment of a certain adeptus, Yuegui's full potential can be unleashed in an emergency, dealing Dendro DMG to nearby opponents and entering an (in some sense) unsurpassed Adeptal Legacy state. Adeptal Legacy ·White Jade Radishes generated will be changed to heal and deal DMG according to this skill. Explosions will heal all nearby party members, and the Dendro DMG that they deal will be viewed as Elemental Burst DMG instead. ·Summons "Yuegui: Jumping Mode" at intervals until their limit has been reached. The behavior of this version of Yuegui is the same as that of "Yuegui: Throwing Mode" in the Elemental Skill, Raphanus Sky Cluster. A maximum of 3 Yuegui: Jumping Mode can exist at any one time. ·Yaoyao's Movement SPD is increased by 15%. ·Yaoyao's Dendro RES will be increased. The Adeptal Legacy state will end once Yaoyao is off-field, and all remaining Yuegui: Jumping Mode will be cleared once this state ends.
Passive talent Starscatter
While affected by the Adeptal Legacy state caused by Moonjade Descent, Yaoyao will constantly throw White Jade Radishes at nearby opponents when she is sprinting, jumping, or running. She can throw 1 White Jade Radish this way once every 0.6s.
Passive talent In Others' Shoes
When White Jade Radishes explode, active characters within their AoE will regain HP every 1s based on 0.8% of Yaoyao's Max HP. This effect lasts 5s.
Passive talent Tailing on Tiptoes
When Yaoyao is in the party, your characters will not startle Crystalflies and certain other animals when getting near them. Check the "Other" sub-category of the "Living Beings / Wildlife" section in the Archive for creatures this skill works on.

Constellations

C1 Adeptus' Tutelage
When White Jade Radishes explode, active characters within their AoE will gain 15% Dendro DMG Bonus for 8s and have 15 Stamina restored to them. This form of Stamina Restoration can only be triggered every 5s.
C2 Innocent
While affected by the Adeptal Legacy state caused by Moonjade Descent, if White Jade Radish explosions hit opponents, 3 Energy will be restored to Yaoyao. This form of Energy regeneration can occur once every 0.8s.
C3 Loyal and Kind
Increases the Level of Raphanus Sky Cluster by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
C4 Winsome
After using Raphanus Sky Cluster or Moonjade Descent, Yaoyao's Elemental Mastery will be increased based on 0.3% of her Max HP for 8s. The maximum Elemental Mastery she can gain this way is 120.
C5 Compassionate
Increases the Level of Moonjade Descent by 3. Maximum upgrade level is 15.
C6 Beneficent
For every 2 White Jade Radishes Yuegui: Throwing Mode throws out, the next throw will also release a Mega Radish that will have a larger AoE than the standard White Jade Radish and have the following effects upon exploding: ·Deals AoE Dendro DMG based on 75% of Yaoyao's ATK. ·Restores HP for the active character based on 7.5% of Yaoyao's Max HP. Every Yuegui: Throwing Mode can throw out a maximum of 2 Mega Radishes.