Wuthering Waves has been surprising the community with its character design every time it reveals a new playable unit, and Cantarella is no different. Released during the Version 2.2 update, this five-star Havoc Rectifier unit was one of the most anticipated because of both her design and lore.
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Best Cantarella Weapons
When you’re trying to build Cantarella, one of the most important parts of her kit is the weapon, which is also the second tab in her character preview screen. Each weapon has a main stat, a secondary stat, and a passive. For Cantarella, the best weapon is her signature, Whispers of Sirens, as it goes well with her in all three aspects.
However, it’s not always possible to pull the signature weapons of every character, and you have a ton of other choices to find the best weapon for Cantarella on your account:
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Name |
Rarity |
Synergy With Cantarella |
|---|---|---|
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Whispers of Sirens |
Five-Star |
Cantarella’s signature weapon gives her a whopping 72 percent Crit DMG with 12 percent ATK from the passive. Moreover, after casting two Echo skills, which is pretty easy for her, you can get more buffs. These buffs include a 40 percent Basic Attack DMG bonus and 12 percent Havoc RES shred on the targets. |
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Rime-Draped Sprouts |
Five-Star |
This is Zhezhi’s signature weapon, and it can suit Cantarella surprisingly well. It gives a similar Crit DMG and ATK boost as above while giving a Basic Attack DMG bonus when you use your Resonance Skill. You can stack this effect up to three times. When you use your Outro Skills with three stacks, you gain a massive 52 percent off-field Basic Attack DMG bonus. |
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Call of the Abyss |
Four-Star |
If you’re planning to use Cantarella as the sustainer of the team, this rectifier suits her perfectly as it gives her some Energy Regen while also increasing her healing bonus after using her Liberation. |
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Fusion Accretion |
Four-Star |
You’ll get a bit of ATK as the secondary stat on this Rectifier. Moreover, your Resonance Skill can give you some extra Resonance Energy and increase your ATK further, making this a decent pick for sub-DPS Cantarella. |
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Augment |
Four-Star |
You can get this weapon if you buy the premium tier of the battlepass, and it serves as a great four-star choice for DPS Cantarella since it provides Crit Rate as the secondary stat. After using your Liberation, this weapon also increases her ATK by 15 percent. |
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Jinzhou Keeper |
Four-Star |
This is a fairly simple weapon, but one that also works well for Cantarella’s build. It gives you some ATK as the secondary stat and some more ATK when you cast your Intro Skill. |
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Guardian Rectifier |
Three-Star |
Finally, if you don’t have any of the above weapons, you can use this three-star weapon on Cantarella to get some ATK and Basic Attack DMG bonus. |
Cantarella Echo Guide
The echo system in Wuthering Waves can be quite complicated since you not only have to choose the perfect set for each character, but also a primary echo for each set and main/sub-stats for each echo piece. The best echo set for Cantarella is the Empyrean Anthem with the Hecate primary echo. However, you have a bunch of choices that give similar value:
Best Cantarella Echo sets
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Empyrean Anthem |
This echo set is tailor-made for Cantarella as it increases her Energy Regen while also giving her a whopping 80 percent Coordinated Attack DMG, which is one of her main damage outputs. When your Coordinated Attack gets a Crit hit, the ATK of your active resonator increases by 20 percent for four seconds. |
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Midnight Veil |
You’ll get a similar value from this Echo set as the one above if you’re using Cantarella alongside a Havoc main DPS. This one increases her Havoc DMG by ten percent. Furthermore, it lets you deal high damage upon triggering your Outro Skill and also gives the incoming resonator a 15 percent Havoc DMG boost. |
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Moonlit Clouds |
Moonlit Clouds is essentially a budget version of Empyrean Anthem for Cantarella’s build, but you can use it if you don’t have the latter unlocked yet. |
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Rejuvenating Glow |
Finally, if you’re planning to use Cantarella as the sustainer of your team, you can use this set to give her some Healing Bonus and extra ATK to all resonators. |
Best Cantarella Primary Echoes
Apart from paying attention to the set bonuses you can get for each echo set, you also have to figure out the best primary echo while building Cantarella. These primary echoes are usually the four cost echoes you equip, and each set has a different one.
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Echo Name |
Set |
Synergy With Cantarella |
|---|---|---|
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Hecate |
Empyrean Anthem |
When you have this echo in Cantarella’s main echo slot, you can increase her Coordinated Attack DMG by an additional 40 percent. |
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Lorelei |
Midnight Veil |
This echo gives Cantarella 12 percent Havoc and Basic Attack DMG bonus, which are both great for the type of damage she deals. |
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Impermanence Heron |
Moonlit Clouds |
This echo regenerates a bit of Cantarella’s energy when its first attack hits the opponents while also letting the resonator who comes after your outro skill deal 12 percent more damage. |
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Bell-Borne Geochelone |
Rejuvenating Glow |
Upon using this echo’s skill, your current team member takes reduced damage while increasing her damage by ten percent. This effect disappears when the active resonator takes three hits. |
Echo Stat Priority For Cantarella
Each echo piece has various possibilities when it comes to their main stat, and you’d want to choose these echo stats to get the most value while building Cantarella:
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Cost 4 |
Crit Rate > Crit DMG |
|---|---|
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Cost 3 |
Havoc DMG Bonus / Energy Regen |
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Cost 1 |
ATK Percent |
If you have Crit Rate on your weapon’s secondary stat, you can go for Crit DMG as the main stat on the four-cost echo.
However, if your weapon doesn’t have any Crit, you’d still want to go for Crit Rate.
The best echoes to use on Cantarella are as follows: cost four (main echo), cost three, cost three, cost one, and cost one. If you’re having trouble with getting Cantarella’s Liberation back in time, you can use Energy Regen as the main stat on one of the cost three echoes.
However, the ideal scenario is using a double Havoc DMG bonus to get the most damage from her. You can look for Energy Regen on the sub-stat for each echo piece alongside Crit Rate, Crit DMG, ATK Percent, and Basic Attack DMG bonus.
Best Cantarella Teams
Once you’ve decided the best build for Cantarella using one of the weapons and echoes mentioned above, the next step is to find the perfect team members for her. Cantarella excels at dealing a bunch of Havoc DMG both on and off-field since she can trigger coordinated attacks with her Liberation (more on this below).
With her Outro Skill, she can also increase the Havoc and Resonance Skill DMG of the incoming Resonator. Your first thought might be to use Cantarella as the team’s sustainer since she can heal the party, but her Outro buff doesn’t continue to multiple characters, making her worse than Shorekeeper or Verina in that regard.
Unfortunately, no character can fully utilize Cantarella’s outro buffs yet since no unit deals both Havoc and Resonance Skill DMG yet.
The best team that Cantarella can currently be used in consists of her, Shorekeeper, and Camellya. In this team, Camellya acts as the main DPS while Cantarella supports her with the damage boosts from her Outro Skill and echo sets. Shorekeeper will be the main sustainer since she can provide massive buffs to both characters on the field.
Here’s what the rotation for this team should look like:
- Start with Shorekeeper and use her basic and heavy attacks with the Echo and Resonance skill to build 3/4th of the concerto circle on the left of your HP. After this, use your Resonance Liberation to fill her Concerto circle before switching to Cantarella.
- On Cantarella, use her normal combination (discussed below) to get her coordinated attack and Outro Skill as soon as possible.
- Finally, you can switch to Camellya and use her special Resonance Skill, Liberation, and Basic Attacks to deal a ton of damage. If you execute this properly, you’ll be able to switch back to Shorekeeper before her field runs out.
If you don’t have Camellya, you can use Havoc Rover or Danjin as an F2P replacement. Similarly, Verina or Baizhi can be used instead of Shorekeeper in this team with Cantarella.
Cantarella Forte Overview And Priority
Much like every other character in Wuthering Waves, understanding Cantarella’s kit by reading the in-game description can be quite difficult. However, there’s a much simpler way of explaining the main aspects of the kit.
Cantarella’s Abilities, Explained
Cantarella has a total of three different Resonance Skills and two sets of Basic Attack, Mid-Air Attack, and Dodge Counter. While this sounds overwhelming, it’s quite easy to understand:
- When you first use Cantarella on the field, she can build up Trance stacks (displayed as the forte bar above your HP) while using her Basic Attack, Resonance Skill, and Resonance Liberation. The first two provide one stack each while the last provides three.
- When you have one or more Trance stacks, you can use a Heavy Attack to start the Mirage state. In this state, Cantarella has a separate set of Basic Attacks, Mid-Air Attacks, Dodge Counter, and Resonance Skill.
- The Basic, Mid-Air, and Dodge Counter attacks in Mirage state give her Shiver stacks with each hit (displayed between your HP and Forte bar), and with three Shiver stacks, you can trigger the third Resonance Skill for Cantarella.
- Using both types of Resonance Skills in the Mirage state can put enemies in a Hazy Dream state, which slows their movement. If Cantarella attacks these enemies, she triggers a Jolt damage while removing the Hazy state. Other resonator attacks can also remove the Hazy state but won’t trigger Jolt.
- Cantarella’s attacks and third Resonance Skill in the Mirage state can also heal the party members. Moreover, her Liberation can trigger a state where she unleashes a Dreamweaver as a Coordinated Attack for 21 times over the next 30 seconds.
- Her special Intro Skill and the third hit of Mirage’s Basic Attacks can also trigger three Coordinated Attacks each.
- Finally, Cantarella enters a special state upon using her Intro Skill. During this, every Echo Skill you use regenerates six Concerto Energy for her. Both Cantarella’s Resonance Skills in Mirage along with her Liberation are considered Echo Skills. She can essentially use four Echo Skills herself.
Cantarella Attack Combination
Since Cantarella is mainly used as a quick-swap sub DPS in the team, it’s important to learn her attack combinations to be highly efficient. Ideally, when you switch to Cantarella with her Intro Skill, you’ll already have her Resonance Liberation ready, which is how you start the combination.
After the Liberation, use her Skill and you should already have maximum Trance points. Hold your Basic Attack button to switch to Mirage mode and use your Skill before holding the Basic Attack button again. This will quickly give you three stacks of the Shiver effect.
Holding your Basic Attack in Mirage state constantly uses your Basic Attacks.
Finally, use your final Resonance Skill and you should have enough Concerto points to switch away from Cantarella to your main DPS. You can use your echo skill just before switching so that you can animation-cancel it.
Cantarella Forte Priority
With Cantarella, you’ll find yourself dealing most of the damage with the Coordinated Attack from your Liberation, making it a priority for upgrades. After the Liberation, you can upgrade her Forte Circuit, and then her Skill. You can leave her Basic Attack unupgraded since you’ll never use it.
You can also upgrade her Intro Skill a little when you have the materials, but it’s more important to unlock her Inherent Skills and other abilities.
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