Wuthering Waves Character Tier List

This tier list ranks every playable Wuthering Waves Resonator by overall value across the game's two rotating endgame modes — Tower of Adversity and Whimpering Wastes. Tiers blend raw damage ceilings, support and sustain strength, and how well each unit slots into the current best teams, weighted toward the newest version's meta rather than story or overworld content.

The top of the list belongs to the newest wave of limited 5-stars: Yangyang: Xuanling debuts as a Havoc hypercarry, Sigrika, Hiyuki and Aemeath headline the DPS pool, and premium enablers like Chisa, Qiuyuan, Lucilla and Denia have become near-universal team glue. Cartethyia remains a top-tier Tower of Adversity pick, though the 3.4–3.5 wave — Aemeath, Hiyuki, Yangyang: Xuanling — has taken the apex DPS crown, while The Shorekeeper remains the gold-standard support — while once-dominant carries such as Camellya, Jinhsi and Calcharo keep sliding as power creep marches on.

Placements map the current consensus from Prydwen's live Tower of Adversity and Whimpering Wastes ratings and Wutheringlab's tier list onto a simple S/A/B/C scale. Where the sources disagree, the fresher endgame-weighted read wins, so a few community favorites sit lower than nostalgia would like. Sequences, signature weapons and team context all move the needle — a well-invested B-tier unit will still out-perform a bare S-tier one.

Treat this as a starting point, not a verdict: the whole point of RankedMeta is that the community sets the final order. If your main is criminally underrated here, that's what the vote buttons are for.