Best Camellya build in Wuthering Waves – Weapons, Echoes, team compositions, and Sequences

Camellya, likely the most-hyped character since Wuthering Waves’ release, has finally arrived with version 1.4, and she is a doozy. If you want to learn how to play her properly and gear her up correctly, keep reading, as I’m going to dive into what this famed character is all about.

Best Camellya Build in Wuthering Waves

Camellya is a Havoc DPS character with a focus on dishing out as much damage as possible while she is on the field, which is most of the time. This is thanks to the many buffs she awards herself with as she flows through her rotation. Camellya is also a “stance-dancer,” which means she constantly swaps between two different movesets, which is a commonly misunderstood aspect of her character.

Camellya’s Gameplan

The complexity of Camellya’s kit may not seem apparent on the surface, but the moment you start digging through it, there is plenty to learn, practice, and master.

The Budding State

Your goal with Camellya is to reach her Budding State as quickly as possible because she gains a significant damage buff with most of her abilities while it is active. She enters this state by fully charging her Concerto Meter and activating her Skill. This will trigger her Forte Circuit, Ephemeral, which unleashes the most powerful attack in her kit while putting her into the Budding State.

The damage buff gained in the Budding State depends entirely upon how many stacks of Crimson Buds she had before invoking Ephemeral. Crimson Bud stacks are gained when Camellya deals damage while she has Crimson Pistils or her Forte Bar. Every attack she lands will drain the bar while giving her Crimson Bud stacks up to 10. For every stack of Crimson Bud, she gains a massive stacking damage buff when she uses Ephemeral (which also applies to the Ephemeral explosion) in the Budding State. You’ll know Camellya is in the Budding State when she has a red petal aura around her.

When Camellya casts Ephemeral, her Forte Bar is completely refilled, but it cannot be used to regain Crimson Bud stacks while the Budding State is active. Her Forte Bar is also refilled every time she uses her Intro Skill. You want to do both to ensure Camellya can gain all the stacks and buffs she needs.

It sounds more confusing than it actually is, and this a situation where you should do a few test runs to get a real, hands-on sense of the flow.

Stance swapping: Normal State and Blossom State

Camellya can access two additional States, both essential for transitioning into the Budding State more easily. These are her Normal State and Blossom State.

• Normal State (White Hair) – Camellya’s attack strings emphasize grounded, single-target damage. It has minimal cleave but should be your go-to state when fighting bosses because it deals more damage than Blossom State.
• Blossom State (Red Hair) – Camellya takes to the air and remains stationary unless a dodge is used first. Her attack strings transform into wide AoE spin attacks, perfect for cutting through large groups of enemies.

Camellya can seamlessly shift between both her Normal and Blossom States with her Skill at any time. Her Blossom State can (and should) be canceled by pressing the Jump button so that the Skill cooldown is not used.

There’s a lot more nuance to Camellya’s stances. For example, she can cancel any action with a stance swap, opening up some advanced techniques that can turn the tide in combat if you take the time to master them.

• String Cancelling – Switching stances allow Camellya to cancel any animation in her kit, including her attack strings. This enables you to skip unwanted portions of her combos in either stance, seamlessly transition into a new string, minimize attack delay frames, and position yourself more advantageously during combat.
• Blossom State Staminaless Dodge – When Camellya is airborne in the Blossom State, she can only move around by Dodging, and this costs Stamina. However, if she avoids an attack while dodging in this state, she will regain all of the Stamina she used.
• Heavy Attack Buffering – While in the Normal date, Camellya’s Heavy Attack launches her into a high-damage spin that is critical for dealing DPS. Normally, Camellya must attack once before going to the spin, but by holding the Basic attack button during any other action, Camellya can skip the first attack by buffering her Heavy. This lets her go right into the spin attack without delay.

While there are likely more advanced techniques to master with Camellya, your primary focus should be building her Concerto and entering the Budding State as efficiently as possible, ensuring you have 10 stacks of Crimson Bud when casting Ephemeral. Once there, use her Normal State to deal single-target DPS and use her Blossom State for AoE DPS. Then, rinse and repeat.

Best Echoes for Camellya in Wuthering Waves

Camellya deals immense damage, leaving her with one optimal Echo Set choice: Sun-sinking Eclipse. The ideal Echo setup for her is ‘43311,’ which refers to the Echo Costs for all five Echo equipment slots.

• 4-Cost Echo (Crit DMG) – Dreamless or Crownless
• 3-Cost Echoes (Havoc DMG Bonus or ATK%) – Any
• 1-Cost Echoes (ATK%) – Any

Make sure that you use Dreamless or Crownless as Camellya’s active Echo so she gains the damage bonus from them.

Best weapons for Camellya in Wuthering Waves

Camellya’s signature weapon, Red Spring, is by far her best, as it is tailor-made for her kit. One of its most potent components requires the equipper to use their Concerto Energy, but Camellya is currently the only character who can do so while remaining on the field, making it her best option.

The only other viable option for Camellya is Emerald of Genesis, as it’s a solid all-around stat stick for any Sword character. However, keep in mind that Red Spring greatly outperforms Emerald of Genesis for Camellya, thanks to the way her kit works.

Best team compositions for Camellya in Wuthering Waves

Camellya is a very selfish character. She wants to have the field to herself for the majority of the time because of the Budding State. If you swap to a different character while she is in Budding State, she will lose all benefits from it, which is extremely detrimental to her overall gameplan.

As such, Camellya favors having a strict rotation with her team, with her being the last to go on-field and remain there after all other buffs are active.

Camellya/Sanhau/Shorekeeper

This is Camellya’s best team comp, letting her stay on the field for long stretches without losing any buffs. Start by having Shorekeeper generate enough Concerto to fill it using her Ultimate. Then, trigger Sanhau’s intro and follow it up with her quick Skill, Ultimate, and Heavy Attack combo. This combo should fill Sanhau’s Concerto completely, letting Camellya jump in to carry out her gameplan. If needed, Danjin can replace Sanhau and Verina can take over for Shorekeeper, though the results will be slightly suboptimal.

Best Sequences for Camellya in Wuthering Waves

Camellya is one of the few characters in Wuthering Waves that benefits heavily from her Sequences. This isn’t to say she isn’t viable at S0, but there is a considerable difference between that and even S2. Without a doubt, S3 is your best stopping point, but that is a bit deep in. If you’re interested in what all of her Sequence do, here they are, condensed for your clarity.

• Somewhere No One Travelled (S1) – When Camellya uses her Intro Skill, she gains a free 28% Crit DMG for 18 seconds and grants her interruption immunity when casting Ephemeral. This is a decent sequence, but it is not enough to be worth going for unless you’re going beyond it.
• Calling Upon the Silent Rose (S2) – Ephemeral’s DMG Multiplier is increased by 120%. This Sequence more than doubles the damage of Camellya’s most powerful ability. It’s really good. Get it if you can.
• A Bud Adorned by Thorns (S3) – Increased Camellya’s Ultimate DMG by 50% and she gains a massive 58% ATK buff while in the Budding State. This is also a dramatic increase in damage for Camellya, which is why I recommend this to be your stopping point.

• Roots Set Deep in Eternity (S4) – Camellya’s Intro Skill gives her entire party 25% Basic ATK DMG for 30 seconds. Not great right now due to the lack of Basic ATK characters that would run with Camellya, but in the future, this could be a potentially potent Sequence.
• Infinity Held in Your Palm (S5) – Camellya’s Intro skill deals 303% more damage, and her Outro Skill deals 68% more damage. This is a nice bonus, but not worth going for unless it’s a stepping stone to her S6.
• Bloom For You Thousand Times Over (S6) – Oh boy. This one is insane. There’s a lot of technical jargon behind this Sequence in-game, but here’s the gist: when you use Camellya’s Ephemeral if you refill her Concerto within 15 seconds of the cast, she can cast a secondary version of it called Perennial (on a separate cooldown). This basically lets her enter the Budding State twice as often, and if that wasn’t crazy enough, the damage bonus from the state gets a massive 250% boost. It’s a S6. What did you expect?