Encore Guide – Builds, Teams, and How to Play

Overview

Encore is a character that can switch between ranged attacks and melee via her Ultimate. Encore can be simple to play but hard to master due to her possible animation cancels and quick swap play styles if damage optimization is in mind.

Her Forte Circuit and Skill have long enough animations in which the player can switch to another character and activate skills to deal extra damage or buff her, then switch back to Encore again to proceed with her rotation.

Her damage is able to rival top tier DPS’s, be flexible in multiple teams, and can fit 2 character archetypes, which are Main DPS and Sub DPS.

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Animation Cancels

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Skill Swapping

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Encore Rotations

Disclaimer: The rotations listed here do not take into consideration what happens if you are attacked. If you have to dodge or parry mid rotation, you will have to adjust accordingly.

Cosmos Rave Combo

This rotation loses 1 usage of Cosmos Rampage BUT can fit in a full basic attack chain. This will usually result in more overall damage since you will want a lot of Basic ATK DMG%. 

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Full Rotation

Rotations should always be taken with a grain of salt. Enemies are NOT sandbags and WILL ATTACK YOU. Several factors such as Parry, Dodge Counters, and being knocked back will affect how you approach the rest of your rotation.

Sample Opener Team Rotation with Verina and Sanhua

This is a quick opener made to quickly fit in buffs like Bell and Rejuvenating Glow 5pc to your rotation. 

There is an alternative rotation that allows you to fit both Sanhua and Verina’s cancels within 1 cast of Flaming Woolies. Both rotations are valid and have their benefits. Swapping to Sanhua or Verina during Inferno Rider allows you to dodge without canceling Inferno Rider. 

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After opener/Follow-up rotations with Verina and Sanhua

This rotation should allow you to loop back Encore’s Ultimate with around 10 to 20% ER from sub-stats. Depending on Sanhua or Verina’s ER, you may not have their Ultimate ready for every rotation. 

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Parry Windows

Disclaimer: This is a work-in-progress section and will be updated as we learn more.

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Skill Priority

1. Resonance Liberation
2. Resonance Skill
3. Forte Circuit
4. Intro Skill
5. Basic Attack

With a hyper carry Encore, your main priority should be your Resonance Liberation, as that is the majority of your damage.

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Character Synergies

	Verina
	Verina synergizes well with all main/sub-dps characters, and Encore is no exception. She provides a team-wide All DMG Deepen and ATK buff. On top of this, Verina’s combos are short and do not take up a lot of field time.  Additionally, Verina has no problems running Rejuvenating Glow and Bell, offering the team a good mix of offensive and defensive utility.
	Buffs
	15% Team-wide All DMG Deepen 20% Team-wide ATK buff Rejuvenating Glow and Bell-Borne Geochelone

	Sanhua
	With a large chunk of Encore’s damage coming from Basic Attacks, Sanhua’s Outro makes for a strong pairing. Sanhua also has low field time and can quickly be swapped in while Encore is casting Flaming Woolies or Inferno Rider. R6 is an important breakpoint that provides an additional 20% team-wide ATK buff.
	Buffs
	38% Basic ATK DMG Deepen 10% Teamwide ATK Buff stacks up to 3 times (R6) Moonlit Clouds and Impermanence Heron

	Rover (Havoc) (Male)
	The introduction of Rover (Havoc) has allowed Quick Swap teams to see a rise in usage. Both Encore and Rover (Havoc) have hard-hitting skills that can be quickly cycled through each other’s cooldowns. If all your skills are already on cooldown, you can spend that downtime on Encore’s ultimate.
	List of skills that you can quickly swap between
	Rover (Havoc) -Resonance Skill -Resonance Liberation -Dreamless	Encore -Resonance Skill -Inferno Rider 3rd hit  -Charge ATK

	Baizhi
	Baizhi is usually left as an alternative/backup pick, sharing similar buffs with Verina. Baizhi’s Outro only buffs the character currently on-field. Additionally, the ATK buff is NOT teamwide and requires your main-dps to interact with an item.
	Buffs
	15% All DMG Deepen 15% ATK buff Rejuvenating Glow and Bell-Borne Geochelone

	Mortefi
	Provides a source of off-field damage and Heavy ATK DMG Deepen. Not a great option as a buffer for Encore until R6.
	Buffs
	38% Heavy ATK DMG Deepen 20% Teamwide ATK Buff(R6) Moonlit Clouds and Impermanence Heron

	Jianxin
	Mostly brought into stages that have enemies you want to gather. While this may sound underwhelming, there are stages in ToA that have multiple enemies in the same wave. She has the option of using Originite: Type IV for easy access to Rejuvenating Glow set effect at the cost of her own damage.
	Buffs
	Gather Rejuvenating Glow with Originite: Type IV and Bell-Borne Geochelone

	Yangyang
	Similar to Jianxin, but her CC potential is worse than Jianxin. She does have the added benefit of providing Energy Regen to the team, but Encore should not have any problems generating energy.
	Buffs
	Gather Energy Regen

Team Examples

Hyper Carry

Quick Swap

F2P Team

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Weapons

Yinlin's Signature weapon Stringmaster, is by far Encore's best-in-slot, boasting an unhealthy amount of Crit Rate alongside an ATK% and DMG% boost. Additionally, when skill-swapping during Inferno Rider, Flaming Woolies, or Cosmos Rupture, Stringmaster's secondary effect will be active.

While Cosmic Ripples is no longer Encore’s best weapon, it is still a solid choice providing Energy Regen and Basic ATK DMG%, boosting her main source of damage. Augment is another standout option, which eases up on the CR/CD ratio.

Weapon Name	Comparison	Notes
Stringmaster	R0: 113.59%	A universally strong weapon that increases all Elemental damage, Crit Rate and ATK. The off-field bonus isn’t very helpful unless you cast Outro often.
Cosmic Ripples	R0: 100.00%	Basic ATK DMG% is always great, as Encore’s main source of damage.
Augment	R0: 85.83%	Provides a hefty ATK buff and has Crit Rate
Jinzhou Keeper	R0: 82.50%	About on par with Augment at R0 but with more dupes Jinzhou Keeper loses a lot of value.
Rectifier of Night	R5: 74.09%	Budget alternative

Echoes

Molten Rift: The clear winner when you are going for a main-dps Encore. Provides a hefty Fusion DMG% buff for 15 seconds after using a skill. With Encore’s playstyle requiring you to weave in your skills mid-rotation, you should have no problems keeping uptime on its buff.

Lingering Tunes: Another set you can consider if you have better substats on your Echoes. If you are running a Sub DPS Encore, the 5pc effect buffs Outro DMG, which deals a decent chunk of damage.

Set Effect	Comparison	Notes
Molten Rift 5pc	100%	This should be your goto set as it provides a hefty Fusion DMG% buff.
Lingering Tunes 5pc	82%	A decent alternative if you have better sub-stats.
Molten Rift/Lingering Tunes 2pc+2pc	84%	This set combination should be treated as a transition set rather than something to be used in the endgame.

Active Echo Recommendation

Molten Rift - Inferno Rider: Synergizes well with Encore’s playstyle by providing her a Fusion DMG and Basic ATK DMG buff. You can switch to another character during its 3rd hit. This animation cancel can be important to deal more damage or avoid attacks while the 3rd attack is being cast.

Lingering Tunes - Mech Abomination: The only notable effects this Echo has on Encore are its ATK buff and fast animation. Encore cannot take full advantage of the damage dealt by this Echo, as it scales with Electro DMG.

Mainstat and Substats

Cost	Stat
4	Crit Rate/Crit DMG
3	Fusion Bonus Damage%
3	Fusion Bonus Damage%
1	ATK%
1	ATK%

Sub Stat Priority

Crit Rate = Crit DMG > ATK% = Energy Regen (Until 10 to 20% ER) > Basic ATK DMG% > ATK

Tower of Adversity showcase:

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