Tang Xuan (Sun Wukong) is a versatile DPS Esper who appears as one of the possible guaranteed 5-stars from the beginner echo. Despite his high base stats across the board, his elemental typing and unusual kit makes Xuan quite difficult to optimize properly. Nevertheless, Tang Xuan is a powerful Esper with strong damage multipliers and many unique debuffs to inflict. Learn how to build Sun Wukong's avatar properly with our Dislyte Tang Xuan Guide.

Tang Xuan Skills Overview

Before we explain each ability for this Tang Xuan Guide, Tang Xuan possesses a unique mechanic called Enchantment(s), which grants Tang Xuan the ability to apply debuffs based on the used Enchantment. There are three of them, which are Scorch, Death, and Shackle, all being undispellable. Scorch inflicts Diseased for 2 turns, Death inflicts extra damage based on the target’s HP, while Shackle provides a chance to inflict DEF Down for 2 turns.

Tang Xuan’s first and basic ability is Righteous Anger. When performed, they deal major damage to one target, while dealing minor damage to 2 other random enemies. Before the attack is performed, Tang Xuan gains any one of the three enchantments, while applying any current existing enchantment. 

This basic ability is quite powerful as it provides a decent amount of AoE damage while applying potentially many debuffs. When you have a SPD-oriented team, Tang Xuan can easily cripple teams without Immunity.

Tang Xuan’s second ability is Enchanting Dream. When activated, Tang Xuan absorbs all current Enchantments, and obtains a durable shield that scales the amount of Enchantments absorbed. Finally, the chosen target is attacked with massive damage, while Tang Xuan restores HP. 

Enchanting Dream has a very high skill multiplier, and is therefore Tang Xuan’s main way of “sniping” certain key enemies. However, this also prevents Xuan from applying strong debuffs, so players need to find other ways to apply buffs or debuffs using other Espers.

Tang Xuan’s third ability is Shattering Dream. This grants Xuan all three enchantments for 2 turns, then attacks all foes twice. This ability has a surprisingly low cooldown, which is a great source of frequent AoE damage when used with SPD-oriented teams.

Tang Xuan Guide: Best Relics Set for Tang Xuan

All-Around Set: Hades Set/Hammer of Thor 4-piece, Fiery Incandescence 2-piece

Tang Xuan’s low cooldown abilities and good overall multipliers make good use of Crits for high, consistent damage; this makes Fiery Incandescence the obvious 2-piece choice. For the 4-piece, Hades is a good option for Auto-Battles and Boss fights, while a well-optimized Hammer of Thor set allows for massive C.DMG action.

Main Stat Priority

Una II – C.RATE/ATK%
Una IV – ACC/ATK%
Mui II – SPD

Resonance – ATK

Conclusion

Tang Xuan is an Esper who can shine with great relics but may possibly be a burden to the resources of those who just started the game. Despite that, Tang Xuan is still an incredibly powerful unit, frequently used for sniping dangerous Flow-element Espers in the tower and in Point War.

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