Arknights: Endfield Yvonne Build Guide

2026-01-22

Yvonne, the eccentric and brilliant scientist, joins Arknights: Endfield as a highly anticipated limited-time operator. With the ability to summon robots and fire piercing frost bullets, she brings a unique blend of support and firepower to the battlefield. This guide will outline the best ways to build Yvonne, helping you fully optimize her potential in your squad.

Yvonne Skill Kit & Playstyle Analysis

General Introduction

Yvonne is a 6-star Operator of the Cryo element and the Caster class. She wields handguns as her main weapon and focuses on inflicting Cryo Infliction and the Solidification statuses on enemies to deal big Cryo damage to them. Yvonne is a character whose focus is on dealing as many enhanced critical attacks on enemies as possible to optimize her damage output, making her suitable as a Cryo team’s main DPS option.

Skill Analysis & Leveling Priority

– Basic Attack: An attack with up to 5 sequences that deals Cryo DMG. As the controlled operator, Final Strike also deals 17 Stagger. – Dive Attack: Basic attack performed in mid- air becomes a dive attack that deals Cryo DMG to nearby enemies. – Finisher: Basic attack performed near a Staggered enemy becomes a finisher that deals massive Cryo DMG and recovers some SP.
Basic Attack	Leveling Priority: Medium
Reason: Yvonne’s damage ability to help her deal decent damage when she is not in her Ultimate form, should be leveled up if players have resources.

Throws a freezing bomb. The bomb explodes when it hits the enemy to deal Cryo DMG. If hitting an enemy with Cryo Infliction or Nature Infliction, then consume all Arts Infliction stacks, forcibly apply Solidification, and deal Cryo DMG to the target based on the number of stacks consumed.After the battle skill successfully applies Solidification, Yvonne gains additional Ultimate Energy based on the number of stacks consumed. This Ultimate Energy Gain effect can only trigger 1 time, even if the skill hits multiple enemies.
Battle Skill	Leveling Priority: High
Reason: One of Yvonne’s main damaging moves, leveling this up to optimize her damage output when she is on the field.

When the controlled operator performs a Final Strike on an enemy with Solidification. Immediately deploys Frost-e-Bytee next to the enemy. While active, Frost-e-Bytee constantly releases energy to attack nearby enemies, deals Cryo DMG to them, and pulls them towards itself. After Frost-e-Bytee expires, it explodes to forcibly apply Solidification and deal Cryo DMG to nearby enemies. After the combo skill successfully hits the enemy, Yvonne gains additional Ultimate Energy. This Ultimate Energy Gain effect can only trigger 1 time, even if the skill hits multiple enemies.
Combo Skill	Leveling Priority: High
Reason: Yvonne’s combo move and another of her good damaging moves. Players should level this up to improve their overall damage output.

Immediately deploys the support bot Tink-a-Bella and makes Yvonne the controlled operator. Temporarily enhances Yvonne’s basic attacks. Each Basic Attack sequence performed grants a stack of Critical Rate buff. After reaching max stacks, Yvonne also gains a Critical DMG buff. When the skill is about to end, Yvonne’s last Basic Attack becomes a Final Strike that deals massive Cryo DMG. If the enemy is Solidified, Yvonne performs an additional attack that deals Cryo DMG and then consumes the enemy’s Solidification.
Ultimate	Leveling Priority: Highest
Immediately deploys the support bot Tink-a-Bella and makes Yvonne the controlled operator. Temporarily enhances Yvonne’s basic attacks. Each Basic Attack sequence performed grants a stack of Critical Rate buff. After reaching max stacks, Yvonne also gains a Critical DMG buff. When the skill is about to end, Yvonne’s last Basic Attack becomes a Final Strike that deals massive Cryo DMG. If the enemy is Solidified, Yvonne performs an additional attack that deals Cryo DMG and then consumes the enemy’s Solidification.

Battle skill Brr-Brr-Bomb β improved: After applying Solidification, the next basic attack directly becomes a Final Strike with DMG Dealt +50%.
Talent 1	Unlock Priority: High
Reason: Yvonne’s 1st talent that is improved the further as she is promoted, should be maxed out as soon as possible to max her damage output.

Against enemies with active Cryo Infliction, gains Critical DMG Dealt +20%. The effect is doubled against enemies with Solidification.
Talent 2	Unlock Priority: High
Reason: Yvonne’s 2nd talent that is improved the further she is promoted, should be maxed out as soon as possible to max her damage output.

Playstyle Guide & Rotation

Yvonne is a Cryo main DPS focused on dealing massive critical Cryo damage. Her core mechanic revolves around consuming the Cryo or Nature Inflictions on enemies to trigger Solidification (freeze), immobilizing them while she unleashes her attacks.

Playstyle Overview

Her rotation is similar to Laevatain’s, requiring team setup before she takes the field. The ideal sequence is:

1. Setup Phase
   Use teammates to quickly apply Cryo or Nature Infliction to enemies. Applying Solidification directly before she enters is optimal.
2. Engagement & Crowd Control
   When enemies are Solidified, Yvonne deploys an off-field robot that pulls them together, deals Cryo damage, and re-applies Solidification.
3. Damage Window
   Switch to Yvonne and use her Battle Skill to consume enemy Inflictions, dealing high Cryo damage, applying Solidification, and gaining Ultimate Energy.
4. Ultimate & Finisher
   Once her Ultimate is charged, activate it to empower her Basic Attacks, dealing sustained critical Cryo damage. After the Ultimate ends, conclude with her powerful finishing move before swapping out to restart the cycle.

Summary

Yvonne excels in prepared, rotation-driven teams where she can capitalize on frozen enemies to unleash devastating critical Cryo bursts, repeating a structured setup→burst→swap pattern for maximum impact.

Yvonne Best In Slot Weapons

As a main DPS character that wants as much critical rate stat as possible, any weapons that can boost Yvonne’s Critical Rate or Attack are welcome.

Yvonne Best Weapons Choices

Some of Yvonne’s Best Weapon Choices are:

	Main Stat: 594 Attack
	Sub Stat: 156 Intellect
	Sub Stat: 19.5% Critical Rate
Artzy Tyrannical	Weapon Rating: Best Premium Weapon
Effect: Cryo DMG Dealt + 44.8%. After the wielder scores a critical hit with a battle skill, the wielder gains cryo DMG Dealt +33.6% for 30s. Max stacks for effects of the same name: 3. Duration of each stack is counted separately. The effect only triggers once every 0.1s.
Explanation: Yvonne’s signature 6-star weapon and her best in slot weapon, which provides her with a large amount of cryo damage boost in addition to allowing her to max out her damage output whenever she scores critical hits against enemies.

	Main Stat: 500 Attack
	Sub Stat: 132 Main Attribute Boost
	Sub Stat: 19.5% Critical Rate
Wedge	Weapon Rating: Best Alternative Weapon
Effect: Arts DMG Dealt +33.6%. When the wielder casts a battle skill, the wielder gains Arts DMG Dealt +22.4% for 15s. When the wielder’s battle skill applies an Arts Reaction, the wielder gains Arts DMG Dealt +44.8% for 15s. The two effects apply separately and do not stack with themselves.
Explanation: Best Alternative weapon for Yvonne as it boosts Yvonne’s Arts damage output massively, allowing her to optimize her damage output when applying Arts effects.

	Main Stat: 411 Attack
	Sub Stat: 124 Agility
	Sub Stat: 34.7% Arts Damage Boost
Opus: The Living	Weapon Rating: Best F2P Alternative
Effect: Critical Rate +8.4%. When the wielder applies an Arts Reaction, the wielder gains ATK +21.0% for 20s. Max stacks for effects of the same name: 2. Duration of each stack is counted separately. The effect only triggers once every 0.1s.
Explanation: A F2P weapon option that can provide Yvonne with her much-needed Critical Boost in addition to boosting her Arts damage output overall.

Yvonne Best Gear Sets

	MI Security
3-pc: Wearer’s Critical Rate +5%. When the wearer scores a critical hit, gain ATK +5% for 5s. This effect can reach 5 stacks. At max stacks, grant an additional Critical Rate +5%. This effect cannot stack.

Yvonne Best Main Stats & Sub Stats

As a main DPS that heavily relies on Critical Attacks to deal actual strong Arts damage to enemies, Yvonne wants offensive stats like Critical Rate, Attack, and Arts damage boost to help her optimize her damage output.

Her preferred stats are as follows:

Main Stat	Armor	Gloves	Kit	Kit
#1	Defense	Defense	Defense	Defense
#2	Intellect	Intellect	Intellect	Intellect
#3	Agility	Agility	Agility	Agility
Sub Stat	Basic Attack Damage Bonus	Basic Attack Damage Bonus	Critical Rate	Critical Rate

Important Stat Threshold:

– As Yvonne’s main damage lies in her Solidification Arts, raising her Intellect stat as much as possible is highly recommended.

– Yvonne wants to get her Critical Rate as high as possible to activate her Gear Set effect, so players should invest in her critical stats as high as possible.

Yvonne Best Teams 

Yvonne’s best team revolves around characters that can apply Cryo or Nature Inflictions on enemies frequently to allow Yvonne to consume the Inflictions and inflict Solidification on enemies, allowing her to boost her damage when attacking Solidificated targets.

Yvonne Cryo Team

Yvonne	Gilberta	Alesh	Xaihi
Main DPS	Support	Sub DPS/Support	Support/Sustain
Essential	Flexible	Essential	Flexible

This team is Yvonne’s best team, with Gilberta inflicting Nature Inflictions on enemies and amplifying the damage output of Arts damage done by all allies, allowing Yvonne to deal better damage. Alesh is the team’s sub DPS character that can inflict Cryo Infliction reliably on enemies in addition to being able to inflict Solidification on his own, allowing Yvonne to deal more damage to Solidification enemies. Xaihi is the team’s support/sustain option as she can amplify the Cryo damage taken by all enemies with her talent, helping to optimize Yvonne’s damage output.