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Yang Guide: Conquest, Arena, Counters and Best Position

A data-backed Yang guide covering Conquest value, preliminary Arena performance, best position, skills, teammates, counters, and evidence limits.

Intermediate HeroesConquestArenaCounters Updated July 16, 2026

Yang quick verdict

Yang profiles as a ranged damage carry with a current Conquest tier of A and a preliminary Arena tier of A. The best recorded or projected position is Back middle.

EvidenceModerate
Highest trusted winStage 506
Best positionBack middle
Conquest tierA
Arena projectionA
RoleRanged Damage Carry
Evidence status

Moderate Conquest evidence, including a trusted win through stage 506.

How Yang works

Yang is a 6-generation mythic Archer built primarily as a ranged damage carry. The kit centers on area damage, burst damage, escort cleave, and multi-hit pressure.

Conquest skill 1

Yang delivers a rip-roaring Frostkin in a straight line against enemies, dealing Attack * 140% area of effect damage plus the same amount on its return path.

Conquest skill 2

Yang's special firearm has a 35% chance of inflicting a combo shot (extra attack), dealing another round of damage to enemies.

Conquest skill 3

Any bullet can inflict the critical blow to a hunter's prey when aimed just right. Yang enjoys a 15% Crit Rate when dealing damage.

Gameplay-observed tags

area damageescort cleavemulti-hit pressureburst damagerandom effectcritical-hit scalingbackline tendency

Yang in Conquest

The hero remains present in successful late-stage testing through stage 506, showing relevance well beyond a narrow release window.

The current composite ranking weighs stage ceiling, trustworthy lower-power performance, role utility, position versatility, raw stats, and generation ceiling. Yang is not ranked from raw win rate alone because heroes enter the dataset at different stages and are tested with different frequency.

The pattern is supported strongly enough to guide formation choices, while exact powers and private rows remain hidden.

Yang in Arena

Preliminary Arena projection

The Arena rating is preliminary. It combines Conquest evidence, raw stats, generation age, targeting value, and utility such as area damage, burst damage, escort cleave, and multi-hit pressure.

In Arena, Yang should be judged by whether the formation can use area damage, burst damage, escort cleave, and multi-hit pressure before the hero is removed or controlled. Newer-generation raw stats matter more in direct PvP, but specialized older heroes can remain useful three or four generations later when their development and utility still justify the slot.

Best position for Yang

The strongest trusted position in the current dataset is Back middle. Trusted wins also appear from Back left.

  • Trusted winning positions: Back left and Back middle.

The starting target map still applies: front left and back left pressure enemy front left, while front right, back middle, and back right pressure enemy front right. Retargeting then follows the closest valid target.

Yang strengths and limitations

Main strengths

  • Area damage.
  • Burst damage.
  • Escort cleave.
  • Multi-hit pressure.
  • Critical-hit scaling.
  • Random effect.

Main limitations

  • Random effects create more battle-to-battle variance.
  • The hero needs protection and can lose value if removed before the first important cast.

Who Yang counters—and who counters Yang

Strong or useful into

Helga — Direct counter Moderate evidence. Yang has an observed advantage into Helga. Most often observed with Yang in back middle, initially pressuring the enemy front right.
Amadeus — Conditional counter Limited evidence. Yang has an observed advantage into Amadeus. Most often observed with Yang in back middle, initially pressuring the enemy front right.
Howard — Conditional counter Limited evidence. Yang has an observed advantage into Howard. Most often observed with Yang in back middle, initially pressuring the enemy front right.

Threats to watch

area damage — Utility weakness Projected evidence. When relying on area damage, watch for team mitigation, team Defense buff, and team healing.
burst damage — Utility weakness Projected evidence. When relying on burst damage, watch for team mitigation, team Defense buff, and team healing.
escort cleave — Utility weakness Projected evidence. When relying on escort cleave, watch for team mitigation, team Defense buff, and team healing.

Named matchup conclusions remain position-dependent. A direct counter should be placed in the lane or slot that creates the observed interaction.

Best teammates for Yang

TritonObserved partner in trusted Conquest wins.
VivianObserved partner in trusted Conquest wins.
AlcarObserved partner in trusted Conquest wins.
ThrudObserved partner in trusted Conquest wins.

Observed partners show formations that have worked in the raw Conquest data; projected partners are role-complement suggestions and still need direct testing.

Yang data facts

EvidenceModerate
Highest trusted winStage 506
Best positionBack middle
Conquest tierA
Arena projectionA
RoleRanged Damage Carry
  • Trusted winning positions: Back left and Back middle.
  • The hero remains present in successful late-stage testing through stage 506, showing relevance well beyond a narrow release window.
  • Exact row counts, private powers, ratios, and full recorded lineups are intentionally not published.
  • Evidence labels are refreshed when the guide library is rebuilt from the raw Conquest tab.

Conquest conclusions use the current raw Conquest Lab dataset. Arena conclusions are preliminary projections unless a section explicitly says otherwise. Exact private rows, lineups, powers, and ratios are not published.