Alice Build: Best Drive Discs & Stats (ZZZ)

Alice is an S-rank Anomaly agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Alice Drive Disc build lists the sets, main stats and substats to aim for, and the Area Patrol stage that drops them, as of version 3.2.

4-piece: Fanged Metal
2-piece: Anomaly Mastery +8%, PEN Ratio +8%, Anomaly Proficiency +30 or ATK +10%
Disk 4: Anomaly Proficiency
Disk 5: PEN Ratio
Disk 6: Anomaly Mastery
Substats: Anomaly Proficiency > ATK% > PEN
W-Engine: Practiced Perfection
Farm at: Fist and Gun

Best Drive Disc sets for Alice

Alice's best 4-piece set is Fanged Metal. Hormone Punk is the alternative.

Fanged Metal Best in slot

4-piece: Whenever a squad member inflicts Assault on an enemy, the equipper deals 35% additional DMG to the target for 12s

2-piece: Physical DMG +10%. Drops from Fist and Gun.
Hormone Punk

4-piece: Upon becoming the active character in combat, the equipper's ATK increases by 25% for 10s. This effect can trigger once every 20s

2-piece: ATK +10%. Drops from Fist and Gun.

2-piece options

For the 2-piece slot the bonus matters, not the set's name. Several sets share the same 2-piece bonus, so Alice can take it from whichever one you have spare pieces of:

Anomaly Mastery +8%: Phaethon's Melody
PEN Ratio +8%: Puffer Electro
Anomaly Proficiency +30: any of Freedom Blues, Chaos Jazz or Feathered Fate (they give the same bonus)
ATK +10%: any of Hormone Punk or Astral Voice (they give the same bonus)

Alice main stats: Disk 4, 5 and 6

Disks 1 to 3 always roll HP, ATK and DEF as their main stat, so the choice is on 4, 5 and 6. A > means "better than"; = means the two are about as good.

Slot	Main stat, best first
Disk 4	Anomaly Proficiency > ATK%
Disk 5	PEN Ratio > Physical DMG% > ATK%
Disk 6	Anomaly Mastery

Alice substat priority

Roll for Anomaly Proficiency and ATK% first. A disc showing neither of those is rarely worth levelling for Alice, whatever else it has.

Anomaly Proficiency
ATK%
PEN
Flat ATK

Where to farm Alice's Drive Discs

Fanged Metal drops from the Fist and Gun Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Hormone Punk, is also in Alice's build (4-piece option 2), so every run there is useful.

Area Patrol stage	Sets it drops
Fist and Gun	Hormone Punk (4-piece option 2) Fanged Metal (best 4-piece)
Madman and Follower	Puffer Electro (2-piece option) Inferno Metal (not in this build)
Sharp Fang and Blunt Axe	Freedom Blues (2-piece option) Polar Metal (not in this build)
Hunter and Beast	Chaos Jazz (2-piece option) Proto Punk (not in this build)
Monster Duet	Branch & Blade Song (not in this build) Astral Voice (2-piece option)
Gunslinger vs Guardian	Shadow Harmony (not in this build) Phaethon's Melody (2-piece option)
Swiftspine and Splitclaw	Feathered Fate (2-piece option) Thorned Rose (not in this build)

Building more than one agent? The Area Patrol Recommender ranks every stage for your whole team at once, and the Drive Disc Stat Guide says which drops to keep while you farm.

Alice W-Engine and skill priority

Practiced Perfection S-rank, ATK sub-stat

Alice's own Signature and her clear best pick: up to 60 Anomaly Mastery, which her Core Passive converts into 96 Anomaly Proficiency, plus 30% ATK, a 40% Physical DMG Bonus and a high Base ATK. No other W-Engine comes close as a stat stick for her.

Skills to level first

Basic Attack
Chain Attack
Special Attack
Dodge
Assist

Agents who also use Fanged Metal

These agents compete with Alice for the same set, which is worth knowing before you hand a good piece to one of them.

Check the discs you already have

Hundreds of discs in the inventory and no idea which ones Alice could use? Drive Disc Triage reads an export of your account and sorts every disc into lock or discard, checking each one against this build and every other agent you own.

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Questions

What is the best Drive Disc set for Alice?

Fanged Metal 4-piece, with Hormone Punk as the alternative. For the 2-piece, any set with Anomaly Mastery +8%, PEN Ratio +8%, Anomaly Proficiency +30 or ATK +10% works.

What main stats should Alice use on Disk 4, 5 and 6?

Disk 4: Anomaly Proficiency > ATK%. Disk 5: PEN Ratio > Physical DMG% > ATK%. Disk 6: Anomaly Mastery. Disks 1 to 3 have fixed main stats (HP, ATK and DEF), so only their substats matter.

What substats does Alice need?

In priority order: Anomaly Proficiency, ATK%, PEN, Flat ATK. The first two are what make a disc worth levelling for Alice; the rest are tiebreakers.

Where do I farm Alice's Drive Discs?

Fanged Metal drops from the Fist and Gun Area Patrol stage, alongside Hormone Punk. Each run at Lv.60 costs 60 Battery Charge and splits its S-rank discs between the two sets.