Anton Build: Best Drive Discs & Stats (ZZZ)

Anton is an A-rank Attack agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Anton 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: Thunder Metal
2-piece: CRIT Rate +8%, ATK +10%, PEN Ratio +8% or Electric DMG +10%
Disk 4: CRIT Rate
Disk 5: Electric DMG%
Disk 6: ATK%
Substats: CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG > ATK%
W-Engine: Heartstring Nocturne
Farm at: Hunter and Hound

Best Drive Disc sets for Anton

Anton's best 4-piece set is Thunder Metal. Puffer Electro and Woodpecker Electro are the alternatives, in that order.

Thunder Metal Best in slot

4-piece: As long as an enemy in combat is Shocked, the equipper's ATK is increased by 28%

2-piece: Electric DMG +10%. Drops from Hunter and Hound.
Puffer Electro

4-piece: Ultimate DMG increases by 20%. Launching an Ultimate increases the equipper's ATK by 15% for 12s

2-piece: PEN Ratio +8%. Drops from Madman and Follower.
Woodpecker Electro

4-piece: Landing a critical hit on an enemy with a Basic Attack, Dodge Counter, or EX Special Attack increases the equipper's ATK by 9% for 6s. The buff duration for different skills are calculated separately

2-piece: CRIT Rate +8%. Drops from Tower and Cannon.

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 Anton can take it from whichever one you have spare pieces of:

CRIT Rate +8%: Woodpecker Electro
ATK +10%: any of Hormone Punk or Astral Voice (they give the same bonus)
PEN Ratio +8%: Puffer Electro
Electric DMG +10%: Thunder Metal

Anton 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	CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG
Disk 5	Electric DMG%
Disk 6	ATK%

Anton substat priority

Roll for CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG first. A disc showing neither of those is rarely worth levelling for Anton, whatever else it has.

CRIT Rate
CRIT DMG
ATK%
PEN
Flat ATK

Where to farm Anton's Drive Discs

Thunder Metal drops from the Hunter and Hound Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Shockstar Disco, is not part of Anton's build.

Area Patrol stage	Sets it drops
Hunter and Hound	Shockstar Disco (not in this build) Thunder Metal (best 4-piece)
Madman and Follower	Puffer Electro (4-piece option 2) Inferno Metal (not in this build)
Tower and Cannon	Woodpecker Electro (4-piece option 3) Soul Rock (not in this build)
Fist and Gun	Hormone Punk (2-piece option) Fanged Metal (not in this build)
Monster Duet	Branch & Blade Song (not in this build) Astral Voice (2-piece option)

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.

Anton W-Engine and skill priority

Heartstring Nocturne S-rank, CRIT Rate sub-stat

Great stat stick for most characters with a tremendous amount of unconditional CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG.

Skills to level first

Chain Attack
Basic Attack
Special Attack
Assist
Dodge

Agents who also use Thunder Metal

These agents compete with Anton 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 Anton 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 Anton?

Thunder Metal 4-piece, with Puffer Electro or Woodpecker Electro as the alternatives. For the 2-piece, any set with CRIT Rate +8%, ATK +10%, PEN Ratio +8% or Electric DMG +10% works.

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

Disk 4: CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG. Disk 5: Electric DMG%. Disk 6: ATK%. Disks 1 to 3 have fixed main stats (HP, ATK and DEF), so only their substats matter.

What substats does Anton need?

In priority order: CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, ATK%, PEN, Flat ATK. The first two are what make a disc worth levelling for Anton; the rest are tiebreakers.

Where do I farm Anton's Drive Discs?

Thunder Metal drops from the Hunter and Hound Area Patrol stage, alongside Shockstar Disco. Each run at Lv.60 costs 60 Battery Charge and splits its S-rank discs between the two sets.