Billy Drive Disc Build

Best sets, main stats, substats and where to farm them, for ZZZ 3.2.

Billy

Billy is an A-rank Attack agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Billy 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.

2-piece
CRIT DMG +16%, ATK +10%, PEN Ratio +8% or CRIT Rate +8%
Disk 4
CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG
Disk 5
PEN Ratio
Disk 6
ATK%
Substats
CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG > ATK%
Farm at
Tower and Cannon

Best Drive Disc sets for Billy

Billy's best 4-piece set is Woodpecker Electro. Shadow Harmony and Puffer Electro are the alternatives, in that order.

  1. Woodpecker Electro Drive Disc set icon

    Woodpecker Electro Best in slot

    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. Shadow Harmony Drive Disc set icon

    Shadow Harmony

    4-piece: Upon hitting an enemy with an Aftershock or Dash Attack, if the DMG dealt aligns with the equipper's attribute, the equipper gains 1 stack of a buff effect, at most once per use of a skill. For each stack, the equipper's ATK increases by 4%, and CRIT Rate increases by 4%. The effect can stack up to 3 times and lasts for 15s. Repeated triggers reset the duration

    2-piece: The DMG of Aftershocks and Dash Attacks is increased by 15%. Drops from Gunslinger vs Guardian.

  3. Puffer Electro Drive Disc set icon

    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.

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

Billy 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.

SlotMain stat, best first
Disk 4CRIT Rate = CRIT DMG
Disk 5PEN Ratio > ATK% > Physical DMG%
Disk 6ATK%

Billy substat priority

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

  1. CRIT Rate
  2. CRIT DMG
  3. ATK%
  4. PEN
  5. Flat ATK

Where to farm Billy's Drive Discs

Woodpecker Electro drops from the Tower and Cannon Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Soul Rock, is not part of Billy's build.

Area Patrol stageSets it drops
Tower and CannonWoodpecker Electro (best 4-piece)
Soul Rock (not in this build)
Gunslinger vs GuardianShadow Harmony (4-piece option 2)
Phaethon's Melody (not in this build)
Madman and FollowerPuffer Electro (4-piece option 3)
Inferno Metal (not in this build)
Monster DuetBranch & Blade Song (2-piece option)
Astral Voice (2-piece option)
Fist and GunHormone Punk (2-piece option)
Fanged Metal (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.

Billy W-Engine and skill priority

The Brimstone W-Engine

The Brimstone S-rank, ATK sub-stat

At R5 Brimstone is Billy's best engine: his loop of Basic Attacks, Dash Attacks and Dodge Counters keeps stacks high. At P1 it is still competitive, though the weaker effect loses some ground to other premium picks. Even without dupes it is the strongest standard banner option for him.

Skills to level first

  1. Chain Attack
  2. Special Attack
  3. Dodge
  4. Basic Attack
  5. Assist

Agents who also use Woodpecker Electro

These agents compete with Billy 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 Billy 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 Billy?

Woodpecker Electro 4-piece, with Shadow Harmony or Puffer Electro as the alternatives. For the 2-piece, any set with CRIT DMG +16%, ATK +10%, PEN Ratio +8% or CRIT Rate +8% works.

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

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

What substats does Billy need?

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

Where do I farm Billy's Drive Discs?

Woodpecker Electro drops from the Tower and Cannon Area Patrol stage, alongside Soul Rock. Each run at Lv.60 costs 60 Battery Charge and splits its S-rank discs between the two sets.

Build data for ZZZ 3.2, from the community ZZZ Agent Build Guide and zzz-build.com, cross-checked against the Prydwen-derived Drive Disc Salvaging Helper sheet. Area Patrol drops from the ZZZ Wiki. Updated .