Evelyn Build: Best Drive Discs & Stats (ZZZ)

Evelyn is an S-rank Attack agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Evelyn 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: Puffer Electro
2-piece: PEN Ratio +8%, CRIT DMG +16%, CRIT Rate +8%, ATK +10% or Physical DMG +10%
Disk 4: CRIT DMG
Disk 5: PEN Ratio
Disk 6: ATK%
Substats: CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG > ATK%
W-Engine: Heartstring Nocturne
Farm at: Madman and Follower

Best Drive Disc sets for Evelyn

Evelyn's best 4-piece set is Puffer Electro. Hormone Punk and Astral Voice are the alternatives, in that order.

Puffer Electro Best in slot

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.
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.
Astral Voice

4-piece: Whenever any squad member enters the field using a Quick Assist, all squad members gain 1 stack of Astral, up to a maximum of 3 stacks, and lasting 15s. Repeated triggers reset the duration. Each stack of Astral increases the DMG dealt by the character entering the field using a Quick Assist by 8%. Passive effects of the same name do not stack

2-piece: ATK +10%. Drops from Monster Duet.

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

PEN Ratio +8%: Puffer Electro
CRIT DMG +16%: Branch & Blade Song
CRIT Rate +8%: Woodpecker Electro
ATK +10%: any of Hormone Punk or Astral Voice (they give the same bonus)
Physical DMG +10%: any of Fanged Metal or White Water Ballad (they give the same bonus)

Evelyn 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 DMG > CRIT Rate
Disk 5	PEN Ratio > Fire DMG%
Disk 6	ATK%

Evelyn substat priority

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

CRIT Rate (Until 75% in stat screen)
CRIT DMG
ATK%
PEN
Flat ATK

Where to farm Evelyn's Drive Discs

Puffer Electro drops from the Madman and Follower Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Inferno Metal, is not part of Evelyn's build.

Area Patrol stage	Sets it drops
Madman and Follower	Puffer Electro (best 4-piece) Inferno Metal (not in this build)
Fist and Gun	Hormone Punk (4-piece option 2) Fanged Metal (2-piece option)
Monster Duet	Branch & Blade Song (2-piece option) Astral Voice (4-piece option 3)
Tower and Cannon	Woodpecker Electro (2-piece option) Soul Rock (not in this build)
Deceits and Bulwarks	White Water Ballad (2-piece option) Shining Aria (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.

Evelyn W-Engine and skill priority

Heartstring Nocturne S-rank, CRIT Rate sub-stat

Evelyn's own Signature Engine and unsurprisingly her clear best choice. Grants a tremendous amount of unconditional CRIT RATE and CRIT DMG and has an incredibly consistent combat buff offering up to 25% FIRE RES PEN for Chain Attacks and Ultimates which is perfect for Evelyn along with a massive damage multiplier.

Skills to level first

Chain Attack
Basic Attack
Special Attack
Assist
Dodge

Agents who also use Puffer Electro

These agents compete with Evelyn 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 Evelyn 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 Evelyn?

Puffer Electro 4-piece, with Hormone Punk or Astral Voice as the alternatives. For the 2-piece, any set with PEN Ratio +8%, CRIT DMG +16%, CRIT Rate +8%, ATK +10% or Physical DMG +10% works.

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

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

What substats does Evelyn need?

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

Where do I farm Evelyn's Drive Discs?

Puffer Electro drops from the Madman and Follower Area Patrol stage, alongside Inferno Metal. Each run at Lv.60 costs 60 Battery Charge and splits its S-rank discs between the two sets.