Nicole Build: Best Drive Discs & Stats (ZZZ)

Nicole is an A-rank Support agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Nicole 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: Moonlight Lullaby
2-piece: Anomaly Mastery +8%, ATK +10% or Anomaly Proficiency +30
Disk 4: ATK% or Anomaly Proficiency
Disk 5: Ether DMG%
Disk 6: Energy Regen or ATK%
Substats: Anomaly Proficiency > ATK% > PEN
W-Engine: The Vault
Farm at: Iron Law and Outlaws

Best Drive Disc sets for Nicole

Nicole's best 4-piece set is Moonlight Lullaby. Astral Voice and Swing Jazz are the alternatives, in that order.

Moonlight Lullaby Best in slot

4-piece: When the equipper is a Support character and uses an EX Special Attack or Ultimate, the DMG dealt by all squad members increases by 18% for 25s. Repeated triggers reset the duration. Passive effects of the same name do not stack

2-piece: Energy Regen +20%. Drops from Iron Law and Outlaws.
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.
Swing Jazz

4-piece: Launching a Chain Attack or Ultimate increases all squad members' DMG by 15% for 12s. Passive effects of the same name do not stack

2-piece: Energy Regen +20%. Drops from Monster and Weirdo.

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

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

Nicole 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	ATK% = Anomaly Proficiency
Disk 5	Ether DMG% > ATK%
Disk 6	Energy Regen = ATK%

Nicole substat priority

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

Anomaly Proficiency
ATK%
PEN
Flat ATK

Where to farm Nicole's Drive Discs

Moonlight Lullaby drops from the Iron Law and Outlaws Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Dawn's Bloom, is not part of Nicole's build.

Area Patrol stage	Sets it drops
Iron Law and Outlaws	Dawn's Bloom (not in this build) Moonlight Lullaby (best 4-piece)
Monster Duet	Branch & Blade Song (not in this build) Astral Voice (4-piece option 2)
Monster and Weirdo	Swing Jazz (4-piece option 3) Chaotic Metal (not in this build)
Fist and Gun	Hormone Punk (2-piece option) Fanged 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)
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.

Nicole W-Engine and skill priority

The Vault A-rank, Energy Regen sub-stat

Slots perfectly into Nicole's standard rotation in her best teams: her clear best-in-slot.

Skills to level first

Chain Attack
Special Attack
Basic Attack
Assist
Dodge

Agents who also use Moonlight Lullaby

These agents compete with Nicole 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 Nicole 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 Nicole?

Moonlight Lullaby 4-piece, with Astral Voice or Swing Jazz as the alternatives. For the 2-piece, any set with Anomaly Mastery +8%, ATK +10% or Anomaly Proficiency +30 works.

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

Disk 4: ATK% = Anomaly Proficiency. Disk 5: Ether DMG% > ATK%. Disk 6: Energy Regen = ATK%. Disks 1 to 3 have fixed main stats (HP, ATK and DEF), so only their substats matter.

What substats does Nicole need?

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

Where do I farm Nicole's Drive Discs?

Moonlight Lullaby drops from the Iron Law and Outlaws Area Patrol stage, alongside Dawn's Bloom. Each run at Lv.60 costs 60 Battery Charge and splits its S-rank discs between the two sets.