Yanagi Build: Best Drive Discs & Stats (ZZZ)

Yanagi is an S-rank Anomaly agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Yanagi 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: Chaos Jazz
2-piece: Anomaly Proficiency +30, PEN Ratio +8%, Electric DMG +10% or ATK +10%
Disk 4: Anomaly Proficiency
Disk 5: PEN Ratio
Disk 6: Anomaly Mastery
Substats: Anomaly Proficiency > ATK% > PEN
W-Engine: Timeweaver
Farm at: Hunter and Beast

Best Drive Disc sets for Yanagi

Yanagi's 4-piece set is Chaos Jazz. No other 4-piece set is recommended, so there is no substitute worth farming.

Chaos Jazz Best in slot

4-piece: Fire DMG and Electric DMG increases by 15%. While off-field, EX Special Attack and Assist Attack DMG increases by 20%. When switching on-field, this buff continues for 5s, and this continuation effect can trigger once every 7.5s

2-piece: Anomaly Proficiency +30. Drops from Hunter and Beast.

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

Anomaly Proficiency +30: any of Freedom Blues, Chaos Jazz or Feathered Fate (they give the same bonus)
PEN Ratio +8%: Puffer Electro
Electric DMG +10%: Thunder Metal
ATK +10%: any of Hormone Punk or Astral Voice (they give the same bonus)

Yanagi 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
Disk 5	PEN Ratio > Electric DMG% > ATK%
Disk 6	Anomaly Mastery > ATK%

Yanagi substat priority

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

Anomaly Proficiency
ATK%
PEN
Flat ATK

Where to farm Yanagi's Drive Discs

Chaos Jazz drops from the Hunter and Beast Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Proto Punk, is not part of Yanagi's build.

Area Patrol stage	Sets it drops
Hunter and Beast	Chaos Jazz (best 4-piece) Proto Punk (not in this build)
Fist and Gun	Hormone Punk (2-piece option) Fanged Metal (not in this build)
Hunter and Hound	Shockstar Disco (not in this build) Thunder Metal (2-piece option)
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)
Monster Duet	Branch & Blade Song (not in this build) Astral Voice (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.

Yanagi W-Engine and skill priority

Timeweaver S-rank, ATK sub-stat

Built around Yanagi's Disorder playstyle: ATK% mainstat, Anomaly Proficiency when her Specials and EXs land (constant thanks to stance swaps), faster Electric Anomaly buildup and extra Disorder DMG that also covers her Polarities. The lead over alternatives is modest, though, since the Disorder bonus is hers alone and more Shocks only matter if teammates keep pace.

Skills to level first

Special Attack
Chain Attack
Basic Attack
Assist
Dodge

Agents who also use Chaos Jazz

These agents compete with Yanagi 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 Yanagi 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 Yanagi?

Chaos Jazz 4-piece. For the 2-piece, any set with Anomaly Proficiency +30, PEN Ratio +8%, Electric DMG +10% or ATK +10% works.

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

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

What substats does Yanagi need?

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

Where do I farm Yanagi's Drive Discs?

Chaos Jazz drops from the Hunter and Beast Area Patrol stage, alongside Proto Punk. Each run at Lv.60 costs 60 Battery Charge and splits its S-rank discs between the two sets.