Zhao Drive Disc Build

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

Zhao

Zhao is an S-rank Defense agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Zhao 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
HP +10% or Energy Regen +20%
Disk 4
HP%
Disk 5
HP%
Disk 6
Energy Regen
Substats
HP% > Flat HP > CRIT Rate
Farm at
Dragon Taming Chariot

Best Drive Disc sets for Zhao

Zhao's best 4-piece set is Bunny in Wonderland. Astral Voice is the alternative.

  1. Bunny in Wonderland Drive Disc set icon

    Bunny in Wonderland Best in slot

    4-piece: When the equipper is a Defense character: When the equipper launches an EX Special Attack or any squad member triggers a Defensive Assist or Evasive Assist, all squad members' DMG increases by 6%, stacking up to 3 times, lasting 25s. Stacks decay one at a time, and duration refreshes when gained or decayed. Passive effects of the same name do not stack

    2-piece: HP +10%. Drops from Dragon Taming Chariot.

  2. Astral Voice Drive Disc set icon

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

Zhao 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 4HP%
Disk 5HP%
Disk 6Energy Regen

Zhao substat priority

Roll for HP% and Flat HP first. A disc showing neither of those is rarely worth levelling for Zhao, whatever else it has.

  1. HP% (Until 27000 Initial HP)
  2. Flat HP (Until 27000 Initial HP)
  3. CRIT Rate
  4. CRIT DMG

Where to farm Zhao's Drive Discs

Bunny in Wonderland drops from the Dragon Taming Chariot Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Notes From the Chained, is not part of Zhao's build.

Area Patrol stageSets it drops
Dragon Taming ChariotBunny in Wonderland (best 4-piece)
Notes From the Chained (not in this build)
Monster DuetBranch & Blade Song (not in this build)
Astral Voice (4-piece option 2)
Monster and WeirdoSwing Jazz (2-piece option)
Chaotic Metal (not in this build)
Words and WeaponsYunkui Tales (2-piece option)
King of the Summit (not in this build)
Iron Law and OutlawsDawn's Bloom (not in this build)
Moonlight Lullaby (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.

Zhao W-Engine and skill priority

Half-Sugar Bunny W-Engine

Half-Sugar Bunny S-rank, HP sub-stat

Zhao's signature is a standout: the HP% mainstat makes the Initial Max HP threshold for full buffs easy to reach, its Energy Regen allows near-full Ether Veil uptime (and thus her Additional Ability's DMG Bonus), and it adds 10% ATK and 30% CRIT DMG. Not required, but a big upgrade.

Skills to level first

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

Check the discs you already have

Hundreds of discs in the inventory and no idea which ones Zhao 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 Zhao?

Bunny in Wonderland 4-piece, with Astral Voice as the alternative. For the 2-piece, any set with HP +10% or Energy Regen +20% works.

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

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

What substats does Zhao need?

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

Where do I farm Zhao's Drive Discs?

Bunny in Wonderland drops from the Dragon Taming Chariot Area Patrol stage, alongside Notes From the Chained. 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 .