Zhu Yuan Drive Disc Build

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

Zhu Yuan

Zhu Yuan is an S-rank Attack agent in Zenless Zone Zero. This Zhu Yuan 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 Rate +8%, ATK +10%, CRIT DMG +16% or Increases Basic Attack DMG by 15%
Disk 4
CRIT DMG or CRIT Rate
Disk 5
ATK%
Disk 6
ATK%
Substats
CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG > ATK%
Farm at
Monster and Weirdo

Best Drive Disc sets for Zhu Yuan

Zhu Yuan's best 4-piece set is Chaotic Metal. Puffer Electro and Woodpecker Electro are the alternatives, in that order.

  1. Chaotic Metal Drive Disc set icon

    Chaotic Metal Best in slot

    4-piece: The equipper's CRIT DMG increases by 20%. When any character in the squad triggers Corruption DMG, this effect further increases by 5.5% for 8s, stacking up to 6 times. Repeated triggers reset the duration

    2-piece: Ether DMG +10%. Drops from Monster and Weirdo.

  2. 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.

  3. Woodpecker Electro Drive Disc set icon

    Woodpecker Electro

    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-piece options

For the 2-piece slot the bonus matters, not the set's name. Several sets share the same 2-piece bonus, so Zhu Yuan can take it from whichever one you have spare pieces of:

Zhu Yuan 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 DMG = CRIT Rate
Disk 5ATK% > Ether DMG% = PEN Ratio
Disk 6ATK%

Zhu Yuan substat priority

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

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

Where to farm Zhu Yuan's Drive Discs

Chaotic Metal drops from the Monster and Weirdo Area Patrol stage. The other set it drops, Swing Jazz, is not part of Zhu Yuan's build.

Area Patrol stageSets it drops
Monster and WeirdoSwing Jazz (not in this build)
Chaotic Metal (best 4-piece)
Madman and FollowerPuffer Electro (4-piece option 2)
Inferno Metal (not in this build)
Tower and CannonWoodpecker Electro (4-piece option 3)
Soul Rock (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)
Iron Law and OutlawsDawn's Bloom (2-piece option)
Moonlight Lullaby (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.

Zhu Yuan W-Engine and skill priority

Cordis Germina W-Engine

Cordis Germina S-rank, CRIT Rate sub-stat

Seed's signature edges out the rest by a slim margin. It piles on CRIT Rate, and at max Electric DMG stacks grants 20% DEF Ignore on Basic Attacks and Ultimates; Zhu Yuan cannot use the Electric DMG part, but she makes excellent use of the DEF Ignore.

Skills to level first

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

Check the discs you already have

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

Chaotic Metal 4-piece, with Puffer Electro or Woodpecker Electro as the alternatives. For the 2-piece, any set with CRIT Rate +8%, ATK +10%, CRIT DMG +16% or Increases Basic Attack DMG by 15% works.

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

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

What substats does Zhu Yuan need?

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

Where do I farm Zhu Yuan's Drive Discs?

Chaotic Metal drops from the Monster and Weirdo Area Patrol stage, alongside Swing Jazz. 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 .