The best Zhu Yuan build in Zenless Zone Zero

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Once she’s got some shotshells loaded, you can hold down the attack input and Zhu Yuan will start blasting them into enemies for big damage. It’s a simple playstyle and quite easy to buff, so here I’ll run through my recommended Zhu Yuan build as well as what you’ll need to level her.

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Zhu Yuan is an ether attack character with a playstyle centred around accumulating Enhanced Shotshells and then firing them into enemies in her Suppressive Mode for big damage. Zhu Yuan has two attack modes called Assault and Suppressive. The first is her regular attack combo of martial arts and gun-fu, but if you hold attack instead, she enters Suppressive Mode and fires off any Enhanced Shotshells banked.

In terms of base stats on the Drive Discs, I recommend:

Crit damage/crit rate and ether damage bonus are no-brainers since Zhu Yuan is an ether-based attack character. I also like energy regen on the sixth piece, since her ability to generate Enhanced Shotshells—which her damage relies on—is partly tied to her EX special attack, which creates three whenever you use it. You could take something like Anomaly Mastery instead, but it seems pointless if you’re running her with Nicole.

For substats, you’ll wantcrit damage,crit rate,attack, and somepenetrationif you can fit it, since this will let Zhu Yuan partly ignore a chunk of enemy defense and increases the power of any Enhanced Shotshell crits she manages to land.

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Here’s what you’ll need to level up Zhu Yuan in Zenless Zone Zero:

You can get Offense Certification Seals through the Combat Simulation activity that unlocks via the main story. Select Agent Promotion and then Attack Drill in Zhu Yuan’s case. Investigator Logs also come from the same place, you just need to choose Basic Material and then Investigation Specialization instead.

It’s worth noting that, similar to previous miHoYo games, you’ll need to raise your Inter-Knot reputation in order to gain access to higher character levels. Once you progress far enough, you’ll also be able to change what enemies you fight in Combat Simulation to create a custom reward set that’ll get you exactly what you need.

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