Zenless Zone Zero Best Teams & Team Building Guide

Zenless Zone Zero Best Teams

Welcome to our article covering the best teams in Zenless Zone Zero. Teambuilding is a crucial aspect in gacha games as you need to manage your resources and make the best with what you have available.

Version 1.1 is about to end, and the patch brought both Qingyi and Jane into the game. As expected, the Limited Agents shine much more than the Standard options.

On one hand, Ellen, Zhu Yuan, and Jane fulfill the traditional DPS role, while Qingyi is a Stunner that best pairs with Zhu Yuan, but she can shine in a variety of other teams as well.

Just below these are teams built around Grace, Soldier 11, or Nekomata.

Every team utilizes different synergies, and every team has a solid degree of flexibility. Utilizing your account to the fullest with what you have on two teams for Shiyu Defense will be the goal.

Overall, the best teams also generally reflect the ranks in our ZZZ Tier List.

For the teams, I’ll be breaking them down into three categories:

• Best Teams
  • Jane Teams
  • Zhu Yuan Teams
  • Ellen Teams
• Strong Teams
  • Qingyi Teams
  • Grace/Disorder Teams
  • Soldier 11 Teams
  • Nekomata Teams
• F2P Teams
  • Anton Teams
  • Corin/Billy Teams

ZZZ Best Teams

When it comes to the current best teams in the game, they simply revolve around the Limited Agents: Ellen, Zhu Yuan, Qingyi, and Jane. Of these four, Ellen and Zhu Yuan have clear best teams, while Jane is slightly more flexible.

Jane Teams

Jane is an Anomaly Agent, meaning you build her with Anomaly stats instead of Crit. You can run Jane along with Grace for a Disorder team with double Anomaly, but players have found other teams to be more successful in testing.

While Jane is an Anomaly Agent, she plays more like a traditional on-field DPS. Because of this, you can play her in a traditional Stun team (with Qingyi) or with a Double Support lineup (Lucy/Seth).

Jane, Seth, and Lucy is arguably the easiest team to execute while still providing lots of power. Seth and Lucy are there to buff up Jane to deal immense damage with Assault.

As previously mentioned, these two teams can also be strong as well. Qingyi will shine when Shiyu Defense has Stun Agent buffs, while Grace will shine with Anomaly buffs or against Electric weak enemies.

Qingyi will share field time with Jane while Grace will swap in when her Energy is up to Shock the enemy. Depending on your account, the enemy you’re fighting, one team may be better than the others. However, all options are great and you won’t be disappointed as Jane is such a powerhouse anyway.

Note: Of these teams, Grace is the only Agent that is ranged. When you parry an enemy ranged attack, the game will automatically Evasive Assist into Grace even if you have Seth in the next spot. This can be annoying to play around as you’ll swap to Grace when you wanted to swap to Seth.

To avoid this, you can look to see what type of attack you are parrying. If it’s melee, you know you can Defensive Assist into Seth. If it’s ranged and you don’t want to Assist into Grace, you should simply Dodge on Jane instead.

Zhu Yuan Teams

Zhu Yuan, Qingyi, Nicole

Zhu Yuan and Qingyi are two amazing limited Agents that synergize very well together. They easily combine to be a top team in the game.

Zhu Yuan is a Burst DPS character, requiring little field time to do massive damage. Conversely, Ellen is a strong DPS with high damage uptime throughout the fight.

Because of Zhu Yuan’s Burst style, Qingyi gets more time on field to both Stun enemies and deal good damage. Overall, Qingyi and Zhu Yuan are very strong Agents by themselves, but they become the best duo when put together.

When it comes to Zhu Yuan, she really wants a Stun Agent on her team. She gains “Shotshells” when using her Chain Attack, which contributes to her burst playstyle. By stunning faster, Zhu Yuan will gain more Shotshells to deal burst damage.

If you don’t have Qingyi, Anby, Lycaon, and Koleda can all be good options. Anby is the easy option since she’s both free and activates her AA with Nicole.

Ellen Teams

Ellen, Lycoan, Soukaku

Ellen was the first Limited Agent to release, and her power is undeniable. Her damage is extremely high, and she has strong teammate options as well. Lycaon and Soukaku are both Ice and are both strong on their own.

Lycaon is a premier Stunner due to his 35% DMG multiplier and Soukaku has a large ATK buff. If you have Soukaku’s Mindscape at a high level, she provides even more value like an Ice DMG bonus for the team.

Ellen is also a flexible Attack Agent. While many players default to the team above, you can run her with other Stun/Support Agents as well. You can even opt to run a double Support team if you don’t have Lycaon/Qingyi.

This makes Ellen both powerful and flexible. You can maximize your team synergy with Additional Abilities, or simply run the best Agents you have together regardless of this synergy.

ZZZ Strong Teams

After Ellen and Zhu Yuan, there is a noticeable drop off in performance, but these teams are still strong enough to tackle Shiyu Defense. These teams generally revolve around 1 or 2 standard S-Rank Agents. While Koleda and Lycaon are very strong Stunners, they won’t carry the damage of your team like the other S-Ranks.

Qingyi Teams

Anton, Qingyi, Rina

While Qingyi shines when paired with Ellen or Zhu Yuan, you can still pair her with other Attack Agents like Soldier 11, Nekomata, Anton, etc.

She has better synergy with Agents like Anton or Corin, since both are more burst like DPS Agents. Anton will also benefit from Qingyi’s Electric Anomaly buildup for his kit.

Even still, while Qingyi may not synergize perfectly with Soldier 11 or Nekomata, her kit is strong enough to brute force content as the main Stunner. (Note that Soldier 11 deals more damage to Stunned enemies, so their synergy is quite good, but not as amazing as Zhu Yuan + Qingyi)

For example, Nekomata’s EX Special deals more damage when you trigger Assault on an enemy. This means she pairs well with a unit like Piper. While you lose out on this damage bonus with Qingyi, Qingyi will Stun faster and deal solid damage, effectively brute forcing raw power over synergy.

Qingyi DPS Team

Qingyi, Rina, Lucy

Another team that is possible with Qingyi is Main DPS Qingyi. This team forgoes an Attack Agent to make Qingyi the main source of damage. While this team isn’t necessarily the strongest, it can be very resource efficient to build. Supports don’t need heavy investment, and building an Attack Agent along with Qingyi requires more resources.

Some players have used this team to great success, but it does have its flaws. For example, the only Agent with their Additional Ability active is Rina. Qingyi needs an Attack Agent or NEPS for hers, and Lucy needs Fire/Sons of Calydon.

Even still, if you have good enough gear, Qingyi can be your main DPS. This can be a solid option if you don’t want to build up an Agent like Corin or Anton to save on resources.

Grace/Disorder Teams (No Jane)

Piper, Grace, Rina

If you don’t have Jane but still want to play Anomaly, Grace and Piper are both great Agents. They both apply Anomaly extremely quickly and deal high damage with it.

With this team, you look to quickly apply Shock with Grace, and trigger Disorder with Piper (by triggering Assault). Rina is there as a Support to buff the teams PEN Ratio and extend the Shock duration.

Anomaly teams are also generally easier to build since you don’t need to worry about Crit substats. Anomaly damage scales with ATK and PEN, but not Crit.

This team is another potential variation. For this team, we have Koleda to Stun and Burn enemies. The Stun window will increase the team’s damage while her Fire damage can burn enemies and trigger Disorder. While Koleda won’t trigger Disorder as much as Piper, the Stun capability also helps increase damage.

This team can be difficult to build since it uses three S-Rank Standard Agents, but if you happen to have all three, this team can be a an option.

Soldier 11 Teams

Soldier 11, Lucy, Piper

Soldier 11 Teams are another strong S-Rank team that doesn’t require any limited Agents. Soldier 11 is unique in that her Basic Attacks deal Fire DMG when timed correctly.

This gives her strong damage and potential to Burn enemies more frequently. This lets her play in both traditional Stun/Support teams and Anomaly teams.

This first team uses Lucy as a solid Support that also activates both Additional Abilities.  Piper is in the third slot and fulfills a similar Disorder role like in the Grace team. Once you Burn an enemy with Soldier 11, you can swap to Piper to trigger Disorder.

If Piper/Anomaly isn’t your style or you don’t have Piper, you can also run Soldier 11 in a traditional Stun team with Koleda. Ben and Lucy are both solid options for a third teammates, and this gives you a traditional Attack team with all Fire Agents.

Koleda will deal more damage when paired with Ben for Coordinated Attacks, but Lucy will provide better buffs for Soldier 11. Both are fine options.

Nekomata Teams

Nekomata, Piper, Lucy

The last S-Rank Attack Agent is Nekomata, and overall, we rate her slightly below Soldier 11 teams. This is mainly due to her lack of synergy with other characters at the moment. Soldier 11 has Koleda, Ellen has Lycaon, but Nekomata mainly has A-Rank options for teammates.

Nekomata’s kit synergizes with Assault, so running her alongside Piper is a good choice. However, this means you lack space for a Stunner. Lucy and Nicole are both strong options for a third teammate.

You can also run Nekomata in a traditional Attack team with Anby as your stunner. Like Zhu Yuan, this team is very accessible since Anby and Nicole are both free units. However, Nekomata simply doesn’t perform as well in this team compared to Zhu Yuan.

You can replace Anby with Koleda or Lycaon, but Nekomata doesn’t carry as hard as Zhu Yuan and those Stunners have better team options like Ellen or Soldier 11.

In the future, if more Physical Agents release, Nekomata may have better teammate options. But as of right now, options are definitely lacking for the Physical Attribute.

Lastly, you can also run Nekomata and Jane together. With this pair, you use Nekomata more like a Burst DPS while Jane takes up most of the field time. However, the strength of this team is heavily carried by Jane, and Nekomata isn’t a necessary investment for the team. You can run just Jane and Seth to great effect and save resources instead.

If you already have Nekomata built or want to use her, this pair is still great, but not necessary.

ZZZ F2P Teams

Lastly, let’s cover “F2P” teams. It’s difficult to define what a F2P team looks like. Does it need to have only A Rank Agents? Or does it only have one S Rank Agent?

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter too much what defines it. What matters is that you’re able to build a strong team with what you have.

I hope that by at this point of the article I’ve given you plenty of ideas on how to team build. With all this information, you can definitely look to build teams based on your own account.

You may not be able to synergize perfectly and activate every Additional Ability, but try to fill in missing pieces with what you have.

Anton Teams

Anton, Grace, Rina

This Mono Electric team forgoes a Stunner and uses Anton as the main source of damage. Anton deals more damage to enemies that are shocked, and Grace enables this very well.

When it comes to A-Rank Agents, Anton’s damage is very good, and he can “cheat” Energy if you have his M1. By dashing away from enemies, you can spam his Drill attack without using energy on his first two Basic Attacks. This will refund Energy and let you spam without worrying about Energy.

This team can be quite competitive, but in general, more players prefer to run Grace/Rina along with Piper over Anton.

If you don’t have both Rina and Grace, you can also replace one of them with Anby. Overall, Anton is definitely impressive for an A-Rank Agent, but he unfortunately doesn’t reach the same heights as the teams above.

However, if you’re facing a Machine enemy in Shiyu Defense, having a full Electric team can be very beneficial as the Shock will immobilize them frequently.

Corin/Billy Teams

Billy, Anby, Nicole

Lastly, we have teams built around Billy or Corin. While these teams can work, they simply don’t compare to the other teams above. For all intents and purposes, Billy is simply a weaker Nekomata.

Like Nekomata, you can use him a traditional team with Anby/Nicole, or you can pair him with Piper for Assault. Billy doesn’t have the same Assault synergy that Nekomata has, so running Piper with him isn’t as necessary.

Corin, Lycoan, Soukaku

Corin performs slightly better than Billy in both damage and team building options. You can pair her with Lycaon and/or Rina as they are all Victoria Housekeeping.

This then lets you build into other Agents like Anby (with Rina) or Soukaku (with Lycaon). However, Corin runs in to the same issue as Billy. Ellen simply outperforms Corin massively while having the same teammate options.

From a purely meta perspective, you should have pulled for Ellen if you got Lycaon/Rina on your account. However, if you missed Ellen’s banner or simply wanted to skip her, you can still use Corin with decent results.

You won’t push Shiyu Defense as far as if you had Ellen, but with enough investment/time, Corin can still perform well.

Closing Words

This wraps up our initial article on the best teams in Zenless Zone Zero and how to team build.

For the most part, teams boil down to two categories. Attack or Anomaly.

If you run an Attack Agent, you’ll generally want to pair them with a Stun Agent, but there are exceptions. You can run double Support with Ellen or Anomaly/Support in the case of Anton (Grace/Rina). However, you can always default to Attack + Stun + Support to build a strong team.

Anomaly teams are the other category, but they aren’t fully fleshed out yet. Jane is a great Anomaly Agent, but she plays more like an Attack Agent than the other Anomaly Agents. Grace/Piper is a great F2P combo, but Jane blows them out of the water by herself.

This article assumed you have a basic understanding of the combat in ZZZ. If you need a refresher or you’re completely new, be sure to check out our ZZZ Combat Guide.

If you want to see our recommendations for Agents, be sure to check out our Zenless Zone Zero Tier List. 

Thanks for Reading! For more resources, be sure to check out our other Zenless Zone Zero Guides.