Grace in Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ): Best Build Guide

In Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ), Grace is a 5-star character that belongs to the Anomaly type and uses the Electro attribute. In a squad, she can play the role of a secondary, and sometimes even the main damage dealer. In this guide, you will learn about her best build, amplifiers and drive discs, as well as recommended teams with her

Grace's main features

How to get Grace

We are talking about the standard legendary character, which can be obtained in three different ways:

• As part of the permanent “Star Cast” banner, and she can drop during the first 50 signal searches during the Newbie promotion. Then the usual rules come into effect, where you can knock out Grace on the 90th spin.
• As part of the “Agent of Choice” promotion, that is, you need to complete 300 signal searches in the standard banner, and then you will have the opportunity to choose Grace in the corresponding menu. You can take her even if you already have her – in this case, you will be given her profile for a mental picture.
• She can drop with a 50% probability in the event banner if you lose in 50/50.

Unfortunately, HoYoverse has never held an event that rewards a 5-star fighter, so you definitely won't be able to get the technomaniac for free.

Grace's Key Stats

Grace's abilities and their upgrade priority

You can read about the heroine's abilities in the game itself, so we decided to add it under the spoiler so as not to increase the size of the article. We also recommend that you study our combat system guide to better understand it.

Basic attacks

Nail gun

Press the Basic Attack button (LMB) to launch. Grace performs up to 4 hits, dealing physical and electrical damage. While activating a Basic Attack, move the joystick (WASD) to attack while moving. This allows Grace to move while dealing physical damage.

When Grace performs a Basic Attack, her Basic Attack combo is not interrupted by Special Attacks, Powered-up Special Attacks, Dodges, Dash Attacks, or Dodge Counters.

Dodges

Dodge: Safety Technique

Press the dodge button (RMB or L Shift) to dodge. Quick dodge. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Dash Attack: Unscheduled Inspection

To activate, press the basic attack button (LMB) while dodging. Grace slides forward and fires a burst of fire, dealing physical damage.

Counterattack after dodge: Penalty for violation

To activate, press the basic attack button (LMB) after launching a perfect dodge. Grace throws a grenade at enemies, dealing electric damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Help

Quick Help: Eliminate Emergencies

To activate, press the help button (Space) when the active character is thrown up. Grace throws a grenade at the enemy, dealing electric damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Evasion Assist: Quick Response to Risks

To activate, press the assist button (Space) when the character is about to be attacked. The agent dodges the enemy attack and activates Heightened Perception. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Additional Attack Assist: Electric Counter

To activate, press the basic attack button (LMB) after using the dodge assist. Grace unleashes a hail of lead on enemies in front of her and throws a grenade, dealing electric damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Special Attacks

Engineering Clearance

Press the Special Attack (E) button to activate. Grace throws a grenade in front of her, dealing electrical damage. While the skill is active, use the joystick (WASD) to control Grace's movement. Interruption resistance is increased while using this skill.

Unconventional Engineering Clearance

To activate, press the special attack button (E) when Grace has enough energy. Grace jumps in the air and throws two grenades in front of her, dealing massive electrical damage. While the skill is active, control Grace's movement using the joystick. While using this skill, the character is invulnerable.

Attack chains

Attack chain: Elimination mode

To activate, select an agent while a chain attack is in progress. Grace throws three grenades into the air and detonates them with a hurricane of fire, dealing massive electrical damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Ultimate Ability: Beware, Explosive Demolition

To activate, press the Ultimate (Q) button at maximum decibel level. Grace throws a special grenade that explodes in the air and splits into four smaller grenades, dealing massive electrical damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Inclinations

Main Passive Skill: Winded Needle

When Grace hits an enemy with a Basic Attack or a Dash Attack and deals Physical Damage, she gains 1 stack of Shake (up to 8 stacks). When Shake reaches max stacks, a Special Attack or Enhanced Special Attack will consume all Shake stacks and increase the skill's Electric Anomaly accumulation by 65-130%.

Additional Ability: Technical Support

If there is another agent with the same attribute or from the same faction in the party: When Grace hits an enemy with her Enhanced Special Attack, the damage of the next Shock the enemy receives is increased by 18%. This effect stacks up to 2 times, can only be triggered once per enemy, and is reset when the enemy comes out of Shock.

As for pumping up the heroine's talents, the priority should be the inclinations and special attacks, as they are the main source of her damage. Next in importance are dodges (you will often wedge them into your combos) and basic attacks (any of your combos will start with them).

Once you've maxed out these abilities, you can move on to upgrading chains of hits (ultimate), increasing Grace's overall damage. Upgrade Assist last, as it's noticeably less useful than the other abilities.

Grace's Mental Picture

To open it, you need to accumulate Agent Profiles, which are given out when duplicates of the heroine fall out, which, of course, is random. Considering the small chance of getting 5-star characters, you will need to spend a lot of time and money to unlock all the mental ones. However, even without them, Grace can easily play the role of a sub-DD.

The table below lists all the mental abilities, their descriptions and benefits for the heroine.

Note that the probability of getting a certain standard lega is even lower than the event one, because their drop is random. If you have already dropped it, and you are wondering whether it is worth taking its duplicate after 300 spins, then we still advise you to take a closer look at Rina, who will bring her more benefit than M1.

How to play Grace

Basic Combos

Use basic and dash attacks to accumulate Shake levels. You can see the number of accumulated charges under the heroine's health bar if she is the active character.

Once you reach 8 stacks of Shake, immediately use a special attack (standard or enhanced) to spend the charges and increase the accumulation of electrical anomaly, which will significantly speed up the application of Shock to enemies.

It is also important to remember that the enhanced E increases the damage of the next Shock received by the enemy, so you should definitely use it before switching to another character. In general, Grace's standard combo will look like this:

1. Use basic attacks/dash attacks until you get 8 Shocks.
2. Use a special attack. Repeat these two actions until you Shock the enemy.
3. Activate the enhanced special attack and switch to the main damage dealer.

Advanced Combos

Grace can become a key character in both Anomalous and Shock Pack. She relies on costless and frequently used special attacks and activating her Primary Passive (gain 8 levels of Shake and increase Electro Anomaly damage).

We have already noted above that special attacks are the heroine's main ability, and her end lags can be cancelled by dodging. Upon reaching the 3rd use of her E-ka, a general cooldown applies to dodging. At this point, you can use a basic attack to neutralize this effect and immediately start the next rotation. This rotation is relatively simple and allows you to quickly put enemies into a state of Shock. It looks like this:

1. Accumulate 8 levels of Shake, use a regular or enhanced special attack (triggers the passive) and use dodging (reduces the delay of actions).
2. Accumulate 8 levels of Shake, use a normal or enhanced special attack (triggers the passive), and use evasion (reduces the delay of actions).
3. Accumulate 8 levels of Shake, use a normal or enhanced special attack (triggers the passive), and use a basic attack.
4. Increase the damage of Grace's Electro Anomaly.
5. Switch to other characters to speed up the accumulation of decibel rating and activate the ult.

Grace's Advantages and Disadvantages

With her unique abilities, the techno-maniac can deal significant Electro damage to both single targets and large groups of enemies. Her strengths also include:

• Most of her attacks involve movement-based actions controlled by the player, making Grace one of the most mobile characters in the game.
• Incredibly fast combos allow Grace to pair well with any main DD without having to fight for time on the field.
• Deals most of her damage with Shock, which can be triggered by other characters when Grace isn't even on the battlefield.
• A key character for the Shock Pack, making her a must-have hero in such a squad (at least at this stage of the game).
• Incredibly low cost for her enhanced special attack, so you'll be able to activate it much more often than other characters.
• Quite an active playstyle that requires the accumulation and expenditure of Shake levels and is based on constant movement. At the same time, the gameplay itself is not overloaded with unnecessary actions and is quite easy to master.

However, Grace cannot be called an ideal character, since she also has her drawbacks:

• Due to constant dodging and dashing, Grace may well move too far from opponents if you do not constantly monitor her movements.
• Re-applying Shock to enemies already under the debuff will not deal additional damage to them, but will only refresh the duration of the effect, making Shock spamming possible, but not very useful (Chaos can be used to solve this problem).
• Has relatively high damage potential, but it is still more difficult to use her as a main DD than characters that are specifically designed for this role, so in most cases it is better to use her as a sub DD to boost another damage dealer, such as Anton.
• Her best support, Rina, is also a 5-star standard character that can be difficult to obtain. Without her, Grace's effectiveness is noticeably reduced.

Best Build for Grace

Best Amplifiers

The table below presents the most interesting options.

Best drive discs

As for the main characteristics of the drive disks, your choice should look like this:

• IV sector: knowledge of the anomaly (priority) or attack power%.
• V sector: bonus electrical damage (priority) or chance of penetration.
• VI sector: control of the anomaly (priority) or attack power%.
• Substats: Anomaly Knowledge > Attack Power% > Penetration Chance

If we talk about the recommended values ​​of Grace's parameters, they should look something like this:

• Attack: 2300-3000 units
• Health: 9500+
• Defense: 800+
• Anomaly Control: 150-190 units
• Anomaly Knowledge: 350-450 units

Best Teams for Grace

Shock Squad

In all of these teams, Grace is the key character, applying Shock to enemies. Then the support further strengthens the damage dealer, who then enters the battlefield and deals maximum damage to weakened enemies.

Abnormal Squad

In anomaly squads, you first need to Shock enemies with Grace, and then use damage dealers of other elements (Fire is great) to cause the negative effect Chaos.

Pumping Grace

The table below shows the materials needed to increase the level, skills and inclinations of the heroine, as well as their total amount.

That's it for the best build guide for Grace in ZZZ can be considered complete. We hope that this information will help you choose the best amplifiers, drives and commands for the heroine.