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

In Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ), Qingyi is a 5-star character that belongs to the Intimidation type and uses the Electro attribute. In a team, she can play the role of a secondary damage dealer aimed at stunning enemies. In this guide, you will learn about her best build, amplifiers and drive disks, as well as recommended squads with her

Qingyi's main features

How to get Qingyi

In the first phase of version 1.1, this operative of the criminal investigation department of the Security Service appeared in the banner, which increased the probability of her drop. In the future, this character can only be obtained using Signal Search. Unfortunately, HoYoverse has never held events in which the reward would be a 5-star fighter, so you will definitely not be able to get the android girl for free.

Key characteristics of Qingyi

Qingyi's abilities and their leveling 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

Song of the evil spirit

Press the Basic Attack button (LMB) to launch. The agent performs up to 4 strikes in front of itself, dealing physical and electrical damage. During the 3rd strike, press the Basic Attack button repeatedly to continue striking. Dodging during this time will not interrupt the Basic Attack combo. If you stop pressing the Attack button during the 3rd strike, the combo will be interrupted and the 4th attack strike will be performed automatically. After a certain amount of time has been reached, the 4th strike will be strengthened. During the 3rd and 4th strikes, the level of protection against interruption is increased, and damage taken is reduced by 40%.

I gaze at the clouds with delight

Hold down the Basic Attack button (LMB) to activate. The agent dashes forward and strikes, dealing electrical damage. While using this skill, the level of Interrupt Defense increases.

Spark

When Qingyi deals Electricity damage with his skill, it accumulates the “Breaking Voltage” effect. When this effect reaches 75%, Qingyi enters the Sparking state. When launching the basic attack “Looking at the Moon with Delight”, Qingyi consumes all of his Breaking Voltage and exits the Sparking state. For every 1% of Breaking Voltage consumed above the accumulated 75%, the attack's damage increases by 1% and stun by 0.5%. The basic attack “Looking at the Moon with Delight” does not accumulate Breaking Voltage by itself.

Looking at the Moon with Delight

To activate, hold the Basic Attack button (LMB) while in Spark. The agent performs a series of five dash attacks in front of them, followed by a finishing move that deals massive electrical damage. Release the attack button while using this skill to immediately perform the finishing move. Use the finishing move when the agent is about to be attacked to perform a perfect dodge. While performing a dash attack, the agent's Interrupt Defense is increased and damage taken is reduced by 40%. The character is invulnerable while performing the finishing move.

Evasion

Evasion: Goose cry spreads through the wind

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

Dash attack: Drums, cymbals, and gongs

To activate, press the basic attack button (LMB) while dodging. The agent dashes forward and strikes upward, dealing physical damage.

Counterattack after dodging: Words cannot describe my feelings

To activate, press the Basic Attack button (LMB) after performing a Perfect Dodge. The agent jumps up and performs a downward slash, dealing electric damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Help

Quick Help: Wind in the Pines

To activate, press the Help button (Space) when the active character is thrown up. The agent jumps up and slashes downward, dealing electric damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Defense Assist: Flowers on Brocade

To activate, press the Assist button (Space) when the character is about to be attacked. The agent parries enemy attacks, accumulating a lot of stun points on them. While using this skill, the character is invulnerable.

Additional Attack Assist: Qingjiang Flows

To activate, press the basic attack button (LMB) after assisting in defense. The Agent charges forward and charges the ground with electricity, then retreats and causes an explosion that deals electrical damage. While using this skill, the character is invulnerable.

Special attacks

The Patterned Brocade Hall

Press the special attack button (E) to activate. The agent quickly attacks from the bottom up, then from the top down, dealing electric damage. While using this skill, the level of protection against interruption increases.

Moon over Begonia

To activate, press the Special Attack button (E) when Qingyi has enough energy. The agent dashes forward and slashes upward, jumps and spins to perform a series of strikes, and then performs a powerful downward strike that deals massive electrical damage. Hold the Special Attack button to continue the spinning strike series, further consuming energy. The character is invulnerable while using this skill. After performing this move, you can immediately proceed to the 3rd strike of the basic attack.

Attack Chains

Attack Chain: Melody of Serenity

To activate, select Qingyi when the chain of attacks is launched. The Agent performs a series of powerful strikes in a large area in front of him, causing massive electrical damage. When this skill damages an enemy, the skill's damage is increased by 3% for each level of the Taming the Unruly effect applied to the enemy by the Primary Passive Skill “A Thousand Autumns”. While using this skill, the character is invulnerable.

Ultimate Ability: Eight Sounds of Ganzhou

To activate, press the Ultimate (Q) button at maximum decibel level. The agent performs a series of powerful strikes in a large area in front of him, followed by a finishing blow, dealing massive electrical damage. The character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Inclinations

Main Passive Skill: Thousand Autumns

When Qingyi deals damage to an enemy with the finishing move of the basic attack “Moon Gazing”, 5 stacks of Taming the Defiant are applied to the enemy (maximum stack of 20). Each stack of Taming the Defiant increases the enemy's vulnerability multiplier when stunned by 2%. The finishing move of the basic attack “Moon Gazing” applies an additional 1 stack of Taming the Defiant to the enemy for each hit dealt during the dash of this basic attack. If performing the finishing move causes a Perfect Dodge, Qingyi will immediately gain 10 stacks of Taming the Defiant. When Taming the Defiant is applied to normal or elite enemies, twice as many stacks are applied. When the enemy comes out of the stun state, the stacks of Taming the Defiant are reset.

Extra Ability: Three Verses of Yangguan

Activates if there is a character in the party with the specialty “Assault” or from the same faction. Basic attacks deal 20% more stun. In addition, each point of Qingyi's Impulse over 120 increases her attack power by 6. The total increase in attack power in this way cannot exceed 600.

As for pumping up the heroine's talents, the priority should be inclinations and basic attacks, since they are the main source of her damage. Next in importance are special attacks and evasions (you will often add them to your combos to increase damage).

Once you've maxed out the above abilities, you can move on to upgrading your chains of attacks (ultimate) and assists. Although both skills aren't as important for Qingyi as the previous skills, they'll still help increase her overall damage output a bit.

Qingyi's Mental Picture

To open it, you need to save up Agent Profiles, which are given out when duplicates of the heroine drop, 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 characters. However, even without them, Qingyi can easily play the role of a sub-DD.

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

If you decide to try your luck, you can stop at M1 and M2, thanks to which playing for Qingyi will become much easier and more fun – she will deal more damage and stun enemies faster. If you have to choose between a starting mental weapon and a signature weapon, we advise you to take the first option, as it will bring more benefits.

How to play for Qingyi

Basic combinations

Everything here is actually quite simple, since the entire gameplay is built around the heroine’s enhanced basic attacks. First, you need to accumulate the “Breakthrough Voltage” effect to 75-100% (blue bar under the agent’s health scale), causing electrical damage to opponents. There are several ways to do this.

Let's start with the most effective – basic attacks. The thing is, after the first two hits, you can start quickly tapping the attack button (LMB) to cause a flurry of incessant hits that deal Electro damage. This will allow you to quickly fill the bar. Then stop pressing the button so that the heroine can perform the final fourth hit (if you heard a characteristic bell and saw a flash, then its enhanced version will be performed).

Special attacks take longer to fill the bar, and the ult, although it immediately gives 80% of the “Breaking Voltage”, takes too long to activate, so it can only be considered a situational ability that allows you not only to stun most enemies almost instantly, but also to immediately switch to enhanced attacks. You will need the E-ka for slightly different things, which we will discuss in more detail below.

After entering Sparkle mode (the bar will turn gold), use the “I gaze upon the moon with rapture” combo by holding down the basic attack button (LMB). This will apply the “Taming the Defiant” debuff to the enemy, which will increase the damage dealt to them if they are stunned.

In general, the rotation will look like this:

1. Hit the enemy with the 1st and 2nd basic attacks, and then start spamming the 3rd attack, hitting them with electricity and accumulating voltage until you fill the bar to 75-100%.
2. Once in Sparking, hold down the Basic Attack button to perform 5 empowered attacks, including a finishing blow that applies Taming the Defiant.
3. Usually at this point the target will be stunned, so switch to your primary damage dealer and deal increased damage to them.
4. If you have your ultimate ready and the elite enemy, boss, or large group of enemies is not stunned yet, you can use Qingyi's ultimate. This will stun the target and allow you to perform a combination of enhanced attacks, placing a debuff on them. Now switch back to your main DD to deal maximum damage.

Advanced Combinations

In most cases, the above rotation is enough to destroy most enemies. However, if you want to fully realize Qingyi's combat potential, we recommend that you listen to the advice below.

As you already know, the first two attacks deal physical damage and do not give tension, so it is not recommended to use them. You can skip these attacks and go straight to the 3rd hit in the following ways:

• Perform a counterattack after a perfect dodge. It is useful because you can interrupt the 3rd hit after the dodge and then immediately continue to deliver a flurry of blows, but you will not be able to start a combo from this action.
• Use a strengthened special attack. A good option, accelerating the stunning of the enemy and the build-up of tension, but you will have to carefully monitor the accumulation and expenditure of energy, which, of course, not everyone will like. Therefore, this will rather be a situational technique, that is, having accumulated enough energy, try to always use a strengthened E-shka to immediately move on to the 3rd basic attack.
• Perform a quick help. A good option that allows you not only to get buffs, but also to immediately move on to the 3rd attack, but you will have to carefully select allies for Qingyi.

We've sorted out the tension, now let's move on to enhanced basic attacks. Let's note right away that it's not at all necessary to gain 100%, since the damage bonuses (25%) and stun (12.5%) are quite small to lengthen the already long animations for their sake.

A fully executed “I Watch the Moon with Intoxication” combo will grant you 10 stacks of “Taming the Defiant” (5 from standard attacks and 5 from the finishing blow). However, if you release the button during an enemy attack, you will perform a perfect dodge and perform a finishing blow, which will itself apply 10 stacks of the debuff. However, you will have to watch your enemies closely and time your release carefully.

Now let's look at all these connections in combination with Help. The fact is that after releasing the button when performing enhanced basic attacks, you can immediately press “Space” to perform a quick assist – Qingyi will perform a finishing blow and apply 10 levels of negative effect, and an ally will deal additional damage.

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The same can be done, by the way, when switching from the 3rd basic attack to the 4th, that is, releasing the attack button, immediately press the “Space” to switch to an ally – Qingyi will make the 4th attack, and you can already start hitting with the main damage dealer.

Advantages and disadvantages of Qingyi

With the help of her unique abilities, the android girl can inflict significant Electro damage, both to single targets and to large groups of enemies. Her advantages also include:

• Can significantly increase the enemy's vulnerability multiplier by increasing the explosive damage they receive when stunned.
• Pairs well with damage dealers who have bonuses to stunned targets, such as Zhu Yuan and Korin.
• The basic combos are relatively easy to use, so Qingyi is suitable for beginners. At the same time, she has advanced mechanics that more experienced players will certainly enjoy learning.
• Has increased resistance to interruptions, can reduce damage taken and even get a shield (M4), which turns her into a good tank for protecting fragile damage dealers.
• The best stunner when it comes to area stuns, meaning she can stun multiple enemies at once.
• The additional ability makes her build much easier, since increasing Impulse also increases Attack Power. It is enough to focus on this stat and crits.
• She can fit into almost any squad, since her abilities require a character from the “Attack” group, which is usually present in all teams.

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

• Almost no bonuses to stun, so her stun speed is lower than other Intimidation Legendaries. In this regard, she is inferior even to Enbi.
• Needs a lot of time on the battlefield to implement all of her mechanics, so she does not combine well with hypercarries.
• If Qingyi is unable to use dodges or assists when performing a 3rd strike, she can take too much damage, which will quickly disable her.

The best build for Qingyi

The best amplifiers

The table below presents the most interesting options.

The best drive discs

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

• IV sector: critical hit chance (priority) or critical damage in a ratio of 1 to 2.
• V-sector: electrical damage bonus (priority) or penetration chance.
• VI-sector: impulse.
• Substats: crits > attack power% > chance of penetration

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

• Impulse: 169-193+

< li>Health: 1000+

• Defense: 800+
• Attack: 1800-2000 units (mostly optional)
• Critical hit chance: 50-60% + (mostly optional)
• Critical Damage: 100-120% (mostly optional)

Best Teams for Qingyi

F2P Squad

Let's remember that Qingyi can be used in any team that has an “Attack” character. Nicole and Billy activate each other's additional abilities. The android girl will help the latter deal more damage to stunned enemies.

Ethereal Squad

Qingyi combines well with Zhu Yuan, as the latter is capable of inflicting enormous damage on stunned enemies thanks to bonuses. Nicole will be able to activate her additional ability thanks to the criminal investigation captain.

Ice Squad

If you managed to knock out Ellen, but you don’t have Lycaon, then Cini can easily replace the wolf cub. She will give the shark girl almost the same bonuses as the Victoria chapter. Lycaon is slightly better than Qingyi in this team only in long battles.

Fire Squad

Qingyi is better suited to a fire pack than Kolyada. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, the effectiveness of the stun: although Kolyada has a higher speed of applying the stun, her stability leaves much to be desired, which is why she loses to the Security Service employee in long battles.

Secondly, Qingyi is able to increase the damage of Soldier 11 through one of her inclinations, which further increases her usefulness in this squad.

Physical squad

Like Zhu Yuan, Korin has bonuses to stunned enemies, so she pairs well with Qingyi. The android girl will be on the battlefield most of the time, stunning enemies. Then you will need to bring Korin out of her pocket to deal increased damage to enemies. Nekomata can be used in attack chains to deal additional damage.

Electro Squad

Cini will be a great addition to mono electric packs. Rina will increase the chance of penetration and electric damage of allies, and Anton will deal the main damage to enemies after they are stunned by a Security Service employee.

If desired, Rina can be replaced with Grace for faster accumulation of the Electro attribute anomaly.

Leveling up Qingyi

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 The build 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.