Yixuan Guide and Best Builds for Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ)

Yixuan is an Auric Ink Rupture Agent in Zenless Zone Zero. Auric Ink is a new type of Ether Element introduced with 2.0. Rupture is a new speciality as well.

Yixuan is the Thirteenth Generation Master of the Yunkui Summit Faction. Other members are Ju Fufu and Pan Yinhu.

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Strengths

• Incredibly powerful DPS that rivals with Miyabi and outshines most other DPS.
• New mechanics and gameplay which makes her extremely fun to play.
• Additional ability works with Stun, Support, and Defense agents while having no Faction requirements.
• Yixuan does not need Mindscapes to be strong, despite having good ones.

Weaknesses

• Not many W-Engine options with her Signature being an extremely good boost compared to the rest.
• Only Rupture Agent with very few dedicated Sheer Force supports, which lowers her teams possibilities.
• Accumulates a ton of new mechanics that can feel overwhelming to understand at first.

As the first Rupture Agent, Yixuan does not have a lot of build options in regards to W-Engines. Her signature W-Engine, Qingming Birdcage is her Best-in-slot for our Yixuan build. Not only does it come with 743 Base ATK and 30% HP, but it also grants her 20% increased CRIT Rate! Additionally, launching EX Special attacks will grant you 2 stacks, which increase Yixuan's Ether DMG and Ultimate + EX Special Attack's Ether Sheer DMG.

As for now, you can only obtain three other Rupture W-Engines. All three are viable options for Yixuan's build. Radiowave Journey is a Battle Pass W-Engine, but you can get the other two for free through the Gadget Store is Sixth Street. However, if you have the means to get her signature, we do recommend to go for it, as it is a massive DMG boost compared to the other options.

Regarding Drive Discs, Yixuan's best Disc set for this build is the Yunkui Tales. This disc is added with 2.0. It grants Yixuan 10% HP with a CRIT Rate boost of 4% when using her EX Special Attack, Chain Attack, or Ultimate, which she will be using often enough to easily accumulate the 3 stacks needed and additionally increase her Sheer DMG by 10%.

The 2-piece options for Yixuan's build are rather flexible. You can opt for CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG sets such as Woodpecker Electro or Branch & Blade Song, depending on what you lack.

The best Bangboo option for Yixuan's build is Belion if you play Yixuan with another Yunkui Summit Agent. Snap is another good option for his DMG buff.

Note that if you get Belion two more times, the requirement for his additional ability drops to 1 Yunkui Summit agent only, so if you have been holding onto your Boopons up until now, it may be the right time to use them for two additional Belion.

Yixuan is the first Rupture Agent introduced in ZZZ. Rupture agents are a mix of both DPS and survivability. They convert a portion of their ATK into Sheer Force, which ignores enemy defenses. Yixuan's kit can feel overwhelming at first, as it includes a lot of new terms introduced with Season Two. However, once you understand the basics, she is quite enjoyable to play.

As mentioned before, Yixuan is a Rupture and Auric Ink Agent. Auric Ink is basically another type of Ether. If you are familiar with Hoshimi Miyabi's gameplay, it is similar to what Frost is to Ice. Yixuan also does not use the usual Energy system. Instead, she can accumulate Adrenaline.

In order to understand how to play Yixuan, you first need to know what the new mechanics mean and do. Here is a short breakdown of everything you need to know, before diving deeper into her gameplay and build!

Auric Ink Agents deal Auric Ink DMG to enemies, which accumulates Auric Ink Anomaly Buildup. Similar to Ether, it will trigger the Corruption effect.

Auric Ink Anomaly Buildup counts as a different anomaly than Ether Anomaly Buildup, which means that you can trigger Disorder between Auric Ink and Ether as well.

Yixuan's Core Skill also has a special mechanic where after launching her Ultimate: Endless Talisman Suppression, she will gain one Auric Ink Point. One point can be spend to launch her Basic Attack: Auric Array. In order to do that, hold your and tap your right after. This will deploy an Array which deals continuous Auric Ink DMG, and when this ends, it automatically triggers her Basic Attack: Qingming Eruption, which lets her spread her wings and launch an explosion, dealing massive Auric Ink DMG as well.

As a Rupture Agent, Yixuan is the first one with both offensive and survivability capabilities. Most of her attacks allow her to deal massive damage, and chain various combos. On top of that, her Dodge allows her to fly up and enter the Light as Air state. This will give you a huge mobility advantage as you will fly rather fast. If you tap your right after, you can combo with her Auric Ink Array and Qingming Eruption.

On top of that, as a Rupture Agent, Yixuan possesses a lot of I-frames. Most of her attacks will make her invulnerable while using her skills. Her ultimate also redistributes the entire squad's HP. This means that if one of your characters is extremely low, using her ultimate will redistribute the HP to put everyone at the same level.

Additionally, when charging her EX Special Attack all incoming attacks are automatically blocked, and will activate the upward wing attack. If you are hit at the exact moment the wing appears, you trigger a Perfect Block effect, which negates the DMG.

Rupture Agents also use Sheer Force instead of ATK. They can convert a portion of their ATK into Sheer Force.

The current conversion rate is 30% of ATK converted into Sheer Force.

Sheer Force will basically increase the amount of Sheer DMG Yixuan deals. Sheer DMG deals a large amount of damage by simply ignoring enemy defenses.

Yixuan can increase her own Sheer DMG, which scales on her own HP. Every point of Max HP increases her Sheer Force by 0.1.

As mentioned, Yixuan does not use the usual Energy system. She uses Adrenaline. Overall, Adrenaline functions the same as Energy: it accumulates in various ways, and Yixuan can spend it to use her EX Special Attacks.

Yixuan gains adrenaline through the following actions:

• Her Core Skill allows Yixuan to restore ALL Adrenaline upon entering combat
• When triggering an Anomaly Yixuan restores an additional 10 Adrenaline
• Triggering a Perfect Dodge grants an additional 5 Adrenaline for Yixuan
• When another character in your squad is a Stun, Support, or Defense character:
• If they use an Ultimate, Yixuan continuously recovers 2 Adrenaline over 10s.
• If Yixuan is switched out by a Perfect Assist, she restores an additional 5 Adrenaline.
• While Channelling Yixuan's EX Special Attack:
• If hit during activation of the upward wing attack she recovers 10 Adrenaline.
• When an upward wing strike hits an enemy with a red flash or yellow flash she recovers 10 Adrenaline.
• While channelling her Basic Attack: Auric Array, continuously recover Adrenaline, recovering 7/s, for up to 3s.

The last thing to know about Adrenaline is that consuming it will grant you Technique points. You gain 0.67 points for each point of Adrenaline consumed. Once you accumulated enough Technique Points, you can finally trigger her additional Ultimate Attack called Endless Talisman Suppression.

You still need enough Decibels to trigger the ultimate, but if you have enough Technique Points, the second ultimate will trigger with priority. During this ultimate, Yixuan will spread her wings to attack.

Now that you understand the basic of Yixuan's kit, here is how to play Yixuan. Most of Yixuan's damage comes from her EX Special Attack. What you want to do is accumulate Adrenaline constantly, to be able to use her EX Special Attack: Ink Manifestation.

First, you want to set up any of the support or stun agents in your team to get all their buffs up. Note that Agents such as Astra Yao got their kit modified to include Rupture Agents.

If you have a Stun, Support, or Defense Agent in your squad, you want to first use Yixuan's Ultimate, as this will allow her to enter the Meditation sate and gain 40% CRIT DMG for 15s.

Yixuan will start the fight with a full Adrenaline bar thanks to her Core Skill. This allows you to directly channel her EX Special Attack, while blocking and negating incoming damage while you do so, and regain some Adrenaline.

Keep in mind that the longer you channel her skills, the more damage you will do. Channeling her EX Special Attack until your run out of Adrenaline allows you to execute a powerful finisher automatically.

After that, the rotation is quite simple:

• Accumulate Adrenaline
• Spend it to get Technique Points
• Trigger your additional Ultimate: Endless Talisman Suppression
• This gives you Auric Ink Points
• Spend the Auric Ink Point to trigger Basic Attack: Auric Array
• Hold your dodge to enter High-speed Light as Air state and deploy an array dealing damage
• This will trigger your Qingming Eruption
• By then you should have enough Adrenaline again, and can start over

Yixuan is a powerful main DPS. Note that Defense Shred debuffs as well as Pen ratio buffs do not work on Rupture Agents, which limits Yixuan's team options.

For the time being, Yixuan may have limited team options, as the only Agent buffing directly Sheer Force is Pan Yinhu. This makes him by far the best teammate for Yixuan. Yixuan's teams will basically consist of her, Pan Yinhu, and the last slot is more flexible. Astra Yao is the best third agent for Yixuan. Astra provides Yixuan with ATK, DMG, and CRIT DMG bonuses. On top of that, Rupture agents were added to Astra's additional ability, allowing her to synergise with Yixuan. While Astra's ATK bonus needs to be converted into Sheer Force, it will ultimately be a lower bonus than Pan's direct SHeer Force buff, but it remains a very good buff nonetheless.

While she is not released yet, Ju Fufu will most likely be the best third slot for Yixuan as she will provide more buffs.

If your Astra Yao is already busy, you can use Caesar King which also provides ATK buffs. Again, keep in mind that any ATK buffs need to be converted into Sheer DMG for Yixuan, which ultimately makes it a smaller buff.

For more F2P options, Pulchra is your best pick, especially due to the King of the Summit Drive Disc set tailored for Stun Agents that Pulchra can take advantage off to buff the CRIT DMG of all Squad members. Other options such as Lucy, or even Koleda Belobog are also perfectly viable.