Nangong Yu Skill Kit & Playstyle Analysis

General Introduction

Nangong Yu is a S Rank Agent of the Stun Specialty and Ether Element in Zenless Zone Zero and is the last member of the Angels of Delusion. She is a very unique stunner that scales off Anomaly Proficiency instead of the usual Impact stat for a Stun Specialty Agent and specializes in enabling different Abloom effects for Anomaly Agents in the team to take advantage of and deal amazing damage.

Skill Analysis & Leveling Priority

	Basic Attack: Deal 3 instances of Ether damage to enemies. Enhanced Basic Attack: Hold Basic Attack to Charge Up Nangong Yu’s Basic Attack, dealing Ether damage to enemies. Nangong Yu can deal up to 3 hits, with the 2nd and 3rd hit each consuming 50 Downbeats.
	Leveling Priority: High
Basic Attack
Reason: The majority of Nangong Yu’s on field damage is based on her Basic Attacks and Enhances Basic Attacks, so players should level this up as high as possible to improve her damage and her Daze modifiers.

	Special Attack: Deal Ether Damage to enemies.  EX Special Attack: Spend Energy to Deal enhanced Ether Damage to enemies.
	Leveling Priority: Medium
Special Attack
Reason: Level this up to optimize Nangong Yu’s Daze modifiers when she uses her Special Attack.

	Chain Attack: Takes the field to deal Ether damage to enemies. Ultimate: Deal Ether Damage to enemies. Upon triggering this ability, activate Ether Veil: Delusion Reprise, granting all allies an Attack boost. When Ether Veil: Delusion Reprise is already activated, resets the duration.
	Leveling Priority: Medium
Chain Attack & Ultimate
Reason: Level this up to optimize Nangong Yu’s Daze modifiers when she uses her Ultimate.

	Dodge: Dodge enemies’ attacks. Dodge Counter: Dodge the enemies’ attack, then deal Ether damage to enemies.
	Leveling Priority: Low
Dodge
Reason: Only level this up to optimize Nangong Yu’s Daze Modifiers.

	Defensive Assist: Takes the field and parries the enemies’ attacks. Assist Follow Up: Deals Ether Damage to enemies.
	Leveling Priority: Low
Assist
Reason: Only level this up to optimize Nangong Yu’s Daze Modifiers.

	Core Passive: Nangong Yu’s Anomaly Proficiency increases by 120. When Nangong Yu’s initial Anomaly Mastery exceeds 110, each point of initial Anomaly Mastery above that increases her Impact by 1. When an enemy is Stunned, each time any character triggers an Abloom attack, a Disorder attack, or inflicts an Attribute Anomaly on the enemy, the enemy gains 1 stacks of Vibrato. A single enemy can have up to 4 stacks of Vibrato. If Vibrato reaches the maximum stacks and is afflicted with an Anomaly, or if the enemy has Vibrato and recovers from being Stunned, all Vibrato stacks will be cleared.When Vibrato is cleared, if the enemy is suffering an Ether, Electric, Fire, Physical, or Ice Anomaly, Nangong Yu triggers an Abloom attack on the target, dealing an additional instance of Attribute Anomaly DMG equal to 720%/360%/900%/63%/90% of the original Attribute Anomaly DMG. Each stack of Vibrato on the enemy increases this Abloom DMG ratio by an additional 25%. During the same Stun period, once Vibrato has been cleared, the enemy cannot gain Vibrato again. When Nangong Yu’s Basic Attack: Adorable Explosive Impact or EX Special Attack: The Unbearable Weight of Love hits an enemy, her Anomaly Buildup Rate increases by 35%, and her Daze dealt increases by 20%, and all squad members’ DMG dealt increases by 25% for 30s. Repeated triggers reset the duration. While in combat, Nangong Yu restores 3.8 Downbeats/s. When any squad member inflicts an Attribute Anomaly on an enemy, Nangong Yu restores an additional 12 Downbeats. This effect can trigger once every 6s. Nangong Yu can hold up to 100 Downbeats, and starts with 30 Downbeats upon entering the battlefield. Additional Ability:  When another character in your squad is an Anomaly character or shares the same Faction: Any squad member’s attack against a Stunned enemy has 30% increased Anomaly Buildup Rate. Chain Attacks against a Stunned enemy have an additional 30% increased Anomaly Buildup Rate. When any squad member Stuns an enemy, gain 2 stacks of Dance Prowess, up to a maximum of 2 stacks, lasting 15s. With Dance Prowess, when a heavy attack from Nangong Yu’s EX Special Attack: The Unbearable Weight of Love, Basic Attack: Adorable Explosive Impact, or Quick Assist: Emergency Save hits an enemy that is both Stunned and affected by an Attribute Anomaly, 1 stack of Dance Prowess is consumed to trigger the special Disorder effect Polarity Disorder against all enemies who meet the conditions. This deals DMG equal to 25% of the original Disorder DMG, and triggers the previous squad member’s Quick Assist. Polarity Disorder does not clear the target’s Attribute Anomaly. If the skill fails to trigger Polarity Disorder, Dance Prowess will not be consumed. When Nangong Yu has Dance Prowess, the next time she switches to the field, she will immediately perform the first charged hit of Basic Attack: Adorable Explosive Impact, which will always trigger precise charging. When any squad member Stuns an enemy, Nangong Yu’s next EX Special Attack will not consume Energy. This effect lasts 15s and can trigger once every 15s. When Nangong Yu and Aria are in the same squad, if Aria’s Basic Attack: Perfect Pitch heavy attack hits an enemy that is both Stunned and affected by an Attribute Anomaly, and Nangong Yu fully participates in the attack, 1 stack of Dance Prowess will also be consumed to trigger Polarity Disorder on the enemy. When the third hit of Nangong Yu’s Basic Attack: Adorable Explosive Impact or Ultimate: Meteor Shower hits an enemy, the enemy suffers Misstep. Under this effect, Stun DMG Multiplier increases by 30% and when an enemy becomes Stunned, their Stun duration increases by 3s. Before recovering from Stun, Misstep can only trigger once on the same target. The increased Stun duration cannot stack with similar effects. When an enemy with Misstep recovers from Stun, the Misstep effect ends.
	Unlock Priority: Highest
Core Skill, Additional Ability & Potential
Reason: Nangong Yu’s main gimmick and skill kit modifiers relies heavily on this ability’s level, so players should prioritize leveling this up as high as possible.

Playstyle Guide & Rotation

Nangong Yu’s playstyle is relatively simple in nature despite having a lot of text, with her main gimmick lies mainly in her ability to allow the team to deal Abloom damage and additional Burst damage on enemies when attacking enemies under Attribute Anomaly effects.

When on the field, Nangong Yu can consume Downbeat Points to charge up her Basic Attack to different stages to attack enemies, with the more points she consume allowing her to deal more hits and deal more Daze damage to enemies. Nangong Yu can gain Downbeat Points gradually while she is on field or whenever her allies trigger Attribute Anomaly effects on enemies.

After stunning the enemies with her attacks, whenever the team triggers an Abloom, Attribute Anomaly effect or Disorder effect on the enemies, Nangong Yu will inflict a stack of Vibrato on enemies. When they have 4 stacks of Vibrato and recover from stagger, they will be inflicted with a massive burst damage instance of Abloom damage from Nangong Yu.

Additionally, when Nangong Yu Additional Ability is active, when teammates attack enemies in Stunned State, all allies will gain additional Attribute Anomaly buildup rate, allowing the team to inflict Attribute Anomaly more effectively. When enemies are stunned, Nangong Yu will gain a special Dance Prowess stack that will be consumed when attacking enemies under both stunned and attribute anomaly effect to trigger a Disorder effect on them, dealing massive amounts of Anomaly damage. This effect is further enhanced if Aria is in the team.

In essence, Nangong Yu is an amazing Sub DPS and enabler Agent for Anomaly teams, capable of stunning, triggering Abloom and even triggering Disorder effects on enemies to deal amazing damage to enemies.

Nangong Yu Best In Slot W-Engines

As a Stun Specialty Agent that specializes in enabling Anomaly teams, Nangong Yu wants W-Engines that can either boost her Anomaly stats or Impact stats while also offering the team additional benefits.

Nangong Yu Best W-Engines Choices

Some of Nangong Yu’s Best W-Engine Choices are:

Neon Fantasies	Hellfire Gears	Ice-Jade Teapot
Limited 5* W-Engine	Standard 5* W-Engine	Limited 5* W-Engine

	Main Stat: 713 Attack
	Sub Stat: 30% Anomaly Mastery
Neon Fantasies	W-Engine Rating: Best W-Engine
Effect: The equipper’s Anomaly Proficiency increases by 90. When the equipper’s EX Special Attack or Basic Attack deals Ether DMG, all squad members’ DMG dealt increases by 15% for 40s, stacking up to 2 times. This effect can trigger once per use of a skill and repeated triggers reset the duration. With 2 stacks, the equipper’s Anomaly Proficiency increases by an additional 60. Only one instance of this effect can exist in the same squad.
Explanation: Nangong Yu’s signature W-Engine that massively boosts her much needed Anomaly stats and allow her to grant the entire team a massive damage boost.

	Main Stat: 684 Attack
	Sub Stat: 18% Impact
Hellfire Gears	W-Engine Rating: Best Alternative
Effect: While off-field, the equipper’s Energy Regen increases by 0.6/s.When using an EX Special Attack, the equipper’s Impact is increased by 10% for 10s, stacking up to 2 times. The duration of each stack is calculated separately.
Explanation: Nangong Yu’s best alternative W-Enginer that boosts her Impact stats, allowing her to Stagger the enemies much quicker.

	Main Stat: 713 Attack
	Sub Stat: 18% Impact
Ice-Jade Teapot	W-Engine Rating: Good Alternative
Effect: When a Basic Attack hits an enemy, gain 1 stack of Tea-riffic. Each stack of Tea-riffic increases the user’s Impact by 0.7%, stacking up to 30 times, and lasting for 8s. The duration of each stack is calculated separately. Upon acquiring Tea-riffic, if the equipper possesses stacks of Tea-riffic greater than or equal to 15, all squad members’ DMG is increased by 20% for 10s. Passive effects of the same name do not stack.
Explanation: Another decent alternative W-Engine for Nangong Yu that mainly boost her overall Impact output to help her stun her enemies easier.

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Nangong Yu Best Drive Discs Builds & Stats

Nangong Yu Best Drive Discs Set

The best drive disc sets for Nangong Yu are the 4pcs Phaethon’s Melody set, which boost her overall Anomaly Mastery Stat while also offer her a boost in Ether damage. For the 2 pcs set, players should use the 2pcs Freedom Blues set, which offer her a boost in Anomaly Proficiency.

	Phaethon’s Melody
2-pc: Anomaly Mastery +8%.
4-pc: When any squad member uses an EX Special Attack, the equipper’s Anomaly Proficiency increases by 45 for 8s. If the character using the EX Special Attack is not the equipper, the equipper’s Ether DMG is increased by 25%.

	Freedom Blues
2-pc: Anomaly Proficiency +30
4-pc: When an EX Special Attack hits an enemy, reduce the target’s Anomaly Buildup RES to the equipper’s Attribute by 20% for 8s. This effect does not stack with others of the same attribute.

Nangong Yu Best Main Stats & Sub Stats

As an Agent that needs Anomaly stats to optimize her entire skill kits and abilities, Nangong Yu’s Disc Stats should follow the usual build for an Anomaly Specialty Agent with an emphasis on Anomaly stats instead of the usual Impact stats.

Her preferred stats are as followed:

Important Stat Threshold:

– As a very unique Stun Specialty Agent that scales off Anomaly stats, players should boost Nangong Yu’s Anomaly Mastery and Anomaly Proficiency as high as possible to boost her Impact stat through her Core Skill and improve her Abloom damage overall.

– For Nangong Yu’s 5th Disc, Ether Damage, Attack or Pen Ratio are viable Discs depending on their sub stats.

Nangong Yu Best Teams 

As Nangong yu mainly serves as a sub DPS and Anomaly-based agent that is capable of enabling Abloom and Stun enemies, she fits well with Anomaly centric teams alongside her fellow Angel of Delusion or other Anomaly Specialty Agents.

Angels of Delusion Team

Aria	Nangong Yu	Sunna
Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
Essential	Essential	Essential

Main DPS: Aria is Nangong Yu’s best teammate and is the team’s main on field DPS as she gains extreme benefits when the team trigger Attribute Anomaly, Abloom and Disorder effects on enemies, which can easily be triggered with the help of Nangong Yu.

Sub DPS/ Stunner: Nangong Yu serves as this team’s sub DPS and Enabler with her ability to not only quickly stun the enemies but also trigger Abloom on enemies under Attribute Anomaly, allowing the team to gain amazing benefits from her Abloom effects while also trigger powerful burst damage effect herself when the main DPS deal damage to enemies under Attribute Anomaly.

Support/ Sustain: Sunna is the team’s Support and Sustain character, with her skill kit massively boosting the team’s overall attack and anomaly stats while also allowing the team to deal even more Attribute Anomaly, Abloom and Disorder damage to enemies even when she is off-field.

Generic Anomaly Team

Miyabi	Nangong Yu	Yuzuha
Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
Flexible	Essential	Flexible

Main DPS: Any main DPS character that can take full advantage of Nangong Yu’s amazing ability to trigger Abloom on enemies can fit in this Anomaly team, with different Agents like Miyabi or Alice fitting this slot quite well.

Sub DPS/ Stunner: Nangong Yu is the team’s sub DPS character with her ability to deal Abloom damage to enemies and trigger burst damage against enemies under Attribute Anomalies while also helping to stun enemies, allowing her to be an effective DPS character as long as the team’s main DPS can trigger Attribute Anomaly efficiently.

Support: Different Anomaly-based Support characters can fit into this team, as long as they have a means to either boost the team’s overall Attribute Anomaly damage output or can help Force trigger Attribute Anomalies. Some good options includes Sunna, Yuzuha and more.

Conclusion

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