How to build Tsukishiro Yanagi in Zenless Zone Zero

Anomaly damage has quickly become one of the most effective strategies for beating the end game Zenless Zone Zeroand Tsukishiro Yanagi brought another main DPS S-tier Anomaly to the party. Yanagi is fast, fun, weirdly complex, and incredibly powerful, and if you must have one of the highest electrical damage characters in the game, he accepts no substitute.

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It's also pretty easy to build, with solid, premium, free-to-play W-Engines and Drive discs. Playing her requires a bit of extra finesse as she is more of a hit attack and win character, adding more nuance and requirements to using her well. As an anomaly character, her specialty is accumulating anomalies and activating disorders, and as a more technically complex character, getting the rotations right might take some practice.

The best versions of Tsukishiro Yanagi

Tsukishiro Yanagi's signature W-Engine Timeweaver in Zenless Zone Zero

As an electric Anomaly DPS element with a kit that primarily revolves around the Disorder effect, Yanagi follows a more particular build strategy than, say, Ellen Joe. She is somewhat closer to Jane Doe because their priorities are similar: maximize anomaly and disorder damage by any means necessary.

Yanagi is one of the fastest characters in the Zenless Zone Zero roster and while she lacks Jane's extra dodge mobility, she makes up for it with near teleport speed in her optimal attack range and EX Special's speed and invulnerability. Anomaly damage is essential in Yanagi's build, and you'll need to start by choosing from her best W-Engine options.

The best W engines for Tsukishiro Yanagi

Rank	Name	Synergy with Tsukishiro Yanagi
1	Timeweaver	Being Yanagi's signature W-Engine, it is explicitly built with her kit in mind. Not only does it increase the rate of electric anomaly build-up by 30%, but also specials and EX Specials increase the wearer's anomaly capacity by 75.and once this stat reaches 375 or higher, any derangement damage it deals increases by 25%. If another Electrical Anomaly character turns out to be powering Yanagi, this W-Engine has even more value.
2	Fusion Compiler	Grace's signature W-Engine is a fantastic option for Yanagi if you don't want to spend Polychromes and Master Tapes on Timeweaver. The ATK% bonus is higher, being an S rank, and provides additional stacks of anomaly proficiency. It's mainly held back by the main PEN ratio stat, but because the bonuses come from using Special and EX Special abilities, Yanagi can max it out most of the time.
3	Electro-Lip Gloss	If you pay for the New Eridu City Fund battle pass, Electro-Lip Gloss W-Engine is a fantastic A-Rank alternative to Fusion Compiler, largely due to its main Anomaly Proficiency stat and flat damage bonus.. Which you choose between this W-Engine and Grace's signature depends on your habits and availability. of expenses.
4	Twins crying	A completely free W-Engine, Weeping Gemini is still useful for Yanagi if you're not missing any of her top three picks. It is especially useful against bosses and other muscular enemies such as the solid stacking buff Anomaly Proficiency only wears off once a Stun window ends.
5	Roaring Ride	Randomness is the enemy of consistent damage, but in the absence of other options, you can use Roaring Ride on Yanagi and see acceptable results. Yanagi uses enough Special and EX Special attacks that you'll likely have all of this W-Engine's effects active at oncealthough the window to do so is relatively small.
6	Rainforest Gourmet	Yanagi is already technical enough and has to carefully ration his Energy for the Ex Specials to activate Rainforest Gourmet's ATK% stacking benefit isn't practically or statistically worth it.

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Best Drive discs for Tsukishiro Yanagi

Set	Synergy with Tsukishiro Yanagi
Chaos Jazz	Chaos Jazz's four-piece set bonus is almost too good to pass up for Yanagi grants a flat 15% damage bonus to her electric damage and she gains special EX bonuses when she switches on the fieldwhich will do a lot. The 30 extra Anomaly skills from his 2 piece bonus is also nice.
Thunder Metal	Four pieces from the classic electric set are another strong choice for Yanagi, giving a strong ATK% increase whenever an enemy is shocked and a fixed bonus of 10% electric damage in two sets.
Freedom Blues	As a four-piece set, Freedom Blues is well behind Chaos Jazz and Thunder Metal, but The additional anomaly prowess in the two-piece set bonus is a tantalizing way to round out our Yanagi's Drive Disc selection.

Best Bangboo for Tsukishiro Yanagi

Electroboo Bangboo at the remodeling shop in Zenless Zone Zero

There are several Bangboos you could pair with Yanagi, even without the Section 6-specific version; you'll want a Bangboo that synergizes well with Yanagi's kit, so anything focused on anomalies or electric is ideal, as is anything that can group enemies. Better if I can do both.

Here's the short list of the best Bangboos for Yanagi, ranked in order of usefulness:

	Electroboo	Electroboo's main benefit is how it supplements the stack of Yanagi's Shock Anomaly every 18 seconds, and its chain attack adds an even larger amount of stack provided you're fighting an enemy tough enough to allow it to be used.
	Cryboo	If you are lucky enough to have Yanagi and Burnice on the same team, Cryboo takes Burnice's already absurd stacking of Fire Anomaly to another new level.
	Baddieboo	Baddieboo is good for Yanagi for two reasons. First of all, you don't need two characters of the same item to activate everything skills, and secondly, her Raw damage output increases in an Anomaly team.
	Magnetiboo	Enemy Magnetiboo's grouping power increases by 45% when paired with an Anomaly character like Yanagi. While it doesn't deal extra damage like the other options, grouping is incredibly important in fights with tons of garbage mobs.

Tsukishiro Yanagi Skill Overview and Priority

Skill upgrade menu screen for Tsukishiro Yanagi in Zenless Zone Zero

Yanagi's kit revolves around a positioning systemand switch positions using Special and EX Special.

Jougen's stance is noted by the blue diamond below her health bar, electrical damage increases by 10%.
Kagen's position increases its PEN ratio by 10%.

Yanagi holds the advantage from a switched position for eight secondsmeaning it can have both assets constantly with smart position shifting.

You can also switch positions after the third, fourth, or fifth hit of her basic combo by using her special mid combo.which also causes Yanagi to deal additional damage with a set of faster-than-eye slashes. Yanagi's EX Special is another part of her kit, making her invulnerable during her animation, increasing her overall derangement damage by up to 250% for 15 seconds, and activating Polarity Derangement.

This separate instance of disturbance damage it does not eliminate the accumulation of anomalies and can deal more than 2,500% of her anomaly proficiency.

As for the order and priority of improving his abilities, here is the descending order of importance:

EX Special
Basic attack
Final
Assist
Dodge

Tips for playing Tsukishiro Yanagi

The order of operations for the Yanagi game can follow these steps:

Create Shock Anomaly with Yanagi until it is almost ready to activate.
Use other characters (like Burnice, Piper, or Lucy) to create other types of anomalies.
Switch back to Yanagi and cause mayhemsupplementing with her Polarity Disturbance EX Special once the main effect wears off.
Use Yanagi's Ultimate as available for additional damages.

You'll be switching positions a lot while playing Yanagi, and you should take some time to build the rhythm you like with her on the court and when to move on to the rest of your list.