All Zenless Zone Zero Drive Discs

What are the best Zenless Zone Zero Drive Discs? Drive Discs (previously known as Disc Drives) are items in Zenless Zone Zero that can be added to character builds to give increase their base stats and provide an additional boost in combat. Like Genshin Impact artifacts, Drive Discs are used in sets, and combining the right discs with the right characters can give a considerable advantage in battle.

ZZZ Disc Drives are unlocked via the music store, Bardic Needle, run by adorable android Elfy. Once you unlock the Zenless Zone Zero Rally system, you unlock tuning, a separate gacha and upgrade system for Drive Discs in the anime game. Having pulled some discs, you can apply them to your Zenless Zone Zero characters in their equip screen. Below, we’ve compiled the best Zenless Zone Zero Drive Discs to look out for, as well as how to equip and dismantle them.

What are ZZZ Drive Discs?

Each of your ZZZ characters has six Drive Disc slots in their build that can be filled with a Drive Disc. Each individual Drive Disc buffs one or more of your characters base stats. However, by equipping a set of two or four matching Drive Discs, you also gain an additional passive effect.

How to get ZZZ Drive Discs

Towards the very start of the game you meet Elfy, and are tasked with collecting some materials for her. Continue the story for some time to unlock Rally Commissions, at which point you hear from Elfy again, and she opens the Bardic Needle music shop for tuning.

Tuning is another gacha mechanic, separate to ZZZ Signal Searches and specific to Drive Discs. Inside Elfy’s shop, which is just across the street from your video store, you can tune one or ten times. Each draw pulls one or ten random Drive Discs, and each costs five Plating Agents. Plating Agents themselves are earned though Rally Commissions.

Best ZZZ Drive Discs

Polar Metal

Two-piece set: +10% Ice damage
Four-piece set: +20% to basic attack and dash attack damage. When any squad member inflicts Freeze or Shatter, effect is increased by an additional 20% for 12 seconds.

Shockstar Disco

Two-piece set: +6% Impact
Four-piece set: The main target of basic attacks, dash attacks, and dodge counters receives 20% more Daze.

Soul Rock

Two-piece set: +16% defense
Four-piece set: Following HP loss from an enemy hit, user takes 40% less damage for 2.5 seconds. This effect has a cooldown of 15 seconds.

Woodpecker Electro

Two-piece set: +8% critical rate
Four-piece set: When a basic attack, EX special attack, or dodge counter triggers a critical hit, gain a 9% buff to attack for six seconds.

All ZZZ Drive Discs

Chaotic Metal

Two-piece set: +10% Ether damage
Four-piece set: +20% to critical damage. When any party member trigger’s additional Corruption damage, this effect is increased by an additional 5.5% for eight seconds, stacking up to six times and resetting the duration each time.

Fanged Metal

Two-piece set: +10% Physical damage
Four-piece set: When an Assault is triggered on an enemy, user deals additional 35% damage to the target for 12 seconds.

Freedom Blues

Two-piece set: +30 to Anomaly Proficiency
Four-piece set: Reduce target’s Anomaly Buildup resistance to the user’s Attribute by 20% for eight seconds when hit by an EX Special Attack. Does not stack with others of the same attribute.

Hormone Punk

Two-piece set: +10% attack
Four-piece set: When user first enter’s combat or switches in, attack is increased by 25% for ten seconds. This effect has a cooldown of 20 seconds.

Inferno Metal

Two-piece set: +10% fire damage
Four-piece set: Upon hitting a Burning enemy, user’s critical rate is increased by 28% for eight seconds.

Puffer Electro

Two-piece set: +10% penetration ratio
Four-piece set: Increase Ultimate damage by 20%. Launching an ultimate also increases the user’s attack by 15% for 12 seconds.

Swing Jazz

Two-piece set: +20% energy regeneration
Four-piece set: 15% damage buff for all squad members’ for 12 seconds upon launching a chain attack or Ultimate. Does not stack with passive effects of the same name.

Thunder Metal

Two-piece set: +10% Electric damage
Four-piece set: Whenever any enemy in combat is Shocked, +28% to attack.

Basic Drive Disc stats

Each Drive Disc also has basic stats when used alone, and these can be increased by using Plating Agents to level up the drive. The standard base stats for each Drive Disc are as follows:

In slots 4 through 6, each Drive Discs base stat varies depending on the track name, but those above are standard across all drives.

On top of their base stats, Drive Discs also have a set of random stats which vary from disc to disc – for example, even two 6-slot, B-tier Woodpecker Electro discs can have different stats to one another. However, you can always guarantee that higher-tier discs will have better stats across multiple areas.

As an example, an S-tier Shockstar Disco disc might offer buffs to the user’s critical rate, defense, and attack. A B-tier Shockstar Disco, meanwhile, might only offer a small buff to HP. Again, all stats can be increased by upgrading discs.

How to equip ZZZ Drive Discs

When you unlock a Drive Disc, you’ll notice it has a number between one and six associated with it. This relates to the slot in which it can be equipped, so the Drive Disc can then be allocated to that slot on any character from the Squad select screen.

Zenless Zone Zero Drive Discs can only be equipped to their specific slot. For example, you could equip a Fanged Metal 1, 2, 3, and 5, and a Soul Rock 4 and 6. Four Fanged Metal 2 discs could not be equipped to the same character.

Dismantling Discs

You can dismantle any Drive Discs you don’t want, with each disc returning one Plating Agent of its respective rank: A B-rank disc, for example, returns one B-rank Plating Agent. Five Plating Agents are required to pull one disc, so dismantling five unwanted Drive Discs will give you the chance to pull one new Disc.

As each unique piece of music is beautifully complex, so is the Zenless Zone Zero Drive Disc system, but we hope this helps you get to grips with the best discs to equip to your characters. Speaking of your characters, make sure you’ve got enough ZZZ Polychrome to draw from the current Zenless Zone Zero banners, or use the latest ZZZ codes to get more.