Zenless Zone Zero is set to introduce the new S-ranked character, Astra Yao, in the 1.5 update. As a supporter from the Stars of Lyra faction and an Ether character, she brings exciting potential with her traits, skills, and overall performance. To maximize her power, it’s essential to understand which w-engines work best, the optimal Drive Disks to enhance her abilities, and the best team compositions to complement her skills in battle. Here’s your ultimate Zenless Zone Zero Astra Yao build guide.
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What Skills Need to be Prioritized with Astra Yao?
The first thing to learn whenever you are trying to have a Astra Yao build is about the skills. You need to learn what skills she needs to prioritize throughout the game, and here are six skills that she is going to deal with.
The top priority should be given to the core skill, and the next priority should be given to the Chain attack. The special attacks are also on a high-priority list, so you can switch between chain attacks and special attacks based on your current needs. Both basic attack and assist don’t show much importance as they are at the medium level, and the lowest importance will be there with the dodge skill.
So, in the priority order, it should be a core skill, special attack or chain attack, assist or basic attack, and then dodge.
Best Drive Disks
There are several drive disks that help Astra Yao to perform better, as follows.
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4 Astral Voice – when a team member uses a quick assist and enters the field, a stack of Astrall will be provided for all the members. This can last for 15 seconds and can be stocked up to 3 stacks. You can repeat the process so it resets the duration, and with each Strall stack you perform, the damage dealing will increase by 8% for the character who enters using Quick Assist.
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2 Freedom Blues – increased anomaly proficiency is present with this disk.
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2 Swing Jazz – this will bring a 20% energy regeneration.
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2 Hormone Punk – increasing the ATK by 10%.
Best W-Engines
There are four best W-Engines that you can focus on with the Zenless Zone Zero Astra Yao build to make her more powerful, as follows.
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Elegant Vanity – the Elegant Vanity is the best signature W-Engine that you can deploy Astra Yao with, and it has the best attack boosts that help her team increase their damage output. This will be applicable to Astra Yao herself, too. While in a battle, this W-engine is capable of increasing the healing effects, and there are also different useful attack boosts coming with this engine. Whenever Astra Yao is trying to switch for another team member or trying to deal with a chain attack, the Elegant Vanity can provide a better energy regeneration for Astra, and this can generally result in higher damage gifted for the team members of Astra Yao.
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Kaboom the Cannon – although this is an A-ranked w-engine, it is still recommended for the best stackable attack buffs it provides, and this will be given for the Astra Yao’s team when they are dealing damage to the enemy. There is a pretty good level of the buff period available with Kaboom Cannon for a Astra Yao build along with additional energy regeneration.
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Weeping Cradle – another 4-star, S-ranked w-engine that makes Astra Yao here with the best base attack, and as a signature W-engine, it brings a heavy damage output to Astra Yao as well as to her team. Even though Astra Yao is not in the battles, this w-engine is capable of providing her with an extra energy regeneration, and this can bring great damage boosts to her team when enemies have an Astral struck hit against them.
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Slice of Time – this is also an A-ranked but the best w-engine you can go for, and it provides more decibels to Astra Yao, which allows her to release her ultimate quickly. This helps her teammates as well, and this weapon brings faster energy regeneration to the table, too.
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The Vault – this is going to increase the ether damage of Astra Yao, and this w-engine uses the best of her special attacks and chain attacks, which makes Astra more powerful with an additional damage boost. This boost will be applied to her allies, too, when they are in combat.
Best Teams
There are several team recommendations that we can give you for Astra Yao to make her more powerful.
Hypercarry – Yanagi
Astra Yao, as a supporter, will make this team with three members as follows.
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Yanagi as the main DPS
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Astra Yao, as the main supporter
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Rina, as the stun
Rina in this team is supporting Yanagi for her main DPS role with an Electric Damage attribute, and the fact that both of them have this attribute makes it a more complementary bond between the team. Rina will offer additional PEN ratio and shock-related buffs here, while Astra Yao will bring additional damage buffs and survival buffs to the team. And that makes a good point in the Zenless Zone Zero Astra Yao build.
Hypercarry – Evelyn
This hypercarry team is made with Astra Yao included as a man supporter, and the total team distribution will be as follows:
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Evelyn, as a main DPS
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Astra Yao, as the main supporter
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Lighter and Caesar as the sub-supporters
This team has the most complementary mechanics to each other and has the best skills that align well for each. Astra Yao can bring the best buffs and healing to the team, while Evelyn will act as the primary damage dealer. Lighter will support this team by providing some buffs for Evelyn as well as by stunning opponents, while Caesar will become the defender of this team. She has the best shields to cover her team and will also give you the advantage of debuffing the enemies.
Miyabi and Yanagi
We have Miyabi here as the main DPS role, and for a Zenless Zone Zero Astra Yao build, here is how the team goes.
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Miyabi as the main DPS
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Astra Yao as the supporter
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Yanagi, as the sub DPS
Yanagi, with Miyabi here, creates a perfect Disorder team while Miyabi brings the best burst damage to the table. On the other hand, you get the best pressure against the enemies with Yanagi, and there will be healing and additional buffs with Astra Yao.
Best Bangboos
If you are looking for the best Bangboos for the Astra Yao build, we have two options.
Reasonaboo
Reasonaboo pairs well with the Ether damage agents, which is why it gives Astra Yao better performance. It can summon an Ether black hole, and this hole is going to pull enemies off it nonstop. This leads to heavy ether damage against the enemies, which even makes them struck.
Agent Gulliver
Agent Gulliver can bring electric damage to the table by shooting piercing attacks. There will be three of them launched here.
Is Astra Yao worth Pulling?
Yes, because she is a character that has both high supporting and healing traits, and she pairs well with any team. Considering the fact that she is an S-ranked buffer agent, she does well for DPS units like Bernice, Lighter, Yanagi, Miyabi, and more. Astra Yao brings the best team damage buffs in battles while healing her team and thus will ensure the longest survival rate in the combat. So, is Astra worth pulling? Yes indeed.
Conclusion
And that wraps up our guide! Now it's time to build the ultimate Astra Yao in Zenless Zone Zero and put these recommendations into action. With the right strategy, you'll unleash her full potential and dominate the battlefield. If you're eager to get Astra Yao but are short on Monochrome Film, check out LDShop's discounted Zenless Zone Zero top-ups. We're the safest recharge platform offering up to 26% off, so you can save more and get more pulls to strengthen your roster.
