In Zenless Zone Zero, Piper is a member of the Sons of Calydon and a top-notch logistics driver. This A-rank character dishes out physical slash damage and has an anomaly specialty, meaning she can apply some debuffs to foes while chipping away at their HP.
If you want to meet another Sons of Calydon member, check out our Zenless Zone Zero Lucy build, then head over to our Zenless Zone Zero tier list to see if they’re worth rolling for. You can also pick up some free stuff with our Zenless Zone Zero code guide.
Here’s everything in our ZZZ Piper build guide:
What is the best Piper build?
ZZZ Piper is an A-rank character who deals physical damage with an anomaly specialty.
| Rank | A |
| Attribute | Physical |
| Specialty | Anomaly |
| Attack type | Slash |
| Best W-engine | Roaring Ride |
| Best drive discs | 4pc Fanged Metal, 2pc Freedom Blues |
| Main stats |
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| Sub-stats | Anomaly proficiency > attack > crit rate/damage |
Piper is a really good and affordable DPS if you want a physical or anomaly unit. Anomaly specialists are great at applying debuffs and accumulating anomaly buildup to weaken enemies. She can hit around 80-100k easily when inflicting assault, especially if you use her in a team with Zenless Zone Zero’s Caesar and Zenless Zone Zero’s Lucy to buff her stats and provide synergy.
We recommend equipping her with the Roaring Ride W-Engine to increase her attack. As for drive discs, we’re running with four pieces of Freedom Blues to increase her anomaly proficiency and two Fanged Metal for a physical damage boost.
How to use Piper
Piper’s damage comes from her charged EX special and special attacks. The best thing to do is lay down any groundwork with Caesar or Lucy, then swap to Piper, hold the special attack, and spin away at enemies.
When she gets 20 stacks of Power, Piper then gives a teamwide damage buff – so you can safely swap off her after her spin attack to deal heavier damage with another squadmate.
What are Piper’s best W-Engines?
The best W-Engine for Piper is Roaring Ride as it boosts her attack and can also help with her anomaly proficiency and anomaly buildup rate. You can safely use Grace’s S-rank engine on her, or the Electro Lipgloss from the battlepass if you don’t have a Roaring Ride handy.
| Roaring Ride | Stat: Increases attack Skill: When Piper’s EX Special attack hits an enemy, one of three effects is randomly triggered for five seconds. -Increases Piper’s attack by 8% -Increases Piper’s anomaly proficiency by 40 -Increases Piper’s anomaly buildup rate by 25%This effect can trigger every 0.3 seconds and the same type of effect cannot stack. Repeated triggers reset the duration, allowing several effects to be active at once |
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| Fusion Compiler | Stat: Increases penetration ratio Skill: Increases Piper’s attack. When using a special or an EX special attack, her anomaly proficiency increases. This can stack up to three times. The duration of each stack is calculated separately |
Standard and w-engine banner |
| Electro Lipgloss | Stat: Increases anomaly proficiency Skill: When there are enemies inflicted with assault (or another attribute) on the field, Piper’s attack increases by 10% and she deals an additional 15% more damage to the target |
New Eridu City Fund pass |
What are the best drive discs for Piper?
We recommend you equip Piper with four pieces of Fanged Metal or Freedom Blues to bring up her anomaly proficiency or for a boost to physical damage. You can safely use both of these sets to get good damage out of her, it really depends on which set has better substats.
The key stats to build her with are anomaly proficiency, anomaly mastery, and a physical damage bonus disc, though any crit rate and crit damage will also help to give her a damage boost.
| Fanged Metal | Two pieces – Increases physical damage by 10% Four pieces – Piper deals 35% additional damage to a target for 12 seconds when a squad member inflicts assault on them |
| Freedom Blues | Two pieces – Increases anomaly proficiency by 30 Four pieces – Reduces the target’s anomaly buildup resistance to Piper’s attribute by 20% for eight seconds when an EX Special attack hits them. This does not stack |
Stat recommendations
Here are the stats you should prioritize when building Piper:
Main stats
- Disc four: Anomaly proficiency
- Disc five: Physical damage bonus
- Disc six: Anomaly mastery or energy regen
Sub-stats
- Anomaly proficiency > crit rate/damage > attack
What are Piper’s best team comps?
Now that we have more Sons of Calydon, Piper is really starting to shine. Using her with Caesar and/or Lucy in any comp pays dividends, and using all three together is even better. Lucy and Ben also work well together with Piper as they provide buffs and a shield to keep her safe during her long spin attack.
Piper can quickly activate chain attacks and can finish them off with a big smash. She’s great at inflicting assault, too, like a pint-size version of Jane Doe. We have found that using them together is great fun, however.
As for your Zenless Zone Zero bangboo, we recommend Red Moccus, Pistolboo, or Avocaboo if you need a bit of healing.
 Piper |
 Caesar |
 Burnice |
 Red Moccus |
Piper |
 Lucy |
Caesar |
Red Moccus |
Piper |
Lucy |
 Nekomata |
 Bangvolver |
Piper |
 Jane |
Caesar |
Red Moccus |
Piper |
Lucy |
 Ben |
 Rocketboo |
What are Piper’s skills?
Piper’s skills include some attacks that deal heavy slash damage against foes.
Attacks
| Basic attack | Load Up and Roll Out Performs up to five slashes, dealing physical damage |
| Special attack | Tire Spin Piper spins in the air dealing AoE physical damage. Hold the special attack button to extend the duration of the attack, performing increasingly powerful spinning slashes. If you use this skill after the third hit of your basic attack, dash attack, or dodge counter then the more powerful hit is activated, during this activation Piper’s anti-interrupt level increases and reduces the damage taken |
| Special attack | One Trillion Tons Release the special attack button when Tire Spin is active to trigger a downward smash attack that deals physical damage based on the charge level of Tire Spin. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
| EX special attack | Engine Spin Keep holding the special attack button after it lights up purple to make Piper rapidly spin and unleash a powerful spinning slash that deals massive physical damage. This skill consumes energy for up to three seconds and during this time Piper’s anti-interrupt level increases and reduces the damage taken |
| EX special attack | Really Heavy Release the special attack button during Engine Spin to unleash a downward smash attack that deals massive physical damage. If Engine Spin reaches its limit or your energy drops to 20, Really Heavy automatically activates. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
Dodges
| Dodge | Handbrake Drift Piper rapidly dodges and is invulnerable |
| Dash attack | Pedal to the Metal Press the basic attack button during a dodge to slash in front, dealing physical damage |
| Dodge counter | Power Drift Press the basic attack button during a perfect dodge to unleash a downward smash that deals physical damage. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
Combo attacks
| Quick assist | Brake Tap Launch a downward smash at enemies in front, dealing physical damage. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
| Defensive assist | Emergency Brake Parry the enemy’s attack and deal massive daze. This skill reduces the consumption of assist points when the character is under intense attacks. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
| Assist follow-up | Overtaking Maneuver Charge forward and slash enemies, dealing physical damage. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
| Chain attack | Buckle Up Unleash a powerful downward slash that deals AoE physical damage. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
| Chain attack ultimate | Hold~ On~ Tight~ Unleash powerful slashes that deal physical damage in a large AoE. Piper is invulnerable when using this skill |
Passive skills
| Core passive | Power Charge When Engine Spin or Hold~ On~ Tight~ hits an enemy Piper gains one stack of power, up to a maximum of 20 stacks, lasting for 12 seconds. Repeated triggers reset the duration. For every stack of power, Piper’s physical anomaly buildup rate increases |
| Additional ability | Synced Acceleration Increases all squad members’ damage when Piper has 20 or more power if another character on your team shares the same attribute or faction |
What are Piper’s mindscape cinemas?
To increase Piper’s mindscape cinema level you need to receive a repeat of her during a gacha pull. The mindscape cinema is similar to Genshin Impact’s constellations and Honkai Star Rail’s eidolons.
Here are all of Piper’s mindscape cinemas:
| 01 | Leisure Moment When Tire Spin, Engine Spin, or Hold~ On~ Tight~ hits an enemy there’s a 50% chance to gain an additional stack of power. Increases Piper’s maximum stack limit of power to 30 |
| 02 | Motivation Piper’s movement speed increases during Tire Spin and Engine Spin. Increases the physical damage of One Trillion Tons, Really Heavy, and Hold~ On~ Tight~ by 10% when they hit an enemy. This buff is increased by 1% for each stack of power |
| 03 | Truck Expert Increases the level of basic attack, dodge, assist, special attack, and chain attack by two |
| 04 | Refined Techniques Piper receives 20 energy whenever a squad member inflicts an attribute anomaly on an enemy. Can trigger once every 30 seconds |
| 05 | Personal Hobbies Increases the level of basic attack, dodge, assist, special attack, and chain attack by two |
| 06 | Mild Excitement Increases the duration limit of Engine Spin by two seconds and the duration of power by four seconds |
What are Piper’s promotion materials?
To get Piper to the maximum level you need to save up your denny and nab numerous certification seals from combat simulation – agent promotion or craft them from old seals and components you don’t need.
| 10➔20 | 24k denny Four basic anomaly certification seals |
| 20➔30 | 56k denny 12 advanced anomaly certification seals |
| 30➔40 | 120k denny 20 advanced anomaly certification seals |
| 40➔50 | 200k denny Ten controller certification seals |
| 50➔60 | 400k denny 20 controller certification seals |
Here’s where to get all of Piper’s promotion materials:
- Anomaly certification seals – obtain from the agent promotion combat simulation challenges
What are Piper’s core skill enhancement materials?
To increase the levels of Piper’s core skills you need lots of denny, plenty of higher dimensional data: crimson awes, and a handful of finale dance shoes.
Here are all of Piper’s core skill enhancement materials:
| A | 5k denny |
| B | 12k denny Two higher dimensional data: crimson awe |
| C | 28k denny Four higher dimensional data: crimson awe |
| D | 60k denny Nine higher dimensional data: crimson awe Two finale dance shoes |
| E | 100k denny 15 higher dimensional data: crimson awe Three finale dance shoes |
| F | 200k denny 30 higher dimensional data: crimson awe Four finale dance shoes |
Here’s how to get the materials for Piper’s core skill enhancement:
- Higher dimensional data: crimson awe – obtain from Expert Challenge: Wanted Enforcer
- Finale dance shoes – obtain from the Notorious Hunt: Twin Marionettes weekly boss
What are Piper’s skill enhancement materials?
You need different levels of physical chips to enhance Piper’s skills. You can get them by completing combat simulation – agent skills and by dismantling other chips.
Here are all of Piper’s skill enhancement materials:
| 02 | 2k denny Two basic physical chips |
| 03 | 3k denny Three basic physical chips |
| 04 | 6k denny Two advanced physical chips |
| 05 | 9k denny Three advanced physical chips |
| 06 | 12k denny Four advanced physical chips |
| 07 | 18k denny Six advanced physical chips |
| 08 | 45k denny Five specialized physical chips |
| 09 | 67.5k denny Eight specialized physical chips |
| 10 | 90k denny Ten specialized physical chips |
| 11 | 112.5k denny 12 specialized physical chips |
| 12 | 135k denny 15 specialized physical chips One hamster cage pass |
Here’s where to get all of her skill enhancement materials:
- Physical chips – obtain from the agent skills combat simulation challenges
- Hamster cage pass – obtain from events or the New Eridu City Fund (battle pass)
Skill priority:
- Special attack > chain attack > assist > basic attack > dodge
That’s everything you need to know about Zenless Zone Zero’s Piper. If you’re after more ZZZ, take a look at our Zenless Zone Zero banner and Zenless Zone Zero update guides.