Zenless Zone Zero’s Lucy is an A-rank support character who deals fire damage and strike attacks against enemies. She’s a member of the Sons of Calydon and has three loyal guard boars named Grassy, Woody, and Bricky.
Before we get into the meat of this guide, make sure you check out a fellow Son of Calydon in our Zenless Zone Zero Piper build, then browse our Zenless Zone Zero tier list to see if you should roll for them.
Here’s everything you need to know about Zenless Zone Zero’s Lucy.
What is the best Lucy build?
As we mentioned up above, Lucy is an A-rank character who deals fire damage with a strike fighting style and has a support specialty. We recommend you equip her with a Kaboom the Cannon W-Engine for an energy regen boost. For disc drives, go with four pieces of Swing Jazz to boost energy regen further and two pieces of Hormone Punk for a crit rate boost.
It’s worth noting that the effect from a four piece set of Swing Jazz doesn’t stack, so if you have it equipped to someone else, feel free to use four Hormone Punk and two Swing Jazz instead.
| Best W-Engine | Kaboom the Cannon |
| Best disc drives | Two pieces – Hormone Punk Four pieces – Swing Jazz |
| Main stats | Attack ratio > energy regen |
| Sub-stats | Attack ratio > attack > crit (rate or damage) > anomaly proficiency |
Please note that as we’re so close to launch this build is bound to change as learn the meta.
What are Lucy’s best W-Engines?
Kaboom the Cannon is our recommendation for Lucy’s W-Engine as it helps boost squad members’ attack.
| W-Engine | Effect |
| Kaboom the Cannon | Increases all squad members’ attack for eight seconds when any friendly unit in the squad hits an enemy, stacking up to four times. The duration of each stack is calculated separately, and each friendly unit can provide one stack. Passive effects of the same name do not stack |
What are the best disc drives for Lucy?
At the moment we recommend four pieces of Swing Jazz for energy regen boost and buff to other squad members’ damage. As for the two piece set, we’re going with Hormone Punk, but this may change as we continue to explore the meta.
| Disc drives | Effect |
| Swing Jazz | Two pieces – Increases energy regen by 20% Four pieces – Increases all squad members’ damage by 15% for 12 seconds when launching a chain attack or ultimate. Passive effects of the same name do not stack |
| Hormone Punk | Two pieces – Increases fire damage by 10% Four pieces – Increases crit rate by 28% by eight seconds when you hit a burning enemy |
Lucy’s stat recommendations:
Make sure you prioritize these stats when building Lucy.
Main stats:
- Attack ratio
- Energy regen
Sub-stats:
- Attack ratio
- Attack
- Crit (rate or damage)
- Anomaly proficiency
What are Lucy’s skills?
Lucy’s skills feature plenty of boar goodness as they explode to deal damage to enemies and whirl baseball bats around the arena.
Lucy’s attacks:
| Skill | Effect |
| Basic attack – Lady’s Bat | Strike up to four times dealing physical and fire damage. On the fourth basic attack, the currently on-field guard boars will launch Guard Boars: Spinning Swing! |
| Guard Boars: To Arms! | The guard boars will randomly use a baseball bat, boxing gloves, or a slingshot to automatically deal physical damage |
| Guard Boars: Spinning Swing | When Lucy uses her fourth basic attack or gains the Cheer On! Status, the guard boars whirl their baseball bats, dealing AoE physical damage. If they cannot execute the attack straight away, the boars will remember the required number of whirls and execute them they can |
| Special attack – Solid Hit! | Press special attack to recall the guard boars then throw them as a line drive. On hit with walls or enemies, they cause AoE fire damage Hold special attack to recall the guard boars then throw them as a fly ball. When they land, they cause AoE fire damage |
| EX special attack – Home Run! | Press special attack to recall the guard boars then throw them as a line drive. On hit with walls or enemies, they cause massive AoE fire damage. Piper is invulnerable while using this skill Hold special attack to recall the guard boars then throw them as a fly ball. When they land, they cause massive AoE fire damage. Piper is invulnerable while using this skill |
| Cheer On! | After using Piper’s EX Special attack the guard boars trigger an explosion that applies the Cheer On! status to all allies, Bangboo, and the guard boars themselves. The Cheer On! status increases attack and lasts up to ten seconds when a Line Drive is hit and 15 seconds when a Fly Ball is hit. Repeated triggers reset the duration |
Lucy’s dodges:
| Skill | Effect |
| Dodge – Foul Ball! | A rapid dodge. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
| Dask attack – Fearless Boar! | Press the basic attack button during a dodge to rapidly strike enemies, dealing physical damage |
| Dodge counter – Returning Tusk! | Press the basic attack button during a perfect dodge to strike enemies, dealing fire damage. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
Lucy’s combo attacks:
| Skill | Effect |
| Quick assist – Hit by Pitch! | Strike enemies in front, dealing fire damage. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
| Defensive assist – Safe on Base! | Parry the enemy’s attack, dealing massive daze. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
| Assist follow-up – Scored a Run! | Strike enemies in front, dealing fire damage. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
| Chain attack – Grand Slam! | Jump in the air and launch a guard boar at enemies, dealing massive AoE fire damage. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
| Chain attack ultimate – Walk-Off Home Run! | Launch all guard boars at the enemy, dealing massive AoE fire damage. While using this skill, other squad members recover ten energy, and the next character to switch in recovers an additional 20 energy. Lucy is invulnerable while using this skill |
Lucy’s passives:
| Skill | Effect |
| Core passive – Crimson Mane Guard | When Lucy uses her Special attack or EX Special attack, a guard boar joins the battle and calls two others. Guard boars inherit Lucy’s attack and impact. The Cheer On! effect increases by 140% for the boars and their attack frequency is increased |
| Additional ability – Batter Up! | If another character in the squad shares the same attribute or faction, the guard boars inherit Lucy’s crit rate and crit damage |
What are Lucy’s promotion materials?
To help Lucy reach her full potential you need to save up your denny and collect certification seals from combat simulation – agent promotion or you can craft them from old seals and components you don’t need.
Here are all of Lucy’s promotion materials:
| Level | Denny and material |
| 20 | 24,000 denny and four basic support certification seals |
| 30 | 56,000 denny and 12 advanced support certification seals |
| 40 | 120,000 denny and 20 advanced support certification seals |
| 50 | 200,000 denny and ten ruler certification seals |
| 60 | 400,000 denny and 20 ruler certification seals |
What are Lucy’s mindscape cinemas?
If you’re new to ZZZ, mindscape cinema is similar to Genshin Impact’s constellations and Honkai Star Rail’s eidolons. To increase Lucy’s mindscape cinema level you need to pick her up more than once during a gacha pull.
Here are all of Lucy’s mindscape cinemas:
| Mindscape cinema | Effect |
| Drill Formations | Lucy recovers two energy when the guard boars launch Spinning Swing! You can trigger this effect once every 15 seconds, with each boar having its own cooldown |
| Little Boar Captain | When Lucy uses a chain attack or ultimate, all squad members, Bangboo, and guard boars gain the Cheer On! status for ten seconds |
| Ironfist Overseer | Increases the level of basic attack, dodge, assist, special attack, and chain attack by two |
| Chaos Ball Game | Increases all allies’ crit damage by an additional 10% when Cheer On! is active |
| Wildland Princess | Increases the level of basic attack, dodge, assist, special attack, and chain attack by two |
| Fierce Fangs of Fire | When an ally in the Cheer On! state hits an enemy with an EX Special attack, a guard boar drops from the sky to deal AoE fire damage equal to 300% of the guard boar’s attack. This extends the duration of Cheer On! by five seconds for all squad members. The duration can increase up to three times, with a maximum duration of 30 seconds. Refreshing Cheer On! resets the stack count. After the explosion, the boars launch Spinning Swing! |
What are Lucy’s core skill enhancement materials?
To increase the levels of Lucy’s core skills you need a wallet full of denny, plenty of higher dimensional data: steel malice, and a few ferocious grips.
Here are all of Lucy’s core skill enhancement materials:
| Required level | Denny and materials |
| 15 | 5,000 denny |
| 25 | 12,000 denny and two higher dimensional data: steel malice |
| 35 | 28,000 denny and four higher dimensional data: steel malice |
| 45 | 60,000 denny, nine higher dimensional data: steel malice, and two ferocious grips |
| 55 | 100,000 denny, 15 higher dimensional data: steel malice, and three ferocious grips |
| 60 | 200,000 denny, 30 higher dimensional data: steel malice, and four ferocious grips |
What are Lucy’s skill enhancement materials?
To enhance Lucy’s skills you need different levels of burn chip. You can get them by completing combat simulation – agent skills and by dismantling other chips.
Here are all of Lucy’s skill enhancement materials:
| Required level | Denny and materials |
| 15 | 2,000 denny and two basic burn chips |
| 15 | 3,000 denny and three basic burn chips |
| 25 | 6,000 denny and two advanced burn chips |
| 25 | 9,000 denny and three advanced burn chips |
| 35 | 12,000 denny and four advanced burn chips |
| 35 | 18,000 denny and six advanced burn chips |
| 45 | 45,000 denny and five specialized burn chips |
| 45 | 67,500 denny and eight specialized burn chips |
| 55 | 90,000 denny and ten specialized burn chips |
| 55 | 112,500 denny and 12 specialized burn chips |
| 60 | 135,000 denny, 15 specialized burn chips, and one hamster cage pass |
That’s it for our Zenless Zone Zero Lucy build. For more Hoyoverse goodness, check out our Zenless Zone Zero code list for freebies and Zenless Zone Zero banner guide to see who is coming to the game next.