Anton Best Build Guide

Last updated: 27/May/2026

Introduction

Best guide and build for Anton from ZZZ (Zenless Zone Zero). Anton is an rank character with the Electric attribute who belongs to the Attack Specialty and who is part of the Belobog Heavy Industries faction.

Leads Others in His Passion for Work. A senior staff member of Belobog Industries, he's an onsite project manager who's always ready to go. Energetic and Reliable. He's full of vigor and always rises to the occasion. Kind-Hearted Despite Appearances. With a sharp tongue but a soft heart, he can't say "no" to those in need. Strong, Sincere & Straightforward. Open and honest, nothing can seem to upset him.

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Update tracker

Last review update

Patch 1.5

Last build update

Patch 1.5

Last teams update

Patch 2.5

Last profile update*

27/May/2026

*Profile update means smaller edits to disk drives, stats or other things that don't require new calculations.

Kit

Review

Build

SD/DA Analytics

Teams & Synergy

Calculations

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Core skills

Core Passive Brothers in Arms!

Lv. 1

When Anton uses his Pile Driver Attack, the skill's DMG is increased by 12%. When he uses his Drill Attack, the skill's DMG is increased by 20%.

PEN Ratio 0

BASE ATK: 0

Additional Ability Teamwork

When another character in your squad shares the same Attribute or Faction:

While Anton is in Burst Mode, for every 4 critical hits, the next attack hitting Shocked enemies triggers an additional bout of Shock DMG at 45% of the original DMG. This effect can be triggered once every 0.5s.

Skills

Basic

Dodge

Assist

Special

Chain

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills

Press to activate. Unleashes up to 4 mixed attacks in front, dealing Physical DMG. The 4th-hit is a Piledriver Attack.

Multipliers

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills (Burst Mode)

Press while Anton is in Burst Mode to activate: Unleashes up to 3 mixed attacks in front, dealing massive Electric DMG. During the 2nd Drill Attack and 3rd Pile Driver Attack, press repeatedly or hold to extend the skill duration.

Multipliers

Dodge: Let's Move

Press to dodge. A rapid dodge. Character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Dash Attack: Fire With Fire

Press during a Dodge to activate: Rams into enemies in front of him, dealing Physical DMG.

Multipliers

Dodge Counter: Retaliation

Press during a Perfect Dodge to activate. Continuously strikes enemies in front with heavy punches, dealing Physical DMG. Character is invulnerable during the attack.

Multipliers

Dodge Counter: Overload Drill (Burst Mode)

While in Burst Mode, press during a Perfect Dodge to activate. Launch a Drill Attack at enemies in front of him, dealing massive Electric DMG. Character is invulnerable during the attack.

Multipliers

Special Attack: Spin, Bro!

Press to activate. Unleashes a Pile Driver Attack against enemies in a line in front, dealing Electric DMG. Anti-Interrupt level is increased while using this skill.

Multipliers

EX Special Attack: Smash the Horizon, Bro!

With enough energy, press to activate: Launches several Pile Driver Attacks at enemies in a line in front of him, dealing massive Electric DMG. Character is invulnerable while using this skill. Anton enters Burst Mode after using this skill. When in Burst Mode, Anton's attacks become more powerful, dealing massive Electric DMG while continually consuming Energy upon hitting an enemy. Burst Mode remains active until his Energy is depleted.

Multipliers

Special Attack: Explosive Drill (Burst Mode)

Press while in Burst Mode to activate. Launches a Pile Driver Attack at enemies in front, dealing Electric DMG. Anti-Interrupt level is increased while using this skill.

Multipliers

Chain Attack: Go Go Go!

When a Chain Attack is triggered, select the character to activate: Unleashes a Pile Driver Attack onto the ground in front of him over a large area, dealing massive Electric DMG to enemies within range. Character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Multipliers

Ultimate: Go Go Go Go Go!

When Decibel Rating is at Maximum, press to activate. Unleashes a Pile Driver Attack onto the ground in front of him over a large area, dealing massive Electric DMG to enemies within range. Character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Multipliers

Assist Follow-Up: Limit Burst

Press after a Defensive Assist to activate. Launches a Drill Attack that ends in a Pile Driver Attack, dealing Electric DMG. Character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Multipliers

Defensive Assist: Iron Wrist

When the character on field is about to be attacked, press to activate. Parries the enemy's attack, dealing massive Daze. This skill excels at parrying enemy attacks and reduces the consumption of Assist Points when the character is under intense attacks. Character is invulnerable while using this skill.

Multipliers

Quick Assist: Shoulder-To-Shoulder

When the character in combat is launched, press to activate. Continuously strikes enemies in front of him with heavy punches, dealing Physical DMG. Character is invulnerable during the attack.

Multipliers

Quick Assist: Protective Drill (Burst Mode)

When the on-field character is launched, press to activate. Attacks enemies in front with a Drill Attack, dealing massive Electric DMG. Character is invulnerable during the attack.

Multipliers

Mindscapes

Warm-up Exercises

Mindscape 1

When Drill Attack hits an enemy, Anton gains additional Energy up to a maximum of 5 Energy per skill use.

State of Flow

Mindscape 2

When Anton uses his EX Special Attack and enters Burst Mode, he gains a Shield that equals to 7.5% of his max HP. While in Burst Mode, entering combat or switching in reapplies the Shield effect. This effect can trigger once every 15s. The Shield dissipates when Burst Mode ends.

Rotational Training

Mindscape 3

Basic Attack, Assist, Dodge, Special Attack, and Chain Attack Lv. +2

Everyone Get Fired Up!

Mindscape 4

When Anton uses a Chain Attack or Ultimate, all squad members' CRIT Rate increases by 10% for 12s.

Jack of All Trades

Mindscape 5

Basic Attack, Assist, Dodge, Special Attack, and Chain Attack Lv. +2

Break the Limit

Mindscape 6

When Anton's Piledriver Attack triggers a critical hit, his Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills (Burst Mode) and Dodge Counter: Overload Drill (Burst Mode) deal 4% more DMG for 30s, stacking up to 6 times. Repeated triggers reset the duration.

Stats (Level 60)

Anton Stats at level 60 (including Core passive bonuses).

7219

DEF

622

ATK

791

CRIT Rate

19.4%

CRIT DMG

50%

PEN Ratio

Impact

Anomaly Mastery

Anomaly Proficiency

Energy Regen

1.2

Voice Actors

ENG

JPN

Kamio Shinichiro (神尾晋一郎)

Xiāo Dí (萧翟)

Gallery

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Ratings

This tier list assesses Agents (characters) based on their combat potential in Zenless Zone Zero's most demanding contents - Deadly Assault (DA) and Shiyu Defense (SD). Please keep in mind Zenless Zone Zero is a skill-based game and each character has a different playstyle, difficulty level and even special tricks and combos. Zenless Zone Zero is also a team based game and it's only by combining both these factors to the highest level a character can reach optimal performance.

Crit DPS

Endgame Modes

Pros & Cons

Pros

Has the unique mechanic to retrigger Shocks every 0.5 seconds after dealing 4 Critical Hits while in Burst mode giving him one of the highest potential kits for an A-rank unit.
Has great Mindscapes, giving him good scaling potential as you develop your account. His M1 prolongs his Burst Mode duration by a good amount, and his M4 gives the whole team a Crit Rate buff after he uses a Chain or Ultimate attack for 12 seconds.
Is a Bro.

Cons

Has a large amount of his potential damage within his kit tied to his ability to trigger additional damage against Shocked enemies, making him reliant on ensuring enemies remain Shocked as much as possible and for as large amount of damage as possible.
Has limited options outside of S-rank’s when it comes to team building.
Relies heavily on being in Burst Mode to deal the majority of his damage and feels lackluster outside of it, making Anton one of the most energy-reliant characters in the game.

Review

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Best W-Engines

The W-Engines are listed in order of priority. Sometimes the percentages appearing near them won't reflect their performance as pure damage or Stun output isn't the only thing we're looking at - the utility of the W-Engine might be more important than the calculations imply.

105.84%

Heartstring Nocturne(S1)

A great stat stick for most characters. Grants a tremendous amount of unconditional CRIT RATE and CRIT DMG.

102.61%

Zanshin Herb Case(S1)

A solid all around generic option thanks to its close to permanent uptime of 20% CRIT RATE and always active 45% CRIT DMG, alongside its high base ATK.

100.00%

The Brimstone(S1)

Soldier 11's Signature W-Engine and a good choice for any character with a focus on using a lot of Basic Attacks or even just a few long lasting ones. The catch is each buff stack has its own duration and only 1 buff can be gained every 0.5 seconds, making maintaining max stacks of this buff require constant Basic Attacks.

93.26%

Street Superstar(S5)

A decent but somewhat niche Free To Play accessible option for all Attack Agents. Against bosses you can guarantee 3 Chain Attacks every time you Stun them, meaning this W-engine's effect essentially grants 72% Ultimate damage. These bonuses allow it to be a competitive option during burst rotations with the ultimate available, but when the ultimate isn't available or executing a standard rotation this W-engine falls behind.

92.96%

Starlight Engine(S5)

A solid all-around Free To Play accessible option for all Attack Agents. Grants 25% unconditional Standard Attack and a further 19.2% (At S5) Combat Attack buff after performing a Dodge Counter or Quick Assist lasting 12 seconds. This buff is reasonably easy for all Attack Agents to achieve in both their standard and burst rotations, assuming a Support character is present on the team.

91.38%

Marcato Desire(S5)

Reasonable option for CRIT scaling agents playing in teams capable of applying Anomaly semi-consistently to trigger and maintain its secondary bonus effect a decent amount of the time.

90.40%

Cannon Rotor(S5)

The battle pass W-engine - an expensive engine to acquire which while incredibly consistent is often weaker than other W-Engines. The main issue with the on Crit trigger ability is that the damage is Physical and cannot CRIT meaning for non-physical characters you'll be losing all elemental DMG% boosts on this damage and for all characters not CRITing is a big downside making the damage from this unimpactful.

86.90%

Gilded Blossom(S5)

A weaker alternative to Starlight Engine that offers ATK% and increases the damage of EX Special attacks. Only use if you lack better W-Engines.

86.56%

Drill Rig - Red Axis(S5)

Anton's Signature W-Engine a specialized option design specifically with his kit in mind but which can be used to varying degrees of success by other Electric Combat characters with a focus on specifically Electric Basic burst damage. If you feel you don't need the Energy Regen from this W-engine on Anton, its value drops significantly as it cannot compete in raw damage output compared to all other Engines, as such you should consider it lower on this list.

Best Disk Drives Sets

100.00%

Thunder Metal (4-PC)

Competitive option for direct and Anomaly-based Electric damage dealers granting 10% permanent Electric DMG% from the 2-PC and 28% increased combat ATK% as long as any enemy is Shocked. This set is incredibly powerful as Shock lasts for 10 seconds baseline, giving this bonus a long duration and due to the strength of combat ATK% multiplying all a characters standard ATK stats like FLAT ATK and ATK% ((Base ATK * (1 + ATK%)) + Flat ATK) * (1 + Combat ATK%).

Best combined with your choice of 2-PC Set:

2P
Woodpecker Electro
(Recommended)
2P
Hormone Punk
2P
Puffer Electro

88.93%

Puffer Electro (4-PC)

A top option for burst damage characters aiming to deal most of their damage in a short window following their Ultimate. The set grants 8% permanent PEN Ratio% from the 2-PC, 15% increased combat ATK% for 12 seconds after using an Ultimate and 20% increased Ultimate DMG from the 4P. When evaluating this set we assume you'll gain and save your damaging Ultimate for the enemy Stun window and use it before executing the rest of your combo. If you're unable to gain your Ultimate every stun window, this sets value will drop compared to its listing.

Best combined with your choice of 2-PC Set:

2P
Woodpecker Electro
(Recommended)
2P
Hormone Punk
2P
Thunder Metal

85.59%

Woodpecker Electro (4-PC)

Great option for all direct damage dealers that make use of some form of Basic ATK and EX frequently. The set grants 8% permanent CRIT RATE% from the 2-PC and a 9% increased combat ATK% buff for 6 seconds when triggering a CRIT with each a Basic Attack, Dodge Counter or EX Special Attack from the 4P. Each buff belongs to an attack type so you'll need to CRIT with each type every 6 seconds to maintain 3 stacks. You can expect 2 stacks of this set most of the time one from basics and one from either EX's during a burst window or Dodge Counters during downtime granting 18% combat ATK% that multiplies all ATK stats like FLAT ATK and ATK% ((Base ATK * (1 + ATK%)) + Flat ATK) * (1 + Combat ATK%). Despite all this, the set has ramp-up time and can quickly fall off without access to energy for EX's making it most suitable for characters with cheap EX's, frequent Dodge Counters or concentrated burst damage windows.

Best combined with your choice of 2-PC Set:

2P
Puffer Electro
(Recommended)
2P
Hormone Punk
2P
Thunder Metal

Best Disk Drives Stats

Disk 4

CRIT Rate% >= CRIT DMG%

Disk 5

Electric DMG%

Disk 6

ATK%

Substats: CRIT RATE = CRIT DMG > ATK% > PEN = ATK

Best Endgame Stats (Level 60)

ATK: 2300-2800+
HP: 9000+
DEF: 800+
CRIT RATE: 70-100%
CRIT DMG: 120-160%+

Skill priority

Chain Attack

Basic Attack

Special Attack

Assist

Dodge

Video guides

Anton guide videos aren't available yet.

Synergy

Below we list only the most important synergies for Anton. The character can work with others if you know what to do and how to use them.

Trigger Qingyi - These two Stun powerhouses are able to activate Anton's Additional Ability and allows him to capitalize on Shock damage while creating lots of Stun windows for him to deal a lot of damage. They both provide Stun DMG Multiplier debuffs but Qingyi deals more Daze at the cost of more field time while Trigger is almost always off-field, so both have their pros and cons, but both appear as the best options for Anton if you want to run a Stun unit with him.
Grace - One of Anton’s kit-defining features is his Additional Ability that allows him to partially trigger any Shock on the target he is hitting every 4th Critical Hit he deals. Grace allows him to exploit this as she activates this Additional Ability by herself inflicts good Shock damage that Anton can freely exploit during his damage windows.
Astra Yao Nicole - These 2 generalist Support units are capable of servicing as the Support to any team in the game. Astra Yao provides Quick Assists, extra Chain Attacks, healing, super low field time, ATK, DMG and CRIT DMG buffs which makes her the overall best choice in almost all cases. Nicole provides the sought-after DEF Shred and CRIT Rate at M6 which makes her competitive. They can work with any team in the game to great effect, whether that's by themselves or together. Astra Yao is especially desirable on Anton by allowing him to exploit his extremely high Quick Assist multiplier, and if you want to make the effort on capitalizing this effect, Astra Yao's Special is perfect for the job.

Teams (Shiyu Defense)

This section lists most popular teams featuring Anton in the current phase of Shiyu Defense.

There are no teams featuring Anton who have cleared Shiyu Defense in the current cycle.

Teams (Deadly Assault)

This section lists most popular teams featuring Anton in the current phase of Deadly Assault.

There are no teams featuring Anton who have cleared Deadly Assault in the current cycle.

Damage

Don't use the damage output calculations as an indication on who is worth pulling or investing as those are just simulations and in day-to-day gameplay there's a lot variables and also the skill of the player is important. As usual, don't compare the numbers between characters.

New Calculations

ZZZ has changed a lot from 1.0 - many new mechanics, enemies characters have been introduced and biggest of all the game has a new competitive endgame mode Deadly Assault. Deadly Assault is based around dealing as much damage as possible in 180 seconds, because of this we're changing our calculation style away from a focus on burst to instead focus on extended fights over 3 minutes (180s). Also, many Mindscapes, Disc Drive and W-engine calculations can meaningfully change when factoring in the buffs of an Agents best team, for this reason we're also adding a new feature, allowing you to see damage output with one of the agents best teams buffs factored in.

Anton in 1 Target scenario [Mindscape Calculations]

Rotation time: 13.73s.

Anton (M6)

97,557 DPS130.66%

Anton (M5)

91,961 DPS123.17%

Anton (M4)

85,262 DPS114.19%

Anton (M3)

80,991 DPS108.47%

Anton (M2)

74,664 DPS100.00%

Anton (M1)

74,664 DPS100.00%

Anton (M0)

74,664 DPS100%

Details about the calculations

Character build

Mindscape Information

About Mindscapes

Anton's Mindscape 1 doesn't directly increase the damage he deals during his burst rotation but does noticeably ease his energy requirements allowing him to maintain high Burst Mode uptime easier. This Mindscape can be more heavily played into if desired by performing as many Drill Attacks as possible by skipping portions of Anton's usual combo to extend his Burst Mode even more.

Rotations

Here is the rotation used in the calculations.

Anton's Burst rotation is at its strongest if you can enter his Burst Mode state before the enemy becomes stunned to ensure you have as much time as possible to execute his strongest abilities (His EX Special does not have good DPS). Additionally Anton will gain more damage when paired with other characters that have stronger shocks than his own. Anton's baseline is calculated based on his own shocks but we've also included a representation of how much damage he can get when paired with stronger shock based appliers down below.

Burst rotation (During Stun)

Chain Attack: Go Go Go!

Quick Assist: Protective Drill (Burst Mode)

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills P1 (Burst Mode)

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills P2 (Burst Mode)

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills P3 (Burst Mode)

Ultimate: Go Go Go Go Go!

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills P1 (Burst Mode)

Basic Attack: Enthusiastic Drills P2 (Burst Mode)

Shiyu Defense / Deadly Assault

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Usage rate (SD)

Characters are ranked with appearance rate, which is how often a character was used in Shiyu Defense by the players who we have scanned, regardless of whether they own the character or not. Ownership rate currently cannot be obtained.

Usage rate (DA)

Characters are ranked with appearance rate, which is how often a character was used in Deadly Assault by the players who we have scanned, regardless of whether they own the character or not. Ownership rate currently cannot be obtained.

Common partners (SD)

This section lists the characters that were most commonly paired with Anton in the current phase of Shiyu Defense.

Common partners (DA)

This section lists the characters that were most commonly paired with Anton in the current phase of Deadly Assault.

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