Asaba Harumasa Guide and Best Builds

Asaba Harumasa Guide & Best Builds

Welcome to our Asaba Harumasa build guide for Zenless Zone Zero. Asaba Harumasa is an S-Rank Electric Attack DPS Agent who specialises in Electric attacks with two forms of weapons: a Bow and Blades. In our guide, we will cover everything you need to know to get the most out of your Asaba Harumasa, from building the best Drive Discs and W-Engines to important stat priorities and combos.

Asaba Harumasa's Best W-Engines

Listed below are Asaba Harumasa's best W-Engines. While W-Engines are listed in a priority order, what is best to build on your Asaba Harumasa can vary slightly depending on your team composition.

Cordis Germina

Sprouting Core
Increases CRIT Rate by 15/17/19/21/23%. When the equipper deals DMG with a Basic Attack or EX Special Attack, they gain 1 stack of a buff. Each stack increases the equipper's Electric DMG by 12.5/14.5/16.5/18.5/20%, up to 2 stacks. Each stack lasts 40s. The duration of each stack is calculated separately. Can trigger once per use of a skill. At 2 stacks, the wearer's Basic Attack and Ultimate DMG ignore 20/23/26/29/32% of enemy DEF.

Zanshin Herb Case

Growth Through Adversity
CRIT Rate increases by 10/11.5/13/14.5/16%. Dash Attack Electric DMG increases by 40/46/52/58/64%. When any squad member applies an Attribute Anomaly or Stuns an enemy, the equipper's CRIT Rate increases by an additional 10/11.5/13/14.5/16% for 15s.

Heartstring Nocturne

String & Melody
CRIT DMG increases by 50/57.5/65/72.5/80%. When the equipper enters combat, or activates a Chain Attack or Ultimate, they gain 1 stack of Heartstring. Each stack of Heartstring allows the equipper's Chain Attack and Ultimate to ignore 12.5/14.5/16.5/18.5/20% of the target's Fire RES, stacking up to 2 times and lasting 30s. Repeated triggers reset the duration.

Additional S-Rank W-Engines

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Starlight Engine

Knight's Combo
Launching a Dodge Counter or Quick Assist increases the equipper's ATK by 12/13.8/15.6/17.4/19.2% for 12s.

Additional A-Rank W-Engines

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Best Drive Discs for Asaba Harumasa

Shadow Harmony

2-Piece Set: The DMG of Aftershocks and Dash Attacks is increased by 15%.
4-Piece Set: Upon hitting an enemy with an Aftershock or Dash Attack, if the DMG dealt aligns with the equipper's attribute, the equipper gains 1 stack of a buff effect, at most once per use of a skill. For each stack, the equipper's ATK increases by 4%, and CRIT Rate increases by 4%. The effect can stack up to 3 times and lasts for 15s. Repeated triggers reset the duration.

Thunder Metal

2-Piece Set: Electric DMG +10%
4-Piece Set: As long as an enemy in combat is Shocked, the equipper's ATK is increased by 28%.

Asaba Harumasa's Stat Priority

When building Harumasa, CRIT is his most important stat, and after that you can aim for ATK% and some Penetration.

Asaba Harumasa's Skill Priority

Asaba Harumasa's most important skill to level is his Core skill and Dash Attack as it will be his main DMG ability during his Awakened State. After that you want to upgrade his EX Special as you will use it quite often. His Basic Attack is mostly there just for you to generate Electro Quiver.

How to Play Asaba Harumasa

Harumasa is specialized in Electric attacks with two forms of weapons: a Bow and Blades.

He has the ability to jump back and forth during fights, and is relying on a special Electro Quivers mechanic, as well as his ability to X-Mark enemies, allowing Harumasa to enter his Awakened state.

Harumasa's special ability, Electro Quivers, can be considered as traps. Using the following attacks will generate Electro Quivers when they hit an enemy:

• 5th Hit of his Basic Attack Cloud Piercer
• Ex Special Attack
• Chain Attack

Those attacks will respectively generate 2/6/6 Electro Quivers upon hitting an enemy.

You can also generate Electro Quivers while Harumasa is not on-field when any squad member applies an Attribute Anomaly. This will directly generate 6 Electro Quivers, which is the maximum amount you can have on the field at the same time.

Once 6 Quivers are on the field, if you hit an enemy with his Charged Attack, you will trigger the traps to explode. The explosion will mark the enemy with Electro Prison, also referred as X-marked in game.

You can have a maximum of 8 X-Mark stacks on an enemy. Those are triggered by the following attacks:

• Casting a charged attack against a Stunned enemy
• Casting a charged attack against an enemy under the influence of an attribute anomaly

When an enemy is X-Marked, Harumasa enters his awakened state, and his Dash attack will be enhanced, allowing him to perform up to 3 powerful slashes. Each dash attack will consume 2 X-Mark.

Hitting with the Basic attack right after the Dash during his Awakened state will allow you to perform a 4th Dash attack.

Asaba Harumasa's Combos

Harumasa's default combo is the following:

• Accumulate Electro Quivers with:
• The 5th Basic Attack: Cloud Piercer
• The 5th Basic Attack: Cloud Piercer after the chain attack
• From using Chain Attack: Kai - Hanare or EX Special Attack: Nowhere to Run
• Through allies who can applies Attribute Anomalies
• Basic Attack: Falling Feather to activate all the Quivers and apply X-Marked on enemies
• Dash Attack: Hiten no Tsuru

This allows you to easily generate 6 quivers, trigger the quivers, Mark the enemies, enter his Awakened state, slash them down.

Asaba Harumasa's Potential Upgrades

We highly recommend you upgrade Harumasa's Potential skill to max, as it does increase massively his DMG potential. At Potential level max you gain:

• When activating an EX Special Attack, Chain Attack, or Ultimate, increases ATK by 12%
• Dash Attack: Hiten no Tsuru - Slash and Chasing Thunder ignore 15% of the target's Electric RES for a few seconds

Asaba Harumasa's Best Mindscapes

Harumasa's Mindscapes are rather average, and not extremely worth getting. Since he is was given for Free, you could invest in his M1 for a few more Electro Prison stacks, allowing you to deal more damage, but it is not going to be a groundbreaking change for him. His M2 would change a bit his rotation, but it is again nothing that is that important to invest into. His M4 and M6 are really not worth the investment compared to other agents.

Asaba Harumasa's Best Teams

To learn all about Asaba Harumasa's synergies and best team compositions, check our dedicated Asaba Harumasa team page below:

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