Zhongli Rating and Best BuildsComment

Tenacity of the Millelith seems good, Game8, but Zhongli's pillar range is short. If you can get enemies to fight close by then yeah it's a nice set. Hopefully, you can explain that to players before you just say yup pick this set, it's the best, end of story. Otherwise, just go rainbow or 2pc Tenacity of the Millelith + 2pc Vourukasha's Glow

>>178 You forget that people that use Zhong Li don't really care about damage, otherwise they wouldn't play him. He is mostly just a shield bot for mobile players or people that just can't dodge at all. For more damage there are usually better options then him. "bUt hE HaS 12% AlL reS pEn !!!111!!" you might say but yeah... any Anemo character can give you 40% for the elements that matter aside from Dendro (just make it hyperbloom)... and Geo and Physical are niche.

>>177 you end up with basically the same shield strength as black tassel, but with a lot more base attack. This is immediately more preferable to just having 200 more shield HP, or 50 more base attack (with rightful reward). The damage adds up; were talking like an extra 1000dmg per stone stele pulse. BASE dmg. Let me put it this way: would you rather have 200 more shield hp (at the point that even comes close to mattering, his skill is already off cooldown) or a 2s faster kill time?

>>176 The Dialogues of Desert Sages only becomes viable when you have C6 on him since it requires the wielder to heal for the skill to do anything. So having it on a C5 or below ZL sacrifices hp for what, extra base atk? Which is only useful when he’s being used as some form of dps. And before you say anything like “tenacity needs his skill to do dmg to apply the buff”, it just needs to hit an enemy, there is no mention of it doing dmg aside from hitting the enemy.

This should be updated to include the new 4 star weapon, Dialogues of the Desert Sages. It's definitely a more viable choice for shield Zhong than black tassel. Sure, black tassel offers 5.6% more HP, but that only equates to like, 100 extra shield HP. and you're giving up close to 1000 base burst and 200 base skill and resonance dmg. not to mention Dialogues of the Desert Sages synergizes with a C6 Zhongli much better, which is starting to get more feasible since Zhongli has appeared 5x

He makes progressing the game sooo much easier

Important tip on Stone Steele placements: face away from the enemy before Hold-E otherwise, facing the enemy before placing will make the stone disappear.

If you consider to wish for him and if you start playing this/last year, don't listen people who are playing since first versions. They have great builds with a lot of characters and thinks he is not useful for anyone because their great builds does not need him anymore. Even for only one character you have to farm artifact over 6 months for perfect stats. So, If you don't have perfect stats for your team, If abys floor 12 hard for you that means he will useful for you

>>150 I'm over ar55 and still need him. Building perfect teams with perfect stats takes years.

I have Skyward Spine R2 on him. Is the new craftable Polearm (the one with the HP% Stat) better than both Skyward Spine and Favonius Lance? I know that Blacktassel has better HP%, but if so I like to use 4 Star and 5 Star weapons more then 3 Star weapons.

His C2 is definitely > C1 and probably his best constellation. Zhongli's burst can be a loss of DPS since it's so long, so with C2 this is not the case anymore. I guess Emblem does become decent with C2 but I would probably still prefer Tenacity over it in most of his teams.

>>167 It's long time that I believe this and been proven to me I have 200 ER 33K HP and he is C2

>>167 no, team's damage > zhongli's personal damage (ex: Hutao Double Hydro) just use totm lmao. more shield strength and atk bonus.

I think Emblem is viable if not even better than other builds at C2. Many people run an ER weapon on him anyways (mainly see Favonius for good particle generation) and since his burst generates a shield, it's helping keep a shield up constantly. Sure, his burst doesn't cost very much but the emblem can improve its damage also. I've found that if you stack too much HP stats you end up with diminishing returns so investing in energy wouldn't be a bad idea anyways.

>>164 Cap. Baizhu's not even a shield, just use Kokomi instead. Layla's shield is shit, 12s shield is bad asf, no 20% res debuff and can't always proc totm like Zhongli.

>>164 Nah big meteor go VRRBOOOM

Layla and baizhu made zhongli useless

>>135 Physical Zhongli is possible, go with superconduct team with kuki and Rosaria. Lvl 9 your talent 1 helps.

>>148 sez u mf.

if youre below ar55 get him. when you get snob enough you dont need shielder anymore in your abyss team hehehe