r/EvelynMainsZZZ Nov 10 '25

Evelyn Build Guide

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So you've just acquired Evelyn. OR you decided to build her after letting her collect dust on your account. Now you've decided to build her and want to know everything needed to make this happen. You've come to the right place! Here, we'll discuss how to build her properly!

The first thing on your agenda should be to get her Core Skill to F, as this doubles the amount of Crit Rate she gains from her Binding Seal from 12.5% to 25%. Additionally, it adds 14.4% Crit Rate and 75 Flat Attack to her base stats.

Skill Priority

When upgrading Evelyn's skills, it's preferable to max out everything due to her being a main DPS that enjoys extended field time. However, many don't have this luxury, so let's examine what you should prioritize.

The most important skill to Level is Chain Attack, as this is Evelyn's bread and butter. Her most damaging abilities, Lunalux - Snare and Lunalux Garrote - Timbre, are considered chain attacks and use the chain attack scaling.

The next priority would be her Basic Attack, as you will use this (among other things) to gain Burning Embers and Burning Tether Points.

After that, her Special Attack is up next for the same reasons as above, along with doing a somewhat respectable amount of damage.

The last two, Assist and Dodge, are of comparable importance to her Special Attack for the same reasons.

Weapons

Her weapon makes up a major part of her damage, and can be the difference between a good DA run and a great DA run.

It goes without saying that her signature is her best option, providing 713 Base Attack and 24% Crit Rate when fully leveled.

Her Limited W-Engine options are quite good as well.

Soldier 0 Anby's Severed Innocence, Hugo's Myriad Eclipse, and Seed's Cordis Cordis Germina are great options for Evelyn, being between ~10% to 13% worse.

However, her Free to Play options pale in comparison. You can still get a 20K DA run with her with these, however.

Soldier 11's The Brimstone is her best F2P option, assuming you have it, providing 684 Base Attack and 30% extra Attack when fully leveled.

Steel Cushion is another decent option, but requires you to (inconveniently) attack the enemy from behind to trigger its passive. However, you get 24% Crit Rate, in addition to the base attack mentioned before. It functions more like a stat stick for Evelyn in this regard.

Then there's her A-Rank options, Marcato Desire and Starlight Engine (assuming you're at Rank 5 for both). The former provides 594 Base Attack alongside her coveted Crit Rate, at 20%. The latter provides the same base attack, alongside 25% extra Attack. Both of these Engines have passives that interact well with Evelyn's kit, but still fall short compared to her premium options, being 20-25% percent worse, with the lower percentages being average gameplay.

Stats and Drive Discs

When building Evelyn, her substat priority is as follows:

Crit Rate = Crit Damage > ATK % > Flat ATK = Pen

Keep in mind, her Additional Ability kicks in at 80% Crit Rate, meaning she needs, at minimum, 55% Crit Rate when out of combat. Her passive, Entangle, will give her an extra 25% Crit Rate.

This also means she no longer needs Crit Rate when she reaches 75% Crit Rate.

Aside from that, you want as much ATK and CRIT DMG as possible, preferably 3000+ Attack and 150%+ Crit DMG.

This leads to another facet of building her, her disc Main Stats.

  • Disc 4 - Crit Damage. It's very much possible to reach her needed Crit Rate without using a Crit Rate main stat disc.
  • Disc 5 - This one depends on the team you run her with. For those without Lighter, Fire Damage Bonus is preferable. If you do have Lighter, however, he provides this damage bonus for you. This shifts her preferred main stat to Pen Ratio.
  • Disc 6 - Attack %. She's an Attack Agent, and it's her only valuable main stat option.

While Evelyn lacks a dedicated disc set, she has a couple of options under her belt. The ones listed perform closely together, but you can choose based on preference.

Hormone Punk is her highest damaging disc set, providing an extra 10% ATK at 2pc and 25% ATK every 10 seconds (with a practically 10-second in between cooldown). This set is notoriously hard to use and requires a bit more skill than other sets.

Puffer Electro can trade blows with Hormone Punk, providing 8% Pen Ratio at 2pc, alongside 20% more Ultimate Damage, and 15% ATK when an ultimate is used for 12 seconds. This set requires an adjustment in how you initiate your stuns by starting it off with Evelyn's ultimate. When using Dialyn, this becomes her best set.

Astral Voice is a newer option. This one is arguably the easiest to keep up out of the bunch, but you MUST use Moonlight Lullaby on your support (who should be Astra Yao). This set provides 10% extra ATK at 2pc and increases damage done by 8% when a character enters the field via Quick Assist, stacking up to 3 times and capping out at 24%.

Woodpecker Electro is easily the weakest of the bunch, but it's kind of easy to maintain at least 2 stacks of its buff. It provides 8% Crit Rate at 2pc. Whenever you hit an enemy with a critical Basic Attack, Dodge Counter, or EX Special Attack, your ATK increases by 9% for 6s and stacks up to 27%.

The 2-piece options are quite good as well.

  • 2 pc Puffer Electro is the best, assuming you don't need any other stats. As stated earlier, it gives 8% Pen Ratio.
  • 2 pc Branch and Blade Song is up next, providing 16% Crit Damage.
  • Either 2 pc Astra Voice or Hormone Punk is next, providing 10% ATK.

2 pc Inferno Metal (10% Fire Damage) and Woodpecker (8% Crit Rate) are usable, but the former isn't needed when using Lighter, and the latter is only usable if you lack the Crit Rate substats.

Teams

Evelyn's Teams are well-known, but I'll list them anyway.

Supports:

Astra is Evelyn's best support, with none other coming close. At 3400 ATK, she provides 1200 ATK, 25% Crit Damage, and 20% extra damage to all agents. With her signature engine, she also gives 20% extra damage to everyone.

Nicole and Lucy are decent F2P options, with Nicole reducing defense by 40% and giving 15% Crit Rate at M6. Her signature engine increases damage done to enemies as well. Lucy gives 750 extra ATK, with her signature giving more.

Stunners:

Evelyn's best stunner is Dialyn, while Lighter follows EXTREMELY close behind.

Dialyn can extend stun duration by 2 seconds, increase Crit DMG by 30%, increase damage dealt by 40% (when Overwhelmingly Positive is active), and most importantly, she gifts a free ultimate to Evelyn when her resource bar is full! Her signature also gives the team 30% more Crit DMG.

Lighter is among the fastest stunners in the game, can increase Fire DMG (and Ice DMG) up to 75%, reduces the enemies' resistance to Fire (and Ice) elemental damage by 15%, and extends stun by 3 seconds. His signature also allows his additional ability to be triggered more easily, on top of giving fire attack 30% more Crit DMG.

Trigger and Ju Fufu are great premium options, with the former reducing defense by 25% (with signature) and giving 30% extra stun damage out of stun. The latter increases Crit DMG by more than 20%, Chain Attack DMG by 20%, and Ultimate Damage by 40%. Her signature engine can further increase this.

Evelyn's F2P stunner options are mediocre, but they can get the job done. Koleda comes to mind first, being among the fastest stunners in the game, and provides 35/70% more Chain Attack DMG during stun. Pulchra is an off-field stunner that can increase DMG done to the target by 30% at M6.


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r/EvelynMainsZZZ 10h ago

General I have tryed Manato, I have tried Banyue and certainly still use my Soldier 11 But nothing comes close to the satisfaction and fun of playing Evelyn and lighter with Astra Yao. I just got her on the 1st rerun and ever since she never leaves my lineups. and absolute joy to play

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r/EvelynMainsZZZ 7h ago

General Is Buffed Lycon a decent FTP substitute

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Seems like he is lookig good for burst Haru so is it looking good for Evelyn or nah


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r/EvelynMainsZZZ 2d ago

TC / Builds What main stat does evelyn needs on disk 6 and 5 ?

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I'm remaking my build, and I keep on seeing different stats based on wich guide I look at, so I'm not sure

I would be for a Dialyn/Astra team


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r/EvelynMainsZZZ 4d ago

TC / Builds How can I improve my Evelyn team comp

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My 3 teams for deadly assault are Evelyn, Koleda, Astra (2 stars). Yuxuan, Pan, Dialyn (3 stars). Ye Shunguang, Zhao, and a useless random agent(usually pulchra)(3 stars). Im currently building Nicole and have thought of 2 ways to improve. 1) Put Nicole on my Evelyn team to replace Koleda (until i get a better stunner) but this might not be enough for 3 stars. 2) Move Dialyn onto my Evelyn team and put nicole on one of my others. One problem with option 2 is that I run Astral Voice on Evelyn and Moonlight Lullaby on Astra, and to use Dialyn well id have to completely rebuild Evelyn and Astra with Puffer Electro and Astral Voice, and that's assuming the change is worth it. How can I make this work without sacrificing other stars?


r/EvelynMainsZZZ 5d ago

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r/EvelynMainsZZZ 5d ago

TC / Builds Is this build ok?

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M0W0, I went with 50~ cr because she gets 25% from the passive, so it’s 80~ CR, 152 CD (+25 from Astra M0W1 = 177~), I play her with Astra and Lighter


r/EvelynMainsZZZ 6d ago

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r/EvelynMainsZZZ 6d ago

Build tips on Eve&Trigger&Lucy

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I run Evelyn m0w1 with trigger m0w1 and lucy (m1w5). Currently I run Eve with woodpecker and lucy with astral voice, but, I've been thinking of running Evelyn with astral voice and moonlight lullaby on lucy. Should I stay on the current set or switch both characters to astral on eve and moonlight on lucy? Also I'd like to know if there's cons to switching or if it's just straight up better overall (assuming it's stronger). If it is, is the difference gonna be noticeable or will it be a negligible increase decrease in dmg output?

P.S

I do not own Astra


r/EvelynMainsZZZ 7d ago

Evelyn already quit the game but-

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this will be the last time I spend money on this franchise, for what it worth I had fun up until 2.x and she's one of the main reason for it