Honor of Kings Zhuangzi build guide: Best equipment, Arcanas, battle spells, and skill combos

Using equipment and Arcanas that reduce the damage taken is best for the Zhuangzi build in Honor of Kings. This support hero can remove crowd-control effects from himself and his teammates with Passive Skill, Skill 1, and Ultimate Skill. He also gains crowd control immunity, reduces the damage taken, and buffs his and his teammates’ Movement Speed. Additionally, he grants a shield to teammates with his Ultimate Skill.

While using Zhuangzi, players must maximize the hero's ability to remove crowd-control effects during team fights. Below are the recommended equipment, Arcanas, battle spells, and skill combos to build a robust Zhuangzi in Honor of Kings.

Honor of Kings Zhuangzi build guide: Best equipment

Best equipment for Zhuangzi. (Image via Level Infinite)

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Below are the recommended Honor of Kings equipment for the Zhuangzi build:

Guardian - Redemption: This equipment boosts Zhuangzi’s Movement Speed, increases his max HP, and grants a shield to his allies for three seconds. It also buffs his allies’ Physical and Magical defense and increases his Health and main attack stat.
Boots of Fortitude: It reduces his Physical defense and Movement Speed. Additionally, it decreases the Physical damage Zhuangzi takes by 10%.
Glacial Buckler: This equipment makes Zhuangzi buff his Cooldown Reduction, max Mana, and Physical defense. It casts an ice blast to enemies within range, dealing Magical damage when his HP reduces by 10% or more from a single attack. Additionally, the ice blast reduces the enemies’ Attack Speed and Movement Speed.
Succubus Cloak: It boosts his Magical defense, max HP, and generates 100 Health every 5 seconds. When he is out of combat, he gets a shield that protects him from Magical damage. Additionally, his Magical defense increases by 8 to 120.
Ominous Premonition: This equipment boosts his Physical defense and max Health. The enemies who attack him get their Attack and Movement Speed reduced.
Overlord’s Platemail: It buffs his max HP and Physical and Magical defense. This also increases his HP by an additional 8% and recovers a certain amount of health every second.

Players wanting to play in the Clash Lane can use Holy Grail, Mask of Agony, and Eye of the Phoenix instead of Succubus Cloak, Ominous Premonition, and Overlord’s Platemail.

Honor of Kings Zhuangzi build guide: Best Arcanas

Best Arcana setup for Zhuangzi. (Image via Level Infinite)

Below are the best Arcanas for a Zhuangzi build in Honor of Kings:

Nightmare ✕ 10: Nightmare boosts Zhuangzi’s damage output by increasing his Magical Attack and Magical Pierce.
Mind’s Eye ✕ 10: Mind’s Eye buffs Zhuangzi’s Magical Pierce and Attack Spee.
Reincarnation ✕ 10: Reincarnation boosts Zhuangzi’s Magical Attack and Magical Lifesteal.

The above Arcana setup helps Zhuangzi deal decent damage with his skills. Players can use Fate, Harmony, and Void Arcanas for Zhuanzi build to boost the hero's defense.

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Honor of Kings Zhuangzi build guide: Battle spells

Best battle spells for Zhuangzi. (Image via Level Infinite)

Honor of Kings players can use the Heal battle spell, helping Zhuangzi and his allies recover HP. It also buffs the Movement Speed of nearby teammates by 15% for 2 seconds. Since he lacks healing abilities, it will allow him to help allies during critical moments as a Support. One can also use the Disrupt battle spell for the Zhuangzi build, to help enemies get past enemy towers during team fights.

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Honor of Kings Zhuangzi build guide: Skill combos

Best skill combo for Zhuangzi. (Image via Level Infinite)

Here is the best skill combo for the Zhuangzi build in Honor of Kings:

1) Sleep Starts (Skill 2) > Kaleidoscope (Skill 1) > Sleep Starts (Skill 2) > Butterfly Effect (Ultimate Skill) > Sleep Starts (Skill 2) > Kaleidoscope (Skill 1)

While using Zhuangzi, you must maximize the usage of his crowd control removing abilities. He can use his ability to stall enemies and deceive enemies using their skills.

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Honor of Kings Zhuangzi build guide: Skills explanation and skills-upgrading priority

Zhuangzi's Ultimate effects (Image via Level Infinite)

Here are the skills of this Zhuangzi in Honor of Kings:

Nature’s Will (Passive skill): Zhuangzi removes all crowd control effects from himself. He also enhances himself for 2 seconds, gaining immunity to all crowd control effects, 15% damage reduction, and 15% Movement Speed buffs.
Kaleidoscope (Skill 1): Zhuangzi sends dream butterflies, enhancing his passive skill for 2 seconds. The butterflies deal 400 (400+72% Magical Attack) magical damage to enemies within range and slow them by 50% for 2 seconds.
Sleep Starts (Skill 2): He deals 250 (250+30% Magical Attack) Magical damage to nearby enemies and places marks on them (up to 5 marks). Each mark inflicts 125 (125+15% Magical Attack) Magical damage to enemies for 5 seconds. Additionally, he marks himself and his allies (up to 5 stacks), with each mark buffing Movement Speed by 3% for 5 seconds. Zhuangzi can cast Skill 2, Sleep Starts, every 7 seconds automatically.
Butterfly Effect (Ultimate skill): Zhuangzi removes all crowd control effects from himself and nearby teammates. He also grants them a shield that provides crowd control immunity and negates 500 (+12% extra Health) damage to himself and all allies for 2 seconds.

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Players can upgrade this Honor of Kings hero's skills in this order till Zhuangzi reaches level 5: Kaleidoscope (Skill 1) > Sleep Starts (Skill 2) > Kaleidoscope (Skill 1) > Butterfly Effect (Ultimate Skill) > Kaleidoscope (Skill 1).

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Edited by Adarsh J Kumar