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Skyward Spine
Its effect is pretty nice, 8% crit and the 40% atk dmg dealt as vacuum blades every 3s, but unfortunately its sub is energy recharge. Zhongli's burst only takes 40 energy to activate, so getting a dedicated ER spear is almost pointless. However it does have high-
PJS: Its sub is crit% so it is easy to build around, but it also has the ramp up needed for better damage (and at 7 stacks vs VV's 5 stacks). No shield strength. But it also has an added 12% total damage at max stacks, which compensates the missing 49.6% ATK of a lvl90 VV.
Vortex Vanquisher vs Primordial Jade Spear
VV: Zhongli's motif weapon. Who doesn't want this on him? Its sub is ATK%, however, so building him with decent crit/dmg may be difficult. Its atk increasing effect is similar to PJS, but it has an added 20% shield strength!
Staff of Homa
20% Max HP increase will scale very well with Zhongli's passive, ON TOP of the ATK% he will receive from the weapon's effects. Not only that, he'll get an even bigger boost at <50% HP, which isn't hard to survive with as Zhongli considering his HP pool + shield.
Royal Spear is pretty gimmicky. Its sub is ATK%, and the effect stacks your crit by 8% until you get a crit hit, which then it resets all your stacks. Rinse and repeat. So it's very, very RNg based. I'd suggest getting Blackcliff with your starglitter instead.
Lithic Spear has an ATK% sub and an inherent 7% crit + 3% atk in its effects if you have it equipped as Zhongli. Though this spear would theoretically be at its best if you are running a 4 Liyue character team.
(It's a lim weapon though, unavailable as now.)
this would be the spear for your Zhongli. (Unless you forked out money for Deathmatch).
Deathmatch is a teeny bit better as it has an inherent 16% atk increase (for 1 enemy) and 12% atk and def (for 2 or more). Its sub is CRIT%.
These spears are the easiest to build around!
Blackcliff is amazing even without its effect as its stat is CDMG. It works best on mobs with less HP as you can stack its effect and get even more ATK% that way, but again, it's still amazing without it. For Physical you'd still be better off with Pike but for Sub DPS/Hybrid
Dragonspine Spear is another phys% spear, but its effect isn't nearly as good as Crescent Pike's. Though its phys% sub is much more than Pike's, it does have much less base atk (41 vs 44) so you'll lose even more geo dmg.
I'd suggest crafting Pike > Dragonspine Spear!
Crescent Pike is by far the best spear for physical focused DPSes and is only outdamaged by 5* spears. Its effect (atk% bonus damage on hit after picking up an elemental particle) can have a 100% uptime and it can CRIT, effectively increasing your DPS.