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Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN)
Potential Guide: How to Upgrade
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Potential is a permanent progression system in Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN) that lets you enhance your Combatants with lasting stat boosts and card upgrades. Learn how Potential works, how to unlock it, and where to farm the materials needed to upgrade your Combatants.
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What is Potential?
Permanent Power-Ups
Potential is a permanent character progression tree for each Combatant that gives long-term boosts. Potential lets you permanently strengthen your characters beyond run-based upgrades. Every node you unlock grants lasting benefits, from higher stamina and attack to enhanced card effects or passive bonuses.
Upgrades Basic Card Effects
The 03-1 potential allows all combatants to upgrade their basic cards with new effects, new glossary tags, or boosted stats for their current effects. The 05-1 Basic Card Upgrade node further enhances the basic card’s effect based on how high a specific stat is. For example, Mei Lin gains a 5% increase to her Strike card, plus an additional 5% if her Attack stat is over 500.
How to Unlock Potential
Use Growth Stones to Unlock and Upgrade Potential
Growth Stones are the attribute-typed materials (Order, Passion, Justice, Instinct, Void, etc.) used to unlock nodes on a Combatant’s Potential tree. They come in rarities and some nodes require specific attribute stones or higher-rarity versions.
Promote Your Combatants to Allow Unlocking Further Potential Nodes
Before you can start unlocking Potential, your Combatant must reach level 20. This milestone unlocks their Potential tree, allowing you to invest in permanent stat boosts and skill upgrades that persist across runs.
Once unlocked, open the Potential tab in the Combatant menu to access the first two nodes — Combat Epiphany and Upgrade Card. Higher-tier nodes require greater Combatant and Leader Levels, so be sure to level them up before continuing through the tree.
Where to Get Materials for Potential
| Where to Get Materials |
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Farm Growth Stones from Potential Simulation
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
 Great Growth Stone of Passion |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Passion ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle ・(Shop) Momentary Memory Archive Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Common Growth Stone of Passion |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Passion ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Great Growth Stone of Order |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Order ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle ・(Shop) Momentary Memory Archive Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Common Growth Stone of Order |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Order ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Great Growth Stone of Instinct |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Instinct ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle ・(Shop) Momentary Memory Archive Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Common Growth Stone of Instinct |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Instinct ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Common Growth Stone of Void |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Void ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Great Growth Stone of Void |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Void ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle ・(Shop) Momentary Memory Archive Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Great Growth Stone of Justice |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Justice ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle ・(Shop) Momentary Memory Archive Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Common Growth Stone of Justice |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Potential Ingredient - Justice ・(Storage) Merge/Dismantle Use: Combatant Potential Material |
The Simulation (Potential) is your main source of materials for upgrading a Combatant’s Potential tree. Each run drops Growth Stones that match specific attributes — Order, Passion, Justice, Instinct, or Void — used to unlock and enhance nodes.
Choose the Simulation stage that matches your Combatant’s attribute to maximize efficiency. Higher Simulation levels yield higher-quality stones, so push as far as your team can handle for better rewards.
Farm Legendary Materials on Weekly Challenges
| Item | Details |
|---|---|
 Eye of Wailing Prodigal |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Challenge - Wailing Prodigal Use: Combatant Potential Material |
 Shards of Condemnation |
How to Get: ・(Simulation) Challenge - Fear Encountered Use: Combatant Potential Material |
You can farm Shards of Condemnation and Eye of Wailing Prodigal in the weekly Challenge mode found under Simulation.
Merge or Dismantle
From the Storage menu, you can also choose to Merge or Dismantle materials to craft Growth Stones. This involves combining materials into a higher-tier version or breaking down materials into their lower-tier version.
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