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Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN)
Mei Lin Best Team and Build
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This is a guide for the best teams and loadout for Mei Lin in Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Learn which combatants are best to pair with Mei Lin, as well as recommended cards, partners, and equipment.
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Best Mei Lin Build
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Build Overview
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 Mei Lin
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 Veronica
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 Mika
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 Highest possible single-target damage Capable of defeating difficult bosses in one turn Relies on very specific epiphanies |
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This is possibly the best Mei Lin team in the game as this build is capable of dealing over 30k+ damage in one turn and in the best case scenario, the first turn of the fight. Mei Lin is a powerhouse of a unit that can fully utilize her basic cards and Rising Dragon Spire to its fullest while Veronica help fuel it more thanks to her cheap card draws.
Build Changelog
| Date | Changes |
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| 11-18-2025 | ・Added Mei Lin build overview
・Replaced Selena for Veronica as Mei Lin's best team ・Changed Mei Lin's best cards ・Changed Mei Lin's best equipment ・Added a few more details on Mei Lin's build tips and playstyle ・Revised Mei Lin build page layout |
Mei Lin Best Team
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Mika
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Veronica
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Mei Lin's best team is Veronica and Mika. Veronica is also a Passion character that can draw a lot of cards and help Mei Lin find her essential cards to combo the enemy to death. Mika is here to help the team survive and provide more AP to the party.
Alternative Team Members
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 Selena
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Can replace Veronica or Mika as the Sub-DPS to synergize with Mei Lin's Passion Weakness mechanic. She has a lot of passion cards that can fuel Mei Lin's cards alongside more sub-DPS with marks. |
 Owen
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Can replace Veronica or Mika as the Sub-DPS to synergize with Veronica's ballistas. Owen can apply Vulnerable to enemies, which increases the damage they receive. |
Mei Lin Best Cards
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 Flame Dragon's Jewel
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AP Cost: 1
Tags: Initiation, Unique ・+30% Attack Card Damage ・When using an Attack Card, 1 Passion Weakness to the target |
 Rising Dragon Spire
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AP Cost: 2:
・150% Damage ・+1 hit for each Passion card used for 1 turn |
 Unity of Attack and Defense
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AP Cost: 0
・Move own 2 Basic Cards to hand, Cost -1 for 1 turn |
 Spirit of the Aromata
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AP Cost: 1
Tags: Retain ・When using a Passion card, +20% Damage for 1 turn |
The Flame Dragon’s Jewel increases your damage by 30% and grants you the ability to apply Passion Weakness on your next attack. This should be the first card you use, as its effects persist throughout the battle. You can also use the critical strike chance epiphany only if you have high enough critical strike chance on Mei Lin.
Focus on obtaining Unity of Attack and Defense to move your Strike cards from your draw pile to your hand at 0 cost. You should also aim to copy this card at the end of your Chaos Run, allowing you to resummon the Strike cards to your hand and greatly increase your damage potential in a single turn.
The Rising Dragon Spire, with its +1 hit for each Passion card used Epiphany effect, allows you to unleash a powerful attack after using all the Passion cards at your disposal in a single turn. Aim to activate this after playing all the Passion cards from both Veronica and Mei Lin to maximize your damage output.
Essential Team Cards and Epiphanies
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 Firing Preparation
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AP Cost: 1
Tags: Unique, Initiation ・Create 1 Giant Ballista ・At the start of the turn, create 1 Giant Ballista card(s) |
 Repose
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AP Cost: 0
・Draw 2 other combatant's card(s) |
 Pendant of Resolution
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AP Cost: 1
Tags: Retain, Retrieve 4 ・Reload 2 |
 Sir Kowalski
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AP Cost: 1
・Choose 1 Ballista in Hand, +150 % Damage until used ・Draw 2 |
Veronica needs as much draw power as possible so both Repose and Sir Kowalski should draw 2 and be as cheap as possible. While Pendant of Resolution needs the Retrieve 4 epiphany so that you can use it 5 times when Rising Dragon Spire is in your hand.
As for Mika, she can get whatever cards she wants as long as it is cheap and can provide a lot of AP and sometimes draw if the epiphanies favor you.
Mei Lin Best Partner
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 Scarlet
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Passive Effect: Binding Knot - If a card used immediately before was from the assigned combatant, +15% attack card damage. Stacks up to 2 times and is removed if another combatant's card is used. When the assigned combatant uses 2 or more cards, they gain Focus. Focus: Attack card damage of the assigned combatant is increased by 20%. Remove Focus when another combatant's card is used. Ego Skill: The Path to Mastery - 250% Damage +10% assigned combatant's attack card damage per buff owned |
Scarlet’s passive effect increases Attack Card damage by 15%, stacking up to two times when you use Mei Lin’s cards consecutively. You’ll also gain Focus, which further increases damage by an additional 20%.
Alternative Budget Partners
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 Lillian
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Lillian’s passive effect synergizes well with Mei Lin’s basic Attack Cards, as it increases their damage by 10%. Her Ego Skill draws an Attack Card costing 0–1 AP, allowing you to add another attack during the same turn. |
 Douglas
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Douglas increases Mei Lin's damage output when equipped. |
Mei Lin Best Memory Fragments
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 Spark of Passion Set Spark of Passion Set When Upgrade Cards are used, increase Damage Amount of the next 5 Passion Cards used by 20% |
 Seth's Scarab Set Seth's Scarab Set Increase the damage, Shield, and Healing of Basic Cards by 20% |
For Mei Lin, we recommend equipping Spark of Passion and Seth's Scarab. Spark of Passion grants additional Passion damage upon activating Flame Dragon's Jewel or Unity of Attack and Defense, while Seth's Scarab boosts the damage of her basic attacks—the core offensive cards for this build. For the main stats and substats, you can focus on Critical Chance, Critical Damage, Passion Damage, and Attack.
Conqueror's Aspect and Executioner's Tool as Alternatives
 Conqueror's Aspect Set Conqueror's Aspect Set +35% Critical Damage of 1-cost cards |
 Executioner's Tool Set Executioner's Tool Set +25% Critical Damage |
You can also go for the combination of Conqueror's Aspect and Executioner's Tool to deal higher damage on critical hits. However, we only recommend this set combination if you have sufficient Critical Chance to effectively utilize the Critical Damage bonus, ideally maintaining approximately a 1:2 ratio between Critical Chance and Critical Damage.
Mei Lin Best Equipment
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| Weapon | Armor | Accessory |
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 Foggy Crystal Ball Foggy Crystal Ball +40% Damage for Attack cards with Cost 0 |
 Wolves Bane's Spine Wolves Bane's Spine On a Critical Hit, +10% Fixed Shield. |
 Eye of the Eyeless Eye of the Eyeless Increase damage of Basic attack cards by 40% |
Mei Lin's best equipment can be found in The City of Mist with Foggy Crystal Ball enhancing all 0 cost cards which is essential for her as most of her damage comes from her strike cards. Eye of the Eyeless for more basic card damage increase and Wolves Bane's Spine for shield after a critical damage.
Recently, Laboratory 0 also contains these equipments so you can choose either of the two chaos zone for Mei Lin's equipments.
Mei Lin Build Tips and Playstyle
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Apply Passion Weakness to Break Enemies
You should always use the Flame Dragon's Jewel at the start of the turn to make Mei Lin apply Passion Weakness whenever she deals damage to an enemy. Since this is an Outbreak of War card, it will be placed at the top of the draw pile, allowing you to play the card at the start of the battle.
With the Passion Weakness applied, Mei Lin and Veronica's attack cards will deal high damage to the target's Tenacity.
Use the Move Version of Unity of Attack and Defense
The draw keyword can only pull card from the draw and discard pile. However, move can pull cards from the draw, discard and used card pile making it so the strikes you used can be used instantly without needing it to go to the discard pile first.
Move Doesn't Count as Draw
However, the downside of move is that it is not considered as a draw therefore effects that gain benefits when drawn will not activate.
Single Target Multi-Hit Setup
The Single Target Multi-Hit Setup makes use of Passion Cards from Mei Lin to stack hits for Rising Dragon Spire to increase the number of hits the attack does. The video above showcased Mei Lin hitting the target multiple times after playing all the passion cards you can in one single turn! The order of card use is:
- Use Mika's cards to Gain AP
- Use Spirit of the Aromata for the 20% DMG Increase
- Use every possible Passion cards you can from both Veronica and Mei Lin
- Use Unity of Attack and Defense to Move 2 Strike Cards
- Use All Strike Cards
- Use Rising Dragon Spire to deal 150% with hits per Passion card used
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Anonymous 22 days
Anonymous 22 daysthe reason this of epiphany create 2 strike is because it "Upgrade" trait card, which is proc with Passion-4 set
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For mei lin on the crit set, you want seths scarab and black wing. The 4 set only works on 1 cost cards. So it misses your 0 cost strikes and 2 cost payoff card.