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Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN)
Rin Best Team and Build
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This is a guide for the best teams and loadout for Rin in Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Learn which combatants are best to pair with Rin, as well as recommended cards, partners, and equipment.
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 Rin
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 Rei
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 Veronica
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 High Single-Target Damage Low Cost Cards Extra Attack Each Turn  Requires proper management of AP and Stance Careful choice of epiphanies and card removal is required for every support |
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Rin wants to be the only character on the team to be doing attacks as much as possible but she can only maximize her attacks with buffs and card cycling.
Proper setup and enough AP generators through epiphanies and card cycling will let Rin continuously get her cards to maintain her stance and launch combos after combos per turn.
Build Changelog
| Date | Changes |
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| 11-26-2025 |
・Updated best teammates to Rei and Veronica ・Updated Rin's best equipment and best cards |
| 11-04-2025 | ・Added Rin build overview ・Revised Rin build page layout ・Updated best teammates to Rei and Cassius Build format updated to further add details such as equipment and partners for teammates ・Added entire team's card epiphany goal list ・Added recommended fragments |
| 10-26-2025 | ・Combined the 1-cost build and AoE burst into one viable setup. ・Updated recommended cards and playstyle. |
Rin Best Team
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Rei
Card Fetch, DPS Buff |
 Arwen
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Sneering Dagger Sneering Dagger When an enemy is defeated, 2 Vulnerable to all enemies
Reinforced Combat Suit Reinforced Combat Suit At the end of the turn, if there is no Shield, gain 60% Fixed Shield. 
Nature's Gift Nature's Gift Heal 40% at the end of turn |
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Veronica
Card Cycling, Extra Attack |
 Solia
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Second Method Second Method Extra Attack damage +35%
Brainwave-Blocking Helmet Brainwave-Blocking Helmet When you Draw by an ability, +40% Fixed Shield
Quantum Collector Quantum Collector When an ally uses an Upgrade card, +20% Damage, Shield, and Healing for 1 turn. |
The resources Rin needs the most are her own cards, followed by damage buffs. Rei can provide both with Snack Time and her several void, basic, and morale buffs. Veronica has cards that allows her to an quickly cycle through the deck, and deals Extra Attack damage through her Ballista cards.
Alternative Team Members
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 Orlea
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Can replace Rei as the Support. You can utilize her creations to further buff Rin's damage and give more hits for her multi-attacks while providing heals and shields. |
 Nia
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Can replace Rei as the Support. You can utilize her ability to provide Morale and manipulate your Draw cards to easily set up Rin's Stances as early as possible. |
 Mika
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Can replace Rei as the Support. Mika is an excellent Support healer that works well with most team compositions for recovering AP efficiently. |
Rin Best Cards
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 Drawing Slash
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AP Cost: 0
Type:
 Attack
Tags: Haste ・150% Damage ・Obtain Dark Cloud Stance ・Dark Mist Blade Art: +1 Damage count |
 Dark Mist Secret Art: Destruction
Duplicate |
AP Cost: 0
Type:
 Skill
・Draw 1 Card ・Gain Dark Mist Stance |
 Dark Mist Secret Art: Annihilation
Duplicate |
AP Cost: 1
Type:
Attack
Tags: Haste ・50% x2 Damage ・Dark Mist Blade Art: +2 hits |
 Dark Mist Inner Art
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
 Upgrade
・If in Dark Mist Stance state, +50% Rin's Attack Card Damage |
 Dark Mist Secret Art: Black Dance
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
Attack
・80% damage ・Dark Mist Blade Art: +1 Damage count according to the number of Skill cards in hand (Max 5 times) |
Rin is a selfish stance and combo-focused DPS character that utilizes her Dark Mist stance to activate her card's secondary effects. This opens up multiple combos, especially if you have her potential 3-1 that lets you activate stance on basic attack cards.
Drawing Slash and Destruction are also great combo starters if you're outside of stance, which lets you re-enter the stance on 0 cost, allowing you to use 3 offensive cards after. You'll also ideally want to get divine epiphanies that reduce card cost to 0 or gain 1 AP on use, allowing her to do her combos if you're playing Rin without AP generators like Mika.
You should try to duplicate both Destruction and Annihilation cards so you can extend the combo further, since Destruction lets you draw another card and restores the Dark Mist stance, creating more opportunities for additional combos.
Aim to obtain the Inner Art epiphany that upgrades it into a card you draw each turn while in the Dark Mist stance, helping reduce card rotation. Also keep Black Dance’s effect in mind, where it gains more damage the more skill cards you have, making it ideal to use as one of your opening moves to capitalize on the skill cards in your hand.
Essential Team Cards and Epiphanies
| Card | Explanation |
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 Repose
Duplicate |
AP Cost: 1
Type:
Skill
・150% Shield ・Draw 2 other combatant card(s) ・Cost of 1 card(s) -1 for 1 turn |
 Sir Kowalski
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
Skill
・Choose 1 Ballista in Hand, +150 % Damage until used ・Draw 2 |
 Pendant of Resolution
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
Upgrade
・When another combatant uses a Skill Card, 1 Reload ・50% chance to gain additional 1 Reload |
 Snack Time
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AP Cost: 0
Type:
Skill
Tags: Exhaust ・Select up to 2 card(s) from hand to Exhaust, then Draw that many |
 Strike of Darkness
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
Upgrade
Tags: Unique ・+80% Basic attack card Damage |
 Dark Condensation
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
Skill
・For 1 turn, +50% Damage to Void attack cards |
 Resonating Darkness
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AP Cost: 1
Type:
Upgrade
Tags: Unique ・+40% Damage for Void Card |
Overall, your goal is to get Rin's card into your hand, which can be done by exhausting unwanted cards, card draws, and shuffling the discard pile back to the draw pile.
For Veronica, your main goal is to capitalize on her non-attack card cycling abilities, such as Repose and Sir Kowalski. You should aim to obtain Divine Epiphanies for them that reduce their AP cost to 0. The Pendant of Resolution allows Veronica to gain Reload stacks each time Rin or Rei uses a skill card, further boosting the damage of her Ballista cards.
Rei can do card cycling with Snack Time while also thinning out your deck, but your main goal is to provide damage buffs to Rin by providing morale and Void damage.
Rin Best Partner
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| Partner | Details |
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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 |
The best partner for Rin would be Scarlet since she benefits from Attack cards that only use one character. As long as you are solely using Rin Attack cards, you can get up to 30% Attack Card Damage to help maximize your damage output.
Alternative Budget Partner
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 Lillian
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Lillian can increase your overall damage whenever you use cards with less than 1 cost, which is the majority of Rin's cards. |
 Douglas
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An excellent 3-star Partner that slightly increases your damage output and gives Rin an AoE damage option for its Ego Skill. |
Rin Best Memory Fragment
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Late Game Set
 Executioner's Tool Set Executioner's Tool Set +25% Critical Damage 2 Set |
 Conqueror's Aspect Set Conqueror's Aspect Set +35% Critical Damage of 1-cost cards 4 Set |
This is our recommended set due to the multitude of 1 cost cards we use for our build.
While Drawing Slash does not benefit from the conqueror's Aspect due to its 0 cost, this set is still our most recommended to deck out once you're able to stack multiple critical strike chance to your kit.
Starter Set
 Healer's Journey Set Healer's Journey Set +12% Max HP |
 Black Wing Set Black Wing Set +12% Attack |
 Seth's Scarab Set Seth's Scarab Set Increase the damage, Shield, and Healing of Basic Cards by 20% |
This is the easiest triple 2-set you can get for Rin without too much investment, as you start moving up your captain levels, which can immediately help you clear chaos content and survive high-damage Basin of Hyperspace content. However, this set falls off quickly as you'll want to optimize your stats and focus on getting critical strike chance/damage to capitalize on Rin's high-damage kit.
Stat Priority
| Main Stats | Recommended Substats |
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Ideal: Critical Chance% Desire: Void Damage% Imagination: Attack % |
・Critical Chance % ・ Critical Damage % ・ Attack ・ Attack% |
For both main stats and substats, aim for Void Damage, Critical Chance, Critical Damage, and Attack. Void damage is a direct multiplier, and you'll want to prioritize Critical Strike chance as much as possible to capitalize on our critical damage sets and be our main set's damage activator.
Rin Best Equipment
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| Weapon | Armor | Accessory |
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 Chimeranite Chimeranite When you Draw by an ability, +35% Damage amount to your own Attack Card(s) for 1 turn (Max 1 time per turn) |
 Brainwave-Blocking Helmet Brainwave-Blocking Helmet When you Draw by an ability, +40% Fixed Shield |
 Emblem of an Exceptional Entity Emblem of an Exceptional Entity +30% Damage Amount^ Stress received becomes 0 (1 for each battle) |
We highly recommend getting damage-focused equipment for Rin to help bring her closer to one-shotting enemies.
These sets can be obtained from the Laboratory 0 Chaos area, and having both Chimeranite and the Emblem of an Exceptional Entity will further enhance Rin’s statline by increasing her damage as long as you continue drawing cards. This makes it important for Veronica to have several draw cards to consistently trigger the effect. The Emblem of an Exceptional Entity is also a valuable accessory on its own, providing an additional 30% damage boost for Rin.
Rin Build Tips and Playstyle
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Activate Bonus Effects with Dark Cloud Stance
Before you start dealing damage, you first have to activate your Dark Cloud Stance using either Drawing Slash or Dark Mist Secret Art: Destruction as early as possible. Once the Stance is activated, any of Rin's cards that have Dark Mist Blade Art under their effects will trigger.
Do note that if you use any Attack card aside from Rin's, Dark Cloud Stance will be immediately removed and all the bonus effects from Dark Mist Blade Art will not trigger.
Maximize Damage Buffs to Combo With Her Multi-Hits
Most damage buffs in the game are additive to the card's total damage, such as Morale, basic damage bonus, etc. You'll want to activate buffs before starting her multi hit combos at most, as several epiphanies for her cards add additional hits, which lets Rin capitalize on these buffs multiple times with card usage.
A good example would be using Dark Mist Inner Art to retain stance, then use Rei's Predator Blade to grant 2/4 Morale depending on your Ego level. You can then follow this up with Black Dance if you have multiple skills or Annihilation to hit twice, which makes Morale provide 80/160% bonus damage on one card use.
AP generators can add more card cycles to this combo, such as following it up with Destruction into another Annihilation, which lets you hit for 6-8 times in one turn, which just highlights how valuable buffs are for Rin's total damage output.
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Anonymous about 1 month
Anonymous about 1 monthEarly game maybe, but in later stages you get your ass clapped without proper sustain
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