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Chizuru Best Team and Build

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This is a guide for the best teams and loadout for Chizuru in Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Learn which combatants are best to pair with Chizuru, as well as recommended cards, partners, and equipment.

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Best Chizuru Build

Build Overview

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Memory FragmentMemory Fragment Best EquipmentEquipment PlaystylePlaystyle
Character Partner Equipment
Chizuru
Itsuku
Memory Fragments and Stat Priorities
1. Void Damage %
2. Crit Chance
3. Attack
Cards and Epiphanies
Karmic Flames Tsukuyomi Bound at Dusk Oni Hunt
Duplicate Priorities
Tsukuyomi > Oni Hunt

Chizuru's best build focuses on stacking hits using multiple copies of Tsukuyomi on her Shadow of the Moon card after a few turns to deal massive damage in one turn after Rei and Cassius help boosts her damage.

She is best suited with the 2/2/2 set consisting of Black Wing, Seth's Scarab and Executioner's Tool to further enhance her damage output. While her favored chaos zone is Laboratory 0 to get her best equipment such as Mutant Predator Spike and Emblem of an Exceptional Entity that adds 30% damage amount to her cards.

Build Changelog

Date Changes
12-04-2025 ・Initial Chizuru build

Chizuru Best Team

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Memory FragmentMemory Fragment Best EquipmentEquipment PlaystylePlaystyle
Sub-DPS Support
Rei Rei Cassius Cassius

Chizuru's best team is Rei and Cassius. Rei can help Chizuru deal more damage due to how low the multipliers of her attack cards in exchange for more hits. Cassius can help draw cards for Chizuru to ensure that she can cycle through her deck to help stack more hits for her Shadow of the Moon. He can also provide more Will-O'-Wisp stacks with his Triple 0 or Triple 1 and provide more damage buffs with Straight.

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Alternative Team Members

Character Explanation
Veronica Veronica Veronica can substitute Cassius or Rei as a Support/Sub-DPS. She can provide more card draw at the cost of losing damage buffs if you swap her as a Sub-DPS or make card draw consistent at the cost of slow stacking of Will-O'-Wisp if you swap her as a Support.
Tressa Tressa Tressa can substitute Rei as a Sub-DPS but only if Mika is included as a Support. She can help Chizuru with Will-O'-Wisp stacks using her Shadow Daggers.
Mika Mika Mika can substitute Cassius as a Support but only if Tressa is included as a Sub-DPS. She can provide healing for Tressa for more Shadow Dagger generation.

Chizuru Best Cards

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Card Effect
Karmic Flames Karmic Flames AP Cost: 1
Type: Skill Skill

Tags: Initiation, Exhaust
・1 Cursed Shackles
When a target inflicted with Cursed Shackles is defeated, create this card
Tsukuyomi Tsukuyomi AP Cost: 0
Type: Skill Skill

Add 2 Hit(s) to the next Shadow of the Moon, Shadow of the Moon+ used
Bound at Dusk Bound at Dusk AP Cost: 1
Type: Upgrade Upgrade

Tags: Initiation, Unique
・At the start of the turn, gain Inhibit
・ Decrease Cost by 1 until 2 random card of another Combatant is used
Oni Hunt Oni Hunt AP Cost: 1
Type: Attack Attack

Tags: Haste
50% Damage x 4
+40% Damage Amount to the next Bind card used

Chizuru's build revolves around stacking a lot of hits for Shadow of the Moon when using Tsukuyomi while dishing out decent damage with Oni Hunt during downtime. Ideally, she only needs to use one Shadow of the Moon to defeat most boss in one turn once she stacked enough hits.

Karmic Flames with the exhaust tag ensures that it will thin her deck and helps draw more Tsukuyomi in future turns. While Bound at Dusk can be useful for card discounts, if you built your other characters with AP recovery on their cards it is better off removed from her deck.

Your target for duplication is Tsukuyomi for more stacks of hit, decreasing the amount of turns needed to setup her Shadow of the Moon. Oni Hunt is a viable alternative but make sure to have enough AP recovery to use multiple copies of it.

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Essential Team Cards and Epiphanies

Rei Cards Explanation
Resonating Darkness Resonating Darkness AP Cost: 0
Type: Skill Skill

For 1 turn, +80% Damage to cards with cost 1
Snack Time Snack Time AP Cost: 0
Type: Skill Skill

Tags: Exhaust 2
・Select 1 card(s) from your hand to Exhaust
・Heal 150%
・Draw 1
Dark Condensation Dark Condensation AP Cost: 1
Type: Skill Skill

・Choose 1 Attack Card(s) in hand, +150% Damage for 1 turn
Predator Predator's Blade AP Cost: 1
Type: Attack Attack

・250% Damage
・ For 1 turn 2 Morale
Cassius Cards Explanation
Pop Eyed Popper Pop Eyed Popper AP Cost: 0
Type: Upgrade Upgrade

・From 4 Quests, choose 1 to begin
Devil Dice Devil Dice AP Cost: 0
Type: Attack Attack

Draw 1
80% Damage to all enemies equal to that card's cost
Dice Trick Dice Trick AP Cost: 2
Type: Upgrade Upgrade

On Quest completion, create 1 Quest Card(s)
Joker Joker AP Cost: 1
Type: Skill Skill

・Select 1 card(s) from the Draw Pile to Draw

Rei's cards and epiphanies should focus on buffing Chizuru's multi-hit attack cards to help deal more damage per hit and eventually provide a massive damage boost to Shadow of the Moon once it has enough hits stacked. You should look to copy either Dark Condensation or Predator's Blade for more damage boosts every turn.

Cassius' should pick epiphanies that lets him draw cards for free and activate the quest plus Dice Trick combo to get more card draw and sometimes morale buffs if you get the Straight quest card. He should have multiple copies of Dice Trick to get more quest cards that can either help with card draw, more attack cards or morale buffs.

Chizuru Best Partner

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Partner Details
Itsuku Itsuku Passive Effect:
Moonlit Leisure - The assigned combatant's Attack is increased by 8-16% Every time the assigned Combatant's card stack, +5-10% Attack Card Damage Amount (Max 3 stacks) Every time 1 Attack Card type used by the Assigned Combatant deals 3 Hits, 30-60% Fixed Damage to the target
Ego Skill:
Tranquil Marker - 200% Damage to all enemies, apply Fierce Winds effect Fierce Winds: +50% Damage Amount to Attack Cards of the assigned Combatant for 1 turn

Chizuru's best partner is Itsuku as she can provide more attack stat passively. She also boosts the damage of stacking cards and deals fixed damage after using attack cards that hits 3 or more. Her ego skill gives Chizuru +50% damage amount for 1 turn and can combo well with Shadow of the Moon once it is buffed enough with enough hits.

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Alternative Budget Partner

Partner Explanation
Zatera Zatera Zatera is a 3-star psionic partner that can compete well with Itsuku at base ego manifest level. She is a perfect substitute if you don't have Itsuku as she can provide a 16% attack bonus.

Chizuru Best Memory Fragments

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Wiki - Black Wing SetBlack Wing Set Wiki - SethSeth's Scarab Set Wiki - ExecutionerExecutioner's Tool Set

Chizuru's best memory fragments are the 3 pairs of 2-sets. Black Wing set for more attack stat, Seth's Scarab set for more damage to her basic cards and Executioner's Tool set for more critical damage.

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Stat Priority

Main Stats Recommended Substats
Ideal: Critical Chance %
Desire: Void Damage %
Imagination: Attack %
・ Critical Chance %
・ Critical Damage %
・ Attack%
・ Attack

Chizuru is a Main DPS and wants all the boost to her damage. Critical Chance, Void Damage and Attack are all viable main stat options for her memory fragments and more attack stat is needed as her last potential node requires a total of 1000 attack.

Chizuru Best Equipment

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Weapon Armor Accessory
Wiki - Mutant Predator SpikeMutant Predator Spike Wiki - Fragment of the Empty VoidFragment of the Empty Void Wiki - Emblem of an Exceptional EntityEmblem of an Exceptional Entity

Chizuru wants equipment that adds more damage amount to her cards to further enhance the damage of her multi-hit attacks. Mutant Predator Spike and Emblem of an Exceptional Entity adds 30% more damage amount. Fragment of the Empty Void will provide better starting hand for Chizuru.

Do note that all of these equipment is only available inside Laboratory 0 and can be a bit difficult to acquire.

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Alternative Budget Equipment

Weapon Armor Accessory
Wiki - Obsidian SwordObsidian Sword Wiki - Incomplete CarapaceIncomplete Carapace Wiki - Amorphous CubeAmorphous Cube

Chizuru can settle comfortably with these budget equipments if you are not able to get the best ones for her. Obsidian Sword and Amorphous Cube is available in all chaos zones and can be bought inside the shop while Incomplete Carapace is only available in Laboratory 0 but can easily be accessed in the shop too.

Chizuru Build Tips and Playstyle

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Do Not Use Bound at Dusk If You Have Multiple AP Recovery

Bound at Dusk will always inflict a status called Inhibit to your team every turn. It stops your team from gaining AP outside of the natural 3 AP at turn start or 1 AP from ravaging an enemy and provides 1 more additional hit to her Sword of the Moon cards.

If you have cards that restores AP when used, make sure that Bound at Dusk is never used, removed or exhausted especially by Rin to be able to gain AP.

Always Use Tsukuyomi to Start Stacking Hits

Even if you don't have Sword of the Moon in your hand, draw pile, discard pile or exhaust pile, it will still keep track of all the added hits given by Tsukuyomi and will apply to future Sword of the Moon when it is created after.

Hit Enemies Multiple Times to Gain Will-O'-Wisp Stacks

Chizuru's Karmic Flames inflicts Cursed Shackles to one enemy making it possible to get 1 stack of Will-O'-Wisp for every 1 instance of damage the enemy receives. For example, if an ally has an attack that hits twice, Chizuru will gain 2 stacks of Will-O'-Wisps.

Chizuru's Own Attack Cards Can Stack Will-O'-Wisp

The in-game tooltip implies that Cursed Shackles will only work on ally attacks however, Chizuru's attacks will still stack Will-O'-Wisp per hit.

Shadow of the Moon One Turn Kill Combo

One of Chizuru's builds revolves around stacking hits across multiple turns then buffing its damage amount as much as possible before using it to deal massive amounts of damage to a single-target. To do this, you need to have these requirements first:

  • Chizuru has at least 2 copies of Tsukuyomi
  • Rei has at least 2 copies of either Dark Condensation or Predator's Blade
  • Make sure Cassius has the Full House quest activated

For this build to work, make sure to follow these steps:

  1. Use Joker to get Tsukuyomi to start stacking hits
  2. Activate all of Rei and Cassius' upgrade cards to thin the deck
  3. Once enough hits is stacked, use Dark Condensation or Predator's Blade to boost Sword of the Moon's Damage
  4. Make sure to leave 1 AP then use Sword of the Moon to deal massive damage to a single enemy.

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