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Skill Enhancement Guide - Which Skills to Upgrade First

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Zenless Zone Zero Skill Enhancement Guide

Knowing which skill to prioritize is essential to optimizing your Agents in Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ). See which skills you should prioritize first for each Agent here!

Skill Enhancement Priority Guide

How to Use Skill Prioritization Table

Skill Prioritization Table

You can select an Agent icon from the list generated, or simply type in the name of the Agent in the search bar. Each Agent has been evaluated on which skills you should prioritize when you upgrade.

A simple way to grasp the concept is that Attack Characters will likely prioritize their Basic Attack over Assist, while a Support Character would prioritize Assist or Core Skill over Basic Attack.

Icon Guide

Icon Guide
Basic Atk Attack
Dodge Dodge
Switch Assist
Special Special
Ultimate Ultimate
Core Skill Core Skill

Skill Prioritization Table

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Agent Basic Atk Dodge Switch Special Ultimate Core Skill
AnbyAnby 5 2 2 5 3 5
BillyBilly 5 3 2 3 4 5
NicoleNicole 3 3 4 5 3 5
NekomataNekomata 5 4 3 2 4 5
AntonAnton 5 2 2 5 3 4
CorinCorin 3 3 3 5 4 4
LycaonLycaon 5 2 1 4 1 5
BenBen 3 3 3 5 3 5
Soldier 11Soldier 11 5 4 3 5 3 5
SoukakuSoukaku 1 1 1 5 3 5
KoledaKoleda 4 2 2 5 3 4
GraceGrace 2 1 1 5 3 5
EllenEllen 5 3 1 5 4 3
RinaRina 2 1 1 5 1 5
LucyLucy 5 2 3 5 3 5
PiperPiper 3 1 2 5 4 5

Skill Prioritization Explanation

Untill Chapter 2 is Cleared, It is Best to Focus on 3 Characters

Team Comp Sample
Ellen Ellen
(Attack)
Rina Rina
(Support)
Anby Anby
(Stun)

Collecting materials necessary to upgrade Characters is quite difficulty, and will most likely take hours of grinding. In the earlier parts of the game, it is recommended that you focus on 3 characters that will satisfy the basic composition of a balanced team.

You can refer to our Tier List to determine which characters would be most suitable based on our ratings.

Best Team Comps

Second Team Comp Unlocked at Level 7

ZZZ - Shiyu Defense Guide - Deploy Teams With Boosted Attributes

In Shiyu Defensewhere you defeat enemies in waves within a time limit, you will be able to compose a second team from Level 7 onwards. Focus on leveling up the characters on the second team only when you reach Level 7.
Shiyu Defense Guide

Skill Upgrade Prioritization Guidelines

Skill Upgrade Prioritization Guidelines



Enhance Main's Attack, Special, & Core Skill

Sample Main Attack Agents
Ellen Ellen Soldier 11 Soldier 11 Nekomata Nekomata

As your main Attack unit, it is recommended to enhance their Basic Attack, Special, and Core Skills. These characters will be the agents you will use as your DPS units, so maximizing their damage output is essential.

Enhance Support's Special & Core Skill

Sample Support Agents
Rina Rina Nicole Nicole Soukaku Soukaku

Support Agents are there to provide support for your team, their Basic Attack need not be upgraded because their role is not to deal damage, but instead invest on their Special and Core Skills to maximize their effects.

Enhance Secondary's Basic Attack & Core Skill

Sample Secondary Agents
Lycaon Lycaon Grace Grace Anby Anby

Stun Agents, often regarded as Sub-Attackers or Secondary Attackers, will have a mix of priority. Depending on the agent, you may be inclined to upgrade their Core Skill over their Special or Basic Attack. Compare their priorities using the guide table above.

Strengthen Core Skill Based on Priority

Select Core Skills

Core Skills are skills that are automatically activated during combat, so you'll want to enhance their effects for the benefit of the team. You only get a limited number of materials from the weekly boss, so you'll want to prioritize which characters should have their Core Skills upgraded first.

Main Attacker > Support > Secondary Attacker

How to Upgrade Core Skills

Skill Enhancement Tips

Enhancing to Max Level

Of course you would want to enhance your skills to the max level cap, but as the materials needed to enhance skills are only dropped from weekly bosses, it is better focus on increasing the max level cap by raising your Proxy Rank first.

You should prioritize reaching the level caps in this order: Agents > W-Engines > Skills.

Enhance up to Level 7 first

Skill Enhancement
It is recommended to enhance your skills only up to Level 7 initially, as Level 8 onwards require specialized chips that will considerably make training your agents more costly.

Upgrade Core Skills up to Level C

Consume Materials

It is recommended to upgrade Core Skills up to C-Level because you only get the “Higher Dimensional Data” A Rank materials in the Expert Challenges.

This is much easier to complete for multiple characters than it is to farm the S Rank materials that only come from the weekly bosses in the Notorious Hunt.

Expert Challenge Guide and Rewards

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