Here's a Beginner's Guide on starting your playthrough of Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ). Check out the beginner tips and best beginner teams here!

Beginner's Guide

1. Rerolling is Not Recommended
2. Focus on Story Missions
3. Focus on Building One Team
4. Collect EXP Materials
5. Farm for Drive Discs Later
6. Look for Missing Mini Cargo Trucks
7. Collect HIA Coins and Mewmew Medals
8. Visit the Daily Check-In Website

Rerolling is Not Recommended

A recurring thing among Hoyoverse games is that it takes a long time to make it to the Gacha banner, called Signal Searches in ZZZ.

Even then, S-class Agents will eventually come, and the A-class Agents that are easier to obtain can do the job just fine.

Reroll Guide - Is It Worth It?

Focus on Story Missions

Doing the Main Story Missions unlock more features that greatly help during early game! Look out for red speech balloons on top of a character's head or on an object. That's the sign that interacting with them will proceed with the Main Story.

Main Story Guide

Focus on Building One Team

At the early game, decide on which three characters you want to use and focus on building those characters only. You can build another team of characters once your first one is fully built.

This is because as your characters level up, they will need a lot more materials at higher level numbers. So building more than three characters in the early game will consume a lot of your resources.

Best Team Comps

Collect EXP Materials

After clearing Chapter 1 of the Main Story, the HIA Club will be unlocked. This is where you can spend Battery to collect materials that can be used to upgrade your characters.

HIA Club Guide

Farm for Drive Discs Later

While Drive Discs make your characters significantly stronger, we highly recommend to save these for last since it's more important to level up your Characters and their Skills.

You can use Drive Discs that you've received from Commissions and Primer as temporary alternatives until you've fully upgraded your characters.

Routine Cleanup Guide

Look for Missing Mini Cargo Trucks

Certain Missing Mini Cargo Trucks can be found around the city block, and they can be easily spotted by the bright blue X on its side. Opening these will grant the player some EXP items and Dennies as a reward!

Mini Cargo Truck Locations

Collect HIA Coins and Mewmew Medals

HIA Coins and Mewmew Medals can be collected by interacting with NPCs and completing certain Commissions. These can provide you more materials and Dennies to use for your characters.

Visit the Daily Check-In Website

Much like its sister games from Hoyoverse, Zenless Zone Zero also has a Daily Check-in website where Proxies can go and log in daily to obtain free items.

The day-by-day reward does not look like much but it eventually accumulates over time, letting players have the necessary materials in the long run.

Daily Check-In Website

Best Early Game Teams

1. Early Game Team Comp
2. Prioritize DPS Agents
3. Level At Least One Stun Character
4. Reserve A Slot For a Support
5. Use the Team Builder Tool

Early Game Team Comp

Attack	Stun	Support
Billy	Anby	Nicole
Agent Leveling Priority
Attack > Stun/Anomaly > Support/Defense

The first three Free Characters can be used to form a solid free-to-play team. Nicole especially is a great Support Agent that you can use even in the endgame.

Billy can be your DPS until you get better Attack Agents. Since Anby is the only A-Rank Stun unit, you will most likely use her in the team more times than not.

Prioritize DPS Agents

Best A-Rank DPS
Anton
Other A-Rank Agents
Billy	Corin	Piper

Attack Agents are usually the Main DPS of a team, as their entire kit is built to deal as much damage as possible. It's important to level up the DPS units first since they will deal significantly less damage on enemies with a higher level.

Anomaly Agents are also considered to be DPS units thanks to their high Attribute Anomaly DMG.

Level At Least One Stun Character

Free-To-Play Stun Agent
Anby

Stun Agents specialize in increasing enemy Daze, and immobilizes them once the meter is full. When that happens, your team can go into Chain Attacks or deal even heavier DMG on their own.

List of All Stun Agents

Reserve A Slot For a Support

Recommended A-Rank Support Agents
Nicole	Soukaku	Lucy
Best for Anomaly DPS
Seth

Each Support Agent and Defense has their own unique way of providing utility to the team. They can either buff your team's stats or protect your other units via shielding.

List of All Support Agents

Use the Team Builder Tool

If you're having trouble creating your team or choosing the best Bangboo for your team, you can use our handy Team Builder Tool!

Zenless Zone Zero Team Builder Tool

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