AVOID THESE Early Game MISTAKES in Zenless Zone Zero!!

Today we talk about Early Game mistakes you may make in Zenless Zone Zero and how to avoid them.
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Important NPCs
1:18 - Resource Management
2:38 - Team Building
3:47 - Main Story
4:27 - Engines
5:37 - Summoning
7:03 - Drive Disks
8:40 - Challenge Mode
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[@MrMac873]

So anyway I used Corin and Ben because I like them.

[@itzpurple_queen9711]

Billy, Anton and Ellen are who I’m currently using because they are my favourites and idgaf about meta!

[@TerraTheWise]

Crazy that I have no idea who these characters are.

[@faminehand]

@@itzpurple_queen9711 i haven’t started playing yet because i have no device currently to play it on (i will on my bday when i get an ipad!) but I’m planning on playing ellen and investing EVERYTHING in her. why? bc shes the reason i was interested in this game in the first place. idc if shes prone to power creeping, she’s my fav so i will main her. ur right, ppl shouldn’t be slaves to the meta if they don’t like it and should just play whoever they wish :p

[@wizsword.]

@@itzpurple_queen9711it’s not even “meta” it’s just basic game mechanics at this point lol

[@Railblitz]

Billy,anby,corin

[@NyumoVT]

Howl's scratch off also has a chance to give you Polychrome's, not just Dennies so yes make sure you stop by the news stand every morning.

[@PureLunari]

I can confirm this. I just got 40 Polychromes from Howl. Never forget your scratch cards~!

[@DirecDelta]

@@PureLunari Same. But I wouldn't go to the noodle shop as it's not free.

[@anfakebinh4058]

I got 20

[@asian_kanye]

I got 8888 dennies is that good

[@mxlly376]

@@DirecDeltaI have like 10 million Dennies, go eat all the noodles you want 🤣

[@Argenti_Lover]

The way i thought wise was caelus for a sec😭

[@domp9736]

Don't forget to explore the maps. And get all the chest. Also the team that you start out with is actually a pretty good team. Added note. The A rank also have signature A rank engines, but they're obtained through the gacha pulls.

[@RandomDudeThatLovesAnimes]

Chests?! Their are Chests in the map how when and where?! I couldn't even find a single one?!

[@domp9736]

@@RandomDudeThatLovesAnimes In the hub maps

[@Tsukino2799]

​@@RandomDudeThatLovesAnimes there chess in every maps we can go ( not in combat mod)

[@RandomDudeThatLovesAnimes]

@@domp9736 yeh I just found them...I'm surprised that I couldn't find even a single one earlier xD

[@muhamadsyafiq174]

Fr, myfirst 5 start is nekomata and all i had to do is just swap her with billy with nicole and anby. Their synergy goes so well and this goes on until i got lycaon and soukaku which around interknot 30

[@Eldritchpi]

Ppl complaining about difficulty havent been introduced to hard mode yet.

[@sythro.]

pretty easy even underleveled

[@mackind6764]

😂 you have to be kidding, i just came from elden ring and wuwa even made me break a bit of sweat. Hard mode in ZZZ is laughable.

[@sythro.]

@@mackind6764 don’t compare Elden ring to hoyoverse games it’s not even comparable 😂

[@LongDeadArtist]

I made sure to write in the ZZZ survey that "challenge mode" was way too easy

[@Fuu_Shix]

Hard Mode or Challenge mode both just gave more challenge for those who prefer to have a casual play, if those players are dissatisfied with how easy it was, then there are Shinyu Defense ready to greet you, some people want to enjoy playing without getting their ass beaten up countless times and progress with the story, but if you feel like it's still not 'hard' enough and are not 'challenging' enough like souls games, please try to understand that both games are different.

[@dar3d3v1l3]

Jokes on you, I’ve only been using cunning hares

[@laurasofiadulceyjaimes6477]

me maining nicole bc she is cute

[@dinnerboons1504]

Me maining Anby for the same reason as the guy above me.

[@SpeedyWhitePikman-x6h]

me maining billy beacuse he says billy time

[@mayachavez5006]

One tip no one ever covers is to not sleep on the bamboo general store. I don't know which tab it was but one of them had character upgrade materials and stuff like that. That's valuable energy you could reserve. Granted it there was only like four ice skill things in there but that was pretty much 50 or 60 energy worth of material

[@rhogura6723]

I noticed this today - it resets weekly, just grab the first four items from them (its not a lot of dennies) but it will save you energy

[@chesspiece4257]

no people are sleeping on it because it’s too expensive. better to use your stamina for farming bc it’s cheaper than using your stamina on dennies

[@mayachavez5006]

@@chesspiece4257 my dood I buy out tab 1 and 2 every week and I literally have like 20 million dennies. Speaking of which I just hit proxy 40 so now I can clear tab 3.

[@jackstover1439]

Counterpoint: I only want the wolf so I'm turning all of my premium currency into standard pulls for the 300 mercy.

[@gustavheinrich5565]

You should reroll instead.

[@jackstover1439]

@@gustavheinrich5565 Not easy to do on Playstation. Even if I did, my other account would never be able to claim any of the PS+ bonuses.

[@SdokiesDelo]

Fr

[@jorispost3059]

@@gustavheinrich5565 pretty sure rerolling means getting a new psn account so no thanks (wanted the cat, got the wolf)

[@soulbounddoll1826]

​@@jorispost3059Same lol.

[@mittens7400]

On the scratch card, if you’re lucky, you can get 60 polychromes!

[@dr.strange1300]

About discs, i actually recommend you to get at least full gear for your main 3 (not full sets, just full 6 pieces of gear) because even a full 6 pieces of blue gear is better than running around with no discs at all.

[@Noaxid]

Some unit really need 4 piece set because they are really good even with bad stat . For example fire set is busted even with low stat so i agree you need at least 6 slot but with 4 from a good set for your char

[@jesuslbl]

And also level up disc#2 which gives flat atk on your dps ID a good idea, any base atk you can get is good!

[@bigmilk13_]

I've been running Piper, Ben, Lucy because I like all of them. Piper is functioning as primary DPS (even tho she's labeled as Anomaly, she can deal a LOT of dmg), Ben is great for facetanking large or annoying enemies, and Lucy is just there to drop a nuke and leave every time I swap to her. I'm also level 26 right now and I haven't really had much trouble with my un-optimized team. It's important to note that there is *technically* synergy between every single character in the game, because of how Disorder works. I can have 2 Fire, 1 Physical on my party and swapping between them at the right cadence will proc Disorder in addition to Burn and Assault. I'm assuming it'll be a good idea at some point to run a more optimized team comp, but idk I'm just having fun right now.

[@nxt.octavia]

Prioritize having fun over meta, atleast until you start trying Shinyu Defense out.

[@dareokoski8158]

I'm lv 55, and this team is clearing shield within 1-2mins. I can easy s rank it if you have a good second team, also like Ellen

[@Moth1189]

Actually for example ellen joes best f2p option is a B rank engine unless you have the S5 A rank engines and even then it's only like 5% behind so it's definitely worth it building B rank engines depending on which one it is and on whoever

[@lightseeder358]

Which B rank engine would that be?

[@rindirion2562]

@@lightseeder358R5 Lunar Pleniluna

[@Moth1189]

@@lightseeder358 decrescent or pleniluma I cant remember. I believe its decrescent though.

[@lavenderwalrus9875]

yeah rina is also better off with b ranks than any of the a ranks

[@Moth1189]

@@lavenderwalrus9875 I got rinas engine but I dont even have rina so I just put in on soukaku 😔

[@YISTECH]

Thanks man. I dont know anything about this game so these guides help

[@Whatamisupposetodo]

I might need this vid, thx Kekv

[@DennyRibbe]

its funny that the currency is called by my actual name i get confused sometimes by that

[@usuitakumi4210]

Thank you ! I didn't know about the smiley face thing

[@talkingzack4926]

0:40 “free buff” *spends money*

[@Shadow82311]

Chop wouldn’t wanted to give foods for free

[@salt8044]

you get so much money in this game it's basically free

[@lavenderwalrus9875]

@@salt8044 that is so wrong its hilarious, the currency is gonna be sooooo thin on the ground once we are doing the high skill upgrades which cost hundreds of thousands

[@salt8044]

@@lavenderwalrus9875 oh man i wasn't thinking that far ahead. u right

[@zaregotoch.8491]

You get 2888 dennys minimum everyday from the dog.

[@MatteoRossetti]

Thanks for your video, only from you I was able to understand something about ZZZ!

[@onesleepyweeb3895]

Counter going on that last one- everything dies too easily without challenge mode. Piper spins and just one taps them

[@themusicalgamer9450]

Doing sidequests though is an extremely good way to get polychrome so that you can get both stronger engines and characters

[@glacialWind]

That last bit at the end "🤓" is all I heard

[@jmbrady1]

I got Nekomata and her signature s rank w-engine alongside Rina on one of my accounts

[@RoppyToppy]

You can change the skill keybind to one of your mouse side buttons (if you have any) to do Nicole's moves on PC, you can do the WASD rotation while skilling with 2 hands so it's not awkward

[@witt4884]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the residual signal weapon engines only for the standard banner/free characters. Especially if you want Ellen or Ellen’s w-engine (or any limited character/limited w-engine), wouldn’t it make more sense to get the tapes

[@Hawkborat]

They're the standard weapons but that doesn't mean other characters can't use them. Though from my short look, they don't seem as universal as some of the weapons in Genshin and Star Rail. So I too am trying to figure out which is more worth it. May depend on which characters you have/want, like example being wolf man's may be worth getting if you really like him, but maybe not.

[@redborn643]

I just hope the challenge mode will make enemy more aggressive than more hp. I do like the gameplay but not in the long term

[@edwardsantiago9109]

Aggression is based on the enemy type, not challenge mode afaik. I only play on challenge mode, while my wife plays casual, and she just doesn't take damage and everything dies quick. I need to at least do some combos and parries to catch up. Later enemies attack faster and have longer combos

[@KryXOXO]

Damn I’m already lvl 30 thank god I learnt my mistakes from other gachas

[@skyrax7]

The only thing I'd recommend challenge mode for is for the free polychrome you get after completing one commission like that for the first time.

[@mxlly376]

Btw if you level up any engine or whatever, you do get back a portion of the materials used when recycling them

[@thrax1831]

Now I gotta ask something I don't see covered anywhere. Should you recycle all of your B rank engines(Or at least most that are duplicates)?

[@Zev_zz]

One question, do challenge mode give more resources?

[@Tom67Slick]

the noodles aren't required if you're not having trouble with a stage, save some Dennies

[@thegamehelperz2746]

😏😏are u oncle Picsou or what😂😂

[@GigaDinks]

Bro i have 2 million Denny I think I can afford a bowl of noodles

[@lavenderwalrus9875]

koldeeyah is a wild pronounciation XD

[@LordTemujinSon]

Btw the factions and elements do play big roles as you stated, factions increase your dodge, counter and such but elements increase their own element so like 2 ice types (Ellen and Aku) Ellen is an ice dps and so she has increase ice dam and crit and Aku is an ice supp she increase ice dam and decreases ice resistance (I know this cuz I have both of them) and now I do wonder what happens if you have a team that has both element and factions but there isn't any teams you can make as of right now that can do that

[@rooprop946]

I already completed chapter 3 and completely forgot that theres a w engine shop

[@pandoraarts7748]

I did the exact opposite with my resource management. I like being able to switch out people and I think you do get enough resourese to do so because I've yet had to sit and grind for one specific resource.

[@le_mnuel]

I got lycan in ellen joe banner lol

[@lifeniccolo]

You can get limited currency from the dog at the newstand I got 20 today

[@DESP_SAYO]

I got really lucky on my gacha pulls because the 5 star i got was lycaon. My current team is lycaon corin and soukaku, but I’ll replace corin with Ellen when i get her

[@Natchoman-]

I thought I made a mistake pulling for shark maid (I forgot her name) because of power creep but I got her at 12 pity so I am not complaining

[@ShinichiKudo14122]

You mean ellen? Shes really strong! And fun to play! And she goes well with the ice girl that you get in that abyss like mode

[@LilRussDawg]

does challenge mode even give you extra rewards like is there any incentive at all to do it?

[@cav25]

nope ... does lets you practise a bit more if you need through them not dying as fast

[@xananax21]

I play on Challenge mode because I'm trying to actually practice my combos for when the game does eventually get hard. The enemies still only take a few seconds to kill with bosses taking maybe a minute or two tops. The more health they have the more I can practicing chain comboing and getting the character rotations I want.

[@JustinS324]

Watching this this at 32 :(

[@BXtds]

My only complaint about this game is that the stamina forces me to sit and wait, and you can't level up without stamina, which sucks probably gonna lose interest off that

[@RadioRentalx]

Just want to add, howl can provide some polychrome as well. priority is coffee and scratch tickets

[@danc3542]

I guess team synergy doesn't matter to me and just put the furry butler on the team then 2 maids

[@Stansor]

Howl does have a chance to give premium currency.

[@gamerdude7729]

personally i never had a shortage of resources to upgrade my characters, engines, and bangboos the only time i didnt have a resource was when i didnt progress far enough in the story to get them

[@GideonYap]

Kekvin, I am at Level 21 with a full level 20 team of Lycaon, Anby and Soukaka. I am trying to get Ellen too. Is that good?

[@omgitzchachi1715]

I'd swap out amby as double stun isn't great. But lycaon and sokaku are amazing together so go off.

[@tonytonychoppas]

It’s funny how shoukaku is a support but does insane dmg

[@BlueKembp]

I probably won't agree with "follow the main story". It wants you to reach higher levels and side quests help a lot with this. Other than dailies and energy you can't really get a lot of xp for the next lvl. So go ahead and do them if you want! 🖤

[@mosaddagh]

The main story will unlock more tasks

[@FrostySnow1000]

Yeah the story is what locks the events tab, dailies, etc

[@sir_raphaelthepumpkin]

my team is comprised of three attackers; nekomata, corin, and grace i have easily cleared almost everything that i've unlocked

[@usmansubhani7482]

I’m putting Corin on the ice team because it’s illegal for people of different factions to work together. I only use the free team right now until I have a high enough level.

[@ArdyneusTheGod]

I rarely pay attention to the elements they recommend. I would imagine it matters more if I want to get S score on challenge mode.

[@rainredfox]

Damn i did a mistake lvl up the Disc rank B and A 🗿

[@RoxasLikesIceCream]

My team has been Koleda, Anby, and Lucy since I started. I don't like how Anton feels when playing so I just used Anby, but my team feels frush and fun. Lucy is just fun having on any team. Also, I know a lot of people suggest putting Ben on a Koleda team, but he feels way to clunky

[@josetomasrivera5782]

No bro, dont listen to that people, lucy is way better thx to her buff. They talk about ben because they have 1 animation diferent whe you use koleda, but nothing really important. The team for koleda shoul be: fire dps/koleda/lucy. I still dont have soldier 11 so im running anton in the team for the moment.

[@CharizardIsTheGoat]

I think Ben is pretty fun to play and a hell of a lot less clunky than I thought he would be ae. I was using him with Neko and Lucy as they a fun team to use together but now I’ve got piper she works so much better with neko

[@RoxasLikesIceCream]

@@CharizardIsTheGoat since you have ben, do you know how to use him, be because I can't understand his play style

[@CharizardIsTheGoat]

@@RoxasLikesIceCream have you unlocked the VR system yet? If so go do bens training section in there and it will explain how to use him. He’s great for hi special being a shield that can also damage enemies. If you hold the special it will shield from damage whereas simply pressing it once will use it to hurt them .

[@RoxasLikesIceCream]

@@CharizardIsTheGoat I have, but still doing it didn't really feel right

[@blasterkk2992]

Does challenge mode even give any extra rewards?

[@JKyouma]

Please if you find this out let me know, I've had it on since the very beginning and I never turned it off lmao

[@KrypticGGs]

Does challenge mode not give you something special?

[@adamhooper7352]

Note: Always do the scratch off at the news stand every day! I got 40 pull currency 2 days in a row from the scratch off! Worth the dennies and well worth the chance of some luck at free pull currency.

[@thetrickster4899]

Don't need to max out the faction thing. Grace Rina Piper only have 2 synergies, but the disorder from Piper bodies.

[@LegendIam1465]

What if I don't have an attack type that's not Billy? Lmao. I've been using Koleda, Ben, and Nicole cause I don't have multiple characters of the same element or faction other than the starting cast.

[@yukitadano5098]

General Chop buff is only free during event isn't it?

[@superdude6354]

Counterpoint for challenge mode. Combat is the most fun things this game has to offer. Longer battles = more fun for me = worth the time sink

[@InsanoRider777]

Not me pulling desperately on stable search to get Lycaon because I KEEP PULLING SOUKAKU and she's currently the only Section 6 character in the game and thus requires another ice agent in order to get her ability... and both other ice agents are S-ranks >

[@aliciajones505]

This is my favorite game out of the three. Simple n fun

[@YISTECH]

Same. Plus i like really like the modern city look. Not much of a fantasy setting person

[@pupperssong4778]

And you're busy with other stuff and having fun to even worry adout pulling since some characters have really fun play styles which can make you save for a character you like

[@Danish4august]

I'm commenting just to let you know, yes the challenge mode doesn't feel challenging but might as well go for the most of it since we might stop playing at one point.

[@zaregotoch.8491]

They die way too fast if you're halfway competent at the game. On regular you could probably just mash without looking at the screen and still clear it.

[@fayendere]

fun fact! there’s a chance of getting 20 polychromes from howl’s scratch cards so you seriously do wanna do it everyday!

[@krayzkarl]

challenge mode isn't even a challenge, I want an even harder mode

[@MannoMars]

1:40 you don't have to spread em out at all. I played the enter game (im lvl40 now) without specing anyone other than my main 3, and I was still only getting S ranks

[@Kreammobile]

Dog gave me poly chrome today

[@theflingfalconyt2544]

Ran through the whole game on challenge mode 💀

[@deniskornja762]

Main story: Yeah but again you can't follow the story without coins without character levels without resources so Free2play will be forced anyway to do them. Plus even if you somehow manage to beat the story you won't do 3 stars so your logic is ehhh i mean I don't play in losing double the time redoing every story mission again just to 3star them that's just wasting time. And while you're at the dog NPC get the new newsletter you have daily quests those are a must do.

[@q_cola_roja_p]

It's crazy because i heard that you should do as many as side quests during the story because those side quests would het locked off forever and lose awards.

[@SaitanaGU]

Their not locked off some of those side quests are only active during certain parts of the day.

[@q_cola_roja_p]

@@SaitanaGU ohhh Fr? I didn't know that. So I should do the story a fast as I can before doing side quests?

[@SaitanaGU]

@@q_cola_roja_p You can to unlock most things, but Im usually like that guy who also likes to do side quests along the way as a completionist. BUT that doesnt you have to do them, you can just do the main story and go back to them afterwards since you will need to anyways later for the investigation points for promotion. So you aren't locked out honestly if you bum rush the main story.

[@mxlly376]

The exploration ones have very little to no combat so I just trigger the part where they give me the commission, it gets added to my schedule and I do them when I feel like it. I don’t even think it progresses time if you accept the quests. I take all of them and then when I go to do them they’re all waiting in the HDD for me to do.

[@danielloosjr396]

I see, so I am going to need to at the moment prioritize either my Grace, or Ellen. I have been using Grace, but I got Ellen recently, and considering what the video says, I would need to prioritize my Grace team for now, as I have the appropriate characters that all have those smiley faces, however that one was a mono electric team, so it wouldn't be too versatile. It has Grace, Anby, and Anton. I don't know exactly how good the team is, but it has been able to handle what I have faced so far. My level is either 23 or 24 according to memory. I have also been prioritising using my charge on stuff like promoting characters, or levelling the characters skills.

[@pieisnice]

Where is that screen at 6:00 ?

[@reymarkdimaano1299]

Do also side quest when you can talk to other people even if they dont have quest above. And also dont skip the conversation cause that will be hint what they need.

[@JiajuChen]

Pro Tip, Pull Ellen:)

[@zaregotoch.8491]

Challenge mode is normal mode so unless you want enemies to die in half a combo you want to enable it.

[@user-pd3ro4ij4l]

is choosing wise as main character considered as a mistake?

[@Hawkborat]

People find him bland, it's just personal preference, I like him.

[@lushesluke5291]

Same here!

[@Kugelblitz-uwu]

i also want koleda pwp i gto lycoan and rina and ig theyre cool, they do neat damage but koleda is just so much cooler qwq

[@ntk3065]

Howl can give you summon currency

[@VoinLivinial]

Idc about the encrypted pulls. So idrc about it and will continue to pull in standard banner

[@Fightclub710]

Hi i am completely unlucky. (Referring to the w-engine part). Got 6 def w-engine :)

[@xananax21]

You're loco if you think there's no reason to spend poli standard banner pulls. You choose a 5 star after 200 pulls on the standard banner and the characters are really solid. If you already get Ellen and you really want Lycaon, You should definitely drop currency on default banner.

[@capitanspoiler7393]

"do NOT spend currency on standard pulls" meanwhile i'm at 201 pulls in the standard banner hoping to get Koleda

[@TheVizionary69]

so anyways i did all the side quests available before continuing the story

[@WEAREWAFFLES]

Yo we the same i got the same level and team everything is the same POWER TO THE FIRE GREMLIN😂

[@Ignacio376]

Does anyone know how to unlock howls card for your profile?

[@oktayakdemir442]

İ use nekomata sokaku and the Wolf man(İ forget his Name💀)ıs this good?

[@crazykiller7542]

How is that a mistake?? Earlier game are like that.. even if u lvl 20 or 30.. can't find rank - S if not lvl 40 and above

[@noyukikun]

tfw toy want to keep every single a rank w engine you get cause most of the a ranks are all the exclusives for the a rank characters you can level up everyone how you see fit but the unlocking there levels needs the tokens and those you horde

[@hanzleenathanparrocha6427]

Lucy is my DPS 😂

[@sassyseraphinagaming6900]

Can you do one on Bangboos pls?

[@corsaro2645]

What can i say? I am using the same squad from the start, at level 20 doing mission at 39 is easy, S every time... Ellen is broken... even against those who were resistant to the ice XD

[@sazcxieo]

7:41 cant you just dismantle them and get all the stuffs you spend back?

[@Hrummjke]

3:19 Koldia? 3:35 Colda? 🥶 Tbh, most of those advices u get from just reading the things game telling u all the time. Not to mention "don't pair together Colda and Corin" is just straight up wrong - u actually DO want to pair them if you don't have a better option (which is pretty much only Lycaon, outside of some weird double dps variations), because "Koldia" is freakin OP stunner and sometimes u wouldn't have any good synergies for some characters. So yeah, its actually better not to have a synergy on ur Koleda, but have her stunning shit out of anyone for your Corin, instead of doing some dumb Corin-Billy combos or else, just for the sake of synergy. The only two good points I've got from this video - is regarding S tier W from residual signals (tho I'm not entirely sure its worth it, probably depending on your needs) and not grinding too hard on discs (tho should've mention that it is important to get your suitable 4-2 sets for every character in your main pack, as it gives you shittonnes of value) I don't meant to be rude or something and I get that its just ur basic advices video at the start of the game, but I do think it lack some quality. Sorry

[@SaikyoRei]

I always forgot howl's shop! Thanks for reminding me 😭

[@thomasIjichi4183]

The way you pronounce everything and every mistake is funny especially the balls and unlucky!!!!!!!!!!!

[@RandomDudeThatLovesAnimes]

I got shark maid on 2 pulls i didnt even know what i got...i was just randomly doing 2 pulls from my (primogems?) Or whatever dunno 😅😅

[@tobelee6985]

having a meta on a just-released game is crazy, people are actually making a tier list???? TBH I just use whoever I like and put them in a team that works. So, I went Anton - Billy - Anby. Got full team bonus for every character and I can also use my fave's.

[@srs9717]

Guess anby dps is gonna be just a legend😞