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Looking at the character information for every character can be a little overwhelming inZenless Zone Zero. Not only do they have up to five main abilities, but also an Attribute, Specialty, and type of damage assigned to them. This can overall make it confusing unless you know exactly where you should look during battle.
In this confusion, Attribute Anomaly usually gets ignored since it’s quite difficult to pinpoint exactly what it does. However, if you master this mechanic in the game’s combat, you can get a significant advantage over the enemy.
How To Apply Attribute Anomaly
When you’re attacking an enemy in Zenless Zone Zero, you can see a ton of information on theHP bar above the enemy. Right below their HP, you can see the yellow Daze bar, whichimmobilizes the enemy and makes them take more damage for a bitwhen it’s full, apart from letting you use chain attacks on your characters.
However, if you want to focus on your attribute anomaly, you have tolook at the little circle on the right of both these bars. Whenever you apply damage from a specific attribute to the enemy, you’ll notice that this circle changes its icon to that attribute, and you can also see theanomaly progress with the colored part of the circle’s boundary.
Each attribute has separate anomaly progress on the enemy, and these canall stay on a specific enemy at the same time.
Once you successfully fill up this boundary, the anomaly for that attribute triggers, whichcan have a special effect based on the attribute(more on this below). Moreover, if you successfully apply multiple anomalies to the target within a few seconds,you can trigger Disorder, which instantly deals a ton of damage to the enemy.
Some enemies can also have special anomalies that you can only trigger with a specific attribute. For example, ifyou attack robot enemies with Electric characters, you can trigger the Impaired effect, which can deal some immense damage.
Characters with the Anomaly specialty arephenomenal at building up the enemy anomaly, allowing you to use this effect as your main play style.
What Each Attribute Anomaly Does
Now that you understand how to build up attribute anomaly and how it can give you an edge during battle, here’s whatyou’ll see when you apply these anomalies with each attributein the game:
Electric
Shock
Deals some damage instantly when this anomaly is triggered. Moreover, when the enemy is attacked,deal extra Shocked DMG to themevery few seconds.
If the Electric anomaly is applied to an enemy weak to Electric,their action is interrupted.
Ice
Freeze, Shatter, and Frostbite
Enemies get the Freeze and Frostbite effect when they take the Ice anomaly. The former immobilizes themwhile the latter increases the Crit DMG takenby this enemy.
Moreover, when the Freeze effect ends, Shatter is triggered, whichdeals more Ice DMG and interrupts the enemy’s action. you may alsotrigger Shatter early with specific skills.
Physical
Assault and Flinch
When applied with Physical anomaly, the enemy takes one instance of massive damage called Assault,while also being applied with the Flinch effect, which increases their Daze faster.
Fire
Burn
As you might have already guessed, applying the Burn effect on the enemymakes them take Fire DMG at regular intervals. Moreover, applying this anomaly to an enemy weak to Fire interrupts their actions.
Ether
Corruption
Ether’s attribute anomaly is the same as Electric where they take extra Ether DMG when they’re attacked every few seconds. Youcan also interrupt the enemy’s action with this anomalyif they’re weak to Ether.
