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Zenless Zone Zerohas unique and stunning visuals in its gameplay. The team behind Genshin and Honkai also introduced a series of new attacks in the combat system, such as chain attacks, assists, and more. As much as it is unique, it can be a bit confusing for a beginner to understand how the combat mechanics work.
The game has a slight resemblance to a few other HoYoverse games, such as the ones already mentioned, in terms of combat mechanics. Nevertheless, to give you a detailed account of the ways fighting is done in Zenless Zone Zero, here is a thorough guide.
Combat Buttons Explanation
You will see that your screen has five buttons, and you have to use them to play and engage in the battles. You can press these buttons tounleash special moves, perform chain attacks, and so on. These are all the buttons:
Basic Attack
This is one of the typical attacks where your character just keeps attacking the enemy, dealing powerful blows.Astandard attack combo will end with a heavy attack,which can then be followed by an assisting character in the combat.
Dash
By pressing this button, your character will dash forward or backward. To dash backward, simplyclick on the dash buttonwithout pressing any movement keys. To dash forward, just simplytap the movement keys depending on the directionyou want to move andclick on the dash button.
For instance, if you want to dash forward,hold the W button and click on the dash button.
For mobile users,point the joystick in the direction ofwhere you want to move andclick on the dash buttonto dash in that direction. For dashing in a backward direction,simply don’t touch the joystickor put it in the backward direction andpress the dash buttonto perform a backward dash.
You are invulnerable to enemies while dashing.
By pressing the dash button, it will also dodge your opponent’s attacks while in combat. However, it is easier said than done, since you have to match the perfect timing to perform a dodge.
If you press the dash button early, you will simply dash in the direction your character is. However,this can also help you save yourself from taking a huge blow from the enemies, but if you press the dash button late, then your character will take the damage.
It is all about perfect timing to perform a dodge in combat.
Switch Character
Thisbutton is used to switch characters between a fight. This button can also help you totrigger a counter-attackin the game byaccumulating assist points. You can see the assist points around the switch character button.
You can have a maximum of six assist points.
Special Attack
Itdeals more damage than the normal attackand can be done bypressing the gray-colored special attack buttonon your screen. The special attack button will onlyturn gray when you don’t have enough energy.
Once you have sufficient energy, the gray button will light up, indicating that you’re able to perform anextra special attack that will do more damagethan the normal special attack. You can simultaneouslygain energy for all three characters.
You can perform an extra special attack from the first agent and then switch to another agent and perform again. The only condition is that the other agents should also have sufficient energy.
Ultimate
This button unleashes the character’s most powerful attack. While performing the ultimate, thecharacter will be invulnerable and inflict a massive amount of damage on the enemies.
Ultimate can be unlocked when you haveearned 3,000 decibel points. You can see these decibel pointsunderneath the HP bar of the character. Once you have reached the threshold, you canpress the ultimate buttonto perform an ultimate.
Decibel points are shared by every teammate. That means, once you have performed an ultimate, the decibel points will reset for all the teammates in the battle.
How To Do A Counter Attack
you may perform a counterattack in several ways. This can be done byusing the dash button and the switch character button. But it is not as easy as clicking one button. You need to know Perfect Assist, Assist Follow Up, and more to do a counterattack.
Perfect Assist
When you are fighting with enemies, many times you will get a cue ofgolden shimmer from the enemy shortly before they attack. These cues are an indication toperform a Perfect Assist with the help of your charactersthat are in the battle.
To make a Perfect Assist, you need topress the switch character button as soon as you see the golden shimmer. Like always, timing is the key. If you are early or late to press the button, then you won’t be able to perform a Perfect Assist.
There are two types of Perfect Assist:
You will also need the assist points to make a Perfect Assist.
There will also be an instance whereyou will see ared shimmerinstead of a golden shimmer from the enemy shortly before they attack. This happens whenyou don’t have enough assist points to make a perfect assist. In this case,you will just dodge the enemy attackupon clicking the switch character button.
Assist Follow Up
Once you have done a Perfect Assist, you’re able to nowcounter the enemy by clicking on the basic attack button.
Assist Follow Up can only be done after a defensive assist by melee agents.
Dodge Counter
This is another way to perform a counter-attack and inflict decent damage on the enemy. In this,you have to click the dash buttonto dodge the incoming attack and just after thatclick on the basic attack buttonto perform a Dodge Counter.
How To Stun Enemies
to stun enemies, you have to look out for thedaze meter situated beside them. This meter fills in asyou inflict more damage to the enemies.When the meter is full,the enemy will be temporarily stun.
When an enemy is stunned, it will take increased damage from the characters.
Chain Attack
Chain attack is a type of attack that istriggered after you perform a heavy attack on the stunned enemy. However, it doesn’t trigger every time sinceit has a certain limit. you may perform a number of chain attacks based on the different types of Ethereals. Here are the limits based on different Ethereals:
What Is an Attribute Anomaly
Attribute Anomaly is an indicator that issituated beside the daze meter of an enemy. Before diving deeper, you should know that there arefive types of attributesavailable in Zenless Zone Zero.
Each attribute brings a different combat style to a fight. And like every attribute, you may deal damage to the enemies differently.
Attribute Anamoly will automatically trigger the moment you attack with your character. Once you attack, you may see a small circle beside the daze meter resembling thesymbol of the specific attribute that is attributed to that character.
Each attribute has its own unique fighting style in the game.
Upon triggering the Attribute Anomaly,you will inflict more damage on the enemiesand ifmore than one character triggersan Attribute Anomaly to the same enemy,the disorder effect will be triggered.
The disorder effect inflicts huge damage to the enemies as well as generates daze.
