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Before you start grinding for character pulls inZenless Zone Zero, you may want to grab every free roster member you can from those being offered within the game. Simple progression goals and event objectives make it easy to recruit new members to your roster quickly. By doing this, you can have a strong selection of potential fighters in your party as you attempt to tackle tougher challenges later on.
The first character you interact with in the game is your protagonist, who is chosen between two different options. you may either have the charactersBelle or Wise inZenless Zone Zeroas the Proxy for Agents that you recruit later throughout your adventure. These two figuresare not used in combatbut rather operate behind the scenes as constant directors of the action performed by your other party members.
Zenless Zone Zero: All Weapon & Character Pull Rates Explained
Like other HoYoverse-developed gacha games, Zenless Zone Zero features relatively low pull rates, with a few ways to get guaranteed rewards.
How To Get Every Free Starting Character
Progress Through Prologue Missions
You canget three characters for free by completing the prologue missionsin the game after starting it up. This tutorial of sorts teaches you thecombat systems inZenless Zone Zeroby giving you a full party of characters you get to keep for the journey ahead. Most of the first characters you meet are all from the Cunning Hares faction and can be broken down through these elements:
Ether
Support/Strike
Complete the series of prologue missions at the start of the game.
Physical
Attack/Pierce
Electric
Stun/Slash
Attack/Slash
Unlock your in-game mailbox and claim this character as a pre-registration bonus.
Ether Attribute characters are very rare within the game, especially among the starting selection of possible party members, so Nicole is a good pick for your team early on.
Every free character from the prologue is A-Rank, meaning they are similar in strength to a 4-Star Agent you can pull from other banners. Corin is also given to you at this power level, although this member of the Victoria Housekeeping faction may not be around once the launch rewards forZenless Zone Zerosubside. As of this time of writing, you likelyhaveto claim this character by August 13thas part of the initial release bonuses.
How To Earn All Other Free Characters
Complete Events Early And Understand The Pity System
Two more free characters can be earned by completing eventscirculating within the game during its release window. Both of these individuals come from story sections ofZenless Zone Zerosimilar to the starting characters from before. Similar to the beginning squad you’re able to form, the two characters earned later are A-Rank, but they both come from different factions.
Ice
Support/Slash
Complete the"Eridu Frontier"event as you start Chapter 2 of the main story.
Fire
Defense/Strike
Complete the"Call Ben Bigger"mission during Chapter 2 of the main story.
Soukaku and Ben are both rare examples of the Ice and Fire Attributes, giving you a wider elemental spread for your team without having to spend any resources to pull characters of those types. Furthermore, Ben is one of the few characters with a Defense fighting style you’re able to get early. As far as factions are concerned, Soukaku is from Section 6 while Ben is associated with Belobog Heavy Industries.
The only other way to earn free characters is through thePity System inZenless Zone Zero. Like many other gacha titles, this game always allows you to earn a character after a certain number of pulls if your luck hasn’t been working out. Although completing missions may give you a couple of rolls from free materials, you only have a guaranteed chance of getting a free S-Rank characterafter 50 pulls on the standard banner.
Those who’ve made 300 wishes on this same banner canclaim an S-Rank Agentamong the permanent ones offered within the game. Koleda, Nekomata, Lycaon, Soldier 11, Grace, and Rina are all the available characters you may choose from through this option. Once you have gotten every free character inZenless Zone Zero, this should be the next reward you strive toward with your active team.
