Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN)SelenaBuild and Guide

• Mark: Mark is a stackable debuff that Selena can apply through a wide variety of her cards, forming the core of her kit. When an enemy is marked and an Attack card is used, Selena will fire an additional attack toward the marked target/s, dealing 100% ATK damage. To take advantage of this, Mark generation needs to be combined with high-frequency attacks to achieve the best results.
• Break: The other mechanic core to Selena’s identity is break and tenacity damage. Many of Selena’s abilities cause her attacks and additional attacks to either inflict additional tenacity damage or increase the tenacity damage dealt by a %. Building on this, Selena also has abilities that provide additional benefit each time an enemy is broken, further incentivizing a high tenacity damage break playstyle.
• Response: Triggers listed “Response” effect when drawn naturally or via card effect.
• Break: A debuff that causes the enemy to be treated as though they are Passion weak for all combatant attacks while it remains active. It is duration-based, not hit-count-based.

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Final Shot

Ego Skill

300% Damage.
3 Mark.

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Final Shot

Costs 5 EP, deals a strong amount of single-target damage, and most importantly, immediately applies 3 Mark. Should be used as early as possible on the primary target to prevent mark waste and to allow Selena to begin her Mark fuelled rapid fire assault.

1

Engagement Fire

Attack

100% Damage.

Engagement Fire

Selena’s basic attack is normal, but gains the ability to deal Piercing Damage and a significant damage enhancement from Potentials. In addition to this, Engagement Fire is also a perfectly suitable and accessible tool for triggering marks.

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Emergency Shielding

Skill

100% Shield.

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Emergency Shielding

Selena’s basic shield is completely standard and doesn't have any extra synergy with her kit.

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High-Power Scope

Skill

2 Mark.

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High-Power Scope

One of Selena’s core mark sources, which costs 1AP and applies 2 Mark to a target on use. Not overwhelmingly powerful at a baseline, but can be significantly improved and altered via Epiphanies.

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Target Spotted

Attack

150% Damage.
Attunement: 1 Mark to random enemies.

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Target Spotted

Selena’s other primary Mark generator, which functions very differently. Generates 1 Mark on 1 random enemy via its Response effect when drawn. Outside of this costs 1AP to use and deals a solid amount of damage, but nothing else. A solid card, as it doesn’t HAVE to be used in order to gain value while still being there as a hit to activate marks if Selena needs.

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Drone Bombing

Attack

120% Damage to all enemies, 1 Passion Weakness.​

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Drone Bombing

Deals AoE damage to all targets and applies Passion Weakness for 1 turn, guaranteeing this turn's hits will deal tenacity and direct damage as though the enemy were weak to Passion. Synergizes well with Selena’s goal of breaking enemies while also adding a dash of AoE to her kit.

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Tactical Maneuver

Skill

150% Shield.
2 Tenacity Damage.

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Tactical Maneuver

Grants a larger-than-average shield and deals 2 Tenacity damage to a target of your choice immediately. Great for locking in breaks on enemies while also offering some defensive benefits. With Epiphanies, this card transforms into the heart of Selena’s strongest meta build - the support ravage build.

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Sniper's Domain

Upgrade

[Unique]

+40% Mark Damage

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Sniper's Domain

Selena’s only upgrade baseline cost 0AP, is unique, and boosts Mark damage by +40%. A simple, strong damage multiplier for one of the largest portions of Selena’s damage.

Selena’s Signature Potentials offer significant damage boosts as well as some additional functionality, making them a high priority to unlock.

• 3-1: Causes Engagement Fire to deal Piercing Damage, which ignores enemy shields.
• 5-1: Increases Engagement Fire’s damage multiplier by +5% with an additional +5% bonus granted if Bonus Additional Damage exceeds 15%.
• 7: Increases Passion DMG% by +4% passively, with a further +4% increase unlocked if Bonus Additional Damage exceeds 30%.

Standard Playstyle

In Chaos, and when playing Selena as a damage dealer/sub dps, she is a mix of two playstyles: Additional Attacks via Mark and Break through her tenacity damage and Passion Weakness. You may choose to specialize in one more heavily than the other, but regardless of which you choose, Selena’s game plan remains the same. Establish buffs and marks, then trigger as many additional attacks as possible either through her own attacks or her teammates to unleash a barrage of high damage gunfire.

When playing Selena as more of a pure support, though using her most meta build, which only really functions for save data game modes, she is almost entirely dedicated to recovering enemy tenacity gauges in order to allow for multiple ravages per turn while also establishing temporary buffs that allow her to fire coordinated attacks based on the actions of her allies.

Note

For every Epiphany, we're colored their name based on how useful we think it is compared to the other variants. Here's the key to the colors:

• Epiphany Name - the best variant,
• Epiphany Name - a good variant,
• Epiphany Name - a niche variant.

Recommended Loadout

Other 4-PC Set

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  Spark of Passion [4-PC]

  - 4P Spark of Passion previously was a strong pick on Selena as Coordinated, and Mark Attacks did not consume stacks of this set's buff. However, after a rework of this set to change the effect to stacks being consumed every time the boost is applied, instead of every time an attack is used, it is no longer a competitive choice.

Weapon

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  Tentacles of Chaos
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  Intellect of Discord
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  Second Method
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  Obsidian Sword

Armor

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  Wings of Freedom
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  Fragment of the Empty Void
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  Rocket-Adorned Cape

Trinket

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  Emblem of an Exceptional Entity
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  Amorphous Cube
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  Superconductive Protein
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  Source of the Forbidden

Comments - Weapons

1. 

   Tentacles of Chaos
   - Grants 8% combat attack to the whole team; this is a very rare stat only found on partners and equipment. When playing Selena as a sub DPS, it’s almost always more optimal to boost your whole team's damage instead of Selena’s alone. In most cases, this means Tentacles of Chaos is Selena’s best weapon option.
2. 

   Intellect of Discord
   - If you’re not offered Tentacles of Chaos, Intellect of Discord is her best personal damage boost in most cases, thanks to the huge 18% combat attack it grants, which allows it to outperform other options when playing her in teams that have sufficient card damage buffs from other sources.
3. 

   Mutant Predator Spike
   - Selena’s next best personal damage option is usually Mutant Predator Spike, but only if you can consistently keep it active. It grants +30% (multiplicative) damage to all damage while holding 4 or more cards in hand. If you can’t maintain 4+ cards in hand most of the fight, it usually loses out to the option below.
4. 

   Second Method
   - A far more consistent damage option for Selena. Grants +35% (additive) Extra Attack damage, boosting all her Mark and Coordinated attack damage, which, when played as a support, makes up the majority of her total damage output.
5. 

   Obsidian Sword
   - Adds 12% (multiplicative) damage to all of Selena’s damaging abilities. Not as good as any of the options above, but better than nothing if you can’t get them.

Comments - Armor

1. 

   Wings of Freedom
   - Best damage Armor option for Selena in Season 1 in Lab-0. Every time the team is hit, it grants her a stacking 10% (multiplicative) damage boost for the rest of the fight, up to 3 stacks (30%). While strong for damage, it comes at the cost of giving up some very powerful supportive options.
2. 

   Fragment of the Empty Void
   - If you don’t want to trade damage for support and haven’t already got a Unique equipment, Fragment of the Empty Void is an alternative choice, allowing up to 3 cards in your opening hand to be redrawn.
3. 

   Rocket-Adorned Cape
   - If neither of the options above is available, Rocket-Adorned Cape is also a solid choice, giving you an extra draw at the start of combat and also 1 damage reduction stack. Depending on your needs, the extra draw can sometimes outperform the re-draw from Fragment.

Comments - Trinkets

1. 

   Emblem of an Exceptional Entity
   - A +30% (additive) bonus to all abilities, making it the best consistent option for Selena if you’re looking for raw damage
2. 

   Amorphous Cube
   - Slightly worse than Emblem, but far easier to get boosting damage by +25% (additive) instead of 30%.
3. 

   Superconductive Protein
   - If you want to take your Selena in a more supportive direction, Superconductive Protein can be used to gain additional momentum for the wearer and their team on turn 1 by discounting one card in your opening hand to 0.
4. 

   Source of the Forbidden
   - When hit, inflicts either Vulnerable, Weaken, or Impair randomly to the attacker up to 3 times per turn. Having two of this equipment doesn’t let you inflict 2 debuffs per enemy attack, though. Having one of these pieces of equipment on your team is good, but due to the limits of stacking multiple, it’s not a must on a semi-dps character like Selena.

Important!

CZN is a game of randomness; sometimes you’ll be offered generic or Divine epiphanies that are stronger than a character's standard five options. In these cases, breaking the listed build can result in an even more powerful save. Adjust as you see fit!

Build Comments

Selena has multiple different build paths, but the most meta-relevant by a long shot is her Ravage Support build, which is used alongside Sereniel. Due to the overwhelming dominance of this build type compared to the others, we’ll be focusing on it in the guide below.

Card Removal Priority

• Emergency Shielding
  - First priority to be removed in all endgame Selena decks.
• Engagement Fire
  - When playing Selena in a sub-dps or supportive role, her basics can safely be removed as the next priority. If you plan to play Selena more actively, though, they can be kept in the deck.

Card Dupe Priority

Dupe Priority

Tactical Maneuver IV

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High-Power Scope IV

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Target Spotted V

The Ravage Support Selena build has one main dupe priority, and that’s

Epiphany Alternatives

• High-Power Scope
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  High-Power Scope IV
  allows Selena to deal damage every time an ally attacks, allowing her to contribute quite a lot, especially alongside teammates that generate a lot of low-cost attacks like Sereniel or Cassius. But alternatively, you can run
  High-Power Scope V
  , giving up the majority of that damage in exchange for thinning the deck by 1.

Sereniel

• Selena can trigger her Ravage-based effects often thanks to Sereniel’s tenacity damage-focused kit.
• Selena’s tenacity gauge refill lets Sereniel continually ravage the same enemy to constantly add back her lasers.
• Sereniel’s Instinct Implant, combined with her incredibly frequent attacks, allows High-Power Scope IV and Target Spotted V to deal considerable damage in a fight.

Important!

If you’re losing runs when playing a damage-focused composition either to sanity or dying, consider using a team with more defensive characters - so including both a shielder and healer. This is especially important in the Zero System mode.

Sereniel + Selena Ravage Support Team

Damage

Support DPS

Flex