Chaos Zero Nightmare Reroll Guide

Veronica is a DPS and Support Hybrid that requires very little AP investment after her initial upgrade cards have been established. The damage portion of Veronica's kit stems from her Ballistas, which are unusable cards that trigger after you end your turn at no cost. Veronica usually generates 1 Ballista for free every turn, but can generate more with Epiphanies and sometimes her Basic Attacks. Her Supportive capabilities take the form of low-cost and very potent card draw cards, which can be upgraded to either draw more, offer discounts, or target specific card types. Veronica can also boost her Ballista damage massively via the stackable Reload buff.

Mei Lin is a single-target damage and break specialist capable of constantly applying Passion Weakness to enemies, ensuring she almost always has an Attribute advantage. Her cards are all low-cost with an emphasis on incredible self-buffing and chaining together long strings of attacks to form potent ramping combos. Her card Unity of Attack and Defense also grants her insane card draw/searching and cost efficiency, and her Ego Skill bolsters the hit count of her basics, the main source of her damage.

Narja is a jack-of-all-trades unit capable of performing multiple roles at once, while also having a specific niche as a Defense-Based damage buffer. However, at the time of her release, this build isn’t capable of being used to its full potential.

Narja deals solid damage in both single-target and AoE. She can also reduce card costs to boost AP efficiency, while enabling some combos that normally can’t be used through standard AP generation. Her kit is built around granting consistent buffs to the team while also providing incredible passive healing delivered at close to no cost. Outside these basics, she possesses multiple Epiphanies that allow her to specialize in different builds like DPS, the aforementioned DEF damage buffing, basic attack buffing, and even huge single-card buffing - all without sacrificing much of her all-rounder nature.

The heart of Narja’s kit is her Voracity and Predation buffs, which are both special stackable buffs she accumulates via her abilities. Consuming these is what makes up the bulk of her standard healing and damage increases.

All of Narja’s buffs and healing, alongside her solid personal damage and card discounts, position her very well within Chaos-based modes, where consistency and balance are valued highly. However, in save data-based modes, Narja’s all-rounder faces stiff competition from other controllers who can outperform Narja when specializing in a single avenue of support. Characters like Rei can buff allies more generically and with fewer conditional requirements. Mika generates AP without having to land discounts on the right cards, along with directly healing, which is important for some teams.

Narja can certainly slot into many, if not all, teams well enough. Still, when it comes to the cutting edge, many may consider her a sidegrade or alternative rather than a straight power-up. There are exceptions to this, though, and those are the incredibly powerful Niches some of Narja’s epiphanies open up, the strongest of which is her ability to massively buff specifically Def Damage dealers. The only problem with this niche is that it’s currently lacking support, watering down one of Narja’s largest potential strengths.

In Chaos, Narja’s all-around kit makes her a stand-out unit, capable of carrying many types of teams all by herself. In save data game modes, Narja is currently unable to fully express her maximum potential due to some of her strongest builds currently lacking team members in order to thrive.

Khalipe is an AoE Damage Dealer-Shielder hybrid who's capable enough at both to fill both roles by herself, which grants her incredible team flexibility. Khalipe's cards are incredibly AP expensive, but her best card, Vulture Ejection, can mitigate this with its Celestial tag. Celestial cards are used for free whenever you use another card that costs 2 or more, allowing Khalipe to spend big once and automatically play her most powerful card for free. Outside of this, Khalipe has targeted card draw, decent Tenacity Damage, and some good utility Epiphany upgrades. 

However, Khalipe loses some of her value in situations where you are confident in your survival, such as boss battle modes like Basin of Hyperspace and Nebula Distortion where having access to more card draw, AP or offensive Buffs and debuffs is more valuable than what Khalipe’s kit can bring, having only some conditional Vulnerability application with Overpower’s Epi 2 and her Ego skill to improve the team’s damage potential.

In the end, Khalipe is a solid choice for most teams, especially those that can activate her Celestial cards, offering solid damage and shielding. If you’re looking for a character that will make clearing Chaos easy and ‘chill’, Khalipe is a great choice, as she combines great damage with defensive capabilities. Just keep in mind that she can lag behind in teams and game modes that prioritize damage and speed clears above all.

Hugo is an Additional Attack Specialist capable of triggering follow-up attacks after every targeted Attack card from himself or allies. This is possible thanks to his Hunt Commence Passive, which is gained via most of his Cards and stacks up to 5 times, with damage increasing as stacks rise. When any targeted Attack card is used, Hunt Commence loses one stack and Hugo immediately launches an Additional Attack. When playing Hugo, expect strong and frequent damage over the whole fight’s duration, making every Attack card a high-power nuke on enemies.

Rin utilizes the Dark Mist Stance to enhance her abilities. She enters this stance through specific cards and only exits the stance when another Combatant plays an Attack card. While the stance is active, most of Rin's cards gain additional effects that allow her to deal fantastic single-target damage while also buffing herself, improving AP efficiency, and increasing hit counts, damage multipliers, and more. Playing Rin is all about chaining together attacks and staying in her stance as consistently as possible.

However, due to Rin’s unique mechanic, you want to avoid using Attack cards of other characters, and this heavily affects the number of potential synergies. Though keep in mind that you can work around this by playing Rin with characters that attack enemies passively, for example, Veronica with her Ballistas.

In the end, Rin’s is a fantastic single-target DPS option; she doesn't have a crazy DMG ceiling like some of these other characters, but with the right build, she can output the same consistent numbers almost every turn.

Haru is a damage dealer who shines in single-target scenarios (but she also deals decent AoE damage) with a kit focused on buffing her expensive cards to deal massive burst damage. Her main card, “Anchor Shot”, amps up every time it is used, up to five times, allowing Haru to snowball her damage into big numbers during longer fights. Although her playstyle may seem overly expensive and tricky at first, there are several ways to build around her and adapt to AP needs and different teams, regardless of having an AP generator in the team or not.

That said, Haru’s kit can feel a tad one-dimensional at times, since it relies on spamming her Anchor Shot card as often as possible, and due to the nature of her damage scaling, in the time it takes for her to ramp up other DPS characters can often kill bosses earlier and with less effort, making her feel sluggish to play without her E2 making her Anchor Shot more easily spammable.

If you like big nukes and characters that hit hard, she may be a good pick for you. If you prefer fast but constant, smaller hits, however, she may not be your jam.

Renoa is a single-target specialist whose kit revolves around generating Dirge Bullets, which trigger an Extra Attack when discarded by other cards or at the end of the turn. Most of her cards either focus on generating Dirge Bullets or dealing additional damage when Dirge Bullets are in hand or the discard pile. Her gameplay requires setup time for generating Dirge Bullets, card management, and planning in order to unleash her hardest-hitting attacks at the right time.

Chizuru is a damage dealer focused on dealing single-target damage while supporting the team with some AP efficiency and a small amount of healing at the same time. Her kit introduces several unique mechanics to the game, and you’re forced to play around them to unleash Chizuru’s full potential - this makes her a bit more complicated to play compared to some other damage dealers. If you want to learn about them in detail, check the Key Mechanics section below the review, but here’s the gist of how to play Chizuru: place a debuff on the enemy, attack the enemy either often or with cards that deal a lot of hits (or both) to generate her unique resources, and once you manage to convert the base Shadow of the Moon card into its + version thanks to the resource, use the card for a big attack. 

Still, you also have to keep in mind that one of Chizuru’s upgrade card buffs prevents her (and her team) from gaining AP from any source other than Ravaging an enemy. You can opt not to use the card, but you will miss out on some of Chizuru’s damage and one of the most interesting mechanics Chizuru offers that is tied to it - cost reduction of random cards in hand at the start of every turn (1 card at base, but there’s an Epi that increases that to 2 cards). It’s really great in Chaos, turning Chizuru into a ‘reverse Mika’, but in Save modes, it brings less benefits as you have access to better-optimized decks.

Now that you know how Chizuru works, let’s move to the teams you can play her in. And there are two ways you can do it - either by pairing her with another DPS that attacks often without using too much AP, so they can generate a lot of Will-O’-Wisp for her (like Luke or Tressa), which will create a dual DPS team, or by pairing her with two supports and leaving the Wisps generation to Chizuru herself. Both are viable, but dual DPS teams are more reliable in Chaos, while main DPS offer more options in ‘save’ content; with that said, both are viable in both modes.

Another issue Chizuru has is that she’s not really an improvement to existing characters in their teams. Both Luke and Tressa, the teammates she wants to be paired with, work better in their own teams and only reach their full potential there, rather than when played with Chizuru.

Overall, Chizuru continues the trend of introducing characters that aren’t direct powercreep to the release cast, and instead she allows for new types of playstyles. She’s not stronger than the current juggernauts when it comes to raw DPS, but instead offers some utility on top of decent single-target damage.

Luke is a stat-reliant single-target card generation and bullet-based damage dealer. Luke's kit revolves around generating 0-cost Bullets and enhancing them via his abilities. The catch is that one of his best generators only does so if it lands Crit Hits. Rapid Fire hits multiple times and generates Bullets per Crit it deals - no Crit, no Bullets. Because of this, Luke requires a high Crit Rate to function.

Yuki is primarily an AoE-focused DPS, but can also be built to focus more on ST damage instead. Her playstyle revolves around drawing cards to activate the [Inspiration] effects of her cards, making building decks with a high amount of Card Draw and hand manipulation especially powerful for her. While playing Yuki in her optimal teams (so with card drawers like Veronica, Nia, or Cassius), expect to be constantly cycling through your deck with high-end Yuki decks, often playing every Attack card she has every turn. One other advantage of Yuki after acquiring Epiphanies is that she’s AP-friendly enough that a dedicated AP support isn’t necessarily required, freeing up those supports for other combatants.

However, Yuki’s reliance on card draw to activate Inspiration can find her in trouble in non-save data game modes, where cheap high-end draw is usually not available. This is especially true early on in Chaos and Zero System runs, resulting in her often having to use her cards without their additional effects, putting her at a disadvantage compared to other characters. On top of this, in higher-tier Chaos, you often have to set aside utility like card draw in favor of survivability, which further limits Yuki’s power in non-save modes. Many of these issues can be fixed with epiphanies, some equipment, and a few lucky card dupes, but none of this is guaranteed.

Thankfully, those issues aren’t a problem anymore in Save Data game modes, as there you already have a good deck saved and can run her with two card drawers without risking the team dying suddenly.

Overall, Yuki is a character with an interesting mechanic. Still, she’s being held back by several limitations ingrained into her kit and the fact that her modifiers lack the scaling that other characters have, allowing them to punch above their weight with the right build.

Kayron's cards are absurdly expensive but also output incredible single-target and AoE damage while also interacting with his main mechanic—Futility. Most of Kayron's cards either create Futility cards or deal more damage from Exhausting them. Futility is a 1-cost Status Ailment card that exhausts when played, with no additional effects at base. Through his Upgrade Oath of Vanity and its Epiphanies, Futility can be upgraded to deal damage and heal. Before this, they do nothing more than burn AP and clog the deck.

Kayron's game plan is simple: turn Futility into useful cards through Oath of Vanity, use as many of them as possible to empower Kayron's kit, and work to minimize the cost of his expensive cards through Epiphanies, Exhausts, and team building.

Magna is primarily a Shielder but is also capable of solid single-target and AoE damage by stacking and buffing Counter. Outside of shielding and countering, Magna has excellent access to the Vulnerable debuff and can also apply Crystallization for automatic shielding every turn. Magna has many strong cards, but they are very expensive baseline without certain Epiphanies or AP generation.

Orlea is the queen of Retain and card generation with her core mechanic, Creations. Orlea can generate 3 different types of Creations through her cards, upgrade them up to two times by merging duplicate Creations of the same level. Creations cost 0 AP, have the Retain tag, and trigger a passive effect when Retained at the end of each turn. The three types of Creations are Toughie, who actively Shields and passively heals; Swiftie, who actively deals damage and passively stacks up damage; and Softie, who actively and passively buffs damage. In addition to her Creations, Orlea has the ability to forcibly trigger her own and her allies' cards’ Retain effects. All around, Orlea has outstanding healing, some shielding, and very high damage for a healer, but she lacks supportive utility when compared to other Supports.