Are Ellen & Zhu Yuan Worth Pulling? | Zenless Zone Zero Analysis!

zenist Zone zero finally comes out today Ellen Joe and zuyuan are our first two Banner characters of the full release how good are these two characters how will they shape the first meta of zenas Zone zero and what shift can we see in the future all of these questions and more will be answered right now we're going to dive into both Ellen and zuu 's kits we'll also see how valuable they are for freet to play and see who you should be pulling for with your hard-earned polic chrs let's do this if you want a full guide for everything about Ellen including her kit and how to build her check out the video I made in the playlist I'll also leave links in the description in a couple weeks closer to Zu youn's release I'll definitely be making a full in-depth guide for her too so stay tuned for that let's go ahead and just Dive Right into Ellen's kit for someone who likes Simplicity Ellen's kit is actually one of the more complex so far in Zena Zone zero she is of course our srank ice dps agent that focuses on high damage Loops to quickly dispatch her opponents she will heavily focus on a few things mainly her flash freeze charges and everything that she can do from her Dash State don't worry though since her kit is a bit convoluted at first glance we're really going to break it down and explain it so everyone can understand her full power flash freeze charges are her unique mechanic in which her kit will focus these are shown under her icon in the top left by the team bar and she can hold up to six depending on these charges that you have certain moves in her kit are going to get extra abilities damage and powerups here's a little table describing the ways to get and spend these flash freeze points the flash freeze State itself is active whenever she has any of these charges her weapon will also indicate this with an ice effect now let's break down all of her move set and see how her kit changes depending on the energy and these flash freeze charges Ellen's basic attack without flash freeze is called teeth trimming this will unleash up to three attacks which will do physical SL damage during the third hit you can hold the basic attack button to extend the duration when she has flash freeze charges the move is called flash freeze trimming instead each attack of the three hit combo will consume one point of flash freeze but the move will deal massive ice damage instead of physical now on to Ellen's special attack without energy or charges the skill is called Drift Ellen will do a tail sweep which will deal ice slash damage in addition her anti-in upt level will be increased while using this basically meaning she shouldn't be able to really be canceled out of it for the most part you won't really be using this without energy same with the basic attack where you pretty much always have flash freeze charges once Ellen does have enough energy she gets her ex special attack this will perform a much more forceful higher damage tail Whack Attack which will deal ice damage as we saw in our chart earlier this will also Grant one stack of flash freeze after this move is done you can instantly follow up with the so-called enhanced basic attack which will of course cost the flash freeze charge if Ellen has the two bars of energy when using ex tail swipe you can do an extension of this move called Shark Nami this is done by hitting that skill button again after the tail swipe and it looks very cool this move will do a series of powerful slashes also granting a flash re charge she's also involved while doing this animation as well the core idea for this skill is to always be comboing that second hit of tail Swip or shark Nami into basic when you have the energy for it Ellen's move set really has cool combos like this and synergizes very well with the main thing that her kit will revolve around her Dodge mechanics that being said Ellen's Dodge is extremely important probably more so than most characters first we'll talk about her normal Dash attacks which do not require the RO state that ter will make more sense once we get to the really good Dash attacks like most of her kit Ellen's normal Dash attack changes based on flash freeze charges her chargeless Dash attack monstrous wave will deal physical damage and is just a dashing slash attack if you have a flash freeze charge the damage will become ice instead and consume one point our sleepy shark girls Dodge counter is called reef rock pressing basic attack during a perfect Dodge will simply just do ice damage through a cutting attack like most Dodge counters in the game she will be invulnerable during this primarily for her Dodge we want to focus on the roaming state by holding or double pressing her Dodge button she will enter this roaming hunt this will cause her to run into a permanent Dash with increased run speed until you release it the roaming State leads into a good bit of Moves In Her kit so it's very important plus it's always fun running around as a shark girl if you perfect Dodge an opponent you'll gain the Quick Charge effect which is a really good segue into our Dash attack Arctic Ambush this incredible move is activated while in that roaming State we just discussed after pressing basic attack during this Dash Ellen will deliver a spinning slash move followed by a scissor attack both dealing ice damage here's where it gets really interesting you will gain one point of flash freeze charge when the scissor attack hits however if you hold this basic attack button once you're in that roaming State you will charge the scissors when you do this charge scissors strike instead you will gain three stacks of flash freeze if the enemy is already Frozen when you hit the charge strike it will immediately cause shatter if you need a refresher course on attribute anomalies freeze shatter and all of that feel free to check out that full Zen Zone zero guide that I made Ellen's anti- interrupt increases while holding this charge move and her damage taken is reduced by 40% she'll also be partially invulnerable during the first part of the attack optimally this Dash attack is a great way to rack up the Flash fre charges that you need for your enhanced basic attacks during the beta I would commonly spam roaming State into charge Dash attack of course this will be doing immense ice damage and gaining those three charges using those Basics after this are going to use up those charges and do even more ice damage then once her energy gets high enough I would use her ex special which will increase even more damage also don't forget that when you use e ex special you can also follow that up with basic attack I know that was a lot of words in mumbo jumbo that I threw at you so if you have any questions feel free to let me know in the comments and I'll try to answer each one that I can basically just remember to use roaming state that charge Dash attack Arctic Ambush to get charges then either follow that up with your ex special if you have enough energy or basic attacks there's also going to be a really good tutorial available when the game Launches on July 4th now for her ultimate Ellen Joe has one of if not the coolest ultimate in the entire game although I'm kind of partial to Billy kid because he's my favorite character character when your decel rating is at 3,000 which is the max she's ready to give us some attitude shark girl will roll her eyes at us perform this beautiful cinematic go she will crash down and unleash an ice storm followed by a powerful scissor attack doing huge ice damage the best option is to use this right when you get 3,000 so you can just keep stacking up decel rating but it's important to remember that every character on your team shares the same amount of ult charge the last thing in Ellen's kit that we need to talk about are her core passives starting with sharp toothed this just simply states that Ellen's crit damage will increase by 50% when using Dash attack Arctic Ambush or flash freeze trimming remember those are the really good Dash attack we talked about and her really good flash freeze basic attack as you level up more characters in Zena Zone zero you have access to more passives I believe it's level 15 where you get the next one Len Joe's is called Rising storm if another character in your squad shares ice attribute or is also from the Victoria housekeeping company Ellen gets further Buffs this states that when Ellen deals ice damage any following damage will be increased by 3% for 10 seconds but here's the crazy part this can stack up to 10 times for a total of 30% each time you use ice damage the time limit extends so yeah it's a bit crazy in general Ellen's mechanics are really just going to focus on stacking and using those flash freeze charges correctly she has a very fast-paced style but with massive ice damage built into her kit you'll also find that you're going to get a ton of attribute anomaly through the freezes and shattering either way she will take some practice to master but she is an insanely powerful unit for zena Zone zero to start off with now that we really know the ins and outs of her kit let's move on to zuu NS zuyuan is an srank ether attribute attack unit with a pierce style her kit revolves around the concept of enhanced shot shells and two different stances or modes enhanced shot shells are the resource that zuyuan wants and uses these enhance some of her attacks which we'll discuss in great detail when we do break down each move these shot shells are restored through ex special attack chain attack ultimate and assist follow-ups the two modes are called assault mode and suppressive mode the only thing we have to remember here is depending on which mode you're in zuu 's basic attack and dash attack will feature different abilities and bonuses when first entering a combat scenario she will default to the assault mode Zu yuen's basic attack is called don't move she will unleash a flurry of martial arts bullets and ether buck shots in up to five attacks these will deal a mix of physical and ether damage after the fifth hit she will obtain one enhanced shot shell things get a little bit more interesting from there while using this basic attack if you hold a direction on the joystick and press the button again in you will activate a dash attack called Firepower offensive and then the character will face that direction simply put this just means that your basic attack will go straight into your dash attack no matter what mode you're in while under the assault mode you can hold down the button to switch to suppressive mode in this new suppressive mode the basic attack becomes please do not resist zuu will unleash up to three shot shell piercing attacks that deal physical damage if she has enhanced shot shells one charge will be consumed dealing massive ether damage similar to The Assault mode variant she can hold the Direction with the joy stick to activate Dash attack overwhelming Firepower releasing the button will return back to assault mode since her Dash attacks are also very important as we've seen let's next discuss the Dodge mechanics and then we'll summarize it all so it makes a little bit more sense both Dash attacks are variants that can be extended from their respective basic attacks Dash attack fire power offensive is the assault mode variant and zuu will use her handgun to attack dealing physical damage Dash attack overwhelming Firepower is the suppressive mode variant this will unleash one's shot shell piercing attack dealing physical damage if you have an enhanced shot shell one charge will be consumed and the attack will deal massive ether damage instead basically if you're in the suppressive mode you want to be using those enhanced shot shells to pull that massive ether damage if you have her chain attack call the rication mode she'll fire a bunch of lasers and missiles to deal massive ether damage and restore three enhanced shot shells all right all right we're through the thick of it if you have any questions regarding anything we just talked about ask in the comments below and I'll try to answer each one that I can for now let's move on to her special attack Buckshot blast zuu will shoot ether buck shots dealing ether damage and this can be repeated three times by pressing the button repeatedly her anti- interrupt will also be increased while using the skill the ex special form of this attack is called Full barrage it shares a lot of the same properties as the attack without energy but a couple more caveats the attack will deal massive ether damage and restore three enhanced shot shells she's also fully invulnerable while using the skill Zu yuen's ultimate is called Max eradication mode and features a very cool cinematic ult followed by the same effects as her chain attack restoring three enhanced shot shells and dealing massive ether damage we're finally at the last part of zuu win's Kit and then we can discuss the value of these characters and as a free-to-play player her core skills and passives are very important for building her properly as well as making a solid team although we're going to save all that for a full zuu guide in a couple of weeks her first passive is called special ops ammunition and it states this while in the suppressive mode using enhanced shot shells will increase her damage by 20% this will increase by another 20% when attack ing stunned enemies yeah so I wouldn't be surprised if this gets nerfed a little bit because that is crazy Zoo's additional passive is called tactical coordination when another character in your squad is ether or also from the criminal investigation Special Response Team faction she will gain further Buffs mainly her crit rate will be enhanced by a whopping 30% for 10 seconds after she uses an ex special chain attack or her ultimate in a nutshell for zuu in she's going to take some time practicing her rotation to maintain those enhanced shot shells but after you do Master keeping the resource and switching between those modes you'll really optimize her potential we will definitely discuss zuu in in more detail in that video in a couple of weeks so make sure to subscribe for that one I know what you're thinking now though Mogul who should I pull for actually well now that we know their kits and abilities let's answer this as a baseline most of the end-game content so far in the game has been very slanted towards ice and ether attributes since Ellen and zuen are both DPS units but they're different type they will of course succeed in different teams than one another as of the launch today there's only one other ether unit and that's Nicole deara granted she is a great ether support unit and will be awesome in a zuu team for this reason Ellen has a bit more Universal teams at La since she isn't of The Ether element in fact we already have a good handful of ice units and this will probably be the meta defining team right away something along the lines of Ellen Von Lyon and Saku but this is also a double-edged sword since there is only one DPS ether unit being zuu it's going to be a little bit more difficult clearing ether weakness enemies at the high levels of endgame modes for reference the end game is hollow zero and shiu defense as those are the two primary game modes but at this top level of ether weakness we almost need to have zuyu in to have a really good shot this isn't to say that it can't be done without her but she will make the process a lot easier and a lot smoother let's also break this down from a free-to-play side of things too who will be more valuable for you in the long run let's make it clear firsthand that either unit will be amazing for a long time to come in fact if Zena Zone zero follows in the footprints of honai star rail we should be rather safe from that scary power creep this term is already way overblown but Hoovers does a pretty good job in all things considered of keeping this to a minimum great Ed I have never played genjin impact so I can't speak on that game in honai Star rail we can use CA as an example because she was the first unit that came out she is still very good in the endgame content of that game mainly memory of chaos which is equivalent to shiu defense in Zena Zone zero either way it will very much depend on a per account basis depending on what units you have to pair with them that's why it's so important in these games to be good at team building so that you can clear the content no matter what you have on your account talking about their best teams and partners though zuyuan has a little bit of an edge well at least for how easy it is to get them Nicole deara is free for everybody who plays the game so in this sense zuu n will have her best partner available no matter what most of Ellen's best partners are srank or characters from the normal Banner so these might take a bit more luck to get who you want namely Von lyone and alexandrina Sebastion both from the Victoria housekeeping Co Al although Saku is also a really good partner for Ellen and she is also free if you do want to roll for either character you're kind of in luck because they just announced a skip button totally unheard of in Hoovers games by the way in addition we're already getting a ton of freebies from 45 million pre-registrations and just general launch goodies here's what it'll basically come down to as a free-to-play player for easier access to their best partner zuu will be the superior unit choice at the start of the game how ever she will also not be immediately at her Peak since she's missing some of those vital teammates to make the passives work well more so that she's the only character from the response team so far we did get a first look at some of the units in the same faction as her in the live stream though but it'll probably be a while before we get them if you do have the right team at launch Ellen will be the better choice especially if you pull Von L con or alexandrina there are definitely more ice units than ether in the game so her teams are a bit easier to create at the launch if I had to choose one unit though at the start of the game I would pick Ellen just because zuu is going to take some time before she gets to her Peak just due to the lack of ether units and such but let's make it clear still that these are going to be the two best characters in the game right away ultimately it's up to you who you want to pull and I'll of course be trying to go for them both and their W engines so rip my wallet both of their designs are super cool and either unit will be insanely good and will dominate the endgame content although you really should just pull whoever you like so there you have it for this guide regarding Ellen and zuu in zenis zone Zero's debut patch the game is absolutely incredible and I literally cannot wait these remaining hours to hop in in fact stop by a live stream as we will be polling for Ellen and clearing the zena Zone zero content and story as usual if you have any questions or comments regarding this video let me know in the comments comments below and I really look forward to discussing these characters and zenist as a whole with you all make sure to like the video If this helped in any way and to subscribe to the Channel with notifications on as I have plenty more zenist honai and other gasa content lined up for your enjoyment and that's it thank you so much for watching and bye for now [Music]

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Published: Thu Jul 04 2024