Zenless Zone Zero Tier List and Best Agents

Zenless Zones Zero is a game with heavy emphasis on team-building and gameplay. Your individual skill as a player will be just as important for succeeding in combat as your Agent and Bangboo choices, and picking 3 S-Tier characters and a S-Tier Bangboo does not guarantee success.

That being said, most Agents work better with some characters than others. This can be due to Element synergies, Core Ability synergies, or because they work well together in order to set up or follow up other characters abilities. In almost all cases, these synergies will lead to a higher damage output.

When looking at Character Tier Lists, we always recommend to keep certain key considerations in mind, such as:

• Fun and Gameplay Feel: Would you rather have fun playing an A-Rank character, or dislike playing an S-Rank character? Many characters have very different playstyles, and some might just not be enjoyable to you, even if they're high-performing.
• Style: You're likely going to end up having more fun playing characters whose design you appreciate and enjoy. A player who enjoys a certain character will typically end up performing better on it as well.
• Strength: Naturally, under ideal conditions, some characters end up dishing out higher numbers than others. If you can make full use of a character like that, they will end up carrying you through parts of the game.
• Synergies: There are many synergies in the game. Many characters only unlock their full potential by being paired with characters of the same element, faction or type.

Unless you plan on spending large amounts of money on the game, or you were blessed by Fortuna, it will take you months to acquire each Agent and Bangboo once. Focus on the ones you really want for one of the above reasons.

Hoshimi Miyabi is the strongest DPS Agent in the game, by far. Her damage output is a significant upgrade over virtually any other DPS Agent, easily earning herself a T0 spot at the top of the list. Her team building options are not as limited as expected, and her high base damage output can be paired with almost any Agent that satisfies her Additional Ability -- which can be any Support Agent.

Asaba Harumasa is an S-Rank Agent that every player gets free access to simply by logging into the game. Despite this, he can match and outshine the DPS output of many of the premiere standard S-Rank agents, even at M0. While his DPS output does not match the absolute crème de la crème of limited S-Rank DPS, he still earns himself a spot in T1. The main concern for Harumasa is the lack of strong supports for his playstyle, as well as his damage being lower if not played from melee-range -- despite the character wielding a bow.

As with any Tier List, the rankings are to be taken with a grain of salt.

• Main DPS: In this section you will find a variety of Attack and Anomaly characters. They are typically the main source of damage for your team, killing the enemies while your other units provide benefits other than raw damage output.
• Stun: These characters have the Stun role, and sport a very high Impact stat that allows them to fill the enemy Daze bar much more quickly until enemies are stunned. Stunning enemies is the main source of Chain attacks, which are a core component of the game. Stunned enemies do not act, and take significantly more damage. Almost any team will want to run one Stun character to trigger Chain attacks.
• Support: Agents in this section excel at providing additional DPS, defensive or offensive utility, and meaningful DPS buffs or debuffs that will enhance your team in many different ways.

In order to help you understand the placement of some of the characters better, we wanted to contextualize the meaning of T0, T1, etc. a little bit.

• Tier 0: Characters that fit into almost any team are ranked here. While each of them have a "best" team to place them in, they can easily replace units in teams that do not match their faction or element due to their kit being extraordinarily strong.
• Tier 1: Characters in this tier excel in teams that fully utilize their Attribute or Faction. While these are some of the strongest characters in the game for their respective roles, they are not universally powerful, and instead require a more specific team-building approach.
• Tier 2: Agents in this Tier are serviceable in their respective roles, but get outperformed by multiple other characters as a result. This does not by any means mean that these Agents are bad, there simply are better options available, provided you have access to them.
• Tier 3: Agents in this tier have a major weakness or flaw that makes it difficult to fully leverage their kit, and as a result they do not manage to keep up with most of the alternative choices. They can still work in highly specific teams that allow them to function, but you will almost always be better off playing one of the alternatives instead. These characters can still be very valuable if you bring them for the correct Attribute match-up in endgame content.