Chaos Zero Nightmare is now available worldwide, and it arrives with a massive list of characters to pick from.
Often popularly known as the ‘Slay the Spire‘ gacha, CZN‘s characters have different rarities and roles. You’ll mostly be rolling with a team of three, and not all are built equal. This guide will help you get your priorities sorted when it comes to team-building and which characters are worth rerolling for.
Complete Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN) characters tier list
I have used four tiers to separate all the characters available in Chaos Zero Nightmare.
- S-tier characters are the best choices irrespective of the situation.
- A-tier characters are powerful in their own right, but will rely slightly on factors like team composition.
- B-tier characters are useful characters if you can raise their Manifest Ego by a large amount.
- C-tier characters have glaring weaknesses and should be avoided as much as possible.
Here’s a quick overview of how the tier list appears, and let’s dive into more elaborate explanations.
Characters to be assessed: Hugo, Lucas, Luke
S-tier
- Kayron: Kayron’s greatest strength is his flexibility, since he isn’t a pure DPS. He can easily act well as a hybrid DPS, does decent single and multi-target damage, and the Exhaust mechanic has its own use, especially against bosses who are hard to take down. His moves also don’t really depend much on your team composition.
- Khelipe: Khelipe is arguably one of the best tanks, and yet, she has amazing damage potential. Her abilities mostly do AoE damage as a bonus, and don’t rely on mono-element-based teams. She can break even the hardest of enemies quite easily, and you can gain AP with her abilities (allowing you to use more cards every turn).
- Rei: While Rei is merely a 4-star character, her kit is extremely useful. She can use Exhaust to draw more cards. I have also found it extremely easy to get dupe units of her, and she gains healing ability at Manifest Ego level 2. That makes her a complete support unit, and the ease with which you can build her up plants her in S-tier for me.
- Magna: Magna is one of the best tanks currently in the game. Her attack raises with her defence; the kit is easy to understand, and she fits well into any team. Her shields are also excellent when you want to protect your team.
A-tier
- Nia: Nia might be one of the best support characters to include in your team, but her use-case scenario is slightly limited. Ideally, you’ll want to pair her in a team that has at least one high-damage attacker who can also multi-strike. That will make the most out of her abilities, but she is still a decent support choice, all thanks to her follow-up attacks and occasional heals.
- Mei Lin: If you’re using a Passion-focused team, Mei Lin is the best support to use. She deals Tenacity damage that gains more AP, and this ability makes her viable for the meta in the long run. You can consider her to be S-tier if you’re using a Passion-focused team.
- Cassius: If you are playing with a team that relies on specific cards to win, Cassius could be a good choice. His abilities consistently allow you to draw more cards and shuffle what you have. However, he lacks in other areas, putting him in the A-tier.
- Selena: Like Kayron, Selena is pretty flexible in terms of how she operates, but is usually more efficient when you’re pairing her with other Passion-based characters. I felt that she struggles with other elements, which is why she’s at the A-tier.
- Mika: Available from the start, Mika is a pretty reliable support that fits well in teams where you’ll need a lot of heals. However, she might feel redundant in the late game as most of your other characters will be able to offer heals.
- Renoa: Renoa’s kit entirely depends on how frequently you can pull Dire Bullet. She’s an amazing single-target nuker, but you’ll need Dire Bullet in your hands to make her perform up to her potential. You can combine her with someone like Cassius to get better results.
- Beryl: Beryl’s lack of AoE is made up for by her ability to cause large amounts of burst damage, which is top-notch. You can even retain her cards to do more damage or reduce their costs, allowing her to do more attacks in the same turn.
B-tier
- Tressa: It’s easy to obtain Tressa, and she works well in teams that rely on follow-up attacks. You can spam her Shadow Daggers that don’t cost anything, but her damage falls off against bosses.
- Maribell: While Maribell is easy to build, her shields feel underpowered in the current meta. I like her counterattacks, but her damage relies on the shields (which feel a tad bit weak for my liking).
- Veronica: A good sub-DPS who can summon Ballistas that do a lot of damage. She can work well with someone like Renoa, as she can pull out cards of other characters and use them for herself if required.
- Rin: Rin is an excellent choice against bosses, but you’ll have to make sure she’s in her Dark Cloud stance. Doing so in a battle is heavily luck-reliant, which puts her at B-tier.
C-tier
- Orlea: While Orlea has decent abilities, managing Retain is very difficult. Her mechanic means that you’ll have to prevent your hand from being full. Other support characters are better and easier to master.
- Owen: A beginner DPS who any other damage-dealer on this tier list can replace. His kit is just inferior in every area, which means you should avoid using your resources on him.
- Amir: Amir’s damage relies on her defence, which is the poorest of all tanks in the game. This reduces her potential to a large extent, and I haven’t found a single team composition where she works well.
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