Learn how to upgrade agents in Zenless Zone Zero effectively to enhance your gameplay experience. Follow our step-by-step guide for success!Do you want to improve your agents to the maximum in Zenless Zone Zero? We explain all the processes and methods to level them up, promote them, improve their skills or activate the Mindscape Cinema.
Upgrading characters in Zenless Zone Zero is a common occurrence. Obviously, and as expected in an Action-RPG, each character we unlock starts from a basic level , but as we progress we can invest different materials and resources in each agent to greatly enhance their statistics (in addition to, of course, equipping them with the best amplifiers ).
In this entry of our guide we are going to explain all the processes that exist in ZZZ to level up your characters and improve them, since there are several ways to do it and they can be a bit confusing if it is your first time with a HoYoverse game.
How to level up characters?
The level of your characters in Zenless Zone Zero can be raised by using training materials .
Please note that in this game characters do not gain experience by fighting and defeating enemies or completing quests, they only level up manually when you give them the necessary resources.
These resources are researcher records and there are three different categories or rarities:
- Rookie Investigator Log: For each of these your character gains 100 experience points.
- Official Researcher Record: For each of these your character gains 600 experience points.
- Veteran Investigator Log: For each of these your character gains 3,000 experience points.
Luckily for you, you’ll get plenty of Researcher Logs for a variety of activities and objective rewards . Mainly completing assignments, playing Cavities Zero, overcoming Shiyu Defense Mode challenges, and more will allow you to get quite a few.
Once you want to level up one of your characters, just open the Agents menu , select the character and from the “Base Attributes” tab click on the current “Level” button . This will open a window to give the character researcher records and increase their current levels, also checking how statistics such as their life, defense or attack increase with each new level.
How to promote characters?
It is important to explain that once you reach certain level thresholds with your characters, you will not be able to continue leveling up your agent until you “promote” him/her. This happens for example when you reach level 10 , level 20 , and level 30 …
Promoting a character removes the current maximum level “cap” they can reach, but in order to promote them you will need to give them a badge.
Note that not just any badge will do, the badge must be of the same category or specialty as your character. If, for example, your agent is an Attacker, you will need an Attacker badge, and so on for each type. Likewise, if you have reached level 10, the badge you need is the “basic” rarity badge , and later on, the higher rarity badges .
Badges can be obtained, just like Investigator Records, in many ways, but the most direct and easy way is through the HIA Recruitment Center, participating in battles in the “Promotion” section (provided you have enough stack to participate in them). This way you can quickly obtain those badges that you need next.
How to improve skills and techniques?
Each Zenless Zone Zero agent has certain unique skills or techniques, and these can also be leveled up in the “Skills” tab to become increasingly more powerful. However, in order to improve these techniques you also need to level up your character to certain thresholds .
- You can upgrade your agent’s 5 core skills; basic, dodge, assist, special attack, and chain attack.
- To improve skills you need to have chips .
- Each agent needs chips of the same element (if it is fiery it needs fiery chips, if it is glacial it needs glacial chips, etc.).
- You can get specific chips in the “Agent Technique” simulated battles at the Recruiting Center .
Additionally, you can also upgrade each agent’s core skills , although each of them will require unique materials in each particular case, along with a certain expenditure of Deniques . These materials, generally speaking, can be obtained in the Expert Challenge Rooms of the Recruitment Center, fighting against more powerful enemies than usual.
What are Mindscape Cinema skills and how do you unlock them?
Finally, we don’t want to forget to clarify what exactly the Mindscape Cinema skills or “mental spaces” skills of the agents are and how they are unlocked . You’ve probably seen them and are not clear on how they work (they are similar to the Constellations in Genshin Impact ).
Basically, every agent in the game has up to 6 Mindscape Cinema skills that you can check out from their menu located at the bottom left corner of the agent’s card. These skills are all locked by default at the start, but can be unlocked as you repeatedly get the same agent in gacha banner rounds .
That is, every time you get an agent that you already have duplicated on a banner, you will receive a duplicate of the agent for your inventory that you can spend on the Mindscape Cinema system. By doing so you will unlock a new passive ability that greatly strengthens your character, so if you want to maximize it to the maximum, do not forget that you will have to activate all the mental spaces eventually.