Caesar in ZZZ: Best Build Guide

IN Zenless Zone Zero (ZZZ) Caesar is a 5-star character, belonging to the Defense type and using the Physical attribute. In a squad, she can act as a secondary damage dealer and support, and sometimes even as a main DD. In this guide, you will learn about her best build, amplifiers And drive discs, as well as recommended commands with it.

Key Features of Caesar

How to get Caesar

In the first phase of version 1.2, this young chapter of the "Sons of Calydon" will appear in banner, which will increase the chance of her dropping. In the future, this character will only be obtainable via Signal Search. Unfortunately, HoYoverse has never held an event in the game that would reward a 5-star fighter, so you definitely won't be able to get this lady for free.

Key Features of Caesar

Caesar's abilities and their upgrade priority

You can read about the heroine's abilities in the game itself, so we decided to add it under the spoiler so as not to increase the size of the article. We also recommend that you study our combat system guide, to better understand it.

As for pumping up the heroine's talents , then the priority should be the inclinations and special attacks, since the former determine the strength of the shield and increase the attack power of allies, and the latter allow you to parry enemy attacks, activate "Counterattack from the block" and stun opponents. Next in importance is Help, since you will often use it in the Caesar rotation.

Once you've maxed out these abilities, you can move on to upgrading Basic Attacks and Chain Attacks (Ulta) to increase the heroine's overall damage. Upgrade Dodges last, as you'll rarely use them.

Mental picture Caesar

To open it, you need to accumulate Agent Profiles, which are given out when duplicates of the heroine fall out, which, of course, is random. Considering the small chance of getting 5-star characters, you will need to spend a lot of time and money to unlock all the mental ones. However, even without them, Caesar can easily play the role of a sub-DD and support.

The table below lists all the mental abilities, their descriptions and benefits for the heroine.

If you still decide to try your luck, you can stop at M1 and M2 , thanks to which you can significantly increase the effectiveness of the heroine as a support, allowing her to strengthen her allies even better. If you have a choice between a starting mental weapon and a signature weapon, we advise you to take the second option, since there is simply no good alternative to the signature weapon in the game.

How to play as Caesar

Basic combinations

The heroine's main ability is to place a shield on the active character, the strength of which is displayed as a bar hanging to the right of the character. It has one unique feature - if the barrier has little strength left and the incoming damage significantly exceeds it, then all damage will still be blocked. True, the shield will then immediately collapse. On its own, it can exist for exactly 90 seconds.

Its advantages also include increased resistance to interruption, meaning enemies won't be able to knock your fighter down, and an increase in his attack power to 1000 units. However, the shield has one small drawback - it only works on the active character, moving from one agent to another. Therefore, we strongly advise you not to switch to other characters until you have completely completed the main DD combo attack, because otherwise he will lose not only the shield, but also the attack power bonus.

The shield can be activated in the following ways:

• Chain of attacks and super ability - instantly provide a shield, however, given their situational nature, this is definitely not the best method of activating the barrier.
• Enhanced Special Attack - Just hold down the "E" key when you have enough energy, and you will instantly get a shield. A more convenient method, but again, you won't be able to use it instantly, since you will have to accumulate energy first.
• The Defensive Assist and subsequent Shield Slam are the primary method of activating the shield, as they not only grant the shield, but also deal significant damage and stun the enemy.

As a result, you will need to act like this: select the hero walking in front of Caesar, wait for the enemy to attack and use Defense Assist (Space) to move to the leader of the "Sons of Calydon", and then immediately press the special attack button "E" to perform "Shield Slam".

This way you will not only get a shield, but also with a high probability stun the enemy. After that, switch to the main DD and deal the main damage with it. When the shield falls or the enemy comes to his senses again, simply repeat this technique again. In fact, this will be Caesar's basic combo, which you will have to use constantly.

If you don't have energy, then after Defensive Assist use basic attacks, as you will immediately go to the 3rd strike, and the 6th will allow you to get a lot of energy, which will give you the opportunity to perform Shield Slam in the next rotation.

One should also not forget about additional passive skill , which increases the damage taken by nearby enemies. Remember that it is activated not only by Defense Assist, Perfect Block, and Block Counter, but also by the basic Deadlock attack, which is done by holding down the normal attack button (LMB).

This method allows you to activate the passive faster (when needed) and at the same time pull enemies to you (if you are fighting many common mobs). However, remember that this technique spends help points, so you won’t be able to use it often. It’s best to stick with the method with Defense Assistance.

Advanced Combinations

These are mostly related to Stance Change, which allows you to gain a momentum buff and effectively stun enemies. This bonus is activated as follows:

• Using Defense Assistance - this will be your main method, and we have described why above.
• Using Counterattack from the block, that is, you need to press the special attack button (E) to go into a defensive stance, and after receiving an enemy hit, press the special attack button again to perform a counterattack (it will be more powerful if you have energy).
• Using the Perfect Block, which is exactly the same as the above method, except that you need to press the special attack button (E) exactly when the enemy is striking the heroine, in order to immediately parry it. As a result, you will absorb all the damage and inflict more stun with the subsequent counterattack, which will not consume energy.

The latter method looks quite attractive, however, to use it you will have to keep Caesar on the battlefield more often, stealing time from the main damage dealer, which can negatively affect the overall DPS of the squad. So you can forget about perfect blocks altogether or use them only in certain situations, for example, when you need to save assistance points and energy, but still get a shield.

Advantages and disadvantages of Caesar

With her unique abilities, the young leader of the Sons of Calydon can strengthen the team in many ways. Her strengths also include:

• A versatile support that can equip the active character with a strong shield that can protect against any attack, and give him a huge buff to attack power (up to 1000 units), significantly increasing his damage.
• She can replace the Intimidation character, effectively stunning enemies with her powerful counterattacks. At the same time, she can independently increase her momentum when rising and changing stances.
• Can act as a good debuffer, weakening enemies around her, increasing the damage they receive. At the same time, to activate this effect, only an ally is required who also has help in defense (there are most of them in the game), so she fits into many teams.
• Relatively easy to learn if used only as a sub-DD and support. She takes very little time from the main DD, occasionally coming out to refresh her shield or stun an enemy.
• Capable of increasing an ally's resistance to interrupts, allowing them to complete their combo attacks without any problems.
• Can be a great character for players who haven't yet learned how to perfectly dodge enemy attacks or don't like that kind of gameplay.
• Does a great job of being a buffer and shielder without opening up his mental picture, which will definitely appeal to F2P players.

However, it is still impossible to call Caesar an ideal character, since she also has her drawbacks:

• Applies protection and buff only to the active character, so when switching to another hero, the previous fighter becomes defenseless and deals less damage if he is still on the battlefield. Fortunately, this does not happen often.
• Unlike other supports (for example, Rina or Sokaku), she does not have any bonuses to personal damage (without M6), so turning her into a full-fledged main damage dealer will be problematic.
• There are no viable alternatives to her signature weapon - the other options are noticeably worse, which is why you will most likely have to spend money on knocking out her signature.

Best build for Caesar

The best amplifiers

Unfortunately, at the time of patch 1.2, there are simply no other 5-star amplifiers of the required category in the game. For this reason, we have added a legendary weapon from the Intimidation group, which can increase the Impulse required by the heroine. The table below shows the most interesting options.

Best Drive Discs

As for main characteristics of drives , then your selection should look like this:

• IV sector: critical hit chance/critical damage in a ratio of 1 to 2.
• V-sector: Physical damage bonus (priority) or penetration chance%.
• VI sector: impulse.
• Substats: Crits > Attack Power% > Penetration Chance

If we talk about recommended values ​​of the parameters Caesar , then they should look something like this:

• Attack: 2000+ units
• Health: 10000+
• Defense: 800+
• Impulse: 200+
• Critical Hit Chance: 60%+ (ideal)
• Critical Damage: 120%+ (ideal)

Best Teams for Caesar

F2P team

With Nicole's Defense Assist, you can easily activate Caesar's additional passive. It will allow you to effectively stun enemies, as well as give Billy a shield (he really needs it due to his low health and defense) and increase his attack power to deal more damage. This is a starting unit, which is later desirable to replace with more powerful combinations.

Teams with Caesar the Universal

We are talking about teams where Caesar acts as a sub-DD, stunning opponents, and/or a support, putting a shield on the main damage dealer and increasing his attack power with a buff. This is the optimal squad type for her. This is where you will have to play through Defensive Assist and Shield Slam.

All the main DDs listed in these squads like to stay on the battlefield as long as possible, so you won't have to worry about them losing their shield due to rarely switching between heroes.

Commands to the Anomaly

You can easily turn Caesar into one of the damage dealers in the squad on the Anomaly, increasing the attack power of your allies and personally inflicting huge damage to enemies. True, here the role of main DD will have to be shared with Piper.

Pumping Caesar

The table below shows the materials required to increase the heroine's level, skills, and aptitudes, as well as their total quantity.

This concludes the guide to the best build for Caesar in ZZZ. We hope that this information will help you choose the best amplifiers, drive disks and commands for the heroine.