Alongside the release of the brand new character Qiuyuan for the 2nd phase of Wuthering Waves Version update 2.6, a rerun banner for the fan favorite character Zani will also be running to allow players the chance to roll for her. Therefore, in this guide, to celebrate her rerun banner, we will go over the best weapons, echoes and teams for Zani to help players build the best Zani in Wuthering Waves.

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Zani Skill Kit & Playstyle Analysis

General Introduction

Zani is 5* Limited Spectro Elemental Character in Wuthering Waves that uses gauntlets as her main weapon type. She specializes in countering enemies’ attacks with devastating heavy attacks of her own and inflicting enemies with Spectro Frazzle. Her main damage gimmick lies in her powerful Resonance Liberation form, helping her to decimate enemies with her enhanced heavy attacks.

Skill Analysis & Leveling Priority

	Basic Attack: Deals 4 instances of Spectro Damage to Enemies Heavy Attack: Consume STA to deal Spectro damage to enemies, can be followed up with Basic Attack to perform an attack combo.
	Leveling Priority: High
Normal Attack
Reason: Zani’s main damage output is from her Heavy Attacks, so leveling up her Normal Attack will massively improve her damage modifiers overall.

	Standard Mode: Attack the enemy, dealing Spectro damage and entering a special Block stage. Block enemies’ oncoming damage and counter, dealing Spectro damage to them. Can be used with normal attacks to perform a combo attack. Crisis Response Mode: When Redundant Energy is full, enhances the skill’s damage output when attacking and countering.
	Leveling Priority: Medium
Resonance Skill
Reason: Zani’s Skill can be used quite frequently during her attack chain, so leveling it up will help to maximize her overall damage output when on field.

	Zani gains Blaze gauge whenever Spectro Frazzles are inflicted on the enemy.  When entering Inferno Mode, all of Zani’s Attacks will be considered Enhanced Heavy Attacks and will deal both Heavy Attack Damage and Spectro Frazzle Damage.
	Leveling Priority: High
Forte Circuit
Reason: Zani’s main gimmick and requires leveling up in order to maximize her damage output. The higher the level, the higher the overall damage modifier of her Enhanced Heavy Attack are during Inferno Mode.

	Initial Mode: Deal Spectro Damage to surrounding enemies and enter Inferno Mode, increasing the damage modifiers of Basic Attacks. The more Blaze Stacks Zani have, the longer the Inferno Mode lasts. Last Stand Mode: When in Inferno Mode, upon Blaze decreasing to 30 or lower, Last Stand can be used to unleash a final big burst of Spectro damage, dealing damage to all enemies and ending Inferno Mode.
	Leveling Priority: High
Resonance Liberation
Reason: Leveling Zani’s Resonance Liberation further boost the damage modifiers of her Basic and Heavy Attacks during Inferno Mode, allowing players to maximize her damage output.

	Instantly deal an instance of Spectro damage when taking the field
	Leveling Priority: Low
Intro Skill
Reason: A simple damage hit when Zani takes the field, not worth leveling unless players want to perfectly optimize Zani’s damage.

	Casting Intro Skill grants Zani 12% Spectro Damage Bonus
	Unlock Priority: High
Inherent Skill 1
Reason: A simple but effective skill that grants Zani extra Spectro damage bonus the moment she takes the field.

	When in Ready Stance, all damage taken is reduced by 40%
	Unlock Priority: Low
Inherent Skill 2
Reason: Provide additional damage reduction to Zani when she attempts to counter enemies’ attacks. However if players aren’t using her counter too often, unlocking the skill is not mandatory,

Playstyle Guide & Rotation

Zani’s playstyle rotation is as followed:

– First inflicting as much Spectro Frazzle stacks on enemies as possible to fill up her Blaze Gauge and basic attack as much as possible with Zani to fill up her Redundant Energy gauge. 

– Then, by consuming her redundant energy, use her Resonance Skill to counter enemies’ attacks and fill up her Resonance Liberation energy. 

– Upon using her Resonance Liberation, all of Zani’s attacks will be enhanced to special Heavy Attacks, dealing massive amounts of damage and consuming her Blaze Gauge.

– In this mode, attack with her heavy attacks as much as possible to to fill up her Resonance Liberation gauge and finishes off with unleashing her Resonance Liberation one more time, dealing a big burst of damage to all enemies and letting her exit her special mode.

Due to her kit and rotation, it is very important that you have teammates that can inflict Spectro Frazzle aside from Zani to help her fills up her Blaze Gauge as much as possible before entering her Resonance Liberation mode to maximize the duration of her Special Damage mode for as long as possible.

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Zani Best In Slot & F2P Weapons

For Zani, her best in slot weapons are those that provide her with good Critical Stats while also boosting her Heavy Attack damage output to maximize her DPS potential while on field.

Zani Best Premium Weapon Choices

Some of Zani’s Best Premium Weapon Choices are:

Blazing Justice	Tragicomedy	Verity’s Handle
Limited 5* Weapon	Limited 5* Weapon	Limited 5* Weapon

	Main Stat: 587 Attack
	Sub Stat: 48.6% Crit Damage
Blazing Justice	Weapon Rating: Best In Slot
Effect: Increases ATK by 12%. Casting Basic Attack grants the following effects: Dealing damage ignores 8% of the target’s DEF and amplifies Spectro Frazzle DMG dealt by 50% for 6s. Retriggering the effect resets its duration.
Explanation: Zani’s signature weapon and her best in slot weapon that provides her with a hefty Critical Damage boost while also allowing her to ignore enemies’ defense and boost her Spectro Frazzle damage output.

	Main Stat: 587 Attack
	Sub Stat: 24.3% Crit Rate
Tragicomedy	Weapon Rating: Best Alternative
Effect: Increases ATK by 12%. Every time Basic Attack or Intro Skill is cast, Heavy Attack DMG Bonus increases by 48% for 3s.
Explanation: An incredibly strong alternative weapon for Zani with its ability to boost her critical rate, attack and provide her with essentially a permanent Heavy Attack damage boost, helping to maximize Zani’s damage as long as she maintains her basic attack combo.

	Main Stat: 587 Attack
	Sub Stat: 24.3% Crit Rate
Verity’s Handle	Weapon Rating: Good Stat Stick
Effect: Gain 12% Attribute DMG Bonus. When using Resonance Liberation, the wielder gains 48% Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus for 8s. This effect can be extended by 5s each time Resonance Skills are cast, up to 3 times.
Explanation:  A good stat stick option for Zani that provides her with a critical rate increase and all attribute damage bonus. Aside from the stats, due to Zani’s Resonance Liberation being a single damage instance, she does not make use of the weapon’s additional effect, making the effect essentially useless on her.

Zani Best F2P Weapon Choices

Some of Zani’s Best F2P Weapon Choices are:

Abyss Surge	Aether Strike	Celestial Spiral
Standard 5* Weapon	Battle Pass 4* Weapon	Gacha 4* Weapon

	Main Stat: 587 Attack
	Sub Stat: 36.4% Attack
Abyss Surge	Weapon Rating: Best F2P Alternative
Effect: Increases Energy Regen by 12.8%. When hitting a target with Resonance Skill, increases Basic Attack DMG Bonus by 10%, lasting for 8s. When hitting a target with Basic Attacks, increases Resonance Skill DMG Bonus by 10%, lasting for 8s..
Explanation: The 5* F2P option for Zani, offering her a decent amount of attack and energy regen boost while also improving her general damage output with its basic attack damage and skill damage boost effects.

	Main Stat: 412 Attack
	Sub Stat: 40.5% Critical Damage
Aether Strike	Weapon Rating: Battle Pass Stat Stick
Effect: Casting Resonance Liberation increases ATK by 7.2% and grants 10.8% Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus for 15s.
Explanation: The battle pass stat stick option for Zani, as it provides Zani with a decent Critical Damage boost. Aside from that, the weapon’s effect doesn’t help Zani too much in terms of improving her overall damage.

	Main Stat: 462 Attack
	Sub Stat: 18.2% Attack
Celestial Spiral	Weapon Rating: F2P Alternative
Effect: Casting the Resonance Skill grants 6 Resonance Energy and increases ATK by 10%, lasting for 16s. This effect can be triggered once every 20s.
Explanation: Zani’s F2P alternative option, with a simple effect to boost her overall attack stat and provide some extra energy after using her Resonance Skill.

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Zani Best Echoes & Stats

Zani Best Echoes Set & Echoes

For Zani, the best echo set for her is the Eternal Radiance echo set, which grants her extra Spectro damage boosts and a critical rate boost when she inflict Spectro Frazzle, massively improving her damage output when on field.

	Eternal Radiance
2-pc: Spectro DMG +10%.
5-pc: Inflicting enemies with Spectro Frazzle increases Crit. Rate by 20% for 15s. Attacking enemies with 10 stacks of Spectro Frazzle grants 15% Spectro DMG Bonus for 15s.

The best main Echo for Zani to bring is Capitaneus, a 3 Cost Echo:

Effect: Summon a Capitaneus to jump up and smash enemies, dealing 118.80% Spectro DMG. This attack generates 4 extra Merciless Judgements, each dealing 59.40% Spectro DMG.

The Resonator with this Echo equipped in their main slot gains 12.00% Spectro DMG Bonus and 12.00% Heavy Attack DMG Bonus.

Zani Best Main Stats & Sub Stats

As Zani is a sub DPS character that wants to quickly swap in and out of the battlefield to deal damage and support other teammates with his buffs, the main and sub stats players should aim for Zani are:

Important Stat Threshold:

– Players should aim to achieve a good 1:2 Crit Rate to Crit Damage stat ratio for Zani like with other DPS characters in the game, ideally with Zani’s Critical Rate reaching 50-70% before entering combat.

– Players should have Zani’s Energy Regen at around 115% and above to allow her to do a full rotation with her preferred team.

Zani Best Teams

For her best team, Zani is a main DPS character whose gimmick revolves entirely around Spectro Frazzle, so running her alongside characters that can inflict the status effect consistently is extremely important. Ideally, Zani will also want to run in a full Spectro team to maximize all of her teammates’ buffs towards her.

Zani	Phoebe	Shorekeeper
Main DPS	Sub DPS/Support	Support/Sustain
Essential	Essential	Flexible

Main DPS: Zani serves as the team’s main DPS and takes the fields for the highest amount of time once the entire team has finished their rotation to help Zani gain Forte Gauge and buff her with beneficial buffs.

Sub DPS: Phoebe is Zani’s best in slot sub DPS/ Support character due to her special Confession mode being able to inflict large amounts of Spectro Frazzle stacks on enemies, allowing Zani to fill her Forte Gauge completely before taking the field. Additionally, her Outro skill massively enhances the Spectro Frazzle damage Zani deals, boosting Zani damage output even further.

Sustain: Shorekeeper is the team’s best sustain with her high energy regen and critical stat boosting skill kit, reducing Zani overall critical requirements while massively boosting her damage output. If players do not have Shorekeeper, however, players can substitute her with other characters like Spectro Rover for Spectro Frazzle resistance reduction or Verina as a budget sustain option.

Conclusion

The overworked but powerful business woman, Zani is one of Wuthering Waves’ most unique DPS characters that helps to elevate the mono Spectro team into top tier status. Don’t miss out on the chance to obtain this powerful character by taking advantage of GameBar’s Wuwa top-up, helping you to get your favorite characters at the lowest price possible!