"The best mackerel is always the one you haven't eaten yet~" — Nekomiya Mana. Spirited and mischievous, she likes to play tricks on others. Your wallet is her wallet. (Really... It's hers now.) Athletic and daring, no Hollow is too dangerous for her. "Cats love fish" is actually an incorrect stereotype. But Nekomata does love fish... She's seen a lot of cat-astrophy and "curiosity killed the cat" moments, and seen many a secret that can't be told.
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Last review/pros & cons update
Patch 1.0
Last build/calcs update
Patch 1.0
Last teams/synergies update
Patch 1.4
Last profile update*
November 6th, 2024
*Profile update means smaller edits to disk drives, stats or other things that don't require new calculations.
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Profile
Review
Build
Shiyu Defense
Rotation & Teams
Calculations
Profile
Core Passive Stealthy Paws
When Nekomata's Dodge Counter or Quick Assist hits an enemy, her DMG increases by 30% for 6s.
CRIT Rate: 0
BASE ATK: 0
Additional Ability Catwalk
When another character in your squad shares the same Attribute or Faction:
After any character inflicts Assault, increases the DMG of Nekomata's next EX Special Attack by 35%, stacking up to 2 times.
Basic Attack: Kitty Slash
Basic Attack: Crimson Blade
Dodge: Can't Touch Me-ow~
Dash Attack: Over Here!
Dodge Counter: Phantom Claws
Special Attack: Surprise Attack
EX Special Attack: Super Surprise Attack!
Chain Attack: Claw Swipe
Ultimate: Claw Smash
Quick Assist: Cat's Paw
Defensive Assist: Desperate Defense
Assist Follow-Up: Shadow Strike
Bird Hunter
Mindscape 1
Cat & Mouse
Mindscape 2
Curious Left Tail
Mindscape 3
Sharpen Claws
Mindscape 4
Lucky Right Tail
Mindscape 5
Predator Lineage
Mindscape 6
Nekomata Stats at level 60 (including Core passive bonuses).
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Review
Has great AoE coverage on her Ultimate, Chain, and Dodge Counter allowing for easy cleanup of weaker enemies.
Multiple team synergies among free-to-play characters even if they aren’t as strong as other characters' best teams.
Incredible mobility with a Dash Attack that is a borderline teleport.
Fast attacking and dodge-based kit perfect for those who enjoy a fast-paced playstyle.
Incredibly cheap EX Special meaning it will be available far more frequently than other characters.
Requires constant use of Dodge Counters or Quick Assists in order to keep her Core passive ability active whereas many other characters get theirs permanently active for free.
During Stun damage windows when the enemy cannot attack, Nekomata must rely on her Support to grant her a Quick Assist or go without a large damage bonus.
Is a Physical damage dealer and there are three A-Rank characters from this element - one of which is free - meaning she has by far the most competition for her role within her element, making her relative value compared to other elemental S-Rank drop.
Has incredibly limited team synergy options. There is no Physical support or Stun characters and the characters from her faction Cunning Hares only have mediocre synergy with her at best. This results in lower endgame potential for her at the time of her release.
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This tier list assesses characters based on their combat potential in Zenless Zone Zero’s current most demanding content, Shiyu Defense (SD). SD is a mode similar to Genshin Impact’s Spiral Abyss or Honkai Star Rail’s Memory of Chaos and requires multiple teams, Disk Drives and good W-Engines. This mode offers a reasonable mix of Boss encounters (single target) and Elite packs (2-3 targets), allowing multiple characters to find a niche but in the end, there is a bias toward single target focused characters at the top-end and tier list ratings will reflect that.
Please keep in mind Zenless Zone Zero is a skill-based game and each character has a different playstyle, difficulty level and even special tricks and combos. Zenless Zone Zero is also a team based game and it's only by combining both these factors to the highest level a character can reach optimal performance.
Shiyu Defense
Build and teams
The W-Engines are listed in order of priority. Sometimes the percentages appearing near them won't reflect their performance as pure damage or Stun output isn't the only thing we're looking at - the utility of the W-Engine might be more important than the calculations imply.
The top number shows the performance of the W-Engine in the Burst rotation while the bottom number in the Standard rotation. You can find more information about them in the Calculations tab.
100%
100%
Increases Physical DMG by 20/25/30/35/40%. The equipper's DMG increases by 25/31.5/38/44/50% when attacking the enemy from behind.
87.67%
95.73%
Launching a Dodge Counter or Quick Assist increases the equipper's ATK by 12/13.8/15.6/17.4/19.2% for 12s.
87.27%
97.41%
Increases ATK by 7.5/8.6/9.7/10.8/12%. Attacks that land a CRIT on an enemy will inflict an additional 200% of ATK as DMG. This effect can only be triggered once every 8/7.5/7/6.5/6s.
83.94%
80.31%
Whenever a squad member launches a Chain Attack, the equipper gains a Charge stack, stacking up to 3 times. Upon activating their own Ultimate, the equipper consumes all Charge stacks, and each stack increases the skill's DMG by 15/17.2/19.5/21.7/24%.
The top number shows the performance of the Disk Drive in the Burst rotation while the bottom number in the Standard rotation. You can find more information about them in the Calculations tab.
100%
100%
Competitive option for direct and Anomaly-based Physical damage dealers granting 10% permanent Physical DMG% from the 2-PC and 35% increased DMG against enemies inflicted by Assault by any party member for 12 seconds. DMG% bonus against enemies will be up the majority of most fights against boss-type enemies thanks to its long duration and ability to trigger from any team member allowing a Physical based Bangboo/teammate to assist with uptime via their own Assaults.
Best combined with your choice of 2-PC Set:
95.47%
100.61%
Great option for all direct damage dealers that make use of some form of Basic ATK and EX frequently. The set grants 8% permanent CRIT RATE% from the 2-PC and a 9% increased combat ATK% buff for 6 seconds when triggering a CRIT with each a Basic Attack, Dodge Counter or EX Special Attack from the 4P. Each buff belongs to an attack type so you'll need to CRIT with each type every 6 seconds to maintain 3 stacks. You can expect 2 stacks of this set most of the time one from basics and one from either EX's during a burst window or Dodge Counters during downtime granting 18% combat ATK% that multiplies all ATK stats like FLAT ATK and ATK% ((Base ATK * (1 + ATK%)) + Flat ATK) * (1 + Combat ATK%).
Despite all this, the set has ramp-up time and can quickly fall off without access to energy for EX's making it most suitable for characters with cheap EX's, frequent Dodge Counters or concentrated burst damage windows.
Best combined with your choice of 2-PC Set:
100.08%
84.43%
A top option for burst damage characters aiming to deal most of their damage in a short window following their Ultimate. The set grants 8% permanent PEN Ratio% from the 2-PC, 15% increased combat ATK% for 12 seconds after using an Ultimate and 20% increased Ultimate DMG from the 4P. When evaluating this set we assume you'll gain and save your damaging Ultimate for the enemy Stun window and use it before executing the rest of your combo. If you're unable to gain your Ultimate every stun window, this sets value will drop compared to its listing.
Best combined with your choice of 2-PC Set:
Substats: CRIT RATE = CRIT DMG > ATK% > PEN = ATK
ATK: 2500-3100+
HP: 9500+
DEF: 800+
CRIT RATE: 70% - 80%+
CRIT DMG: 140% - 160%+
Special Attack
Chain Attack
Basic Attack
Dodge
Assist
Rotation & Teams
Nicole and Nekomata enable each other’s Additional Ability, opening up the last slot of a team member to your choice. Nicole also provides Nekomata an incredibly impactful Defense Shred debuff on enemies which when timed right can significantly increase Nekomata’s total damage output. On other hand, Nekomata appreciates an ally who can allow her to perform Quick Assist in order to activate her Core Ability and Nicole is not only capable of that but also very good at making it happen as her playstyle revolves around weaving her EX into combat often in order to keep her Defense Shred active. Nicole wants to keep her Defense Shred up using her EX which grants Nekomata a Quick Assist which keeps Nekomata’s buff up ending in a nice synergy giving her the tool’s she needs to deal max damage even when she can’t perform Dodge Counter.
Nekomata has incredibly limited synergizing team mate options when it comes to enabling her Additional Ability, and thankfully Anby can fill that role quite well while also providing Nekomata and her team an excellent amount of Daze. Enabling Nekomata's Additional Ability with Anby allows for the last slot of the team to be used more freely on another DPS or Supporter that complements her better instead of being restricted to selecting specifically a character needed to activate the same.
If a column has multiple characters, the bigger one is the priority choice for the team while the smaller ones are alternatives. If they are the same size, either of them can be used.
Bangboo options:
Calculations
Don't use the damage output calculations as an indication on who is worth pulling or investing as those are just simulations and in day-to-day gameplay there's a lot variables and also the skill of the player is important. As usual, don't compare the numbers between characters.
Important!
Rotation time: 13.1s for Burst and 4.7s for Standard
Here are the rotations used in the calculations.
During Nekomata's Burst rotation her Core Ability does not remain active for its full duration as she only gains it once at the start via a Quick Assist. Reapplying the Core Passive is challenging - solo boss enemies while stunned will not attack you so you cannot Dodge Counter and triggering another Quick Assist takes up valuable Stun duration. For this reason it's imperative you fit in all your most potent attacks immediately after performing a quick assist as listed below.
Burst rotation (During Stun)
- Chain Attack: Claw Swipe
- Quick Assist: Cat's Paw
- EX Special Attack: Super Suprise Attack!
- Ultimate: Claw Smash
- EX Special Attack: Super Suprise Attack!
- EX Special Attack: Super Suprise Attack!
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P1
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P2
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P3
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P4
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P5 (Optionally repeat if activates)
Standard rotation (Downtime)
- Dodge Counter: Phantom Claws (Use at least every 6 seconds)
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P1
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P2
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P3
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P4
- Basic Attack: Kitty Slash P5 (Optionally repeat if activates)
And here are the W-Engines and Disk Drives used in the calculations.
Increases Physical DMG by 20/25/30/35/40%. The equipper's DMG increases by 25/31.5/38/44/50% when attacking the enemy from behind.
Substats: ATK (18%), CRIT Rate (33.6%), CRIT DMG (67.2%)
Shiyu Defense
This section contains information about Nekomata performance in the latest Shiyu Defense cycle (1.3.2). The page will be automatically updated every patch once enough data is gathered.
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Shiyu Defense Stats FormCharacters are ranked with appearance rate, which is how often a character was used in Shiyu Defense by the players who we have scanned, regardless of whether they own the character or not. Ownership rate currently cannot be obtained.
This section lists the characters that were most commonly paired with Nekomata in the current phase of Shiyu Defense.
This section lists most popular teams featuring Nekomata in the current phase of Shiyu Defense.
Mindscapes data comes from 95 players we have scanned who used Nekomata in the current Shiyu Defense.
53.68%
2.61 scoreMindscape 0
35.79%
2.82 score6.32%
2.67 score2.11%
3 score0%
No score1.05%
3 score1.05%
No scoreW-Engines usage data comes from 95 players we have scanned who used Nekomata in the current Shiyu Defense.
49.47%
2.86 scoreIncreases Physical DMG by 20/25/30/35/40%. The equipper's DMG increases by 25/31.5/38/44/50% when attacking the enemy from behind.
22.11%
2.73 scoreLaunching a Dodge Counter or Quick Assist increases the equipper's ATK by 12/13.8/15.6/17.4/19.2% for 12s.
11.58%
2.27 scoreUpon hitting an enemy with a Basic Attack, Dash Attack, or Dodge Counter, the equipper's ATK increases by 3.5/4.4/5.2/6/7% for 8s, stacking up to 8 times. This effect can trigger once every 0.5s. The duration of each stack is calculated separately.
7.37%
2.43 scoreATK increases by 6/6.9/7.8/8.7/9.6%, and DMG dealt by EX Special Attacks increases by 15/17.2/19.5/21.8/24%.
4.21%
3 scoreIncreases ATK by 7.5/8.6/9.7/10.8/12%. Attacks that land a CRIT on an enemy will inflict an additional 200% of ATK as DMG. This effect can only be triggered once every 8/7.5/7/6.5/6s.
2.11%
2 scoreWhenever a squad member launches a Chain Attack, the equipper gains a Charge stack, stacking up to 3 times. Upon activating their own Ultimate, the equipper consumes all Charge stacks, and each stack increases the skill's DMG by 15/17.2/19.5/21.7/24%.
Disk Drives usage data comes from 95 players we have scanned who used Nekomata in the current Shiyu Defense.
43.16%
2.66 score25.26%
2.74 score9.47%
2.5 score4.21%
2.75 score3.16%
2.67 score3.16%
2.5 scoreNekomata stats aren't available yet. They will be added soon.
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