Welcome to our Zenless Zone Zero Spending Guide. In this guide, we’ll cover how to best spend your resources, both from in-game resources and from real world money. Gacha games can have lots of options to purchase, but not all things are created equal.
If you’re looking to spend money in the game, you want to make the best purchases for the amount spent. The same can be said for items purchased with in-game currency. Maximizing your resources will help you pull as much as possible.
To start off, let’s cover real money spending.
Money Purchases
I won’t go through every little detail about the different purchases you can make, but here’s a quick priority list for spending. Purchases will be listed from most value to least value.
For the purposes of this article, prices are listed in USD
Inter-Knot Membership (Monthly Pass) – 4.99
Hollow Navigator Supply (Limited Time) - 2.99
New Eridu City Fund (Battle Pass) – 9.99
Eridu Welcome Gift (0.99 Bundle)
Monochrome Market (w/ 2x bonus) – Price varies
Bundle Shop – Price varies
#1 Inter-Knot Membership – $4.99
Without a doubt, the best use of real money is the “Monthly Pass.” This gives you 300 Monochromes upon purchase and 90 Polychromes daily for 30 days, totaling to 3000 gacha currency.
This approximately equates to:
1 pull ≈ $0.266
Just remember to log in every day to get your Polychromes.
#1.5 Hollow Navigator Supply - 2.99
For a limited time, players can purchase a 5-day version of the "Monthly Pass." While not as amazing of a deal, it's still the best bang for your buck pull wise after the monthly.
1 pull ≈ $0.725
#2 New Eridu City Fund – $9.99
The next best value is the Battle Pass. In terms of pulls, a finished Battle Pass will grant 4 Encrypted Master Tape + 780 Polychromes.
This approximately equates to:
1 pull = $1.126
This is definitely a major step up from the Inter-Knot membership, but you also receive a ton of other rewards from the Battle Pass. Just make sure to finish the Battle Pass to get your rewards.
#3 New Player Bundle – $0.99
Next up we have the “New Player Bundle,” or Eridu Welcome Gift. For only $1, you get a Master Tape, Encrypted Master Tape, and an A-Rank W-Engine Selector.
The W-Engine is also nice bonus, we recommend picking The Vault as it's great on Nicole. The main selling point is that you get 1 Encrypted Master Tape for $1. For this value analysis, we aren’t including regular Master Tapes. As time passes, regular Master Tapes don't provide much value, and the focus is all on Limited Pulls.
This approximately equates to:
1 pull = $1
Technically, this bundle gives you better pull value per dollar. However, the Battle Pass also gives a TON of other rewards.
#4 Monochrome Market (+Bonus)
The next best purchase (assuming the priority is Limited Pulls) is to simply purchase Monochromes. The first time you buy Monochromes, you’ll get a 2x bonus for each price tier.
All of the bundles are fairly close in cost per pull, so you can decide which to buy based on your disposable income.
$0.99 - 1 Pull = $1.32
$4.99 - 1 Pull = $1.34
$14.99 - 1 Pull = $1.22
$29.99 - 1 Pull = $1.21
$49.99 - 1 Pull = $1.22
$99.99 - 1 Pull = $1.24
After you purchase a tier, the double bonus will go away, cutting the pull value in half for each bundle.
The bonus will usually come back during the anniversary of the game.
#5 Bundle Shop
Lastly, we have the Bundle shop. Some bundles are purchased with Monochromes, while others are purchased with real money. For the Monochrome Bundles, we we only recommend getting the Lv. 10 Inter-Knot Gift.
This converts your Monochromes into Polychromes 1:1 and gives you bonus rewards like currency/upgrade materials. It’s basically free goodies, but no extra pulls.
When it comes to the paid Bundles, we only recommend purchasing the $15 and $10 Bundles after you deplete all of your double bonuses from the Monochrome shop.
Exclusive Invitation Gift: 1 pull = $1.5
"Fantasy Invitation" Limited Gift: 1 pull = $1.5
Favored Invitation Gift: 1 pull = $2
Once again, for these calculations, we don’t include regular Master Tapes.
Signal Shop
Next up, let’s cover the Signal Shop. When you pull on a banner, you’ll receive in-game currency to purchase items from the Signal Shop.
Here’s a quick overview of the different shop currencies, and our recommendation for what to purchase. The shop refreshes every month, and as a general guideline, purchasing the limited items is the priority.
Fading Signal Shop
Obtain 20 Fading Signals from B-Rank W-Engine pull. (not including the Bangboo Banner)
For the Fading Signal Shop, the priority is to purchase the limited Master Tapes and Encrypted Master Tapes. You will be limited to 5 of each every month, which totals up to 900 Fading Signals.
This approximately takes 50 pulls, which is quite easy to do per month, even as F2P. After your purchase the Tapes, you can buy the Chips (Skill upgrade materials), Level-up materials, or Denny as needed.
Just make sure to save enough to buy the Tapes again next month.
Residual Signal Shop
Obtain 40 Residual Signals from S-Rank Agent/W-Engine pull.
Obtain 8 Residual Signals from A-Rank Agent/W-Engine pull.
Obtain 20 Residual Signals from A-Rank Agent you have maxed out.
For the Residual Signal shop, you should decide for yourself what you want. Just one caveat.
DO NOT buy Master Tapes. That is the only thing from this shop that is not worth purchasing. Encrypted Master Tapes let you pull for Limited Agents/W-Engines, and costs the same as a Master Tape.
Outside of that, we have the “Standard” S-Rank W-Engines and an A-Rank selector.
The Standard S-Rank Engines cost 600 Signals, which is equivalent to 30 pulls. Most of the time, it is NOT recommended to buy these. While useful, the power you gain from limited characters/engines is generally much higher. However, there are edge cases.
For example, Weeping Cradle is very competitive on Yuzuha. So instead of pulling for Metanukimorphosis, you can spend your pulls here for a guaranteed Engine.
However, even Kaboom the Cannon is a fine alternative, and lets you save your signals for a future Limited Agent/Engine.
Secondly, when it comes to A-Rank Agents, it is also very dependent. It costs 140 Signals or 7 pulls to select a free A-Rank Agent. This can be very useful when you need to hit that specific Mindscape, such as Pan Yinhu M6 or Pulchra M6.
While you may get them in the future, and in all likelihood will, if you want to spend just a little bit to get them now, that's perfectly fine and up to you.
Overall, the safe bet is to just get the Encrypted Master Tapes and ignore everything else, unless you have something specific you want.
Bangbuck Shop
The Bangbuck shop is largely similar to the other Signal Shops. When pulling on the Bangboo banner, you’ll get Bangbucks depending on your pulls:
2 Bangbucks: B-Rank W-Engine pull.
10 Bangbucks: A-Rank Bangboo pull.
20 Bangbucks: S-Rank Bangboo pull.
Like the Fading Signal Shop, the priority is the monthly limited Boopons (limit of 5, discounted to 20 Bangbucks). This will cost you 100 Bangbucks a month.
Unlike Agents, we don’t recommend getting the A-Rank Bangboos (200 Bangbucks). Even at the rate of 40 Bangbucks per Boopon, getting the S-Rank Bangboo you want is easier since you can select which one you want on the banner. As such, getting more pulls is the most important.
The Morcal Modified Part is a one-time purchase that upgrades a Bangboo as if you pulled a duplicate. This is approximately equivalent to 30 pulls (40 Bangbucks per Boopon post discount).
This is a worthwhile exchange as the pity for a Bangboo is 80 pulls. You can decide when you want to purchase this to upgrade your Bangboo towards the max copy level.
Master Tape Exchange
Lastly, the Master Tape exchange simply lets you convert your Polychromes to Master Tapes. You can do this in the pull screen, so this is largely unnecessary.
Just never convert Polychromes to Master Tapes, only Encrypted Master Tapes. You’ll earn regular Master Tapes from playing the game, and the Limited Pulls are what contain the strongest Agents/W-Engines.
Skins
When it comes to Skins, the only thing that matters is paid premium currency. This means that the best way to purchase skins is through the Monochrome Market.
You can jump back up to that section to see a more detailed breakdown of which bundles gives the best bang for your buck.
