[Zenless Zone Zero] Astralyn & Lighter VS Abyssal Enforcer Hugo ~ Shiyu Defense 7 (No Damage)
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🦋 Battle: 0:00
Shiyu Defense Critical Node: Seventh Frontier 1st Half | 28/3/25 ~ 11/4/25 Rotation
Hugo is such a fun fight (easily the best boss in the game to date in my opinion) with a fantastic battle theme, and now you can fight him whenever you want? This version is unfortunately missing Jun Fukuyama's voice acting compared to its Story Mode counterpart, but still, sign me up!
Hugo being weak to Fire means I can use Astra, Evelyn and Lighter, which is my favorite team to play as and also a great opportunity to practice and improve my gameplay since Evelyn is a more technical character that I'm still learning about. While there are a few things to refine and it can be cleared faster, I've managed to optimize the fight, learn some new tricks along the way and save over 30 seconds compared to my original attempts, so I'm proud in that regard!
As for the battle itself, the first thing to do is clear a wave of minions before Hugo appears. My goal for this part is to have Astra use two Chain Attacks so her Ultimate is ready during Hugo's first Stun window, which is also the reason why the beginning was the most unreliable part of the fight. Most resets happened here because it was difficult to consistenly group all enemies together, even after Evelyn's Chain Attack, and I'd lose time going after the stragglers, or they were defeated too quickly and I couldn't get the second Chain Attack.
Once the minions are down, it's time to face Hugo. I find he's such an interesting boss compared to everyone else because he can turn the game mechanics against you, using Vital View to dodge and Parrying to block and retaliate instantly. You have to react fast whenever Hugo breaks free. It feels involved but without being overwhelming.
Putting enough pressure on Hugo will force him to use Vital View to slow you down and he will lunge at you a total of three times. These attacks can be either dodged or Parried, and successfully using either option for all three will greatly increase his Stun gauge as well as leaving him vulnerable for a short moment.
As a result Hugo is somewhat easy to Stun but he recovers extremely fast, in around 7 seconds. Thankfully, Lighter's Collapse debuff prevents Hugo's Stun gauge from depleting for 3 seconds, so I have to make the most during this timeframe and deal as much damage as possible, courtesy of Evelyn's Ultimate and Chain Attacks.
However, as my damage output isn't enough to defeat Hugo in a single Stun cycle, I prefer to set up some resources for Evelyn and be better prepared to repeat the process one more time to finish the fight.
An improvement that can be made is that it's possible to use an additional Chain Attack during the first Stun window if I were to do a Garrote extension and quickly cancel it with Evelyn's Ultimate for an extra Burning Tether Point. I did test this route a bit and while the extra damage is welcome, the downsides are that I couldn't always fit everything before Hugo recovered, and that Evelyn's resources are more scarce for the second Stun.
✨ Stats & Builds: 2:09
• Evelyn M0 with Starlight Engine R5
↳ Woodpecker Electro 4pc + Puffer Electro 2pc
My Evelyn is in a somewhat weird spot because I'm not running a Crit Rate% W-Engine. Sure, I could give her Marcato Desire but that in turn gimps Harumasa, which isn't ideal either. Instead, I focused on building that stat with Disc substats to reach her 80% in-combat Crit Rate requirement for stronger Chain Attacks and Ultimates, even if it came at the expense of other stats like Crit Damage.
Although Evelyn doesn't deal as much damage as she's supposed to, I preferred to prioritize consistency instead, with a total of 93.2% Crit Rate during combat.
That being said, I'm setting resources aside to get her W-Engine once there's a rerun so Evelyn can achieve her true potential. And for the pretty, fiery moths effect too, of course.
• Lighter M0 with Hellfire Gears R1
↳ Shockstar Disco 4pc + Inferno Metal 2pc
Given that Lighter has decent on-field time, Inferno Metal is chosen as his 2 piece set to improve his damage output a bit, although I'm considering changing it to Swing Jazz once I get better discs.
• Astra M0 with Bashful Demon R5
↳ Astral Voice 4pc + Swing Jazz 2pc
My Astra falls a bit short of the ~3429 Atk benchmark to maximize her buff because I haven't had the best luck rolling Atk%/flat Atk on her discs, but she's still the best Support in the game nonetheless! Her girlfriend and sunglasses pal couldn't ask for a better teammate.
Lastly, this is a bit different compared to what I've uploaded for Zenless so far. Trust Events and the like are still going to be my main focus, but I might upload videos like this every now and then if there's anything interesting to show! At any rate, I hope you enjoyed and thanks for watching!
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