Glossary

The table above splits into 5 layers: World (lore), Characters, Combat, Gear, and Misc (gacha, currencies, game modes). If you remember one trick: type the exact term you're unsure about into the search box instead of scrolling — it filters instantly by name and by layer. New players should start with the Combat layer first since that's what decides whether your damage lands right; the World layer is fine to read later, it doesn't affect gameplay.

These four name pairs cause players to build the wrong stats or the wrong team, even though the terms sound almost identical:

• Stun (Daze) is not Anomaly: Stun is a shared bar for EVERY agent; when it fills, the enemy freezes in place and takes a fixed chunk of extra damage for a few seconds. Anomaly is an element-specific effect (Burn, Shock, Freeze, Assault, Corruption); when its gauge fills, the enemy suffers a status debuff and damage over time. The two bars run independently — a team can trigger both at once.
• Freeze (Ice) is not Frostbite: Ice causes exactly one effect, Freeze. Frostbite belongs to Frost, an entirely separate damage attribute introduced in later versions, with its own Frostbite effect — two different elements, don't merge them just because the names sound close.
• Disorder is a child of Anomaly, not a new Anomaly type: when an enemy already carries one Anomaly and you land a different element's Anomaly, the two clash into Disorder — a big damage spike based on the original Anomaly plus extra Daze buildup. Anomaly teams are strong because they repeat this loop, not because any single Anomaly hits hard alone.
• Anomaly Mastery raises SPEED, Anomaly Proficiency raises DAMAGE: this is the pair most often mistranslated across languages (Japanese calls the damage stat "Mastery," the opposite of English) — check the 5-language cross-reference in the matching glossary entry instead of guessing from the name.

Reading a character build throws a wall of abbreviated stats at you. Here's the fast version of what each group does:

• ATK/DEF/HP: the three base stats — higher means you hit harder, tank better, or have more health.
• Impact: how fast you fill an enemy's Daze bar — only Stun-role agents should prioritize it, stacking it on DPS is close to wasted points.
• Crit Rate / Crit DMG: frequency and power of critical hits — the classic pair for any regular-damage role.
• PEN / PEN Ratio: penetration, lowering an enemy's effective defense — especially important against high-DEF bosses.
• Anomaly Mastery / Anomaly Proficiency: the Anomaly team's twin stats — re-read the mix-ups section above before allocating either.
• Energy Regen / Energy Generation Rate: how fast the shared Ultimate gauge fills for the whole team.

You don't need to memorize every stat — just know which role each one serves, then look up the matching entry when you need it instead of guessing.

Zenless Zone Zero adds new attributes and specialties with major updates (Frost, Auric Ink, the Rupture specialty, for example) — plenty of old guides online still stop at the original 5-element/5-specialty framework and miss these terms entirely. The table on this page always syncs to the latest official data instead of freezing at one date — check it directly rather than trusting a blog post written for an older version.