Nicole's Hidden Inputs in Zenless Zone Zero 

This opens up the door for a lot more flashy combos and character mechanics. Who knows how many other characters have hidden things like this?

Okay My KEYBOARD Gang! I think I got it, first off, to practice this move, go to VR console, free training and once you are in battle, change the option to the enemy so it doesn't attack you, and has unlimited HP, also change your energy to unlimited too. Now I recommend binding your Ex skill to mouse 4 or 5 as well (if you have buttons on the side if what I mean) to execute this (because by default, the skill button is E so it is REALLY hard to make a full circle while holding E at the same time) after all you have to do a full circle of WDSA or WASD while holding the skill button, so it goes Hold EX ability (in mouse 3) + WDSA + Release Ex

This starting to feels like a fighting game

Her knocked down while shooting animation is an .

I was doing some stopwatch testing. Nicole's M1 makes her energy field last longer the longer she charges her EX Special. if you enter the sitting animation during her held EX Special, it will actually extend the duration of her charging animation. If you time it well, you get about an extra 2 seconds of duration on the energy field, plus some extended muzzle AOE damage. 2 seconds doesn't sound like much, but the duration of her energy field is about 4 seconds, so it's around a 50% boost in duration. This is also a de facto boost to the uptime of her passive, which goes from about 7.5s with energy field to 9.5s.

I did some testing with keyboard and mouse, and it is easy with the default key bindings. (Sitting on suitcase combo) While holding left mouse button, press W - D - S - A in quick succession. Keep holding left mouse button. (Sitting on ground combo) While holding left mouse button, press W - D - S - A in quick succession. Release left mouse button.

would love these for more characters. a few more hidden strings/tech have been found, i think for anby. i'm willing to bet a lot of characters have unlisted moves and special inputs tho

So basically releasing the skill button when the circle flashed can give you instant ex and dash cancelling it for damage This game is SAUCY!

I play with nekomata and sometimes you can completely remove the stun (or recovery frame/animation) after an attack by dashing in the same frame of the hit, like EX skill: exactly when the colorful X animation of the attacks shows up, nekomata should touch the ground and then continue but you can skip that by dashing. But I'm still not sure about that

Ok this is actually genius on so many levels. While this is mostly just an animation change, let’s say they want to add a new character that has alternate moves. Normally when designing a game you’d just add these new moves to a new button, but because of mobile Hoyo is likely sticking to the simple 2 button attack layout. Not to mention, even on controller most of the button space is taken up. But if you want to make characters with new moves and abilities, instead of adding a new button, each character can have unique motion inputs like fighting games. It’s strange to see motion inputs work in a 3d space but this proves that it can work. There’s already something similar with charge attacks on characters that have button hold mechanics, but imagine a character that has a completely different attack if you do an input.

Makes me wonder if there are any other characters with secret inputs

There HAS to be more hidden inputs. Unless i need to finish a fight quickly as a requirement, i always try to finish the fight stylishly and ever since i learned that nicole has this hidden input i’ve been trying to use it as the finishing blow.

I play on mobile and I keep wondering why Nicole sometimes sits down or stands up while releasing her skill. Might try to experiment later

Hey, first guide I've seen since playing the game, I was very used to QTE characters thanks to PGR, Wuwa and HI3, it's interesting that's there is a delay mechanic tech with i-frames instead of just dodging, this'll help diversify my playstyle, looking forward for more guides!

I would love to see this in a team! I noticed Nicole tends to hold her black hole a little longer when you make her shoot a black hole and then switch to someone else.

Whoa. First off, this a cool find. Does this happen to be explained somewhere in-game? I wonder if other characters have this too. Second, nice editing. It really felt like I was watching a character tutorial for a fighting game. Especially with the Auto Attack Starters section.

I think if the developer adds more of this type of grimick (not just circle wasd but other input) it could make the combat cooler.

You're able to use the knocked down state of the fall over to call the assist help attack too

Great vid, very direct and to the point.

theres one for corrin as well! her dash attack and dodge counter can be hold down for more damage

Any chance you can do this for each character? Been looking for full character breakdowns Seriously, no one else is doing this. You can have a popular character breakdown series.

are yall also experiencing ghost input when playing controller via bluetooth to pc? can someone suggest what to do

I wonder if there is something like this for Rina. Rina, as a character, has the amazing ability to move while attacking cause she's a puppet user, the problem is that if you enter a parry with her, she can end up doing a bowing animation that takes away a lot of DPS time. But sometimes, I don't trigger that bowing animation, so I wonder what the tech is.

Do i need to hold the ex first or i can just buffer spd then ex?

Now this sure deserves a like

I heard she had hidden combos so I tried to execute them but never could trigger a single one. Maybe tomorrow I just watch the vid to see exactly what inputs to do. Impossible to find naturally.

is there a benefit to doing this? Does it skip the charge time or something?

do all characters have some secret fighting game input?

the fighting game notation yess

NO SHOT THEY PUT COMMAND INPUTS IN A MOBILE GACHA GAME

very cool techs. is the longer when she falls down?

Subscribing so i can see if you can find other hidden inputs!

I’ve heard nothing but that ZZZ is a mindless mashing game then I see this video.

I play this game for hours and barely found out about training mode just to farm for some pulls Didn’t realize I miss nearly all of the playable characters’ mechanics xDD

Nice

Would love to see those for Ben next. Wonder if it works on mobile though

Man make more these for others too.

How does this work on mobile? Or is it PC only?

It astounds me how people think this stuff is tech. The nicole thing is literally an easter egg animation change on the basic function of the kit. And everything else being mentioned in the comments are literally the basic functions of the respective characters the game teaches you in the agent part, or just stuff from extra copies. This will 100% lead to the same people flipping into "ZZZ is bad" because the depth they imagined with these is literally nonexistent.

What does this mean on mouse and keyboard man.

This do anything different is it just for show?

Wtf is full circle on pc

I wish there was more focus on the action rather than the stupid TV sh17 they make you go through.

This game has a good amount of fighting game terms, but i really doubt the gameplay will have more depth to it. The only character wich requieres a little bit more skill than just mashing is Soldier 76.

The reasoning for me to skip Ellen and save for Zhu Yuan is so I can play her with Nicole in a fun Ether team. Suck them up with Nicole and then rain them down with Zhu Yuan’s Ether shotgun shells.

yaeh, I know, why does it show here, also this is a console version? wth

you guys should really read the move set menu for every character you’re getting

Why dont they tell us this lol

whats the point of this, exactly

imagine using nicole in the first place when you got billy

controller :/

Looks like they do different damage too. For me: Normal special tapped muzzle flare/impact: 165 (Lasting field, 78/tick) Held muzzleflare/impact: 165 (Windup: 82/tick, lasting field 78/tick) 360 tapped: 413(Lasting field: 78/tick) 360 held:382 (Windup: 76/tick, Lasting field: 72/tick) (numbers collected using a 377 atk 5% crit 50% crit dam LV10 Nicole with 2* lv20 Vault versus lv10 Hati in training room) Edit: Also worth noting, for keyboard input, you only need to input WDSA-- You don't need to input back to W. Delay your circle input slightly and try to do it as she brings the case down into normal charged attack position (If doing this using held M1).