Zenless Zone Zero: Comprehensive Bangboo Tier List

In Zenless Zone Zero, Bangboo serve as essential companions that provide invaluable support during combat, enhancing your team's effectiveness with active skills, passive abilities, and chain attacks. Identifying which Bangboo offer the best utility can dramatically improve your success in battles, making it vital to prioritize the most impactful ones.

However, choosing the right Bangboo goes beyond just their base stats and rarity. It’s important to assess how well each Bangboo synergizes with your team’s composition and strategy.

Some Bangboo excel in general utility, performing well in a variety of situations, while others offer specific boosts tailored to particular elements or attacks, often based on your team’s setup. This tier list categorizes Bangboo based on their overall performance, helping you easily identify the best choices for your team.

Please note that this tier list could shift with future updates, as the current pool of characters limits how effectively some Bangboo can perform. The ideal Bangboo for your team depends heavily on the characters you have available.

Tier 0: The Best Bangboo

These top-tier Bangboo consist mainly of S-Rank companions, each proving highly effective based on their current usability in the game.

Amillion  

Amillion works exceptionally well for teams featuring at least two Cunning Hare characters, such as Nekomata, Billy, or Nicole. It’s one of the best free-to-play (F2P) Bangboo options, particularly for players who have obtained Nekomata. Its synergy with starter characters makes it a standout choice.

Butler  

This Bangboo is easy to utilize, especially with F2P character Corin in your team. Even without activating its passive ability, Butler can provide energy to your active character, making it versatile. It becomes even more powerful when paired with characters like Rina or Lycaon from the standard pool, and it’s a great asset for Ellen-focused teams as well.

Sharkboo  

A standout Bangboo for Ellen teams, Sharkboo also works well with Lycaon and Soukaku when paired with any other DPS character. It’s a reliable option that enhances team synergy.

Safety  

This Bangboo shines in teams with Belobog Heavy Industries characters, as it supports both Fire and Electric attributes. Its ability to work across multiple elements without requiring mono-element teams makes it highly versatile, especially when using at least two characters from this faction.

Resonaboo  

Similar to Butler, Resonaboo offers general utility, including crowd control. It pairs especially well with Zhu Yuan and Nicole, increasing its effectiveness. However, due to the current lack of other Ether-element characters, its usefulness is somewhat limited for now.

Tier 0.5: Versatile Options

This group includes both A-Rank and S-Rank Bangboo, known for their flexibility across different team compositions.

Rocketboo  

The best choice for teams featuring Soldier 11, especially when paired with Koleda. Rocketboo supports strong DPS units and can lead to powerful mono-Fire team compositions, even early on.

Plugboo  

As Electric teams can now be fully built with mono-element compositions, Plugboo is a great asset. It works well with strong characters like Rina and Grace, along with F2P options like Anby.

Magnetiboo  

Magnetiboo provides valuable crowd control and requires only one Anomaly character to activate its passive ability, making it easy to use in a wide range of team setups.

Bangvolver  

A strong choice for physical teams, although it’s somewhat limited by the current availability of only four physical characters, three of which are attackers. Despite this, it remains a solid pick for the right team.

Booressure  

This Bangboo generates energy and only requires one support character in your team to activate its passive ability. Its energy regeneration makes it a great option for boosting your team’s effectiveness.

Exploreboo 

Offering a combination of healing, shielding, or energy boosts, Exploreboo shines in defensive team setups. Although defense may seem unnecessary in early content, it proves invaluable in more difficult challenges.

Tier 1: Niche Bangboo

These Bangboo offer less overall utility but can still be useful in specific situations or team compositions, especially with core upgrades.

Avocaboo  

A healing Bangboo that can help in tough battles. However, its healing ability is limited to 15 uses per combat, making it less effective in long, drawn-out fights.

Penguinboo  

Similar to Sharkboo but with lower multipliers, Penguinboo isn’t as powerful and has better alternatives in Ellen-focused teams.

Paperboo  

This Bangboo creates a shield if there’s a defense character in the team. However, with Ben being the only current option, Paperboo’s utility is very restricted.

Electroboo  

An A-Rank version of Plugboo with lower multipliers. If you have core upgrades, it can perform similarly, but there are better options in S-Rank for gacha pulls.

Tier 2: Limited Utility

Bangboo in this tier have limited usefulness, and it’s best to avoid investing too many resources into upgrading them for now.

Devilboo  

Its lower ranking is due to the scarcity of Ether characters. Additionally, compared to Resonaboo, it lacks crowd control, making it a less desirable option overall.

Boollseye  

While Boollseye can be used by characters like Zhu Yuan, Grace, and Billy, it doesn't provide significant buffs, and these characters have better options available.

Cryboo  

Cryboo is outclassed by other Bangboo such as Rocketboo and Safety, making it a less attractive option for most teams.

Sumoboo  

While Sumoboo can be useful for stunning enemies, it’s better to focus on Bangboo that provide team-wide benefits or support your main DPS.

Bagboo  

Though versatile since it works with any attack character, Bagboo doesn’t offer additional utility beyond damage, making it less impactful overall.

Choosing the right Bangboo can make a huge difference in Zenless Zone Zero, so take the time to align your Bangboo selection with your team’s needs and strategies. With this tier list, you’ll be better prepared to harness the full potential of your companions!