Zack

Character Notes & Recommendations

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Summon Board Passive selections:

• Shiva choose 3 / 5 / 7 

• Ramuh choose 3 / 5 / 7 

• Odin choose 3 / 4 / 7

• Bahamut choose 3 / 4 / 6

• Usuals: 

  • Ifrit, Brothers 4 / 5 / 7

  • Leviathan, Pandemonium, Alexander, Diabolos 4 / 5 / 6

• For more details and help with summons, check Summon Hub!

Sphere Recommendations

• A Spheres: BRV DMG or ATK to make him hit even harder. Since he ignores DEF, BRV DMG will help fight reductions more.

• B Sphere: Snow, Gladio or Basch's are all good.

How-to-Play Notes

• Open with Zack's EX to get his shield up or his BT finisher if it's time to start tanking hits like a champ. 

• Tl;dr: Zack’s LD enables Zack to buff the party’s defenses making him a decent choice as a tank for aoe fights on top of his strong single target tanking capabilities. His single target tanking does rely on lock so any enemies lock immune will hurt his viability as he gains considerable damage when being targeted or vs an ALL attack. Most important things for Zack are to maintain Lock and his overhead, Embrace Your Dreams. Zack's FR revolves around his own turn as allies aren't raising the FR Bonus much and only Zack gets the HP DMG & Limit from his FR effect. It makes a great FR Echo though!

• Chain Slash (S1) will trigger twice when Zack is targeted and grants Zack turn rate up and inflicts Lock on all targets.

• Rush Assault (S2) ignores defense and grants Zack a stat boost and HP regen and extends his own buffs by 2 turns. It can also trigger 1 iteration of Chain Slash against enemies targeting him.

• Apocalypse (EX) inflicts lock on all targets and gives Zack a BRV barrier that absorbs BRV damage until broken.

• Meteor Shots (LD) heals the party based on damage dealt, grants a free ability use, inflicts Lock, and grants a +1 to his Embrace Your Dreams overhead and extends its duration to 12 turns. Embrace Your Dreams gains stacks after taking BRV or HP damage (including 0's reduced by his barrier) up to 5 stacks. This grants Zack stat boosts to damage and grants the party HP regen and reduces HP and BRV damage taken.

• Zack's free skill use is likely best on Rush Assault. 

• The Price of Freedom (BT) allows Zack to redirect AoE HP damage toward himself while also being unable to die from normal HP attakcs. He also provides the party with Aura versions of his BRV Barrier (his shield buff, but not as taking up a buff slot) along with other offensive auras.

  • BT phase: S1 -> LD -> S2 -> EX -> S2 -> FR