Zidane

Character Notes & Recommendations

Summon Board Passive selections:

• Odin choose 3 / 6 / 7

• Bahamut choose 4 / 6 / 7

• Usuals: 

  • Ifrit, Shiva, Ramuh, Brothers 4 / 5 / 7

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

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

Additional Weapons

• Verdant Slasher: Party ATK & mBRV +10% for 3T after debuffing

  • Acquire through Item Exchange > Power Token Exchange

• Manikin Weapon: Adds S1 BRV DMG +10% & S2 40% BRV gain

  • Acquire by finishing Act 2, Chapter 5 and going to Chapter 5.8

  • Acquire through Item Exchange > Power Token Exchange

Sphere Recommendations 

• A Sphere - Focus on ATK and BRV DMG. He can hit weakness and often breaks units for an easy condition.

• E Spheres - He can boost his own ATK (and mBRV) with spheres after he places debuffs like Yuffie, Seymour, Emp, etc.

How to Play Notes

• He's a fast utility unit with delete, debuffs and limited healing/battery.

  • Along with being fast, he gets free turns from breaking. You can't get another free turn from breaking. 

  • You can use an instant turn rate ability like Mug/AA to go again, and then break & delete another enemy, to essentially get 4 turns in a row, 2 of them free.

  • NOTE: You don't want to go too fast in FR time, but thanks to FR Retain you can go as fast as you want after having a good FR time! If he's a favorite, he needs FE50 a bit more than other units (as does his team) to make the most of FR retain if you can't kill in FR time.

• Stellar Circle 5+ (S1) is mainly single target focused and it refreshes Thief’s Mark, Thievery and his SPD down debuff. 

• Free Energy+ (S2) is his best normal skill and it refreshes Thief’s Mark, Thievery and his DEF down debuff. 

• Booster 8+ (EX) initiates a launch on the main target while making all other enemies ready to launch. Booster 8+ also gives you access to the BRV variant, Mug for 1 use.

  • Mug (transformed BRV) is an instant turn rate BRV+HP attack that does not consume BRV, gravities, and gives Zidane a free instant turn. After use it reverts to BRV++. The free instant turn is best used on Free Energy+ if you're not in force time.

• Solution 9 (LD) unbreaks the target before attacking, enduring a delay through break. It also applies Zidane’s overhead, A Place to Call Home. This overhead provides numerous stat buffs but most importantly allows Zidane to delete an opponent’s turn whenever he breaks them as well as gaining a free turn(read the above caveats to this). If that wasn’t enough, it also gives Zidane a special 1 times use HP+ attack and a free ability use next turn.

  • HP+ (Solution 9) will unbreak the target similarly to how Solution 9 does, ensuring another break and turn delete. Keep in mind that if you use this immediately following Solution 9, you will not get another turn as you are already in a free turn. This HP+ is best saved for emergency uses in case breaks do not come easily on Zidane’s turns due to mistakes or boss mechanics allowing you to have an emergency break. Just do not forget to use it before using Solution 9 again. Oh, and another free ability use just in case this wasn’t useful enough.