Hilde Best Build Guide

Last updated: 19/August/2026

Introduction

Best guide and build for Hilde from Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Hilde is a 5✦ character from the Ranger class and Instinct attribute.

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Update tracker

Last review update

Season 3

Last build update

Season 3

Last profile update*

N/A

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Kit

Review

Epiphanies

Gear

Deck & Teams

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Cards

Starting Cards:

Multishot

Attack

60% Damage to all enemies.

Bowguard

Skill

100% Shield.

Quiver Reload

Skill

[Lead]

Create 3 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile.

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Epiphany Cards:

Plasma Rain

Attack

60% Damage and 2 Ionization to all enemies.

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Draw & Release

Skill

Draw 2 Attack Card(s) of this unit.
+50% Damage Amount to those cards for 1 turn until used.

Big Game Ranger

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

On Hit, 2 Zero In.

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Vortex Arrow

Attack

[Unique]

Draw 3 120% Damage to all enemies.
+50% Damage Amount for each Attack Card Drawn through an ability this turn (max 8 cards).

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Generated Cards:

Homing Arrow

Attack

[Exhaust]

120% Extra Attack to the enemy with the lowest HP.
Draw 1.
Attunement: Activate this card.

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Homing Arrow (Fracture)

Attack

[Exhaust]

50% Extra Attack to all enemies.
1 Fracture.
Draw 1.
Attunement: Activate this card.

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Homing Arrow (Grand)

Attack

[Exhaust]

500% Extra Attack to the enemy with the highest HP.
Draw 1.
Attunement: Activate this card.

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Ego Skill:

Matrix Overlay

Ego Skill

+25% Weakness Damage Amount taken to all enemies for 1 turn(s).
Draw 3 Attack Card(s) of this unit.
Apply Weakness Attack to those cards for 1 turn.

Epiphany Variants:

Epiphany cards are special evolutions for the cards you can obtain while playing the roguelike mode. Only some cards in the character's deck can get Epiphany effects. Since there's quite a lot of them, we don't display them by default - press the button below to show them.

Quiver Reload I

Skill

[Lead]

Create 4 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile, then Draw 1 of those cards.

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Quiver Reload II

Skill

[Lead]

Create 3 Homing Arrow (Fracture) in Draw Pile.

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Quiver Reload III

Skill

[Lead]

Create 1 Homing Arrow (Grand) in Draw Pile.

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Quiver Reload IV

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

Create 2 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile.
When an enemy is defeated, create 2 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile (5 time(s) per turn).

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Quiver Reload V

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

At the start of the turn, create 3 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile.
Homing Arrow cannot be a target of Turn Draw.

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Plasma Rain I

Attack

[Lead]

100% Damage and 2 Ionization to all enemies.
Attunement: 2 Ionization to a random enemy.

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Plasma Rain II

Skill

[Lead]

3 Ionization to all enemies.
Draw 1.

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Plasma Rain III

Attack

100% Damage and 3 Ionization to all enemies.
Defeat: 3 Fracture to all enemies (max 1 time).

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Plasma Rain IV

Attack

[Ignition]

180% Piercing Damage and 3 Ionization to all enemies.

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Plasma Rain V

Attack

120% Damage to all enemies.
Draw 1 Attack Card(s) of this unit.
Streak: Decrease Cost by 1.

Draw & Release I

Skill

[Lead]

Draw 2 Attack Card(s) of this unit +80% Damage Amount to those cards for 1 turn until used.

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Draw & Release II

Skill

[Lead]

Draw 2 For the next 3 Extra Attack(s) of this unit, 1 Fracture to all enemies.

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Draw & Release III

Skill

Move all cards in hand to Draw Pile, then Draw for each moved.

Draw & Release IV

Skill

Draw 2 Lead cards Decrease Cost of those cards by 1 for 1 turn until used.

Draw & Release V

Skill

Increase Damage Amount of the next Attack Card of this unit by 30% for each card Drawn through an ability this turn (max 300%).

Big Game Ranger I

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

On Hit, 3 Zero In.

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Big Game Ranger II

Upgrade

[Unique][Initiation]

Draw 2.
On Hit, 2 Zero In.

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Big Game Ranger III

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

On Hit, 2 Zero In.
When the Attunement effect is activated, 2 Zero In.

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Big Game Ranger IV

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

When a harmful effect is applied through an ability, 5 Zero In.

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Big Game Ranger V

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

At the start of the turn, 30 Zero In.
Unable to use Attack Cards of this unit.

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Potential

Epiphany Bonus

Potential 1

When entering Chaos, obtain 1 random Rare Card with an activated Epiphany.

Basic Card Upgrade

Potential 2

Increase Damage, Shield, and Healing Amounts of Basic Cards by 2/20%.

Common Card Upgrade

Potential 3

Increase Damage, Shield, and Healing Amounts of Common Cards by 2/20%.

3-1

Basic Card Proficiency

Potential 3-1

+20% Damage Amount to the Multishot card.

Unique Card Upgrade

Potential 4

Increase Damage, Shield, and Healing Amounts of Unique Cards by 2/20%.

Critical Damage Proficiency

Potential 5

+2.4/12% Critical Damage.

5-1

Basic Card Proficiency

Potential 5-1

+5% Damage Amount to Hilde's Multishot. If Hilde's Extra Damage (stat) is 6% or higher, add an additional +5% to the modifier.

5-2

Divine Epiphany Adaptation

Potential 5-2

Increases the chance for a Divine Epiphany to appear by 25%.

Critical Chance Proficiency

Potential 6

+2/10% Critical Chance.

Unique Stat Upgrade

Potential 7

+7% Instinct Attribute Damage Amount. If Hilde's Extra Damage (stat) is 6% or higher, add an additional +8% to the modifier.

Manifest Ego (dupes)

Sleeping Memory

Manifest Ego 1

Change the following effects for Vortex Arrow:

Increase Draw by 1, +60% Damage Amount, and change the Damage Amount increase for each Attack Card Drawn through an ability this turn by to +90%.

Awakening Memory

Manifest Ego 2

At the start of battle, +10% to Hilde’s Critical Chance.

At the start of the turn or when an enemy is defeated, gain 1 Double Tap.

Double Tap: When Homing Arrow is activated, 300% Extra Attack to the enemy with the lowest Health, and decrease Double Tap by 1 (max 5 stacks).

Vivid Memory

Manifest Ego 3

Change the Weakness Damage Amount taken effect of Matrix Overlay from +15% to +25%.

Inner Memory

Manifest Ego 4

For each Hit an ally performs, gain 1 Find the Gap.

Find the Gap: Increase Damage Amount of Hilde's Extra Attacks by 5% (max 8 stacks).

Complete Memory

Manifest Ego 5

Increase the level of [Basic Card Upgrade], [Signature Card Upgrade], and [Common Card Upgrade] in Potentials by 3.

Liberated Memory

Manifest Ego 6

When Find the Gap reaches 8 stacks, +15% additional Critical Chance to Instinct-Attribute allies.

Increase the max stack of Zero In to 100, and at the start of the turn, gain 15 Zero In.

For each stack of Zero In, +1% Critical Damage to Zero In. (max +45%)

Stats (level 60)

317

DEF

141

ATK

515

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Introduction

Performance Profile

ST Damage [3/5]

AoE Damage [4/5]

AP Efficiency [3/5]

Utility [3/5]

Hilde is a 5-Star Void Ranger that provides backup support for their team, providing solid draw power whilst scattering the battlefield with a barrage of arrows to lower their enemies defences. Hilde never misses the mark and can still shoot to kill as well.

Hilde’s strategy revolves around her various different “Homing Arrows” that she’s able to create from her “Quiver Reload” Skill-Card. Hilde is unable to activate these cards manually, however, whenever they’re drawn from the deck they will immediately activate due to the “Attunement” effect, when played - cause Hilde to draw a card from the deck, allowing Hilde to cycle through the deck whilst still outputting some considerable damage of their own.

Hilde is looking to be paired with other DPS units who can leverage additive damage buffs to their advantage. Due to “Ionization” providing additional damage opposed to a multiplicative damage multiplier, units who fire many smaller attacks or multi-hit will be able to ramp up their damage with Hilde on the team. Hilde also doesn’t demand a ton of AP to function effectively either, thanks to many of her cards featuring the [Lead] tag and “Homing Arrow” self activating, this can help alleviate her AP requirements to allow you to dedicate more resources to the primary carry on the team.

When deciding on a supportive unit for Hilde to be paired with, units who can help supplement Hilde with additional draw and additive damage buffs will help keep things moving throughout a fight. Even though Hilde has a solid amount of draw on her own, pairing her with another unit who can also draw cards will ensure you’re able to continually cycle into “Homing Arrow” to activate its “Attunement” effect to draw more cards and so on. Because “Homing Arrow” has a lower base damage value, additive damage bonuses will help with her damage output, especially when using her AoE Attack-Cards.

Hilde can slot quite comfortably into most teams when being brought into Chaos or Sortie. Hilde is quite AP friendly and won’t take away from the rest of the team's resources. Hilde has multiple different sources of AoE damage to deal with encounters that have multiple enemies, whilst still having considerable single target damage to deal with boss encounters thanks to her “Zero In” buff.

Hilde’s main weakness comes from being split between a DPS and a Support style character. Hilde’s own damage output is split up between Extra-Attacks, DoT Damage, weaker hitting AoE attacks and stronger single-target nukes. This can make things awkward when wanting to capitalize on synergies that typically favor one of these styles, opposed to all of them all at once.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Considerable draw power throughout her kit.
AP Friendly.
Solid source of AoE damage.

Cons

Inconsistent sources of damage, split between DoT / Extra-Attacks / Multi-Hits / Larger singular attacks that can make it difficult to specialize into.
Even though Hilde has solid AoE damage, there isn’t really any content that demands it currently.

Ratings

The ratings below are based on the Season Save Data, Chaos Manifestation, and Great Rift modes. Each of the modes values different mechanics, so some characters may shine in one of them, while being underwhelming in the other.

DPS

Chaos Mode

T0.5

Season Save Data

Great Rift

Support

Chaos Mode

Season Save Data

Great Rift

Key Mechanics

Hilde’s playstyle circulates around creating copies of “Homing Arrow”. “Homing Arrow” is an Attack-Card that cannot be directly activated, it activates whenever it’s drawn due to the additional [Attunement] effect. It fires an Extra-Attack Damage to the enemy with the lowest HP and will draw a card. “Homing Arrow” also has the [Exhaust] tag which will remove it from the deck afterwards. Hilde wants to create as many cards of these as possible to continue firing off Extra-Attacks whilst drawing additional cards to fuel her teammates' plays.

Hilde has 3 different types of “Homing Arrow” available to her via the various epiphanies offered to her “Quiver Reload” [Upgrade] card. Each of these cards function quite similarly but each offer a different playstyle. Every variant of “Homing Arrow” has the [Exhaust] tag.

Homing Arrow - The default variant of “Homing Arrow”. This variant is the most vanilla option Hilde is presented with but is also the variant that can be created the most.

Homing Arrow (Fracture) - Homing Arrow (Fracture) is the AoE variant. Still drawing 1 card when activated, instead deals 50% Extra-Attack Damage to all enemies opposed to a single target and also inflicts 1 stack of “Fracture” to all enemies.
- Fracture - Fracture is a stacking debuff that stacks up to a maximum of 30 times. Fracture activates at the end of the turn - dealing 40% DoT Damage for each stack of Fracture on that enemy, when activated it will decrease “Fracture” stacks by half. This variant allows Hilde to function as a damage over time unit, whilst also offering a consistent source of Harmful Effects to be inflicted on her enemies. Note : When activated, this will deal one instance of 1200% DoT Damage to the enemy if they have 30 stacks of Fracture. Unlike Agony, where they would be inflicted with 20 different instances of damage.
Homing Arrow (Grand) - Homing Arrow (Grand) is the hardest hitting version, dealing a much higher 500% Extra-Attack to the enemy with the highest HP. Still drawing a card when played as well. This variant is the least accessible as “Quiver Reload” only creates 1 copy of this card in your Draw Pile. This offers more upfront damage but less potential draw power.
Zero In (Buff) - “Zero In” is granted whenever Hilde hits an enemy when under the effects of her [Upgrade] Card “Big Game Ranger”. By default, stacks up to a maximum of 60 times and activates at the of the turn to deal 35% Extra-Attack Damage to the enemy with the highest HP per stack of “Zero In”. This is a huge portion of Hilde’s single target damage, dealing up to 1900% damage when at max stacks.
Ionization (Debuff) - “Ionization” is inflicted by Hilde’s “Plasma Rain” card. “Ionization” can stack up to 12 times, lasts indefinitely and causes enemies inflicted with this debuff to take +8% additional damage taken for each stack of “Ionization”. Hilde benefits from this slightly more than her allies, dealing an additional +4% to enemies inflicted with “Ionization” for a total of +12% per stack.

Potential

CRIT RATE% = CRIT DMG% >= Unique Card DMG% > Common Card DMG% = Basic Card DMG%

3-1: Hilde’s 3-1 Potential increases the damage dealt by Multishot by an additional +20%. Primarily useful for some extra-damage when early in Chaos or Sortie prior to Multishot being removed.
5-1: Hilde’s 5-1 Potential grants an additional +5% Damage to Multishot, and if Hilde’s Extra-Damage Stat is 6% or higher, adds an additional +5% to that modifier for a total of +10%. Again, primarily useful for Sortie and Chaos.
7: Hilde’s 7 Potential grants +7% Instinct Attribute Damage, increasing by an additional +8% if her Extra-Damage stat is 6% or higher. Quite a solid damage increase that should be prioritized.

Dupes Review

Base

Base performance of the character.

102.03%

Ego 1

Hilde’s Sleeping Memory Ego Manifestation improves her Mythic Card, increasing the draw count by 1 and increasing the damage scaling value for each card drawn this turn by an extra +30%. A pretty solid increase to her damage scaling whilst further improving the already incredible draw power.

116.20%

Ego 2

Hilde’s Awakening Memory Ego Manifestation provides her passive effects during the battle, Firstly this grants Hilde an additional +10% critical strike chance at the start of battle, additionally it grants Hilde a stack of “Double Tap” at the start of the turn or whenever an enemy is defeated. “Double Tap” triggers when “Homing Arrow” activates, Hilde will fire a 300% Damage Extra-Attack at the enemy with the lowest health and removes 1 stack of Double Tap. Provides a decent amount of critical strike chance and improves Hilde’s damage even further. “Double Tap” will prove most useful in Chaos or Sortie content.

116.20%

Ego 3

Hilde’s Vivid Memory Ego Manifestation bolsters her Ego Skill, increasing the Weakness Damage bonus from +15% to +25%. Nothing overly game changing but slightly amplifies Hilde’s team's damage capabilities.

128.62%

Ego 4

Hilde’s Inner Memory Ego Manifestation provides a passive effect during the battle, whenever an Ally performs a Hit - Hilde gains 1 stack of “Find the Gap”. “Find the Gap” increases the damage dealt by Hilde’s Extra-Attacks by 5% per stack, up to a maximum of 8. Again, nothing overly game changing but increases Hilde’s own damage output decently.

144.03%

Ego 5

Hilde’s Complete Memory Ego Manifestation is your standard Potential increase. Provides some slight extra damage output.

157.50%

Ego 6

Hilde’s final Ego to be unlocked, Liberated Memory - provides Hilde’s “Find the Gap” buff an additional effect upon reaching 8 stacks, granting +15% additional critical strike chance to all Instinct-Attribute allies. Furthermore, increases the maximum stack count of “Zero In” to 100 and grants 15 stacks of “Zero In” at the start of each turn. Finally, it also provides +1% critical damage per stack of “Zero in” to “Zero In”s end of turn damage. A pretty stacked Ego that provides a huge amount of crit while also increasing her single target damage.

Cards & Ego Skill

Matrix Overlay

Ego Skill

+25% Weakness Damage Amount taken to all enemies for 1 turn(s).
Draw 3 Attack Card(s) of this unit.
Apply Weakness Attack to those cards for 1 turn.

Matrix Overlay

Matrix Overlay is Hilde’s Ego Skill, it has a relatively low cost of 4 Ego Points to use, upon use - it will increase damage dealt by Weakness Attacks by an additional +15% for 1 turn, additional it draws 3 of Hilde’s own Attack Cards and granting them Weakness Attack. This is an incredibly useful Ego Skill for the cost, as this provides further synergy with Hilde’s “Homing Arrow” cards, can turn into a generic draw 3 for 4 Ego Points whilst also dishing out some solid damage.

Multishot

Attack

60% Damage to all enemies.

Multishot

Multishot is Hilde’s starting Basic Attack-card, dealing 60% damage to all enemies for 1 AP. The low damage ratio is off-set by this being an AoE Basic Attack-Card, should be removed in refined Save Data content.

Bowguard

Skill

100% Shield.

Bowguard

Bowguard is Hilde’s starting Basic Skill-Card, shielding her team for 100% for 1 AP. Doesn’t provide any utility to Hilde’s overall gameplan and should be removed as soon as possible.

Quiver Reload

Skill

[Lead]

Create 3 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile.

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Quiver Reload

Quiver Reload is Hilde’s source of “Homing Arrow” generation. A 1 AP Skill-Card that has the [Lead] tag. Upon use, creates 3 “Homing Arrow” in the draw pile. This is Hilde’s only source of “Homing Arrow” generation. Thanks to the [Lead] tag this card can occasionally be free to play as well, reducing AP pressure. This card creates Draw Power and Damage in one, with further improvements with the Epiphanies offered and should be the primary card to be copied.

Plasma Rain

Attack

60% Damage and 2 Ionization to all enemies.

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Plasma Rain

Plasma Rain is a 1-Cost Attack-Card that deals 60% Damage and inflicts 2 stacks of “Ionization” to all enemies. Doesn’t deal much upfront damage either but “Ionization” is a strong lingering debuff that increases the amount of damage taken per stack. Quite valuable and helps further improve her team's damage output.

Draw & Release

Skill

Draw 2 Attack Card(s) of this unit.
+50% Damage Amount to those cards for 1 turn until used.

Draw & Release

Draw and Release is a 1-Cost Skill-Card that draws 2 Attack-Cards of Hilde and increases the damage dealt by those cards by an additional +50% for 1 turn until they’re used. Provides a source of targeted draw for Hilde’s cards, ideally drawing copies of “Homing Arrow” which then draw additional cards whilst also providing a self-buff to Hilde’s cards.

Big Game Ranger

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

On Hit, 2 Zero In.

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Big Game Ranger

Big Game Ranger is a 1-Cost Upgrade-Card that has the [Upgrade] and [Unique] tags. After being played, each time Hilde hits an enemy, Hilde gains 2 stacks of “Zero In”, up to a maximum of 60. At the end of the turn, “Zero In” activates - dealing 35% Extra-Attack Damage per stack of “Zero In” to the enemy with the highest HP and removing all stacks of “Zero In”. Whilst not providing any upfront utility or power, provides Hilde a solid source of single target damage.

Vortex Arrow

Attack

[Unique]

Draw 3 120% Damage to all enemies.
+50% Damage Amount for each Attack Card Drawn through an ability this turn (max 8 cards).

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Vortex Arrow

Vortex Arrow is Hilde’s Mythic Card, a 1-Cost Attack-Card that has the [Unique] tag, this card draws an incredible 3 cards and deals 120% Damage to all enemies, increasing by an additional +60% for each Attack Card drawn through an ability this turn, up to a maximum up 8 times. An absolutely powerhouse of a card, providing an incredible source of draw at an extremely low 1 AP cost while also being a solid source of AoE damage.

Best Epiphanies

Note
We have given a star rating for each Epiphany, showing how strong and useful it is - with 1 being the lowest rating and 5 the highest.

Card 1

Neutral Epiphany

★★★★

Quiver Reload I

Skill

[Lead]

Create 4 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile, then Draw 1 of those cards.

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★★★★★

Quiver Reload II

Skill

[Lead]

Create 3 Homing Arrow (Fracture) in Draw Pile.

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★★★★★

Quiver Reload III

Skill

[Lead]

Create 1 Homing Arrow (Grand) in Draw Pile.

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★★★

Quiver Reload IV

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

Create 2 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile.
When an enemy is defeated, create 2 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile (5 time(s) per turn).

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★★★

Quiver Reload V

Upgrade

[Unique][Opener]

At the start of the turn, create 3 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile.
Homing Arrow cannot be a target of Turn Draw.

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★★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★★★] - Target Neutral: Draw 1, Mark 1. Draw neutral can offer higher consistency and Mark neutral can offer more damage than an additional homing arrow of Quiver 1 in some cases, both are valuable options depending on the build.
Quiver Reload I
[★★★★★] - Now creates 4 Homing Arrow and draws 1 immediately. An upgrade from base epiphany that improves both consistency and damage, it’s an epiphany that can work in many different teams and builds without even needing divines.
Quiver Reload II
[★★★★★] - Gains an additional Fracture effect which applies 1 Fracture on Homing Arrow. This is ideal when optimizing Fracture damage, for most teams, as it offers one of the highest Fracture outputs Hilde can get.
Quiver Reload III
[★★★] - Homing Arrow ratio changes to be much higher but only 1 is made per Quiver. This version of Homing Arrow has a lot of potential with certain multiplicative buffs.
Quiver Reload IV
[★★★] - Becomes a [Unique] Upgrade which can create up to 10 Homing Arrow a turn but requires you to defeat multiple enemies to do so, making 2 Homing Arrow per defeat. This is an extremely situational epiphany but extremely strong and efficient in situations where its situation shines (respawning enemies/adds).
Quiver Reload V
[★★★] - Is now a [Unique] upgrade which makes it create 3 Homing Arrow start of turnIn many builds, there’s not a lot of downsides to having 1 of these alongside non-Unique versions of Quiver, but there’s also not a lot of upsides.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: -1 Cost-Reduction, Draw 1 Common Card, Draw 1 Card of this Unit, Draw 1 (Excluding Quiver I)

Card 2

Neutral Epiphany

★★★★

Plasma Rain I

Attack

[Lead]

100% Damage and 2 Ionization to all enemies.
Attunement: 2 Ionization to a random enemy.

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★★★★★

Plasma Rain II

Skill

[Lead]

3 Ionization to all enemies.
Draw 1.

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★★★★★

Plasma Rain III

Attack

100% Damage and 3 Ionization to all enemies.
Defeat: 3 Fracture to all enemies (max 1 time).

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★★

Plasma Rain IV

Attack

[Ignition]

180% Piercing Damage and 3 Ionization to all enemies.

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★

Plasma Rain V

Attack

120% Damage to all enemies.
Draw 1 Attack Card(s) of this unit.
Streak: Decrease Cost by 1.

★★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★★★] - Target Neutral: Draw 1, Mark 1. Draw neutral can offer higher consistency and Mark neutral can offer more damage than alternative epiphanies in some cases, both are valuable options depending on the build.
Plasma Rain I
[★★★★★] - Gains Attunement: 2 Ionization to a random enemy. This effectively doubles the Ionization application of the card, in single-target, at-worst but can also be used to
Plasma Rain II
[★★★★★] - Becomes a skill, gains draw 1, ionization buff//debuff increases, and loses the damage effect. As the damage effect is pretty minor anyway, improving the buff and effectively getting one of the most important divines for free is a rather substantial increase in the efficacy of this card that makes this an option always worth considering.
Plasma Rain III
[★★] - Now applies 3 Fracture to all enemies if this card triggers defeat. This is an incredibly niche effect that requires very specific timing.
Plasma Rain IV
[★] - Now a 3-cost with [Ignition] that does piercing damage and applies more ionization. The increase in ionization isn’t much and piercing tends to be a relatively useless upgrade to cards, making this not an especially desirable option even if its 0-cost from [Ignition].
Plasma Rain V
[★★★] - Loses the ionization buff and becomes 2-cost but gains an innate ‘Draw 1 Attack Card of this Unit’ and Streak: Decrease cost by 1 effect. Both of the effects are a ton of QoL, with the main factor holding it back is Hilde having a high consistency that doesn’t need to make a ton of sacrifices for QoL in consistent setups, as she already likely is.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: Draw 1 Common Card, Draw 1 Card of this Unit

Card 3

Neutral Epiphany

★★★★★

Draw & Release I

Skill

[Lead]

Draw 2 Attack Card(s) of this unit +80% Damage Amount to those cards for 1 turn until used.

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★★★★

Draw & Release II

Skill

[Lead]

Draw 2 For the next 3 Extra Attack(s) of this unit, 1 Fracture to all enemies.

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★★★

Draw & Release III

Skill

Move all cards in hand to Draw Pile, then Draw for each moved.

★★★

Draw & Release IV

Skill

Draw 2 Lead cards Decrease Cost of those cards by 1 for 1 turn until used.

★★★

Draw & Release V

Skill

Increase Damage Amount of the next Attack Card of this unit by 30% for each card Drawn through an ability this turn (max 300%).

★★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★★★★] - Target Neutral: Mark 1. Mark 1 can allow Hilde to do a decent amount of additional damage from the card itself compared to other Draw and Release options, but there might be more specialized epiphanies preferred in the build than a simple generic Mark that it’s important to consider ‘3-star’ options that are situational but can be preferred over it. Still, the additional hit from Mark will typically be a larger damage increase than the small buff increase of Draw & Release I, making it one of the highest recommendations.
Draw & Release I
[★★★★] - Now increases the damage buff to the drawn cards slightly. This isn’t a large increase and damage and will typically be outvalued simply from a Mark neutral, making it a lower recommendation that is situational to builds that use Neutral multi-hits on Hilde which might prefer this over a neutral epiphany.
Draw & Release II
[★★★] - Now applies 1 Fracture for next 3 Extra Attacks. This can greatly increase Fracture generation in a Fracture based build, but is otherwise can feel unremarkable.
Draw & Release III
[★★★] - Now moves all cards from hand to draw and redraws based on move. This has incredibly high synergy with Attunement: effects but is currently held back by the lack of meaningful Attunement:’s for it to properly abuse and the lack of guarantee to immediately redraw the proper cards that can make its ‘chain’ inconsistent.
Draw & Release IV
[★★★] - Now draws 2 [Lead] cards instead of Attack cards. In [Lead] heavy decks or when used in a more supportive role, this can be greatly preferred but is more niche than the generic options that fit her more popular carry playstyle.
Draw & Release V
[★★] - Is now a 2-cost which increases next Attack Card a large multiplicative amount. The major issue with this card is the main benefactors of this buff in Hilde are not classified as Attack Card (Fracture & Zero In) which makes this buff rather underwhelming.

Divine Epiphanies:

Card 4

Neutral Epiphany

★★★★

Big Game Ranger I

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

On Hit, 3 Zero In.

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★★★★

Big Game Ranger II

Upgrade

[Unique][Initiation]

Draw 2.
On Hit, 2 Zero In.

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★★★★★

Big Game Ranger III

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

On Hit, 2 Zero In.
When the Attunement effect is activated, 2 Zero In.

Show Effects

★★★★

Big Game Ranger IV

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

When a harmful effect is applied through an ability, 5 Zero In.

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★★★★

Big Game Ranger V

Upgrade

[Unique][Lead]

At the start of the turn, 30 Zero In.
Unable to use Attack Cards of this unit.

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★

Epiphanies:

Neutral [★★★★] - Target Neutral: Agony 2 at the Start of Turn. In content which promotes applying a lot of debuffs and DoT heavy content / teams, this can offer another method of applying a DoT passively.
Big Game Ranger I
[★★★★] - Increases Zero In generation to 3 per hit. Many Hilde teams can already hit the maximum Zero In stacks needed, making this less of an upgraded than it might seem. Still, it can be needed in some setups.
Big Game Ranger II
[★★★★★] - Now 0-cost, gains [Initiation], and Draws 2. This essentially gives 3 different free Divine effects, which is incredibly strong QoL that reduces all set-up load that would otherwise be present on Turn-1 in many Hilde builds.
Big Game Ranger III
[★★★★] - Now gains an effect of gaining an additional 2 Zero In on ‘Attunement:’ activation. This can allow for more Attunement: generation similar to epiphany I, but this generation is not needed in a lot of builds.
Big Game Ranger IV
[★★★★] - On harmful effect application, now applies 5 Zero In, removes on-hit effect. This can easily max out Zero In, in teams that apply a lot of harmful effects, this can be the de facto choice but will otherwise be not preferred.
Big Game Ranger V
[★] - No longer gains Zero In from any other means but gets 30 Zero In each turn for free. Because most other options make more Zero In throughout the turn, this is not recommended. However, it can be rather strong in roguelike modes like Sortie and Chaos where you are not planning to perfectly optimize her build.

Divine Epiphanies:

Which Divine Epiphany to go for will depend on what your team needs and which Epiphany you chose, but here are the main ones to look out for if you have spare Save Data: 1 Morale/Resolve

Memory Fragments

The Memory Fragments & Equipment suggestions below are based on calculations we did. If you want to check the damage formula and how scaling the damage works in CZN, check this guide.

Recommended Loadout

100.00%

Battlefield Evolution [4-PC]

Executioner's Tool [2-PC]

One of the few characters who can make full use of the new set, giving an easy to activate 35% Crit-DMG buff to her for all hits. This is the recommended set for most set-ups and general use.

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Black Wing [2-PC]

Executioner's Tool [2-PC]

Seth's Scarab [2-PC]

Main benefit of 2/2/2 is that it can generically be used on many characters, being BiS on quite a few. While it isn't BiS on Hilde, it isn't significantly worse which makes it a high recommendation still.

Specialist Loadout

Sanguine Thorn [4-PC]

Executioner's Tool [2-PC]

One of the few characters who can make full use of the new set, giving an easy to activate 25% Crit-DMG buff to her for all hits and 15% for Fractured. This is the recommended set when using a Fracture effect.

Main and sub-stats

In a lot of cases, flat sub-stats are better than percentage ones when it comes to HP, ATK and DEF. The reason behind this is that in CZN the characters stats are pretty low and you get more value from flat bonus rather than percentage one based on calcs.

Ideal

CRIT Rate > CRIT DMG

Desire

ATK% >= Instinct DMG%

Imagination

ATK%

Substats:

Extra DMG% > CRIT Rate% > CRIT DMG% > ATK > ATK%

Maxing out Hilde's potential 7 is the main stat breakpoint to watch out for. Fortunately, it's incredibly easy to do so, and all you need is 6% Extra DMG, which can be achieved from one memory fragment's substats alone.

Partners

Our best Partner recommendation try to balance both the raw damage boost they provide based on our calculations with the additional utility provided by the skill - combined with how it interacts with the character's kit. We have rated each Partner based on how much additional damage and the utility they provide. Read the comments under each Partner to better understand our reasoning.

No calculations in Chaos Zero Nightmare are completely accurate for all scenarios, including the ones below. What team, decks, epiphanies, gear, equipment, and enemies you're facing all impact them. Because of this, take the results as guidelines and combine them with the explanations to make your decisions. Calculations use endgame save data set-ups, including 5 turns of combat using the whole deck with all Ego skills unless otherwise stated.

5 Turns 100.00%

Nakia(E4)

For the sake of baseline comparison, the completely F2P 3-star Nakia represents the completely F2P accessible option of damage for Hilde, with alternative options all being better--percentages reflecting this, whether the amount of increase from Nakia is worth it for the other Partners or not is up to the player discretion.

5 Turns 130.53%

Eunie(E0)

5 Turns 159.92%

Eunie(E4)

Hilde's signature partner offers her the most amount of buffs and by far, so Eunie is recommend if you really want to push Hilde to her limits. This is the best option because it gives a hefty Crit-Rate buff instantly and the very strong 5-star statline. While this is much better than low refine Eunie, for obvious stat reasons, it is up to player discretion if the increase in damage is justified by the investment required.

5 Turns 106.89%

Rosaria(E4)

When used as a Support, Rosaria can be the best, but most builds will factor in Hilde's damage rather than supportive capabilities. Still, Rosaria offers the best passive of 4-stars with a chance to give a rather hefty amount of Morale to Hilde and her allies from the amount of skills Hilde plays--just keep in mind that it's purely RNG if morale is genreated or not.

5 Turns 115.58%

Solia(E4)

Worse than 5-star standard statlines but similar and accessible at high refines, Solia prevents a light-spender/dolphin alternative for a 5-star Ranger partner accessible to many players and a high recommendation if no better options present themselves or the player does not want to invest heavily into Hilde.

5 Turns 115.91%

Marin(E0)

Marin represents a standard 5-star partner that people may have acquired, with the main benefit of Marin being pure 5-star stats alone. This means similar 5-star standards with ineffective passives will perform similarly to Marin's increase in damage from baseline and will generally be preferred over 4-stars or Solia.

Equipment

In the Zero System, it's incredibly easy to access all items acquirable via the shopthanks to the two free refreshes you get each shop node - that's why the recommendations below are limited to them only. ATTENTION! Area-specific items can sometimes be more powerful than shop items, but are far less consistent to get or require running a specific world or giving up certain event options. Use the shop list as a starting point for building up your deck saves.

Weapon

DPS

Criticism of Discord
Tentacles of Chaos
Dagger That Tricked the Shadow
Second Method
Shell Bug Horn
Singing Sword

Support

Tentacles of Chaos

Armor

DPS

Fairy King's Crown

Support

Rocket-Adorned Cape
Fragment of the Empty Void

Trinket

DPS

Verdant Day
Verdant Night
Verdant Shackles
Dimensional Cube
Amorphous Cube

Support

Sphere of Randomness
Superconductive Protein

Comments - Weapons

Criticism of Discord
- Offers a huge amount of passive Attack, which for most Attack scalers makes this weapon the de facto best in slot weapon if you're able to acquire it from the rare Senectus / Cthulu event after a fight.
Tentacles of Chaos
- Provides 8% Attack to all characters in the team making it the go-to support weapon for most characters not acting as the main DPS when supporting Attack scaling carries but also a very viable option for ATK-based carries since it means you can no longer get Discord (as only one is offered from same event).
Dagger That Tricked the Shadow
- One of the best non-mythic options that is typically the go-to when Criticism of Discord cannot be acquired in the run, when in Swamp.
Second Method
- A generically strong and accessible legendary equipment for all combatants that deal a large amount of damage via Extra Attacks thanks to its +35% (Additive) Extra Attack bonus. Usually never best in slot, but always an acceptable pick-up for how common it is to find.
Shell Bug Horn
- It's a competitive option if randomly happened upon while farming the Twin Stars, but not recommended to specifically farm for because of lackluster other slot options in the zone.
Singing Sword
- It's a competitive option if randomly happened upon while farming the Foretold Ruins, but not recommended to specifically farm for because of lackluster other slot options in the zone.
Tentacles of Chaos
- Provides 8% Attack to all characters in the team making it the go-to support weapon for most characters not acting as the main DPS when supporting Attack scaling carries but also a very viable option for ATK-based carries since it means you can no longer get Discord (as only one is offered from same event).

Comments - Armor

Fairy King's Crown
- The Crit Rate this armour provides is almost always in demand and a competitive option making it a piece worth seeking out unless you're able to obtain better more specialized options.
Rocket-Adorned Cape
- An amazing armor for any support but only obtainable inside a Lab 0 rare event.
Fragment of the Empty Void
- An armor option that gives an extremely strong QoL effect with its ability to discard and draw, but it being limited to first turn and a Mythic in a game where resetting and draw options are accessible, makes it often the not preferred choice for Mythic equipment.

Comments - Trinkets

Verdant Day
+
Verdant Night
- Provide a unique buff-type that is a massive damage increase while active, without taking your Mythic slot. The choice between Day and Night depends on the content and the turns you are planning to do more damage, with even-turns favoring Night and odd-turns favoring Day.
Verdant Shackles
- A strong option that works on all turns, but locks you out of Mythic options in other slots.
Dimensional Cube
- A specialized accssory which usually offers more damage than alternatives but only functions when used within discard heavy teams capable of discarding atleast 3 cards each turn. Not useful in teams without discard capabilities so only take this if you know you'll have consistent access to them.
Amorphous Cube
- The go-to generic damage accessory for most characters that is trivially easy to use and always for the most part a solid addition for any character that can make use of additive damage. Wont beat out more specialized options but always a great fallback.
Sphere of Randomness
- An exceptionally powerful generic support trinket that grants both 1 draw and 1 AP at the start of battle turbo charging your early game. Is a Unique item meaning it wont be suitable for every character, but on those who can afford to run it and don't need other accessories in this slot is well worth slotting in if it comes up in your runs.
Superconductive Protein
- A great trinket to help you setup your upgrades turn 1 more easily.

Recommended Build

I Never Miss!

Check the best builds for Hilde below.

Setup Summary

Character

Partner

Equipment

Tentacles of Chaos

Fairy King's Crown

Verdant Night

Fragments

Black Wing

Executioner's Tool

Cursed Corpse

Cards Summary [7 selected]

Quiver Reload I

Skill

[Lead]

Create 4 Homing Arrow in Draw Pile, then Draw 1 of those cards.

Reduce the cost of this card by 1.

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Plasma Rain I

Attack

[Lead]

100% Damage and 2 Ionization to all enemies.
Attunement: 2 Ionization to a random enemy.

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Big Game Ranger II

Upgrade

[Unique][Initiation]

Draw 2.
On Hit, 2 Zero In.

Show Effects

Vortex Arrow

Attack

[Unique]

Draw 3 120% Damage to all enemies.
+50% Damage Amount for each Attack Card Drawn through an ability this turn (max 8 cards).

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Deck Explanation

I Never Miss! - The deck utilizes Quiver Reload I dupes to create a lot of her signature card. It is generally recommended to play alongside Hugo who will chain further extra attacks and gain commence on the skills played; however, it can be played for her current solo DPS playstyle as well, with the main note being to play certain buffs from Nia and Cassius earlier if possible (and looping the Attunement: Ionization with Nia's Adagio).

Card Removal Priority

Multishot
- Removed in most Hilde set-ups.
Bowguard
- Removed in most Hilde set-ups.

Conditional Card Removal

Plasma Rain
- Can be removed in some builds that do not utilize multi-hits (focus more on heavy hits, like Grand Homing Arrow). This playstyle is uncommon for Hilde, but it's worth noting it as a suggested removal when building for it, regardless, since Hilde does have the necessary functionality for this playstyle.

Card Copying Priority

Quiver Reload
- Most commonly duped as it is the main method of generating her signature Homing Arrow creations.
Draw & Release
- Some builds will dupe Draw & Release for buff or draw effects that it can give, especially in more supportive builds.

Best Synergies

Hugo

Hilde plays a large amount of attacks that she generates from Skill cards, this allows her to both generate Hugo’s commence and also consume it to drive him at very high efficiency.
Hilde’s main upgrade (Big Game Hunter) having an epiphany that is a 0-cost Draw 2 [Initiation] has a lot of synergy in helping to solve Hugo’s main downside of having a lot of [Initiation] upgrades to play Turn-1.

Nia

Nia is able to increase the number of Extra Attacks that Extra Attack units can do via her Soul Riff III.
Nia can ‘replay’ Attunement: effects like that of Hilde’s Plasma Rain via Adagio.

Cassius

Cassius is able to buff multihitters an extremely high amount via his high Morale generation.
Cassius can generate skill cards, which can help keep max Commence stacks when played with Hugo. Cassius can also generate Attack cards, for consuming Commence stacks if enough skill cards are already being made.

Best Teams

Chaos Teams

Generic - Chaos

DPS

Flex

Healer

Save Teams

Hugo Driver

DPS

Buffer

Hyper-Carry Hilde

DPS

Buffer

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Neutral [★★★★] - Target Neutral: Draw 1, Mark 1. Draw neutral can offer higher consistency and Mark neutral can offer more damage than an additional homing arrow of Quiver 1 in some cases, both are valuable options depending on the build.

[★★★★★] - Now creates 4 Homing Arrow and draws 1 immediately. An upgrade from base epiphany that improves both consistency and damage, it’s an epiphany that can work in many different teams and builds without even needing divines.

[★★★★★] - Gains an additional Fracture effect which applies 1 Fracture on Homing Arrow. This is ideal when optimizing Fracture damage, for most teams, as it offers one of the highest Fracture outputs Hilde can get.

[★★★] - Homing Arrow ratio changes to be much higher but only 1 is made per Quiver. This version of Homing Arrow has a lot of potential with certain multiplicative buffs.

[★★★] - Becomes a [Unique] Upgrade which can create up to 10 Homing Arrow a turn but requires you to defeat multiple enemies to do so, making 2 Homing Arrow per defeat. This is an extremely situational epiphany but extremely strong and efficient in situations where its situation shines (respawning enemies/adds).

[★★★] - Is now a [Unique] upgrade which makes it create 3 Homing Arrow start of turnIn many builds, there’s not a lot of downsides to having 1 of these alongside non-Unique versions of Quiver, but there’s also not a lot of upsides.

Neutral [★★★★] - Target Neutral: Draw 1, Mark 1. Draw neutral can offer higher consistency and Mark neutral can offer more damage than alternative epiphanies in some cases, both are valuable options depending on the build.

[★★★★★] - Gains Attunement: 2 Ionization to a random enemy. This effectively doubles the Ionization application of the card, in single-target, at-worst but can also be used to

[★★★★★] - Becomes a skill, gains draw 1, ionization buff//debuff increases, and loses the damage effect. As the damage effect is pretty minor anyway, improving the buff and effectively getting one of the most important divines for free is a rather substantial increase in the efficacy of this card that makes this an option always worth considering.

[★★] - Now applies 3 Fracture to all enemies if this card triggers defeat. This is an incredibly niche effect that requires very specific timing.

[★] - Now a 3-cost with [Ignition] that does piercing damage and applies more ionization. The increase in ionization isn’t much and piercing tends to be a relatively useless upgrade to cards, making this not an especially desirable option even if its 0-cost from [Ignition].

[★★★] - Loses the ionization buff and becomes 2-cost but gains an innate ‘Draw 1 Attack Card of this Unit’ and Streak: Decrease cost by 1 effect. Both of the effects are a ton of QoL, with the main factor holding it back is Hilde having a high consistency that doesn’t need to make a ton of sacrifices for QoL in consistent setups, as she already likely is.

Neutral [★★★★★] - Target Neutral: Mark 1. Mark 1 can allow Hilde to do a decent amount of additional damage from the card itself compared to other Draw and Release options, but there might be more specialized epiphanies preferred in the build than a simple generic Mark that it’s important to consider ‘3-star’ options that are situational but can be preferred over it. Still, the additional hit from Mark will typically be a larger damage increase than the small buff increase of Draw & Release I, making it one of the highest recommendations.

[★★★★] - Now increases the damage buff to the drawn cards slightly. This isn’t a large increase and damage and will typically be outvalued simply from a Mark neutral, making it a lower recommendation that is situational to builds that use Neutral multi-hits on Hilde which might prefer this over a neutral epiphany.

[★★★] - Now applies 1 Fracture for next 3 Extra Attacks. This can greatly increase Fracture generation in a Fracture based build, but is otherwise can feel unremarkable.

[★★★] - Now moves all cards from hand to draw and redraws based on move. This has incredibly high synergy with Attunement: effects but is currently held back by the lack of meaningful Attunement:’s for it to properly abuse and the lack of guarantee to immediately redraw the proper cards that can make its ‘chain’ inconsistent.

[★★★] - Now draws 2 [Lead] cards instead of Attack cards. In [Lead] heavy decks or when used in a more supportive role, this can be greatly preferred but is more niche than the generic options that fit her more popular carry playstyle.

[★★] - Is now a 2-cost which increases next Attack Card a large multiplicative amount. The major issue with this card is the main benefactors of this buff in Hilde are not classified as Attack Card (Fracture & Zero In) which makes this buff rather underwhelming.

Neutral [★★★★] - Target Neutral: Agony 2 at the Start of Turn. In content which promotes applying a lot of debuffs and DoT heavy content / teams, this can offer another method of applying a DoT passively.

[★★★★] - Increases Zero In generation to 3 per hit. Many Hilde teams can already hit the maximum Zero In stacks needed, making this less of an upgraded than it might seem. Still, it can be needed in some setups.

[★★★★★] - Now 0-cost, gains [Initiation], and Draws 2. This essentially gives 3 different free Divine effects, which is incredibly strong QoL that reduces all set-up load that would otherwise be present on Turn-1 in many Hilde builds.

[★★★★] - Now gains an effect of gaining an additional 2 Zero In on ‘Attunement:’ activation. This can allow for more Attunement: generation similar to epiphany I, but this generation is not needed in a lot of builds.

[★★★★] - On harmful effect application, now applies 5 Zero In, removes on-hit effect. This can easily max out Zero In, in teams that apply a lot of harmful effects, this can be the de facto choice but will otherwise be not preferred.

[★] - No longer gains Zero In from any other means but gets 30 Zero In each turn for free. Because most other options make more Zero In throughout the turn, this is not recommended. However, it can be rather strong in roguelike modes like Sortie and Chaos where you are not planning to perfectly optimize her build.

Hilde Best Build Guide

Kit

Review

Epiphanies

Gear

Deck & Teams

Starting Cards:

Epiphany Cards:

Generated Cards:

Ego Skill:

Epiphany Variants:

Performance Profile

Pros

Cons

Matrix Overlay

Multishot

Bowguard

Quiver Reload

Plasma Rain

Draw & Release

Big Game Ranger

Vortex Arrow

Note

Card 1

Card 2

Card 3

Card 4

Recommended Loadout

Specialist Loadout

Weapon

DPS

Support

Armor

DPS

Support

Trinket

DPS

Support

Comments - Weapons

Comments - Armor

Comments - Trinkets

I Never Miss!

Setup Summary

Character

Partner

Equipment

Tentacles of Chaos

Fairy King's Crown

Verdant Night

Fragments

Cards Summary [7 selected] Compact

Deck Explanation

Card Removal Priority

Conditional Card Removal

Card Copying Priority

Hugo

Nia

Cassius

Chaos Teams

Generic - Chaos

Save Teams

Hugo Driver

Hyper-Carry Hilde

Hilde Best Build Guide

Kit

Review

Epiphanies

Gear

Deck & Teams

Starting Cards:

Epiphany Cards:

Generated Cards:

Ego Skill:

Epiphany Variants:

Performance Profile

Pros

Cons

Matrix Overlay

Multishot

Bowguard

Cards Summary [7 selected]

Cards Summary [7 selected]