March On, Tiny Titan! Zenless Zone Zero Event guide

The 1.6 update to Zenless Zone Zero is massive, and one of its smaller but still significant additions is the March On, Tiny Titan! limited event. During this set of combat challenges, you'll be helping a Bangboo with some power fantasies in VR. Here's how it all works.

How to start March On, Tiny Titan!

You don't have to do much to access the March On, Tiny Titan! event. Only the following must be true to take part:

• Reach Inter-Knot Level 15
• Complete part one of Solder 11's Agent Story "Mole in the Hole."

The event NPC, a young HIA worker named Kylie, will greet you at the back of the HIA offices. That's where you spend Battery Charge to farm experience items, money, take on the Expert Challenge, etc.

She'll ask you to speak to a Bangboo named Tully and help him with some anomalous data giving him the ability to lucid dream. Your job is to delve into those dreams and help the little guy with his dream adventures to return him to normal. You'll do so through a series of combat challenges that scale in difficulty and use the most popular damage strategies.

How March On, Tiny Titan! works

The March On, Tiny Titan! event is a lot like a slimmed-down version of the Hollow Zero activity. The main difference is that your Agents aren't meant to be the main damage dealers. All the enemies are heavily resistant to Agent damage, and the numbers are greyed out to show that.

Instead, you'll rely on Tully and his selection of equipped weapons. These all activate under specific conditions, and you'll earn Gear Coins by completing encounters to spend on Resonium buffs to Tully's abilities.

Each combat challenge in March On, Tiny Titan! takes place over a specific number of rounds, usually three or six. At the end of each encounter, you'll be awarded Gear Coins based on your performance and clear speed. You can purchase Tully Resonium between rounds, and the middle round (two or three) lets you choose what kind of encounter you'll face.

These Resonium function similarly to those in Hollow Zero, except the effects can stack for some of them by purchasing them multiple times. They'll also cater more toward one of three combat styles:

• Standard hypercarry with an Attack DPS, Stun Sub DPS, and a Support.
• Anomaly damage with an Anomaly Main and Sub DPS plus a Support or enabler unit.
• Stun-window specialists, where the buffs apply or activate whenever an enemy's Daze gauge reaches 100.

Every phase of March On, Tiny Titan! (called Days here) comes with a different team preset. The first two are designed for that specific challenge set's damage strategy. For instance, if you don't have an Anomaly-specific team, you'll be provided with one that can do the job. Characters will be a few levels below the maximum allowed by your Inter-Knot level and are modestly built. You're better off using your own characters if you've invested in a good team, but it's not necessary.

If you're at the ZZZ endgame and have some well-built meta Agents like Evelyn or a full meta Miyabi team, you will be able to deal more than enough damage to keep pace with the damage Tully puts out. You will still need his help for maximum damage, however.

All March On, Tiny Titan! Rewards

Day Two of March On, Tiny Titan! is fairly rewarding for an event of its scale. You can earn up to 720 Polychromes and the new Agent Pulchra if you complete all the reward tasks, which are:

How to beat each Day of March On, Tiny Titan!

The first and most important thing to know about the March On, Tiny Titan! event content is: the faster you clear waves, the better your Gear Coin reward. Your rating depends on how many Coins you spend, which depends on the Day.

You should focus on the core mechanics of the first two Days, which are EX Special for the first Day and Anomaly for the second. At the end of the second Day, you'll earn the ability to equip and use every ability in Tully's arsenal, giving you more freedom in which teams you bring.

How to beat Day One of March On, Tiny Titan! Three-Inch Ambition

For the first Day, you'll want to use characters who can use their EX Special easily and often. Characters like Evelyn, Burnice, Koleda, Lycaon, Anby, and her Soldier 0 form qualify. Tully's core ability, the Fireworks Dual Box missile pods, periodically fires two tracking missiles at enemies. Using any character's EX Special makes him fire five missiles, and this barrage can be used multiple times in quick succession so long as you have the Energy to burn.

The Resonium you can choose from in this first Day buff Tully's missiles. You'll also unlock a bit of passive damage from Tully's other weapon, the Meteor Blazing Gun, which functions regardless of what your team is doing.

For the first stage of Day One, I recommend purchasing the 1,500 Gear Coin Resonium that vastly increases Tully's RES Pen, the stat that affects how much enemy defense his attacks ignore. The second increases their CRIT damage by 44% and adds two missiles to his larger barrage. Pick up the 500-cost Resonium as you have Gear Coins to spare, as their effects include adding more missiles, improving Stun window damage, and other bonuses.

Once you unlock the Blazing Gun, the 1,500 Gear Coin Resonia aren't as immediately useful, as some are Anomaly-focused, but that's actually fine. All characters apply at least some Anomaly buildup based on their element, and increasing that will only improve your overall damage output.

Best teams for Day One of March On, Tiny Titan!

Day one is the hypercarry Day, and any team with a strong trio of main DPS, stunner, and Support is likely to do fine. The following are worth using:

Preset team

• Main DPS: Evelyn
• Stun: Koleda
• Support: Astra Yao

Free-to-play team

• Main DPS: Harumasa
• Stun: Anby Demara
• Support: Nicole

Premium team

• Main DPS: Evelyn
• Stun: Lighter
• Support: Astra Yao

How to beat Day Two of March On, Tiny Titan! Dreams and Training

To start Day Two, Anomaly Day, speak to Kylie and Hoshimi Miyabi outside the VR machine room. Miyabi is being weird, but that's her natural state. She's there to help, just the same.

The new equipment Tully gets to use on Day Two is called Glimmering Whispers, which lets him shoot lasers out of his ears. Any enemy the lasers hit gains the Weaken debuff, increasing the damage they take. The laser damage itself gets buffed whenever an enemy is Stunnor afflicted with an Attribute Anomaly, meaning you'll want to use characters like Tsukishiro Yanagi, Burnice, Piper, Jane Doe, and Seth, among others.

Building Tully's Resonium on Day Two is a mixed bag. Some of them revolve around his Weaken effect, so you'll still want Anomaly characters, but they don't directly affect his or your Anomaly damage. You'll also have access to Meteor Blazing Gun Resonia, so you'll need to be more judicious about how you spend your Gear Coins.

My recommendation is to start by purchasing upgrades that improve Tully's Glimmering Whispers Weaken effect, but you should only commit to buying a maximum of three before improving the Blazing Gun. As before, pick up the 1,500 and 3,000 Gear Coin Resonium first. Unlike before, if you're on one of the later rounds, you'll likely have enough Coins to buy everything on the list unless you Refresh or not.

Best teams for Day Two of March On, Tiny Titan!

With Anomaly being so central to Day Two activities, the best teams can use any Anomaly Agents we have in the game. The one exception I'd make is Miyabi because while her kit is enabled by Anomaly buildup, she's more concerned with raw damage output than others in her archetype.

Preset team

• Main DPS: Jane Doe
• Sub-DPS: Seth
• Support: Burnice

Free-to-play team

• Main DPS: Piper
• Sub-DPS: Anby Demara
• Support: Seth

Premium Team

• Main DPS: Tsukishiro Yanagi
• Sub-DPS: Burnice
• Support: Astra Yao

How to beat Day Three of March On, Tiny Titan!, Daylight Fantasy

The kid gloves are off with Day Three of March On, Tiny Titan! Enemies have more health, deal more damage, and come in larger numbers — that includes bosses. Both stages are also six encounters long, and because you don't heal in between encounters, you'll need to play extra careful or extra well.

You also have access to all of the equipment at Tully's disposal, meaning you need to be even choosier about which upgrades you buy. The same rule applies to the 1,500 and up Resonium, but which you purchase first will depend on the team you bring in.

Day Three of the event is the first of them, and you should also consider which encounter type you choose at the stage midpoint. The Depth Illusion higher-difficulty encounter is harder but more rewarding for fast clears, while the Dream Treasure Hunt encounter is easier but stricter about what it awards.

The latter parts of the second Day Three stage are all Depth Illusion difficulty, and enemies get tougher the further you go. For my money, that means when given the option, I was more tempted by the Dream Treasure Hunt. Better to stock up on cash and upgrades early to make the later fight less of a slog.

Lastly, while you have to spend a certain amount of Gear Coins to S Rank each stage, you only need to complete all the stages to get the rewards. Time is not a factor beyond how many Gear Coins you get per encounter. If all you care about are the rewards, take as much time as you need based on the teams you have available, and remember there's no shame in using the preset teams. They're available for a reason.

How to complete Day Four of March On, Tiny Titan! Endless: Symphony of Dreams

The final day of March On, Tiny Titan! is a more lengthy and much more difficult combat challenge. While it's called "Endless," there are only 12 rounds, and the only reason to complete all of them is to get every available reward. If all you care about are the Polychromes (and who could blame you), you won't need to get past floor nine. That doesn't mean reaching that point is easy.

The main difference between the Endless challenge and the three previous is that each round in the Symphony of Dreams is timed. You have 90 seconds to clear the field of enemies. If you fail to do so, the activity will immediately end, and you will be rated based on the last floor you reached. If you want to try again, you'll need to start from the beginning.

Here are my best tips for completing Endless: Symphony of Dreams:

• Use a team that can spam as many EX Specials as possible. My Miyabi meta team is my best built overall, but I was more successful with a less optimal Evelyn team that used Burnice as a sub-DPS. Burnice's EX Special, and Evelyn's to some extent, are much easier to get rolling, which means Tully's attacks come more often.
• Focus only on Tully Resonium that synergize with your team. With Evelyn as my main DPS, I was focused much more on any Resonium that increased her outgoing damage. I added a few Weaken Resonium to help with damage output.
• Don't waste too much time with your Support. My biggest mistake was keeping my Astra Yao on the field for more than a few seconds. You want your DPS Agents putting out as much damage as they can as often as they can to keep Tully doing the same.
• Stack Resonium effects. In previous stages, you didn't have the need or often the Gear Coins to stack Tully Resonium effects. Doing so in Day Four content is all but essential to success. Even 500-cost upgrades are worthwhile because they can quickly snowball into something super effective.

Best teams for Day Four of March On, Tiny Titan!

The simple answer to what team is best for Day Four is "the one you've invested in the most." Thanks to how demanding the timer is, this content is essentially a DPS race. Your ability to deal damage and get Tully's abilities online is more important than using any meta setups. If you're a newer player without access to the top-tier or S-Rank characters, use whoever you've spent the most time building. The preset team is also worth using.

Preset Team

• Main DPS: Silver Soldier Anby
• Sub-DPS: Pulchra
• Support: Caesar

Free-to-play Team

• Main DPS: Piper
• Sub-DPS: Pulchra
• Support: Lucy

Premium Team (that I found success with)

• Main DPS: Evelyn
• Sub-DPS: Burnice
• Support: Astra Yao

That's about everything you need to know about the March On, Tiny Titan! It's a fun event in an update with two huge narrative segments and is a fun way to toy with the game's combat.

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