Tressa Build: Best Team Comps & Core Cards

Tressa is a 4-Star Combatant in Chaos Zero Nightmare. She is a Psionic with the Void attribute, hailing from the Terrascion faction. In this guide, you'll find everything you need to know about Tressa in Chaos Zero Nightmare, including her stats, best team comps, and how to play her.

Tressa Character Overview

Perpetually unlucky girl. An agent aboard the SS Nightmare who is reluctant to talk about her past. She has been plagued by misfortune throughout her life, and even now, large and small misfortunes seem to find her unusual frequency. She constantly feels guilty for dragging others into her misfortune.

Basic Information

		Overview
		Type	Psionic
		Attribute	Void
		Faction	Terrascion
		Rarity	★★★★
		Voice Actor (KR)	Voice Actor (JP)
		Eun-jo Lee	Kaori Nazuka
Gender	Race	Gift	Birthdate
Female	Human	Darkness	November 19th

Character Stats

How to Get Tressa in CZN

You will get Tressa as a starting character in the tutorial. You can get her dupes by pulling the Normal Combatant Rescue banner.

Best Team Compositions

Position	Character
Main DPS	Tressa
Sub DPS	Hugo
Support	Mika

Tressa can work well as a main damage dealer, though it's not her primary role. Pair her with either a shield character for better survival or a support character to increase damage and utility.

Mika provides multiple healing cards that trigger Tressa's Shadow Dagger generation after using her upgraded Shadow Reload. Running a Chaos mode with Mika lets you add more of her special healing cards to maximize this combo.

Hugo acts as additional damage support through his Commence the Hunt ability, which activates each time Tressa uses Shadow Daggers, adding extra damage on top of her attacks.

Together, Mika keeps the Shadow Dagger generation flowing with consistent heals, while Hugo amplifies the damage whenever those daggers are used, creating a smooth and powerful team synergy with Tressa.

Alternative Team Members

Character	Explanation
Cassius	Cassius can provide large morale boosts after completing quests. He offers healing through Triple 1's cards, helps you draw through your deck faster using Full House, Devil Dice, or Shuffle, and deals heavy scaling damage with Triple 0's. These Triple 0's also help build up Agony stacks when Curse is active, making him a versatile damage and support character.
Nia	Nia can take over the support position since she has more healing cards available and uses a Decibel mechanic that increases damage output whenever a shuffle happens.

Best Cards and Deck Build

Core Character Cards

Card Name	AP Cost	Type	Effect
Unsheathe Dagger	0	Skill	Create 2 Shadow Dagger.​
Vital Attack	2	Attack	80% x 3 Damage If the target is in Agony, +50% Damage.
Cursed Gouge	1	Skill	2 Engrave Agony. 2 Weaken.

Essential Team Cards

Card Name	AP Cost	Type	Effect
Source of Water	0	Skill	Heal 100%. Gain 1 AP.
Hunting Instincts	1	Upgrade	When an Upgrade or Skill Card of another Combatant is used, 1 Commence the Hunt.
Quick Fix	1	Attack	80% x 2 Damage. If in Commence the Hunt, Draw 1 Attack Card(s).

Best Partners

Recommended Partner Choice

Aspect	Details
Partner Name	Bria
Passive Effect	When the assigned combatant generates a card, attack card damage is increased by 10/20% for 1 turn. Stacks up to 3 times. When the assigned combatant generates a Status Ailment card for the first time, +25/50% attack card damage for 1 turn.
Ego Skill	Exhaust all Status Ailment Cards (including those that were originally Status Ailment) and Curse Cards from Discard Pile For each card Exhausted, +10% Designated Combatants's Attack card Damage for 1 turn.

Alternative Partners

Partner	Passive Effect	Ego Skill
Eloise	The combatant's attack card damage increases by 10/20%. When the combatant first Exhausts a card or first gains a Status Ailment card, their attack card damage increases by 12/24% for 1 turn.	For 1 turn, when a card is Exhausted, apply 1 Weaken to a random enemy.

Best Memory Fragments

Best Equipment

Character Cards Database

Basic Starting Cards

Card Name	AP Cost	Type	Effect
Dagger Throw	1	Attack	100% Damage.
Touch of Darkness	1	Skill	Heal 100%.​

Unique Cards

Card Name	AP Cost	Type	Effect
Cursed Gouge	1	Skill	2 Engrave Agony. 2 Weaken.

Cards with Epiphanies

Card Name	Epiphany 1	Epiphany 2	Epiphany 3	Epiphany 4	Epiphany 5
Unsheathe Dagger	Create 2 Shadow Dagger.​	Create 3 Shadow Dagger.​	Create 1 Shadow Dagger. At the start of the turn, create 1 Shadow Dagger.​	Create 2 Shadow Dagger. Increase the Agony effect of the created Shadow Dagger by 3.	Create 4 Shadow Dagger.
Curse	For 1 turn, when using Cards, 1 Agony to random enemies.	For 2 turns, when using Attack Cards, 1 Agony.​	4 × 2 Agony to random enemies.​	2 Agony to all enemies. At the start of turn, 2 Agony to all enemies.​	When inflicting Agony with a card, add 1 Agony to the target.​
Shadow Reload	80% Damage to all enemies, 2 Agony. Exhaust all Shadow Dagger in hand, repeat equal to that number	Heal 100%. Create 2 Advanced Shadow Dagger.	Heal 100% × X. Create X Shadow Daggers card(s).	When Healed by a Skill Card, create 1 Shadow Dagger.​	Discard all cards. Create Shadow Dagger equal to that number.​
Vital Attack	150% x 3 Damage.	120% x 3 Damage If the target is in Agony, +70% Damage.	80% x 3 Damage. For 1 turn, +50% Agony Damage.​	200% x 2 Damage. If target's Agony is 3, or more, trigger 1 more time.​	150% x 3 Damage. +10% Damage per target's Agony.

Construct Cards

Card Name	AP Cost	Type	Effect
Shadow Dagger	0	Attack	50% Damage. 2 Agony.
Advanced Shadow Dagger	1	Attack	100% Damage. 2 x 2 Agony.

Ego Skill

Aspect	Details
Skill Name	Wave of Darkness
Effect	Create 2 Shadow Dagger.​
EP Cost	5

Potential Upgrades

Potential Effects

Manifest Ego

Playstyle Tips and Strategy/How to Play

Tressa specializes in damage over time (DoT) by inflicting a status called Agony on enemies. Agony typically lasts for two turns and deals fixed damage at the end of each turn. Her main tool is Shadow Daggers, 0-cost cards she creates through her abilities and skills.

The basic gameplay is simple: make Shadow Daggers, use them repeatedly to stack Agony on enemies, then play her special cards that deal extra damage based on how much Agony the enemy has.

Tressa usually works as a damage dealer because her frequent 0-cost attacks trigger other characters' abilities, Hugo being her best partner. She also has a special trait that creates more Daggers whenever anyone uses a healing card, making her pair excellently with Mika. Additionally, she brings extra elemental damage to help break enemy defense bars.

As a free starting 4-star character, Tressa is an excellent budget option who can match the damage output of 5-star characters when paired with the right team and deck.