Zenless Zone Zero Major Last Minute Changes to Seed and Orphie & Magus

Hoyoverse has released a surprise round of adjustments to Seed and Orphie & Magus in the Zenless Zone Zero 2.2 beta, just a week before release. These changes affect both their core kits and mindscapes, along with several damage multipliers for Seed.

The leaks come from JSM and Hakush, and you can check out the details here:

Seed Adjustments

• Core Skill
  • New Additional Ability: Surprise Strike
    • Seed’s Basic Attacks (Falling Petals – Slaughter, Downfall, Clockwork Garden – Bloom!) now deal 30% increased DMG and ignore 25% of enemy Electric RES.
• Mindscapes
  • Mindscape 2 (New):
    • When Besiege is active, that Agent’s DMG ignores 20% DEF.
    • When activating EX Special Attack: Raining Iron Petals after consuming a total of 60 Energy, you can continue consuming Energy to extend the duration of the skill until the button is released or a total of 120 Energy is consumed.
    • For every 5 Energy consumed, the next Falling Petals – Slaughter gains +5% DMG.
  • Mindscape 4:
    • Besiege increases Decibel Generation Rate by 10%.
    • Ultimate DMG bonus raised from 15% → 20%.
• Damage Coefficient Changes
  • EX Special Attack:
    • Iron Petal Storm → 1399% → 1367.6%
    • Daze (Iron Petal Storm) → 903% → 880.5%
  • Iron Petal Storm (secondary value) → 46.5% → 37.1%
  • Ultimate:
    • Clockwork Garden – Bloom! → 6547% → 6500.2%
    • Ultimate Daze → 922.2% → 894%
  • Quick Assist: Petal Storm → 323.1% → 308%
  • Quick Assist Daze → 121.4% → 115.5%
  • Dodge Counter: Blooming Splendor → 661.8% → 640.2%
  • Dodge Counter Daze → 394.3% → 382.5%

Overall, Seed receives a mix of buffs (new passive, DEF ignore, more scaling) but also slight DMG coefficient nerfs.

Orphie & Magus Adjustments

• Ultimate – Dance with Fire
  • Perform a spinning attack forward, then fire a laser ahead, dealing Fire DMG.
  • When leaping into the air, a Quick Assist will be triggered.
  • If the Quick Assist is activated, Orphie & Magus will extend the laser firing duration.
  • Activating this skill restores 20 Bottled Heat.
• Core Passive – Ride the Wind and Flame
  • The following part of the skill was removed: When using Ultimate, if [Bottled Heat] is greater than or equal to 100 points, consuming 100 [Bottled Heat] will grant all squad members get the [Zeroed In] effect.
• Mindscapes
  • Mindscape 2:
    • Changed from “CRIT DMG +40%” → “ATK +20% for 30s → 45s”.
  • Mindscape 4:
    • Zeroed In duration increases to 18s.
    • EX Special Attack + Ultimate DMG bonus increased to 45%.
• Hotfix Updates
  • Ultimate no longer consumes Heat when Heat is full.
  • Ultimate no longer applies Zeroed In directly.
  • Ultimate and Chain Attack restore 20 Heat each.

Overall, Orphie & Magus get slight nerfs to buffs and scaling, but quality-of-life improvements with Heat management.

HoYoverse is making sure Seed does not launch overpowered, but her efficiency and unique mechanics remain the same. Orphie & Magus, meanwhile, see their support utility dialled back, but you get better Heat management.

With only a week until Zenless Zone Zero 2.2, these adjustments are likely final, so players pulling for Seed or Orphie & Magus should prepare for these exact kits at launch!