Zhuang Fangyi Potential Value and Future Outlook
Zhuang Fangyi gains about 15.8% DPS per potential level.
How Good Is Zhuang Fangyi Potential Efficiency?
In short, Zhuang Fangyi potential efficiency is not specially favored and is not unusually higher than operators like Laevatain.
Zhuang Fangyi is expected to be popular in China and Korea, which is somewhat surprising.
This suggests the developer treats Zhuang Fangyi as an important character but is not selling heavy damage inflation yet. (Damage inflation is revenue, and this theory is explained later.)
So Zhuang Fangyi likely has ordinary potential efficiency percentages similar to other main DPS operators.
However, DPS theory says final DPS equals base tier DPS multiplied by potential efficiency percent, so equal efficiency percent does not mean lower final DPS.
In a soccer player game analogy, Messi base speed tier is far above an average person, so even with the same stat bonus percent, Messi still dominates.
Base tier matters, and Zhuang Fangyi final potential value depends on her own tier.
| Potential | Description |
|---|---|
| Potential 1 | Battle Skill Thunder Call damage multiplier increases to 1.15x. After entering combat, the first Battle Skill used creates one additional Thunderblade. Additional Thunderblades ignore the per-Battle Skill Thunderblade creation limit. |
| Potential 2 | Will +20, Battle Skill damage +15% |
| Potential 3 | After Battle Skill Thunder Call consumes Shock, returns 10 skill gauge points. Thunderblade duration +10 seconds. |
| Potential 4 | Ultimate Judgment Storm energy cost -15% |
| Potential 5 | While in Thousand-Mile Realm, damage dealt ignores 15 points of enemy Electric Resistance. |
Zhuang Fangyi Efficiency by Potential
Potential 1 most important part is Battle Skill damage multiplier rising to 1.15x. Zhuang Fangyi is Battle Skill-focused with high Battle Skill damage share, so this is welcome.
However, basic attack damage share drops accordingly, so practice compressing basic attack time.
Zhuang Fangyi starts weak at 0 Thunderblade stacks early in combat, and potential 1 slightly helps.
Overall, potential 1 efficiency is about 12.5%.
Potential 2 also adds 15% Battle Skill damage, essentially the same as potential 1.
Potential 2 also grants +20 Will, which translates to raw attack and stabilizes overall DPS including basic attacks.
Potential 2 efficiency is about 14%.
Potential 3 returns 10 SP (skill gauge) only when Battle Skill meets Shock consumption conditions. As learned in Zhuang Fangyi Party, Usage, Gear Setup, Skill Priority, Zhuang Fangyi should not spam Battle Skill but use it when the enemy has Shock.
If you have potential 3 or higher but ignore Shock conditions and spam Battle Skill, you waste most of potential 3 value.
Thunderblades last 36 seconds on the ground; reaching and maintaining 9 stacks takes time. Potential 3 adds 10 seconds, making 9-stack reach and upkeep smoother.
Potential 3 efficiency is about 10%.
Potential 4 is attractive for ultimate-dependent Zhuang Fangyi. As explained in Zhuang Fangyi Party, Usage, Gear Setup, Skill Priority, her Arts consumption cycle is faster and stronger during ultimate.
Each ultimate entry also grants one free Battle Skill, raising ultimate uptime importance.
Potential 4 efficiency is about 17.5%.
Potential 5 damage boost applies only during ultimate, but once ultimate conditions are met, everything including ultimate basic attacks gets stronger.
Electric Resistance ignore is a rare bonus. Around 2028, even a strong Zhuang Fangyi may fall to bosses stacked with damage inflation and Electric Resistance.
Electric Resistance ignore helps deal damage more smoothly against such bosses.
Giving this option now suggests the developer wants you to fully potential her and use her for a long time.
Potential 5 efficiency is about 25%.
Zhuang Fangyi Expected Lifespan and Damage Inflation
Important characters like Zhuang Fangyi often get high potential efficiency so developers maximize revenue through damage inflation.
At three months after launch, the developer did not take that path for Zhuang Fangyi, so damage inflation will arrive slowly and overall game lifespan may extend.
In other words, future characters of Zhuang Fangyi importance will eventually get the revenue-maximizing damage inflation potential strategy described above.
So Zhuang Fangyi expected lifespan is slightly shorter because she did not receive that inflation this time.
Zhuang Fangyi dominant era will eventually end.
The developer average yearly damage inflation rate is roughly 10~20%. Applied to Zhuang Fangyi, each potential level extends expected lifespan by about 6 months to 1 year.
At full potential, Zhuang Fangyi practical lifespan is about 4.5 to 7 years, so full-potential Zhuang Fangyi era may fully end around 2030~2033.