In ZZZ(Zenless Zone Zero) Relationships with Ellen Jo, an event S-rank agent from the Victoria domestic staff faction, are developed within the trust system. By establishing communication with the shark student, you can get polychromes, Ellen's individual boost in the Zero Cave, a live wallpaper with a Tyren maid, as well as the “After School” achievement and the “Procrastinator Partner” title.
This guide will help you learn how to pump up trust levels with Ellen from ZZZ, answer correctly at each meeting with the agent, and unlock all trophies from the “Joint Walk” section.
How to Pump Up All Trust Levels with Ellen in ZZZ
To fully develop friendship and collect rewards for walking with Ellen, complete the Inferno Cross storyline, during which the Blazewood navigation is unlocked.
With the release of version 1.4, players have more ways to level up trust with knocked out agents:
- Using invitations in Knock-Knock contacts;
- Through random encounters;
- Using the “Joint Walk” function.
Next, we will examine in detail what events await during the increase in friendship with Ellen Joe, how to respond in dialogues to receive trust bonuses and collect all the rewards from the “Joint Walk” tab.
Invitations to Tuk-Tuk
To schedule a chat with any agent once per real day, you have 3 invitations (you can't invite the same character at a time). All contacts of heroes with whom you can develop friendship are in the messenger tab (quick access on the English key “Q”). To avoid searching for Ellen's contact for a long time, mark it with an asterisk to the right of the “Invitation” inscription – such chats are always at the top of the list.
By inviting a shark girl via chat, you will be able to attend the following meetings (all of them take place on Sixth Street):
| Chat | Meeting Place | Answers |
|---|---|---|
| What are you doing? Working or studying?/I'm so bored… | Soup Falls | The answer “Ice Noodles” gives ++ |
| Club 404 Live | Any answer at the beginning of the conversation gives + | |
| Video rental | The password answer “I thought you already knew” gives + and ++ at the end of the conversation | |
| Minimarket 141 | The last answer “Recommend a tasty snack” gives + and ++ at the end of the conversation |
If you want to level up your relationship with Ellen faster, choose any meeting place except the 404 Live club – this event gives the least progress.
In one such meeting, with the right choice of answers, you will fill up to half of the emoticon indicating the current level of friendship (progress is visible in the chat and in the “Partners' Profile” tab). And using all the methods, you can develop friendship to the maximum in 1-2 days.
As you progress in your relationship with Ellen Jo, you are guaranteed to participate in the story encounters described in the table below:
| Level | Event | Reward |
|---|---|---|
Starter | “The Art of Casual Conversation” | 20 polychromes, 5 thousand denni, 3 B-rank freeze chips. |
[Sympathy] | Watching the movie “Ethereal Dreams” | Ellen can be appointed as a promoter in the video rental store. |
[Friendship] | «Accomplice who skips classes» | 30 polychromes, buff for the Zero Cave «On the wrong foot», 10 thousand denni. |
[Trust] | «Tea question» | 30 polychromes, live wallpaper with Ellen, 15 thousand denni. |
During such events, it is impossible to spoil the relationship with the agent (among the answers there are no those that increase or decrease the progress of trust).
When the agent's current stage smiley is completely filled, wait for one of the quests listed above, and only then continue developing friendship. Until the level is advanced to the next stage, all the points received will not count.
Joint walk with Ellen: how to collect all the rewards
Please note that walks are available with all agents whose friendship level is not lower than Sympathy. Special events in them can only be launched through the “Spend time” tab.
“Joint walk” mode» is not tied to chat invitations and can be launched an unlimited number of times. Go to the chat with Ellen and click on the button of the same name to get to a separate menu. Live wallpapers are shown here, at the bottom there is an icon with rewards and the action “Spend time” – click and choose a meeting place (recommended marked with a quest mark). During a walk in the place suggested by the game, you will encounter the following events:
- Wish Events(short story dialogues without answer options);
- Entertainment events (the agent pays attention to them during a walk around the location);
- Games at Godfingers (joint gaming in the arcade on Sixth Street).
Let's start analyzing the walk mode with wish events. For each such activity with Ellen, the same reward is due: 150 Internet points, 10 polychromes, 10 thousand dennies, 2 B-rank freeze chips.
Wish event: The perfect place for skipping classes
- Location: Gemini Ballet district (monument).
Wish event: The agony of choosing milk tea
- Location: Lumina square (tea shop).
Wish event: Unpleasant fish peeling
- Location: Lumina square (massage parlor).
Wish Event: Same Photos
- Location: Blazewood (gate on 1st tier).
Wish event: Reason to choose coffee
- Location: Lumina square (2nd floor of “Koff-cafe”).
All Entertainment Events
Entertainment Events– these are specific locations on the location, when approaching which the agent will stop and say a short line, and before that an exclamation mark will appear above his head. When you are close, Ellen's comment will flash in the upper left corner of the screen: “looks like there's something interesting nearby…“.
Ellen is interested in places on Sixth Street, Lumina Square, Bypass, and in the area of the “Ballet Twins”:
| Location | Event Zone |
|---|---|
| Sixth Street | Meowchelo, Club 404 Live, drinks machine at the end of the alley between the Koff Cafe and the noodle shop (to the right of the exit), “Godfingers”. |
| Lumina Square | Entrance to Sobes, posters to the left of the entrance to the gallery, entrance to the cinema. |
| Blazewood | Abandoned cafe opposite Meowchelo. |
| Ballet Twins Area | Benches in a recess with a yellow bicycle and a similar area with a red machine (both places on the 2nd tier). |
If you can't activate all the events in one walk, come back to them another time. To get a reward, you need to find any 5 entertainment events, for which you will receive: 22.5 thousand dennies, 6 B-rank magazines and 3 B-rank power sources.
Play Godfingers with Ellen
Walking with a companion along Sixth Street, be sure to check out the Godfingers slot machines. Having played 2 times in any co-op mode, you will unlock a small reward of 10 thousand denny.
All random encounters
Random encounters with Ellen can happen at any time of the day, but most often in the morning-afternoon-evening. To understand where the young shark is now, open the map and look at the tabs Sixth Street or Lumina Square – if there is a mini-portrait of the agent below, then you can meet him.
In the table below, we have listed all possible topics for conversation and response options that increase relations with Ellen:
| Place | Situation | Trust Points |
|---|---|---|
| Sixth Street | Opposite the exit from Random Play | Guaranteed progress ++ at the end of the conversation (does not depend on answers) |
| Before going up to the 2nd floor of “Turbo” | The answer “I want to give you something too” gives ++ and 3 freeze chips from rank C after the conversation | |
| Advice on the music genre near the “Bard's Needle” | The answer “Rampage Punk” gives ++ (if there is no correct option, choose any except Fugu-Electro – this option lowers trust) | |
| Behind the van to the left of shop 141 | The answer “Of course” gives ++ | |
| At night near the toy store | The answer “Why not instead of math?” gives + | |
| Ellen at the entrance to the Koff Cafe | The answers “Ellen, are you okay?” and “Did you overwork yourself again?” give +, and “Did you study all night for exams again?” lowers trust | |
| In front of Godfingers | The answer “I don't want to talk about it…” gives + | |
| With classmates in front of the newsstand | Recommend any magazine to get + | |
| Lumina Square | In front of the tea shop | Answering “Why not?” gives + (further conversation with Coco and Ellen does not have bonus answers) |
| “Observation practice” at the metro opposite Meowchel | Answering “Who do you want to observe?” gives + | |
| With classmates to the left of the hotpot | 3rd answer “Just doing as you said…” gives + | |
| Near the closed metro station near the noodle shop | The answer “Ye-e-ey!” gives ++ |
Random encounters with Ellen are notable for the fact that sometimes there are no answers with points – then it is better to choose something neutral (in the table above, all the lines with a negative outcome are marked, the rest do not affect friendship) and just rewind the days in search of a new event.
Even if you have talked to Ellen and received points, go to the time of day mode (English key “T”) and rewind to a new day – the meeting may appear again, and the number of such rewinds is quite high.
All rewards for maximum trust with Ellen
In addition to the rewards for advancing the trust level and those given in the joint walk mode, maximum friendship with Ellen opens access to live wallpapers and the achievement “After School” – for receiving it they give 5 polychromes and the title “Procrastinator Partner“, which can be added to the profile.
