Zenless Zone Zero: Clarette's kit decrypted — Slash with 3 stacks, 48% DEF and CRIT Rate beyond 100%

HoYoverse posted the fact sheet "Agent Mechanics Details 丨 Clarette" on Sunday, September 6, 2026, three days before the switch to version 3.2 "Their Hidden Stories". The post is nearly silent: four sentences and one line of dialogue. The kit fits into three vertical infographics and, above all, into four captioned animations that pass for simple gameplay clips even though they alone carry the skill names. We read all seven visuals panel by panel, in French and then in English.

The identity, as the publisher writes it: Clarette, S-rank, Electric attribute, Rupture specialty, Flint Workshop of Roscaelifer faction. And the definition of the specialty: "Rupture Agents possess considerable offensive power and deal significant DMG through the Gash and Maim effects."

Gash, Maim, Laceration: three words, three things

This sentence names only two of them; the animations add a third.

• Gash is the stack applied to the target: "When the Gash gauge is full, the enemy enters the Gash state, which can stack up to 3 times."
• Maim is the spending of that stack: Clarette "consumes a Gash stack, triggers Maim, and deals AoE DMG."
• Laceration is neither a stack nor an expenditure, but a substitution in the damage calculation.

The distinction is not cosmetic: the first is a three-tier counter placed on the enemy, the third a term in a formula. English also uses three roots: Gash, Maim, Laceration.

The paragraph that changes everything: she scales with DEF

The central block of the fact sheet, quoted in full: "DMG dealt by Clarette's skills is Sharpened DMG, and the DMG multipliers of her skills are based on her DEF. Upon landing a CRIT Hit, Laceration DMG replaces CRIT DMG in the calculation. When CRIT Rate exceeds 100% and a CRIT Hit is triggered, an additional Laceration effect may be triggered."

Sharpening and Scarlet Glyph: the loop described by the publisher

The resource is called Sharpening and recharges upon entering the field, with no numerical value given. Once the gauge is sufficient, the agent unleashes her EX Special Attack: Blood Pact - Secret Forging Techniques and "enters the Scarlet Glyph state for a certain duration". That's where the kit really opens up.

The loop is circular: entering Scarlet Glyph, stacking Slash, consuming it into Mutilation, restarting via Executioner's Axe, with the Ultimate freezing the countdown. Without a single number given.

One point goes beyond Clarette's specific case: the Defensive Assist: Iron Will, unique to the specialty, triggers when the agent on the field is about to be hit by "a control skill" and engages in "a contest of strength" which, if won, neutralizes it. Roadmap note: Stun specialty agents will receive one "in later versions".

Blood Legacy: the condition that constrains the squad

The additional ability is conditional: "When there is another Anomaly, Stun or same-attribute character as Clarette in your squad", Corruption restores "a certain amount of Decibels" to her, and any Mutilation trigger causes Stun agents to enter the Lingering Blade state, where "Lacerate DMG is increased for a certain duration".

HoYoverse offers two team compositions; only one agent appears in both.

Method: the infographic lines up the portraits without explaining why. The attributes come from elsewhere — the French post "Version 3.0 Limited-Time Channels (Phase 2)" from Monday, July 6, 2026 writes "Norma (Fire - Anomaly)", and the French HoYoLAB database sheets give "Electric / Support" for Rina, "Fire / Anomaly" for Koleda. The connection with the condition is our own interpretation.

The Bangboo on duty doesn't close the door: other squads work too, and it leaves it up to the Proxies to find them.

What to prepare, what the fact sheet leaves out

Two materials are named for upgrading the core skills: the Forgery Core and the Superior Dimension Data: Imitation Core. That's all you can start stockpiling right now.

On how to obtain her, the notice is clear-cut: signal search, with this warning — "Clarette is a limited S-Rank Agent and will not be available in the standard Channel 'Featured List'". The word "limited" translates the English "limited": she won't be joining the permanent channel.

Only one piece of equipment appears in the document, under the heading "recommended W-Engine": Scarlet Thirst, whose "Bloodthirst" effect increases "the wielder's CRIT Rate and Electric DMG", then "Electric Piercing DMG dealt" after an EX Special Attack or a Mutilation. It "only works on Defense Agents" and displays, at Phase 1 Level 60, a base DEF of 431 and a secondary stat of DEF 48%. The publisher is thus building her signature equipment around DEF.

The absences matter just as much: no Drive Disc, no figures for the Slash gauge, the Sharpen, the decibels released or the duration of Lingering Blade — HoYoverse writes "a certain amount" and "for a certain time" —, and no Mindscape: the section labeled "Mindscape" only carries an illustration.

In practice

Three things to keep in mind. DEF carries Clarette's damage, which makes the reflexes inherited from Attack Agents inoperative. The CRIT Rate above 100% retains value, something rare enough to matter in build choices. And Blood Inheritance requires a Stun, Defense or Electric teammate, otherwise part of the kit remains inactive.

Two caveats to close. All seven visuals carry the note "* Content under development, please refer to the official release for reference." And the only fixed date given by the publisher remains the end of the current version: the announcement of 3.1, from Wednesday, July 29, 2026, states that "Version 3.1 will end on 09/09/2026 at 06:00 (UTC+8)". In Paris, that falls at midnight, in the night of Tuesday, September 8 to Wednesday, September 9, 2026 — this is our conversion, as the publisher only publishes its own time zone.