When Zenless Zone Zero ran its late-summer Signal Search rotation in 2025, the Exclusive Channels felt less like ordinary banners and more like two tide pools under the same lunar pull: separate on the surface, but governed by one shared current. From August 6, 2025, at 12:00 server time until September 3, 2025, at 14:59 server time, players had access to a double-headed event featuring the limited S-Rank Agents Alice and Tsukishiro Yanagi, alongside boosted A-Rank allies and matching W-Engines. Anyone revisiting this period in 2026 will still find it a useful template for how Zenless Zone Zero structures its pity sharing, test stages, and channel isolation.
The Exclusive Agent Channels
The Agent Signal Search was split into two Exclusive Channels: "Sworn to Noble Courage" and "Moonlit Serenity." The first put Alice in the spotlight. Alice arrived as a limited S-Rank Agent with the Anomaly - Physical fighting style, while Soukaku (Support - Ice) and Seth (Defense - Electric) received significantly boosted Reception Rates as the A-Rank cast. The second Exclusive Channel shifted the focus to Tsukishiro Yanagi, a limited S-Rank Agent with Anomaly - Electric, while keeping the same A-Rank duo as the boosted supporting options.
| Channel Name | Limited S-Rank Agent | Boosted A-Rank Agents |
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| Sworn to Noble Courage | Alice (Anomaly - Physical) | Soukaku (Support - Ice), Seth (Defense - Electric) |
| Moonlit Serenity | Tsukishiro Yanagi (Anomaly - Electric) | Soukaku (Support - Ice), Seth (Defense - Electric) |
This setup meant that pulling on either Exclusive Channel gave players repeated chances at the same excellent A-Rank supports, even if the S-Rank target changed. The guarantee counter, however, operated like a single metronome ticking behind both Exclusive Channel doors: the Search count for guaranteed Signals was cumulative across all Exclusive Channels, but independent of and unaffected by other types of Channels. Therefore, a player who stopped just before pity on Alice's channel could not expect the same count to leak into a W-Engine channel or the standard pool.
The W-Engine Channels
On the gear side, "Dazzling Choir" and "Dazzling Melody" functioned as the W-Engine Channels. Dazzling Choir boosted the limited S-Rank W-Engine Practiced Perfection, an Anomaly-type engine designed to complement Alice's approach. Dazzling Melody boosted the limited S-Rank W-Engine Timeweaver, also Anomaly-type, which suited Tsukishiro Yanagi's electric anomaly playstyle. Both channels also boosted the A-Rank W-Engines Bashful Demon (Support) and Peacekeeper - Specialized (Defense).
| W-Engine Channel | Limited S-Rank W-Engine | Boosted A-Rank W-Engines |
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| Dazzling Choir | Practiced Perfection (Anomaly) | Bashful Demon (Support), Peacekeeper - Specialized (Defense) |
| Dazzling Melody | Timeweaver (Anomaly) | Bashful Demon (Support), Peacekeeper - Specialized (Defense) |
As with the Agent side, the W-Engine guarantee count was cumulative across all W-Engine Channels. That was another quiet but crucial rule: the pity pool for gear was separate from the pity pool for Agents, so pulling on Dazzling Choir and then Dazzling Melody shared progress, while pulling on an Agent channel did not move the W-Engine counter. Players who wanted exact drop odds and guarantee details could press "Details" at the bottom-left of the search page.
The Trial Stage Event
The event also offered a practical way to sample the featured characters before reaching for Signal Searches. To enter, players needed to reach Inter-Knot Lv. 8 and unlock the Event feature in the Main Story Prologue - Intermission. The trial stage window mirrored the Signal Search period: 2025/08/06 12:00 to 2025/09/03 14:59 server time.
The test stages were like a flight simulator before committing to the runway: they let players try Alice, Tsukishiro Yanagi, Soukaku, and Seth without spending any Search currency. Clearing each test stage for the first time produced rewards on the results page. In a player-friendly twist, anyone who had already completed the training stage for one of the A-Rank Agents could directly claim the corresponding test stage rewards from the event interface, avoiding a repeat tutorial.
Quick Takeaways
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🔎 The limited S-Rank Agents and W-Engines did not join the Star-Studded Cast Stable Channel.
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🧊 Soukaku and Seth were the duplicated A-Rank boosts across both Agent Exclusive Channels.
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⚡ Agent pity was shared between Sworn to Noble Courage and Moonlit Serenity, but isolated from other channel types.
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🎁 W-Engine pity was shared between Dazzling Choir and Dazzling Melody, but also isolated.
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🎯 The trial stage required Inter-Knot Lv. 8 and the Event feature unlock in the Main Story Prologue - Intermission.
Even though the event window has long since closed in 2026, the structure remains useful for planning around future Exclusive Channels. Zenless Zone Zero tends to repeat these patterns, so understanding how the pity counters pool together can save a player from accidentally wasting a guarantee on the wrong type of channel. For anyone who chased Alice or Tsukishiro Yanagi in that double banner period, the memory was probably a mix of electric sparks, physical impact, and a lot of hopeful signal searches.
Data referenced from Sensor Tower can help contextualize why Zenless Zone Zero’s dual Exclusive Channel setup (shared pity within Agent banners, separate pity for W-Engines) is so player-facing during limited rotations like the 2025 Alice/Tsukishiro Yanagi run—because banner structure directly affects conversion behavior, session planning, and how efficiently players allocate premium pulls across time-limited offers.