Nezha Prime · Loadouts

Nezha by progress

Progression path first. Specialist cards after. Each progression card is the peak you can run at that rung — not a second identity.

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Progression path

Starter0–2 FormaStarterHigh confidenceStar ChartShards optional

First Ring

Learn the frame.

Best for: Star Chart, first Nezha, anyone who slides too far and needs a health bar

Warding Halo is a damage sponge with a locked DR. Cast it before the room. Chakram is a teleport and an orb printer.

Warding Halo is Nezha. Cast it first, recast when it breaks. The break even gives a short invuln to recast in.

Investment: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard

Inventory unknown · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

High — How strongly the Codex recommends this for its stated purpose — not a test log.

Dmg: 5/5 Dmg
Sur: 5/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 3/5 Mob
Ease: 5/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then First Ring — Star Chart.

Star Chart2–3 FormaModerateHigh confidenceStar ChartSteel Path

First Ring — Star Chart

First serious version.

Best for: Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.

Warding Halo is a damage sponge with a locked DR. Cast it before the room. Chakram is a teleport and an orb printer. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

Warding Halo is Nezha. Cast it first, recast when it breaks. The break even gives a short invuln to recast in.

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 specialised mods

Inventory unknown · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

High — How strongly the Codex recommends this for its stated purpose — not a test log.

Dmg: 5/5 Dmg
Sur: 5/5 Sur
En: 3/5 En
Mob: 3/5 Mob
Ease: 5/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Ring of Fire — Steel Path.

Steel Path3–4 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceStar ChartSteel PathShards optional

Ring of Fire — Steel Path

Your first endgame-capable version.

Best for: Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.

Fat Warding Halo, Safeguard on allies, Adaptation. This is 2026 Nezha. You are the unkillable skater. This is the peak you can run the day Steel Path unlocks — galvanized / arcanes, no Helminth.

Warding Halo is the 2026 identity. Nezha lives because the ring lives.

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 4 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 2/5 Dmg
Sur: 4/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 3/5 Mob
Ease: 4/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Ring of Fire — Optimised.

Optimised4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceNetracellsArchon HuntsShards optional

Ring of Fire — Optimised

Spend resources to push it.

Best for: Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.

Fat Warding Halo, Safeguard on allies, Adaptation. This is 2026 Nezha. You are the unkillable skater. Shards and a finished config. Tauforged is the last card.

Warding Halo is the 2026 identity. Nezha lives because the ring lives.

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 5 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 2/5 Dmg
Sur: 4/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 3/5 Mob
Ease: 3/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Ring of Fire — Endgame.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.

Endgame4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathShards optional

Ring of Fire — Endgame

Only if you actually need it.

Best for: endgame / endurance, endurance, babysitting a squad, any mission where dying is the failure

Fat Warding Halo, Safeguard on allies, Adaptation. This is 2026 Nezha. You are the unkillable skater.

Warding Halo is the 2026 identity. Nezha lives because the ring lives.

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 5 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 2/5 Dmg
Sur: 4/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 3/5 Mob
Ease: 2/5 Ease

Your next step: stop here unless a specialist card fits the mission.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.

Specialist builds

Not part of the path

Same frame, different job. These are not missing rungs — they are optional identities once the path feels easy.

Steel Path3 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceSteel PathFarmingShards optional

Ring Toss

Your first endgame-capable version.

Best for: Orb farming, mobility, people who like Nezha as a teleport assassin

Reaping Chakram. Extra rings, extra orb chance on damaged enemies. Teleport on recast. You are a yo-yo.

Reaping Chakram is the mobility / orb augment. Halo is still mandatory.

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 3 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 5/5 Dmg
Sur: 2/5 Sur
En: 4/5 En
Mob: 4/5 Mob
Ease: 4/5 Ease

Your next step: run this until it feels easy. Then Ring of Fire — Optimised.

Endgame4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathShards optional

Status Forest

Only if you actually need it.

Best for: Status weapons, Heat inheritors, packed Steel Path rooms, the Nezha who wants to press 4

Divine Retribution. Spears spread your status effects across the impaled pack, then the slam detonates them. Heat inherit lives here.

Divine Retribution is why Spears stopped being a meme pin.

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 4/5 Dmg
Sur: 2/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 2/5 Ease

Your next step: stop here unless a specialist card fits the mission.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.

Endgame4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathSurvivalHelminthShards optional

Slow Skater

Only if you actually need it.

Best for: Steel Path Survival, endurance, people who do not need the heat trail

Gloom over Fire Walker. A slow aura on an already unkillable Halo tank. Chakram still prints orbs.

Gloom Nezha is the 2026 Helminth tank. Fire Walker is the usual dump because Halo already does the living.

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Gloom (Sevagoth)) · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods

Not yet · Codex Checked 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Update 43.5

Medium — A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification.

Dmg: 3/5 Dmg
Sur: 3/5 Sur
En: 2/5 En
Mob: 2/5 Mob
Ease: 2/5 Ease

Your next step: stop here unless a specialist card fits the mission.

Needs Helminth or shards. Open the Starter first if those are locked.