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Chiz
April 29, 2026 at 02:50 PM
Fix Chiz faction (was 'Dvořák Family', should be 'Pink Paws Bank')
Chiz is an S-Class Cosmos Esper who works as the lobby manager of Pink Paws Bank and doubles as an urban guide in Hethereau. Unlike most characters obtained through the Scarborough Fair gacha system, Chiz is unlocked by reaching City Tycoon Level 18, making her a progression-based reward tied to the game's business empire system.
Despite her S-Class rarity, Chiz stands out for her accessibility: every player can obtain her through gameplay rather than spending gacha currency. All of her Awakening effects can be progressed in-game without needing duplicate pulls, further distinguishing her from gacha-exclusive S-Class Espers.
Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
Name | Chiz |
Rarity | S-Class |
Element | |
Role | Rhythm-based Main DPS |
Affiliation | |
Title | Bank Lobby Manager / Urban Guide |
English VA | Alice Himora |
Unlock Method | City Tycoon Level 18 |
Quote | "So... do you want to apply for a..." |
Arc Compatibility | Gas |
Chiz is shy and soft-spoken, struggling with social interactions despite her customer-facing role at the bank. During the beta, players first encounter her standing outside Pink Paws Bank, nervously trying to convince passers-by to sign up for a debit card. Her halting, unfinished sentences and visible discomfort create a character who is endearing precisely because she is so clearly outside her comfort zone.
Her official quote, "So... do you want to apply for a...", trails off without completing the pitch, capturing her personality in a single line. Despite her shyness, Chiz is diligent and takes her responsibilities seriously. Her dual role as bank lobby manager and urban guide suggests she knows Hethereau's streets intimately, even if she finds it difficult to share that knowledge with strangers.
Chiz is not available through the gacha system. Instead, players must progress through the City Tycoon business empire system and reach Level 18. City Tycoon is a progression system where players purchase properties across Hethereau, manage shops, assign companions to work in businesses, and build up a commercial empire. Reaching Level 18 requires sustained engagement with the system over multiple play sessions.
Because Chiz is unlocked through gameplay rather than gacha, she is guaranteed for every player willing to invest time in the City Tycoon system. This makes her one of the most accessible S-Class characters in the game alongside Esper Zero (the protagonist, given for free).
Chiz is one of the few characters in Neverness to Everness who is unlocked through gameplay progression rather than pulls. This makes her particularly valuable for free-to-play players, since obtaining an S-Class character without spending gacha currency is exceptionally rare. Reaching City Tycoon Level 18 requires significant investment in the business management systems, but the reward of a fully functional S-Class Cosmos Esper makes the effort worthwhile.
Chiz is a rhythm-based Main DPS character whose damage output depends heavily on precise input timing. When players hit attack windows with perfect timing, she delivers strong single-target damage that makes her effective against bosses. However, her reliance on timing mechanics gives her a steep learning curve.
Category | Rating |
|---|---|
Boss Damage | 4 / 5 |
Mob Clearing | 2 / 5 |
Difficulty | 5 / 5 |
Tier | B |
Her high difficulty rating (5 out of 5) reflects the precision required to maximize her damage. Perfect timing allows strong boss damage, but the high skill requirement limits consistency for players who have not mastered her rhythm patterns. Her mob clearing is rated low (2 out of 5), meaning she struggles with groups of enemies and is best deployed in boss encounters or single-target scenarios.
As a Cosmos Esper, Chiz interacts with the Esper Cycle through the following reactions:
Reaction | Description |
|---|---|
Blossom | triggered with Anima characters, creating area-of-effect burst damage |
Remora | triggered with Lakshana characters, slowing enemy movement and attack speed |
Charge | the trio reaction combining Cosmos + Anima + Lakshana for enhanced team-wide effects |
All of Chiz's Awakening effects can be progressed in-game without requiring duplicate gacha pulls. This is unique among S-Class characters and means dedicated players can fully unlock her potential through gameplay alone, reinforcing her identity as the "free" S-Class option.
Pink Paws Bank is a financial institution in Hethereau where Chiz is the lobby manager. The bank handles debit card services and general banking for the city's residents. Chiz's role places her at the intersection of NTE's urban life simulation elements and its combat gameplay. This reflects the game's ambition to give every character a civilian life beyond fighting anomalies.
Pink Paws Bank is also connected to the City Tycoon system, as it represents one of the commercial sectors players engage with while building their business empire. Reaching the required City Tycoon level to unlock Chiz naturally involves interacting with the bank and similar establishments throughout the city.
Chiz is voiced in English by Alice Himora, an American voice actress known for her roles as Robin in Honkai: Star Rail, Nekomiya Mana in Zenless Zone Zero, and Gullveig in Fire Emblem Heroes. Her casting brings experience with anime-adjacent gacha game roles to Chiz's shy, hesitant delivery.
As a Cosmos element character, Chiz contributes to key elemental reactions in the Esper Cycle:
Reaction | Partner Element | Effect |
|---|---|---|
Blossom | Spawns a peashooter that attacks nearby targets, providing supplemental area damage during combat. | |
Luxation | Causes a displacement effect that repositions enemies, useful for crowd control and grouping. |
Chiz pairs well with Anima characters like Nanally or Jiuyuan for the Blossom reaction, adding passive area damage to complement her own kit. She also synergizes with Psyche characters like Fadia for the Luxation reaction, which helps with positioning in tighter encounters. Her Cosmos element also pairs with other Cosmos characters like Edgar or Hotori for additional coverage.
Chiz is one of only two S-Class characters available without gacha pulls, the other being Esper Zero (the protagonist).
Her name "Chiz" may be a playful reference to "cheese," which pairs with her mouse-like personality and her association with the bank's mascot branding (Pink Paws).
Unlike most S-Class characters who require duplicate pulls for Awakening upgrades, all of Chiz's Awakening effects are earned through in-game progression.
Her B-tier ranking and 5/5 difficulty score make her one of the most skill-dependent characters in the game, rewarding players who invest time in mastering her rhythm-based combat.
Chiz's damage output scales with a character-exclusive resource called Grain, displayed on a mouse-themed bar at the bottom of the screen while she is on field. Landing basic attacks generates Grain, and the current Grain total is what amplifies her outgoing damage.
Build Grain with basics. Each basic attack adds Grain to the bar. Interrupting her combo (swapping out, dodging into a recovery frame) does not zero out Grain, but ending the combo early slows the rate at which she accumulates it.
Three skill charges. Chiz's skill has three independent charges that refresh sequentially. Using charges in rapid succession fires a short burst rotation that scales with current Grain, so dumping charges at full Grain maximizes per-skill damage rather than spreading them across the cooldown window.
Hold-skill spin. Holding the skill button with three charges available consumes all three at once in a spinning-attack finisher. The spin drains Grain over its duration, so it doubles as an offensive burst and a resource reset if the player wants to exit Chiz's field cycle cleanly.
Chiz's Ultimate ability, Grain Market, transforms the Grain bar at the bottom of the screen into a live graph display. Instead of tracking a single linear resource pool, the graph fluctuates over the ultimate window, and Chiz's skills deal bonus damage when cast at the graph's peak. This is the core of Chiz's rhythm-based identity: timing her skills to the graph's local highs rather than spamming them produces a noticeable damage multiplier.
Why it earns the "rhythm-based" label. Most other main DPS characters in the launch roster reward straightforward skill rotations without deep timing layers. Grain Market inverts that design: the optimal Chiz ultimate rotation demands that the player watch the graph and fire skill casts on the peaks rather than on cooldown. Players who can maintain that timing consistently see Chiz's raw damage climb well above her baseline tier ranking. Players who cannot maintain that timing see her damage drop significantly below her baseline, since off-peak casts contribute less than a comparable character's flat-timed rotation.
Training advice. Because Chiz is unlocked for free through City Tycoon Level 18 rather than through pulls, most players end up with her mid-early in the account's lifespan when they are still mastering the combat system. Treat the first few dozen combat sessions with Chiz as rhythm practice rather than optimal clears; the muscle memory for peak-timed casts transfers later to similar mechanics introduced by future characters, and the free Awakening progression means the character's damage ceiling rises in the background regardless of the player's starting skill level.
The City Tycoon path that delivers Chiz does not stop at her base unlock. Past her Level 18 unlock, additional copies of Chiz and her signature Arc weapon continue to drop as milestone rewards through the rest of the tycoon track. The full pipeline runs to Level 45, the highest tycoon rank exposed in the latest closed beta. Each tycoon level past 18 deposits another reward toward Chiz's progression, so a player who keeps climbing the tycoon track ends with Chiz fully awakened and her signature Arc fully refined without ever spending a Solid Dice or a Trikey on her.
Tycoon Range | Reward Track |
|---|---|
Level 18 | Chiz unlocked, joins playable roster |
Levels 19 to 45 | Six total Chiz duplicates plus her signature Arc, distributed as individual milestone rewards across this band |
Because duplicates control Awakening progression, a fully tycoon-tracked Chiz reaches her A6 Awakening node and equips her signature Arc on the same account that has never pulled on a banner. This is the design intent: the City Tycoon hobby loop doubles as an alternative character progression line that does not draw on the gacha pull budget.
Chiz's signature Arc is built around the same Grain Market resource as her base kit, but it adds an account-state condition that no other launch Arc shares: the Arc reaches its peak damage multiplier only when the player has at least one million Fons on hand at the moment Chiz is on field. Spending Fons below that threshold reduces the Arc's bonus, and topping back up above one million restores it. Players who treat Chiz as a free-to-play main DPS therefore have a soft incentive to bank Fons rather than dump them into vehicles, cosmetics, or non-essential property purchases right before a hard combat run.
Practical consequences: a fully built tycoon-funded Chiz with her signature Arc and a one million Fons reserve outputs noticeably higher per-skill numbers than a copy that is otherwise identical but holds five-figure Fons. The Arc does not check inventory at every tick, so spending and re-earning the threshold is a smooth on-and-off effect rather than a hard reset of stacks.
Early and mid-game performance from Chiz is consistent. Her Grain bar fills on basic attacks, her three skill charges stack into a hold-skill spin, and her Grain Market Ultimate amplifies skill casts that land on the live graph's peak. This makes Chiz a reliable carry through the opening months of live service, especially for accounts that still rely on the Standard Banner selector or have not yet anchored a limited-banner DPS. At the very high end of endgame content, Chiz's damage ceiling is slightly capped relative to a fully built Nanally, because Nanally scales further with her follow-up attack passive and limited-banner Arcs. Treat the Cosmos slot on a tycoon-anchored team as filled by Chiz for the entire 1.0 window without worrying about an immediate replacement.
Quick numerical reference compiled from the in-game character profile. Stats listed at character Level 1 represent the base values before Awakening, Console Modules, Cartridges, or Arc weapons modify them.
Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
Birthday | February 28 |
Rarity | S-Rank |
Element | Cosmos |
Arc Class | Gas |
Faction | Pink Paws Bank |
Damage Role | Main DPS |
Chiz's starting numerical baseline before progression systems begin layering bonuses on top.
Stat | Lv.1 Value |
|---|---|
HP | 1280 |
ATK | 83 |
DEF | 75 |
CRIT Rate | 5% |
CRIT DMG | 50% |
Each character is built from a fixed grid of skills, console-side passives, and progression tiers. The counts below describe the maximum slots ever exposed for this Esper, regardless of which ones are unlocked at any given Awakening rank.
System | Slot Count |
|---|---|
Skills | 4 |
Life Skills | 1 |
Awakening Nodes | 8 |
Breakthrough Tiers | 4 |
Chiz is voiced across the three primary localizations supported on launch.
Language | Voice Actor |
|---|---|
English | Alice Himora |
Japanese | 小原好美 |
Mandarin Chinese | 则灵 |
These are the in-game skill names for this character. Skill effects are described elsewhere in the article.
Type | In-Game Name |
|---|---|
Basic Attack | Exiled Swordplay |
Critical Riposte | Minsky Moment |
Skill | Pink Paws Priority Principle |
Ultimate | Zero-Sum Game |
Life Skill | Lobby Manager |
Awakenings unlock through duplicate copies of the character. Each tier from A1 to A6 grants a named upgrade.
Tier | Awakening Name | Effect |
|---|---|---|
A1 | Sun, Sun - speak to me! | Increases the storage limit of Grain and Grain Loan by 10%. |
A2 | Fireworks in Silence | Grants 10% of current Grain as interest per second while Chiz is in the Surplus state. |
A3 | If There Were No Rainy Days | Increases the chance of a Grain Price increase by 50%. |
A4 | To Riceball, Bandage, Fons | Increases Grain acquisition efficiency by 20%. |
A5 | Blank Diary Pages | Grants Chiz Grain equal to 100% of the Grain storage limit upon entering combat. |
A6 | Thirty-Three Days | Increases Grain's additional Cosmos DMG by 15%. |
Resonance bonuses unlock at specific Awakening milestones, not from additional duplicates. R1 activates when the character reaches A3, and R2 activates at A6. Both stack on top of the named Awakening node effects.
Tier | Resonance Name | Unlocks At | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
R1 | Friends and Family | A3 | Increases Grain acquisition efficiency by an extra 50% while in the Debt state. |
R2 | Homecoming | A6 | Reduces the target's Cosmos Resistance by 10% upon Chiz dealing damage. |
Each character has a Console passive that activates when the matching Module type is equipped on their Console grid. This is a flat passive that scales linearly with the count of matching Modules and is the strongest reason to commit to a single Module type when building this Esper.
Type III Specialization: Increases Cosmos DMG Bonus by 10% for each Type III Module equipped.
Life Skills are out-of-combat benefits that activate while the character is assigned to the relevant non-combat activity (Eibon Antique Shop owner duty, Sea Angler trips, City Tycoon shifts, and similar passive systems). Each level unlocks an additional or stronger benefit and stacks with the previous levels.
Level | Effect |
|---|---|
Level 1 | Chiz increases traffic by 18. |
Level 2 | Chiz reduces ingredient consumption rate by 1%. |
Level 3 | In Owner's Selection, each correct dish (excluding Danzaburoul raises prices. Up to 15 times per round. |
Level 4 | Chiz reduces ingredient consumption rate by 1%. |
Level 5 | Chiz increases traffic by 27. |
Each skill block lists the in-game slot it occupies, the official skill name, and the short description shown on the character menu, followed by the named sub-actions of that skill. Sub-action descriptions are quoted from the in-game tooltip text.
Deals Cosmos DMG. Grants Grain on hit.
Sub-Action | Effect |
|---|---|
Basic Attack: Exiled Swordplay | Swings the short staff to perform up to 5 consecutive attacks, dealing Cosmos DMG. Grants Grain on hit. |
Basic Attack: Blighted Vale | Press Blighted Vale to throw Brown Sugar Boba to devour the target, dealing 2 instance of Cosmos DMG, granting a certain amount of Grain and Fons. Triggers up to once every 2.5s. Hold Blighted Vale during any instance of Exiled Swordplay attacks to create a branch attack, dealing 2 instance of Cosmos DMG and granting a certain amount of Grain and Fons. Grants bonus Fons if this skill defeats the target. Up to 250,000 Fons can be earned this way. Increasing the Tycoon Level to 25 raises the cap to 500,000 Fons. Grants 1 Fons per use once the daily cap is reached. After reaching the total limit, no more Fons can be obtained this way. |
Basic Attack: Bountiful Grain | Press Basic Attack while airborne to plunge, dealing 1 instance of Cosmos DMG to an area upon impact, while granting a certain amount of Grain. Increases DMG based on fall height, up to 100%. |
Critical Riposte: Minsky Moment | Triggers when pressing Basic Attack after a Critical Dodge. Leaps to evade and swings the staff, sending Brown Sugar Boba crashing into the target, dealing 1 instance of Cosmos DMG, reducing Break, and granting Grain. |
Redirect Skill can accumulate up to 3 charges. Press consecutively to cast 3 instances of the skill, consuming corresponding skill charges and dealing additional Cosmos DMG to the target based on current Grain count. Cannot Crit. Hold to consecutively cast 3 instances of the skill, consuming corresponding skill charges. During the second instance, Grain is continuously consumed, dealing consecutive bonus Cosmos DMG based on the Grain consumed. Cannot Crit.
Sub-Action | Effect |
|---|---|
— | The more, the merrier; the more, the better.nStacks Redirect Skill attempts, up to 3 stacks Press Redirect Skill to consume 1 stack and cast No Grain, dealing Cosmos DMG once. Press Redirect Skill consecutively to consume stacks and cast No Grain, Half Grain, and Full Grain in order, up to 3 times in a row. Press to cast Pink Paws Priority Principle while in the Surplus state, dealing bonus Cosmos DMG based on available Grains using Redirect Skills. Cannot Crit. Hold Redirect Skill to consume 2 stacks and cast No Grain and Half Grain. Continuously consumes Grains while Half Grain is active, dealing consecutive bonus Cosmos DMG based on available Grains. Cannot Crit. Consumes all available Grains (including all Grain Loans from the Debt state) when Half Grain ends. Press Redirect Skill again to consume 1 stack and end Half Grain early, allowing Full Grain to be cast without consuming Grains. Hold Redirect Skill to consume 3 stacks and use all available Grains (including all Grain Loans from the Debt state). Casts No Grain, Half Grain, and Full Grain in order. Hold to cast Pink Paws Priority Principle while Surplus is active, dealing bonus Cosmos DMG with No Grain based on remaining Grains. Cannot Crit. |
Deals Cosmos DMG and enters the Grain Market for 7s. During this time, the first Grain Settlement DMG is guaranteed to Crit. Immediately grants Grain Loan. Press Redirect Skill to settle the current Grain amount based on the Grain Price on first activation. Triggers Grain Settlement when starting the next Redirect Skill Hold Redirect Skill to settle the current Grain amount based on the Grain Price on first activation. Grain Settlement will not be triggered when starting the next Redirect Skill.
Sub-Action | Effect |
|---|---|
— | No turning back, max the leverage. Throws Brown Sugar Boba to strike, dealing AoE Cosmos DMG once and entering Grain Market for 7s. During this time, the first Grain Settlement DMG is guaranteed to Crit. Converts all remaining Grain Loans into Grains and enters the Surplus state after casting Zero-Sum Game. Invests all Grains into the Grain Market. Afterward, press Pink Paws Priority Principle to gain Grains based on current Grain Price fluctuations during Grain Settlement. Hold Pink Paws Priority Principle to trigger Grain Settlement once based on the Grain Price on first activation. Leaves the Grain Market and prioritizes repaying Grain Loans with all available Grains when Grain Market duration ends. Grants access to the Grain Market while in Debt state and holding any Grain Loans. |
Deals Cosmos DMG.
Sub-Action | Effect |
|---|---|
— | Hope I can m-make it in time… Brown Sugar Boba carries Chiz and crashes into the target, dealing 1 instance of Cosmos DMG. |
Charge Enhancement: Grants active characters 4 additional Ultimate Energy.
Increases Chiz's Charge Efficiency by 20% while on the field.
Chiz has 8 Arcs flagged as a thematic match by the in-game character recommendation panel. Refinement effects below are quoted from each Arc's tooltip and do not represent a tier ranking.
Arc | Rarity | Refinement | Refinement Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
Contemplative Cat | 5-Star | Mammon | Increases Cosmos DMG by 2.5% for every 100000 Fons the wearer holds, up to 10 stacks. |
Fluff of Finesse | 5-Star | Thief's Candy | Increases wearer's damage by 8% for 10s after performing a Critical Dodge, up to 3 stacks. Resets the duration when triggered again. |
Good Boy's Grand Adventure | 5-Star | Morphix | Increases Charge Efficiency by 18%. Increases Team ATK by 10% for 20s after the wearer casts an Ultimate. Increases Team ATK by an additional 6% if enemies are controlled by the Ultimate. Effects with the same name do not stack. |
Tears Beneath the Mask | 5-Star | Nestbound Bird | Applies Warning Gaze on enemies hit by the wearer's Ultimate. Marked enemies deal 18% reduced damage for 20s. Effect does not stack. |
Cosmos Daze, Wild Reverie | 4-Star | "Bopp" | Increases wearer's damage dealt by 18% for 10s after casting Support Skill. Triggers at most once every 20s. |
Failing You, Heavy in My Heart | 4-Star | Spider Knowledge Collector | Grants the wearer 1 stack of Spider Knowledge when dealing damage with Basic Attacks, up to 8 stacks (up to 1 stack every 0.5s). All stacks are consumed when casting Ultimate. Increases the entire team's ATK by 1% for 10s per stack consumed. Increases ATK by an additional 2% when 8 stacks are consumed. |
Watch Your Heads! | 4-Star | Ghostly Kite | Increases ATK by 10% and Lakshana DMG to targets affected by Remora and Stain by 10% for 15s after the wearer casts a Redirect Skill. Effect does not stack. |
Be Happy | 3-Star | Huggy Vines | Restores wearer's HP by 12% upon defeating an enemy. Triggers at most once every 20s. |
Ascension lifts Chiz's level cap one step at a time. Each phase requires the listed Coins (the world currency) plus a fixed list of materials. World Level shown is the minimum required to access the breakthrough.
Phase | Lv Cap | World Lv | Coins | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Phase 1 | 30 | 1 | 25,000 | Lost Whispers x5 |
Phase 2 | 40 | 2 | 50,000 | Lost Whispers x12, Tear of the Sea x2 |
Phase 3 | 50 | 3 | 75,000 | Obscure Whispers x6, Tear of the Sea x8 |
Phase 4 | 60 | 4 | 100,000 | Obscure Whispers x12, Tear of the Sea x16 |
Phase 5 | 70 | 5 | 125,000 | Paradoxical Whispers x6, Tear of the Sea x24 |
Phase 6 | 80 | 6 | 150,000 | Paradoxical Whispers x9, Tear of the Sea x36 |
Chiz's base HP, ATK, and DEF at key level milestones. These numbers are the raw character base values before Awakening, Console Modules, Cartridges, or Arc bonuses modify them.
Level | HP | ATK | DEF |
|---|---|---|---|
Lv 1 | 1,024 | 42 | 60 |
Lv 10 | 1,946 | 79 | 114 |
Lv 20 | 2,970 | 121 | 174 |
Lv 30 | 5,018 | 204 | 294 |
Lv 40 | 7,066 | 287 | 414 |
Lv 50 | 9,114 | 370 | 534 |
Lv 60 | 11,162 | 453 | 654 |
Lv 70 | 13,210 | 536 | 774 |
Lv 80 | 15,258 | 619 | 894 |
