The 80-HP gamble: how to make Arena Blast's fastest fighter pay off
Two of those figures are calculated rather than displayed in game: reach multiplies bullet speed by how long a round survives, and volley damage multiplies per-round damage by the projectile count.
Zippy sits at the bottom of one column and the top of another. Her 80 HP is the smallest bar in the game, about a quarter under the roster average of 107.5, while 300 move speed puts her 35 clear of Sombra and 62% ahead of Tanko. That combination is what new players misread: she is not a burst threat with legs, she is a positioning tool carrying a gun.
Count what ends her. Rocco kills her in three connecting shots; so does Nia. Tanko needs two point-blank blasts, Frost two full fans, Bolt two clean triple-bursts. Now count the other way: five volleys for a 100 HP Bolt, nine for Tanko — two solid seconds of every round landing. Nobody gets two uninterrupted seconds against an attentive opponent, which is why Zippy does not out-trade people; she decides whether the trade happens.
Her two rounds leave the barrel about six degrees apart. Close in, both land and you collect the full 20; at the edge of her reach they have drifted some 35 units apart, and a fighter is only about 52 units wide, so a target sliding sideways eats one round instead of two. Poking from distance is the habit that quietly loses Zippy games. Standing off works on exactly two people: Tanko, whom she outranges by about 44%, and Brasa, by about 37%. Everyone longer-armed has to be closed on or left alone.
One number swings more of her fights than speed does. Everyone regenerates 14 HP a second after four seconds without being hit, and a flat rate rewards the smallest bar: Zippy is back to full roughly ten seconds after her last hit, where Rocco needs thirteen and Tanko sixteen. Break off together and you return whole first, every time. Disengaging is not cowardice here, it is arithmetic.
Two properties decide whether that is 120 damage or nothing. It is not a single blast — the twelve rounds take about six tenths of a second to finish leaving, and being knocked out mid-stream cancels the rest. And the heading locks on press while your position keeps updating, so aim down the lane a fleeing opponent is running along, then slide hard sideways while it empties.
The bar fills from damage dealt: 45% of every point landed, plus 15 for a knockout. That is twenty-three connecting rounds from empty, since twenty-two leaves you on 99. Shields also cut incoming damage to 40%, so a barrage into a freshly shielded Frost or a healing Medika turns 120 into 48.
Deathmatch is her home — ninety seconds of respawns, and 300 speed puts her on top of the two players already hurting each other first. Two rules: your Super charge resets to zero when you go down, so never bank it, and a fresh respawn cannot be hit for 1.4 seconds.
In Battle and Royale, ignore the idea that she outruns the toxic storm; the ring closes slowly enough that even the slowest fighter walks out. What her legs buy is loot. Energy crates give +2 damage per projectile, +8 maximum HP and 25 HP back on the spot — on a two-projectile fighter that is +4 a volley, and 25 HP is nearly a third of her bar. Two crates push Turbo Barrage from 120 to 168, past a base Tanko's 165.
Gem Rush makes her the best collector and the worst carrier in the game: sweep loose gems and dropped stacks at full speed, then stop duelling once your count is high, because gems scatter when you are knocked out. Tournament is the purest showcase of the regen maths, since no third parties means every disengage is honoured. Horde is the opposite — one death ends the run and she cannot clear a crowd that has closed on her, so kite in wide arcs. King of the Hill is her weakest mode outright, because progress only ticks while you stand inside a small ring.
She is 150 coins, and the second fighter the reward road hands over free, at player level 4 behind Tanko; buying early only means the road level refunds coins later. Three alternates join the default colours: Rosa at 60, Trovão at 100, Aurora at 150. Try her in Training first — of the whole roster she is the one most likely to feel broken until the dodging clicks.
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