Ultimate EX Zoro & Sanji Build Guide: Medals, Support, & Strategy

**Main Body Content:** ## The Golden Rule: Attack is Your Defense Unlike almost every other character in OPBR, EX Zoro and Sanji have a specific trait where their defensive capabilities scale entirely off their Attack. Every time you hit an enemy, you build a stacking Attack buff (capping at a massive 70%). Once you reach this 70% cap, you become incredibly tanky while dishing out absurd damage. Your number one priority at the start of any match is to hit this 70% cap before the enemy Zoro/Sanji reaches theirs. **Pro Tip:** Always start the match as Zoro. Zoro has multi-hit combos and his Skill 1 creates a tornado that traps enemies. You can catch an opponent in the tornado and spam your normal attacks to instantly skyrocket your Attack stacks. Sanji is built for one-shots, not for building stacks. ## Matchups: When to use Zoro vs. Sanji Do not just swap between the two characters randomly and spam your skills. Each character is designed to counter specific meta threats: * **When to use Zoro:** Zoro's skills feature **Ignore Defense**. He is your go-to character for destroying defenders who rely on heavy defense buffs, such as Saturn or Pacifista. * **When to use Sanji:** Sanji's skills feature **Ignore Damage Reduction**. He also applies a flame effect on his attacks that can easily bypass characters who revive with 1 HP. Swap to Sanji when you are fighting Gear 5 Luffy, Dark Roger, or any unit stacking high damage reduction. ## The Best Medal Sets & Stats Your stat goals should be pushing around **+1400 Attack and +5000 HP**. Use your 18% Attack traits to max out your attack limits across your three medals, and fill the remaining slots entirely with HP. **Do not use a single Defense trait.** ### Top Medal Sets: 1. **The Triple Robin Set (Best F2P Option):** Use three event/arc Robin medals. This combination provides maximum Skill 2 cooldown reduction and significant Skill 1 cooldown, allowing you to spam your best abilities. 2. **Double Egghead Buggy + Egghead Medal (Best Premium):** For older accounts, Egghead Buggy paired with another Egghead medal gives an insane amount of passive tags, maxing out your Skill 2 cooldown while providing excellent utility. 3. **Basic Triple Luffy:** If you are a brand new player, slapping together three standard Wano/Onigashima Luffy medals will still give you a massive raw damage increase and solid passive tags. ## The Best Support Tags To push this unit to "immortal" status, you need to structure your support bench around these three specific tags: * **Attacker (Priority 1):** A maxed attacker tag gives you a flat +200 Attack. Because your attack is your defense, this is essentially a double buff to your survivability and lethality. * **Zoan (Priority 2):** Reduces damage received from elements you are weak against by 15%. This makes you incredibly difficult to kill even when at a color disadvantage. * **New World (Priority 3):** Increases your damage to elements you are weak against by 15%. Combined with the Zoan tag, you completely neutralize your elemental weaknesses.