ZZZ Skill Upgrade Costs: Chips, Core A–F and Anby Example

Ordinary skills use attribute chips; Core upgrades use their own boss materials. Budget the action your rotation uses before leveling all five skills equally. These tables cover purchased skill levels, before extra levels from Mindscapes.

Cost to raise one ordinary skill

Basic Attack, Dodge, Assist, Special Attack and Chain Attack follow this per-skill cost curve.

Upgrade	Chips	Dennies
1 → 2	2 Basic	2,000
2 → 3	3 Basic	3,000
3 → 4	2 Advanced	6,000
4 → 5	3 Advanced	9,000
5 → 6	4 Advanced	12,000
6 → 7	6 Advanced	18,000
7 → 8	5 Specialized	45,000
8 → 9	8 Specialized	67,500
9 → 10	10 Specialized	90,000
10 → 11	12 Specialized	112,500
11 → 12	15 Specialized + 1 Hamster Cage Pass	135,000

One skill, 1 → 12: 5 Basic, 15 Advanced, 50 Specialized, one Pass and 500,000 Dennies. Five skills multiply that bill by five. Agent levels 15, 25, 35, 45, 55 and 60 gate the successive skill tiers.

Core costs, A through F

Core	Agent level	Higher Dimensional Data	Notorious Hunt material	Dennies
A	15	—	—	5,000
B	25	2	—	12,000
C	35	4	—	28,000
D	45	9	2	60,000
E	55	15	3	100,000
F	60	30	4	200,000

Total A–F: 60 Data, nine Hunt materials, 405,000 Dennies. The numeric progression tables were checked against the community-maintained game-data tables on September 20, 2026. Read your Agent’s Core panel for the particular item names; different Agents do not share every boss drop.

Worked plan: original A-rank Anby

Anby uses Shock Chips, Higher Dimensional Data: Murderous Obituary, and Ferocious Grip. The latter two come from the relevant Dullahan Expert Challenge and Newborn Dead End Butcher Hunt; follow the in-game Source shortcut. Item identification: Anby database.

Suppose her Special is level 5 and Core is B. Taking Special to 7 costs 10 Advanced Shock Chips and 30,000 Dennies. Taking Core B → C costs four Murderous Obituary and 28,000 Dennies. With no materials owned, the combined shopping list is therefore those ten chips, four Data and 58,000 Dennies. No Ferocious Grip or Hamster Cage Pass is needed for this checkpoint. She must also reach Agent level 35.

Where the resources come from

Use HIA Combat Simulation → Agent Skills for chips and Expert Challenge for Data. Ordinary Combat Simulation cards cost 20 Battery each; Expert Challenge costs 40. Notorious Hunt offers three free reward claims per week, then the additional reward route costs Battery. Inspect the current challenge panel before paying. Activity and cost reference.

A free weekly attempt limit is not a reason to postpone every skill: ordinary chips and Expert materials use separate activities. Keep scarce Passes for a skill that actually changes the team’s damage plan. For Anby’s priority order, use the build guide; for seals and Agent caps, use promotion costs.