Hi there, and welcome to Neverborn!
I've found that Zoraida is pretty flexible in that you can run her with just about anything. Additionally, she runs any HT1 models (IIRC). As such, you could run her with gremlins, small models, and of course anything from Neverborn.
Personally, if I run her, I like to run her alongside collodi with the weaver widow. It allows a lot of mobility and flexibility in terms of running objectives and isolating a lone model with her obey ability.
As far as learning her goes, she's not too hard. You'll learn quickly that she relies on her crew to get a lot of the grunt work done and losing your crewmates can be a big problem. In most games, played properly, Zoraida will likely never die as there's little in the game that can actually catch her.