last night, i started a honkai star rail challenge account -- get to endgame with a team consisting of only fire characters. my goal is to have a team of himeko, asta, gallagher, and fugue
highlights under the cut:
i struggled fighting this on an adventure mission due to the fire res
GALLAGHER ACQUIRED! now my team is himeko, asta, and gallagher :D
last night (when i only had himeko and asta), i wasn't able to fight gepard, but look! 51% and gepard hasn't even had a turn yet. last night i died before we could get this far
SAMPO HIIIIII... Moment of appreciation for my queen
WH. WHAT
WHAT.
I GOT HER AT E1 (from the starter banner). THIS IS MY FIRST SIX HOURS INTO THE CHALLENGE. and i got sampo's lightcone too?!?!?!
Ahh i ran out of images to put but i got hook, i'm not going to build her though since my team goal was himeko, asta, gallagher, and fugue, and i'm not looking to run double dps
tl;dr: the luck on my challenge accounts is insane and i am currently in rivet town gathering supplies
man my Lingsha and Fuyuan looks a little different today
anyway happy april fools! yes this counts as my april fools post
Team was E0 Dahlia on Cipher's S1, E0 Castorice on Evernight's S1 (I still don't have Cas's sig), E0 Firefly on Mydei's S1 (yes really), and Fugue on Herta's shop S1.
also JFC this was SO FUCKING HARD. so much RNG... I must have taken like 2 or 3 hours total to get this run. Long story short this was made possible by Castorice getting 2 dragons just from Firefly's selfhealing, with some EXTREMELY cursed relic choices. Firefly was on an HP orb to boost selfhealing, while Castorice had 2pc Longevous and fucking 2pc PASSERBY for 10% outgoing healing, and an outgoing healing body too.
oh and no global passive trigger. yes really. no I don't know how I did that either all the other close runs needed it.
I was originally gonna try to do Anomaly Arbitration Knight 3 (free Lygus dragons) but AA was way too hard for this derpy team. I did do Knight 2 with Hyacine replacing Fugue in this team though! though Hyacine does kinda trivialize that knight so it's not as much as an accomplishment imho.
Also, it turns out I COULD NOT immediately detonate the second dragon, because on runs I did that Firefly left the second TV phase at ONE FUCKING PERCENT before Sparxie nuked the team. That means the 20% res pen from leaving Netherwing onfield for 3 turns was a necessary part of the run lol. However, doing the same with the first dragon meant that you couldn't get the second dragon in time to help with Sparxie's second phase, which meant Firefly failed the DPS check. I couldn't hold the first dragon to the second phase either because Fugue or Dahlia would have died to first phase.
There were some really close calls even on the winning run too:
I figured out that with this setup, you could get the first dragon in time for Sparxie ONLY by letting the MOC buff kill the last chicken and cutting between the phase changes with Firefly ult, which gave barely enough Newbud to squeeze a dragon in to hit the outside TVs before Firefly had her first turn. Except for the winning run, where this somehow DIDN'T happen and the dragon was only acquired by Sparxie's first action, just before sending Firefly into the TV.
The middle schoolgirl in Sparxie's first phase died to the Fire dot from Firefly. Somehow. Without that...actually now that I think about it I still would have passed first phase and might have actually helped with newbud gen. Huh.
While Firefly did sucessfully kill the first TV phase, she couldn't kill Sparxie's first phase before Sparxie got up and and restarted it at 4%. I ended up throwing Castorice into the TV both to allow Firefly to brute force that last 4% AND to build more Newbud.
anyway tldr just use Ruan Mei instead of trying to sustain with Castorice it tears out less of your hair.
