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"Man I did really good that round, that's another S rank . . . WAIT THERES SS???"

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  • r/HonkaiStarRail - "Man I did really good that round, that's another S rank . . . WAIT THERES SS???"
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 avatar

Yup. But there is no reward for it so it's just for the challenge. 

And even the reward for S is not that worth pursuing if you struggle to get it. The jades are only up until A rank.

I would think people can get S at least even with the trial units no?

u/itsDoor-kun avatar

You definitely can get S-rank just by using the trial units. I auto'd Supreme Leader with a team of Argenti, Sparkle, Tingyun, and Huohuo with RFA or the other one (can't remember) and Hone Your Strength

u/Fried_Tophu avatar

I used the exact same team on that stage as well, I was curious to see how well the trial characters handled themselves. Took all 4 cycles but still cleared with S-rank.

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Definitely. I’m pretty new and I don’t have that many characters so I’ve only been using the trial units. I have S on all of them so far.

Depends. In my first try I did A in the first 3 and S in the fourth, and I don't care enough about the S rewards to try again.

u/DisNiv avatar

You can get S rank by using trial units and leaving it on auto, yes

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Rewards arent even rank based, you just need to kill all 3 bosses

And killing all 3 bosses gets you an S

What I meant is that all the jades are behind only the first two bosses, so with just a rank A you get the jades.

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TBH the stages are extremely easy. I just use trail characters and can clear S-rank pretty easily

In my first tries I got A in the first 3 stages and S in the fourth, and since I don't care about the rewards for S rank I don't really want to waste time trying again, even if it's easy.

Yeah, i auto'd an S with my own stuff

But i tried a manual with the trial units and got an S just fine

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Dude those are relic shit tho...they come in clutch at times

u/SectorApprehensive58 avatar

funny you mention the relic shit, I ran Knight of Purity for Aventurine Def Chest, 30 runs I got everything but. Got pissed and moved to crafting. My first relic craft? BAM Def Chest with Crit

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u/Kainapex87 avatar

I got the Jade at B rank.

u/Late_Lizard avatar

Satisfaction is priceless.

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u/HiBana86 avatar

Can't you just... do it again instead...?

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u/mlodydziad420 avatar

I got it on Argentis trial.

I know that Argenti has specific use cases, but any time the odds are even a little in that dude’s favor he absolutely slaughters content.

I've cleared every stage of this event so far at SS rank with Argenti except the obviously DOT and Blade ones. He's a monster used in the right circumstances

Yeah, dude is quite niche, but absolutely fucks in that niche

u/BasedMaisha avatar

Yup, I got hella lucky and accidentally E1'd him in like 30 pulls and every time phys-weak MOC shows up I slap a Tingyun/Sparkle on him and shit MELTS. Man saw the amount of people saying "ez skip" on his banner said "bet" and ended up being a free pass for one side of PF and also made the 1.6 weekly boss way easier if you have him the nanosecond his banner ended. Hoyo made sure to punish the skippers the patch right after him lmao.

Really hoping he comes into the main story, it's a crime that this man is an entirely missable character who literally appears in his own quest then disappears from the plot.

u/Snakestream avatar

I pulled Argenti on a whim but didn't build him until the latest pure fiction. He absolutely demolished physical weak content and I've barely put any effort into getting him relics.

At this point, I just copium for AoE relics. He is still using borrowed Quantum pieces.

u/Snakestream avatar

I had a couple nice boxer pieces from when I tried to build Luka, but yea, my Argenti is wearing 2 musketeer pieces

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u/Bookwhyrm avatar

Fun fact, on Supreme Leader you can clear with 4-5 cycles remaining.
Just put Tingyun (preferable with Dance Dance Dance) in the first slot and Argenti on the second. Add Sparkle, and if you have her Ruan Mei, and you're ready to go. Bronya might work well too. Choose the Energy Regeneration buff, and you almost have a perpetuum mobile with Argenti refilling Tingyun's Ultimate and her Ultimate filling up half of Argenti's Ultimate (and almost half regenerates from him killing enemies, and new ones spawning).

u/ThickStatistician928 avatar

On the latest one, Seele can get a super easy 4 cycles remaining clear with Tingyun + Other Turn Advance Supps. You just overkill the adds with your ult and skill. Literally a sleepwalk

u/Bookwhyrm avatar

Yeah, she just murders. With Bronya and Sparkle (and Ruan Mei) it is even possible to do it in one cycle.

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That's me fr fr

u/Lucariolu-Kit avatar

Wait till you get smoking sick style /s

u/Kira_75013 avatar

SMOKIN' SEXY STYLE!!

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meanwhile me on A

u/DoreenKing avatar

If you want the S rewards, you can use trial characters and set the thing to auto and clear with S, as long as you have buffs for those recommended characters.

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u/Neoncarbon avatar
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*pretends to be shocked*

How did you get S in the first trial? I could not do it either with trial characters nor mine

u/Neoncarbon avatar

I just used my Acheron team with these buffs

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u/R-3-5-P-E-C-T avatar

omg the chibis are so cute

Is your Acheron E2 by any chance?

My Acheron is E0.

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/edit: all my limited units are E0.

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u/Neoncarbon avatar

Lol yep, it might be harder with full nihility. E2S1 Acheron with hyperspeed Sparkle makes things pretty nice.

u/GamingWithJellyJess avatar

i did acheron e0s1, kafka e0s1, black swan e0, fu xuan e0 and got ss!

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howd u get the chibi icons?

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u/gabes1919 avatar

I found it to be pretty easy with my own Acheron, Black Swan, Pela. Just need to know the mechanics of building up Acheron's stacks

u/DragonspringSake avatar

I had much better luck with acheron kafka black swan than trying to fit in pela in any set up.

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u/Renetiger avatar

I think it's a thing in most events that have ranking, not just in Star Rail but Genshin too

i got S using trial character and got SS using my own character......

u/yosoyel1ogan avatar

Yeah I think trial characters have traces to 8, no eidolons, and maybe sig LC? But the relics are unclear, I think you can't look at them. So for most people that actually have the unit themselves, their own is probably better

These trial characters all have 4* Light Cones or the Simulated Universe 5* ones

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NOOOOOOO NOW I HAVE TO DO IT

Its kinds like genshin where theres platinum after gold just a neat little reward

I wish there was an sss rank, just for satisfaction like ss rank

Feel like some people are missing the point with "oh S-rank is all you need, it's so easy."

Nah man, it's the impulsive desire to max out the rankings regardless of reward and finding out after 5 days that S wasn't even the highest one kinda surprise.

Is it necessary? Nope.

Will it bother me until the end event so I'll go back and try to SS it? Yes.

And with most challenges, none of it is important at all. It's just the principle.

I tried the "Propagation" setup with trial units with DHIL, Tingyun, Sparkle, Huohuo. Ended up using my own units as trial DHIL was hitting too softly for SS rank.

Bruteforcing Acheron hypercarry was the way.

u/inacio999 avatar

Same lmao

I only have gotten SS on one, the first DoT one

Am I the only one who unironically thought this was going to be a Prydwen Acheron/Adventurine instance of creep getting creepier?

u/TypicalInstance6937 avatar

BREAKING NEWS!!!

LOCAL WOMAN TOO ANGRY TO WAIT FOR HER TURN, BASICALLY KILLED EVERYONE BY HERSELF AND THERE ARE 3 BYSTANDERS, DOING NOTHING TO STOP HER

Found this out on day 3. Then it made me lose my mind trying to get SS on days 1 and 2.

Had to do some crazy stuff to get it too, day 1 all nihility no sustain to get as many Acheron ults as fast as possible and on day 2 completely ignored the hp draining stage gimmick and went with a FuA Ratio+Topaz team and it somehow worked.

u/yosoyel1ogan avatar

I think I only got it on the first one? I think you have to clear it with 2 or 3 cycles to spare. It's not just beating the boss.

u/LegendHero365 avatar

I got 2 SS by accident

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I did not use any sustains for these, so you might wanna give that a try.

u/warjoke avatar

Almost had SS on the last stage because my Ratio popped off so hard he kept throwing chalk every second. The trial Topaz is such a huge help too.

FUCK

And here I thought I was playing optimally 🥲

exactly how i felt lmao

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How do you get S for trial Acheron and Jing Yuan? For Acheron: I used my own Pela. For JY: FX, Sparkle and TY are my own.

Wait so you’re telling me we can get a win pattern of A SS A SS A SS?!

Wait you’re telling me that we get a win pattern of A SS A SS A SS?!

u/little-nightmare-ki avatar

I just searched up F2P videos of how to get S tier, it's a bit scuffed sometimes but it works. good job on SS :D

thanks, I think I just got lucky

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Ya i unlocked that i was shocked lmfao

u/K0KA42 avatar

How did you SS the last challenge? I feel like that one was the hardest for me. I kept trying to drag through weird teams. I couldn't really get a good grasp of what would work best

u/RPGenome avatar

If it has no reward, it doesn't exist.

u/DemiseRime avatar

You can get SSS by 0-cycling.

Good one fellow History Fictionologist

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bro I'm forced to use the trials ;-;

u/Mashiroshiina12 avatar

Really?

no, 0 cycle is still SS

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u/RPGenome avatar

If it has no reward, it doesn't exist.

I think getting SS might be related to beating the stages without using the units provided by the event (I mean using your own copies of them,not the free ones). I may be wrong tho

u/StepOnMeKafka avatar

No it isn't. Depends on turns left

Alright

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