u/The100toZeRo

There is not only multiple investments AND treasure to trash (the affix) you can also just get it from 3 bond elation xD which means you only need ANY gem to get guaranteed max bond elation down the line.

No 5* (by default) means you can get early 3 bond with Eva, SW999(through multiple investments as well) and YG. With silverwolf leveling up, sparxie AND EMC being 4 cost, you can comfortably stay around the mid levels and just roll. Pick up a nova along the way and 4 star AHA is yours. And the best one to give the emblem to? Of course MBlade. Not only is he a great unit himself, his stellaron hunter trade hyper charges SW999s early game by copying her elation skill and EVERY ELATION SKILL during AHA instant gives him a stack for his follow-up skill. Then you just add the standard sustain package of FX and huohuo and you even get yourself a free energy and xinazhou bond on top. (Just put nova on the very left so her assist skill and her skill buff are active from the start)

Now if you find some diamonds on the way you can cap it off with sparkle to power up your skill and quantum bond, in addition to the galactic voyager and express one you got as a freebie already. It’s a free win for me every time I see a way to get an early trash. You have to get a bit lucky in the midgame to find EMC as he brings BY FAR the biggest boost by also enabling nova. However there are quite some investment to directly get him or target 4 stars. If you are struggling to make elation work, try it whenever you see treasure to trash atleast and see if that treats you well :)

There is 3 concepts you want to master: ult usage, refilling between stuns and stun rotation.
The first one is the easiest: down ult at the start of the fight, ignore left ult, up ult and down ult during stun (in that order)
The third one becomes easier and easier once you mastered the second principle. But the stun rotation should always start with a full sun gauge on pyrois. Then:
-> Charge a held basic before triggering the first stun (be sure to not trigger it)
-> switch to your stunner to activate the first chain to pyrois -> cancel the next chain
-> immediately hold basic again -> switch to your stunner and activate the second chain to pyrois
-> now you press up ult, hold basic, right ult and the stun is over (you can sneak in a few hits before the right ult if needed or if the stun bar is still a bit off before getting close to the end)

The last part of refilling between stuns is the one that will vary the most between fights. You either have to juggle boss mechanics or make sure to not overcap on ressources as loosing sun gauge or heat gauge on Norma for example can lead you to be a few decibels short in the next stun window for the second ult. I am also running astra to specifically get that refuel from her 2 chains to make the second/third stun easier.

I feel like this is a good starting point after a few days of playing around so feel free to add more in the comments.

I was gasping like every 5 minutes about the Ws they were dishing out left and right.
Shinku has a fine base design but the dragon skin and her demon form blow EVERYTHING out of the water (not even talking about the special interaction with the new bike).
Then we get Iroi, the anima buffer AND HEALER everyone asked for since 1.0
The main event, the fanatsy TTRPG, looks fcking awesome and finally gives us a different playground than just the city with mostly urban thematics. The skins are also FIRE (that glory days skin for Zero is badass no contest)
And then, to top it ALL OF, they give us ANOTHER SELECTOR, which is a VERY nice gesture to the people that didnt start right on release so they missed the first one. And its also very enouraging for the day oners to stick with the game even if they got unlucky after already farming all the blue dice.

I am gonna be honest: i was a bit jealous whenever i saw those 0 cycle plight king clears. Unless it was just a 24 cost instakill, i felt like the whales were finally able to go all out and smash their wallet against a worthy opponent.
But as a dolphin i was always in the weird limbo... where i am clearing MoC with 0-1 cycles if i tried a bit with optimized teams, PF would fall over without me even breaking a sweat and in AS i was usually contempt after getting 1.8k action value remaining on kill on each side as that was usually the point where i felt like i really dominated the encounter. When AA dropped i felt the challenge pull up and my non-optimized teams started to fall off, with 0-1 cycles on Kings in check usually only happening if i hit a good shill rotation.
But starward mode hits the exact sweet spot for me. Its hard enough that my teams can run through their rotations multiple times but also not unreachable with my usual investment (E2 MPS, E0S1 supports, maybe an E1S0 here or there), needs enough teams that i can bring out all of the strong teams i sharpened over the years but not so much that i feel like i have to bring out my B-Tier teams. So i feel like even though we dont have the fastest endgame resets, each reset now feels more satisfying to conquer. Really looking forward to starward mode MoC now.

Went from barely 2 cycling current AA King to 0 cycling. Originally I wasn’t even able to get under 2 because I was using E0S0 sparxie but after switching to EMC I atleast was able to secure the gold medal. However after seeing some posts about being able to 0 cycle with the same invest I have (E2S1) I felt like I could do better. I was already playing with the thought of E1 YG and since my EMC was also very poorly build, I felt like this was the push I needed. And HOLY SHIT it’s night and day. So to everyone that is still contemplating: This is your sign. Get YG E1 and thank me later.

Footnote: To be fair to all my sparxie lovers (I still have her build and was using her exclusively until this AA) this AA King is just a bitch. Encouraging to be attacked as least as possible (therefore encouraging EMC over her), being always super wide so the bounces go everywhere and not even having a fire weakness (unless you switch the stage buff but let’s use the elation buff for the elation team 😅) broke my heart as I reluctantly tried EMC to try and get better results. So stay strong sparxheads, our time will come again ❤️

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I swear guys i am REALLY TRYING to get these 2 speed but i swear to god i cant get a better head than that to save my live. I have one with 4 speed and 9% crit but that feels SO MUCH worse :c so i am gonna rely on E1 HuoHuo for now to get my beloved 200 speed but one day...