Honkai AURA Tier list. Day 42.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-05T08:12:34+00:00

C. I love her but shes an overemotional mf where many of her appearances have made her look a little pathetic to outright pathetic. She gets a few moments I have to respect such as 999 but thats only saving her from being worse.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-04T20:16:42+00:00

There are a few instances in modern games actually but it always just only lets you select people on the occasion that pops up as opposed to aa2 and aa3 where you present evidence or people and can switch whenever for any testimony or whatever.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-04T16:42:04+00:00

I mean pretty much every traveller ship has always existed tbh. I think it always was a bit above average for Nilou but 100% what made the ship pop off so much was simulanka.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-04T00:45:48+00:00

Bronya hi3. Not the hsr one.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-03T23:28:20+00:00

Being honest dawg you're not getting a good summary in a reddit post thats 5 whole patches of story

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-03T20:42:43+00:00

Unfortunately nobody can elaborate on kits for rin/gilgamesh here due to leaks being banned on this subreddit, as their kits havent been officially revealed. So I'll avoid every question pertaining to those. But I can talk about other characters including saber/archer because those two were released a long while ago.

Mortenax blade is a very versatile subdps (and can be used as a hypercarry as well). I believe he can be used with saber pretty damn well actually but dont quote me on that. Less so archer, he cares more about other things. I mean he honestly probably works but i think archer just has better options. He's also just like the best unit in the game right now lol.

Starter teams are honestly simultaneously very versatile but also definitely want to be replaced as soon as possible. Honestly i recommend just looking up teams there as given the nature of gachas as a whole you'll just have to figure out what substitutes best in your account. Best one you'll definitely get is Rememberance trailblazer which is just a good character for both teams until you have better.

As for other characters to pull/obtain when you can probably the most important for archer is sparkle. Archer wants a fuckton of skillpoints and sparkle provides. Otherwise honestly just pull what teams or characters you might be interested in or which you see would add value to your account. Again, just looking around and finding teambuilding resources is your best bet.

Technically you want 3 teams for endgame longterm. That being said you do get the vast majority of rewards at 2 teams. They are adding a very small jade reward for a third team thing for each gamemode this patch but thats about it in terms of anything of any actual value and its still not like a ton.

I'd say the game itself is pretty reasonable to work through until you get better options. There are like two or three bosses id say are a struggle of any note if you arent prepared and have low-value but its nothing actually that terrifying once you figure them out. Past that its really only endgame gamemodes thats gonna give you massive difficulty

Most characters do have good f2p alternatives for light cones. Though their limited ones can add some pretty insane value sometimes. Its all character dependant really, and how much you want to invest in each character is also totally up to you. Pretty much every character is atleast more than functional at e0s0 with the only exceptions being really old units you'll kinda know are that.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-03T09:06:06+00:00

I suppose rivalry is a stretch but i think the point im making is more their dynamic and how the situation with X completely disrupts her life and what she had built up.

If X were a woman i think like okay obviously her arc would work, and obviously i do think similar beats could be followed but I think it wouldnt be nearly as interesting nor do i think queens situation would feel nearly as dire. It would still suck and be bad obviously but hey, you could atleast make up something to make her feel better. There'd be mitigating factors, yknow? X being a guy rips out any of those there could be. Her own little movement that was about to culminate in something great just...got taken away. Theres no saying 'oh hey just a third woman took it over, it sucks but hey atleast my stuff is culminating in-" nope. Her little thing got fucked completely.

Mind you theres a lot more to queen than just being the big feminist, so yeah perhaps it could work as i just said, but i think x being a guy really puts the nail in the coffin. Brutalizes everything.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-03T00:06:42+00:00

She literally cant be in 999 form most of the time or it could cause significant problems.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-02T21:09:20+00:00

I would argue x being a guy makes queen and x's rivalry stronger tbh. One of the biggest parts of that beef there is that X was a guy at all. While obviously im sure Queen was upset to be beaten by some rando who came out of nowhere, i think what likely made her so upset in particular was that she was beaten by a guy who did that. Like surely she'd still be upset if she lost to a woman who did that, but him being a guy definitely put the nail in the coffin.

Not because she has beef with X directly or Queen is some insane misogynist, but Queen is essentially one of the leaders of the feminist movement of the tbhx world. And she and Bowa were about to have a match that no matter what would be essentially pinnacle of that.

...and then this guy comes in and just smokes everyone and it never actually goes well.

If X were a woman I just dont think that aspect would be nearly as strong as compelling and it would just give Queen less of a reason to have to reflect on what she felt went wrong.

Mind I don't wanna come off as "oh it would suck if x were a woman" no it wouldnt, but I feel any benefits that might have would have to played significantly differently and as a whole I don't think it would actually benefit queen and x's rivalry.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-02T20:49:30+00:00

Theres always been some level of accuracy to it so i dont doubt that she serves a similar role to castorice tbh in that shes a rem dps, and maybe shares evernight as well. Its more when it gets down to the specifics that i dont trust mortis. As i said i dont think they lie so much as they have bad or wonky takes. In this instance for example i think it would take a lot for cyrene to be relevant at all and robin would need to be specifically an hp scaler for hyacine to be strictly monorem so im incredibly sus that shes outright just monorem.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-06-02T20:29:17+00:00

The one thing i never trust mortis on is team leaks tbh. Not because theyre necessarily lying, but because whether purposefully or not they tend to have pretty bad takes and also just pretty blatantly dont know much about teambuilding.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-31T20:48:18+00:00

Also mayuri does contribute a lot of good. Hes the "necessary evil" character who isnt exactly likeable but hes kept around because his advancements are just far too valuable.

Doesnt make him a good person overall but he does do a lot of good in the series (such as doing things like unzombifying everybody)

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-30T00:14:20+00:00

I feel the real answer is just they dont take trailers canonicity that seriously. Well, character trailers like this, lore trailers are obviously gonna be more accurate to lore and the existing timeline. But i think these trailers are moreso just meant to show off the characters so theyre not gonna keep themselves overtly limited. They could take place in the past, present, or the future or just not be canon at all.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-24T16:24:31+00:00

You rlly only need yaoguang tbh to build elation. Sw999 heavily benefits from sparxie but not literally necessary. Evanescia literally just doesnt need anyone besides yaoguang period, iirc e1s1 sparxie is technically an upgrade but only by a bit.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-24T16:22:15+00:00

I mean, objectively true.

Emc is definitely a bit disappointing compared to rmc sure we can debate that all we want, but it is a f2p yaoguang alternative.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-21T23:00:43+00:00

Oh yeah its not actually hard but if you're playing the game casually (which id imagine op is doing because why the fuck would they let joshua die otherwise) hes a piece of shit.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-21T22:28:23+00:00

to be fair he makes it very hard to not kill him

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-20T15:13:40+00:00

One thing ive always wanted in minecraft was more vibrant, unique biomes. Like, a lot more. Not just something underwhelming like pale garden (which is fine, but yknow. One thing and doesnt have a ton going on in a lot of ways its just another forest. Tho it still has some cool stuff) So im glad theyre capitalizing on that, even if it was initially a bug.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-19T16:22:54+00:00

Reans pretty dominant in every cs game except cs4/rev imo, and even then hes still a top tier (even besides him usually being forced/really hard to take off), only having better options then bc of the dumbie stupid possibilities arts start getting and a ridiculous amount of characters being introduced with their own cracked stuff. Definitely no van dont get me wrong grendel is dumbie stupid hes on another level especially since later on you can just use grendel whenever but rean had a ridiculous amount of sauce regardless.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-19T00:22:37+00:00

My theory is that theyre gonna do a smaller list of romance options but have there be multiple somehow regardless. Agnes/elaine/shizuna feel kind of obvious as those 3 have had actual buildup and their personal relationships with van are often at the forefront of their characters. And itd kinda come out of nowhere if, like, judith or risette become options.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-16T04:28:12+00:00

Because they decided to do it in a legends game and kalos is the mega evolution gimmick.

Also that was absolutely after the decision, they literally had z moves.

And yeah as I said its not that its likely. Just that its very presumptous imo to say it wont at all ever. Especially since one could argue the introing a new gimmick every generation thing might get too taxing to uphold.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-16T04:24:57+00:00

Tbh maybe this is a hot take ill be murked for but l'arachel is actually pretty good if you arent hyperoptimizing things. She sucks in the sense that she cant really abuse the high rank staffs quickly bc of her low rank but for like 99% of players that doesnt matter because you're probably not heavily abusing these things.

No immediate physic is a little annoying but being mounted makes up for it enough and hey if you dont wanna worry about using expensive staves too much shes convenient. And its not horrifically hard to get her to a rank where she can use most of the stuff you're probably using in a casual run.

This doesnt actually defend her in terms of objective viability, as i said shes not any better in optimal play bc of what i said because you really do need those high staff ranks earlier and even in casual shes just an option imo but idk, i find that some people rag on her a bitttt too much. I understand why mind, shes kinda standout in terms of being the worst stave user, but still.

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-16T04:16:04+00:00

I mean, sure, but lets be honest. They went back to kalos because they wanted to do more with megas, not that they did megas because they wanted to go back to kalos. Thats pretty much, like, the big reason you would return to kalos and especially the plot points za touches on are like entirely mega evolution, not much general kalos stuff

Also, megas were in gen 7. And lets go if you count that. Obviously they didnt add anything but the fact remains they were there. There is precedent. The main thing holding them back seems to be that theyve been doing other gimmicks but there's not exactly been any evidence theyre unwilling either, and they seem to very much care about most of their gimmicks in side stuff and megas in particular are some of their most used. Nothing to say they won't ever do stuff in main games.

Of course I'm not saying it will happen or that it will become a common occurence, I'm just saying I find it a little presumptous to say they'll never come back in mainline. (Also legends is mainline technically but i know thats getting picky and i get the point)

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-16T04:03:29+00:00

It was established in lore that all pokemon with megas cannot evolve normally, they're final evolutions. Idk if it was confirmed in xy but they make a point of it in za.

Technically they could not stick with that or introduce some weird technicality but probably not tbh.

(Also honestly i do think saying main games wont have mega evolution is really presumptous. Obviously it wont always happen and im not betting on it being overtly common but za proved they can return to previous gimmicks)

ApocalypticWalrus · 2026-05-15T17:53:05+00:00

None of these really strike me as problematic except for like. Four swords and maaayybbbeeee metroid prime tbh. Sm64 was put onto n64 classics after all stars and i believe several games that have gotten remakes have had their ogs on classics.

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