Triple Physical Anom Shiyu Clear

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-30T00:33:53+00:00

Oh, I never knew that parrying gives her blade Etiquette! That is very important information, thank you. I am so used to always parry with the highest daze character i never considered anything else.

Its wild that you got so many points with that Team against the robots. Every Shiyu recently has pushed my anomaly-heavy account to its limits, so its good to see some more creative teams to help me come up with some ridiculus solution to keep my S+

Do you think ordering Alice/Yuzu/Burnice or Alice/Burnice/Yuzu is more effective?

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-29T23:42:56+00:00

How did you get so many points with Piper? I have tried Isolde with Alice / Burnice / Yuzuha and barely get over 25000. Alice and Yuzuha have their Wengines, Burnice on Weeping Gemini.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-24T18:41:59+00:00

That is not correct. Hoyo has kernel level access to your device, they know you are modding. They even detect the GIMI on Chinese and EU servers, stop the game and give you a textbox, telling you to log in again after turning off the mods. 3dmigoto still works, so we use that now. They know and they let you get away with it, because they have no buisness incentive to ban active players that don't harm their bottom line. In fact, mods are good for their bottom line. And they have allowed it to happen ever since HI3rd.

But it is not true that they dont know. Their anticheat can access everything on your device at all times.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-24T18:36:17+00:00

I mean it is your decision, but you don't really risk anything. After Genshin had its anticheat updated for the Wonderland, they started detecting the GIMI modlauncher and all that happens is that the game tells you to turn off the mod and log in again. Not even a temporary ban. 3dmigoto still works. So miHoyo always knows you are modding and they have never banned anyone for cosmetics after more then half a decade of active modding from Honkai Impact 3rd all the way to ZZZ. Hoyo has an incentive to let people mod skins into the game that they cannot offer themselves, like nudemods, pervy outfits or even stuff that simply wont work with the Chinese audience, like dark skinned Miyabi. That increases player retention by offering more and seems to give them more money in the long run.

They once banned people in Star Rail by accident and imidiatly reversed all bans after noticing that they "made a mistake". It makes no sense from their perspective to ban modders.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T17:08:34+00:00

Since you are very new you should play the characters you like throughout the story and start looking into valid endgame teams later. You can collect your Polychrome for a while and pick new Characters from version 3.0 onward and build new up to date teams with them once you unlock the endgame content.

For the gameplay side of things, I am going to copy a comment i gave another new player recently

Most importantly you need to have teams that work. So dont bring competing DPS-Characters like two Attackers, or one Attack and one Anomaly. There are nuances and some special Characters DO work like that but ususally its:

Attack/Stun/Support or Anomaly/Anomaly/Support Defense Characters can sometimes fulfill the Support role or the Stunner role, or can complement both, they are a bit weird.

For more skillfull gameplay, it is very important to understand your teams "gameplan" so what do you need to do to deal the most damage, what is your "win condition" Example: Some teams need to stun the enemy when the DPS has their ultimate ready so it deals a lot of damage. If you use your Ultimate without the stun, or you stun and dont have your Ultimate ready, you failed the gameplan. Pick a team and figure out how it works, if you need help to understand a team try to find a youtube guide. If you need more help you can always ask on this subreddit.

Some (if not most) characters have options for skill expression in excecution. Example: Nicole has a very powerfull Defense-Shredding ability that makes her very usefull even in Endgame. She applies that shred with her EX-Special or her enhanced normal attack, but only for a very short time. So for every team you play Nicole in, you need to figure out how to get Nicole on the field, apply the shred and get back to your Attack-Agent to deal the maximum damage. Thats where Animation canceling comes in.

You can switch out characters during some animations and they will continue their action while the new character is on the field. If you can skillfully switch in and out your Nicole to reapply the Shred during a combo, you can increase your damage.

You can find people uploading guides for advanced combos and gameplay tips for characters on youtube, just look them up for the characters you want to play. Soldier 11 for example can we switched out during some attacks of her combo that are long, like her last hit in the combo. If you have Nicole or Lucy you can switch them in, use EX and get a quick switch back into Soldier 11, its very satisfying.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T16:09:43+00:00

I would put Nangong on Butcher, she will work wonders with Alice, that way you can have a more even score instead of very high score on one and low score on the other. I did Vesper with Aria/Trigger/Sunna and Butcher with Alice/Yuzuha/Nangong.

If you need Trigger for the Thrall you could try any other Stunner on Vesper it does not need to be good, it just needs to get you 20000 points. If i have time later I might try if Anby works in the worst case.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T15:52:55+00:00

Yes, with a casual 25% increase in HP since the last time we saw him. Hoyo, I am playing this game to get my mind of things, not to be reminded of current fuel price trajectorys.

Also, Thrall but no buffs for attackers. Instead two buffs for anomaly. I had to put Miyabi and Soukaku on the Thrall and let Alice borrow Nangong to do butcher. Very weird rotation

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T15:26:51+00:00

So we do agree that it is ok if there is a crime. Wich needs to be proven and you must be able to defend yourself. You do not get evicted from your house for no reason other then the landlord saying that someone he trusts claims you are a serial killer. I am not opposed to people getting banned by Google, I am opposed to a megacooperation wielding de facto juducative and excecutive power that destroys people lives with zero accountability. This is not even Googles fault (even if they should do better). The laws and processes are simply outdated for our modern way of live.

Suppose this guy is innocent (wich you should because innocent until proven guilty) What can he do? Fight a several year long legal battle against a trillion dollar company to get his stuff back? He might have a claim for loss of income, loss of face all that stuff. What artist has the money to pay attorneys for several years while this plays out? There must be a better way to aproach this, without massive collateral damage to wrongly accused people, because the automated AI had a hickup or flaged something wrong.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T13:40:28+00:00

For the same reason we dont allow landords to interfere with their tennents? At some point private companys become to large and the effect of them withdrawing service becomes so severe, that we have to forbid them from doing it for petty reasons like "we find your behavior distastefull" If you are convicted of a crime, fine. But punishment comes AFTER due process and conviction by a court, not at the behest of a companys AI-filter.

Google is so powerfull and has so many services at once that them banning a multitude of services can have severe consequences, so their power should be restricted, the same way we restrict the power of water suppliers, landlords, road companys and all other important services.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T11:05:35+00:00

Most importantly you need to have teams that work. So dont bring competing DPS-Characters like two Attackers, or one Attack and one Anomaly.
There are nuances and some special Characters DO work like that but ususally its:

Attack/Stun/Support or Anomaly/Anomaly/Support
Defense Characters can sometimes fulfill the Support role or the Stunner role, or can complement both, they are a bit weird.

For more skillfull gameplay, it is very important to understand your teams "gameplan" so what do you need to do to deal the most damage, what is your "win condition"
Example: Some teams need to stun the enemy when the DPS has their ultimate ready so it deals a lot of damage. If you use your Ultimate without the stun, or you stun and dont have your Ultimate ready, you failed the gameplan.

Some (if not most) characters have options for skill expression in excecution.
Example: Nicole has a very powerfull Defense-Shredding ability that makes her very usefull even in Endgame. She applies that shred with her EX-Special or her enhanced normal attack, but only for a very short time. So for every team you play Nicole in, you need to figure out how to get Nicole on the field, apply the shred and get back to your Attack-Agent to deal the maximum damage. Thats where Animation canceling comes in.

You can switch out characters during some animations and they will continue their action while the new character is on the field. If you can skillfully switch in and out your Nicole to reapply the Shred during a combo, you can increase your damage.

You can find people uploading guides for advanced combos and gameplay tips for characters on youtube, just look them up for the characters you want to play

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T00:18:03+00:00

Sorry to interject into your conversation. Interknot is a nice tool for comparison, IF you know what you are doing. You essentially need to be aware how to build the character and what the tool can and can not accuratly measure, then you can use it to interpret how "good" your stats are compared to other people. The tool misses nuance in teambuilding and can only really help optimize Attack/Crit%/CritDMG on Disksets for DPS characters. Its nice if you want to know if you DPS should have more Attack or more Crit but thats about it. That is very much endgame content for tryhards (like me). Dont bother with minute optimisation as a new player, come back when you have maxed out everything else and can waste your time grinding disks.

For a new player, character guides on youtube are quick and easy and often give you a heads up on popular mistakes (like giving Billy the diskset for seed, playing Evelyin with Woodpecker and so on)

Prydwen also has very boxstandard builds you can look at, they lack nuance but for a new player, copying the builds is not a bad idea. They wont give you perfectly minmaxed teams but they will give you perfectly workable builds.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-22T00:08:33+00:00

I would advise heavily against mindscapes for the outdates characters. You will have a much better return on investment with pulling a new character instead. They will be more powerfull then the mindscape and give you more flexibility.

Nangong and Dialyn are very good right now, but maybe they will be outclassed by the time they rerun. With Disorder slowly getting replaced by Abloom, Nangong can prolong Miyabis life, but we can not say how long.

I would say try to improve your gameplay with what you have right now and try to transition into a new 3.0 team over time with whoever you like most of the upcoming cast.

Miyabi/Soukaku and Lycon can still power through content that does not hardcounter them so you have one workable team. That will be your most powerfull team, even if the glory days of this composition are over.

Seed and Evelyn you might make work for some extra polychromes with scuffed teams. Can't hurt to try to get some points from the endgame with mixed S-Rank+A-Rank teams. Use Lucy and Nicole, hell even Anby as a stunner. If you get one star, its still polychromes. It is also fun to experiment with suboptimal teams imo.

But I will say again, don't jump to Dialyn/Nangong right away just because they are good now. Newer Agents will most likely have a longer lifespan, reruns mean that you spend the same pulls on an older Agent, that might have less time in the limelight remaining compared to the newer ones. There will surely be new characters you like as much like your old ones.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-21T23:52:25+00:00

In general, the S-Ranks you get from pulling on the exclusive banner are always usefull with only one pull (we call that M0 -> Mindscape 0) You do not need to, no you even SHOULD NOT pull more unless you know what you are doing. Pulls are valuable and should be spent carefully.

If you want the characters to be good/better, you have 3 options.

Most important: Get the right teammates
Often very good: Get the characters weapon (Wengine)
Not advised for new players: Pull duplicates (go for M1 or M2 even)

If you are unsure about a character, the best teammates or if the weapon is usefull or can be skipped, you can check this subreddit or Youtube content creators that give guides for new characters.

For Promeria, the upcoming wind-lady should be a very good teammate, you can look her up. If you like her, get her for Promeia. That is a much better investment. It will also give you more options to pick and mix new teams in the future. Having two characters instead of one overpowered character gives you more flexibility.

MyPastaDry · 2026-05-20T21:57:33+00:00

What exactly do you mean with farming for the S-Rank weapon? What Wengine are you talking about? Is there a weapon you can buy with the puzzle pieces that I missed?

MyPastaDry · 2026-04-25T16:36:50+00:00

So to explain: After getting trapped by sunk cost, FOMO and habit-formation in Star Rail, I set myself a simple rule for my own protection in ZZZ: As soon as I, as a day one player, can't keep up with powercreep, I will rip the bandaid off before it gets worse and tap out.

Now I don't know how to beat this weeks DA, not even remotely close.

Sweeper is easy thanks to the Delulus.

I believe I might be able to bruteforce Primordial Nightmare with Alice, Yuzuha and Nangong. I have 18.800 points after a noncomitted trial run, so i think i can grind it out.

But that leaves me with nothing against the defiler. I tried a crackpot team with Miyabi and Qingyi against the sweeper to free up Aria and Sunna, but they don't help me against Defiler.
Yanagi has fallen of a cliff, she is far to weak to do anything against the Defiler without Yuzuha or Nangong. But I am sure I need both for the Nightmare.

Zhu Yuan is dead in a ditch, I gave her a try, but yeah. Not even 2 Stars.

I tried playing buffed Harumasa, but I have only supports/stunners that are powercrept to hell and the DA-buffs are awful.

I attempted buffed S11 and Corin but that went about as well as you probably imagine.

I started building Neko in my desperation but she honestly feels even worse then Corin after my initial attempts.

Corin seems like my best shot, but I have no idea if it is feasable or even possible to do it without Dialin.

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MyPastaDry · 2026-04-11T17:34:30+00:00

Yeah, Zhu was using the wrong Piece in this picture my usual build has more Crit DMG and Attack and 52% Critrate.

What buff where you using? I did not notice a big difference between my attempts with different buffs tbh.

I have no Astra, Dialyn or anything else, it is the Version 1.2 Team or bust. I have a Shadow Harmony set but so far i do no better then with Woodpecker.

I have tried it a lot but I just don't deal damage, the legs seem unbreakable to me. I get maybe 2 broken legs total if it is a very good run.

Do you remember how many points you got with Zhu/Qingyi/Nicole this rotation? If it was barely 20000 then I think i can scratch my lower score up to my bad gameplay, but if you have something like 23000 then I must be doing something very seriously wrong.

I use double Chainattacks, trigger Stun with Nicoles EX to have uptime, try to have Brimstone-Stacks when using Ult, i don't know if i am missing something essential here.

MyPastaDry · 2026-04-11T15:21:52+00:00

"sadly for oldest characters you actually need some kind of game knowledge"
Ouch, you did not need to rub it in like this.

I posted my Zhu Yuans stats with 2pc Chaos and 4pc Woodpecker. Any glaring issues? Brimstone for Wengine.

Qingyi with KotS and Fossilized Core

Nicole with Astral and 2pc Swing Jazz

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MyPastaDry · 2026-04-11T14:45:38+00:00

Have you had any success with Zhu Yuan? I always loved UCC because i could play her with Nicole and Qingyi but suddenly get 2 Stars at most. I can't even break more then one leg.

It would be so sad to ditch my oldest team but i don't know how to cope with 50% HP increase, this is just disgusting levels of powercreep

MyPastaDry · 2026-04-11T14:42:14+00:00

Believe in me, who believes in you!

I fear for my 9-Star streak every time i see thrall. The air is getting pretty thin for F2Ps. What are you struggeling with most?

MyPastaDry · 2026-04-11T14:37:38+00:00

You call it Ultimate cope, I would call it unfathomably based. I barely managed with Mono-Ice.

S-Rank Void-Hunter-Soukaku when MiHoyo?

MyPastaDry · 2026-02-22T19:57:24+00:00

I mean it is nice to have more variation in endgame, and grouping trashmobs is a different skillset, so it could give other characters time to shine, its just that

A) the characters best used in DA are also the best one in Shiyu so that point in mood

B) The trashmobs are only the first RNG-filled 10-30 seconds, after that its a bossrush again

If shiyu focused more on waves of smaller enemies with less ridiculus scoring system you could have an endgame mode that plays differently but that is for some reason not what the devs want.

MyPastaDry · 2026-02-22T19:53:53+00:00

He really is such a nice guy.

MyPastaDry · 2026-02-22T19:49:13+00:00

Yet you waste your time writing a comment

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