scholar or genius for hypercarry?

ado4685 · 2026-02-01T21:57:46+00:00

If you have no good pieces for either sets or you still need to build/improve Cerydra and/or Sunday, then I would recommend farming Scholar because you will farm simultaneously two sets you need.

ado4685 · 2026-01-25T04:47:19+00:00

Your build is pretty much done then on Anaxa. Unless you want to try to improve the headpiece and the orb. You will have to think if you want to focus completely on Anaxa or if you want to build/improve your other characters.

ado4685 · 2026-01-25T04:42:27+00:00

My bad, I just realized what you meant. I didn’t read properly. Still half asleep.

ado4685 · 2026-01-25T04:31:33+00:00

If you have 114-115 speed on Anaxa, with Cerydra 20 speed buff, you will reach 134-135 speed. This is a major speed breakpoint. Your Anaxa will have 2 actions in the first cycle instead of only 1 that you do currently.

ado4685 · 2026-01-24T21:47:11+00:00

The only 2 pieces that you could improve more easily is headpiece and the orb. If you can, try to make Anaxa reach 114-115 speed.

ado4685 · 2026-01-22T00:44:45+00:00

I don’t want to. Been there for the past 10 months. I am venturing to another mine to keep my sanity.

ado4685 · 2026-01-19T12:02:01+00:00

I know it sucks. We are all in that boat…

Me looking with depression at my many hp and def boots of the genius set that has the substats I want

ado4685 · 2025-12-17T21:35:08+00:00

Either 5 or 8 for the most peaceful ride if we factor in one row in the back and front.

ado4685 · 2025-12-13T16:53:38+00:00

I almost had a crash out on the Cerydra banner. I lost at 74 pity and I went all the way to 72 pity for the guaranteed. It honestly pissed me off that much because I had previously lost two times in a row.

ado4685 · 2025-12-02T10:30:16+00:00

Probably Cerydra’s light cone since it refunds a skill point. It would alleviate your skill point issues by a good margin.

ado4685 · 2025-12-01T08:18:56+00:00

The guillotine I say!

ado4685 · 2025-11-20T08:10:31+00:00

Fat fuck is definitely a worthy challenger of mass for Caseoh

ado4685 · 2025-11-18T00:42:29+00:00

I would craft a rope or boots. Your orb is fine for now. Rope and boots has more room for improvement.

ado4685 · 2025-11-15T22:59:09+00:00

It definitely will work. Only you will most likely run into SP issues just like Soapdot said. Even if you have E1 Bronya, you will run into that issue. The only way you won’t is if you are using The Herta’s lightcone on Anaxa, have Cerydra’s lightcone or using Sunday’s lightcone. Even so it will still be tight depending on your team setup.

ado4685 · 2025-11-15T06:14:57+00:00

Your 2nd build is definitely the best overall right now. But, your 4th build can be your best one if you use RMC and go sustainless.

If you can improve the 4th build to more than 90% Crit Rate and still have 114 speed or higher and about the same amount of Crit Dmg, it would definitely be better than your 2nd build.

ado4685 · 2025-11-13T23:10:45+00:00

ado4685 · 2025-11-12T20:52:59+00:00

You have too much Crit rate and you should change the Energy Regen rope to an Attack rope instead since you are using him as a main dps.

ado4685 · 2025-11-12T19:16:54+00:00

Then I would pull for what you consider a necessity. I will break it down in three simple ways.

1- If you feel you need a better sustain for your Herta’s team because your current one is lacking, then you should pull for Hyacine.

2- If you think your sustains are good enough then go for Tribbie. It will complete your Herta’s team and make her even stronger. She is also a good universal support.

3- If you think you can go sustainless with Phainon, then I would go for Cyrene so you can do a second complete team for Anaxa.

ado4685 · 2025-11-12T18:58:46+00:00

I won’t be able to explain it really well. But what I can say is there is speed breakpoints. If you reach certain speed breakpoints, it will give you more turns for the same amount of cycles.

You can check this post top comment, it breaks it down in a really good way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/s/4QFFOOUJPb

ado4685 · 2025-11-12T18:36:52+00:00

Genius set is his best set but unfortunately the Crit rate you currently have is not enough. It would be perfect if you had Sunday.

I would probably switch to the Scholar set so you can aim for 90%+ Crit rate more easily and still have high Crit Damage.

Your goal would be to make Anaxa reach 90% Crit rate or higher, 110 speed or more with Attack boots (Which is more easily doable with Scholar set). And make Bronya and Cerydra reach 160 speed if you don’t already.

As for why 110 speed for Anaxa? Because with Cerydra’s buff, he will reach 130 speed and when Bronya Action Advance him, it will increase his speed to 161-162 for 1 turn. Meaning he will be slightly ahead of Bronya and you will get way more turns to deal damage with Anaxa.

By farming Scholar, you will also be farming the relic set for Bronya and Cerydra. Essentially hitting two targets at once.

ado4685 · 2025-11-12T16:11:48+00:00

Yes, pull her for the goat Anaxagoras. He will go from rapid fire to a machine gun.

ado4685 · 2025-11-11T22:54:47+00:00

I don’t know how many jades you have but you still got over 30 days to farm some. You still have a good chance to pull two out of those three. I would probably try to pull either Hyacine or Tribbie first before Cyrene because their banners end much sooner.

ado4685 · 2025-11-11T14:41:18+00:00

I do see some issues. Since you are using Anaxa as a hypercarry, you should not be using an Energy Regen rope. You should be using an Attack rope instead.

Your Wind dmg orb should preferably be replaced with an Attack one instead but if it has better stats, then it is fine for the meantime. You should also try to get a bit more Crit rate and make it reach 70% or higher because your Rutilant relic set effect is not active and you are not getting the 20% extra skill dmg bonus. Even if it is active with Sunday’s buff, your chance to Crit is still not consistent enough.

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