the history of Honkai: Star Rail's most meta relevant free character..

My friend never builds speed on her characters because in her words “ why build speed when I have asta?” Honestly she makes a valid point

Player: Aww man, i always miss out on a cycle because i lack speed Hoyoverse: Here take this Asta: What. Is. My. Purpose. Hoyo: S P E E D Asta: Aww man

The biggest problems asta has, that her eidolons are so good and turn her from being sp negative to sp positive. E1 gives 1 more potential stack which is good if you want to stack 5 stack with the first skill, E2 helps you not to lose the stacks after using ultimate, E4 let's you ult more often which coincidentally also makes her E2 better and E6 makes it so you now only lose 1 stack per turn or if there is a fire weak enemy, you are losing 0 stacks. Asta carries my Kafka BS Team till today and I love her for that

Its so good is that she has a dedicated set that buffs her ultimates speed. Or the watchmaker set as well. There are just so many ways to modify her. Like maybe Chorus with Fleet to give the team a permanent 20% atk buff or Dance, Dance, Dance, there are so many ways.

The fire buff that asta provides to firefly contributes like 3% of her total dmg I would better start saying that asta gives a huge help to ff on ruan meiless team with a pseudo break efficiency trough her E which reduce half of thoughness on ST and still very good on aoe. After that, more than 1K atk and speedbuffs which can make so much easier the speed build part of ff

Great video, but Asta's synergies with Firefly aren't as good as you make them out to be. They're still good, but some disclaimers should have been included. 1. Firefly's Break and Super Break DMG are NOT boosted by the DMG% buffs Asta and Planetary Rendezvous gives. 2. Firefly's ATK -> Break Effect conversion is not as good as getting straight Break Effect, Asta gives her ~60% Break Effect at full stacks which is good but not as important when she usually hits 400-500% Break Effect anyways. Honestly the biggest draw is Asta's huge 53 SPD buff, which IS pretty substantial, allowing you to push for 280+ SPD in Ult for 4 turns. You can also swap SPD for ATK boots for ~35% BE increase but that one extra turn is a lot more important.

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I’m surprised you went through the whole history of her meta uses without mentioning the Asta-Welt eternal torture team even once (not even like a footnote in passing or anything).

i have ruan mei and i do agree she's better than asta but dang my asta is still seeing plenty of use whenever i need 2 teams ofc it's mostly bc i don't have robin but every time i play fiction my asta sees plenty of use even in apoc shadow before i got ruan mei i used asta she can be retired from moc for me now but she got plenty of use she's def one of the characters i'd recommend having built just in case there's any potential use or you don't like the 5* harmony units that could replace her i've seen plenty of ppl say they don't like ruan mei so asta will be amazing for them

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I'm pretty sure Harmony MC is the most meta relevant free character

Was not expecting the SpecTene mention at the end 🫨

0:57 voice cracks never fail to make me laugh its unlucky it happens to the best of us

E7 mentionned !!! Love your videos, keep it up !

I started as a f2p about halfway through Acheron's banner. I invested from the start into Asta. I used Ratio as my main DPS in my journey to end-game. I love her. She has saved my ass so many times, I can't even count. Letting me out speed enemies or get in extra attacks/extra damage. For the longest time she was my only harmony - full stop. I'm sure eventually I will get limited units that are better, but I do not regret investing in and using her she's proven her worth to me. As a newer player - I didn't have (and still don't) have everyone equipped with speed boots/speed substats.

Doesn’t the fire dmg boost do nothing for firefly because break doesn’t scale of it at all?

the first limited 5star i really pulled for was imbibitor who had asta, yukong and march7 on his banner. i got all of the 4stars E6 and to this day, yukong and asta are staples for my imbibitor hypercarry team. the only unit that changed over time was the sustain slot (now usually aventurine) asta is my favorite character. i pulled sparkles lightcone for her! <3 edit because its funny: i lost my 50/50 to clara, who now, together with march, is the core of my second team, fua with robin and aventurine (if i play both teams at the same time, imbibitor team gets huohuo for sustain)

I thought it was teyun from the thumbnail playback, then I realized the title said free. Didn't figure it out until the tab loaded (due to yt loving to autoplay thumbnails. I read the title before thumbnail, trained habit from ignoring image clickbait)

i know s5 ddd is common in harmony chars, but i havent seen it on asta and its nuts, its like pseudo robin

She carries me in PF for a long time 😊