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Best Swarm Disaster teams to bring to Simulated Universe - Honkai Star Rail

First off, I need to preface this section with this: there is no single “best” team to bring into Swarm Disaster. The mobs, sans the bees, are random; the bosses are random; the nodes are random. You’re always better off bringing a team that can win every fight, regardless of the enemies’ weaknesses.

Best characters to bring for Swarm Disaster

Of course, just because I had to settle with a patchwork of a team doesn’t mean you all have to. I do have a list of characters I wish I had—and some that I’ve personally used to clear my runs. Here’s a list.

A dedicated healer: This is non-negotiable. You need a dedicated healer to survive. At least one AoE unit: Usually, this will be Erudition units like Himeko, but you can also have people like Blade to fill it in. A buffer: People like Yukong, Ruan Mei, and Bronya improve the versatility of your team. Since you don’t know what elemental weaknesses you’re going up against, having a buffer to support your stronger characters will help you in every situation. Your MVP(s): We all have that one (or two) DPS unit we’ve invested all our resources into. Bring them. High HPs/DEFs: My Level 80, E6 Sushang, with the best equipment I can give her, can never survive the Elites and Bosses of the later Phases. Be sure the units you’re bringing are equipped to survive. Some five stars like Himeko and Imbibitor Lunae are also pretty fragile.Option #2: You can also bring Gepard or Fu Xuan to tank hits and protect your team. Option #3: Bring Clara or Fire Trailblazer for “taunts.” Option #4: Go on the Destruction Path and grab Regression Inequality of Annihilation (3* Blessing); it’s the one that splits DMG between allies. Also, grab as many HP and healing-boosting abilities as you can.

Clara: Swarm Disaster enemies love attacking your party. Blade: Blade has been an indispensable member of my party. He has high survivability, high DMG output, and barely uses any skill points. Kafka: I can absolutely see her blasting through enemies on an Elation or Nihility Path and with the proper supporting team. The ability to trigger all DoTs with her skill should be nerfed, really. Silver Wolf: Punklorde Mentality is one of my favorite Curios in Swarm Disaster, for the same reason why Silver Wolf would make an amazing unit to have right now. Since you never know what your enemies’ weaknesses are, Silver Wolf can compensate by giving them weaknesses instead. Luocha: If you have him, then you have the undisputed best healer in Honkai: Star Rail at the moment. Fu Xuan: She will absorb so much DMG for your party. Ruan Mei: Compared to Bronya, Ruan Mei has better synergy with teams. In my opinion, she is currently the best buffer in the game.

If you have your own recommendations, let me know! I’m a firm believer that Swarm Disaster hinges more on proper team synergy against the right enemies than a “best character.”

Best Swarm Disaster Paths to use in Honkai Star Rail

All Paths in Simulated Universe Swarm Disaster (Strategies & Resonance Interplays)

Destruction

Elation

Hunt

Abundance

Nihility

Remembrance

Preservation

Propagation

The Propagation Path only unlocks after you’ve completed the Swarm Univer story (ergo, the last Difficulty). It’s a Path that encourages you to enter Swarm domains, granting you Basic ATK% when you go. Unless you have a main Imaginary DPS or two Erudition characters that can carry damage dealing for the team, this Path will be a difficult one to tread. Anyways, I’ll outline what the other Paths are good for as well so you can make your own decision on the matter. I’ll cover the Paths it can trigger a Resonance Interplay with, too! You’ll only need three of that Path’s blessings to get a resonance card.

Resonance Interplays: Elation, Preservation

Resonance Interplays: Abundance, Remembrance

Resonance Interplays: Elation, Abundance

Resonance Interplays: Nihility, Propagation

Resonance Interplays: Hunt, Propagation

Resonance Interplays: Destruction, Hunt

Resonance Interplays: Remembrance, Nihility

Resonance Interplays: Preservation, Destruction

Best Domains to enter in Swarm Disaster Simulated Universe

Now that you’ve learned all about the Paths you can take and the domains you’re encouraged to enter with them equipped, let’s talk about generally good domains to dive into whenever you see them. There are two I like: Reward (marked with a chest) and Adventure (marked with a controller). My third would be the Occurrences, if only because they’re usually good. Reward ensures that whatever you’re getting, it’s good. It could be a Curio, a good Occurrence, and more. Adventure’s my personal favorite. It makes you play a game where you either have to attack trotters or destroy barrels in a given timeframe. You can get a Curio, Blessing, and Fragments for getting the best score possible. The rewards decrease if you don’t meet the goals, but even just the Blessing and the Fragments are good to have. If you have characters that attack fast and from afar, like Bronya, Asta, and March 7th, they can clear these pretty well. This is also the only domain that has a Downloader, allowing you to bring more characters with you. If you have a ton of Fragments, always enter a Transaction domain when you see it. I highly recommend purchasing a Curio from Herta, as those are the real MVP of the stage.

Best Curios in Swarm Disaster Simulated Universe

While there are a ton of really good, Swarm-exclusive Curios in Honkai: Star Rail, my personal favorite to use is Punklorde Mentality. If you missed my Silver Wolf section above, the reason why this Curio is good is because you never have to adjust your teams based on the enemies you fight (sans the Phase boss—but they’re another story). Punklorde Mentality will give your enemies a weakness to an element your team has for three turns. That’s more than enough to blast through most domains!

How to defeat the True Sting - HSR Swarm Disaster final boss

So, how does one go about defeating this Propagation Monster? The first step is to ensure you don’t die. Never mind it taking eons to beat; just have a team whose survivability you’re sure about.

Medal of the Glorybood Era: Instantly gain a three-star blessing in exchange for your next Occurrence domain being a blank. Rubert Empire Mechanical Cogwheel: Obtain 50 Fragments each time you enter a domain. As long as you keep your total below 500, this is a Curio you can keep until the last room. However, if your Fragments exceed 500, you lose all the ones you have and this Curio. Cavity System Model: Lose all the Fragments you have, but increase your team’s Crit DMG by 24% for every 100 you lost. An invaluable Curio for building high output DMG instantly. I always hoard Fragments on the off chance I see it. In my opinion, you do need to sacrifice at least 500 Fragments for the trade off to be worth it. Spirit of the Knights of Beauty: Gains your four dice rolls, an invaluable Curio in Swarm Disaster. A Pinch of Bearded Gunpower: Gain an extra Cheat (available only after you’ve unlocked Cheats).

Next, and I can’t emphasize this enough: make sure each member of your team has a base HP of at least above 4,200, including your DPSes. This is without the blessing boosts. They will perish otherwise; I can testify to that.

Regression Inequality of Annihilation (3*, Destruction): Spilts DMG between all allies Being of Abundance, Becoming One Mind (3*, Abundance): 30% of a single target’s heal will be blasted to other allies Clear Lucite Body (2*, Abundance): When HP is full, reduces DMG take Interstellar Construct: Quadrangular Pyramid (2*, Preservation): Increases max DMG that can be absorbed by Shields Interstellar Construct: Sanctuary (2*, Preservation): At the end of the turn, there is a fixed chance to gain a shield equal to % of a character’s max HP Orbital Redshift (1*, Destruction): Increases Max HP

Actually, beating True Sting is a test of patience… with maybe a little luck involved. You have to be able to whittle down its gigantic HP bar while protecting yourself from its and its mobs’ attacks. There is no one way to beat it, and even if I beat it once, there is no guarantee I will beat it again with the same team. The key is the right blessings and Curios, which, as you know, are randomized. The only thing you have control over is the Path you choose. As such, provide yourself every opportunity to get stronger with whatever Path you choose (a more complete guide for that is in my Path subheading above). For example, if you choose Destruction, grit your teeth and blaze through combat domains whenever you’re given the opportunity to enter one. Also, make sure that your team has good synergy with the Path that you are on. Here’s the team I used to clear Difficulty 4. True Sting was weak to Lightning in this round. My Path was Destruction. In this setup, I made sure everybody had high HP and a Regression Inequality of Annihilation blessing with me. Even then, it was a very close call a couple of times. My Bronya was there to either boost Jing Yuan (for DMG) or Luocha (for emergency healing). I ran into a lot of Propagation rooms before I got here. However, you may not have all these characters, and your run will never look exactly like mine. Thus, it’s difficult for me to recommend this setup to you. The best way, really, is to look at what you have and start a build from there. There isn’t a one-fits-all solution; there might even be better heroes I haven’t considered just because I don’t have them yet. If you can’t clear all these stages now, be patient. Max your traces; grind for better Relics. You’ll clear it eventually! For more on Honkai: Star Rail, take a look at Honkai Star Rail – All Character Ages and Heights and Best in game settings for Honkai Star Rail – PC, Android, & iOS here at Pro Game Guides.