If you are playing “Honkai Impact 3: Star Railway” for the first time, you may have an illusion when you see the character “Sunday”: this is probably a character with little presence, not even like a protagonist. He does not charge, does not output, has no amazing animations, and even… even his movements seem too calm.
But this is precisely his greatest fear.
The truth of history is always hidden in the details, and the victory or defeat of the battle is often determined by these “invisible characters”. Today we will talk about this five-star support character, Sunday, whose name sounds like a holiday, but is actually comparable to “Crouching Dragon and Phoenix”.
1. Role positioning: Hidden in the dark, but moving the overall situation
Sunday is a five-star character with imaginary attributes, and his fate belongs to “Tongxie”. His duty is not to charge, but to arrange the formation in the back. He neither competes for the output position nor the protagonist’s halo, but every time he releases a skill, he is precisely adjusting the rhythm, and every ultimate skill is pushing up the overall rhythm and output limit of the team.
To sum up his position in one sentence: he is not fighting, but playing a game.
You can understand him as a coalitionist in the Warring States Period, or as a counselor in the Three Kingdoms Period. He has set the rhythm of the next round of battle for you and arranged the resource flow of the team before you realize it.
His biggest feature is that he can push a single target (including summons) to act immediately once, while increasing the critical hit rate, critical hit damage, and restoring a certain amount of energy. Note that it is not as simple as “increasing speed”, but “acting immediately”, which is a fundamental reversal of the battle rhythm.
If we compare a battle to a court game, then Sunday is the counselor without a title, who can make the general cut one more knife with one move of his mouth.
2. Cultivation strategy: the traces are not fully upgraded, but precisely polished
Since the core of his mechanism is skills and ultimate skills, it is necessary to be targeted in upgrading the traces. The upgrade order is: skills = ultimate skills > talents > normal attacks.
He doesn’t rely on output to make a living, so ordinary attacks can basically be ignored, while skills and ultimate skills are his “lifeblood”. Skills can promote teammates’ actions, and ultimate skills can grant multiple gains and restore energy at the same time, which is the top priority of the entire development.
And the talent provides critical hit rate gain, which is also very critical and can be used as a secondary development target. You know, characters like Sunday do not rely on “explosion” to decide the outcome, but rely on “activating the situation” to win the overall situation.
3. Light cone selection: specialization is the best
In terms of light cones, the most recommended is of course his own five-star light cone – “Flight Back to the Earth”. This light cone is almost tailor-made for him:
* After each use of skills or ultimate skills to support teammates, 6 energy points are restored;
* Stack 3 layers of “Holy Chant”, each layer provides 15% damage bonus, a total of 45%;
* Every time a skill or ultimate skill is used twice, one combat skill point can be restored.
Simply put, this is a closed-loop system of “making electricity yourself, using it yourself, and then giving it to others”, with enough output, energy, and SP.
If you don’t have the destiny, you can also consider the following alternatives:
* “Dance! Dance! Dance!”: After the ultimate skill is released, advance the action bar of the whole team;
* “But the battle is not over yet”: provide energy recovery and additional damage increase;
* “Past and Future”: the most basic damage increase, better than nothing.
Although these can’t replace the destiny, they can also be used temporarily when resources are insufficient.
4. Relics matching: not to increase output, but to improve structure
In terms of relics, the first choice is the “Priest of the Bitter Journey” four-piece set.
The subtlety of this set of equipment is that it does not increase Sunday’s own output, but the critical damage of the object he supports. Every time you support, you will add 18% critical damage to the opponent, which can be stacked up to twice, equal to 36%. At the same time, the two-piece set provides 6% speed, which is very consistent with the rhythm of the support role.
In terms of accessories, the following three are given priority:
* Lushaka in the Sunken Sea: Increases energy recovery speed and increases attack for front-line teammates;
* Pinoconi in the Dreamland: Increases the output ability of characters with the same attribute;
* Ongwak of Life: Directly advances the action bar at the start and intervenes in the battle rhythm faster.
Priority of main attributes:
* Body: Critical Damage
* Feet: Speed
* Plane Ball: Life/Defense
* Connection Rope: Energy Regeneration Rate
In terms of secondary attributes, speed > critical damage > life/defense, which can ensure that it can stably play a supporting role in battle.
V. Team Matching: The Central Brain of the Summoning Team and the Overload Team
1. Summoning Team Matching (such as Jingyuan as the core)
The summoned creatures can frequently attack with the skill bonus of Sunday, and with the critical hit increase and energy recovery, the output limit of the summoning system can be leapt. With SP rotation or buff characters such as Fireworks and Bronya, as well as sustaining characters such as Fu Xuan and Huo Huo, a stable combination with “summoning, healing, and smooth rhythm” can be created.
2. Overload team combination (such as Seele, Dan Heng·Yinyue)
Sunday’s biggest advantage is to promote the main C action. As long as the main C can fight, he can always let her/him fight. With the violent damage and energy support brought by the ultimate skill, the burst output character has almost no “cooling period”, burst after burst, forming a real suppression cycle.
6. Summary: He is a silent politician, but he controls the lifeblood of the battle
If a character wins applause by high damage, then Sunday relies on “planning before acting, step by step”.
He is the kind of person who looks ordinary but can rewrite the fate of the battle. He is like Zhuge Liang, who does not fight in the battlefield, but can control the life and death of the battlefield; like Zhang Liang, he does not hold a weapon, but can set the imperial hegemony.
This is not a “satisfying” character, but a “structural” character. Raising him is not for killing people in seconds, but for “winning control”.
If you are willing to raise Sunday, please treat him well, give him the most suitable light cone and relics, and prepare the most cooperative teammates for him. Then, watch him silently hold up the scale of victory in battle after battle.
Of course, if you want to complete the development faster, Treabar is your indispensable helper. From light cone extraction to relic enhancement, to material storage, the entire development path has the most stable support.
Because the battle is not a gamble, but a well-planned deployment of troops. What you lack is not a strong character, but a “Sunday” who controls the rhythm.