In the world of Honkai: Star Rail, significant updates often introduce formidable characters, with at least one likely to influence the game’s meta in the upcoming year. Update 2.7 follows this pattern, showcasing two characters: one that reinforces existing strategies and another that promises to shape the next content year (3.0).
Choosing between Fugue, a formidable Super Break support unit, and Sunday, a top-tier Harmony unit enhancing a new mechanic arriving in 3.0, can be challenging. This guide aims to help you determine which character to prioritize for your pulls.
Reasons to Pull for Sunday
Sunday is the first character featured in the version 2.7 limited event banner. As a Harmony unit, he excels in action enhancement and boosting damage. If you’re familiar with Bronya’s mechanics, you’ll find similarities in Sunday’s abilities.
Sunday’s Skill is a standout feature, allowing another character on your team to act immediately alongside an increase in their damage output.
His Ultimate ability targets a specific ally, bestowing them with energy regeneration and a boost to their critical damage.
What Sets Sunday Apart
A unique aspect of Sunday’s abilities is that his Skill and Ultimate can also enhance character summons. This includes units like Jing Yuan’s Lightning Lord and Topaz’s Numby, making them more effective during battles.
This capability will prove vital in the 3.0 storyline set on the planet Amphoreus, where summons are a central gameplay mechanic brought forth by the new Path of Remembrance.
In Honkai: Star Rail, summons (termed “memosprites”) bring their own set of abilities and can interact with main unit effects such as shields from Aventurine.
In essence, Sunday is positioned as a top-tier Support character for both current units and those expected to debut in the 3.0 update, including the new Remembrance Path Trailblazer.
Pursuing Sunday is advisable for two key reasons: to stay ahead of the evolving Summon meta and to ease future transitions into new content. Just like Ruan Mei’s significance before the 2.0 update, having Sunday in your roster early can make navigating new areas more manageable.
Reasons to Pull for Fugue
Fugue, the resurrected counterpart to Tingyun, embodies a Fire Nihility character combining both support and DPS traits. She represents the second Super Break Support unit, potentially offering enhancements over the existing Harmony Trailblazer.
As a limited-time 5-star character, Fugue offers notable utility not available with the free Trailblazer. With her on the field, all units can inflict Super Break damage thanks to her Cloudflame Luster effect.
Activating Fugue’s Skill applies the Foxian Prayer effect to a selected character, enhancing both their Break Effect while also boosting her own Basic Attack and granting a chance to lower the target’s Defense. Her Ultimate further reduces enemy Toughness regardless of their Weakness type.
What Makes Fugue Special
The fascinating element about Fugue’s ability set is that it allows any unit in the game to become a Break character, enhancing the synergy with traditional DPS units like Acheron or Dr. Ratio, while boosting units such as Firefly and Rappa.
Additionally, the upcoming Remembrance Trailblazer could greatly benefit from her presence. If this new Path shines as brightly as the one from Penacony, it could secure a spot within both new and established team compositions, creating opportunities to optimize team synergy without relying solely on the traditional Trailblazer roles.
Fugue provides solutions to those needs while streamlining access to Super Break and Weakness Break without the limitations of the Harmony Trailblazer.
Pursuing Fugue will revolve around two main factors: whether you want to broaden your team’s Super Break capabilities and whether you wish to future-proof your setups against new mechanics. Fugue answers both of these considerations effectively.
Choose Characters You Enjoy
While gameplay mechanics and meta are important, your enjoyment of a character’s design and playstyle should also factor into your decision-making. If you appreciate their aesthetic or story, let that guide your pulls rather than solely focusing on potential future shifts in game dynamics.
Choosing characters you like also creates an opportunity for value appreciation over time. For instance, Jiaoqiu initially faced lukewarm reception, yet his value soared as new releases emerged that complemented his kit.
Ultimately, the decision of who to pull for rests entirely with you, taking into account your Stellar Jade supply and your willingness to invest real money for additional pulls. Most importantly, choose based on how you find the journey in Honkai: Star Rail enjoyable and rewarding, as that experience is yours to define.
