Sunday's rerun starts tomorrow. Two of his pillars got pressure-tested today.
Dispatch date: 2026-05-12
Phase 2 of the 4.2 rerun banner goes live tomorrow with Sunday on it, and today the conversation around him narrowed twice. A back-to-back Anomaly Arbitration test on Aglaea plus Cyrene turned the E1 Tribbie variant into a dedicated Chrysos Heir composition, and a mechanical correction on the Dan Heng Permansor Terrae pairing rewrote how that synergy actually pays out.
Phase 2 of the 4.2 rerun banner is one day away with Sunday on the marquee, and today's creator pool tightened the question of whether he's the right vertical for your roster. Mr Pokke closes out his Anomaly Arbitration constraint series with a controlled, same-shell, same-anchors swap test on Aglaea plus Cyrene plus Dan Heng Permansor Terrae, where only the fourth slot changes between runs; StarGuide now reflects that lane as an E1 Chrysos Heir composition instead of a generic support swap. Pretender drops his dedicated Sunday rerun pull verdict and stops to correct a Souldragon-synergy story that gets passed around as gospel, citing Vosh's coding-level read on how the buffs actually tag hits. DanJanCan zooms out a rung and argues HSR's power creep is overblown, with vertical investment as the lens that makes the v3 and v4 era his favorite balance state to date.
What StarGuide updated today
- Aglaea now has an E1 Chrysos Heir Hypercarry composition. The new team pairs Aglaea with Cyrene, Tribbie, and Dan Heng Permansor Terrae. Hypercarry remains the E0 default, while E1+ rosters surface the Chrysos Heir team where Aglaea's self-Energy lets the shell trade Sunday's action advance for Cyrene's Ode package, Tribbie's RES PEN and Vulnerability, and Souldragon sustain. (via Mr Pokke)
Today's coverage
Aglaea
Can Aglaea & Hysilens Beat the HARDEST Anomaly Arbitration? (4.2) — Mr Pokke · 42 min
What changes when Aglaea's fourth slot is Sunday versus Tribbie? Pokke runs the cleanest possible version of that test: same Aglaea, same Cyrene, same Dan Heng Permansor Terrae, only the support swaps, two back-to-back Anomaly Arbitration runs on the v4.2 hardest fight. It's also his constraint-series finale, so the framing has the full season behind it.
Sunday
You NEED To Know This Before Pulling On Sunday's 4.2 Rerun! | Honkai: Star Rail Pull Guide — Pretender · 14 min
Sunday's rerun lands tomorrow, and the only piece in today's pool that actually answers 'should I pull?' is Pretender's verdict. The corrective half is the part you can't get anywhere else. The Souldragon synergy on the Dan Heng Permansor Terrae pairing tags hits differently than the consensus story suggests, and he walks the mechanical read while citing Vosh's coding-level explanation.
Patch & meta
Is HSR's Powercreep Bad? | Honkai Star Rail — Danjancan · 17 min
DanJanCan uses HSR's power creep debate as the entry point to a tighter argument: the thing most people call power creep is actually HP inflation, and the two have separate counters. The framing is more useful than the verdict, and it gives you a real lens for evaluating which verticals are worth chasing across the next few patches.