Changelog

Updates

What changed on the site, newest first: new boards, new features and fixes. React to the ones you like.

  1. Latest

    Rin Tohsaka and Blade now have leaderboards.

    Rin Tohsaka

    • Archer · Sparkle · Dan Heng PT: she's the sub-DPS, the team plays for Archer, and her half of their Joint Follow-Up counts
    • Sparkle · Cerydra · Huohuo: she's the main DPS. Cerydra's Coup de Main copies her Enhanced Skill, bounces included
    • Sparkle · Remembrance Trailblazer · Dan Heng PT: the free team. Every cheap support combo was simulated, and this one came out on top

    Every Skill Point anyone spends or recovers feeds her Gem Energy, and her Enhanced Skill turns it into bounces. So on her own teams she uses Basic ATK instead of her normal Skill: the Skill Point it gives back is worth more. With Archer she leaves him the Skill Points, like a real sub-DPS would.

    Blade
    His current kit, all on Max HP. His HP is tracked through the whole fight: every HP he spends and part of every heal build up his Ultimate, and every HP cost or enemy hit counts toward his Follow-Up.

    • Sunday · Tribbie · Hyacine: the guides' Hypercarry team
    • Sunday · Sparkle · Hyacine: the best team in the simulation, just ahead of the guides' one
    • Sparkle · Remembrance Trailblazer · Gallagher: the budget team

    Also

    • Archer's Dan Heng PT boards now count the Redoubt bonus for the Bondmate, like every other Dan Heng PT board

    Full details on the methodology page.

    Found a wrong number? Tell me in #bug-reports

  2. Firefly's SPD chart, with the SPD Goal and the old SPD-alone line

    Ever wanted to be told what your build needs right now, or whether you're at the right SPD?

    Are you at the right SPD?
    The first SPD charts only showed what SPD adds on its own, as if those rolls were free. That's not how a real build works: every roll in SPD is a roll that didn't go into CRIT or ATK. The chart now counts that, and shows a Goal: the point where SPD rolls stop being worth more than your other stats.

    • Below it? SPD is your best roll
    • Above it? Your rolls are better spent elsewhere
    • Some boards have no SPD target at all (ATK% or HP% boots win there), and on others SPD keeps paying all the way up
    • The chart shows which boots each part of the line uses

    Treat the Goal as a guide, not an absolute number. It comes from the board's fight, with its teammates and enemies: real breakpoints move with the enemies you're facing, the mode you're playing and your teammates' SPD.

    What your build needs next
    Open a board with your build and both sections answer for your relics: "What one more substat roll buys you" names your best next roll, and the SPD chart agrees with it. Already at high CRIT Rate? It won't tell you to get more.

    Archer
    Archer now has leaderboards, with two teams: Sparkle · Rin · Dan Heng PT, and Sparkle · Trailblazer (Remembrance) · Dan Heng PT. His Skill chain runs on Skill Points, so every SP matters: Rin's joint Follow-Up refills him mid-chain, and Sparkle banks what overflows from her Ultimate.

    Also

    • Sparkle now has her full kit (the Skill Points her Ultimate banks, and her traces), so Seele and The Herta scores with her went up
    • Phainon's fight was fixed: Cerydra's first Skill and his Ultimate timing
    • All Star Rail scores were recalculated

    Full details on the methodology page.

    Found a wrong number? Tell me in #bug-reports

  3. The new SPD charts for Cyrene and Castorice

    MBlade now has leaderboards, and every HSR board now counts SPD in a new way.

    SPD curves
    Every build is still simulated at the same SPD, so relics are compared on equal terms. Your own SPD then scales the score along a curve measured for each board, instead of one formula for everyone:

    • Real breakpoints show up where they happen. Mortenax jumps at 140 SPD, when a second Skill fits inside his Zone
    • Where SPD buys nothing, it adds nothing

    What SPD buys you
    Every board now shows its curve, with your build on it. Cyrene's jumps where her trace kicks in, and Castorice's shows why she stays under 95 SPD with Poet.

    Less scrolling
    "What one more substat roll buys you" and the SPD chart now start folded, with the answer in one line. Open them once and they stay open.

    Also

    • Acheron's fight was fixed: Mortenax's Charge Skills now happen and the healers heal, so Acheron scores went up a lot
    • All Star Rail scores were recalculated

    Full details on the methodology page.

    Found a wrong number? Tell us in #bug-reports

  4. Comet, the Astral Terminal space cat, saying welcome aboard

    Astral Terminal has a Discord server, and it comes with a mascot: say hi to Comet ☄️, our space cat.

    Comet lives in the server and answers slash commands:

    • /banners what's on the banners now, and what's next
    • /profile a player card from any UID, with their best leaderboard ranks
    • /leaderboard the top 10 on a character's main board
    • /stats global pull stats for the current banner
    • /pat very important

    Site updates like this one now land in the server too, and Comet greets everyone who joins.

    Also new on the site

    • Global Stats now count only pulls imported straight from the game, so the numbers can't be faked
    • Forgot your password? You can reset it from the login window now
    • Logins and sign-ups are protected from bots

    Join the server

    Found a bug? Tell us in #bug-reports

  5. Two new pages on the site today.

    Methodology explains where every number comes from: what a damage board fixes, how percentiles and grades work, how artifacts and relics are scored, and how the pull tracker counts pity. It also lists every character's boards.
    Read it here

    Updates is where changes like this one get posted from now on, on the site and here in Discord at the same time.

    Spotted a number that looks wrong? Let us know in the server.