Aglaya in Honkai Star Rail: Best Build Guide

In Honkai: Star Rail, Aglaja is a 5-star character who has an Electric type of combat and belongs to the path of Memory. In a team, she can play the role of the main damage dealer, attacking opponents together with her summoned creature. In this guide, we will tell you about her best build, light cones and relics. You will also learn about the recommended squads with her.

Aglaya's main features

How to get Aglaya

This heroine can only be obtained during the event Jump. The corresponding banner was last launched during the second phase of patch 3.0 (February 5). If you want to be among the first to know about her next rerun, we advise you to bookmark this article.

Let's add that HoYoverse has only given away a 5-star event character once for winning the “Best Mobile Game of the Year” nomination, and never for completing various events, so it's highly likely that you'll only be able to unlock this Ohema seamstress using Jumps.

Aglaya's Stat Progression

The table below shows how the heroine's basic stats change as she levels up.

Note that her critical damage, critical hit chance, and taunt are 50%, 5%, and 100 (125) units respectively at any level, and her energy reserve is 350 units.

Aglaya's Abilities

When using the basic attack “Spiked Nectar”She deals 50~130% of her attack power as electrical damage to the target enemy, while also restoring 20 energy and piercing the target for 10 tenacity.

When using the enhanced basic attack Kiss of a Thousand SlashShe and the Seamstress deal electrical damage to the selected enemy in the amount of 100~260% of her attack power and 100~260% of the Seamstress's attack power. Targets adjacent to the enemy also receive electrical damage in the amount of 40-104% of Aglaya's attack power and 40-104% of the Seamstress's attack power. At the same time, the heroine restores 20 units of energy and penetrates the main target by 20 units of durability, and adjacent ones – 10. This blow does not restore skill points.

Explanation: Standard attacks are nothing special, so they will not be of much use, but the enhanced ones will become the main source of your damage, because at the 6th level of the ability the damage multiplier for the main target will be 400%, and for adjacent ones – 160%. However, you will only gain access to them after activating the ult, which can be difficult to gain energy for.

After using the skill “Rise, Exalted Glory”the heroine restores the Seamstress's health by 25-62.5% of her maximum HP. If the Seamstress is not on the field, she summons this spirit of memory, and it immediately performs the action. In this case, the heroine restores 20 units of energy.

Explanation: Used immediately after the start of the battle to summon a creature. Subsequently, it is used depending on the situation, either to heal a companion or to summon it again. Since the skill restores as much energy as basic attacks, the rest of the time you will use the latter, which will allow you to save skill points for the team.

By activating the super ability “Dance, Destined Weaver”, the heroine summons the Seamstress. If this spirit of memory is already on the field, then its health is fully restored. Aglaya goes into “High Position” mode and immediately performs the action.

While in the “High Position” state, the character gains stacks of the speed increase from the Spirit of Memory talent, with each stack increasing her speed by 10-17.5%. Her basic attack is replaced with a stronger version, and she loses the ability to use a skill. The Seamstress becomes immune to control debuffs.

A countdown with its own speed of 100 is added to the Action Gauge. When it starts, the Seamstress will immediately self-destruct, ending the “High Position” state. Using the Ultimate again will reset the countdown.

Explanation: It is highly advisable to use Aglaya's ultimate as soon as possible to gain access to her enhanced attacks and start dealing massive damage to enemies. However, this will not be easy due to the high cost of the ability (350 units). Even if you divide this figure by two (the Seamstress' actions will also bring energy to Aglaya), it is still quite high (175 units), so you will have to either look for energy restoration in relics or speed up the heroine as much as possible with supports and equipment.

We recommend choosing the second option, because the number of enhanced basic attacks available to her will directly depend on how much speed the heroine has, since the countdown has this parameter equal to 100 units. We will add that you will not need to use the skill right before the ult, since the super ability will automatically summon the Seamstress or increase her HP to the maximum.

If we talk about the heroine's passive talent – “Pink Fingers”then thanks to it, the initial speed of the Seamstress is equal to 35% of Aglaya's base speed, and her health is 44-77% of Aglaya's maximum HP plus 180-990 units. While this spirit of memory is on the field, the heroine's attacks impose the “Sewing Stitch” status on the target. After attacking an enemy with this effect, it deals additional damage in the amount of 12-39% of Aglaya's attack power. This status only affects the last mob hit.

Explanation: Determines the characteristics of the Seamstress, depending on the parameters of Aglaya herself – this is another reason to increase her speed to the maximum. The additional damage is not very high to focus on it.

We can't help but mention the “Meteorite Split” technique., which summons the Seamstress and performs a joint forward attack. After entering battle, restores 30 units of energy and deals electrical damage equal to 100% of the heroine's attack power to all enemies. Then, “Sewing Stitch” is applied to a random enemy.

Memory Spirit Abilities

After using the “Spike Trap” skill, the Seamstress deals electrical damage equal to 55-154% and 33-92.4% of the attack power to the selected enemy and adjacent targets, respectively.

Explanation: A standard attack for the Spirit of Memory, which deals relatively little damage, but restores 10 units of energy, which makes it easier to activate the ult.

The Seamstress also has three passive talents at once, namely:

1. Body Boiled with Tears – After attacking an enemy affected by Sewing Stitch, increases the speed of that ally by 40-58 units, stacks up to 6 times. During her turn, the Seamstress automatically uses the skill “Spiked Trap”, giving priority to the target with the Sewing Stitch status. It is extremely important that Aglaya always attacks the enemy with Sewing Stitch in order to receive a speed bonus, move more often and thereby extend the action of the ult.
2. Speedy Summer – after the Seamstress is summoned, her action immediately advances by 100%, that is, she immediately takes a turn, attacking the enemy with the skill.
3. Flowering of the Drying Grass – when the Seamstress disappears, the heroine restores 20 units of energy. Simplifies the accumulation of energy for activating the ult.

Traces of Aglaya

In addition to the above abilities, the heroine's upgrade tree also includes other enhancements that provide passive bonuses or permanent increases to characteristics. Basically, we are talking about increasing the chance of a critical hit, defense and electrical damage. You can see them all in the picture below.

Below we will briefly consider special traces with their own mechanics:

1. Death of the Nearsighted – in the High Position state, the attack power of Aglaya and the Seamstress increases by an amount equal to 720% of Aglaya's speed plus 360% of the Seamstress's speed. A useful trace that motivates you to increase Aglaya's speed to maximum values, and simplifies the gain of attack power.
2. The Last Thread of Fate – When the Seamstress disappears, retains up to 1 level of speed increase from the Spirit of Memory talent. After resummoning the Seamstress, gives the corresponding number of speed increase stacks. Even if the creature disappears or dies, Aglaya will still have 1 speed bonus of 40-58 units.
3. Sun Acceleration – at the beginning of the battle, if the heroine's energy is below 50%, she immediately restores 50%. Speeds up the activation of the ult at the beginning of the battle.

Aglaya's Eidolons

To unlock them, you need materials of the same name, which are given out when duplicates of the heroine drop, which, of course, is random. And given the rarity of 5-star characters, be prepared to spend a lot of money and time on this. Fortunately, even without eidolons, Aglaya can easily perform the function of the main damage dealer in the team.

The table below shows all the eidolons and their benefits for the character:

If you plan to knock out eidolons and you have a limited budget, then you can well stop at E1 and E2, which will increase the heroine's overall damage and significantly simplify the energy gain for the ult. If you have a choice between a signature weapon and the first eidolon, then we advise you to take a weapon, since at the time of patch 3.0, Aglaya simply does not have 5-star alternatives.

How to play as Aglaya

As many expected, the gameplay of the Memory characters will be built around their summoned creatures, and Aglaya, of course, is no exception. However, in this case, this aspect is also supplemented by the need to activate the superpower as quickly as possible, since only under its influence will the heroine be able to perform enhanced basic attacks, which, in fact, are the main source of damage for the character.

The summoned Seamstress will help with this. The thing is that her attacks not only restore 10 units of Aglaya's energy, but she can also significantly increase the heroine's speed if she constantly attacks enemies with the “Sewing Stitch” that she casts. As a result, Aglaya will walk much more often, which will allow her to gain energy for the ult faster.

Note: Using the skill every turn after the first summon of the Seamstress is not recommended, as it brings the same amount of energy as basic attacks and only heals the spirit of memory. Use it only when necessary, such as healing a creature or resummoning it.

After activating the ultimate, Aglaya will enter the “High Position” state, which will allow her to deliver enhanced basic attacks, while her speed will increase even more. She will be able to use these attacks until the turn goes into a countdown at a speed of 100 units. Considering that the heroine's speed can easily exceed 500 units with all the bonuses, in theory you will be able to perform 4-5 enhanced basic attacks before the end of the ult.

At the same time, do not forget that the Seamstress herself will also often make moves, inflicting, albeit small, but some damage. In general, the optimal rotation of Aglaya will look like this:

1. Try to use Aglaya's technique before the start of the battle to immediately get additional energy and cast “Sewing Stitch” on one of the enemies. By the way, thanks to the 3rd trace, you will immediately fill the energy scale to 50%.
2. When it's Aglaya's turn, immediately use her skill to summon Seamstress, who will immediately attack the enemy. In your next turns, use only basic attacks, hitting the enemy with “Sewing Stitch” to get stacks of the speed bonus from your spirit of memory and move more often.
3. Once you have enough energy, immediately use your ult to gain access to enhanced basic attacks – continue hitting the enemy with “Sewing Stitch” to deal maximum damage. Of course, it is best if it is an elite enemy or a boss.
4. After the countdown begins and the Seamstress disappears, summon her again with the skill and repeat the above process.

Aglaya's Advantages and Disadvantages

With her unique abilities, Aglaya can effectively destroy both single and multiple targets. Her advantages also include:

• One of the first Memory characters with a new (at the time of patch 3.0) game mechanic associated with summoning a creature to support the character on the battlefield. The Spirit of Memory essentially becomes a full-fledged fifth fighter in the squad.
• She is an excellent hypercarry, capable of inflicting gigantic damage with her enhanced basic attacks, both to the main target and to enemies adjacent to it.
• She is able to significantly increase her speed thanks to the Spirit of Memory, making more frequent turns and accumulating energy faster to use her ultimate.
• Thanks to the trace, she can significantly increase her attack power after activating her ult, which allows her to pay less attention to this characteristic, trying to maximize her speed and crits.
• She can heal her memory spirit with her skill and superpower, constantly supporting it on the battlefield.
• There is no need to use the skill every turn, and when the ult is active, access to the skill is completely disabled. As a result, she helps the team save skill points.

However, there are some downsides, some of which follow directly from its advantages:

• The mechanics with the fifth fighter can put a spoke in the wheels of some characters, for example, Hoho will no longer be able to heal the entire team, since the Seamstress will be considered a separate hero.
• The super ability is very expensive (350 units) and even speed buffs may not help with a quick energy gain. You will have to take supports or equipment that helps with its recovery.
• There are few supports in the game so far (at the time of patch 3.0) whose buffs are aimed specifically at the mechanics of summoning creatures, which is why it will be difficult to assemble an optimal team.
• There are few Memory Light Cones in the game so far (at the time of patch 3.0), so it is highly desirable to knock out Aglaya's signature weapon.

The best build for Aglaya

The best light cones

When choosing a weapon, you should pay attention to those options that increase speed, attack power, critical damage and/or critical hit chance. The table below shows the most interesting options.

Best Relics

As for choosing common relics mined in the Caves of Corrosion, the table below shows the best options.

Now we move on to planar decorations that are obtained in the Virtual Universe. The list below shows the recommended options (the numbers indicate the priority of choice):

As for the characteristics of the relics, you need to choose as follows:

• Body: critical hit chance/critical damage in a ratio of 1 to 2
• Legs: speed
• Planar Sphere: electrical damage bonus
• Connecting Rope: Attack Power% (or Energy Recovery in Case of Its Obvious Lack)
• Additional Stats: Crits > Speed ​​> Attack Power

If we talk about the optimal attributes of the heroine, they look like this:

• Attack Power: 2400+ units
• Critical Hit Chance: 70%+
• Critical Damage: 140%+
• Speed: 160+ units

Best Teams for Aglaya

Aglaya is a hypercarry, that is, there should be no damage dealers in the squad except her, so you should take two good supports to her company. An excellent choice would be Zaryanka, which will allow Aglaya and Shveya to walk more often and provide them with all sorts of buffs (increased damage and critical damage). Plus, Zaryanka herself will be able to receive additional energy from their frequent actions, which will help her in activating the ult.

Pathfinder (Memory) is also a great fit for Aglaya, even though he is a free character. Firstly, he will help her deal true damage (ignores defense and resistances), and secondly, he will move her action forward. You can also take Resurrection instead, which gives buffs not only to an ally, but also to the creature summoned by him. Plus, he can move the action forward and fill the energy that the heroine desperately needs.

However, some other supports will do, although they will bring noticeably less benefit. For example, you can take Asta (increases speed), Tingyun (increases attack power and fills energy), Ruan Mei (increases overall damage and penetration efficiency), Armor (prolongs the action, and also gives a buff to attack power and crit damage) or Hanyu (buffs speed and attack power).

Among the healers, the best choice is, of course, Hoho, as she can fill up with energy and increase attack power. In general, you can take any pumped healer or shielder. However, it is desirable that his abilities extend to the entire team, so that you can heal or shield not only Aglaya, but also the Seamstress. The table below shows the optimal teams.

Leveling up Aglaya

How to improve abilities (what to level up first)

The pictures below show the materials and their quantities needed to fully level up your basic attack, skill, superpower, and talent.

• The Seed of Thought, the Sprout of Awareness, and the Receptacle of Consciousness are obtained from the Crimson Sepal found in the new location or through Synthesis.
• The Fear-Crushed Flesh, the Courage-Torn Rib Cage, and the Glory-Tested Body are obtained from Amphoreus monsters, quests, and enemies in the Virtual Universe or through Synthesis. They can also be purchased with Everlasting Ash from the Pom-Pom Shop.
• Soul Feathers – obtained from the Echo of War “Battlefield of the Inner Beast” where you need to fight the boss Shadow “Feixiao”.
• Fate's Imprints – obtained in the Virtual Universe, issued by the Battle Pass and purchased for Unquenchable Ash in the Pom-Pom store. Sometimes they are a reward in temporary events.

As for the priority of leveling up abilities, we advise you to first increase talent and basic attacks, since they are the main source of damage for the heroine, and only then take on superpowers and skills (they may lag behind by 1-2 levels).

How to level up a character

At certain levels, you will need to Ascend the heroine by spending a large amount of resources and credits:

• Ascension (Level 30): Credits x4000 and Fear-Crushed Flesh x5
• Ascension (Level 40): Credits x8000 and Fear-Crushed Flesh x10
• Ascension (Level 50): Credits x16000, Courage-Torn Ribcage x6 and Beast Coffin Nail x3
• Ascension (Level 60): Credits x40000, Courage-Torn Ribcage x9 and Beast Coffin Nail x7
• Ascension (Level 70): Credits x80000, Glory-Tested Body x6 and Beast Coffin Nail x20
• Ascension (Level 80): Credits x160000, Glory-Tested Body x9, and Beast Coffin Nail x35

Beast Coffin Nail can be obtained from the Stagnant Shade “Mechawolf Form” located in the House of Shackles on Lofu Xianzhou, or by exchanging materials in the Synthesis Machine.