Something to Death in Honkai Star Rail: How to Defeat the Memory Zone Meme

In Honkai Star Rail, “Something to Die” is a dream world boss that appears for the first time during the origin of the story campaign on Penaconia. A monster whose very existence foreshadows death unthinkable in the Dream World can be a difficult opponent with a wide pool of problematic attacks. In this guide, we'll look at how to successfully complete the Combat Challenge with the fearsome Memory Zone Meme: we'll talk about its weaknesses, strategies that are suitable for fighting the boss, and recommended units.

Completing the Combat Challenge with the boss “What- then to death” in Honkai: Star Rail

How to meet the enemy

For the first time, we get a “chance” to clash in battle with this frightening entity in the story mission “Through a Glass Darkly” . Outside of the assignment, you can fight him at the 12th stage of the Hall of Oblivion trials – “Longing for the World of Dreams” (this phase will be relevant until 04/01/2024).

Weaknesses and resistances of the boss

The main type of damage that a strong mob attacks is physical. The monster is susceptible to Wind, Fire and Imaginary elements, as well as resistance to Freeze and Binding debuffs (50% each).

Monster skills

“Something to Death” divides its skills into 2 stages of battle. Both phases have a standard set of attacks:

• Normal attacks: “Funeral Kiss”;
• Mass damage: “Drown in Black Rain”;
• Buff: Stinging Mourning;
• Status Overlay: Wasteland of Lost Hope.

Phase I: The monster casts two unique attacks for the first stage, “Fading Glow” and “Vanished in the Twilight”. The abilities are interconnected and applied sequentially: the first skill puts the monster into the “Sunset” mode, in which any skills of your units (except for bonus actions) will stack the monster’s levels.

Having achieved three such levels, Meme immediately activates the second skill: the hero, who has filled the monster with an extreme stack (a blow from levels 2 to 3), is subjected to “Painful Sleep” and climbs to the side of the monster, ending up in a kind of “tomb”. The stun cannot be removed until you break through the HP scale at the dungeon with an imprisoned ally.

< p>Phase II: the final, second part of the battle replaces the two previous skills with “Towards the Moonrise” and “As Water Dissolves in Water.” The first ability creates a gloomy aura on the battlefield, while instantly filling all members of our squad with energy for the ultimate.

Further on, the first two party members who attacked Memes will inevitably become targets for the second ability: They will also be imprisoned in “tombs” until you destroy the “health” scale of the shackles. Marks from selected targets can be removed, but in this case the boss will simply select two random characters (and according to personal observations, most often they turn out to be important supports).

Advice and squad selection

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The following precautions will be useful in the battle with a dangerous entity:

• Select a squad in advance (the moment the boss appears can be tracked in a separate guide for the story quest “Through a Darkly Glass”). If you entered a battle without upgraded party members, you can always retreat through the “Pause” menu;
• It would not be a bad idea to take into your squad Save characters who can apply shields or increase defense – Meme often carries out area attacks. And it’s even better if your pack contains a shield warrior and a healer;
• “Something to Death” has a certain resistance to debuffs from Quantum and Ice elements, so it is better not to take heroes of these paths (but it is worth noting that even their presence will not complicate the battle process);
• Particularly good in In a fight with a boss, units will show themselves through bonus attacks or dot damage, since the most problematic monster skills are not triggered by these combat actions;

When choosing heroes, you can pay attention to the following combinations:

All of the above units can be reorganized with each other. Note that there are no “bad” options in selecting teams for this battle; everything depends on the level of the characters.

Battle strategy

First half of the battle

The first challenge in the boss fight is the Sunset stage. Along with the transition to this mode, the boss receives 1 stack, and after the next two actions casts the last similar hero from your team to be imprisoned in the “tomb”.

You can benefit from the stun: you can protect from defeatweakened member of the squad. To do this, you need to leave such an ally the opportunity to use the skill (for example, do not click on the ult until the boss has accumulated 2 levels of Sunset) – the hero will become a victim, but in fact will calmly wait in the “tomb” until you free him.< /p>

As long as one of your heroes is affected by Painful Sleep, he is on the boss's side. To remove the shackles, you will have to hit the Tomb 5 times – the hero will instantly return to the squad with his ultimate restored.

The first phase will end when you deplete all of Meme's health. After the final blow, the monster will automatically take two random members of your squad under its imprisonment in the “tomb”.

Second half of the battle

Ko In the second phase, only two heroes will remain in your squad, but with restored health.

In addition, we will be given the opportunity to use a bonus ability from the Black Swan – the support skill “Ethereal Cradle” (R key on PC). When activated, this ability damages the Wind element + places 3 stacks of dot damage on the boss and the “tombs.”

With this phase, “Something to Death” begins become two allies each, but does it in a slightly different way: the monster creates a dark aura on the field, and from the moment it is activated, the energy of all your ultimates is immediately replenished. Now the next two heroes who use any active ability will become a target for the monster.

The target status can be removed (with any skill that removes weakening), but you shouldn’t do this< /b>– The meme will still take two characters, just random ones. It is much better to control the inevitable loss of two units: during the night, try to squeeze out the abilities of two characters that are less important for the battle (for example, buffers and sub-deaders). It is best to leave the main damage dealer and healer/shieldman in the pack.

Achievements for the battle with the boss “Something to Die”

After the story battle, the achievement “In Pursuit of Sweetness” will become available to you “You won’t miss receiving it.

And here is the achievement “Remember Death” (reward for collecting – 5 jade), which is also given after the battle with the Memory Zone Meme, may not be obtained immediately. The trophy will open if you defeat the boss with the last remaining squad member (everyone else must be defeated or in captivity in the “tombs”).

At the time of version 2.0, this achievement can be obtained, if not during the course of the plot, then in the 12th stage of “Longing for the World of Dreams” (temporary phase of the tests of the Hall of Oblivion).