HSR Fate/stay night — best team comps and bond synergies

The HSR x Fate UBW collaboration has begun and brought a brand-new permanent game mode to the turn-based RPG: Fate/stay night. 

In this mode, players need to win a Holy Grail War against other characters from Honkai: Star Rail, which all have their individual stats, traits, and strengths modeled after the Fate franchise. To help you against these tough opponents, you can collect pieces from Fate’s seven servant classes, which grant you bonuses. Getting several pieces from the same class unlocks Bonds, which provide greater benefits and even active assistance on the battlefield.

Foes in this mode can be pretty tough, since you need to win inside a very limited amount of time, so it’s paramount that you know the synergies between HSR team compositions and the Fate pieces you can collect. This HSR Fate/stay night guide presents the best team synergies for the mode, allowing you to clear even the highest Corruption difficulties.

Saber pieces mainly buff the team’s Ultimate DMG and Energy Regeneration. They also buff whichever character is first in the line-up and mark them as a preferred target for enemies.

Characters like Saber and The Herta, which are both heavily Energy-dependent characters that deal a great amount of Ultimate DMG, are obviously best suited to work with Saber pieces. With Feixiao, the path’s Energy mechanics may not be effective, but her Ultimate DMG still benefits a lot from it. There’s also the option of going for the likes of Yunli or Clara, who gain a lot from the Saber path’s taunt effect.

Archer pieces benefit characters with high Skill Point requirements by restoring additional SP, manipulating the turn order to grant extra turns, and increasing the damage during such turns. Collecting Archer pieces also grants access to Noble Phantasms or Mystic Codes, which help during combat.

The Archer path is pretty straightforward: Any character with a big hunger for SP will benefit from it, be that Archer himself or older characters like Imbibitor Lunae and Qingque.

Lancer pieces focus on increasing the damage dealt to enemies suffering from debuffs. Using Lancer pieces also grants access to Gáe Bolg, which is charged when debuffs are inflicted on foes and deals massive damage to enemies.

This path is fantastic for DoT-based teams in addition to those characters who work best while cooperating with debuffers, so units like Acheron and Kafka will thrive here.

Rider pieces provide general damage buffs and come with access to Blood Fort Andromeda, an extra attack on the turn order that deals damage based on the number of defeated units.

Rider’s pieces are very versatile and can be useful to any team comp, though they definitely work best with teams that have a lot of splash damage to get rid of minor enemies at speed. Erudition units like Jing Yuan and The Herta are good examples of this, but someone with the destructive powers of Phainon is great as well.

Assassin pieces focus on Break DMG and accelerating the demise of Weakness Broken foes. Enemies marked with Swallow Reversal die immediately once you’ve reduced their HP to the critical threshold.

If they’re great at inflicting Weakness Break, then they work well with Assassin’s pieces. Units like Firefly and Rappa can deal enough Break DMG to enemies to reach the insta-kill threshold immediately, allowing them to rapidly dispatch enemies once their Toughness is gone.

Berserker pieces increase the team’s HP and HP-based damage, but also make allies consume their own HP whenever they take a turn. In return, Berserker pieces grant your characters the ability to withstand death and continue fighting when they suffer killing blows.

Living for the thrill of imminent death? Then Berserker’s pieces are for you. Characters like the newly-buffed Blade and Jingliu as well as Castorice and Mydei are perfect for this one, since the HP buffs and consistent HP consumption of this path will greatly power up their abilities.

Caster pieces are a bit special: They provide very general buffs, such as additional HP or CRIT DMG, which get amplified the more Caster pieces you possess. However, once you activate the Bond with Caster, all your other pieces will be rewritten into Caster pieces.

Caster is another versatile class, though the available buffs – HP, CRIT DMG, and ATK – work best with characters like Phainon, Castorice, and Jingliu as well as their support units.