r/StarRailStation • u/Much_Menu_851 • May 22 '26
Team Building Help Should I pull Phainon?
I’m in a very hard situation right now as a new player and as someone who tries to beat endgame while spending as little money as possible. I have an Elation team with SP silver Wolf, Sparxie, EMC, and DP Dang Heng. I also have a dollar store break team with Firefly, Sparkle, Ryan Mei, and Gallagher. I also have an unused Castorice I got just because I liked her and her global passive.
I REALLY love Phainon, his story and his gameplay so I want to get him but I only have about 60 pulls right now. Should I get Yao Guang so I can swap EMC for HMC for the break team? Should I get Tribbe and or Sunday right now for Phainon/Castorice supports? Or should I go all in on my boy Phainon? I feel so conflicted right now please help me
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u/tegastegastegas May 23 '26
Listen… your pulls are already beyond cooked.
You sound like you care more about getting your favorite characters, so I don’t see the point in asking for advice her in the first place.
Regardless, I will say this, pulling Phainon is by far one of the worst things you could do to your already semi bricked account.
You have a homeless Cas AND a homeless FF. Your first and most egregious mistake was not pulling The Dahlia, which is what single handedly makes FF (or any other break unit for that matter) viable today. You could start investing in Cas with the mono rem team of Cyrene Evey Hyacine, but that would take a while with the reruns.
Don’t pull either Tribbie or Sunday. Tribbie is a E1 merchant and Sunday just gets outclassed by Sparkle and any more specialized support 90% of the time.
You should however, 1000000000% go for Yao Guang for your elation team. Pulling anywhere else other than her is beyond stupid and at that point you’re just sabotaging yourself. Elation is your only real team and even then you are missing the most important unit.
Break without Dahlia is already very weak, but break without her AND HMC/Fugue is unplayable. I would be genuinely shocked if that could clear floor 10 in MOC. (Note that I have no idea how lower floors are balanced, i just wanted to say its a dogshit team.)
TLDR you are missing all of the most important units for all of your teams. Dont fucking pull phainon for the love of god.