Swarm Disaster Exploration Guide

Check out this Exploration Guide on how to beat Swarm Disaster in Honkai: Star Rail's Simulated Universe! We've got the best Paths, teams, recommended characters, how to beat the final boss, and all rewards here.

Swarm Disaster Guides
How to Clear Difficulty 5	Communing Trail
Exploration Guide	How to Unlock All Chapters

Best Paths for Swarm Disaster Exploration

The Abundance Path

The Abundance is the best Path for clearing Swarm Disaster as it can help you survive from taking huge hits from the True Sting. With the Anicca Blessing, you will be able to remove debuffs such as Wind Shear and Outrage.

The Remembrance Path

The Remembrance is a great Path as the final boss doesn't have any resistance to Freeze. This will keep the Swarm enemies from attacking you.

Get Abundance and Preservation Blessings

Use defensive Blessings from the Abundance and Preservation to keep your team alive from the Swarm: True Sting's hard-hitting attacks.

Our special mention goes to the Destruction Blessing Regression Inequality of Annihilation, which equaly distributes the DMG to all allies so that a character will not get one-shot.

List of All Paths

Best Characters for Swarm Disaster Exploration

All the Best Characters

Character	Merits
Imbibitor Lunae	Imbibitor Lunae is arguably the best character in beating Swarm Disaster. Collect Propagation Blessings from Swarm domains to enhance his absurd Basic ATK DMG.
Fu Xuan	Fu Xuan's DMG redirection can help mitigate a lot of DMG and prevent killing blows. Her Skill can prevent Crowd Control debuffs coming from Sting enemies.
Seele	Seele is a great character for Swarm Disaster. She can defeat the Swarm: True Sting's summons with Resurgence and can deal a lot of single-target DMG.
Yanqing	While the boss doesn't initially have a weakness to Ice, Yanqing can do well with a bunch of Remembrance Blessings in hand.
Luocha	Luocha is one of the best healers in game and can remove Wind Shear debuffs. His passive healing from his talent will help in keeping the team alive without the use of Skill Points.
Gepard	Gepard is an outstanding defensive support who has the best shield in the game. He also has a chance to Freeze enemies with his Skill.
Trailblazer (Fire)	The best F2P shielder in the game. The Fire Trailblazer can taunt enemies and prevent them from attacking the rest of the party.

Best Teams for Swarm Disaster Exploration

Free To Play Teams

Standard DPS Team

Main DPS	Support	Shielder	Healer
Qingque	Yukong	Trailblazer (Fire)	Natasha
Paths & Blessings	Path: Abundance or Propagation Blessings: Propagation, Abundance, Preservation, Hunt

Qingque and Yukong are excellent F2P choices because of the True Sting's weaknesses to Quantum and Imaginary. Qingque will benefit from the Propagation Blessings that provide her Skill Points to enhance her Basic ATKs.

Optimal Teams

Imbibitor Lunae Team

Main DPS	Support/Sub-DPS	Healer	Shielder
Imbibitor Lunae	Tingyun	Luocha	Gepard
Paths & Blessings	Path: Abundance or Propagation Blessings: Propagation, Abundance, Preservation, Hunt

Imbibitor Lunae can take advantage of the Propagation Blessings found by entering Swarm domains. Tingyun will supplement DMG buffs and restore energy for Imbibitor Lunae's Ultimate.

Seele Team

Main DPS	Support	Utility	Healer
Seele	Bronya	Fu Xuan	Luocha
Paths & Blessings	Path: Abundance Blessings: Abundance, Hunt, Preservation, Destruction

Seele is an outstanding DPS who can take down the smaller Sting enemies through Resurgence. Bronya can easily help Seele by giving her extra turns and provide DMG buffs.

Freeze Team

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support	Shielder
Yanqing	Pela	Silver Wolf	Gepard
Paths & Blessings	Path: Remembrance Blessings: Abundance, Remembrance, Destruction

The Swarm: True Sting doesn't have Freeze RES, so Ice characters are also viable for beating The Swarm Disaster. If you managed to get an Ice Weakness from defeating a boss domain, you can replace Silver Wolf with a healer.

How to Beat Swarm Disaster Boss

General Tips

Defeat the Juvenile Sting Enemies

Swarm: True Sting will summon smaller Juvenile Sting enemies to assist them in combat. These summons when unchecked will overwhelm you with a ton of DMG, so it's best if you go for these targets first.

When slain, the smaller enemies will affect other enemies with Vulnerability, which can increase the DMG taken.

The Swarm: True Stings Boss Guide

Cleanse Wind Shear

The Juvenile Sting enemies can attack and implant a strong Wind Shear debuff on your characters. These Wind Shear debuffs can be activated instantly when the True Sting boss attacks an affected party member.

Use character skills that can cleanse debuffs or Abundance Path Resonance with the Anicca Blessing to remove the Wind Shear effect.

Wave 2 Strategy

Prioritize the Lesser Sting in Wave 2

In Wave 2, the True Sting will summon a Lesser Sting that can debuff a target with Outrage, which prevents a party member from using any Skill.

Defeat the Lesser Sting when it shows up to prevent Outrage. You can also cleanse the Outrage debuff via cleansing or the Abundance Path Resonance.

Weakness Break to Prevent Swarm Onslaught

Starting from Wave 2, The True Sting boss can charge itself and attack on the next turn with a powerful move called Swarm Onslaught. You can cancel the Swarm Onslaught attack via Weakness Break.

Wave 3 Strategy

Defeat the Duplicate True Sting in Wave 3

During the final phase, the True Sting can duplicate itself in two. Between the two, focus your attacks on the True Sting with the smaller health bar to minimize the DMG taken.

You can defeat the smaller Sting enemies surrounding the weaker True Sting to debuff it with Vulnerability.

Swarm Disaster Rewards

First Time Clearance Rewards

	Rewards
Difficulty 1	Trailblaze EXP x200 Tracks of Destiny x1 Stellar Jade x120 Relic Remains x1
Difficulty 2	Trailblaze EXP x200 Tracks of Destiny x1 Star Rail Pass x2 Relic Remains x1
Difficulty 3	Trailblaze EXP x200 Tracks of Destiny x1 Stellar Jade x120 Relic Remains x1
Difficulty 4	Trailblaze EXP x200 Tracks of Destiny x1 Star Rail Pass x2 Relic Remains x1
Difficulty 5	Trailblaze EXP x200 Self-Modeling Resin x1 Stellar Jade x120 Relic Remains x1

You can only claim the First Time Clearance rewards once after clearing the stage for the first time.

Swarm Disaster Information

Part of the Simulated Universe

Swarm Disaster is a Simulation Universe feature introduced in Version 1.3. Completing Swarm Disaster will give a lot of Stellar Jade and a bunch of other rewards!

Simulated Universe Swarm Disaster Guide

Honkai: Star Rail Related Guides

Simulated Universe Guide

Simulated Universe Stage Guides

Simulated Universe Guides
World 1	World 2	World 3
World 4	World 5	World 6
World 7	World 8	World 9

Paths and Blessing Guides

All Simulated Universe Paths
Propagation	Preservation	Abundance	Nihility
The Hunt	Remembrance	Destruction	Elation
Erudition

Swarm Disaster Guides

Simulated Universe: The Swarm Disaster Guides
The Swarm Disaster Guide	How to Unlock All Chapters
Communing Trail and Pathstrider Guide	Exploration Guide
How to Clear Difficulty 5

Gold and Gears Guides

Simulated Universe: Gold and Gears Guides
Gold and Gears Guide	How to Unlock All Trailblaze and Aeon Secrets
Neural Network Guide	Dice Customization and All Dice Faces
How to Beat Difficulty 5

Other Simulated Universe Guides

Simulated Universe Guides
List of All Paths	Simulated Universe Events
List of All Curios	Resonance Interplay Guide