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Pure Fiction Guide for Rumor Mill

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Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction Tier List and Guide for Rumor Mill

Pure Fiction is a game mode introduced in Honkai: Star Rail. See how to unlock Pure Fiction, guides for all Rumor Mill stages, and when it resets here!

Tier List Guides
Honkai Star Rail - Character Tier ListBest Characters Honkai Star Rail - Reroll Tier ListReroll Tier List
Honkai Star Rail - Light ConesBest Light Cones Honkai Star Rail - Team CompsBest Team Comps

Pure Fiction Updates

Version 2.7 Updates

New Grit Mechanic

Star Rail - Pure Fiction Grit Mechanic

As mentioned in the 2.7 Livestream, Pure Fiction will have the new Grit feature in Version 2.7.

Complete certain objectives to accumulate Grit Value. Once you have full Grit, characters will enter Surging Grit which grants them powerful buffs to defeat enemies faster.

Defeat Mobs to Damage the Boss

Star Rail - Pure Fiction Mob Mechanic

Also announced in the 2.7 Livestream, mob enemies will continuously refresh when defeated. These mobs can now also deal damage to the boss enemy upon defeat.

Defeating the boss enemy will let you advance to the next wave.

Pure Fiction Reset Time

Pure Fiction Reset Calendar

When Does Pure Fiction Reset?

Reset Time 2024/12/22 - 04:00 (Server Time)

Pure Fiction will release a new Phase every three weeks and each Phase will have a six week duration. Pure Fiction always resets on a Monday at 04:00.

Pure Fiction Grit Mechanics and Phase Duration

Technicality Entrapment Grit Mechanic
After allies use Skill to attack enemy targets, every enemy target hit additionally accumulates 5 Grit Value for allies.
Honkai Star Rail - Concordant TruceConcordant Truce At the start of battle, after an ally uses their Skill to attack an enemy target, deals a set amount of DMG to all attacked enemy targets.
Honkai Star Rail - Surging GritSurging Grit Upon entering Surging Grit, advances all allies actions by 100% and increases DMG received by enemy targets during this period by 50%. Additionally, after an ally uses their Skill to attack an enemy target, deals an additional set amount of DMG to all attacked enemy targets and adjacent targets.
Phase Duration 12/22/2024 - 02/03/2025

How to Unlock Pure Fiction

Play Through Youci's Clever Decor

Honkai Star Rail - Youci

You can unlock Pure Fiction by playing through the Youci's Clever Decor Mission. You will unlock Stage 1 after talking to Youci.

Youci's Clever Decor Mission Guide

All Pure Fiction Stage Guides

All Pure Fiction Stage Guides

Pure Fiction Stages
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4

Stage 1 Best Elements To Use

1st Half 2nd Half

Best F2P Team

First Half
Xueyi Xueyi Herta Herta Yukong Yukong Lynx Lynx Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 GimmickGimmick
Second Half
Serval Serval Trailblazer (Fire) Trailblazer (Fire) Asta Asta Natasha Natasha Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 Drunk TalkDrunk Talk

Pure Fiction Stage 1 Guide

Stage 2 Best Elements To Use

1st Half 2nd Half

Best F2P Team

First Half
Trailblazer (Imaginary) Trailblazer (Imaginary) March 7th (Imaginary) March 7th (Imaginary) Asta Asta Natasha Natasha Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 GimmickGimmick
Second Half
Serval Serval Dan Heng Dan Heng Yukong Yukong Lynx Lynx Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 RumorRumor

Pure Fiction Stage 2 Guide

Stage 3 Best Elements To Use

1st Half 2nd Half

Best F2P Team

First Half
Xueyi Xueyi Trailblazer (Imaginary) Trailblazer (Imaginary) March 7th (Imaginary) March 7th (Imaginary) Natasha Natasha Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 RumorRumor
Second Half
Herta Herta Serval Serval Asta Asta Lynx Lynx Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 RumorRumor

Pure Fiction Stage 3 Guide

Stage 4 Best Elements To Use

1st Half 2nd Half

Best F2P Team

First Half
March 7th (Imaginary) March 7th (Imaginary) Trailblazer (Imaginary) Trailblazer (Imaginary) Asta Asta Lynx Lynx Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 Whimsicality - GimmickGimmick
Second Half
Serval Serval Dan Heng Dan Heng Yukong Yukong Natasha Natasha Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction 2.6 RumorRumor

Pure Fiction Stage 4 Guide

How to Play Pure Fiction

Talk to Youci in the Exalting Sanctum

Star Rail - Youci Location in Exalting Sanctum

To access Pure Fiction, go to the floating Bird Cage by the name of Youci in the Exalting Sanctum.

Choose Cacophony Buffs for Your Team

Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction - Select Buffs

Form up two teams and select Cacophony buffs to enhance your characters. Each Pure Fiction phase will have multiple buffs to choose from.

Defeat as Much Enemies as Possible

Honkai Star Rail - Pure Fiction - Defeat as Much Enemies as possible before you run out of cycles

Pure Fiction plays similarly to the Legends Past and Present as your goal is to defeat as many enemies as possible and deal DMG to earn points.

These enemies will continuously respawn and you only have a limited number of cycles to earn the aforementioned points.

Pure Fiction Rewards

Free 4-Star: Lynx

Honkai Star Rail - Lynx

Lynx joins the roster of free 4-star characters as a reward for completing Stage 2 of Pure Fiction.

List of All Free Characters

Rewards Per Stage

Stages Rewards
Clear a Pure Fiction Stage
Honkai: Star Rail - Credit Credit x30000
Rewards per Insignia from 1 to 8
Honkai: Star Rail - Credit Credit x20000
Rewards per Insignia from 9 to 12
Honkai: Star Rail - Credit Credit x20000

Total Insignia Rewards

Insignia Rewards
Star Rail - Stellar Jade Item Stellar Jade x800 Star Rail - Credit Item Credit x220000 Star Rail - Jade Feather Item Jade Feather x600

In total, you can get up to 800 Stellar Jades by geting a full 12 star clear in Pure Fiction. A new Pure Fiction event will appear every 6 weeks, after the previous one ends.

Along with 800 Stellar Jades, you can get 600 Jade Feathers per star. They can be used to purchase items such as Self Modeling Resins and Relic Remains in the Jokes Come True tab of the Priceless Jewels shop in Pure Fiction.

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9 Anonymousi3 months

just asking is feixiao usable here

8 Anonymous5 months

Where did Firefly go? why is she missing from the list suddenly 💀

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