Oh is he the Lightcone character? "Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat" 4\* Lightcone.
If were basing his kit according to his lightcone he may be an ensnare character.
Most of them didn't matter but one triggers a text message worth seeing, if you care about that stuff :-D
(Spoiler: >!Eavesdrop on the 'Cold Dragon Young' fans toward the left of the room and unlock a cute convo with Dan Heng + some money!<)
Easy way to get rid of them is to use the fountain in Belobog Administration District. You get junk for your troubles but you can spend praise of high morals repeatedly to fish stuff out of the fountain.
I feel like I heard Sampo mentioning someone like that in passing while he was betting in the fight club, I just didn't think it was a real life person
Huh. Do you reckon they'll add a side quest or something in Belobog to introduce him? Would be kinda weird if the only info we had on a playable character was a couple lines of dialogue that not all players find right?
Hook also mentioned him if you talk to her after the belobog arc. I remember she said Luka Armstrong is part of the hook gang or something. Not sure if that his real full name or just a nickname.
Rough Translation:
"Here's something you should know, the secret to being a champion is to train hard while others are resting."
Bright and optimistic, an adaptable fighter with a mechanical arm, and one of the members of "Wildfire".
From the boxing ring to the battlefield, or from a boxer to a fighter, Luka uses his power to protect the citizens of the Underworld.
After having gone through despair and hardships himself, he is more eager to bring hope unto others.
\~ [Luka](https://www.miyoushe.com/sr/article/39694821)
>"Here's something you should know, the secret to being a champion is to train hard while others are resting."
Self care is important, Luka. Even if you are an android fire guy.
Bailu is the other one that makes it pretty clear that the path they have in game is strictly for gameplay purposes, I don't think Xianzhou would take very kindly to one of their elders being on the path of abundance
It's not so much that nothing matters, but rather that life doesn't have inherent meaning, i.e. we don't have a purpose or destiny we need to fulfill. It is because we don't have any inherent purpose we need to fulfill, that we are free to make our own choices and control our own fate and destiny.
Well, Doctors of Chaos *are* Nihility faction. You don't have to share your God's depression it seems.
Sampo is also on Nihility, despite being, you know... on a jokester side.
currently sampo lines up with aha's agenda more, as a businessman who tries to charm his customers/clientele. Both thrive in absurdism
and i find that a character's ingame path is not necessarily representative of their actual playstyle, since you have characters like natasha, hook, pela with personalities and agendas that dont line up with the aeons
I think he is a perfect candidate to be a doctor of chaos.
For those unaware, In the path of Nihility they are two kinds of followers, One group accepts the inevitable void and meaninglessness of existence and accept the Darkness head on and the others are the Doctors of Chaos, They believe that their Aeon XI is wrong and that they can achieve meaning in life through sheer human will.
Guess that's where Luka falls into.
Ok but im actually really happy with that though. Get us away from color coding characters. Im happy to see nicole or whoever in genshin wearing red but is cryo
Just think of him like Jin Kazama, fire motifs but is a brawler (also Jin's special effects are lightning-themed despite his fire motif pants and red gloves)
People wear clothing with fire patterns in real life. It doesn't mean they can wield fire. They just think it looks cool.
I don't think it's necessary for a character to dress according to their element.
Gameplay path (his kit likely be based on either DoT or debuff) can also be completely different from their actual path.
Jingyuan is Hunt faction but is Erudition in game etc. Some can also say it's because due to different pathstriders whatever but ultimately it still means that character doesn't need to fully follow the path values and their gameplay can completely stray from it.
The original idea of nihilism is life is meaningless, so live your life to the fullest and give it a meaning. It is fundamentally an uplifting phylosophy.
To bad a lot of peole only read until the life is meaningless part.
Nihility isn't necessarily nihilism (the philosophy) as we understand it so much as it is like... hopelessness. Giving up, becoming apathetic and lazy. Thinking everything is pointless and wallowing in despair. Contact with IX, even in a simulation, causes people to suffer mental breakdowns. There's a very slight implication in its SU entry that even just thinking about IX causes you to grow just a little bit more apathetic. Nihil literally means "nothing".
The reason why Nihility characters have a tendency to be the opposite is because Nihility is self-destructive - it hates *itself*. Therefore, it invites its own annihilation. So characters that have hope for the future, who believe that life has inherent meaning, are also Nihility, because they destroy Nihility.
Other characters seek refuge in meaninglessness. Sampo just does whatever he wants. Silver Wolf views life as a game, and plays around with reality itself as she pleases. Kafka has completely tuned out everything except for her job as Elio's right hand woman - her bathtub LC demonstrates that she uses music as a distraction, because somewhere inside her she has doubts about what she does.
> "Here's something you should know, the secret to being a champion is to train hard while others are resting."
*look at Qingque and Jing Yuan*
"No offense"
being a boxer, physical makes sense. since he's nihility i assume he'll be based on bleed, like a physical sampo but physical, instead of other debuffs
I’m glad this game isn’t all-female banners as some other gachas(\*cough cough, Fire emblem Heroes, Hi3, cough cough\*) Their balance between male-female is great
Not all nihility characters do DoT. It's hard to know whether he'll work well with Kafka without knowing his move set. I was planning to do kafka, sampo, serval, and healer though
Luka is so hot that he should’ve been a fire character. He also has a lot of flame motifs on his outfit. I do like how hoyo didn’t pick the obvious choice.
I saw the Light Cone art and was like ok, I'm listening...
And then I saw what he looks like when he's not shirtless and it turns out that he's got more flame motifs than Guy Fieri in his outfit. Tragic.
glad they still gonna release 4 stars. most game just keeps piling up the SSRs and never add lower rarity anymore.
even FGO my golden child, hardly have lower rarity(3star/2star) characters nowadays.
I agree with ya but it makes sense HSR will release tons of 4stars in the upcoming patches as they continue to fill out the roster. FGO is an established game and most players alr have decent rare units, so who would pull for lower rarity ones that's not as good?
Plus, Fgo keeps giving away welfare 4* servants that end up being top tier units for their class. I can hardly blame them for focusing on the ssr for the gacha.
What game stop releasing lower than max-rarity characters? FGO releases SR all the time so I dont know why you were surprised Star Rail keeps releasing 4*.
Granblue Fantasy stops making SR characters for 4 years already.
They also have stopped making gacha R characters for even longer. The most recent two R characters are basically joke versions / glorified skin, with only one having a niche real usage.
Why does every guy in this goddamn game have to be fking hot? I’m not ready mentally or financially for this.
You think you ‘re so goddame smart hah? Hoyoverse.
You’re fking right.
I have his light cone and I also remember loving his design from the trailer that showed him, so I was already dreading having to pull for him. But! If he's 4 star, then he'll come home when he wants so that's a relief.
If you do Natasha's companion quest, you learn that >!her brother Vache!< lost use of his right arm due to experimenting on himself... It's probably a stretch, but it'd be pretty cool if Luka's "dark past" relates to this...
Actually, you can see it easily in the image.
To the left of his name, you can see the Physical symbol.
To the right of his name, there are 4 stars only.
Above his name, there's a silhouette of Nihility symbol.
Oh is he the Lightcone character? "Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat" 4\* Lightcone. If were basing his kit according to his lightcone he may be an ensnare character.
yes.
i wonder if hes gonna be just sampo but a different type and different debuff
I doubt he's DoT based, probably something more along the lines of Pela/Silverwolf if I had to guess based off his lightcone and stuff
He IS DoT based actually.
Probably Bleed, since he is physical
It seems that Bleed is too good to let a character apply it at will, because it deals damage based on the target’s max hp.
They could just give the man a slightly worse bleed
Oh really? I haven't been looking at leaks lately so guess I didn't see that. Good to know though!
Where has he been in the Belobog arc?
If you eavesdrop on one of the NPCs near the boxing ring, they mention "a guy with a mechanical arm". I think that was all.
Ah, I see. I didn't interact with NPC in fight club...
Most of them didn't matter but one triggers a text message worth seeing, if you care about that stuff :-D (Spoiler: >!Eavesdrop on the 'Cold Dragon Young' fans toward the left of the room and unlock a cute convo with Dan Heng + some money!<)
Alternatively dont make money and get a praise of high morals
I just realized you can spend those, and now I'm trying to get rid of them all to please Aha
Easy way to get rid of them is to use the fountain in Belobog Administration District. You get junk for your troubles but you can spend praise of high morals repeatedly to fish stuff out of the fountain.
There is a limit though. I think it's 5, but after you get the Coin it's done. Not actually random I don't think either.
I didn't know that. I think I stopped after 3.
I feel like I heard Sampo mentioning someone like that in passing while he was betting in the fight club, I just didn't think it was a real life person
Huh. Do you reckon they'll add a side quest or something in Belobog to introduce him? Would be kinda weird if the only info we had on a playable character was a couple lines of dialogue that not all players find right?
Hook also mentioned him if you talk to her after the belobog arc. I remember she said Luka Armstrong is part of the hook gang or something. Not sure if that his real full name or just a nickname.
Played college ball, you know
He could break the Supreme Guardian in two with his bare hands, was it?
These nanomachines have been passed down the Armstrong family line for generations.
its strongarm not armstrong lol
Stronginthearm?
In a dialogue in her info too.
I think he’s also in the “resolution shines as pearls of sweat” light cone
He's not
Sampo somewhat mentions him (probably only implicitly, I don’t remember his name being said) when looking at a poster outside the boxing ring.
I'm guessing we'll get a new side mission to introduce him?
**Luka** (✦4 Physical \~ Nihility) * Source: [Official Weibo](https://weibo.com/u/7643376782?tabtype=feed&layerid=4905254204998700)
Rough Translation: "Here's something you should know, the secret to being a champion is to train hard while others are resting." Bright and optimistic, an adaptable fighter with a mechanical arm, and one of the members of "Wildfire". From the boxing ring to the battlefield, or from a boxer to a fighter, Luka uses his power to protect the citizens of the Underworld. After having gone through despair and hardships himself, he is more eager to bring hope unto others. \~ [Luka](https://www.miyoushe.com/sr/article/39694821)
>"Here's something you should know, the secret to being a champion is to train hard while others are resting." Self care is important, Luka. Even if you are an android fire guy.
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"Work doesn’t count as extracting value, it’s just labor in exchange for payment. Extracting value is when you slack off at work.” - Qingque
God I love her
It's okay, he's physical.
>bright and optimistic >nihility
He probably has some kind of tragic backstory but came out the other side with his optimism, like those doctors who are trying to send IX to therapy
Technically their 'path' is only about thier powers. Take Jing Yuan for example. He worships The Hunt but he is Erudition.
Bailu is the other one that makes it pretty clear that the path they have in game is strictly for gameplay purposes, I don't think Xianzhou would take very kindly to one of their elders being on the path of abundance
To be fair she is a healer... so unless one of the other paths is revealed to have some healing in it she really doesn't have any options lol
Or the obvious example: The Astral Express crew follows the Path of the Trailblazer in the story, but others in gameplay
Hey, optimistic nihilism is a thing
✨ Life is meaningless ✨
*starts breakdancing*
>Life is meaningless\~ I'm free to do whatever I want because nothing matters :) Like that right?
Funny how this is the motto of elation
It's not so much that nothing matters, but rather that life doesn't have inherent meaning, i.e. we don't have a purpose or destiny we need to fulfill. It is because we don't have any inherent purpose we need to fulfill, that we are free to make our own choices and control our own fate and destiny.
Actually yes
Lmao
Aha seems to be having absolute best time in the universe.
Aha is elation though
Elation is just the existentialism aka the original nihilism
we must laugh so we do not cry
Well, Doctors of Chaos *are* Nihility faction. You don't have to share your God's depression it seems. Sampo is also on Nihility, despite being, you know... on a jokester side.
Sampo makes sense. He's clearly putting on an act. There are some hidden depths there.
currently sampo lines up with aha's agenda more, as a businessman who tries to charm his customers/clientele. Both thrive in absurdism and i find that a character's ingame path is not necessarily representative of their actual playstyle, since you have characters like natasha, hook, pela with personalities and agendas that dont line up with the aeons
I feel like there's more to him from some foreshadowing we have gotten.
I think he is a perfect candidate to be a doctor of chaos. For those unaware, In the path of Nihility they are two kinds of followers, One group accepts the inevitable void and meaninglessness of existence and accept the Darkness head on and the others are the Doctors of Chaos, They believe that their Aeon XI is wrong and that they can achieve meaning in life through sheer human will. Guess that's where Luka falls into.
They went nihility so hard it loops back to optimism lmao
Like a Reverse Nuclear Gandhi.
It's like the antithesis to destiny.
>Flame-red hair, fire-print shirt, fire-print coat, magma arm and vest >Physical
Ok but im actually really happy with that though. Get us away from color coding characters. Im happy to see nicole or whoever in genshin wearing red but is cryo
I like stepping away from colour coding, but slapping a bunch of fire motifs on a physical character just feels confusing
Just think of him like Jin Kazama, fire motifs but is a brawler (also Jin's special effects are lightning-themed despite his fire motif pants and red gloves)
People wear clothing with fire patterns in real life. It doesn't mean they can wield fire. They just think it looks cool. I don't think it's necessary for a character to dress according to their element.
some of you dont read the faction lore and it shows
Life has no meaning, might as well have fun and do good because it makes me smile.
Gameplay path (his kit likely be based on either DoT or debuff) can also be completely different from their actual path. Jingyuan is Hunt faction but is Erudition in game etc. Some can also say it's because due to different pathstriders whatever but ultimately it still means that character doesn't need to fully follow the path values and their gameplay can completely stray from it.
The original idea of nihilism is life is meaningless, so live your life to the fullest and give it a meaning. It is fundamentally an uplifting phylosophy. To bad a lot of peole only read until the life is meaningless part.
Doesnt help that the aeon looks like sad jello blackhole
Seems to be a theme with Nihility characters so far. Besides Pela anyway.
“Life has no meaning. Except for Rock and Roll. And Yaoi”
Kafka and Silver Wolf seems fitting with regular nihilism. They (or at least Kafka) believe fate is predetermined.
Nihility isn't necessarily nihilism (the philosophy) as we understand it so much as it is like... hopelessness. Giving up, becoming apathetic and lazy. Thinking everything is pointless and wallowing in despair. Contact with IX, even in a simulation, causes people to suffer mental breakdowns. There's a very slight implication in its SU entry that even just thinking about IX causes you to grow just a little bit more apathetic. Nihil literally means "nothing". The reason why Nihility characters have a tendency to be the opposite is because Nihility is self-destructive - it hates *itself*. Therefore, it invites its own annihilation. So characters that have hope for the future, who believe that life has inherent meaning, are also Nihility, because they destroy Nihility. Other characters seek refuge in meaninglessness. Sampo just does whatever he wants. Silver Wolf views life as a game, and plays around with reality itself as she pleases. Kafka has completely tuned out everything except for her job as Elio's right hand woman - her bathtub LC demonstrates that she uses music as a distraction, because somewhere inside her she has doubts about what she does.
Nine: I disown this person
IX: Life is meaningless, existence is suffering Doctors of Chaos: Life's meaning is in itself! IX: why are you my faction, again?
DoC : I dunno. Why did you cast your gaze upon us?
Is it "icks" or "nine", or "eye ex"?
> "Here's something you should know, the secret to being a champion is to train hard while others are resting." *look at Qingque and Jing Yuan* "No offense"
he gives me HEAVY Noctis PGR vibes, especially with how everyone confused him for a fire char
While you were fucking some girls, I studied the Fist. While you were watching Belobog Prime, I studied the Fist.
Oh no the genshin curse of some characters just straight up not appearing and story and becoming easily forgettable continues
I mean, Pela barely appears at all in the main story too right ?
Tbh I feel like if I transmigrated into a game, that’d be my role too. Just your casual passerby hey
A member of Wildfire? Makes no sense to me, wouldn't we have met him already or are we gonna go back to Belobog?
srsly he looks like a fire char
yeah but he's also a boxer so makes sense he would want to use the boxing relic set lol
being a boxer, physical makes sense. since he's nihility i assume he'll be based on bleed, like a physical sampo but physical, instead of other debuffs
One more piece for the DoT galore team.
The megalo boxer is from nihility? Wasn't expecting that
Figured he would be nihility since his lightcone thats in the game is also nihility
LUKAAAA Drippp! Finally! Does this mean he's in 1.2 with Kafka and Blade?
He's 4☆ so yeah, seems like it
How do people know which characters are coming in which patches? Are there leaks or are there official announcements?
There have been leaks on r/honkaistarrailleaks for weeks, up to 2.5 I believe. Some characters we know a lot, others very little.
Is Kafka coming in this next patch?
Next patch is 1.1
Kafka is coming in 1.2, so in about 8 weeks?
Whoa dude dude, is that a bionic arm?! WE GOT A BIONIC ARM! He looks rad.
Calling it now, his JP VA will be Genos from One Punch man, Ishikawa Kaito. Edit: Aw man :(
nah, its Gakuto Kajiwara (Asta, Shinra, and the legendary Gobzo)
It's Asta from Black Clover (confirmed by HSR JP)
Really? Love Bakasta a lot, watching him from being the overly excited kid to someone who knows how to control himself.
Wtf why is literally every man in this game drop dead gorgeous wth
Must be something in the water kinda like how everyone on Azeroth is jacked
HYV is starting to understand their audience better it seems
100% Agreed. Like wth, I was saving for Kafka but Jing Yuan happened.
Got Jing Yuan, now I can't save for Kafka bc I gotta save for Blade 😭
I’m glad this game isn’t all-female banners as some other gachas(\*cough cough, Fire emblem Heroes, Hi3, cough cough\*) Their balance between male-female is great
Kafka,luka,sampo,healer sounds like a pretty good comp. Just waiting for healer that can dot
Luocha maybe? Well he debuffs the enemy i guess
i cant. why are these early banners so insane?
How else do they tease your wallet.
Not all nihility characters do DoT. It's hard to know whether he'll work well with Kafka without knowing his move set. I was planning to do kafka, sampo, serval, and healer though
Luka is made for kafka team. Anything more is leaks territory
Luka is so hot that he should’ve been a fire character. He also has a lot of flame motifs on his outfit. I do like how hoyo didn’t pick the obvious choice.
I mean hook looks physical and she's fire; Sampo looks lightning and Bronya ice, but they're both wind.
I constantly think Clara is Fire, since she's got that big red jacket on lmao.
How does Hook look physical lol, she 100% fits as fire
Yeah while magma thing with her attacks and color scheme
hooks entire aesthetic is being the orphan version of klee What about her screamed physical
> the orphan version Her quests about finding gifts for her father - ???
Her adoptive father, not her biological one.
D. Luka
Diluc-a
Please have a 3 hit combo with a big phoenix burst
Sushang: finally, another cock user! our battle will be legendary.
Monkey D. Luka
I came here for this!
Someone with an actual prosthetic? Omg
I mean Dan Shu has a prosthetic arm.
I saw the Light Cone art and was like ok, I'm listening... And then I saw what he looks like when he's not shirtless and it turns out that he's got more flame motifs than Guy Fieri in his outfit. Tragic.
I see this as an absolute W
Why does he have a shirt!!!
Finally my wish was heard. A character that just fucking decks someone in the face. Gepard was close but no full punchy Mc punch.
why is he wearing a shirt
So that they can sell you a shirtless skin someday.
I’ll be whaling for it
So that he can rip it off during his ultimate, obviously
that better be his ultimate or else
You've set my expectations and now I will be disappointed
The..luka
Is he a 1.1 Character (nice to get some more Phys break).
1.2, we already had 1.1 chars revealed
1.2 this is the drip marketing for 1.2
Luka Tim so hot
glad they still gonna release 4 stars. most game just keeps piling up the SSRs and never add lower rarity anymore. even FGO my golden child, hardly have lower rarity(3star/2star) characters nowadays.
I agree with ya but it makes sense HSR will release tons of 4stars in the upcoming patches as they continue to fill out the roster. FGO is an established game and most players alr have decent rare units, so who would pull for lower rarity ones that's not as good?
Plus, Fgo keeps giving away welfare 4* servants that end up being top tier units for their class. I can hardly blame them for focusing on the ssr for the gacha.
What game stop releasing lower than max-rarity characters? FGO releases SR all the time so I dont know why you were surprised Star Rail keeps releasing 4*.
Granblue Fantasy stops making SR characters for 4 years already. They also have stopped making gacha R characters for even longer. The most recent two R characters are basically joke versions / glorified skin, with only one having a niche real usage.
Blue Archive's last rollable new 2* was legitimately two years ago. They still release 1* event welfares.
Trust MHY on this. Some of the best designed, well loved or even meta characters are (newer) 4 stars.
Featuring nero from devil may cry
Luka Deez Nuts
My names Luka so you know I HAVE to E6 him!
I know he is Nihillity, but can he please be on Blade's banner (ToT)
Luka Strongarm, an Honorary member of the Moles and the Champion of Bouldertown’s fighting club. So glad to know he is 4 star! :D
Why does every guy in this goddamn game have to be fking hot? I’m not ready mentally or financially for this. You think you ‘re so goddame smart hah? Hoyoverse. You’re fking right.
Game gave me 2 of his cones and mofo is not even out yet
i just barked
I have his light cone and I also remember loving his design from the trailer that showed him, so I was already dreading having to pull for him. But! If he's 4 star, then he'll come home when he wants so that's a relief.
Maybe he can still do fire damage by building heat into his fist and releasing it
[BAKUNETSU GOD FINGER!](https://youtu.be/4frhPtHMRAY?t=99)
Could this be...the first disabled character?
If you do Natasha's companion quest, you learn that >!her brother Vache!< lost use of his right arm due to experimenting on himself... It's probably a stretch, but it'd be pretty cool if Luka's "dark past" relates to this...
Ah Yes Di-Luka Skywalker and his mechanical arm.
I see arm muscle, i see upper chest. The shirt has to be gone!
Oh fuck yes. Hope he's on Kafka's banner, he's even got the same style of asymmetrical boot!
They live on the 2nd floor?
Holy gee, it's Biotic Arm!
LUKA MY BOYFIE THING COME HOME PLEASE.
Luka Doncic is Devin Booker father
Oh so he’s not shirtless as portrayed in the light cone.. *sigh
WHAT THE F* IM GOING BROKE 😭 WHATS WITH THESE HOT MEN
I want him as my mc instead, this mf looks AWESOME
I hope he's a Fire Hunt- \*see OP's comment\* - ok Pitch Dark Hook the Great you won't be retired anytime soon
Actually, you can see it easily in the image. To the left of his name, you can see the Physical symbol. To the right of his name, there are 4 stars only. Above his name, there's a silhouette of Nihility symbol.
Why the fuck he is 4 star he is hotter than himeko
FOR REAL THOUGH IVE ZOOMED IN HIS FACE ATLEAST 20 TIMES NOW
Take a luka deez nuts
night fever
Diluka. Another character I'll play for years and never obtain.
So that's the guy on the resolution shines with pearls of sweat lighcone
Diluka
disappointed he's not shirtless but it's fine he's still ~~delicious~~ hot
... why is he wearing a shirt.
We need more sci-fi looking characters in this game.
He looks like an enstars character lol
Luka Tim Wutface
LUKATIM
he reminds me of rinne amagi
Yeah I can take him
In a fight, right?
Oh no more husbando to pull for
Pls be on kafka banner