Highlights

  • Honkai: Star Rail's Apocalyptic Shadow mode offers new endgame content with powerful enemies and rewards like Stellar Jades and upgrade materials.
  • The upcoming boss, Phantylia, has unique abilities like damage reduction and healing through Abundance lotuses, and players should use characters with specific elements to defeat it.
  • Ruan Mei, Firefly, and Acheron are the most used units in the Apocalyptic Shadow mode, while Phantylia the Undying can be found in the Scalegorge Waterscape region in Xianzhou Lufou.

A recent Honkai: Star Rail leak has given details about a new Apocalyptic Shadow boss, which will arrive in version 2.5. Honkai: Star Rail's Apocalyptic Shadow mode is the newest endgame content for players with high-level units. It offers a decent number of Stellar Jades, requiring Trailblazers to defeat more powerful versions of enemies they've faced before. This combat domain is meant to be an all-new challenge for those who can already beat other endgame modes, such as Pure Fiction and Memory of Chaos.

The Apocalyptic Shadow mode is not only a place where players can test their characters, but also a source of Stellar Jades and upgrade materials. Those who complete the mode receive plenty of Lost Crystals, Lucent Afterglows, Refined Aethers, Credits, and Traveler's Guides. Moreover, they get Stellar Jades and Jade Feathers by collecting high scores from stages within Honkai: Star Rail's Apocalyptic Shadow.

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The latest Honkai: Star Rail version 2.5 leak from HomDGCat revealed a new boss, Phantylia, which will arrive in the Apocalyptic Shadow mode. The upcoming boss will have damage reduction while not in the Weakness Broken state, and its Abundance lotuses will heal their own HP. According to the leak, these flower companions will reduce a certain amount of energy from all units when they take action.

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It's worth noting that Phantylia's lotuses will be unkillable. However, the boss will transfer its elemental weaknesses to its companions.

Phantylia the Undying is an Echo of War boss in Honkai: Star Rail, which players can find in the Scalegorge Waterscape region in Xianzhou Lufou. It has weaknesses to some elements, including Wind, Imaginary, and Lightning. Players are well advised to use characters with these elements to defeat Phantylia the Undying more easily.

The Apocalyptic Shadow has players clear waves of enemies to snap bountiful rewards, like other modes within Honkai: Star Rail. It runs alongside Pure Fiction, allowing players to choose buffs for their parties before diving into combat. There are various difficulty levels in Apocalyptic Shadow, one of which gives Trailblazers the four-star Quantum unit Xueyi as a completion reward.

Speaking of the Apocalyptic Shadow, a fan-made Honkai: Star Rail chart has revealed that Ruan Mei, Firefly, and Acheron are the most used units in the mode. Ruan Mei comes first with an 89.31% usage rate, while Acheron and Firefly follow her with 74.79% and 58.49%, respectively. Fu Xuan and Silver Wolf are also among the most popular characters in the Apocalyptic Shadow.