Best Teams to Cruise A8-30 | HSR 4.0 Currency Wars Guide

If HSR 4.0 Currency Wars has you staring at A8-30 like it’s a final exam, you’re not alone—this tier is where runs stop being “fun RNG” and start being “did you build the right engine.” This guide focuses on the best teams to cruise A8-30 with the lowest roster pressure (yes, trial-friendly cores), so you can stop bleeding time on doomed lines and start locking consistent clears.

Why A8-30 in HSR 4.0 Feels Harder than Before?

In HSR 4.0 Currency Wars, the jump to top ranks (up to A8-30) comes with absurd enemy scaling: late A8 Plane 3 can reach ~6600% HP, and bosses can roll extra modifiers like Boss Enhancement (+30% Max HP) plus punishing affixes (e.g., Enervation, which heavily penalizes under-geared units). Players are widely reporting “nukes doing ~1%” style fights at the top end, so the number of consistent A8-30 clears shrinks fast. That’s why the two routes below focus on mode-driven power—Aglaea’s gear spike and Sparxie’s SP/Quantum loop—so even trial-friendly cores can still pass.

 

New Aglaea “Wheelchair” Comp

The team name says it all: the whole comp is built around Aglaea’s gear setup — two Anti-Grav Boots plus the Light Speed Propeller you get from the Day Demigod bond.

Key Gear

Anti-Grav Boots

This equipment gives its wearer extra SPD at the start of every turn, and the effect stacks. On Aglaea, that’s busted: her ATK scales with SPD, so the faster she goes, the harder she hits. More SPD also means she spends fewer Action Points, so she’s spamming turns while ramping damage at the same time. To run two Anti-Grav Boots, you need four copies of the 1★ Roller Skates.

Firestorm Surge

If you’re short on Roller Skates, you can temporarily replace one pair of Anti-Grav Boots with Firestorm Surge, since it still boosts your frontline damage well enough.

Light Speed Propeller

This comes for free from the Day Demigod bond – you don’t have to roll it in the shop at all. That means in practice you only have to find two actual equipment items for Aglaea (the two Anti-Grav Boots), which makes “completing” her gear much easier. The Propeller converts her huge SPD into on-field Strength so it perfectly synergizes with the Boots and with her SPD-to-ATK scaling.

Put together, the Boots + Propeller + SPD → Strength piece (the so-called “wheelchair” gear) turn Aglaea into a self-accelerating cannon: more turns → more SPD → more Strength → more damage, while barely draining Action Points.

 

Best Investment Environment

If your starting investment environment is “Day Demigod Index Funds” and it hands you Aglaea, Tribbie and a Roller Skates copy while also raising the appearance rate of Day Demigod units, you should basically force Aglaea. The comp is so easy to complete that you’re just printing rating points.

Alternative Investment Environment

Scent of Gunpowder	The Sunken Area	Excess Budget
Starts with 2 Basic Weapon Box(es).	Obtain a "Wealth Gem" upon achieving the first 5-win streak in this round.	In supply phases, characters will carry two items.

These three Investment Environments are considered alternative for the Aglaea “Wheelchair” comp because each of them offers a reliable and compatible form of support without locking you into a specific opener. Scent of Gunpowder and Excess Budget both provide useful equipment-related value, which naturally fits Aglaea’s item-driven scaling, while The Sunken Area adds extra gold to smooth out your rolling and level timings.

 

Available Investment Strategy

Tongue Twister	Gold Investment	Eidolon Ascension
When entering combat, the leftmost on-fieldcharacter and their memosprite gain On-FieldStrength equal to 30% of the leftmost off-fieldcharacter's Off-Field Strength, the leftmost offfield character and their memosprite gain OffField Strength equal to 30% of the leftmost on-field character's On-Field Strength.	Immediately choose one of three Gold Investment Strategies, with 3 refresh(es). After 3 Nodes, gains another refresh.	In this game, on-field ally characters" EidolonLevel increases by 1

These three Investment Strategies all complement the Aglaea “Wheelchair” comp in ways that reinforce its speed-driven scaling and front-loaded tempo.

• Tongue Twister amplifies Strength on both the on-field and off-field sides, letting Aglaea convert her rapidly stacking SPD into even stronger opening pressure.
• Gold Investment stabilizes the comp’s economy by providing flexible Gold-Investment picks and repeated refreshes, helping you reach Aglaea’s key equipment and Day Demigod units more consistently.
• Eidolon Ascension offers an immediate power bump for your on-field lineup, accelerating Aglaea’s early-to-mid game curve and making her core item spikes even more impactful. Together, they fit naturally into the comp’s snowballing rhythm and support its fast, equipment-centered gameplan.

 

Full Game Route

Early Game (1-1 to 1-8)

1. Econ First, Don’t Panic Roll

In the early rounds you’re mostly coasting:

• Don’t buy EXP.
• Don’t roll the shop. Let the shop auto-refresh each node.

If the shop naturally shows Aglaea or a Day Demigod unit, grab them. If not, just throw together any simple 3 Xianhou + 2 DOT / 2 Express Cohort so your board isn’t empty — the exact early board doesn’t matter much.

Optional bridge board

On Field
Dan Heng • IL	Huohuo		Asta
Off Field
Yao Guang		Sampo

2. Keep target characters but don’t break interest

The main thing you must do during this phase: Keep copies of Aglaea, Huohuo and Tingyun. But if buying Huohuo/Tingyun would drop you below an interest threshold, skip them for now — gold is more important early.

You do not want to put Aglaea on the board too early if you haven’t formed the 3-Energy bond (Aglaea + Huohuo + Tingyun). Without that bond, forcing her on field actually lowers your overall strength compared to a normal, well-synergized board.

3. Supplies 1-5: Prioritize Shoes

During the 1-5 Supply node, your top priority is:

1. Find Roller Skates → Anti-Grav Boots for Aglaea
2. Only then worry about bonds / extra units.

4. Power Spike at 1-8: Rolling for Aglaea & Day Demigod

After you clear the 1-8 reward node (right before the first Boss), you’ll be sitting on a fat pile of gold. This is where you finally start rolling the shop in earn.

Goals for your rerolls:

• 2★ Aglaea
• Tribbie, Hyacine and other Day Demigod units
• More Roller Skates pieces for Anti-Grav Boots

You can track the Day Demigod bond on the left bond panel to see how close you are to activating it.

Rolling Trick for 1-Cost Units

If you’re fishing for 1-cost Aglaea: Buy every 1-cost unit from the shop into the bench. Bought units are removed from the pool, so the odds of seeing Aglaea go up.

This logic works for any cost tier: if you’re hunting a specific 2- or 3-cost, you can temporarily buy out that cost band. Don’t accidentally combine 2★ versions of units you plan to resell. A single copy can be sold for full price, but a combined 2★ sold early will lose you gold.

Once Aglaea hits 2★, slow down. From here:

• Sit around 50 gold to get the maximum +5 interest per round (1 per 10 gold, capped at 5).
• “Slow roll” – only spend excess gold above 50 each round, instead of zeroing out.

Ideal Early Game Lineup

On Field
Aglaea	Sunday		Hyacine		Tribbie
Off Field
Huohuo		Pela

 

Mid Game

2-3 supply node: Prepare for Second Anti-Grav Boots

At the 2-3 Supply node, your main objective is still to push Aglaea’s item progression forward. The top priority is securing additional Boot pieces—any Roller Skates you can pick up here move you closer to completing her second pair of Anti-Grav Boots, which is the biggest spike in her early-mid game momentum. Once you’ve handled the essential equipment pieces, you can then look toward secondary goals such as strengthening your bond units or picking up key “system” cards that support your overall structure.

Timing the 3★ Aglaea Power Spike

Before the natural EXP growth pushes you to level 6, there’s a last turn at level 5. On that turn, all-in roll at level 5 to finish 3★ Aglaea.

Once you hit level 6, the shop lowers the rate of 1-cost units, which makes 3-starring Aglaea significantly harder. It’s much more efficient to finish her while you’re still level 5.

In the ideal scenario, by the time you hit level 6 you already have:

• 3★ Aglaea
• Two Anti-Grav Boots + Light Speed Propeller
• Day Demigod bond online or almost online

If Aglaea just refuses to show up (or you’re only seeing a few copies), don’t force the 3★—pivot out, bank interest and fast-level toward 9 instead.

Ideal Mid Game Lineup

On Field
Aglaea	Trailblazer		Sunday		Robin
Off Field
Tribbie		Huohuo		Spakle

 

Late Game

Best Hyacine equipment
Bastion Projector	Analgesia Chip	Caloric Overload
Best Cyrene equipment
Perpetual Engine

Once you’ve got 3★ Aglaea + her 3 key equipment pieces, the rest of the game is mostly polishing:

1. Stay at 50 gold whenever possible to keep max interest, and keep slow rolling.
2. Next priorities: Supporter’s equipment’s and Perpetual Engine for Cyrene.
3. Push level 8: Look for Trailblazer, Fu Xuan and Silver Wolf. They add control, buffs and more front-row damage conversion, making your Aglaea core even safer and more explosive.
4. Level 9: Add Cyrene and Welt as your final top-end upgrades, raising the team’s damage ceiling and smoothing out your late-game boards.

Ideal Late Game Lineup

On Field
Aglaea	Trailblazer		Cyrene		Welt
Off Field
Tribbie		Huohuo		Spakle
Fu Xuan		Silver Wolf

 

4 Skill Points 3 Quantum Resonance Spaxie Team

In Currency Wars, the 4 Skill Points + 3 Quantum Resonance Sparxie build is a clean loop: spend Skill Points → generate Punchlines → cash out during Aha Instant. The Skill Points bond raises your max Skill Points, adds SPD/DMG Amplification, and every point spent triggers a lucky draw that can refund SP (or even grant an extra turn)—so Sparxie can keep “sending Gifts” without running dry.

Yao Guang is the engine. Aha’s SPD is calculated from the Elation allies, so pumping SPD on Yao Guang—often by stacking Anti-Grav Boots—speeds up your Aha Instant cycles, even if she’s positioned off-field. During Aha Instant, she flips a Woe Lot to increase enemy DMG taken while restoring Skill Points, and her Certified Banger makes allies’ attacks add Additional Elation DMG, with a bigger bump when the attack consumes Skill Points.

Sparxie then cashes out with fireworks: her livestream converts Basics into “Bloom! Winner Takes All,” and “Engagement Farming” boosts its multipliers while rolling gifts like Punchline and even +2 Skill Points (“Straight Fire”). Punchline is team-shared and directly scales Elation DMG, so it snowballs fast. With 3× Quantum Resonance, enemies take +60% DMG received, turning Sparxie’s multi-hit turns into wipe potential.

 

Key Gear

Sparxie’s Key Gear	High-frequency Chainsaw	High-frequency Chainsaw	Firestorm Surge
Yao Guang’s Key Gear	Anti-Grav Boots	Anti-Grav Boots	Anti-Grav Boots

Sparxie wants gear that converts Aha-time action spam into reliable burst. One Firestorm Surge is the “engine” that scales with her frequent hits/skill casts, but it’s also boot-hungry, so you can’t overcommit when Yao Guang needs triple boots. The other two slots go to High-frequency Chainsaw to stack +60% Lucky Strike Rate, which Sparxie can fully exploit thanks to her high Ultimate uptime.

Yao Guang’s job is to speed up the Aha bar so Sparxie gets more Aha-time swings and more “good hits” per run. Aha’s cycle speed scales with your Elation allies’ SPD, and your setup assumes Yao Guang’s SPD still counts even when she’s off-field. That makes triple Anti-Grav Boots the highest-value build: stack as much SPD as possible to accelerate Aha triggers and keep the loop rolling.

 

Best Investment Environment

Skill Point Contract

Skill Point Contract is “best-in-slot” because it turns the Sparxie core from a high-roll into a scheduled build. You get a real early-game carry to protect HP, then you pivot on time into the SP-spam engine without bleeding economy. The repeated payouts smooth your shop RNG, speed up key upgrades, and let you hit 4 Skill Points (and your endgame lineup) earlier—so your Aha-time burst comes online before other comps.

Gift of Destiny

Gift of Destiny gives you a Surprise Box immediately, then cuts its opening timer by 1 node for every perfect win. Sparxie cores often win cleanly, so you open it earlier for a power spike (resources/gear), helping you secure key pieces like Anti-Grav Boots sooner and finish 3 Quantum Resonance earlier.

Available Investment Strategy

Fortune's Favor	IPC Armory Update: Prismatic	Bursting Ore: Prismatic
Fortune’s Favor turns each advanced-equipment synth into a Good Fortune Token and gives two basic pieces. For Sparxie’s build, that’s extra fodder and more chances to hit Boots/Chainsaws, keeping rush-to-Lv. 8 tempo and helping Yao Guang stack boots as early possible. (Tips: use Good Fortune Token on Aglaea)	IPC Armory Update: Prismatic auto-transforms one inventory gear into another of the same quality each time you enter a new node, plus a random privileged piece. It’s a free reroll to fix drops and fish for Anti-Grav Boots or Chainsaws.	Bursting Ore: Prismatic gives a 45% chance to gain Crystal Ore whenever your squad defeats an enemy target. More ore means crafting/upgrading for the Sparxie core sooner.

 

Full Game Route

Early Game

Ideal Early Game Lineup

On Field
Dan Heng • IL	Huohuo		Asta		Yao Guang
Off Field
Sampo

Open with a cheap, stable shell like 3 Xianzhou + 2 DoT (Dan Heng • Imbibitor Lunae / Huohuo / Asta / Yao Guang / Sampo) to clear Nodes while you build economy. Don’t over-roll—buy pairs, lock the shop when needed, and let levels come naturally. Start banking to 50 Gold so you hit the max interest (5 per fight) breakpoint.

 

Mid Game

Ideal Mid Game Lineup

On Field
Dan Heng • IL	Lingsha		Sunday		Cerydra
Off Field
Yao Guang		Huohuo		Spakle

Once your HP is stable, stop buying off-plan units and convert your savings into EXP to rush Lv. 8, since higher levels improve your odds of finding expensive core pieces.

Around the Plane 2 boss window, roll down hard to complete the core: Sparxie + Sparkle + Silver Wolf + Fu Xuan, plus Trailblazer (Remembrance) for utility. You’re aiming for 4 Skill Points (bigger max SP + each SP spent triggers stacking lucky-draw buffs) and 3 Quantum Resonance (Synchronized Frequency stacks that ramp enemy DMG taken).

 

Late Game

Ideal Late Game Lineup

On Field
Sparxie	Trailblazer		Lingsha		Welt
Off Field
Yao Guang		Cerydra		Spakle
Fu Xuan		Silver Wolf

After the comp is assembled, rebuild economy and push Lv. 9 for stronger shop odds and upgrades. Prioritize starring up Sparxie/Silver Wolf and keep your SP engine running—this comp’s damage spikes come from repeatedly spending SP to roll the Skill Points “lucky draw” while Quantum Resonance ramps vulnerability.

If you’re healthy, add Welt at 9 as the ceiling pick.

 

Conclusion

A8-30 is about getting your win condition online early, then letting the mode’s systems snowball it: the right environment, the right strategy, and gear that actually fits the comp’s loop. Follow the routes above, keep your economy clean, and you’ll feel the run “click” way sooner.

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