[HSR AA 4.5] Saber 0 cycles Plight Irontomb - 18 cost

18 cost. E6S1 Saber + E1S1 Gil + E2S1 RobinS + E2 Huohuo. No BP. Castorice GP triggered but avoidable. 13 “cost” if you discount the “free” items (all three Huohuo copies were actually redeemed in shop on my account at least…). There are lower cost runs on Bili, Gil’s LC and both of Huohuo’s eidolons can be cut. Usually they run DEF rope on Gil to stop him dying so much. Play wasn’t perfect. In particular it’s possible to get through phase 3 without eating the Irontomb ult. Even so you can see I had a fair amount of leeway at the end. Incidentally, this is a relatively good matchup for Saber (still not wind weak…), but on private servers the same team and investment 0 cycled plight painter from 4.4, which is a poor matchup for Saber. On live servers Saber had to run sustainless with E2 MBlade for that boss, which shows the scale of the upgrade Robin E2 represents. You can see my builds at the end. Regarding general builds for this team: Saber case by case Eagle/Genius, always Life Sciences. Default to Eagle if Robin E2+, Genius otherwise, but still case by case. Always SPD boots, always Wind sphere, case by case ER/ATK rope. You do want a bit of speed in substats to hit breakpoints. Gil always Eagle, case by case Converging Stars/Vonwaq. Always SPD boots, always Lightning sphere, case by case ATK/ER rope. Not sure on the optimal balance of speed vs crit substats, don’t have the pieces to test, see Bili runs using both high speed and just speed boots to success. Robin always Deliverer, case by case Vonwaq/Amphoreus/Penacony. At E6 always Vonwaq. Speed and HP for substats. Huohuo case by case Valkyrie/Eagle, case by case Penacony/Keel/Vonwaq. Penacony strictly better than Keel for Saber teams I just don’t have pieces. Focus seed for substats. Regarding investment strategy, pull Robin E6 before Gil E6. I’m not sure whether Saber E6 or Robin E6 takes priority but let’s be real all Saber mains have E6 🙃 And if that describes you, E0S0 Robin is unfortunately not a significant upgrade over RMC for specifcally E6 Saber (unless you also have E6 Gil, but again pull E6 Robin first). The bulk of the improvement is in the eidolons. From my experience, E2S1 Robin is close to a 2x improvement over RMC. And from what I’ve seen on Bili, E6 Robin is another close to 2x improvement E2 Robin.