Should You Pull Aeon ★ Aha in HSR 4.7? Pull Order for Every Elation Team

Aeon ★ Aha is worth pulling for any Elation team, but in Guoba Certified’s guide they come after the team’s core pieces, except for Sparxie, where Aha is an early pull. That is the whole video in one line, and the rest of this page is the reasoning per team.

Guoba opens with a disclaimer worth keeping in mind for every chart below: these are optimal investment routes, not the cheapest way to clear. Leaderboard teams will run E0 Pearl with Aha even where the optimal route says E2 Pearl first, because players want Aha’s power without paying for every Eidolon. Guoba also asks viewers to compare several creators’ takes and not to pull an Eidolon because one video called it good.

This site keeps Aeon ★ Aha’s abilities and Eidolons, their build and the teams they appear in, and the table further down sums up each team’s order as Guoba gives it.

Guoba’s argument is about kit design rather than strength. Aha’s signature effect, Faces of Elation, makes allies’ Path of Elation ascend: it enhances what each Elation character already does. That is an upgrade for every Elation damage dealer at E0, which Guoba calls HoYoverse’s intended design, but it is an upgrade to a team, and a team that does not exist yet has nothing to ascend.

So the question the video asks is not whether Aha beats the Elation Trailblazer in the second support slot, which Guoba considers settled, but when in a pull plan Aha should land. For most teams the answer is after the enabler (Yao Guang), and after the Eidolons or supports that change how the team plays.

The card above shows the part that does not change between teams. While Faces of Elation is active, Punchline and the Certified Banger state turn into Bliss and the Party Trick state, Bliss returns 10% of the consumed Punchline at the end of the Aha Instant turn, and Aha’s own CRIT Rate and DEF ignore rise: 12% and 30% at E0, 20% and 60% at E2. Each Elation character then gets their own ascended effect on top, and those differ a lot from team to team, which is why Guoba’s pull order differs too.

For Evanescia, Guoba lists what the ascension gives her: Energy overflow for quality of life, DEF ignore and occasional extra multipliers on her Ultimate. Taken alone, it is “not the greatest of buffs” in Guoba’s words, but added to the buffs Aha gives Evanescia’s teammates and Aha’s own damage, it beats any other option for the second support slot.

Guoba also points to a possible team for players who never pulled Yao Guang: Evanescia, the Elation Trailblazer, Aha and Pearl. The video covers it only in passing, as a substitute and not a recommendation.

The order for building an Evanescia team from nothing is Evanescia, then Yao Guang as the Elation enabler, then E1 Evanescia and Pearl, then Aha. Guoba calls E1 and Pearl close: both lift the team a lot, and Pearl moves ahead for anyone without Huohuo, the next best sustain. Because both of those upgrades are so large, Aha comes after them.

Guoba would stop at that point. For players who want more, the chart offers two options: E2 Aha, which costs two more copies and gives a large boost to Evanescia’s Ultimate plus team-wide gains, or E2 Evanescia, one copy, for even more Ultimates. E2 Aha is the better of the two in the video, and the more expensive. The Evanescia build on this site covers her Light Cone and relics.

Sparxie is the team where Aha matters most. Under Faces of Elation, Sparxie’s Elation Skills get stronger, she gives the team DEF ignore, and each Straight Fire generates extra Bliss, which Guoba counts as 24 more per turn. More Punchline loops back into more Elation Skills, and the Main DPS team improves substantially.

Guoba still rates an optimised E0 Silver Wolf LV.999 above it, but says casual players can now invest in Sparxie and perform at a similar top-tier level. Because the buff is that strong, the order changes: Sparxie, then Yao Guang and Aha, then Pearl, who in Guoba’s view synergises less here but still adds turns.

The chart’s first slot carries a note: if you do not use your Trailblazer elsewhere, the Elation Trailblazer can take Yao Guang’s place, giving Sparxie, the Trailblazer, Aha and Pearl. In Guoba’s words, Aha is so strong for Sparxie that the usual “must pull Yao Guang” rule no longer applies.

The variant above comes from another creator, Ruri Goko, whom Guoba credits on screen: a fast Sparxie and a slow Trailblazer, with Sparxie generating Certified Banger the way she does in Silver Wolf teams so the Trailblazer can hit with a high count. Guoba notes this is no longer really Sparxie as the damage dealer.

After the base supports, the next upgrades are E2 Aha and E2 Sparxie. E2 Sparxie is good, but Guoba ranks Aha’s E1 and E2 ahead: E1 boosts more than Sparxie’s E1 and fixes an awkward first rotation, and E2 adds a large boost to Sparxie’s Elation Skills while also boosting the rest of the team, Aha included. E2 Sparxie stays the next priority after that. The Sparxie build has her stats and relics.

Aventurine • Waveflair can run with several Elation characters or as the only one, and Guoba assumes most of his players built the solo version, now a duo with Aha. Pivoting to a multi-Elation team would mean pulling Yao Guang and maybe Pearl and Eidolons, which Guoba doubts many will do next patch. Aha’s buff to Waveflair is significant, but Aha’s E0 start-up is slow, and Mortenax Blade is already strong in that slot.

The chart splits into two routes. The “sane person route” is E1 and E2 Waveflair first, an extremely large jump, then Ashveil, then Aha. Aha is an upgrade over Mortenax Blade, which also frees Blade for another team, and Aha’s E1 is a strong extra step that fixes Waveflair’s start-up, when he cannot yet benefit from both his solo and multi-Elation buffs.

The other route is E6 Waveflair. Guoba’s own simulations put four more Eidolons after E2 above Ashveil plus E1 Aha, and calls Waveflair’s E0 to E6 path one of the strongest in the game. The video still argues against it, for four reasons: stopping at E5 after bad luck would hurt; Ashveil and Aha help several teams, not one; E6 cannot be completed within 4.7 and would concentrate a lot of pulls into one patch; and Eidolons cannot be switched off, so “everyone will beat you” on leaderboards until he is power-crept.

Silver Wolf LV.999 is the team most viewers came for, and Guoba pushes back on the idea that Aha does little for her at E0. The extra Aha Instants help Punchline and Hidden MMR, the damage amplification is good, Aha’s own damage should not be underestimated, and with Pearl’s buff and Punchline turning into Bliss that is partly kept after each Aha Instant, Aha smooths out how Silver Wolf generates resources.

Silver Wolf’s ascended effect, Holographic Mirage, is where the Eidolons matter. At E0 her Hidden MMR can overflow to 360 and she gains 40% CRIT DMG plus Hidden MMR from Party Trick; at E2 the overflow cap rises to 999. Guoba says the E0 version is not huge, and that the effect only really scales with E2 Silver Wolf, then E2 Aha, and that E2 Aha in turn wants E2 Pearl to reach those MMR counts.

Hence the order: Yao Guang, Pearl, E2 Silver Wolf, E2 Pearl, then Aha, then E2 Aha to complete what Guoba calls one of the “exodia” teams of the game. E2 Silver Wolf is, per the chart, now over double E0’s damage when played optimally, after calculating poorly at her launch without Pearl. E2 Pearl guarantees the maximum MMR, gives the team more actions and adds the E1 Elation boost.

Guoba is explicit that this chain assumes E2 Silver Wolf is already owned: outside spenders and hoarders, few accounts can afford E2 Silver Wolf, E2 Pearl and Aha. The note for players short on pulls says E0 Aha before E2 Pearl is fine, though E2 Pearl stays the bigger upgrade and still comes before E2 Aha. For an E0 Silver Wolf and E0 Pearl account, Aha upgrades one support; Guoba calls that a non-optimal pull, not a bad one. The Silver Wolf LV.999 build lists her relics and stats.

A full Silver Wolf team already has four slots, so pulling Aha means benching someone. Players who own both Yao Guang and Sparxie face that choice directly. Aha is an upgrade over either, but because a pulled character goes to the bench, Guoba says skipping Aha, or waiting until the best Eidolons are owned, is also a valid answer.

Between the two, Guoba recommends keeping Yao Guang, while admitting Sparxie has a case and that pulling Yao Guang only to replace an already pulled Sparxie is “a bit too sweaty”. The deciding point is what the benched character can do afterwards. A benched Sparxie is left with little: a team built around her and the Elation Trailblazer with Sparkle will not do wonders. A benched Yao Guang can lead another Elation team, such as Evanescia, Yao Guang, the Elation Trailblazer and Huohuo.

Guoba adds that this is not advice to build several Elation teams or to pull Aha in order to do so, only that Aha replacing Yao Guang makes it possible. The cheapest case of all is replacing the Elation Trailblazer: the team still gains, and the Trailblazer is free to join another team.

A pull order is only useful if the characters in it are on a warp. Aeon ★ Aha’s Character Event Warp runs for all of version 4.7, from 11 November to 22 December 2026, and Silver Wolf LV.999 and Sparxie return in the first phase, until 2 December. Pearl’s debut warp, on the other hand, closed on 10 November, the day before 4.7 opened.

That matters for the charts above. Every route that places Pearl or E2 Pearl before Aha, which is the Evanescia route and the optimal Silver Wolf route, cannot be finished during 4.7 by an account that did not pull Pearl in 4.6. Guoba recorded the video with Pearl “nearly leaving”, so the advice stands as a long-term order; within this version, the real choice for those accounts is Aha now or wait for a Pearl rerun. The current and upcoming phases are on the banners page.

Guoba closes on the same note as the opening: test your teams, and if they already clear comfortably, play what you enjoy rather than copying a route. Where Aha sits against the rest of the cast is on the tier list, and every team with Aha is on the best teams page.

The Eidolon claims in the video line up with the game’s own text where this site’s data has it. Aha’s E1, Who Giggled at the Primordial Hush?, grants 5 Wishpower on entering combat and merrymakes all allies’ Elation DMG by 15% while Aha is present, which fits Guoba’s point that E1 fixes the early rotation.

Sparxie’s E2, #AudienceKnows, gives her an extra turn and 2 Thrill after each Aha Instant. Evanescia’s E1 adds 20% All-Type RES PEN and an extra Elation Skill after Master Fox attacks.

For Waveflair, E1 adds 24% All-Type RES PEN and fires Cheers! To Summer’s Blaze at 10, 20 and 30 Fervor; E2 raises the Fervor cap to 50; and E6 merrymakes his Elation DMG by 25%, which is the jump behind the “psycho” route. Aha’s E2, Between THEIR Eyes and Yours, enhances the Path of Elation ascension effects, but its full text in this site’s data still refers to a game placeholder as of 11 November 2026, so the E2 numbers on this page are the ones the video shows, not ones this site has verified.