Chrysos Awoo Championship in Honkai: Star Rail 3.8 – Rules, modes, and rewards

The Chrysos Awoo Championship is the flagship Version 3.8 event in Honkai: Star Rail, built around drafting and battling chimeras in a tournament setting. It runs after the 3.8 update until February 9, 2026 (server time) and then moves into the Conventional Memoir tab as a permanent activity.

The format borrows ideas from earlier chimera events and from Currency Wars: you assemble teams from a rotating shop, upgrade them through duplicates and equipment, and push as far as you can through multi-round brackets without letting your health bar hit zero.

Event requirements and how to unlock it

The event sits on Amphoreus and assumes you are caught up with the planet’s story. Access works in two ways:

Story route. Play through the Trailblaze Mission “Amphoreus — Fallen Petals, Leave Fading Traces of Fragrance.” Once that chapter is cleared, you can join the Chimera World Tournament naturally from Okhema.

Early access route. Trailblazers at Trailblaze Level 21 or higher can reach it ahead of the story through the Finality's Vision system. From the activities menu, open Finality's Vision and choose Chrysos Awoo Championship to jump directly into the event instance.

After the limited-time window closes, the event is archived under Conventional Memoir. At that point, the gameplay remains available but limited-time mission rewards are gone.

Core structure of Chrysos Awoo Championship

The Championship plays out in three layers: a tournament run, Challenge Matches, and progression tracks that pay out rewards.

• Tournament runs. You enter as a guest competitor in the Chimera World Tournament in Okhema, facing teams led by thirteen familiar Chrysos Heirs. Each run is a sequence of rounds where you draft chimeras, buy equipment, and fight through several battles while trying not to run out of health.
• Challenge Match mode. After clearing the main event missions, the organizers unlock single-round Challenge Matches. Here you bring saved chimera teams into one-off fights against Chrysos Heirs or other players’ posted lineups.
• Honor and missions. Every run generates Honor Points. Honor feeds a progression track that unlocks competition rewards and also ties into temporary Nameless Honor missions for extra battle pass experience.

Placement matches sit at the start of your participation. Completing three placement rounds and earning at least a little Honor in each of them is mandatory for a big share of the Stellar Jade and Track of Destiny payout.

How a tournament run works

Each run is a closed loop: pick a Chrysos Heir, draft and upgrade chimeras between rounds using Gold Coins, then fight through waves of enemy teams while keeping an eye on your health bar.

Choosing a Chrysos Heir

Every time you start a run, you choose which Chrysos Heir to ally with. Their signature chimera defines the run’s theme and subtly biases the shop towards compatible units.

There is one constraint: Heirs are not all unlocked by default. Each one requires a Chrysos Invitation Ticket before you can select them in battle. As you progress through the event, you spend invitations to open up more Heirs, and unlocking at least three of them is tracked by a Combat Master mission that awards Stellar Jade and resources.

Once an Heir is selected for a run, you can use a lineup recommendation tool that highlights chimeras and equipment that synergize with their core unit. After you lean into a particular archetype, the shop is more likely to surface units from that group.

Drafting chimeras and using the Gold Coin shop

Gold Coins are the currency that drives each run. You earn them after completing rounds and spend them in a catalogue-style shop that offers chimeras and equipment.

At the start of a round, you see a list of available chimeras. If none of them fit your plan, you can hit a Refresh button to roll a new set of choices, again at the cost of Gold Coins.

Gold has several important properties:

• Round-limited. Unspent Gold Coins disappear when you start the next wave of battles. There is no benefit to stockpiling between rounds.
• Tracked by missions. Spending Gold contributes to the Gold Tycoon mission line, which pays out Stellar Jade, Credits, and upgrade materials when you hit cumulative thresholds like 50, 100, 150, and 200 Coins spent.
• Split between chimeras and equipment. The same currency buys new units and equipment, so you continuously choose between expanding the roster and deepening the power of what you already have.

Tip: because leftover Gold does not carry over, it is always more efficient to exhaust your Coins each intermission on new units, upgrades, or equipment rather than entering the next wave with a surplus.

Leveling and upgrading chimeras

Chimeras in this event behave more like pieces in an auto battler than like your regular characters. Each chimera has a fixed ability and stats that can be improved inside the run.

• Duplicates power up units. Buying a second copy of a chimera feeds experience into the existing copy, leveling it up and making its ability and stats stronger.
• Upgrades unlock higher tiers. After upgrading, you gain opportunities to recruit higher-tier chimeras that outperform basic ones, similar to moving from a lower-star unit to a higher-star variant.
• Equipment adds global or targeted buffs. Equipment purchased from the shop adds effects that can benefit specific chimeras or the team as a whole, and the equipment pool reshuffles when you refresh the shop.

Combat Master missions track your interaction with this layer. You are rewarded for milestones like purchasing 30 chimeras, buying items five times, or picking up five pieces of equipment.

Combat flow, health, and failure conditions

Each round of the tournament is a chain of individual battles. To clear a round you usually need to win around five matches in a row, though the exact number may vary between brackets.

There are two parallel constraints during combat:

• Win quota. You must win enough battles in the sequence to clear the round and move on to the next stage of the tournament.
• Health bar. Your run has a shared health bar. Every lost battle chips away at that bar. If you lose too many times and the bar empties, the entire run ends in failure and you must start from the beginning with a new draft.

This pushes the mode away from pure greed drafting. You might pass on an experimental lineup and instead opt for a more stable configuration when your health is low, simply to bank Honor and mission progress rather than risk a reset.

Multiplayer and Challenge Match modes

Outside the story-tournament track, the Championship lets you push your chimera theorycrafting against real opponents in a structured but low-stakes way.

Challenge Match unlocks after you finish the event’s main missions. In this mode you can:

• Use saved chimera teams from your previous runs in single-round matches against Chrysos Heirs or other players’ teams.
• Set a defense lineup that other Trailblazers will encounter when they choose to challenge your trainer card.

The multiplayer component uses the same basic combat logic as the tournament, but strips out the draft and resource loop for quicker, focused encounters.

Honor Points and reward tracks

Honor is the main progression metric in Chrysos Awoo Championship. You earn Honor by defeating opponents in the tournament and in Challenge Matches, then cash that total in across several layers of rewards.

Limited-time mission sets

Four themed mission groups sit on top of the event:

• Chrysos Champion. Focused on onboarding and placement. It rewards you for completing the tutorial and then finishing the first, second, and third placement rounds with at least one point of Honor in each. These missions pay out Stellar Jade, Traveler's Guide, Refined Aether, Lost Crystal, Starfire Essence, and a Track of Destiny.
• Gold Tycoon. Tracks cumulative Gold Coin spending across all runs. Each spend threshold returns a package of Stellar Jade, Credits, and upgrade books or materials.
• Combat Master. Looks at your operational stats inside runs, such as defeating a total of 50 enemy chimeras, buying 30 chimeras, purchasing items and equipment, and unlocking three Chrysos Heirs. Every objective grants more Jade, Credits, and level-up materials.
• Dr. Chimera. A capstone objective that unlocks a Self-Modeling Resin once you complete all limited-time missions in the event.

Competition Rewards and Honor milestones

Separate from mission lists, there is a long-form Honor track that unlocks rewards as your total Honor grows. Key milestones include:

Across all missions and Honor milestones, the total haul for the limited-time event comes to roughly 1,170 Stellar Jade, two Tracks of Destiny, one Self-Modeling Resin, the “We're the Champions” speech bubble, and large amounts of Traveler's Guide, Refined Aether, Lost Crystal, Starfire Essence, and Credits.

Nameless Honor missions tied to the event

The Championship also hooks into the Nameless Honor (battle pass) period that starts on December 17, 2025. It introduces two one-time “This Period” missions:

• Obtain 14 Honor in the Chrysos Awoo Championship event for 2,100 The Nameless EXP.
• Complete three placement rounds in the event for 1,400 The Nameless EXP.

These objectives bypass the usual weekly cap of 8,000 The Nameless EXP, so they act as bonus experience on top of your normal routine.

Path to clear all rewards

Step 1: Reach Trailblaze Level 21 and, ideally, finish “Fallen Petals, Leave Fading Traces of Fragrance” so the narrative context in Okhema makes sense. If you are below the story requirement but above the level gate, use Finality's Vision to enter the event.

Step 2: Play through the tutorial and your three placement runs, always spending all Gold Coins between waves and leaning into the lineup recommendations for your chosen Chrysos Heir. This secures the full Chrysos Champion track and a large chunk of Honor.

Step 3: During subsequent runs, consciously push Gold Coin spending, chimera purchases, and equipment buys to clear Gold Tycoon and Combat Master missions. Prioritize steady wins over risky drafts so your health bar does not wipe long streaks of progress.

Step 4: Once Challenge Match unlocks, use it to top up Honor totals to key milestones such as 15, 18, 24, and 27 without needing long full runs. Slot in a saved high-performing chimera team as your defense so other players have a meaningful lineup to face.

Step 5: Before the event window ends, confirm that all limited-time missions are green, Dr. Chimera is complete (for Self-Modeling Resin), and your Honor sits at or above 27 to lock in the final Track of Destiny reward.

After that point, Chrysos Awoo Championship remains available through Conventional Memoir for casual runs and Challenge Matches, but the big currency and cosmetic payouts become a snapshot of how far you pushed during Version 3.8.