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Should you pull? Live, and a two-sided decision. Phoenix debuts on "Into the Flames of Life", a Fire Anomaly S-Rank out of the Krampus Compliance Authority, and her kit went live with the version on October 21, so this is now a real decision rather than a beta guess. Her Core Passive Nirvana hands the whole squad 100% Anomaly CRIT Rate once she is at 255 initial Anomaly Mastery, and reaching it is the whole build: she starts at 152 on the stat screen, which leaves 103 points to find from discs and her signature. Plume of Rebirth carries 30% Anomaly Mastery as its Advance Stat at Lv. 60, which is why the W-Engine channel is not optional for her the way it is for most Agents. Our [Phoenix build guide](/blog/zzz-phoenix-reffaella-build-guide) has the arithmetic. Velina Airgid is the opposite case: she is a known quantity, the game's first Wind Agent and the Anomaly enabler the Remielle comps are built around, and this is her first rerun since she debuted in Version 3.0 Phase 1 on June 17. If you skipped her then and you run Anomaly at all, she is the safer half of this phase, and her signature Joyau Dore reruns on the W-Engine channel beside her. Phoenix's own signature, Plume of Rebirth, is there too, which is the engine to budget for if you do chase the silhouette. Either way the window is three weeks, so you do not have to choose on day one.

Confirmed by the Version 3.3 "Journey to the Sky" Special Program on 2026-10-09 at 19:30 UTC+8, which replaces the datamine-only basis this entry previously carried. HoYoLAB's 3.3 Intel Report lists the Phoenix debut and the Velina rerun as Phase 1; Game8 and zzz-build.com carry the same pairing. Phoenix's faction, Krampus Compliance Authority, comes from HoYoverse's drip marketing as reported by GosuGamers. The October 21 to November 11 window is unchanged and still rests on 3.2 being announced as a 42-day version plus the standard two-phase split; exact opening and closing hours wait on the Phase 1 channel notice, expected around October 19, so none are stated here. Velina Airgid's Wind Anomaly profile and her June 17, 2026 Version 3.0 Phase 1 debut are from her own wiki entry here and from GosuGamers' and NextRift's 3.0 reveal coverage, not from the broadcast. W-Engine channel corrected 2026-10-19: Phoenix's signature is Plume of Rebirth, and Velina's Joyau Dore does rerun beside it. This entry previously carried "Nirvana Plume" from zzz-build.com, which turns out to have been a pre-release client string; zzz-build.com's own 3.3 broadcast write-up now says its pages still use the pre-release names while the English cards read Plume of Rebirth. Game8 has a dedicated guide page under the corrected name, and gachago and theclick.gg both name it off the October 9 broadcast and both pair it with Joyau Dore on this phase, which also settles the October 12 question of whether the Phase 1 W-Engine channel reruns her signature. "Nirvana" is her Core Skill, not her W-Engine, which is likely how the two got conflated. Channel hours are not promoted into this row: bannerhistory.app gives 2026-10-21 11:00 to 2026-11-11 11:59 GMT+8 and timesaver.gg projected the same minutes on October 5, but HoYoverse's own "V3.3 Limited-Time Channels (Phase I)" notice, dated 2026/10/19, would not load, so the hours stay in the file header. Channel name confirmed 2026-10-27 and no longer single-sourced: timesaver.gg's 3.3 banner schedule carries "Into the Flames of Life" as the Exclusive Channel alongside Game8's dedicated page for it, which clears the condition this row was holding it back on. The aggregator that wrongly reused Claret's "Bloodmoon Rising" for this phase is not followed. The Phase 1 close is promoted at the same time: Game8 and timesaver.gg both give 2026-11-11 at 11:59 server time, so the row's November 11 end is now a published hour rather than arithmetic. The start stays 2026-10-21, which is the update day; Icy Veins' "October 20th" is a server-time artifact of the same window and is not treated as a conflict. Opening hours are still not promoted into the row because HoYoverse's own Phase I channel notice has not been read directly.

Should you pull? Confirmed but seven weeks out, so treat it as a budget line rather than a plan. Severian is a Wind Attack S-Rank, which puts him next to Roxy's Wind Stun niche rather than on top of it, though with no kit published that is a reading of an element and a Specialty and nothing more. Norma Hollowell's first rerun is the part you can actually act on. She is the Fire Stunner who works from the bench, debuted in Version 3.0's second half, and has not been back since, so this is the second chance, and it lands far enough out that you can fund Phase 1 first and still arrive with pulls. Her Chief Sidekick shares the W-Engine channel with Severian's signature Incarcerating Grip. Note the close: December 1, not December 2, which is one pull day fewer than this page said a week ago.

Confirmed by the 2026-10-09 Version 3.3 Special Program. HoYoLAB's 3.3 Intel Report lists the Severian debut with the Norma rerun as Phase 2, matched by Game8 and zzz-build.com, which retires the "markedly thinner" rumour caveat this entry used to carry about the reruns. The November 11 start follows from the 3.3 opening plus the standard 21-day phase. The end date is December 1, resolved 2026-10-19 against the December 2 this entry previously kept on arithmetic. bannerhistory.app's channel table gives 2026-11-11 12:00 to 2026-12-01 14:59 GMT+8, Game8's Incarcerating Grip page dates that W-Engine banner November 11 to December 1, and zzz-build.com gives the 1st as well; the only source for the 2nd is u7buy, which labels its own phase dates as derived from the usual three-week schedule and subject to change. Three sources and a self-declared estimate is a different balance from the one-tracker-against-arithmetic this entry was weighing in September. Norma Hollowell is given as Fire Stun, which is her profile in this repo's own ZZZ tier list and what most of the Version 3.0 reveal coverage says; one outlet (wotpack) instead called her specialty "Intimidation", which matches nothing else and is not followed. W-Engine corrected the same day: Severian's signature is Incarcerating Grip, not the "Cage of Forbidden Sins" this entry carried from zzz-build.com, which that site now identifies as a pre-release client string against the shipped English name. Game8 has a dedicated guide page for Incarcerating Grip as an S-Rank Attack W-Engine debuting this phase, and gachago and theclick.gg both name it off the broadcast and pair it with Norma's Chief Sidekick on the Phase 2 W-Engine channel. His Core Skill is Endless Breeze, per gachago. NEEDS_REVIEW on one detail only: the surname "Lowell" appeared in the earlier datamines and in none of the broadcast reporting checked on 2026-10-10, so the rendered name is "Severian" alone rather than a leaked full name presented as official.

Should you pull? Announced, undated by HoYoverse, and almost entirely undocumented, so this is a savings instruction rather than a pull decision. Kafka and Robin are confirmed to appear in Version 3.4 and that is the extent of it: no Attribute, no Specialty, no rarity, and no statement that either is a pullable Agent rather than a free unit or an event appearance. Plan around the money instead of the kits. If both run as ordinary Exclusive Channel Agents, two of them cost 200 to 220 pulls at average luck and 360 at hard pity through two lost 50/50s, against the 80 to 100 pulls a free account earns across a six-week version. Phase 2 of 3.3 holds the channel until December 1, so there is no quiet stretch to save through: whatever you are holding now is most of the 3.4 budget. Both prior HoYoverse crossovers of this shape, Fate/stay night in HSR 3.4 and again in HSR 4.4, handed out a free limited 5-star, which is precedent worth knowing and not a reason to spend less carefully.

Confirmed by a teaser at roughly the 33 minute mark of the 2026-10-09 Version 3.3 "Journey to the Sky" Special Program: Robin hums, Kafka cuts in with "Listen.", then a static image of both in ZZZ art style. Siliconera, GosuGamers and Dot Esports all report the same teaser and all three state that attributes, roles and playability were not announced, which is why no rarity, element or role is recorded on either featured entry and why no phase split is asserted between them. The December 2 start is derived, not announced, and is recorded without an `ends` for that reason: 3.3 Phase 2 closes 2026-12-01 at 14:59 GMT+8 per bannerhistory.app, Game8 and zzz-build.com, ZZZ has never left a gap between a final phase closing and the next version opening (3.2 Phase 2 closed October 20 at 14:59 and 3.3 opened October 21), and 42 days from the 3.3 opening of October 21 gives the same day. HoYoverse makes it official through its maintenance notice, historically about a week out. The reciprocal half runs the other way: Ellen Joe and Astra Yao go to Honkai: Star Rail in Version 4.8, with HoYoverse teaser art on 2026-10-27 confirming Ellen Joe as a 5-star Ice Destruction unit; Icy Veins expects 4.8 on 2026-12-22 and Dot Esports on the 23rd, neither is confirmed, so no HSR date is carried here. Full breakdown in our 3.4 crossover preview. NEEDS_REVIEW on everything except the two names and the version until the 3.4 Special Program, expected 2026-11-20 to 2026-11-25.