Arknights 6th Anniversary Event Ato – Everything You Need To Know

With the release of the 6th anniversary campaign for Arknights, several special celebratory campaigns and special events will be held to commemorate this occasion, including the release of a brand new limited time Anniversary Side Story – Ato. The 6th anniversary events and campaigns will last from January 16th until February 7th, with the special rate up banner lasting for 2 weeks from January 16th until January 30th.

Special 6th Anniversary Free Limited Pulls

During Arknights 6th Anniversary celebration period, logging into the game will reward players with various opportunity to roll on the limited banner featuring the two brand new 6* Operators – The 6* Limited Defender Operator Hoshiguma the Breacher and the 6* Supporter Operator Haruka.

Upon logging into the game during this period, players will be able to receive a Free 10 Pulls Headhunting Ticket, allowing you to pull a single multi pull on the limited banner featuring the 2 brand new operators.

Additionally, upon logging into the game every day during the event banner duration, players will be able to do a Free Single Pull Everyday for up to 14 free pulls if you log in all of the days during the event period.

Please note that these pulls are considered limited pulls and can only be used on the Limited Banner only, so players should log into the game during this time period and use up the pulls as soon as they can.

Special 6th Anniversary Log In Campaigns

Alongside the free limited pulls given out as part of the 6th Anniversary celebration, 2 special log in campaigns will also be held during this period:

The first is a once per account log in event where the game rewards you with a special 6-star Operator Selector ticket and a free skin Voucher. The 6-star Selector ticket features 4 different useful 6-star Operators for new players and old players alike, including the 6-star Guard Operator Surtr, the 6-star Vanguard Operator Bagpipe, the 6-star Caster operator Eyjafjalla and the 6-star Defender Operator Saria. Players simply need to log into the game once during the event period in order to claim this special reward.

The second log in event for the 6th anniversary is the usual lottery ticket event, where players can obtain a certain amount of Orundums everyday for 14 days straight by drawing special lottery tickets. Everyday, players will be able to pick 2 tickets to draw and obtain 300 to 800 Orundum on those tickets, the final Orundum amount obtained per day will be determined by the higher Orundum count between the 2 tickets. Players can obtain up to 10000 Orundums from this log in event if they are lucky.

6th Anniversary Side Story – Ato

Together with the release of the Arknights 6th Anniversary, players will also be able to participate in the Limited Time Available Side Story event – Ato. During the event period, players will be able to clear different event stages to obtain special event currencies in order to exchange for special resources.

By clearing different event stages for the first time, players will be able to obtain large amounts of Originium that can be converted into pulls. Upon clearing the event stages for the first time and clearing challenge stages, players will be able to obtain up to 38 Originium Primes, equalling to 6080 Orundums or 10 pulls.

Additionally, players will be able to obtain 3 Headhunting Tickets from the event shop by spending 450 event currencies from farming the event and have the chance to obtain a special 5-star Welfare Operator from clearing the event’s missions – the 5-star Vanguard Operator Matsukiri.

Welfare Operator – Matsukiri

The welfare for the Limited 6th Anniversary Event Ato, Matsukiri is a 5-star Vanguard Operator of an entirely new branch of Vanguard known as Strategist Vanguard. His special gimmick lies in his ability to demonstrate the full effect of the Strategist Vanguard branch while also being able to hold his own relatively well on the battlefield with his good skill kit.

In essence, Strategist Vanguard Operators specializes in manipulating DP cost of different operators in the waiting area, with abilities that can massively reduce the DP cost of specific types of Operators while they are in the waiting zone in exchange for increasing the DP Cost for others. Strategist Vanguards have access to a special marker in the deployment zone and the ability to swap the DP Cost of operators from the right side of the marker to the right side of the marker, making it so that high cost Operators now cost less and low cost operators now cost more.

Matsukiri himself functions as a defender and supporter support Vanguard, with his skill kit and abilities allowing him to buff Operators of the Defender and Supporter classes. His talent help to boost the attack of Defender and Supporter Operators when he is deployed and his skill allows him to generate DP while also lowers the DP Cost of Defender and Supporter Operators while boosting their max HP.

Arknights 6th Anniversary Limited Rate Up Banner – Should You Roll

Of course, alongside the release of the Arknights 6th Anniversary Celebration Campaign and the Limited Side Story event Ato, a special Limited Rate Up banner will also be releasing in Arknights, featuring 2 brand new 6-star Operators: the 6-star Limited Defender Operator Hoshiguma the Breacher and the 6-star Supporter Operator Haruka.

Hoshiguma The Breacher

Hoshiguma the Breacher is a 6-star Limited Defender operator of the Arts Protector archetype. She specializes in dealing arts damage to multiple targets within her range while also offering powerful sustain effects to allies within her range by blocking enemies attacks and redirect Lethal damage from others onto herself.

Hoshiguma the Breacher’s main skill is her 3rd skill, which massively expands her attack range and allows her to hit both ground and aerial enemies, dealing Arts damage to them. When skill is active, Hoshiguma will gain a massive boost in attack and max HP and is able deal damage to up to 3 enemies in range. However, the main gimmick of this skill activates when it is manually deactivated by the players, Once manually deactivate before its duration ends, Hoshiguma the Breacher will instead deal 4 times damage per hit to the enemies within her range and become undefeatable for 11 seconds. During this time, any lethal damage dealt to allies will be redirected to Hoshiguma, allowing her to keep allies alive along as they are within her range and she is still alive. After 11 seconds, Hoshiguma the Breacher will automatically retreat.

Hoshiguma the Breacher’s talent allows her to not retreat when receiving lethal damage from enemies and instead accumulate a set amount of damage on herself. When this damage exceeds 200% of her max HP, she will be retreated. Additionally, Hoshiguma the Breacher can gain massive amounts of attack and resistances, helping her to live longer and do more damage.

Haruka

Haruka is a 6-star Operator of the Abjurer branch of the Supporter Class. She specializes in healing allies by a massive amount while also granting allies a very powerful Sanctuary buff, helping to reduce damage taken by allies when attacked by enemies by a massive amount. As a Abjurer Supporter, Haruka attacks enemies whenever her skill is not activated and heals allies when her skills are active. However, her gimmick bypasses this restriction somewhat to allow her to deal damage to enemies even when she is healing her allies.

Haruka’s main skill is her 2nd and 3rd skills, each with their own usage and powerful effects for the team. Haruka’s 2nd skill is her AFK skill, allowing her to heal 1 more Operator in her range and apply the Sanctuary effect to more allies. When she heals allies within her range with skill 2, Haruka will deal Arts damage to 3 enemies within her range proportional to the amount of healing she is doing. This skill is the most often used skill for Haruka due to its AFK nature.

Haruka’s other powerful skill is her 3rd skill, which allows her to expand her attack range and reduce her attack intervals, helping to heal more allies and heal them faster. Additionally the Sanctuary effect granted by her talent will be increased massively, helping to negate even more damage taken by allies. Finally, whenever enemies attack allies with bubbles, the enemies will be levitated for a short amount of time and take arts damage from Haruka, helping to facilitate different Operators that take advantage of the Levitate crowd control effect.

Should You Roll

Pull Rating: 8/10 for both Hoshiguma the Breacher and Haruka.

Both Hoshiguma the Breacher and Haruka excels at what they do best, Hoshiguma the Breacher with her powerful Arts damage and incredible sustainability and Haruka with her incredible damage mitigation and healing. However, they are not must-have Operators in the sense that, while they offer incredible utility for the team in various contents, not having them doesn’t really necessarily hurt your account. Other operators can fulfill their role quite easily in different types of contents, just that they do it slightly better than others in a lot of different stages. 

With that said, if you are lacking a good source of Arts damage that can also tank enemies’ attacks or a good healer for difficult contents, you should roll on this banner for both Operators. Additionally, players should also take into account the fact that Hoshiguma the Breacher is a limited Operator, meaning it will be harder to get her in the future.

Conclusion

And with that, we have gone over the 6th Anniversary celebration events and campaigns for Arknights. If you want to get your hands on the incredible limited Operator Hoshiguma the Breacher or the amazing Idol Haruka, don’t hesitate to take advantage of special discounted deals for Arknights Top Up, available at Enjoygm – the best top up site on the web today.