Holo Battle Interlink unlock and rules: assists and revives

Holo Battle Interlink is an endgame mode, and it is the last endgame mode to unlock. It does not open on day one. It arrives later in the season, on a Thursday in the second week after launch.

It is built for a group. Friends can play it as a team, the same way they can play Pathfinder challenge rematches together. Whether you can play it solo is not settled. One version of the mode fills open slots with AI teammates, at the cost of lower damage and fewer rewards. The other requires other players. If you plan to run it alone, check what your build does before you count on it.

This is the rule that changes everything. In Holo Battle Interlink, as in Holo Battle Sim, each player controls only one main Aniimo on the field. Your other Aniimo can only be summoned as assists, and assists do not take damage.

Assists are also limited in what they can do. The second to fourth slots can use only their core skill, not their second skill. The assist system itself has its own guide; what matters here is that your main Aniimo carries your damage and your survival, and the others contribute one skill each.

Only your main Aniimo's ultimate can be used. Assist slots cannot use theirs, so an Aniimo like Somni Wing in an assist slot never fires its ultimate. Pick your main knowing that its ultimate is the only one you will see.

Death is less forgiving too. If you die in Holo Battle Interlink, you can revive once. A second death is a far bigger problem than it would be in normal combat, so playing your one main carefully matters more than squeezing out damage.

A Hollow Battle run is a series of consecutive rounds of bosses, ending in a final boss. Hollow Battle Ascent runs 10 rounds. Because your single revive has to last the run, the early rounds are where you protect it, not where you spend it.

Floors carry their own effects. A Holo Battle Interlink modifier spawns a chain robot every 45 seconds that temporarily restrains players, so expect to lose control of your character on a regular timer. Some effects work for you. The third floor's blessing, the Tubster Alpha's good effect, raises the energy (EP) cap by 15.

Before each boss fight the team chooses a Special Offering, a selectable battle buff that modifies the fight. Team buffs are selected before each battle in the same way.

You do not vote on it. The party leader makes the choice, and in a matchmade group the leader is the first player in the group. In a four-player team, the team leader chooses, and the buff applies to the whole party. If you are not leading, your influence is limited to talking it over first. Which offering to take is covered in its own guide.

06Where to start

Wait for the unlock on the second Thursday after launch, then build around a single main Aniimo whose ultimate you trust. Treat assists as one core skill each, guard your one revive through the early rounds, and if you lead the party, the offering is your call.