Character dupes & progression

Written by Sefhi

Published on: 2024-11-26

Updated on: 2025-03-04

How many dupes do I need?

STARSEED: Asnia Trigger can get confusing because the terminology used for character progression and dupes, so hopefully this guide can give you a good TL;DR on how it works.

• You need a total of 8 character copies to go from SSR all the way to LR, not including fodder
• You should never ascend the same SSR more than once past SSR1 until you reach LR rarity (you will use fodder instead)
• You need another 10 character copies to go from LR to LR5, each upgrade requiring an SSR1

Light and dark characters (Creators and Destroyers) need less units to go from SSR to LR. They don’t require combining multiple copies nor using fodder, you can always use one extra copy to ascend to a higher rarity.

Fodder and when to use it

Fodder is what we call SR units that we upgrade to level up our main SSR units. You will need to upgrade your blue units to both SSR1 and UR1 to use as ascension materials.

As a general rule of thumb, never go past SSR1 on your units unless it’s the one you plan on taking to LR, or it’s fodder (blue units). This is really important since you are wasting resources and units if you decide to use SSR characters as fodder for the next breakpoints:

• You need 2 SSR1 fodder to ascend from SSR1 to UR
• You need 1 UR1 fodder to ascend from UR1 to MR
• You need 1 UR1 fodder to ascend from MR to MR1

Taking a purple character to UR1 is expensive and if you only do it to use as ascension material, you would be hurting your account progression and wasting gems.

Full ascension tree