The second Honkai: Star Rail × Fate/stay night collaboration hasn't even launched yet, but leaked skill kits have already blown up the community — Gilgamesh's abilities appear to hard-lock Saber onto the same team, prompting players to declare they're ready to watch the drama unfold.
According to the leaked mechanics, when Saber attacks, Gilgamesh gains a special buff called [Excitement], giving the two characters powerful synergy that essentially hard-wires the "Double Kings" — the Gilgamesh×Saber ship — into the game.
The reaction was immediate and split into warring camps. Some players were furious: "This is disgusting — they just chase whatever drama gets the most clicks. They're deliberately farming outrage engagement." Others gleefully popped popcorn: "What do Fate purists think about this? Personally, I'm loving the chaos."
Fans of the Fate franchise know that Gilgamesh's obsession with Saber is a core plot point from the original — in Fate/Zero's Holy Grail War, the King of Heroes openly sought to "claim" Saber for himself. Some players therefore defend the collab as having legitimate source material backing: "If you want maximum exposure, you've got to go all in — good controversy or bad controversy, it all generates buzz. Out-of-character? Ship-war fuel? That's exactly the kind of engagement they want."
Others pushed back, noting that while the Gilgamesh×Saber pairing did have casual fans during Fate/Zero's mainstream popularity and "GoldSaber" even has creative works in Japan, "bringing it back now feels kind of pointless... Fate is already past its peak — what kind of wave can this even make?"
Players also questioned the quality of Type-Moon's supervision over the collaboration. In Rin Tohsaka's kit, she uses Archer Rin's Noble Phantasm instead of her signature Bajiquan martial arts — "If this actually has Type-Moon sign-off, I don't believe it." Someone fired back: "It's just for legal disclaimers — they can rationalize anything."
Some escalated this into a broader culture war, calling it "the real ML (Master Love) struggle" — the ongoing community debate over romantic relationships between characters and the player in gacha games — essentially turning the in-game kit design into a full-blown shipping war.
Others expressed exhaustion with the game itself: "Anyone who could stomach the garbage fire that was Version 3.0 and keep playing — do you really think anyone cares about the story anymore?" implying the collab's CP choices are irrelevant at this point.
Meanwhile, fans of the Saber×Shirou (士剑) ship are already mourning their defeat, with comments like "Saber×Shirou should have been dead and buried long ago" and jokes about how "everyone misread Bilibili's FGO marketing all along" — suggesting miHoYo has been subtly pushing the Double Kings agenda the whole time.
From the community's reaction so far, this collaboration has already succeeded at generating buzz before it even launches. Whether this is a calculated marketing strategy or genuine creative preference, only the final release will tell — but miHoYo's talent for manufacturing discourse is, once again, on full display.
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