Zankou’s Searing Lavender and the Main Character’s Cloudless Summer are the standout V1.3 summer swimsuits worth spending your resources on, while Chaos’s Chartered Waves is an easy skip despite being a guaranteed Mall pickup.
The Version 1.3 update, Rising from the Moonlit Fog, adds a Summer Time event with a fresh batch of swimsuit costumes split across the Mall and the new Lucent Tides Mystery Box. Five new outfits are in play, and they are not created equal — some are guaranteed buys, others are gacha rolls, and one barely changes how its character looks. Here is how they stack up on both looks and how hard they are to actually get.
- V1.3 summer swimsuit value ranking
- Zankou’s Searing Lavender is the top buy
- Cloudless Summer suits both Main Character models
- Nanally’s Sunny Surf matches her skill color
- Mint’s Saltwater Taffy is a closet gem
- Chaos’s Chartered Waves is a free completionist pickup
- How to get the V1.3 summer costumes
- Iroi and Shinku’s summer outfits are Version 1.2 carryovers
- Frequently Asked Questions
V1.3 summer swimsuit value ranking
| Costume (Character) | Tier | How to get |
|---|---|---|
| Searing Lavender (Zankou) | Top pick | Mall purchase |
| Cloudless Summer (Esper Zero / Main Character) | Top pick | Lucent Tides Mystery Box |
| Sunny Surf (Nanally) | Strong | Lucent Tides Mystery Box |
| Saltwater Taffy (Mint) | Mid | Lucent Tides Mystery Box |
| Chartered Waves (Chaos) | Skip (but free) | Mall purchase |
The ranking below blends two things that matter when you decide where your Fons and Riftcrystals go: how good the costume actually looks in play, and how you get it. A guaranteed Mall purchase is worth more of your attention than a gacha-gated skin, all else being equal — but a great-looking swimsuit on a unit you run constantly still beats a dull one you can buy outright.
Zankou’s Searing Lavender and the protagonist’s Cloudless Summer sit at the top: both genuinely transform their characters, and one of them is a straight Mall buy. Sunny Surf for Nanally is close behind on a unit you will see all the time. Saltwater Taffy lands mid because Mint rarely leaves the bench, and Chartered Waves for Chaos props up the bottom — it is the least interesting of the set, saved only by being free of any gacha.
Zankou’s Searing Lavender is the top buy
Searing Lavender is the one to chase. The bikini comes with four distinct color and design variations — black-and-white sets that range from covering the midriff to showing a lot more skin — so you are effectively getting several looks in one costume. It also swaps Zankou’s skill animation into a softer light-blue tone, which is a real change rather than a recolor of the outfit alone.
Because Zankou is already one of the game’s flashiest units, her skill poses give this swimsuit huge showcase value in snapshot mode. The best part for your wallet: it is a direct Mall purchase, no gacha involved. It goes into the shop after Zankou’s debut, with a discount window running August 26 to September 30, 2026 (UTC+8), so grab it while that price cut is live.
Cloudless Summer suits both Main Character models
Cloudless Summer is an Esper Zero outfit — Esper Zero is the protagonist you play as, also known as the Main Character. What makes this one special is that it applies to both the male and female MC models, which makes it the most universally visible swimsuit in the lineup: whoever you run as the protagonist, this is the summer look you will see the most.
The male variant is the bigger win. Male MC outfits usually skew to darker tones, so a lighter, skin-forward summer fit genuinely stands out and reads as a fresh silhouette. The female variant is still a good-looking two-in-one costume, but it has stiffer competition from the MC’s other outfits, so it lands a notch lower on pure looks. Either way, you pull it from the Lucent Tides Mystery Box rather than buying it outright.
Nanally’s Sunny Surf matches her skill color
Sunny Surf is the sleeper standout of the gacha side. The dark-blue school-swimsuit design slots neatly into Nanally’s light-blue skill theme, so her aura and the outfit read as one coherent look in action. It also removes her glasses, which no other Nanally costume does and which really shows off her eyes.
Key The clincher is that Nanally is a heavily-used unit, so this is a swimsuit you will actually see on the field instead of leaving parked in your closet. It is Mystery Box only, but on a unit this common it is worth the roll.
Mint’s Saltwater Taffy is a closet gem
Saltwater Taffy is a genuinely nice design that runs into one problem: Mint is a lightly-used unit, so most players will barely ever see this bikini in play. Some of its appeal also overlaps with her existing costumes, which softens the pull to hunt it down.
It sits Mystery Box only with no direct purchase route. If it happens to drop while you are rolling Lucent Tides for something else, great — but it is not worth chasing on its own unless Mint is a regular in your teams.
Chaos’s Chartered Waves is a free completionist pickup
Chartered Waves is the weakest of the five. It is a skin-tight suit that barely departs from Chaos’s default color scheme and silhouette, so you are not getting the dramatic makeover the other swimsuits deliver.
Its saving grace is accessibility. It is a guaranteed Mall purchase with no gacha attached, and it sits on Chaos, a top-meta unit you will run constantly. For completionists who want the whole summer set and see the character every fight anyway, it still earns a spot — just do not expect it to turn heads.
How to get the V1.3 summer costumes
There are two acquisition paths, and knowing which is which saves you from wasting rolls. The Mall route is gacha-free: Searing Lavender (Zankou) and Chartered Waves (Chaos) are both bought directly in the shop during the summer event. These are your guaranteed pickups, so prioritize them.
Everything else comes from the Lucent Tides Mystery Box, which you roll using either Fons (the standard currency) or Annulith (premium) — both are accepted. Its reward pool includes Cloudless Summer (Esper Zero), Sunny Surf (Nanally) and Saltwater Taffy (Mint), plus the The Tide jet ski and the Endless Summer avatar frame. Exact prices for the swimsuits are not published in the patch notes or major databases, so budget your resources rather than banking on a specific figure.
Buy Searing Lavender and Chartered Waves from the Mall first — they are guaranteed with no RNG — then spend whatever Fons you have left rolling the Lucent Tides Mystery Box for the others.
Iroi and Shinku’s summer outfits are Version 1.2 carryovers
Two more summer swimsuits are worth knowing about, but they are not part of the new lineup. Iroi’s Summer Dream and Shinku’s Dawn Patrol are Version 1.2 outfits, not V1.3 Lucent Tides rewards. Summer Dream lacks a custom skill animation and adds little on top of Iroi’s regular looks, while Dawn Patrol is a solid, physics-heavy swimsuit that simply competes with Shinku’s already-excellent costume roster.
Both predate this event, so treat them as separate from the five V1.3 costumes above — their availability follows the older 1.2 rules rather than the summer Mall-and-box split.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do the V1.3 summer costumes stay after the summer event ends?
No — they are time-limited to the Version 1.3 summer window and will rotate out once the event closes. That applies to both routes: Zankou’s Mall discount runs only through September 30, 2026 (UTC+8), and the Lucent Tides Mystery Box (with its swimsuits, The Tide jet ski and Endless Summer frame) is only rollable while the event is live. If you want the full set, claim the Mall outfits and finish your box rolls before the summer period wraps.
Can you still get the older Version 1.2 summer outfits in V1.3?
Iroi’s Summer Dream and Shinku’s Dawn Patrol are from Version 1.2 and sit outside the new Lucent Tides system entirely, so they follow their original availability rules rather than the current Mall-and-box setup. You will not find them in this summer’s Mystery Box — they are a separate, earlier release.
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