Honkai Star Rail Builds Guide – All You Need to Know

On the hunt for a Honkai Star Rail builds guide? We’re here to help! Our guide contains all you need to know about the different aspects of building a character and team. It can be pretty overwhelming at first, but once you get used to it, you’ll have the strongest teams around!

Honkai Star Rail is the latest addition to the popular Honkai series. The game features a wide range of stylish characters who wield various unique abilities. Whether you prefer characters who use Lightning or those who use Ice, Honkai Star Rail offers up fun combat and an immersive world. Collect characters and upgrade them to build an ultra-powerful team as you explore the Astral Express.

You can learn more about it on the official website. If you’re looking for more Honkai Star Rail content, check out our Honkai Star Rail reroll guide, Honkai Star Rail codes, and our Honkai Star Rail tier list.

Honkai Star Rail Builds Guide

Now, let’s move on to the guide!

Relics – What Are They?

So, one of the features of character building is the relic system. Think of them as the artifacts from Genshin Impact – sort of. Each relic boosts a character’s stats, whether it be for HP, Attack, and more.

Let’s take a closer look at the types of Relics in the game!

• Head – HP
• Body – Crit Rate, HP, Attack, DEF, Healing Boost, Effect Hit Rate, Crit Damage
• Hands – Attack
• Feet – Attack, DEF, HP, Speed, Break Effect
• Link Rope – DEF, HP, Attack, Break Effect, Energy Regen Rate
• Planar Sphere – Elemental Damage Boost, DEF, HP, Attack

Similarly to artifacts in Genshin Impact, a Relic has a main stat, as well as a possible maximum of 4 sub-stats.

You can level your Relics up to increase their main stat and sub-stats, but please note that the overall stats of a Relic are randomly generated when obtained. There are also different rarities of Relics!

• 2-Star – Green with a max level of 6
• 3-Star – Blue with a max level of 9
• 4-Star – Purple with a max level of 12
• 5-Star – Gold with a max level of 15

Light Cones

By far one of the biggest things to get used to when building characters, is the fact that there are no weapons. Well, at least not in the same vein as Genshin Impact. Instead of a weapon banner, there is a Light Cone banner.

Light Cones are basically a piece of equipment that helps to boost a character. Each Light Cone is linked to a specific Path to provide the user with a passive skill, so not all of them can be used on certain characters. They can be levelled from 1 to 80, and have a variety of rarities from 3-star, 4-star, and 5-star.

Character Elements

It wouldn’t be a HoYoverse game without elemental combat! There are 7 elements in the game at the moment.

• Fire
• Ice
• Physcial
• Lightning
• Quantum
• Imaginary
• Wind

When it comes to building a team, you need to keep a character’s element in mind. Especially when taking them into certain battles, or boss fights. It’s best to utilise elements that correspond to the enemy’s weaknesses – this breaks the Toughness of an enemy!

Character Paths

Paths are similar to classes in a typical RPG. A Path describes that character’s combat style and will allow them to obtain certain passive abilities while using a Light Cone. There are 7 Paths in the game at this current time, but we know of 14 – we assume these will be added in future updates.

• Destruction – DPS
• Abundance – Healer
• Hunt – Single Target DPS
• Harmony – Offensive Support
• Nihility – Debuffer
• Preservation – Defensive Support
• Erudition – Multi-Target DPS

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With experience writing for GameRant and in SEO copywriting, Adele loves to combine her adoration for gaming and writing. She'll talk your ear off about anything fantasy, and if she's not typing away at her desk, she's probably playing an RPG somewhere.