Honkai Star Rail Yukong Tier List – Best Light Cones

So you’ve just started playing Honkai Star Rail and aren’t sure which light cones to use for Yukong? Well, you’re in luck, as that’s exactly what our Honkai Star Rail Yukong tier list is here to help with. In this very guide, we rank all of the suitable light cones from S tier to D tier, with S being best and D being worst. We’ll also include a description of the tiers so you know what they actually mean.

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 Yukong Tier List

Before we move onto the tier list proper, here’s a description of how our tiering system works so that you can make sense of it.

What Do Our Tiers Mean?

Here’s a brief explanation of each of our tiers:

• S Tier: Characters in this tier are the absolute best that the game has to offer. You should prioritise unlocking these and increasing their power. One of these can carry you through the entire game, and a full party will make most of the endgame content trivial – provided you focus on growing their power.
• A Tier: If your collection is lacking in S tiers, A tiers are great for filling gaps. These characters are still great in their own right, but they just lack a little something when you compare them to an S tier. Use them when you need to, but drop them when you can.
• B Tier: During the early phases of the game, you’ll likely rely on a party of a single S tier and a bunch of B tiers. These characters are quite easy to get, and are solid, if unremarkable. Definitely swap them out for A tiers and S tiers, but don’t be ashamed to use them if you need to.
• C Tier: This is when we get into ‘bad character’ territory. C tiers are, much like D tiers, some of the worst characters in the game, but they often have niche uses. They might be really strong in a particular game mode, or during a certain phase of the game. Take a close look at their skills and judge accordingly.
• D Tier: Characters in this tier are simply never worth using. They’re the worst characters in the game, suffering from severe balance issues, and will underperform at all points in any modes. Don’t use them if you can avoid it.

S Tier

God tier light cones.

• Memories of the Past

A Tier

Solid light cones that are great for Yukong.

• Dance! Dance! Dance!
• Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds

B Tier

These light cones start strong but fade later on. Don’t be ashamed to use them, but do swap them out as you obtain S and A tiers.

• Past and Future
• Meshing Cogs

C Tier

Light cones in this tier can excel at times. Mostly, they’re useless though.

• Planetary Rendezvous

D Tier

Never use D tiers unless you can’t avoid it.

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Honkai Star Rail Yukong Tier List FAQ

Still unsure about our tier list? Got questions about Honkai Star Rail in general? Hopefully our tier list can help!

What’s A Tier List?

We should probably have answered this question at the beginning, eh? A tier list is, quite simply, a list of all of the characters in a specific game ranked from best to worst. In our case, S is the best characters with D being the worst, and A, B, and C filling the gaps.

The purpose of a tier list is to help you determine which characters to use at all stages of the game. We try and make our tier list as useful as possible by explaining our tier system.

For example, there are instances where certain characters are excellent during the beginning of a game, but fade later on. Or, they could be good at a certain game mode. We’ll always try and make this clear.

How Did We Select Our Honkai Star Rail Yukong Tier List?

We used a number of different sources when selecting our Yukong tier list, but, primarily, we judge based on our personal experience with the game. As a result, it is bound to be quite a subjective list, but there’s no getting around that.

To determine the rankings, we both experiment with the light cones in the game (if obtained), as well as theory-craft based on skill descriptions and raw statistics. That’s why you’ll see our tier list change so much when a game first launches, as we’re in the testing phase.

It’s also worth noting that we do scour communities, like Reddit, for community feedback. If the general consensus is that a specific light cone is strong or weak, we will reflect that in our tier list. That way, it’s got a certain degree of objectivity.

We’ll wrap this section up by reminding you that tier lists are subjective by nature. Your experience may vary completely to ours, so take it with a pinch of salt.

When Do We Update Our Honkai Star Rail Yukong Tier List?

You can expect to see an update to our Yukongtier list whenever a new light cone is introduced. It might take us a while to test the light cone for ourselves though, so expect a brief delay.

We also update the list whenever a big balance patch hits, as this will throw the meta out the window. Again, there may be a brief delay as we experiment with the changes and update our rankings.

Adele Wilson

Editor

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.