Top Five Most Important Characters in Honkai: Star Rail

With Honkai: Star Rail now well into its timeline and many new characters having been released, I thought it would be worthwhile to finally make a video detailing the most important units in the game that everyone should go for, as they benefit free to play and hardcore/pay to win players alike. So today we'll be bringing five of the most important characters in Honkai: Star Rail.
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[@jayhawker8200]

The trailblazer is the most important, can't start the game without them.

[@guermegusto]

that would be kafka

[@Sideqazxsw]

Kafka & Silver Wolf

[@shadowking663]

and dan hang+march 7th cus they gave trailblazer cpr

[@kaifXD]

For all of that we needed trailblazer so they’re important!

[@IanDavid01]

​@@shadowking663*almost give them CPR 😅😅😅

[@bladearmorginga6582]

Honorable mention is Tingyun, for taking every hit from the enemy, keeping your DPS alive, occasionally giving them a buff if she survives.

[@markjasondimen5818]

This is the true purpose of Tingyun

[@Kernviter]

She quite literally has 1000 agro value

[@AAa-xi2gp]

​@@Kernviter After getting Ruan Mei. Enemies started beat her 😢 instead of Tingyun

[@california_wang8078]

tingyun the preservation

[@IAMLUCIOUS]

She always get hit first. And die one shotted😢 idk whyy

[@shamis7054]

TL;DR Knowing this list is comprised of mostly harmony units is obvious. Support units has much higher longevity than any other path type.

[@mirror2922]

Support closely followed by nihility + abundance dependent upon playstyle preference

[@pixelrose_]

sustains are the REAL BACKBONES of a team periodt😌

[@mirror2922]

@@pixelrose_ Usually the sustain becomes a secondary harmony character if we talking about limited banner sustain units which I think is WILD. Sometimes a core synergy like lynx + clara.

[@Agni4life]

Nah, the longest longevity should be the enablers. Specifically Kafka and Topaz.

[@den1m0ut55]

​@@Agni4life Not really cuz with supports like ruan mei she'll buff everyone in existence Enablers are stuck to their own niche

[@Kefla361]

I always play Silver Wolf with Dr. Ratio currently my favorite combo with topaz and Huohuo. Its literally the ultimate boss killer team its crazy

[@misora25chan]

Silver Wolf satisfies all of the damage bonus conditions for Dr. Ratio so these 2 are an insane pair.

[@kvangofgamestechmic6524]

And the crazy part is I got both of them

[@NakiYarou]

@@misora25chan especially if you for some reason got e2, it also means SW can doubledip into dps build

[@CarlosDaniel-od7bx]

This is duo is S+ tier

[@Zerocyxone9]

Gepard Sampo Serval Ratio…the best starting team that you can have. I am 7 days into the game and have finished all the story quests plus level 15 of the first levels of memory halls….best thing ever… Now saving everything til I get to silverwolf E2 and LC. And waiting for bronya 500 pulls too…

[@monochromematrix464]

5:22 Fun fact Silver Wolf is Base off of Haxxor Bunny in HI3 which is battle suit for Bronya

[@yaminarthem1977]

Mihoyo has a problem whit bronya. They put bronyas everywhere and in multitudes. I'm sure the tzarina in genshin is a bronya

[@thaisonnguyen8368]

@@yaminarthem1977 what problem with bronya, they've always put their core cast characters from the beggining in other games to create a multiverse @@, that's just a concept, not a "problem"

[@nynx.]

@@yaminarthem1977 the tsaritsa doesnt have a confirmed design, and raiden mei is in literally every honkai game lmfao

[@KuroKomatsuzaki]

@@yaminarthem1977 its because bronya is now the CEO of mihoyo W + Ratio

[@R_a_i_n_C_l_o_u_d]

​@@KuroKomatsuzaki Haha, she's the supreme guardian of Mihoyo, Tingyun is the businesswoman of Mihoyo.

[@EclipseCircle]

6:57 Dont forget that you can choose her once you hit 300 standard wishes.

[@TJF588]

What's cracked is, even having lucked into her ahead of the 300th warp, I still might consider getting her first eidolon over adding a new character.

[@Wolfking363]

@@TJF588lucked up (after rerolling about 10 diff accounts to get her as my first 5*) and got her E1 20 pulls after. Started super late though during seeles rerun/huohuo banner n missed out on a lot of good free LCs but it’s still worth it since i only spent maybe 80$ total n got huohuo, blade, & lost 50/50 to Gepard. Now just to save for sparkle & fu xuan & Sam

[@Wolfking363]

@@TJF588 forgot SW too, not to mention the synergy of blade, huohuo, e1 bronya & SW is a perfect team on its own

[@themanwiththepan]

Ive had bronya since my 35th warp and like, I dont even bother using her anymore since shes like a week 1 character for me

[@kazbrekker197]

Picked her E1 after 300 pulls.

[@danish2.012]

Fuxuan is literally the game-changing unit for me, glad i skipped dan heng for this girl. She literally does almost everything. tanking, crowd control res, hp buff to the team (which can be somewhat good for blade an future potential hp scaling dps and supports), crit rate buff and with e1 more crit dmg + her LC more dmg buff, moderate healing and a bit of dmg from her ult which can help break enemies with quantum weakness.. She offers a ton of comfy gameplay. She allows herself as a preservation unit to be paired with units that don't like shields like blade and arlan. She is a unique preservation unit because preservation units mainly emphasize on shield while she doesn't. She is the reason i can squeeze through swarm disaster easily and she became my priority unit to challenge the new SU, gold and gears. Before i got her i was having a lot of trouble in swarm disaster. I will never take her off from the teams in the future since her crit rate buff is so useful.

[@WestProZ17]

I genuinely believe she'll be the hardest too powercreep of all limited sustains. Can't see us getting such a broken Preservation unit on her level or beyond for a very long time.

[@danish2.012]

@@WestProZ17 agreed, her crit rate buff and comfyness she grants is what i like the most about her

[@tiltltt]

My favorite unit is Vars of the path of Yone

[@VarsII]

I hate you.

[@RomnilWater]

Completely agree with the list. Though an odd one I'd add as an honorable mention is Blade purely for his team versatility He's basically self sufficient and perfect to slot into any team if you want a sub dps. You can use him whenever you need wind break or just someone that can do full enemy side damage without needing pretty much any skill points. He also mostly scales off of HP so he's pretty tanky resulting in not needing as much babysitting from the sustain.

[@aidanjackson5084]

Especially since he can simply sustain himself by his Ult bringing him to half health and some of his attacks healing him under certain conditions

[@raunaksandhu2382]

I love hou hou , started the game on her banner , got her and now she is in argenti hanya tingyun and houhou team , have cleared most endgame content with this team , that argenti does like 2 mil per ult to bosses

[@pubgregular1495]

Yeah, Argenti is a beast. I'm glad I pulled him. When they gave us that free 10 pull for the game awards, I pulled on his banner for the hell of it and got him. HuoHuo has replaced Bilou on every team. Also, never losing my 50/50's really help with getting certain units. My luck is so insane on this game that I believe it's taking all of the luck I should have on genshin and placing it into my HRS pulls

[@kingnaaa]

True she’s a good unit even though her character in the story is literally the crying emoji 😭

[@aidanjackson5084]

​@@kingnaaashe's doing her best though, with the encouragement (or would it be bullying?) of Tail. Not to mention her friends within the Ghost Hunting Squad

[@corile627]

4:19 It sounds like this script was written before Ratio was released, but he is in fact this hypercarry unit who is insane with Silver Wolf specifically.

[@mozzapple]

I feel like all future 5★ harmony units will be absolutely insane, especially considering even the 4★ harmony units are already crazy good

[@joshseecharan929]

sparkle and ruan mei is proof of that lol

[@aidanjackson5084]

Hearing this does make me curious what Robin will bring to the table in V2.2

[@danielferrieri7434]

Why Everyone/No One Plays: Yanqing

[@Hasan-Firas]

Everyone plays Yanqing (in nightmares)

[@LizardKingRequiem]

No one has him lol

[@rebeccacourtney5286]

I lost a 50/50 to him and don’t play him out of spite. I have his E1. Also he has kicked my ass so much in his Boss form

[@danielw.2456]

Bc Yanqing's passive is too inconsistent unless you bring at least a sheilder or taunter to support him as him losing any hp to enemies just de-activates his passive, which is very bad as his passive is a fat chunk of his damage. & right now brining a sheilder or taunter is just a waste of a precious team slot bc the only options are fire MC, March, & Gepard. Well, Gepard is mostly fine tbh, but the issue is not everyone has him. So if you do, by all means run Yanqing. But regarding March or fire MC, if you have Fu Xuan, Loucha, or Huo Huo & they are way better options & none of those three synergize with Yanqing at all. In the future if they release another sheild/taunt based preservation unit that can solo sustain the team, that may put Yanqing back on the map meta wise.

[@geode5224]

objection your honor: he’s my son and I love him

[@PizzawurmV1]

I really like the combo Imbibitor Lunae + Silverwolf + Ruan Mei, combined with some blessings in the su you can keep even the strongest bosses broken permanently

[@DizzyQuanto]

Such a clean and informational video! Thank you for all your effort in this! I appreciate proper information!

[@xxkingsnipeshooter6942]

My biggest regret in this game is not pulling HH not only is she very cute and funny😭 but she has so much value. Kafka's CC destroys me in MOC. Having a character that has that god level cleanse is absolutely necessary. The best part about her is that 20% teamwide energy regen which is pure madness and as a Jingliu main sounds perfect for me.

[@danish2.012]

She has the beat cleanse and she has really decent harmony buffs, giving a big atk boosts and energy to the whole team. That's an upgraded tingyun i see.

[@xxkingsnipeshooter6942]

At this point I might as well pull her on her rerun besides Fu Xuan.

[@treeckosaurus238]

Tried pulling for her but got the dragon lady instead 😔

[@LadyHermes]

This was very cunning of you but I like that nobody noticed. ;)

[@rhyned]

My biggest regret for me is pulling HH for 140 pulls, and she is not that great. And you got arlan, serval and dan heng and all of them is kinda weak. HH E0 is not that great. She cleanse well, but she cannot handle big hitter. So, every time I do MOC with her, many times I do reset, to make sure the big hitters do not kill one member. I think HH is like semi healer semi harmony, but the sustain things is not that great.

[@arelievermilion]

Nice video! its nice to know which ones to aim for. Also the FFBE soundtrack brings back memories!

[@HopeArk]

I do prefer Luocha over any of the other heals. Sadly I lost my 50/50 on his banner to Bailu (ironic its another abundance). I would also say that Pela is a crazy good support especially if you have E0 Ruan Mei since Def shred and removing enemy buffs is such a big thing and can be really useful

[@TJF588]

I lost my first limited-banner 50/50 chasing Silver Wolf to... Bronya. Yeah, the irony. So, through the months, I've not been flush enough to go for Luocha, but have picked up the others (sometimes _barely,_ like Huohuo). It is very nice that Tingyun is available in the -Starglitter- shop, so Foxian Bennett can be built up despite unfortunate warps.

[@HazZzel-]

As someone who loves Loucha, I'm happy to see him mentioned. He does good damage and his heals are life saving

[@Dead_Hitori]

he's trash

[@KirigayaHayato]

You should do guides too please. I love how you explain things in such a simple manner please ❤

[@dijon3106]

Just got E2 Clara today, and I'm very excited!

[@xenoemblem7]

Who do you play first in the game? Kafka. Who lets the Trailblazer be the MC of the game? Kafka. Who has a history with the MC? Kafka. Who barks for Kafka? Me. Which character has the most fans of? Kafka. Kafka is like an MC that is playing on NG+ Basically, Just Kafka.

[@LegacyLunatic]

unfathomably based 🗿🍷

[@unoqueen_]

realest answer

[@TheNrat]

People going be so hurt if they ever kill of kafka

[@IanDavid01]

​@@TheNratthey better don't mess around that idea

[@TheJoeyShowey]

i feel like two of these characters importance changed for me massively throughout general account progression first silver wolf being absolutely almost irraplacable for my first 6 months as i didn't have many options for breaking and fights were more single target then ruan mei who has been amazing for me but i think it's mainly being able to patch together from my larger roster and enable two dps (which i wouldn't of been able to early on)

[@randeegaming6776]

my tingyun is spread so thin between 2 teams and another upcoming team...the 50 energy makes such a huge difference

[@chipsalancienne3080]

I like how well spoken you are, instant sub

[@crocworks]

Most important is Dr. Ratio for what he's been doing to Genshin's playerbase.

[@xenoemblem7]

Unironically, the CN Genshin players are starting to quit and hopefully that's a sign of growth for the game.

[@kuurumitokisaki]

​@@xenoemblem7 The global community should support the CN community to make a real impact (no pun intended).

[@tayyabo]

​@@kuurumitokisakithe global players are afraid and will take anything that they are given and then say "better then nothing"

[@eszterfodor1136]

Afraid of what?

[@IanDavid01]

Wow. I thought that I won't find Genshin player bi*ching and complaining about things in video unrelated to Genshin but here I am. 😅😅😅

[@Josef852]

I've just been improvising in selecting my 5 star banner. Never knew these were one the most important characters than can make a big flexible difference. Most of the time these characters were my second choice or a fluke because i hadn't enough currency to pull my 1st desired character. Guess i have been lucky

[@YosepRA]

I saved my Jades since I pulled Seele at patch 1.1 just for Fu Xuan. The reason is I fell in love with her design since I first saw her. (Yes, she is the hottest character in HSR and I will die on this hill.) Ever since then, my HSR journey has been very smooth. Not to mention that I also have Huohuo. Although yes, I don't play endgame as much. But nonetheless, pulling Lady Fu and Huohuo have been worth the Jades and patience it requires for me to collect it and reject the temptation on other banners.

[@RaffoPhantom]

Who is the hottest, Seele or Fu Xuan?

[@danish2.012]

Pulling fuxuan was your best choice bcs she makes a comfy gameplay as well giving crit rate buffs

[@caiojacques8436]

I started playing about 3 weeks ago because I saw a video of Dan Heng IL and fell in love for him. Sadly I lost him to Yanqing on an Early pity. I think I can get him before his banner ends, and after that I will save jades to pull for good supports like Ruan Mei, so this video was very helpful on which units to build and which ones skip or pull.

[@NinjaWarotMCph]

Hopefully you'd make a video of your thoughts and maybe favorites on the non-support characters and the DPS with a bonus characters. Not really a "best" list but rather something like what traits of what characters you want to mention are nice, like Welt being able to go for a DPS foregoing EHR or be a support foregoing crit stats, among others.

[@kaled20001]

I think Jingliu has a decent argument for being future proof, maybe not as much as some supports, but considering that she doesn't consume skill points like crazy like DHIL does and that she works great with Ruan Mei who buffs the entire team so even if Jingliu herself gets powercreeped, she'd still be best in slot for second dps in a dual dps team, aka she has a "second chance" in regards to being powercreeped. Also I think it's obvious especially if you've seen leaks but Kafka will just get stronger and stronger, she ain't falling off anytime soon.

[@danish2.012]

She is also a future investment apart from being a really strong dps. Her kit drains hp which is beneficial for blade. If we get a unit later in the future that benefits from getting its hp drained then jingliu will shine there. It mustn't be a dps, can be a support or sustain. That's the reason i chose jingliu over Dan IL. It's similar to the case of topaz with her follow up buff greatlt benefits any FUA dps now and later especially with Dr ratio now.

[@kidsIIIII009]

Topaz also which is the same explanation as Kafka as she needs other characters so Topaz can do the damage

[@KamenSentaiGavan]

Kafka should’ve been an honorable mention atleast just cause even if they make a second unit that can do the same thing she does, so long as they’re not also the same element, you can just field them both and have them setting off DOTs nonstop.

[@draixsama]

What the characters in this list have in common is the ability to fit in every team they can be put in. Damage dealers like Kafka can always be replaced, not to mention her being limited to DoT. Support characters are staple, the damage dealers they support change infinitely. Look at Bennett in Genshin. His standing as a great support didn't change, but the DPS he supports can vary greatly.

[@eh1165]

​​​@@draixsamaI think what they were trying to say is that Kafka is a sub DPS dot enabler. That's about as niche as you can get so she won't ever get power crept unless they release a character with her kit but better. And even then, you could just run the two of them with another dot unit...

[@KamenSentaiGavan]

@@eh1165 Right, like how people thought Yelan was gonna replace Xingqiu but they ended up being one of the best duos in the game. While it’s true she’s limited to dot teams (though you could use her as a hypercarry if you want), she’s always gonna have a place in dot teams.

[@eh1165]

@@KamenSentaiGavan yeah, she's honestly great in hypercarries I got two cycles with her on floor 11 this and last moc first try :D so she's definitely amazing as a pure DPS too. I just hope her + Black Swan can compete with hypercarry comps

[@draixsama]

@@eh1165 Again, what I'm saying is Kafka is just another form of damage you can do in the game that can potentially have hundreds of ways to deal damage. But supports on the other hand, can help these hundreds of ways to deal damage, to deal even more damage. Yes, Kafka won't be powercrept soon, but anyone can always deal damage other than DoT.

[@rainwispers5611]

Silverwolf is voiced by the same VA that voiced Dendi in okko, i recognized the voice like immediately when ai hear in in the game. Also silver wolf's HI3rd varient is Bronie who is like an alternate version of bronya, with the same abilities as silver wolf.

[@bv8190]

The grand summoner music theme got me thinking where i heard the music from

[@saltyboi4897]

Oh look all 5 of those characters I don't have! At least I got the HMs though...

[@mksk4395]

Proud Huo Huo Haver

[@ZCrimsonIX]

You forgot Kafka. She will always be great. Regardless if you're a beginner or an End-game player. Her teams will also not go down in value since She can only be Upgraded by the newer units that will come out in the future.

[@airishushi]

You can't really compare Kafka to the sustains and support units. She's an enabler for DoT, not a damage amplifier like SW/Bronya/RM. Also she cant keep your team alive like Luocha/FX/HH. Not really a unit you can put in any composition, even if she's a pretty strong damage dealer

[@zxrha]

you need to know the one that up the meta is always support characters

[@kidsIIIII009]

Topaz same explanation as Kafka but instead of DoT Characters she needs FUA characters so Topaz can do the damage

[@scrubblesi1233]

6:29 nitpicking but you can extend the belebog march buff by activating it after blade enhances

[@prestigev6131]

Wonderful. After playing the game since it came out I have literally no one on the actual list. No wonder I struggle so much with this game

[@deltaspecies1697]

Love the FFBE background ost

[@db.1304]

Is that FFBE music on the background?? man that takes me waay back to my first gacha, played that for 2 years... was pretty fun game for a mobile, unfortunately prohibitibly expensive with no guarantee for banner unit (maybe that changed later but not while I played)

[@DaniDeFig]

As a scaredy-cat, I put a lot of Value in Luocha's ability to directly heal a chosen party member. As cool as it is to have regen, it just feels safer to have a Heal "Button" for when something goes wrong ^^' Lovley to have this informative list! Thank you.

[@SweeeetLovex3]

Have to yet build and lvl my Ruan Mommy but I love her design to death. still have to figure out how to properly play her tho hehe

[@Koyodidi]

Vars always delivers !

[@Msaber2012]

I have never agreed with a list so much ever until now. Good job.

[@saksham.j0ey]

9:10 totally agree with u!!🤝🏼

[@paskvil8291]

9:09 - no, that's Jingliu, come and get me! i'm so glad i have almost all the characters from this list except Luocha... totally agree with HuoHuo > Luocha - can't even count how many times her "cleanse everything!" has saved me! Lynx does have the emergency button feature, but HH is just another level... i'm really curious - how will Sparkle compare to Bronya? i kind of have a feeling they will be on-par (so far HSR is doing a great work balancing the new characters), but will she need mono quantum to truly shine? or it will be just an added bonus?... i wouldn't mind that at all - i love using mono quantum, even more since Xueyi came out - but i feel like that would be a bad decision on hoyo's part?... thanks for the video - great list, great editing, pleasure to watch!

[@violetiolite]

I got Huohuo without much thought (when she came out I had started rhe game relatively decent and didn't understand how things worked that well) and only pulled her because she looked a little spooky and I like that. Probably the best thoughtless decision I've ever made. Bailu you are fantastic and carried me through early game but Huohuo's cleansing is a godsend. Mine is also the character I have with most HP. She is not easy to kill. Also because her skill isn't random I always know where my healing goes... And of course, her ultimate is great, but as a healer she is so good. Silver Wolf basically neans you can enter any fight with no worries so I'm also super glad I got her. Ruan Mei too but everyone already knows that..using her in Simulated Universe is just expected. I wish I could get Fu Xuan. She's the only on this list I don't currently possess except Bronya but Bronya I'll get eventually because she's standard.

[@matheusmantovani993]

I think Kafka and Topaz could have been in the honorable mentions because they are not simple dps characters, they are the enablers of two types of teams, dot teams and follow up teams cant perform at a high level without them.

[@satella5509]

Learning from Genshin, I decided to just pull for supports. So since luocha's banner, i have every single one of these healing or sharing damage beasts. But yeah, at what cost? I've lost 50/50 on Ruan Mei and Topaz, so I lack buffer support and DPS (except that I have every 4* Harmony at e6 except maybe Tingyun and some new characters). Also, my E3 Bronya kept my Seele team alive till now. I do have many supports but my DPS right now are just Seele and Ratio. Yes, when the Destruction meta was so popular a few months ago (with DHIL, Blade and Jingliu), I was just using my e6 Qingque. It was difficult but at least my teams are as hard as rock lmao.

[@ch1pZz271]

9:12 i agree with you and id die on that hill

[@kazbrekker197]

I benched SW for about 3 patches just because I don't need the weakness apply. Now She's glued to Dr. Ratio and I play them a lot.

[@CygnusWing20]

I wish they took HuoHuo's kit and put it on literally anyone else. Maybe then I'd get to use it ;_;

[@welachutmelexcel]

Glad that i somehow always find myself liking the support-ish characters more, not just gameplay but design and personality

[@jamescarlos5517]

the "period" its giving to me dabois 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@nullvisor]

always glad i have luocha and ruan mei … wish i had silver wolf. ill get bronya soon.

[@user-yk1xo2tr2r]

I love how every character has a role in this game!

[@kirinrias6912]

would include kafka and topaz. yes they are dds but they scale extreme well with future dds that suport their playstyle

[@kidsIIIII009]

Dr Ratio sometimes because he also needs characters so he can do the FUA damage. So like it has the debuff count as Kafka but instead of limiting to just DoTs it is now any Debuffs, and then the FUA enabler as Topaz

[@kirinrias6912]

@@kidsIIIII009 not realy, while ratio needs debuffs to work at 100% for the debuffer it does not matter if the attacking char is ratio or every other high dmg char that will come in the future or is out at the moment. in kafkas case she enables an additional dot tick (two if you count her ult), regardless what future dot chars come they will profit from her, even if they outperform kafka in dmg, kafka is usefull as she can boost that dmg even higher

[@ventedgeoduck3066]

every team needs at least on support and abundance unit, the rest could be hunt, destruction, erudition ect. The best option would be a nihility oe erudition such as kafka for her insane dot and a unit that benefits from debuffs on enemy's or buffs on your self. And if you are building a kafka team bronya, with black swan and kafka would go crazy with both black swan and bronya buffing kafka as well as a fourth unit to act as sustain and also free skill points.

[@jamesvalkyrie7469]

The FFBE music in the background is the first thing I noticed. 😂

[@severren1095]

one team I use in sim universe is Jingliu Silver wolf Ruan Mei and huohuo Ruan mei can completely one shot MOST of the encounters in the run saving time which means you can get blessings faster and Silver wolf can do massive def down and drop ice weak For Farming I use Jingliu Tingyun Ruan mei huohuo Tingyun and huohuo can make jingliu stay in her enhanced state which at 50-52% crit rate is 100% crit rate in enchanced. Which is very good

[@Be727z]

I have E6 Tingyun, Ruan Mei, Bronya and SW. Really like Fu Xuan Luocha so I’m saving for the both of them - tried to pull Huohuo, even painted her a portrait as a ritual and hung her up above my bed right before her banner… Bronya E1 screwed me over Can guarantee - This list is very accurate. Supports are the most important. My only 5* dps is Ratio and Jing Yuan and I’m doing well in this game. Only trailblaze lvl 52 since i used to be casual, but I’m working my way up

[@StArShIpEnTeRpRiSe]

Seele, Bronya and Silver Wolf in one team realy realy powerful. Especially if you have E4 Bronya, because if SW add a wind weakness instead of quantum (rarely but happen) Bronya will have a followup attack so it's not fully wasted. This team with a Trailblazer or any of the mentioned heal and tank units and you are almost unstoppable. But Lynx as a Q heal also good option here.

[@MoriartyUC]

if u have fu xuan with her LC she can solo sustain for a long time, providing heals and dmg mitigation

[@maevethefox5912]

I have 4 of the 5 of them, and I gotta say oh gods I'd trade them all for Fu Xuan hahaha. Her sustain is just so absurd, I must have funneled a hundred million credits to the support Fu Xuan I use when farming xD What's worse is I know she's gonna rerun during the Swan/Hanabi/Acheron chunk and I'm gonna miss out on her again xD

[@drfrekz4868]

I feel like blade should've been somehwere in this list, he's probably the most accruate depiction based on his path and how he functions as a character unlike dhil/jl

[@draixsama]

What?

[@danish2.012]

Destruction path means sacrificing something for dmg. It doesn't have to be hp. Jingliu sacrifices team-wide hp and Dan IL sacrifices skill points to do bigger dmg. Clara sacrifices herself to get taunted more often from her ult.

[@opbattleaxe8744]

The most accurate imo is Arlan. He drains HP and does more damage the more hurt he is. Fits destruction to a T. -Also dark skinned, white haired, scar ridden looks even make him match the Aeon Nanook’s appearance-

[@kidsIIIII009]

@@opbattleaxe8744Arlan has no SP consumption so he sometimes really shines with E1 Sushang when the battle conditions like “If the character uses a SP that character gets another turn”

[@keolong25]

Really wasn't expecting FFBE music on a HSR video

[@came4861]

should i try and pull for Fu Xuan, or Huohuo/Luocha or wait for Ruan Mei? i have Imbibitor dan heng and Jing Yuan but ive realised the only good supports i have are Bronya and Tingyun, im using Fire trailblazer for my tank and Bailu for healer X-X

[@makamiusless1954]

I chose not pulling for Huo Huo and not gonna lie I really don't regret doing so that much. Granted she's super OP but I'm already very happy with Luocha already. He deals relatively good damage when given the right stats and the safe feeling whenever his field is on is just so good.

[@general_anxiety4055]

"You should focus on getting all the best supports in star rail!" I have a deficit of supports that work with the dps characters I built...and I also just got Kafka. Trust me I already know I need more supports ;w;

[@miragelostvayne9394]

Im playing my Kafka with Huohuo and Ruan Mei, and man it was fun. Im thinking of placing Tingyun in the team for a hypercarry Kafka but Tingyun being Tingyun, i would definitely lose her after the enemies takes turn 1 😂

[@Ryocniel]

I'd argue Kafka will be one of the most important with time. Since she's no traditional damage dealer, but rather enables frontloaded DoT damage; as long as she doesn't get replaced by a better DoT enabler she will only continue becoming more powerful. For the sake of the argument, let's say that the game is moving into a meta focused on debuffs and DoT like our dear friend L+Ratio is kinda implying. Kafka will not only be buffed herself, she will also buff every new character who contributes to that meta

[@sahibsingh7358]

The only way they can make another dot enabler better than Kafka to make everyone pull for it will be making dot crit💀

[@zura17]

@@sahibsingh7358 ok but then it will be just kafka+ that character then

[@Ryocniel]

@@sahibsingh7358 that would still be the biggest imaginable buff to Kafka though. All DoT buffs are Kafka buffs

[@sahibsingh7358]

@@zura17 yup that's only way I can see them making a dot nihility enabler better than her BCS if character does same thing as Kafka who'll pull it?

[@remwastaken]

that's why i love her, she's as future proof as a unit can be. The ONLY ways that kafka doesn't stay meta is if they make 2 dots characters which are just so fucking strong by themselves that those two together deal more damage than one of them + kafka, which is honestly unlikely. Either that or they make another dot detonator which would either make kafka shit or be a sidegrade, in which case, why? Like, cool you could have 2 DoT teams for MOC, which doesn't sound too bad but most people ain't gonna pull them.

[@why-so-toxic_1413]

10:00 wanna talk about that miss win Dan

[@exactzero]

At 2:30, isn't Bestowal From the Pure Loucha's E2?

[@V4LITHRIA]

no gepard on the list and the honorable mention but I think he's one of the most important character since there's no unit rn that can provide thicc shield for the entire team, thicc shield = not getting 1 shotted

[@lan66hardy]

I have been pulling for supports and i only have Seele as my main dps to this day even though i know that i should get or build another dps for my second team i just can’t help but pull for supports cuz i know they are more future proof than dps In fact when i got ruan mei i actually got to floor 7 in MoC full stars with my shitty built Dan Heng when i couldn’t even pass the first floor cuz my other team is suffering

[@LeoLikesLamb]

Your videos butter My biscuits thank you

[@NataliaAgonigi]

Lynx can cleanse all party members with her burst so you can kinda say she doesn't need her turn either

[@zhurahd3689]

but her cleanse is tied to her ult and she cant ult if shes disabled or not at full energy. huohuo literally cleanses at the beginning of every turn

[@NataliaAgonigi]

@@zhurahd3689 ohhh good point

[@elementalearth1237]

I wanted Ruan Mei so bad but unfortunately lost to Welt, who I now have at e3. At least I got Fu Xuan e1 in a single 10 pull

[@Vinex3431]

God I forgot brave exvius ost slaps...

[@adamcobb7892]

Im in ned of a hyper carry. My account is follow up chars, Jing Yuan, Blade, Clara e2, Topaz and Dr ratio are my dps(s). I have great supports thus leaves a carry. Hate i didnt get the ice chick but i needed topaz as you can see. I have all but houhou in the support bracket. Best of luck everyone. Fantastic game with a great dev team.

[@gamn6834]

I do think Kafka should have been in honorable mentions tbh, her play style is unique, and she is basically the glue to DoT teams, unless a new character release that can do what she can do and more she is very hard to power creep (and that unit would be busted)

[@Dinklr]

Can bro pls say the names of the music he is using. I want to know this cool ass music playing at the beginning is

[@laserkirby9373]

Nice to know that the only one I got from the list is the 4-star. No wonder I'm stuck on the story quest, I didn't pull the right characters.

[@yunese5292]

Team synergy, character levels, talent levels, relics, and weapons are also important. Don't feel pressured into pulling characters or spending money to clear content

[@bepo1702]

just use dr.ratio. Started a new acc recently and he cooks everything in the story

[@jackgrimm2600]

Fuxuan or luocha is better for my beginners acc? Currently im running Dot teams with kafka/black swan & in need of sustainer

[@Huseyin_Gazi]

HuoHuo is way too versatile for a healer and in E2 she can auto-revive characters twice per battle if having provision passive ongoing. >_< I am happy she got included in your top 5 ^=^

[@nebula8799]

i wanted ruan mei so bad but i lost to e1 yanqing,,,, hopefully when she has a rerun i can get her

[@blastchaos4286]

1:02 I wasn't really paying attention and I heard this as "She gets one-shot, and does that job really well", I almost choked

[@SiN.raN.home.]

Exquisite damage

[@Ilint]

My only thing with the Huohuo vs Luocha is, she takes a lot more SP to be inserted into a team while Luocha takes 0, and also her not really having an emergency heal, I find that she's good when you can use her, but she isn't easily slapped into teams unless you consider her SP needs. if not then her Ult takes way to long to use, I have both and I feel like they are on par with each other, unless you just straight up ignore Huohuo's cons. Personally though I end up using Luocha and Fu xuan way more than I use my huohuo, just based off the fact that she isn't usually worth picking another character over her, unless it makes sense in the rotation.

[@MoriartyUC]

I dont really run into sp issues but thats bc I have 2 characters that mitigate my sp usage(ruan mei LC + e3s2 bronya) but the main issue, as you point out, is the fact that she lacks emergency healing. Dont get me wrong her healing is insane, even more so coupled with her LC, but the amount of times a character has died simply because she lacked the emergency makes her pretty disapointing.

[@Ilint]

@@MoriartyUC the sp issue just depends on the team, either way she’s an SP neutral character, so if your team compensated for that then great, is not then it is what it is.

[@idesofjune]

What is the song used in the background of the video? Sounds familiar but I can't put my finger on it

[@Asteroux]

Kinda interesting to see that at least three of them- Fu Xuan, Ruan Mei, and Huohuo have some sort of 'secondary class' into their kit. That said, I am looking forward to Fu Xuan's eventual rerun. I ran out of Stellar Jades during her debut banner, and the only Preservation unit that I have levelled up is the Fire Trailblazer. If she's not outclassed by someone else by then, I am more than willing to get her~! I'm already farming the Preservation Trace materials lol.

[@unagi5424]

What’s the soundtrack at around 1:00 onwards? It’s soooo familiar but I can’t rmb someone please help 🥲🙏🏻

[@cloudjin893]

Ngl i only got luocha because i wanted yukong. But i was only willing to spend 50 tickets to get yukong because i needed the rest for kafka.(i had guaranteed for both character and lightcone). I didnt get yukong but i got luocha instead. I was livid lol. Got over it when i found out we get her for free and im kinda glad rn that i have luocha lol. It took a long time for me to put him on my team tho lol

[@illurian5616]

You missed that Luocha also cleanses. This is a big deal as he doesn’t “just heal”. He cleanses debuffs (for free with his emergency heal), has AoE buff strip AND heals, all while being 100% SP positive.

[@brovalentine5287]

The background song used... So familiar? Brave frontier? If any1 knows which ost i would love the name thanks.

[@brovalentine5287]

Nvm for any1 lookin i found it. Brave exvius ff

[@brovalentine5287]

DUEL!

[@riderkwok]

that FFBE BGM reminds me of good old days, before they went down the unsalvagable path

[@HeshO-yi3hh]

I believe Pela is better than Silver Wolf in other teams that are not Ruan Mei Quantum, cause most teams would love Pela's AOE - Def% and not many teams want that Single target - Def%, also Pela can do a first turn Ult even without SW lightcone, also you can build Pela as a DPS and still work as a debuffer xD with Pearls or GNSW Luocha got powercreeped way too fast, I use to regret not pulling but now Hue hue is far better

[@leoniichan1229]

Finally, someone who doesn't blindly praise jingliu and pela. Personally I have a relatively high standard for such lists, but surprisingly I agree with every one of them Anyway allow me to add on *Tingyun* One of the only two characters who can generate energy in the game as of the moment. Energy is very important if you don't know that already. Even if her atk buff is useless, you can always trust her energy generation *Luocha* Probably the one that I agree the least with, still he's a pretty valuable unit. But there's something I have to talk about regarding him. It's that most people doesn't really know his advantages compare to the other sustain options Whenever people think of luocha, generating sp, heal and cleanses seems to be the only things people can think of. But let me tell you, those are not his true advantages. While yes for a support characters sp positive certainly is better than neutral or negative, but the most efficient way to use sp is to use up every single one that can be used. If you have like 5 sp when the battle end, what are you saving it for, chinese new year? If a character can generate sp, you'd prefer to pair someone who can use the sp generated by them. But not everyone is sp hungry. So being sp positive at best is merely a benefit, it's not an advantage at all He also heal and cleanse yes, but so does the other limited sustain characters. Huohuo even does it way better than he can. You'd have to be below 50% hp in order for him to proc his passive you know? So what is his true advantage compare to the other? It's his buff cleansing. That is something that neither fu xuan or huohuo can do. His buff cleansing may seem niche atm, but it's very valuable whenever the enemies have a certain buffed state that provide them extra capability. The best example would be the mara thingy that can resurrect. The point is, as long as the enemies have a disgusting but cleansable buff, he will be more favorable than the other options *Silver wolf* A lot of people think she's a scam, worse than pela or whatever. But I can assure you, she's not. Other than the ones listed in this video, the other thing she can do is dealing dmg, which is overlooked by many people. If you only stack effect hit rate on her, then obviously she's not going to deal any dmg. Look at her skill multiplier, it's literally on par with seele. So when you combine that with her capabilities mentioned in this video, you'd realize that she's not just there to implant weakness, she's there to anplify the entire team's single target dmg. As the video mentioned, if you give buff to one teammate, that's one teammate who gets benefited. But if you apply debuff to one enemy, that's the whole team sharing the benefit. "BUT IN AOE PELA IS STILL WAY BETTER SO YOU ARE WRONG! SILVER WOLF IS STILL WORTHLESS BECAUSE PELA EXIST!!" Ermmm, are you sure about that? Does anyone of you remember why erudition is considered bad back in the day? It's because even if the battle started with 5 enemies, if there's only 1 remaining that means you are losing a lot of dmg. Other than that, in practice you'd rather focus one enemy down first instead of dealing equal dmg to every one of them. Why? Because what's likely to happen is that you didn't kill any of them, and they proceed to kill you. It's that simple. But if you focus down one of them, that means you have less pressure on the defensive side which means easier to survive. So, pela really doesn't necessary have the edge over silver wolf in aoe. Unless, you're in situation where the enemies would duplicate themselves (like the swarm) or even better example, pure fiction *Bronya* Extra turn is stonk *Fu xuan* In my opinion one of the two most valuable characters in the game as of the moment. While luocha and huohuo have their advantages, but fu xuan still remain on top of them. Some may argue and say: "AGAINST AOE OBVIOUSLY THE OTHERS ARE WAY BETTER! SHE LITERALLY DIES AGAINST BIG AOE DMG!!" Hahahaha 😂 as if luocha and huohuo can help you survive a big aoe. If each target would receive let's say 5k dmg, what makes you think luocha and huohuo can help you with that? Yeah sure fu xuan would die, but if you use luocha or huohuo, your whole team dies against that In my opinion there are two types of defensive pressure. One is direct pressure and the other is indirect pressure. What's the difference? Direct pressure well pretty straightforward, just dmg. Indirect pressure, would be debuffs, crowd control etc. See where I'm going? Yes, that is fu xuan's weakness compare to luocha and huohuo. While she is the best (atm) against direct pressure, but she struggles quite a bit against indirect pressure, especially against debuffs (such as dot). Why? Because these debuffs stacks. Overtime when it gets stacked up, it would be too much for her to bear as she has no way to cleanse debuffs. Even against crowd control, she doesn't necessary do better than luocha and huohuo because remember, her cc cleanse is one time use after you cast skill. So unless you keep casting her skill (which is actually a viable strategy) against enemies who has like a million cc, or else she would struggle against it One other advantage she has compare to luocha and huohuo, is that she actually deals dmg. "Wow you look at her ult you see it deals dmg and you'd think she is a dps 😂 If that's the case then even my luocha is a dps. Heck, he even scales with atk so he would be way better right 🤣" Well, on paper luocha has 200% multiplier on his ult whereas fu xuan only has 100%, on that note it seems like that might be true right? But here's the thing, for every character base hp is always higher than base atk. Which means it's very easy for one to have higher hp than atk. That means hp has a higher base than atk when being used as the dmg multiplier. So when you look back, 200% atk multiplier compare to 100% hp multiplier, you'd realize the latter is better. Not to mention for luocha you'd only get like 4~5k atk at most (which in most case you won't), whereas for fu xuan it's very easy to achieve 7~8k hp, even 10k. So yeah, fu xuan actually packs quite a big punch. Just give her better relics and you'll see. E6 is not the only way *Ruan mei* The other one of the two most valuable characters in my opinion. Some genius would call her a mini pela, which I have no idea why. Not only their functions are not even close, their value is also not even close. Ruan mei is obviously way better than pela. Some people used the average clear time in last moc cycle that is full of ice weak enemies and use it as a proof that ruan mei is merely on par with pela. But the thing is, ice weakness doesn't benefit ruan mei by much at all. She literally only have one form of attack, which is normal attack. How can she benefit from ice weakness? So of course pela can compete with ruan mei in this situation. Because ice weakness benefits pela, but not ruan mei. Without ice weakness, what makes you think pela is even comparable to ruan mei? Some people may use bronya to compare with ruan mei instead. But remember, ruan mei focus on buffing the whole team, whereas bronya focus on one teammate. So obviously what type of teams they are made for, and they obviously don't take each other's places at all *Huohuo* The other one of the only two characters who generates energy (atm). That alone should tell you her advantage compare to luocha. Some people may still argue that luocha is still better than huohuo, I'd say it depends. One is more defensive one is more offensive. While one has higher floor the other has higher ceiling. So it's hard to say which one of them is better than the other definitively. But then again it doesn't really matter which one of them two is better, because neither of them are better than fu xuan anyway (yeah fu xuan is just that good) So yeah, that sums it up. Again, I'm really glad to see someone who doesn't blindly praises pela and jingliu. It pains me whenever people keep praising them to the point where they'd use pela to bash on people who think silver wolf is good, or bash on anyone who decided to skip jingliu. "Imagine needing silver wolf when you have pela", "Imagine needing x when you have jingliu" etc. Anyway enough ranting, keep up the good work!

[@AIEgg]

U only needed 1 sentence to explain why bronya is on the list 😂 Also I agree with everything said and how tf are they comparing ruan mei with pela they don’t even have similar kits

[@leoniichan1229]

@@AIEgg Beats me. I thought it doesn't take a PhD to figure out pela obviously gets outclassed by ruan mei by a large margin Also, I thought bronya deserves to be rated as high as she is, and I think people should know what situations she excel in by now so I didn't add much for her. Plus, extra turn is stonk

[@GeordieB]

I genuinly don't know how i'd live without huohuo. I just built my Lynx, and the power difference between them is insane.