Why EVERYONE Plays: Ruan Mei | Honkai: Star Rail

[@FormerEmiliaBestWifi]

Damage boost, resistance penetration, speed boost literally just by existing, easy to build, fits in every single team, hot and can ruin me. What more do you want?

[@Alan-id9si]

A personality.

[@justahooman0ntheplanet]

@@Alan-id9sishe certainly has one. She’s a cold scientist whose goal is to become an aeon, she is calm, intelligent, and doesn’t care for life as long as it helps her reasearch.

[@Alan-id9si]

@@justahooman0ntheplanetnothing screams intelligent like letting a giant natural disaster bug escape and losing an entire section of the space station to the swarm while she eats cake and plays the banjo.

[@saturnate69]

​@@Alan-id9si oh shiiittt💀

[@FormerEmiliaBestWifi]

Actually rather than hot (she is indeed hot though) but I think she is more like beautiful and am I the only one who thinks that she is the most beautiful woman in the game right now?

[@FlareBattle]

Ruan Mei is hilariously funny with Dot teams when they break. Essentially, they get broken, they take their turn to recover and get the FIRST instance of applied Dot damage- Her ultimate ability makes it so they get broken again, giving them another turn to recover aaaand take more Dot damage. Basically she creates two enemy turns with no detriment to the player 😂

[@MiIoTheWizard]

A character that can trigger DoT’s with her skill and a character that breaks the enemy when they try to recover from Weakness Break basically makes it possible to trigger the DoT of enemies 3 times in a single turn. DoT Teams just keep winning 🤩

[@mayuri4184]

I can ascertain this. I have Ruan Mei, and use her in a DOT team. I find that very satisfying, if not hilarious, and that may sometimes go in clutch.

[@totallyahololivesimp]

"getting 180% BE is hard" me: sweating with an unintentional 273% BE Ruan Mei.

[@Sglagoomio]

wtf are you feeding your Ruan Mei!?!?!

[@totallyahololivesimp]

@@Sglagoomio uuuhm.... her relics.... with a shit ton of spd and BE.....

[@AlwaysThirstys]

@@totallyahololivesimp Same except I have 403%.(Ruanmei is hitting harder than my firefly)

[@Levyathyn]

I fell in love with her design the first time I saw her in a card in the Simulated Universe. Then she showed up on one, and gave me a fuckton of Blessings the first time, and I was won over. THEN she showed up, and was a cool, calculating, but awkward genius with a host of strange cute little creatures and what seems to be a clear presence on the spectrum, and I was sold. She's beautiful, elegant, reposed, and loves desserts... what's not to love? So I rolled her. Then like a week or two later my friend was like, "By the way, she S tier meta support," and I said, "Oh shit for real?"

[@Lubossxd]

I can't take it anymore. I'm sick of Ruan Mei. I try to play Tingyun. Ruan Mei provides more damage. I try to play pela. Ruan Mei provides more damage. I try to play Bronya. Ruan Mei provides more damage. I want to play Jingliu. Her best team has Ruan Mei. I want to play Kafka, Topaz. They both want Ruan Mei. She grabs me by the throat. I babysit creations for her. I kill an emanator for her. I give her S5 memories of the past. She isn't satisfied. I pull Past self in mirror for her. "I don't need this effect if my ult will still take 4 turns" She tells me. "Give me any 5% err planar ornament set." She grabs my sustain and forces them to receive every point of damage from enemies. "You just need an err rope. I can do a 3 turn ult rotation without external energy sources." “Pull e1” she says. I can't pull e1, I don't have enough Stellar jades. She grabs my credit card. It declines. "Guess this is the end." She grabs her Ruan. She says "Sound lingers." There is no hint of sadness in its eyes. Nothing but pure, 68% damage boost, 50% weakness break efficiency and 25% res pen. What a cruel world.

[@AnimeWineAuntie]

This reads like a beat poetry hour. Snap snap. Thank you for your pain.

[@dome9462]

also if you're in Simulated Universe: Swarm Disaster or Gold and Gears, if you get the Ruan Mei (pt1-2) occurrence blessing, and she is in your team, that'll make you choose to get all the listed rewards(curios, blessing of the path you chose and cosmic fragments)

[@abhipatil6409]

she doesnt have to be in your team, just available to select. if you download her but she isnt active on your 4 person team, you'll still get it

[@dome9462]

​@@abhipatil6409 ohh okay thanks for the update haha

[@milodiin]

7:48 it's actually 160 ! One of her major trace gives 20% break effect to the whole team, including her !

[@riccardototo9737]

He still said the right thing to be fair

[@mika086]

140 with the BE planar ornament

[@ColdBrewNitro]

oh shit I did not know about this maybe I can replace my taila for broken keel

[@ceizhore4498]

You actually only need 130 if you use the new break effect relic. Pretty easy to build her now

[@mika086]

140*@@ceizhore4498

[@umbrellaskullgirls-rv3yh]

I feel like Why Everyone Plays: Fu Xuan would be amazing, she’s just so broken.

[@ninemilwer]

Not anymore, shes getting power crept by aventurine

[@cateila]

@@ninemilwerno? She’s BETTER then Aventurine. Speak carefully, just because a new 5* Preservation has arrived, does not replace the queen of mean.

[@umbrellaskullgirls-rv3yh]

@@cateila It depends on the situation honestly but they're both good.

[@eternitiesx]

​@@cateilaaventurine is literally on par with fx

[@nationalgeografic7687]

​@@cateilabro I almost benched fu xuan because of him and only play her for free crits (accidentally got e1)

[@swagmaster1437]

As a ruan mei owner its important to point out that she does have a minor weakness where all her break effect bonuses and utility are negated as long as the enemy is stunned by her ultimate because all time where the enemy is weakness broken is time where they could have taken break damage. This is especially noticable when playing units like xueyi, who is suppose to work well with her in theory but less so in practice. This is very noticable when the boss does not have resistance to delayed action like yanqing and gepard.

[@bachphamhoang3000]

Xueyi feels amazing with Ruan Mei in practice though due to the fact that she makes breaking faster. Upon weakness broken, enemies take 10% more damage and they are usually dead when broken or shortly after broken tbh. Ruan Mei’s buffs are so strong if you play optimally you won’t have to break twice.

[@angeldiaz762]

I'm here from 2 months in the future, we now have Super Break damage that we can use with her :)

[@rekka6277]

3 months later: guess who can use that weakness broken state to its full utility

[@WurmyBoi]

Keep in mind because this woman exists, Boss toughness bars were buffed so that basic attacks only deal 1/20 of the Boss' toughness bar without Ruan Mei, so it would take you 20 basics to weakness break a Boss.

[@Truck-kun11]

Serious? Great, so exactly what I predicted is happening. The content will start to be balanced with the broken characters in mind and whoever doesn't have them will be damned.

[@WurmyBoi]

Which is why I strongly dislike Ruan Mei, I didn't pull her because I didn't like her Personality, and here we are.@@Truck-kun11

[@Truck-kun11]

​@@WurmyBoiSame

[@gloomy9728]

@@WurmyBoi Acheron is another character that buffs toughness bar depletion (only for herself though). Also, Ruan Mei wasn't the only reason. The newer characters or at least some of them have stronger toughness depletion in their kits which makes them OP at breaking enemies (Dr Ratio, Xueyi, Ruan Mei). The game is balancing around them and the already existing toughness-depleting powerhouses (Asta, Jing Yuan, Sampo, Welt, DHIL, Sushang, Topaz) rather than just Ruan Mei.

[@WurmyBoi]

Yeah, but they didn't change the game because of how absurdly broken they are (Because Welt, Sushang, Asta, and Xueyi aren't what you'd call broken), I dont like acheron either as her personality (So far) is bland and her ult ignores weakness types but has none of the weakness' Xueyi's has.@@gloomy9728

[@alderwield9636]

on average of 97% usage of every moc since her release, and similar number on pf since its release too, both in CN and global data thats fucking wild

[@videjones2]

The "By the wind of time" ad spam sure helped a lot

[@saimfaisal6795]

Ruan Mei is a must have, she's one of those units that once you put her on a team, you're never taking her off. She's incredibly broken. Maybe the next weop should be a DPS, like Dan heng or jingliu., idk Also what you said at 6:00 I think huohuo does the same thing, so it seems to be a trend

[@RaikamiX]

Man, I love your thumbnails. You deviate yourself from all other youtubers. It makes it really easy to find you and really happy when I do find you

[@Inkfy]

The most unsurprising video. Lololololol I love using Ruan Mei. She's such a fun and surprisingly easy character to build. Res. Pen, DMG boost, gives SPD, scales off one stat? It was a recipe for success. Fun fact also, she was initially going to give more speed in battle until she was nerfed.

[@duc_huy_ngo]

I would consider her the single best unit in the game as of right now. And she will most likely hold that spot for quite some time unless someone who is even more broken comes out.

[@kmh4076]

I really love Ruan Mei but it was revealed in dreams that a certain biblically acurate angel will take her spot next patch 😅😅

[@gloomy9728]

I would say that she's top 3 for sure, but I'd argue that Fu Xuan is the best in the game.

[@bachphamhoang3000]

@@gloomy9728Ruan Mei is definitely better than Fu Xuan in terms of versatility, which makes her automatically better than Fu Xuan tbh. Fu Xuan doesn’t synergise that well with DoT, Blade and Clara. And Fu Xuan is basically non-existent in 0 cycle clears, while Ruan Mei is literally every run. The only sustain in 0 cycle runs nowadays is Huohuo.

[@duc_huy_ngo]

@@gloomy9728 in terms of comfortability, sure. But you can easily live without Fu Xuan (I would know since I don't have her sadge) while most teams perform at the best when using Ruan Mei. You can run teams without her too, of course, but Fu Xuan doesn't compare in terms of offensive utility which is more important at some point than defensive utility imo. Fu Xuan can definitely help newer players or those who cannot survive as well without her. Still, in the grand scheme of things, Ruan Mei does way too much to not be in the top spot.

[@bachphamhoang3000]

@@kmh4076 Ruan Mei’s throne is built upon her incredible versatility. Leaks suggest that Robin has ATK and crit buffs, which isn’t too versatile tbf.

[@mika086]

short answer: she buffs everyone's dmg indiscriminately and incentivizes the only mechanic star rail has -> toughness breaking

[@justasleepu3988]

"... if in the future a damage dealer that focuses on break effect appears..." *Xueyi crying in corner*

[@Josh-qt5zi]

She an 4 star so she can't compete with 5 star dps the four that come close are Qinque and for Genshin Noelle and Gaming

[@xenoemblem7]

@@Josh-qt5zi I think you meant Xiangling and Xingqiu 😅

[@Akodakun]

boothill on his way to put her out of a job

[@trainmoremoretrain961]

12:04 about that, she has her own traces that buff her Break effect, and she gives 20% teamwide break effect (which includes herself) in combat. Combine those with Comet Thief relics and the break effect planar from Simulated Universe 4, and that's 189% break effect (in combat) with Cogs.

[@dan_chen]

Problem is if you are using coggers on her, you probably would want to use vonqwac (or penacony) and err rope on her for the 3 turn ult. Of course reaching 160 break effect is still possible, but it gets a lot harder

[@ceizhore4498]

⁠@@dan_chenI have 130 break effect + 20 from talent + 30 from watchmaker set. I use coggers and penacony set with ER rope while having 160 speed. Ruan Mei is really easy to build if you just farm Watchmaker for her

[@trainmoremoretrain961]

@@dan_chen honestly, the meteor thief set's energy can make up for the 5% energy of Vonwancq/Penacony. Cuz I am using Energy rope on the Break effect planar.

[@tommyluo1409]

3:21 The prophecy came true XD

[@aidanjackson5084]

Ruan Mei was the first 5-star I lost the 50/50 on (though 2nd 5-star I seriously pulled for after SW), but I still kept pulling for the guarantee get after losing a 50/50. While I haven't used her much, I will say she has not disappointed so far

[@Aakash-io8tk]

Why everyone plays huohuo would be quite good , she is soo popular in the CN community but i feel like ppl dont talk about her enough on the global side

[@polarroars68]

she’s the best healer in game but i feel she’s overshadowed by fu xuan in terms of popularity and all purpose use

[@Aakash-io8tk]

@@polarroars68 she is the best healer and provides massive Harmony like buff , for end game player who know what they are doing i genuinely think huo is better and I am not saying fu is bad , she is also amazing

[@Kspice9000]

​@@Aakash-io8tkI agree. I've got both and prefer huohuo. I find fu rather restrictive and huohuo to be quite freeing.

[@abhipatil6409]

huo huo is good, but metawise she needs to be like c1 or c2

[@willrmmerhunter]

Shes the second least sold banner, soooo what "everyone" ?

[@danish2.012]

Ruan mei is like Furina. Lifting up the restrictions for non-elemental goblets and planar orb sets, making them more preferrable to use. This makes building some characters become easier as there is no mandatory need to put elemental goblets and planar orb sets

[@meliho27]

@@zalox12 she is just really the best support in game, same as furina

[@meliho27]

@@zalox12 yep simple as that... tho ruan mei is just stupidly a lot more braindead and easy to use and gives even more power

[@Baby8Stef]

she's more like kazuha and furina combined.

[@SignOne]

So I took a break from Genshin and I missed Farina's run. Now I started HSR recently and I've missed HSR Furina. What the fk bro 🗿

[@schariacveliona3449]

3:27 if in the future we have units whose dps scale off break effect. Xueyi literally crying bro

[@noobartist6009]

And now people are passing her up for Firefly.

[@why-so-toxic_1413]

She got it all the passive speed buff the dps boost best in slot for most teams best in slot of dot break efficiency, able to break the toughness meter she really is just one of those future proof characters

[@kagero-107]

You’re bold to assume that I HAVE Ruan Mei to begin with. . . . . . Damn Yanqing.

[@LadyMouzon]

Such a great video Vars!!!Been really enjoying these videos looking at recent characters. Everyone moves on to the next hottest thing. Good to do a retrospective after a character has been out. Would love one on Sparkle.

[@davidsamudio3899]

Ruan Mei is BiS for dual dps comps (Dot and FUA) and Break Teams, on Hypercarry scenarios, she is the best auxiliary support there is and the single best damage scaling Combination is Sparkle Ruan mei, 48% damage bonus and 100% crit damage basically on skills + 68% damage bonus and 25% Res pen, in this team you have so much damage bonus and crit damage that you can quite literally just tun 4 atk Main stats and get better damage 😂, Granted the only character who doesn't like sparkle is Jing Liu because she already has a ton of CD and atk, so you miss damage bonus and for her and her only Bronya ruan Mei is better

[@highwaytoheaven99]

The problem with units like Ruan Mei is that she is such a "team agnostic" amplifier is that now every support unit in the game has to compete with her for a team slot, and very few characters can even hope to match her. Like, I got Hanya way back when, and I built her bcuz I really liked her animations and playstyle. But now I have Ruan Mei, Bronya, Sparkle and E6 Tingyun, what team composition could I POSSIBLY justify using Hanya instead of one of those 4, and NOT be actively griefing myself with DPS loss??

[@xenoemblem7]

Skillissue? 😊

[@hoanhaimai6377]

Do you realize you're talking nonsense? So Ruan Mei's problem is she's too strong and flexible? No one's forcing you to use her in place of Hanya. Hanya is designed to pair with IL and you can beat the game with that combo. Ruan Mei would help you do that more easily, but it doesn't mean you have to use her.

[@highwaytoheaven99]

@@zalox12 POWERCREEP, darling. I mean she powercreeps Harmony so hard its impossible to justify using anyone else in her place.

[@highwaytoheaven99]

@@zalox12 "darling" is just a way to refer to people, it doesn't mean I'm annoyed. Its like saying "friend", "bro" or "dude".

[@Oogaway-07]

Honeslty, I'm glad someone said it. I didn't want to be flamed😂. She really is so good and versatile that, if you have her, why wouldn't you use her? if you use other units who most likely don't fill as many roles as she does without wasting more space in your team, it's like shooting yourslef in the foot. I don't have her tho so I can't speak too much anyways.

[@zlightning037]

Ever since I got her she's been in pretty much every single one of my teams. And even though I don't have her legendary light cone I have 230% break effect so she chunks in simulated universe and helps my Jingliu destroy any ice weakness enemy

[@sappy225]

do yall think they will make more and more niche supports like her, like they made robin for follow up attacks and ruan mei for break, maybe a support for dot comps or something

[@sappy225]

a support that makes dot characters crit would be cool, I mean it's already in the divergent universe

[@shenzhoufuhua2445]

At E6 she skyrocketed everything everyone are dps

[@mika086]

10:00 to be fair, there is only 1 subtle detail about when using her burst, which usually is during her turn, and ofc right after you're done setting up everyone else's buffs in that cycle and are ready to strike. (eg jingliu 2 stacks, burst ready). I have a 19% er link and still can't get 100% uptime, so that's how I learned to deal with it (yes, I am HuoHuo-less)

[@raldagameplays1394]

Use meshing cogs or memories of the past S5 for a 3 turn ultimate

[@mika086]

@@raldagameplays1394 i can do that already, 100% uptime means 2 turns

[@AkyJave]

Now i wonder if you're going to make a new video about post PF Herta

[@Truck-kun11]

She remains the same, the only difference is that now there is a game mode made specifically for her and Himeko to be useful.

[@cinnamaricat]

me sitting here with a 185 break effect 149 speed ruan mei who uses meshing cogs: i feel powerful all a sudden

[@totallyahololivesimp]

my ruan mei: spd: 161 BE: 258 😂

[@ArchonKujo]

All I can say is that Ruan Mei can Ruin Me any day

[@illmentaly]

😭😭😭💀💀💀💀😭😭😭😭

[@haveagoodday7021]

I remember when people downplayed her before her release, now look at her.

[@shironasama0445]

The Kazuha of Star Rail probably

[@LeoLikesLamb]

Your videos butter My biscuits thank you

[@PandaPlayzPokemon]

The fact you can also use her technique and just basically insta clear sim makes her even better for lazy people like me 😂

[@sageofsixpaths8392]

Sparkle and Robin video coming next 😂😅

[@venator_draw7053]

Ruan Mei is so good that the other team that i dont have her in is basically the hard part of MoC and Pure Fiction, also, i pulled her Lightcone and its now a SP emergency generator as well, she is just bonkers.

[@neoinfinity5204]

It’s surprising we have a character like her so early it’s like Nahida or even Furina getting released a year sooner which is big for free and low spenders.

[@ochayta]

Noticed recently that I use guides to replace thinking, so I forget altogether what exactly the character can do after I understand what stats they need -_- So videos like this one help a lot! I finally understand why Mei deals additional damage when the enemies' weaknesses get broken heh

[@RaffoPhantom]

Or in the words of Venom: (S)he's got shit you've never seen.

[@bjornnilsson2941]

I find it interesting that there's always an out for every character if you don't have the will or ability to pull their signature light cone. In most cases though it does mean you have to get S5 of a gacha only light cone. Ruan Mei with MotP, Sparkle with DDD, Kafka and Acheron with GNSW, and many more. Well luckily we have the SU lightcones which are also very strong, nearly competitive with signature lightcones in some cases. I just feel so lucky I've S5's all the aforementioned ones because I've only ever been able to get 2 signatures, Jingliu and Dr. Ratio, and I still feel like I have plenty of options for all my characters.

[@TKWLPR]

I lost every 50/50 in Honkai Star Rail. Including Ruan Mei. I don’t have her all because of Bailu. I have terrible luck

[@gym4379]

Am so sorry spreading more luck 🤞🏽

[@MrGoldenChocobo]

"If in the future we have units whose DPS scales off break effect..." I can't believe you forgot Space Katheryne like that. The disrespect.

[@Airahn]

Mine has 240 break effect at base, not counting the +20% break effect bonus trace, and damn does it hurt when I break a shield, I pretty often one-shot the first phase of a simulated boss thanks to her

[@neoonetwoseven]

My fave aspect of Ruan Mei is in SU when she uses her technique to obliterate mobs in one go. I’ve gone as high as 600k dmg just from initiating battle with blessings to help. And her technique doesn’t discriminate on weakness type too cause every enemy is ice weak to her

[@RickyStalker-k9x]

I got so much Break effect substat pieces, my Ruan Mei was built before I even pulled her 🥲🥲🥲

[@YourIngrownToenail]

she's the closest thing we have to an archon version of HSR. she's literally trying to ascend as an Aeon.

[@xenoemblem7]

The closest thing to an Archon is emanators lorewise, but gameplay wise it might be different.

[@rossalbertdelacruz6751]

If i remember correctly, the list of Emanators that are playable ( correct me if im wrong): Herta Ruan Mei Jing Yuan Dan Heng (Dan Feng/Imbibitor Lunae)

[@xenoemblem7]

@@rossalbertdelacruz6751 sorry but Ruan Mei ain't one.

[@janablom823]

46% from set, 20% from A2, 37% from minor traces, 65% from rope. you can hit 168 break effect without a single substat or lightcone. The idea that it is somehow hard to hit 180 is absurd.

[@Godsthetics]

"She's the best unit to use in simulated universe" It's very good that you got this video out before the livestream tomorrow. Would be a hassle to change that script again😊

[@TheAnaz41745]

Ruan Mei is still the best in SU, since Acheron's instant kill doesn't work on bosses, just the wandering mobs

[@Godsthetics]

@TheAnaz41745 Idk maybe if the bosses take long to kill. Most die in 1 attack into ult making whatever damage RM did, not much time saved compared to not even entering the battle 7 times. But hey I'll use both so idm

[@balthus9265]

She’s in my team since I pulled for her almost 100% of the time. Flexible, useful, beautiful and powerful.

[@recxiemackie3372]

I will NEVER forgive Yanqing for sniping my Ruan Mei and Black Swan 50/50's.

[@zavierlaw3871]

One point to note, the toughness shred only works in simulated universe

[@meliodad2422]

? the weakness break efficiency? it works on normal game as well

[@magnaortusars3342]

OP is referring to the instant shield shred when entering battle after using her technique, regardless of enemy typing. That only works in SU.​@@meliodad2422

[@Warmness]

@@meliodad2422On simulated universe with enough blessings Ruan Mei automatically breaks the weakness at the beginning of the battle.

[@ofox716]

Ive found a universal team core is RM, Sparkle, and Fu Xuan Dps varies based on type effectiveness on the enemy. I usually use Xueyi though for the universal toughness bar damage

[@AristineSilvanus]

She is someone that can be compared to Furina or Kazuha (which is much closer to her). Kazuha gives dmg bonus based on his EM while Ruan Mei does the same based on Break Effect Kazuha does swirl damage while Ruan Mei does Ice Break Damage Kazuha, since he is anemo, can equip 4pc VV and res shred while Ruan Mei also does the same on her Ult. Kazuha makes overworld a breeze while Ruan Mei makes SU a breeze. However, unlike Kazuha, Ruan Mei can be used on any teams. Its like, can u imagine, if u can use Kazuha on Bloom teams and shred dendro res? Now that I think about it, Ruan Mei can also be compared to Nahida who is wearing 4pc deepwood as a way to justify being the BiS support on DoT teams. I myself run a slow Ruan Mei on vonwaq (120 spd with 260% break effect) and for 0-cycle runs, its so good. This is why I would say Ruan Mei is the best character in the game. She literally can be used to any team, SP positive, easy to build (literally can run Break effect rope and use 2pc vonwaq with 120 spd and u are gucci), easy to play and well, she speed runs SU. Out of the topic, but, I have seen E6 Ruan Mei gameplays and dear god, even your sustains can become main dpses. Like imagine doing 350k Ice break damage on a single enemy with ur supports/sustain, that is a very significant amount of damage for the entire team. I am considering getting her E6 on her rerun so good luck to me i guess.

[@sennko7898]

Haven't watched but I'd say it's because it's easier to list what she *doesnt* do instead of what she does

[@bandi642]

she literally has everything in her kit to be able to be slot in every team possible the only general thing she could buff is attack but it would affect blade, and there will probably be more hp scaling dps on the future

[@anagramhound]

She's a super cracked support on DoT team, been enjoying Kafka DoT team lately cuz of her, sad that I had to skip Black Swan though. My only problem is that I'm also a Jingliu main so I want (NEED) a second Ruan Mei 😂

[@ParadiceLost]

She's the only character in the game that I felt like I HAD to get. No debate. I usually only pull on characters that I think look cool but she was the first character I felt was a must-pull.

[@xenoemblem7]

Were you not able to clear MoC without her?

[@ParadiceLost]

@@xenoemblem7 Honestly without her I wasn't able to do it.

[@xenoemblem7]

​@@ParadiceLostskillissue

[@Josh-qt5zi]

Next thing I know there be why everyone play Jingliu,Fu Xuan What happens to Topaz and Seele

[@NerdishGeekish]

If hoyo adds a relic set or LC in the future that LOWERS speed as a drawback, Ruan Mei would be one of those characters that actually benefits from lower speed.

[@KARTAVYAPANDEY-ez8ri]

There is ONE team that does not want Ruan Mei, which is Clara hyper carry. Her enemy delay directly inhibits Clara's dps by reducing the amounts of actions they take.

[@KARTAVYAPANDEY-ez8ri]

@XochiMictlan I guess so🤷. But at the end of the day, if you have Clara in your team, you will probably not want to run Ruan Mei in your team. So.... My point still stands🙂

[@AlwaysThirstys]

@@KARTAVYAPANDEY-ez8ri It's not the worst if each clara bolt oneshots with ruanmeis buffs.

[@wingsofhermes98]

The only weakness i see for ruan mei are weakness break "immune" enemies and by that i mean when an enemy recovers from a break it gets broken again thanks to ruan meis debuff but it mmediately recovers

[@coronadispine]

used up my savings i promised myself i wouldn’t use and got her to e1s1. she’s still incredible and makes divergent universe a blast.. it was worth it

[@vjukz4427]

Ruan Mei is the best unit in the game so far easily. She fits and does so much for so many teams it’s nuts. They cooked hard with her kit and she’s hot af on top of it all

[@something8886]

"Until they release a dps that scales off break effect" bro dont gloss over my girlie Xueyi😭😭

[@Todomemalesal.]

ruan mei is now my kokomi(in early), i have Ruanmeidependency :(

[@niigolover]

Best support in the entire game. Her eidolons are absolutely INSANE.

[@akarial2713]

Everyday I am reminded that ruan mei refused to come home after 160 (painfully obtained) wishes...

[@callmeandoru2627]

I really don’t like Ruan Mei’s kit as it violates pretty much every single game design constraint the game has(shoving everything possible into one button isn’t interesting game design). Plus it doesn’t reflect her lore in anyway. But damn she’s hot, and her lore is probably one of the best in the game.

[@akhsanarrazi7825]

This hurts me even more by the fact that i could've get her if i wanted to since i lost 50/50 on huo huo to yanqing and have tons of stellar jades saved.

[@zalfareza8463]

the real reason why she is the best support is because both ruan and sparkle has one of the most broken eidolon and kit in the game for ruan mei her e1 makes her ignore 20% def and e2 sparkle ignore 24% this stack if i remember and since this is not a debuff on the enemy on gamemode like moc and pure fiction you dont have the problem with like nihility which is you need to reapply debuff/defense down and also that 25% all type res is good because any enemy have a -20% damage to all element that they're not weak to (on some cases -40% like gepard/cocolia ice res) and you also need to put in mind the -10% damage when they are not weakness broken, finally one of the best thing when having ruan mei is using her on SU and finding a ruan mei part 1 and 2 occurences because normally you can only pick one option for example ruan mei part 1, 2000 cosmic fragment or every blessing for a certain path, but if you're using ruan mei a 3rd option unlock and you will get both fragment and blessing. so yeah both her and sparkle is a harmony/nihility unit but ruan mei is more universal

[@cheshiretiger5698]

"If we get a unit whos dmg scales off break effect...." Xueyi: 👁👄👁

[@GGiGotHydra]

Im calling out next one will be either Jingliu or Acheron (overworld farming stonks go crazy)

[@anyaaa2801]

I got RM then her E1 came right after within 30 pulls. This is probably the luckiest I’ve ever been. She is completely absurd. Probably the most powerful support in the game and I say this as someone who has trash gear on her lol.

[@autumnsphere7581]

I got her weapon in 20 pulls. But got her after losing 50/50 to gepard or whats the name of the frost guy with shield 😅

[@anyaaa2801]

@@autumnsphere7581 Congrats 🎊. Ngl I didn’t think I was going to win the 50/50. I was already preparing to lose it but to my surprise, the harmony symbol showed up 😌. I can already feel a huge difference in combat with her.

[@autumnsphere7581]

@@anyaaa2801 thats the best when you get it when you least expect it… i havent tried her yet, havent prepared any materials to lvl up but i cant wait to try her out! She seems to fit almost every team comp

[@brycecai4700]

In 1.6 I lost her 50/50 to Bronya, then at her 2.3 rerun, I got Bronya again I feel like the harmony icon is mocking me at this point( ･᷄ὢ･᷅ )

[@paulomalley3211]

I think she has for competition 100% pick ban rate which for a game even in its infancy is actually insane, not only that but an 80-85% win rate (this is being generous) which makes the pick ban phenomenon causation not correlation

[@douglanmar]

In august: What Happened To Ruan Mei?

[@AbdoCh-t8l]

August of 2025 maybe. She wont get powercreeped any time soon.

[@zachshield5187]

My dream team is Fu Xuan, Sam, Ruan Mei and Huohuo when Sam comes out

[@cynical_perks8725]

The only reason i don't use Ruan Mei is that Bailu came home instead.

[@sombraelerizo]

I was gonna skip her, because I wanted to pull Black Swan and I was a 10-pull away from a 5*, and I didn't know how good she was. I pulled her on an impulse trying to attract some of that New Year's luck. Now I keep watching these videos that tell me how MUCH I lucked out and that skipping her would've been terrible. Worth it.

[@tartaglia.]

I have 200+ break effect without the set or her weapon, and I don’t even have all of the break traces unlocked

[@minthantmaung8643]

2:29 buffing the enemy team 💀 also 3:24 we already have xueyi, who is break effect scaling

[@hailthequeenFM]

Xueyi is a DPS, not a support.

[@justahooman0ntheplanet]

I want a harmony who buffs enemy team

[@minthantmaung8643]

@hailthequeenFM well he said whose dps scales off break effect not supportive capabilities

[@lonelybug_1269]

​@@justahooman0ntheplanetboothil is not harmony, but i think he can buff the enemy

[@hailthequeenFM]

thanks for clarifying what you meant. I misunderstood what you meant.@@minthantmaung8643

[@nat6lbg440]

I was lucky and got her E2, aside from crit she litterally gives every single buffs in the game TEAMWIDE while delaying enemies and doing some damage. For a DPS like Jingliu who has insane self crit buffs it's too strong.

[@christophermoody8672]

There is ONE archetype that she hinders by existing, those that rely on breaks or toughness damage to do their damage. Right now thats basically just xueyi and himeko but this will expand over time

[@usmanya5110]

oh man now it's crazy.

[@7Clover]

Basically HSR's Kazuha (from Genshin).

[@yunireiv7672]

Im shocked the first episode of the HSR everyone plays isn't JingLiu

[@jasonbraza9517]

Yeah, but my Ruan Mei is still unbuilt in terms of relics 40 trailblaze power is a bit high price especially my rolls in HSR are way worse than my Genshin account. Trailblaze power is also used to level up the traces. My Ruan Mei is still crap because of it and I'm not building anyone yet.

[@theampeel]

Who you're doing next? I'd like Fu Xuan which I'm planning on pulling on her rerun

[@fancymustache3793]

"If we get a dps that scales off break effect" Xueyi is crying rn

[@rossalbertdelacruz6751]

And another Break Effect scaler that is not a dps, Gallagher

[@fancymustache3793]

@@rossalbertdelacruz6751 well hes not out yet so he cant speak on gal yet cjz thats leaks rn

[@KraizenFaraway]

She has Overloaded Buffs and HUGE "Personality". What more do you want? She's truly the Kazuha of Honkai Star Rail.

[@ramen_9588]

Ruan Mei is basically the Kazuha and Furina of Star Rail. Unconditional Damage Boost, Weakness Break Efficiency, Speed Boost, Break Damage Boost, Damage Dealing from breaks and Hindering enemy turns

[@Truck-kun11]

I would say the only difference is that Kazuha and Furina have limitations that balance them and prevent them from being used for absolutely everything while Ruan Mei is just pure power without any conditions or limitations.

[@ramen_9588]

@@Truck-kun11 agree 100%

[@sabotagge9155]

Shes amazing and while completly pasive the most fun support. I would rather go for E1 instead of her signature, it looks sick. Lets see how she fares against Robin, I hope she is a sidegrade, maybe RM for dot and Robin for follow up or crit scalling double dps.

[@AeonicArc]

Okay everyone let’s say it together. “Ruan Mei? More like Ruin Me!” Yes I agree all of us would love her to ruin us

[@ryusorata]

Tl,dr She is op!

[@Anone_Anone]

I had one support ruan mei E5S5 that make my life easier