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The Best Character Skills In Honkai: Star Rail

  • Mai Hundley
  • Friday, 27 February 2026, 10:44 AM
  • 5 min read

Pela is another unique character at the time of writing this because she is currently the only one who can remove buffs from enemies. Her skill, Frostbite, targets a single enemy dealing frost damage and removing any buff they have. Her damage isn't the best, but you especially want Pela's skill in combat due to how many enemies buff themsel

The confirmed Honkai: Star Rail characters at launch are expected to be the same ones as those featured in the final open beta. In HoYoverse’s press release regarding the release date, there is no mention whatsoever about any new characters being added with the launch, meaning that the game will come out with the same 27 playable heroes it had in its most recent testing period. If there is a plan for a new character release along with the game itself, the developer will likely make an announcement closer to the launch. The most recent characters to be added were Bailu, Yanqing, Qingque, and Ting

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Honkai Star Rail events: Star Rail ’s gameplay is divided into two main instances: exploration and combat. Players will be able to walk around different maps and areas while interacting with NPCs and finding treasures. Additionally, they will also be able to engage in battles against enemies. Turn-based combat is the core of the title’s gameplay. Players will need to build a team of up to four characters and use them to inflict Weakness Break on opponents. This is a status that makes them vulnerable to more damage and unable to act. This is how the previously mentioned Elements come into p

When Bronya uses her normal attack, she bumps up the turn order, bringing her next turn around faster than usual. This talent is a huge part of what makes Bronya's kit so good. She is designed to bring allies' turns closer while pushing the enemy's turn back. Within reason, of course, otherwise, she'd be able to stop the enemies from act

This is an excellent skill because Wind Shear can stack multiple times on each enemy. You may have seen foes do this to you in battle, stacking six instances of the blaze debuff. Now you can do it back to them with Wind Sh

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There's also simply more to do at launch in Honkai: Star Rail than expected. Aside from main story progression, there are a multitude of side quests, dailies, and character-specific story quests. Daily text messages from characters serve to add a bit of the mundane to an otherwise grand scope, with discussions about coffee helping ground the budding relationships as the Astral Express seeks to unseat sinister powers. Options to gather experience & crafting materials opens up early, and there's a familiar Trailblazer Level system that serves to gate content getting harder as players begin to complete more and more adventu

Bronya is another character who has quickly been identified as one of the best in the game as of the global launch. She's a support character, and her skill goes above and beyond. Using Combat Redeployment on an ally dispels one debuff, moves their turn up to act next, and gives them a damage-increasing buff for one t

From the get-go, it's obvious that some of Honkai: Star Rail 's design is informed by lessons that would have been learned from Genshin Impact 's vocal player base. There's no Paimon-style character bumbling through scenes that would otherwise be emotional or intense - the closest thing is Pom-Pom, the Astral Express conductor, whose lack of presence in key plot moments makes them much more palatable when they do inject some humor into the narrat

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