Summary
- DPS units are crucial in Honkai: Star Rail for fast battles, standing out due to high damage output and unique skills.
- Choose DPS units wisely from a diverse roster in the game for maximum efficiency and tailored gameplay experience.
- New characters in updates bring stronger DPS units, requiring a strategic approach to building a powerful team.
As much as the battle mechanics in Honkai: Star Rail revolve around having Supports to carry the team’s utility, DPS units are the ones that get the job done. Without a DPS, players may spend an eternity in a single battle against hard enemies and bosses.
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Stellar Jades is a crucial currency in Honkai: Star Rail as players need them to get new characters in the game.
However, since Honkai: Star Rail has a unique roster of characters, each DPS shines in their own kit while offering their unique specialties and Skills. For players who are looking to build their next DPS unit, here are the best DPS units in Honkai: Star Rail.
Updated on November 2, 2024, by Nahda Nabiilah: DPS units in Honkai: Star Rail are always evolving as the game continues to produce more and more characters. Whether it’s a new DPS or a Support that revives fallen DPS units, there’s always something going on with Honkai’s Meta. Additionally, many new DPS units have different styles and mechanics, adding more fluidity to the game’s combat. With the release of new DPS units, this list will be updated to fix the ranking and include all the new DPS units in Honkai: Star Rail.
20 Yanqing
Overshadowed by Jingliu
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Ice |
Hunt |
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Yanqing is a perfect DPS, mainly because of his ability to greatly increase his CRIT Rate and DMG, which is arguably one of the best features in Honkai: Star Rail. Players can easily stack more CRIT DMG and ATK% on Yanqing to help maximize his damage, since his CRIT Rate buff is enough to maintain solid chances to trigger CRIT on each hit. As a Hunt unit, Yanqing is also fast and can easily take down bosses.
19 Welt
Excellent Sub-DPS
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Imaginary |
Nihility |
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Welt is a great damage dealer/sub-DPS/support. His Skill is a bounce type that can hit one enemy multiple times if there's only one of them (like a boss), which makes him a great Toughness breaker; it also has a chance to slow the target. Meanwhile, Welt's Ultimate deals AoE damage to all enemies with a 100% chance of Imprisoning them. Imprisoning an enemy reduces their SPD by 10% and delays their action by 32% (at Ultimate level 1).
Being an Imaginary character, Welt's main feature revolves around SPD reduction and Imprisoned debuff. Afterward, if Welt hits a Slowed enemy, he will deal additional Imaginary damage. Welt's Technique also Imprisoned and Slowed the enemies, delaying their action by 20%. All in all, Welt is a great damage dealer with great support potential, although not a dedicated DPS like Seele or Dan Heng.
18 Jing Yuan
Wait for his Lightning Lord
Jing Yuan |
Lightning |
Erudition |
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Erudition characters are usually underwhelming in single-target scenarios, but if players know how to properly manage Jing Yuan's stack, they'll find the Luofu General more than capable of performing his job as a DPS in both AoE and single-target cases. Not only that, but thanks to his Lightning Lord's multi-hit, Jing Yuan is also great for triggering Weakness Break in Honkai: Star Rail.
Sadly, although his Lightning Lord excels against single-target, the same can't be said about his Skill and Ultimate. Without a horde of enemies, the damage from these two hits can be rather underwhelming.
17 Seele
Single-target beast
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Quantum |
Hunt |
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Seele is a single-target one-shot-one-kill kind of character in Honkai: Star Rail. What makes her even better is her ability to get another turn every time she takes an enemy down. With this ability and the damage boost she gets from her buffed state, Seele becomes a monster unit that can be useful anytime, anywhere in Honkai: Star Rail.
16 Clara
Protective and offensive
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Physical |
Destruction |
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It’s not enough for Svarog to devastate enemies that attack Clara, it’ll also mark them with the Mark of Counter ability. After that, when players cast Clara’s Skill, Svarog will inflict double the damage to these enemies, truly punishing them for laying hands on Clara. As a Destruction Path unit, Clara is a very defensive unit that can effectively protect her team while dealing decent damage in Honkai: Star Rail.
15 Blade
Incredible self-sustain
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Wind |
Destruction |
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Blade is the best example of how a Destruction character should be. He's an excellent AoE hitter, decent against one enemy, and has mind-blowing survivability. Although Blade's hits would mostly reduce his HP, his Ultimate and follow-up attacks can easily restore them.
Besides this self-sustain, large HP stat, and decent damage, Blade is also very efficient in terms of Skill Points, only needing one SP every three turns. If that's not impressive enough, the Stellaron Hunter also works in a random team and doesn't demand a specific team composition in Honkai: Star Rail.
14 Jingliu
Effortless damage dealing
Jingliu |
Ice |
Destruction |
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Jingliu and Seele are both excellent damage dealers, but Jingliu is better in ideal circumstances. Unlike Seele, who performs excellently even in random teams, Jingliu has more demanding set-ups to fulfill. Additionally, since she's a Destruction character, she's amazing at AoE damage dealing, unlike Seele who's exclusively single-target.
13 Himeko
Limited in single-target
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Fire |
Erudition |
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The navigator of follow-up attacks, Himeko, is a strong Erudition character in Honkai: Star Rail. Himeko’s Talent allows players to benefit from inflicting Weakness Break on enemies by continuously attacking all enemies and dealing Fire damage. Himeko is also capable of dealing one of the highest AoE damage in Honkai: Star Rail with her Ultimate.
The high scaling on her Ultimate and Talent makes her attacks more deadly, especially considering that Himeko’s Base ATK is one of the highest in Honkai: Star Rail. Sadly, Himeko is not viable in most single-target cases, which makes her a poor choice against most bosses.
12 Black Swan
Not just a debuffer
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Wind |
Nihility |
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When Black Swan was announced, most people thought that she'd be an excellent support for Kafka, but Black Swan-havers will tell you that she's as incredible as Kafka, if not better. Black Swan's damage is crazy high, in both AoE and single-target cases. Pair her with a DoT trigger like Kafka, and you'll see chaos from the Emanator of Remembrance.
11 Kafka
Explodes all the DoT
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Lightning |
Nihility |
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Kafka is a Honkai: Star Rail character that plays around DoT. Her main feature lies in her Skill where she can detonate DoTs on enemies without removing the effect, allowing people to abuse it to deal massive damage easily.
However, despite her large damage potential, Kafka is not the easiest character to use. Players must know how to manage Skill Points and properly adjust her SPD on top of having other characters apply DoT to the enemies. Kafka can't be the only DoT enabler as it ruins her entire kit.