Honkai: Star Rail
OverviewEden of Gaming covers Honkai: Star Rail, HoYoverse's turn-based space-fantasy RPG. This EOG.GG hub is the whole package for the Version 4.3 meta: the character tier list across every Path, the best teams, an interactive world atlas, a Warp pity tracker with real 50/50 odds, the Trailblaze Power planner, a relic scorer, live codes, and a full systems guide.
Honkai: Star Rail is the most polished turn-based gacha on the market, and the 4.x Planarcadia arc is its most confident. The Path and Break systems give team-building real depth, HoYo's generosity keeps pity within reach, and the endgame rotation stays fresh every patch. EOG's read: if you want a story-first, build-deep gacha you can play at your own pace, this is the flagship.
Live right now · 4.3 The Lethe Below the Living
Banners · Phase 2, June 24 to July 14, 2026
Featured events
Next up. Version 4.4 opens July 14 with the Fate/stay night collaboration. Part 2 on July 24 brings Rin Tohsaka and Gilgamesh, plus a free collab character choice.
Game at a glance
How it plays
Nine Paths, seven elements
Every character follows a Path (Destruction, Hunt, Erudition, Harmony, Nihility, Preservation, Abundance, and the newer Remembrance and Elation) that sets their role, and an element that decides which enemies they can Break.
Weakness Break
Hit an enemy's weakness to drain Toughness. At zero it is Weakness Broken: it takes Break damage, that element's status effect, and a delayed turn. Break damage cannot crit and scales with Break Effect, which is a whole build path of its own.
Light Cones and Relics
Light Cones are Path-locked weapons that only give their full passive to a matching Path. Relics are your gear: Cavern 4-piece sets plus Planar 2-piece Ornaments, each with a main stat and four substats leveled to +15.
Trailblaze Power and endgame
Trailblaze Power is the daily stamina you spend on relic and material domains. Endgame rotates Memory of Chaos, Pure Fiction, Apocalyptic Shadow, and the permanent Anomaly Arbitration, now with a harder Starward layer for extra jade.
What is in this hub
Tier List
Every character ranked for the 4.3 meta by role, T0 through T2, with an interactive Tier List Maker you can copy and share.
Best Teams
The top 4.3 comps, from the Remembrance Quantum bomb and Phainon hypercarry to Firefly Super-Break and a full F2P shell.
Tools
World Atlas, Banner Timeline, Warp Pity Tracker, Trailblaze Power Planner, Relic Scorer, a Break and Paths reference, Codes, and a Daily Planner.
Guides
Exhaustive EOG guides: beginner and progression, reroll, relics and stats, the endgame modes, and Warp pull planning.
By the numbers
Honkai: Star Rail crossed 2 billion dollars in lifetime mobile revenue in 2025 and holds a generally-favorable 81 on PC Metacritic, with The Game Awards Best Mobile Game to its name. Figures cross-checked against Sensor Tower and Metacritic.
What's new
Character Tier List
EOG analysis for the Version 4.3 meta, synthesized from Prydwen endgame averages and cross-checked against Game8. Honkai: Star Rail is a turn-based game, so a team is a DPS plus the right amplifiers and a sustain. 5-stars are rated at E0 with their signature Light Cone. Every unit listed clears current content; tiers rank how efficiently, not what is usable.
PhainonNew
Transforming Amphoreus-finale hypercarry with a massive burst state.
CastoriceNew
HP-drain Memosprite DPS that summons the Netherwing.
Acheron
Ultimate-nuke hypercarry, wants a full debuffer shell.
Firefly
Super-Break king. Dominates Fire-weak Pure Fiction and Apoc Shadow.
The HertaNew
Top Erudition wave-clear for Pure Fiction.
FeixiaoNew
Best single-target Hunt DPS, follow-up focused.
EvanesciaNew
New Elation self-synergy DPS from the anniversary patch.
MydeiNew
HP-scaling self-sustain bruiser.
AnaxaNew
AoE Erudition that applies random weakness.
AglaeaNew
Memosprite follow-up DPS, the first Remembrance carry.
AshveilNew
New single-target Hunt DPS from 4.1.
Mortenax BladeNew
4.3 debut. DoT and vulnerability bruiser-support hybrid.
Boothill
Break single-target specialist.
Rappa
Break-AoE powerhouse for Pure Fiction.
ArcherNew
Fate collab single-target Hunt carry.
SaberNew
Fate collab Destruction carry.
Jingliu
Legacy Ice hypercarry, still clears.
Yunli
Counter and follow-up carry.
Dan Heng IL
SP-hungry single-target nuker.
Dr. Ratio
Follow-up single-target Hunt DPS.
Seele
Extra-turn single-target carry.
Blade
HP-drain Destruction carry.
Jade
Follow-up Erudition DPS and debt collector.
Jing Yuan
Lightning-Lord summon AoE.
Topaz & Numby
Follow-up sub or main, core to FUA teams.
Argenti
Flexible AoE and single-target Erudition.
Himeko
Follow-up AoE, a Pure Fiction niche pick.
Clara
Counter DPS, outclassed but usable.
Qingque
4-star gambling AoE carry.
Xueyi
4-star Break Destruction.
Herta
Free 4-star AoE, great early.
Tap a unit, then tap a tier to rank it. Load the EOG tiers to start from our ranking.
Unranked
Best Teams
Honkai: Star Rail teams are four units: a DPS, one or two amplifiers, and a sustain. These are the strongest 4.3 cores for the current endgame. If you are missing a piece, most of them work with a free 4-star sustain like Gallagher.
CastoriceC
CyreneH
HyacineT
TribbieFull Remembrance HP-drain nuke. Cyrene is non-negotiable for Castorice.
PhainonS
SundayC
CerydraA
AventurineBuffs his transformed AoE burst state to the ceiling.
FeixiaoR
RobinTTopaz & NumbyL
LingshaStacks follow-up attacks for rapid single-target kills.
FireflyT
Trailblazer (Harmony)F
FugueG
GallagherSuper-Break stunlock against Fire-weak content.
AcheronJ
JiaoqiuP
PelaAAventurineA three-debuffer shell to fuel her Ultimate nukes.
KafkaB
Black SwanH
HysilensH
HuohuoDetonate stacked DoTs. Strong in debuff-friendly Pure Fiction.
The HertaAAnaxaSSundayHHuohuoTop AoE wave-clear for Pure Fiction cycles.
PhainonT
TingyunTTrailblazer (Harmony)GGallagherA verified full-clear budget shell built from free and 4-star units.
Tools
Interactive tools that turn the EOG guides into action: explore and track the worlds in the Atlas, plan your pulls in the Warp Pity Tracker, never overflow the Trailblaze Power Planner, judge any drop in the Relic Scorer, grab free Stellar Jade in the Codes Tracker, plan your week in the Daily Planner, or jump to curated community tools.
EOG Tool
Interactive World Atlas
Every explorable world in one view, from the Astral Express to Planarcadia. Tap a world for its sub-areas, bosses, treasure-enemy type, and what to farm. Filter by story band and track what you have cleared.
Early region · Your home base
Astral Express
Interstellar train · Hub: The Parlor Car
A hub rather than an explorable zone. Manage your team, talk to the crew, and jump to any unlocked world from the map.
Your crew and your home. The train that carries the Trailblazer between worlds.
Key areas
Collectibles
No open-world collectibles here. This is where you build teams and set off between worlds.
Farm here
Activities
Not a farm zone. Use the map here to fast-travel to any world you have unlocked.
Map markers, what every pin means
Navigation
Space Anchor. Fast-travel point. Sync it to add it to the world map.
Readable. Data bank or note that fills in the world lore.
Combat
Formidable Foe. Open-world elite with an achievement and good drops.
Echo of War. Weekly boss. Costs 30 Trailblaze Power, drops trace and Light Cone mats.
Cavern of Corrosion. Relic domain. The main daily Trailblaze Power sink.
Stagnant Shadow. Ascension-material domain, one per character element.
Calyx. Trace or credit domain for fast material farming.
Treasure
Chest. Basic, Bountiful, or Precious. Each holds jade or materials.
Treasure enemy. Warp Trotter, Lordly Trashcan (Penacony), Spirithief (Amphoreus), or Furbobo (Planarcadia). Kill it for jade.
Collectible. Region-specific pickups: Memory Shards, Stickers, and Collection Codes.
Puzzles and activities
Puzzle. Each world has its own set, from Unearthly Marvel to Shiftmation.
Minigame. World activities like the Trotter Trove, card battles, and the Star Rabbit.
An EOG stylized atlas for planning where to go and what to farm, not a pixel-accurate pin map. World data is compiled from the Game8 interactive-map hub and world guides, cross-checked with the Fandom wiki. For exact pin coordinates of every chest, Warp Trotter, and puzzle, open the Game8 map alongside this planner.
EOG Tool
Banner & Patch Timeline
The live 4.3 to 4.4 schedule: banners, events, endgame resets, and the next patch. Countdowns update as you read.
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Patch
Version 4.3: The Lethe Below the Living ended 33d 14h ago
May 31 -
Banner
4.3 Phase 2: Cyrene and Phainon reruns ended 9d 14h ago
Jun 24 -
Reset
Memory of Chaos cycle reset in 2d 9h
Jul 6 -
Event
Realm of the Strange ends (double Cavern relics) in 9d 9h
Jul 13 -
Patch
Version 4.4: Fate/stay night collaboration in 10d 9h
Jul 14 -
Event
Pixel Plane Rumble and Wispae Amusement Park end in 11d 9h
Jul 15 -
Reset
Apocalyptic Shadow cycle reset in 16d 9h
Jul 20 -
Banner
4.4 Phase 2: Rin Tohsaka and Gilgamesh in 20d 9h
Jul 24
Dates are cross-checked against HoYoverse official and Game8 and reflect the Americas server. Countdowns update live. Livestream and event dates can shift by a day between regions.
EOG Tool
Warp Pity Tracker
Base 5-star rate is 0.6%, climbing sharply once soft pity kicks in at 74 and guaranteed at 90. Enter your pity and saved Stellar Jade to see your real odds and how far you are from a guaranteed featured copy.
You can afford 0 warps (0 warps + 0 Stellar Jade). 180 short of the guarantee.
Odds use a soft-pity ramp model, so they are a close estimate, not the exact hidden table. The 50/50 means your first 5-star has a 50% chance of being the featured 5-star; lose it and the next 5-star is a guaranteed featured copy. 160 Stellar Jade equals one warp.
EOG Tool
Trailblaze Power Planner
Trailblaze Power caps at 300 and regenerates 1 point every 6 minutes. Enter what you have to see when it fills and how many runs you can afford, so you never overflow the cap.
Each Fuel restores 60 Trailblaze Power. Spend it before it overflows: capped regen is the single biggest daily loss for free-to-play accounts.
EOG Tool
Relic Scorer
Not sure whether to level a relic, hold it, or feed it? Answer these and get the EOG verdict, using the standard relic-economy rules: right main stat first, then substats, then whether it beats what you have equipped.
Is the main stat right for the slot and your build?
How many useful substats did it roll with?
Is it an upgrade over your equipped relic?
Are you short on upgrade materials right now?
Answer every question for the EOG verdict on the relic.
EOG Tool
Break, Elements & Paths
The quick reference: what each element does on Weakness Break, and what the nine Paths do.
Elements and Weakness Break
Break inflicts Bleed: damage over time scaling with the target max toughness.
Break inflicts Burn: steady fire damage over time.
Break Freezes the target: it cannot act and takes delayed damage.
Break inflicts Shock: lightning damage over time.
Break stacks Wind Shear: damage over time that can stack multiple times.
Break Entangles: delayed damage that scales with hits taken, plus action delay.
Break Imprisons: action delay and reduced SPD.
The nine Paths
Self-sustaining damage dealers with AoE and single-target flexibility.
Burst single-target killers, often with follow-up attacks.
Wave-clear specialists that shine in Pure Fiction.
Amplifiers: damage buffs, action advance, and energy.
Debuffs and damage-over-time, the core of DoT and Acheron teams.
Shielders and tanks that keep the team alive.
Healers and cleansers for sustained fights.
Deploys Memosprites, independent summoned allies (added 3.0).
Generates Punchlines and triggers the Aha Instant for bonus damage (added 4.0).
Break damage cannot crit and ignores generic damage-percent boosts; it scales with the target max toughness and your Break Effect stat. Hitting an enemy weakness is what drains toughness, so match your team elements to the content.
EOG Tool
Codes Tracker
Tap any code to copy it. Livestream codes expire within a day or two, so redeem the active ones early for free Stellar Jade.
How to redeem
- Open the official HoYoverse redemption site, or the in-game menu on Android.
- Log in and pick your server and character.
- Paste the code and confirm.
- Claim the rewards from your in-game mail.
Codes found July 3, 2026. Version livestream codes expire within a day or two, so redeem early. iOS players must use the website. Cross-check the live list against Game8 or Mobalytics before relying on it.
EOG Tool
Daily & Weekly Planner
The repeatable content worth clearing, with the Trailblaze-Power-capped sources first. Tick items off as you go.
Daily
0 / 4 doneWeekly
0 / 4 doneTicks save in this browser only. The game does not reset them for you, so hit reset after the daily and weekly resets.
Beyond EOG
Community Tools & Resources
The best external references worth bookmarking alongside the EOG hub. They open in a new tab.
The reference character and Light Cone rankings, with per-unit build pages and endgame usage rates.
Game8 Interactive MapGame8The pixel-accurate pin map: every chest, Warp Trotter, puzzle, and Space Anchor across all seven worlds.
HoYoLABHoYoverseThe official companion app: the Interknot event calendar, redemption codes, and Trailblaze Power check-in.
Relic ScorerGame8Relic main and substat priorities, roll-value scoring, and the best sets per character.
Fandom WikiFandomDeep character, Light Cone, relic, and world database maintained by the community.
Official SiteHoYoverseVersion news, the official redemption-code page, and event announcements.
Guides
The exhaustive EOG guides for the Version 4.3 meta: a day-one roadmap, reroll advice, the relic and stat priorities, the endgame breakdown, and how to plan your Warp pity. Pick a guide below.
The day-one roadmap: what to build first, how to spend energy, and the milestones that unlock the rest of the game.
Your first week
Push the Trailblaze Mission (the main story) hard. It unlocks nearly every system, region, and free character in the game, and it hands out the bulk of your early Stellar Jade. Everything else is secondary until the story opens it up.
Pick one Main DPS and commit. Spreading materials across three half-built carries is the most common beginner mistake. Level one DPS, one sustain, and one support to your world level, and the early game falls over.
What to level, in order
- Character level and ascension to the current cap, on your main DPS first.
- The DPS basic, skill, ultimate, and talent traces. Ult and skill first.
- A Light Cone that matches the DPS Path (a matching Path gives the full passive).
- A simple 2-piece relic set for stats now; chase 4-piece later from Caverns.
- Your sustain and support just enough to survive and buff.
Raise your Equilibrium Level
Equilibrium Level is your account difficulty. Each Trial of Equilibrium raises the enemy level but, crucially, raises the rarity and drop tier of relics, Light Cones, and materials. Do them as they unlock. Farming relics below Equilibrium 6 is a waste; the good sub-stats start higher up.
Spend Trailblaze Power daily
Trailblaze Power caps at 300 and refills 1 point every 6 minutes, so it fills from empty in 30 hours. Overflow banks into Reserved Trailblaze Power (cap 2,400, slower regen), but the golden rule stands: log in and spend it before it caps. Early on, split it between the relic Cavern for your DPS and the Stagnant Shadow for ascension gems.
Use the Trailblaze Power Planner in Tools to see exactly when you cap.
Unlock the Simulated Universe
The Simulated Universe is a roguelite mode and the only source of Planar Ornaments (the 2-piece Sphere and Rope relics). It also grants permanent account-wide combat buffs through its Trailblaze Power tree. Clear the early Worlds as soon as they open.
Whether rerolling is worth it in HSR, and the standard-banner units to aim for if you do.
Should you reroll?
Usually not. Warp rates are low, a full reroll takes 1.5 to 2 hours (about 30 to 40 minutes just to unlock warping), and the game front-loads generosity: a guaranteed 5-star from the beginner Departure Warp and a 300-pull selector on the standard banner. For most players, starting a real account beats grinding rerolls.
Reroll only if you specifically want a particular standard 5-star early, or if you enjoy the process. You cannot reroll for the newest limited units anyway; they are not on the beginner banner.
Best standard-banner targets
| Unit | Why |
|---|---|
| Bronya | The only instant extra-turn enabler. Elevates almost any DPS. |
| Bailu | The only in-combat revive healer. Safety net for hard content. |
| Welt | Reliable Imaginary damage and crowd control, ages very well. |
| Himeko / Clara | Serviceable free DPS options if you want a carry now. |
Your free starter team
The Trailblazer, March 7th, Dan Heng, and Asta cover DPS, shield, sub-DPS, and buff out of the box. That team clears everything the early story asks of you, so there is no rush to pull. Save your Jade for a limited unit you actually want.
How relics, Ornaments, and sub-stats work, and the stat priorities that carry every build.
The two relic systems
Cavern Relics are 4-piece sets (Head, Hands, Body, Feet) with 2-piece and 4-piece bonuses, farmed from Caverns of Corrosion. Planar Ornaments are a separate 2-piece set (Planar Sphere and Link Rope) from the Simulated Universe. A finished build runs one Cavern 4-piece and one Ornament 2-piece.
Main stats by slot
| Slot | Main stat |
|---|---|
| Head | Flat HP (fixed). |
| Hands | Flat ATK (fixed). |
| Body | Crit Rate, Crit DMG, ATK%, Effect Hit Rate, or Healing, by role. |
| Feet | SPD for most units, or ATK% for slow bursters. |
| Planar Sphere | Elemental DMG% for a DPS, or ATK%/HP%/DEF% otherwise. |
| Link Rope | Energy Regen for supports, or Break Effect / ATK% for DPS. |
Sub-stat priority
For most damage dealers the order is Crit Rate and Crit DMG (toward a roughly 1:2 ratio), then SPD, then ATK%. Break-effect DPS like Firefly want Break Effect and SPD instead of crit. Supports want SPD and Energy Regen so their buffs and ults come up on time.
Each relic upgrades to +15, rolling a sub-stat every three levels. Use the Relic Scorer in Tools for a quick keep-or-feed verdict before you sink materials.
The SPD breakpoints
Speed is the most valuable stat in the game because it buys extra turns. Common targets are 134, 140, and 160 SPD depending on the unit and team. Even a few points of SPD can flip a turn order in your favor, so a SPD boot or a couple of SPD rolls often beats a small crit gain.
The four rotating endgame modes, what each rewards, and how to build for them.
The rotation
Endgame runs on a roughly six-week cadence with three-week refreshes. The four modes reward Stellar Jade and materials, and Version 4.3 added a harder Starward layer on top of three of them for 100 extra Jade per full clear.
The four modes
| Mode | Tests |
|---|---|
| Memory of Chaos | Two half-teams of four. Single-target and mixed DPS against elites and bosses. |
| Pure Fiction | Wave clear. Rewards AoE and follow-up units. Debuff-heavy buff cycles. |
| Apocalyptic Shadow | Boss burst and Break. Rewards Break Effect and toughness-draining teams. |
| Anomaly Arbitration | A permanent roster-depth mode. Needs 12 to 15 built characters. |
How to prepare
- Read the cycle buff. Each mode publishes a buff that favors a play style; build around it.
- You need two capable teams for Memory of Chaos and Pure Fiction, not one super-team.
- Break Effect investment pays off in Apocalyptic Shadow more than anywhere else.
- Roster depth beats a single whale unit for Anomaly Arbitration.
How Warp pity works and how to budget Stellar Jade so you land the units you want.
How pity works
| Banner | Rules |
|---|---|
| Character | 90 hard pity, soft pity from ~74, 50/50 on the featured 5-star. Pity and the guarantee carry between banners. |
| Light Cone | 80 hard pity, soft from ~65, 75/25 in favor of the featured cone. Separate counter. |
| Standard | Its own 90 pity, plus a 300-pull selector for one of seven standard 5-stars. |
Budget before you pull
One Warp costs 160 Stellar Jade, so roughly 14,400 Jade guarantees a 5-star at hard pity, or about 28,800 covers a lost 50/50 into the guarantee. A patch of steady free-to-play income (dailies, events, Simulated Universe, Nameless Honor, the Express Pass, and mail) lands in the 8,000 to 13,000 Jade range, so plan one guaranteed limited unit every one to two patches without spending.
Use the Warp Pity Tracker in Tools to turn your current pity and saved Jade into real odds, and the Pull Planning timeline to see when the units you want arrive.
Discipline rules
- Never pull below hard pity if you are not sure you want the unit; carry-over pity means nothing is wasted by waiting.
- Eidolons and signature Light Cones are luxuries. A unit at E0 with any matching cone is fully functional.
- Skip banners with no roadmap target and bank the Jade. Two-patch saving is how free-to-play accounts stay competitive.
Crew up. Clear the Chaos.
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