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Similar to its predecessors, Honkai: Star Rail will also be a gacha game. This means players will face their typical save-and-wait-for-the-desired-banner struggle, one that can be seen in other HoYoverse games such as Genshin Impact. As always, the gacha will feature one primary 5-star character and some rate-up 4-star units.

Although many more characters are rumored before the game's release, there are only 28 characters that are confirmed by Honkai: Star Rail's final CBT. Here's a full list of all Honkai: Star Rail characters, including their rarity, Element, and Path.

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All 5-Star Characters Rarity, Element, And Paths In Honkai: Star Rail

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There are a total of 15 5-star characters in Honkai: Star Rail, but among them, the Trailblazer can switch Path, which will cause their Element to shift as well.

Character Path Element
Trailblazer Destruction Physical
Trailblazer Preservation Fire
Bailu Abundance Lightning
Blade Destruction Wind
Bronya Harmony Wind
Clara Destruction Physical
Fu Xuan Preservation Quantum
Gepard Preservation Ice
Himeko Erudition Fire
Jing Yuan Erudition Lightning
Kafka Nihility Lightning
Luocha Abundance Imaginary
Seele Hunt Quantum
Silver Wolf Nihility Quantum
Welt Nihility Imaginary
Yanqing Hunt Ice

5-star characters can generally be obtained from the Warp Banner, with the exception of the Trailblazer.

As of the final CBT, seven 5-star units are available from the Standard Banner. Players can also choose any of the seven once they reached 300 pulls on the Standard Banner, but this can only be done once. Each of the seven characters represents a different Path and Element, except for Ice which has two characters, and no Quantum Element:

  • Himeko (Fire, Erudition)
  • Bronya (Wind, Harmony)
  • Welt (Imaginary, Nihility)
  • Gepard (Ice, Preservation)
  • Clara (Physical, Erudition)
  • Yanqing (Ice, Hunt)
  • Bailu (Lightning, Abundance)

All 4-Star Characters Rarity, Element, And Paths In Honkai: Star Rail

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There are fewer 4-star characters in Honkai: Star Rail, with only 13 of them available.

Character

Path

Element

Arlan

Destruction

Lightning

Asta

Harmony

Fire

Dan Heng

Hunt

Wind

Herta

Erudition

Ice

Hook

Destruction

Fire

March 7th

Preservation

Ice

Natasha

Abundance

Physical

Pela

Nihility

Ice

Qingque

Erudition

Quantum

Sampo

Nihility

Wind

Serval

Erudition

Lightning

Sushang

Hunt

Physical

Tingyun

Harmony

Lightning

Among the 4-star characters, half of them are given for free in the final CBT. This includes Dan Heng, March 7th, Asta, Herta, Natasha, Qingque, and Serval. However, while the rest are not freebies, players can still get them in the monthly shop, which has a similar system to the Genshin Impact Paimon Shop.

To buy a character from the shop, players have to save the Genshin Impact equivalent of "Starglitter" currency, which means getting a 4-star or higher drop is required. Of course, players will also be able to use the currency to get more pulls on the gacha banner, so it's up to Trailblazers how they'll manage their currency.

Honkai: Star Rail is currently in development for Android, iOS, and PC, with the game being expected to release in spring 2023, most likely on April 26.

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