Build the strongest team in Honkai Star Rail right now

It's hard to get a good team in Honkai Star Rail PC right from the start. This is because you get random characters by getting them from Warps, in a system similar to other Hoyoverse gacha games like Genshin Impact. However, if you're lucky and get the characters you want the most from Honkai Star Rail's gacha machine , you'll get the best team.

To start, you need a team of four Honkai Star Rail characters to form the strongest Honkai Star Rail squad. You can take inspiration from our Honkai Star Rail tier list to pick your individual members and build a team around them, but don't expect to be able to build it in the free PC game right away. You'll also need to be extremely lucky to pull off the best light cones, as these are your main weapons.

Factors that make a strong team in Honkai Star Rail

Honkai: Star Rail is a game where building a well-rounded team is paramount and you can't just throw high-ranked characters into your team and expect them to perform well.

But synergy between your characters isn't the only thing you need to keep in mind - with the way the game's elemental system works, even if you theoretically build a perfect team full of synergy, it can be difficult to fight a boss when you can't break the toughness bar of the enemies.

Also, since the game doesn't have a timer for each turn or a total match time or turn limit (with one exception), focusing on making sure your team can survive and recover is really important - having the biggest damage dealer in the world won't do anything if the enemy is one-shotting your DPS character.

You just need to focus on 4 important factors you need to consider when building a team:

• Maintenance and recovery - you need a Healer or a Tank on your team or even both. The monsters that attack later will get stronger and since it is a turn-based game, they will take turns and will use their attacks. And if you don't have a way to recover the damage they have done (via Healer) or block the damage (via Tank), the enemy will slowly drain the health of all your team members.
• Synergy - It's not like you can just throw a character in there that you think is lacking. Some characters are simply ineffective or underpowered when you throw them into your team. Clara is a prime example of this as most of her damage comes from Counters and she needs to be hit to activate them. So when you pair her with March 7th and use Shield of "March 7th" on Clara every turn, she'll also be more likely to be hit by enemies.
• Skill Points - To use Skills, you need Skill Points and you generate them by using basic attacks. This means you need to create a balanced team with characters who don't really use their Skills or only use them in specific situations, so that your main damage dealers can use their Skills every turn. This translates to more consistent and superior DPS than just using combos every other turn.
• You don't have to worry much about Skill Point balance early in the game, but this becomes really important later on - especially in the Forgotten Hall.
• Elemental - The elemental system in Honkai: Star Rail is very important and throughout the story you can ignore it and just use it in a team. When you start to engage in a harder fight and Simulated Universe or Forgotten Hall. You will need to rebuild the team focusing on the boss. This is really important because in teams Break is really strong early on because it is much easier to stack the effect to over 200%. So you can do a lot of damage to the boss when breaking the enemy's toughness bar.

Top Best Honkai Star Rail Teams for Beginners

To create an ideal Honkai Star Rail team, you need one or two DPS characters, one or two Harmony/Void party members, and one Protector/Affluence character.

• Dan Heng – Critical Damage > Attack Damage Percentage > Speed ​​> Break
• Serval/Traiblazer – Critical Damage > Attack Damage Percentage > Speed ​​> Break
• Asta – Speed ​​> Break > Critical > Attack %
• March (7th)  – Defense % > Defense > Speed ​​> Effect Resistance

Since you’ll likely get Asta from your first Warp, this combines the best free characters into a team. Dan Heng is your main DPS, and his critical hit slow makes his ultimate all the more deadly. Serval is another slower DPS character, relying on Lightning Bolt damage over time to slowly chip away at your enemies. Asta increases the speed and attack stats of all allies, increasing the damage output of your DPS characters, while March (7th) uses her shield to protect her allies while being able to kill any enemies that attack them.

If you can't get Serval when you pre-register for the game, you can instead put Trailblazer (Fire/Physical) in her place by using Texture of Memories (Premium) or Amber Cone (F2P) and the Knight of Purity Palace or Belobog relic sets from Architects for Relics. Her secondary stats will be distributed as Defense Percentage > Defense > Speed ​​> Skill Effect Resistance.

Somewhere in the middle of the Jarilo-VI storyline, you'll unlock Natasha, who heals your party. You'll really want to get her on your team right away because the game's difficulty will skyrocket as soon as you get Natasha - you'll have a really hard time with the next big boss you'll encounter without Natasha.

Once you complete the final main story mission in Jarilo-VI, you'll unlock the Fire elemental variant of the Protagonist, a Shielder/Taunter/Breaker hybrid. Overall, he's one of the strongest characters in the game, so once you unlock him, you'll want him on your team.

Then your team will look like this:

Your main DPS can be switched based on the opponents you face, if they don't have problems with Wind but are only countered by Lightning for example. Then you can put Serval back in the team. However with Dan Heng and the Fire main character.

The above with 3 defensive support characters is the team build that many people used in the final Beta. While your team is strong enough that you don’t need to worry about the turn limit, playing it safe is actually better than trying to build a damage-heavy team.

How to make the best 4-star Honkai Star Rail team

If you are lucky enough to pull Sushang or Tingyun, your early game will also be much less difficult. Sushang can act as a replacement for Dan Heng when you need a character that can deal physical damage. And Sushang will be the best character to do it, a character that will do well in a Break team.

With Tingyun, you can replace March 7th to buff your carry since Tingyun's buff is quite annoying. You should also note that people like Bronya and Tingyun don't do well early on if your carry doesn't have any stat boosts. But around level 40-50, you can safely use Bronya or Tingyun.

To keep the entire team safe and healthy, Bailu is your main healer and she can even revive a fallen team member in each battle, so you will be completely safe against tough enemies, but make the most of it.

• Seele – Critical Damage > Speed ​​> Attack Damage Percentage > Break
• Bronya – Critical Damage > Speed ​​(after DPS) > Shatter
• Tingyun – Attack Damage Percentage > Speed ​​> Break
• Bailu – Health Percentage > Health > Speed

Basically, to form an ideal Honkai Star Rail team, you need one or two DPS units, one or two Harmony or Void team members, and one Protection or Prosperity team member.

There are only a few team combinations in the latest update for now. In addition to team building, you can see the Honkai Star Rail code. Along with that is the Honkai Star Rail PC configuration and Honkai Star Rail configuration on the phone if you are interested.