Honkai: Star Rail - The Best Team Comps For New Players

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is the newest title in the series, sending players into the stars with a cast of delightful and wonderfully designed characters. Each of these characters fits into a Path, the game's term for a character class, and a Type, which defines an Elemental basis for their powers. New players will need to make the most out of their starter characters for strong team comps.

There are seven Paths available to different characters in upon launch: The Destruction, The Hunt, The Erudition, The Harmony, The Nihility, The Preservation, and The Abundance. The first three are all DPS roles. The Harmony buffs heroes, The Nihility debuffs enemies, The Preservation shields heroes, while The Abundance is the healer role. There are also seven Types: Physical, Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Quantum, and Imaginary.

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This article assumes that you are starting your adventure when the game launches on April 26, 2023. As such, the characters mentioned in potential team comps are all free characters available to all players or given as a launch reward (such as Serval). Certain details may change between the publication of this guide and 's release.

is set to launch with twenty-seven known collectible characters. Out of those twenty-seven, eight will be free to players. These eight characters are the Trailblazer, March 7th, Dan Heng, Asta, Serval, Herta, Natasha, and Qingque. The Trailblazer is similar to the Traveler's changing Elements in , HoYoVerse's other successful title, in that they can switch between Paths and Types. Their current known forms include a Physical/Destruction form and a Fire/Preservation form.

A basic team comp in typicallyincludes two DPS units, one