Honkai: Star Rail: Character Tier List and Best Characters

S Tier

• Bailu: A capable healer, Bailu can recover the first knocked out teammate in your party and can also buff allies with her special to ensure they recover health when hit.
• Bronya: A capable support character, Bronya can dispel debuffs and boost damage while her ultimate powers up your entire team for two turns.
• Gepard: A strong shielder, Gepard can protect your entire team with his ultimate, safeguarding them with an extremely high absorption shield.
• Seele: A powerful offensive character, Seele is unstoppable in one-on-one situations and can earn additional turns for each knockout she earns.
• Tingyun: A good support option, Tingyun can boost damage and restore energy on a single ally, meaning she complements a strong attacker well.

• Clara: A capable counter-attack character, Clara can draw the attention of enemies, shielding herself from their attacks and punching back when allies are hit.
• Pela: A deadly debuffer, Pela is able to successfully reduce the defence of enemies, meaning she pairs well with big hitters who can follow-up with huge damage.
• Sushang: A decent physical damage dealer, Sushang is at her most powerful when you're effectively able to break the weaknesses of foes.
• Trailblazer (Fire): A total tank, Trailblazer (Fire) can draw the damage of enemies and effectively soak it all up, while also providing valuable shields to allies.
• Welt: A decent debuffer who can slow down enemies, providing more powerful teammates with more and more turns to dish out damage.
• Yanqing: An impressive ice dealer with good critical damage, Yanqing can dish it out in one-on-one encounters.

• Arlan: A good lightning damage dealer that's particularly useful in the early parts of the campaign, he can use HP instead of skill points to use his abilities.
• Asta: A good support character that can increase the team's speed, Asta can also use her passive to buff the attack of teammates depending on how many enemies she's hit.
• Dan Heng: A decent enough damage dealer, Dan Heng pairs well with speed debuffers like Welt.
• Himeko: A good fire damage dealer who excels when enemies are broken, Himeko has relatively decent AoE abilities but there are better options.
• Hook: A fire damage dealer that can target both single and multiple enemies, Hook and Himeko are largely interchangeable depending on who you pull.
• March 7th: Able to consistently preserve the HP of allies, March 7th doesn't have much attacking prowess but can effectively extend skirmishes.
• Natasha: A healer with low energy requirements, Natasha can be pretty effective at restoring the HP of your entire party and removing debuffs.
• Trailblazer (Physical): Can dish out some decent physical damage, but there are better more effective options, like Sushang, than Trailblazer (Physical).

• Herta: A pretty low quality Ice damage dealer, Herta is only useful in specific scenarios or if you don't have an alternative.
• Sampo: Can inflict wind damage over time, Sampo pairs fine with other damage over time characters like Hook.
• Serval: A fine damage over time and lightning user, Serval is bettered by Arlan but is a decent enough alternative if you don't have him.
• Quingque: A quantum-based damage dealer, Quingque is made redundant by Seele but can be effective assuming you get lucky with her RNG mechanics