Honkai: Star Rail tier list

A Max HP healer who summons the memosprite Little Ica and heals the whole team on both Skill and Ultimate.

Marks one enemy as the Bait with the Skill or Ultimate, and while a Bait exists every enemy loses 40% DEF.

A Physical attacker who mixes splash and bounce damage.

A Fire attacker who turns the whole team into extra damage: her Talent hands every ally an Assist Skill that calls Starblazer for an AoE hit, and each use counts as her own Skill.

A Max HP-scaling Fire attacker who doubles as a debuffer.

A Max HP support who summons the Summer Songbirds memosprites and gains Vibes whenever allies attack, heal or shield.

A Quantum AoE attacker built on Fervor: the Skill and Ultimate hit all enemies for 240% and 400% and add Fervor, and teammates' attacks add more.

A shielder who names one ally his Bondmate, shields the whole team on Skill and Ultimate, and summons a 165-SPD Souldragon that cleanses a debuff from every ally and adds more shields each time it acts.

A Quantum attacker who scales off Max HP and charges her Ultimate from HP the whole team loses, since every point lost becomes Newbud.

An Ice attacker who fights alongside her memosprite Evey and spends her own HP to power them both, since every HP loss gives the pair 60% CRIT DMG for 2 turns.

A Max HP-scaling support whose Zone adds True DMG equal to 24% of every hit her allies land.

A healer whose Ultimate is the main draw: it gives every teammate Energy equal to 20% of their Max Energy plus 40% ATK for 2 turns.

A Max HP support whose Skill gives every ally 24% All-Type RES PEN for 3 turns, and whose Ultimate opens a Zone where enemies take 30% more damage and each ally attack adds a 12% Max HP hit per target struck.

An Imaginary Elation attacker whose Ultimate runs on Hidden MMR, which she gains alongside Punchline and which also raises her CRIT Rate, then CRIT DMG once CRIT Rate is capped.

A Fire Elation attacker who builds up her Basic ATK through a livestream: her Skill turns it into Bloom!

An Elation support whose Skill Zone raises every ally's Elation by 20% of hers for 3 turns.

A Skill Point and action-advance support.

A Lightning damage dealer whose Ultimate charges from Slashed Dream, gained whenever anyone on the team applies a debuff, and fires at 9 points.

A Quantum attacker built on Skill Points: whenever an ally spends or recovers one, they get 70% CRIT DMG and she gains Gem Energy.

A Break-focused buffer: her Skill gives every ally 32% DMG and 50% Weakness Break Efficiency for 3 turns, and her Talent adds 10% SPD to all teammates plus her own Break DMG whenever they break an enemy.

A team-wide buffer: her Skill raises every ally's DMG by 50% for 3 turns, and her Talent gives them all 20% CRIT DMG.

A DoT specialist who Shocks enemies and then makes their DoTs go off early.

A DoT debuffer: whenever an ally attacks, she inflicts Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn or Shock on the enemy hit, favoring one it doesn't have yet.

A Quantum single-target attacker who burns Skill Points: in Circuit Connection he can keep using his 360% Skill in the same turn, each cast hitting 100% harder (up to two stacks), until he's used it five times or the team runs out.

A single-target buffer whose Skill makes one ally and their summon act immediately with 30% more DMG (another 50% if they have a summon), 20% CRIT Rate and a debuff cleanse.

A single-target buffer who hands one ally Military Merit, lending them a share of her ATK and adding a 60% ATK Wind hit after each of their attacks.

A transformation carry: he builds Coreflame from his Skill and from abilities teammates aim at him, and at 12 points his Ultimate turns him into Khaslana.

A shielder who scales off DEF: his Skill gives the whole team a Fortified Wager shield that stacks up to 200% of its value, and allies holding it gain 50% Effect RES.

A Break attacker who spends her own HP for Energy (her Skill costs 40% of her Max HP and regains 60% of her Max Energy), then uses her Ultimate to enter Complete Combustion with 60 extra SPD, an instant turn and enhanced attacks.

An HP-scaling tank who takes 65% of the damage aimed at her teammates while Matrix of Prescience is up, and gives the whole team 12% CRIT Rate and a Max HP boost on top.

A Physical attacker with a 125% blast Skill and a choice of Ultimates: 450% on one target, or 270% with 162% splash.

A Wind DoT specialist who stacks Arcana on enemies, up to 50 stacks, each adding 12% to a Wind DoT that starts at 240% ATK.

A Wind support whose Skill lets an ally act again right away with 66% more damage for a turn, also clearing a debuff.

A 4-star healer who heals through a debuff: his Ultimate makes every enemy Besotted, so each ally attack on them restores 640 HP to the attacker and they take 12% more Break DMG.

A Wind attacker who adds a random Weakness to enemies with every hit and deals 30% more damage to any enemy carrying five or more Weakness types.

A single-target Quantum attacker who snowballs off kills: defeating an enemy with her Basic ATK, Skill or Ultimate gives her an extra turn in Amplification, with 80% more DMG and 20% Quantum RES PEN.

A Fire healer who attacks while she heals: her Skill hits all enemies for 80% and heals every ally, and it summons Fuyuan, which takes 3 actions of its own, each a Follow-Up that hits all enemies, cleanses a debuff from every ally and heals.

An Ice AoE attacker who stacks Interpretation on enemies (her Talent drops 25 stacks on one at each wave, and allies' attacks add more), then spends Inspiration on her enhanced Skill, which hits harder for every stack on the main target.

A crowd-control debuffer whose Ultimate hits all enemies and Imprisons them, delaying their actions by 40% and cutting SPD by 10%, while his Trace makes them take 12% more damage.

A healer whose Skill also fires by itself: when any ally falls to 50% HP or below, he heals them for 60% of his ATK plus 800 without spending a Skill Point, once every 2 turns.

A single-target Wind attacker whose Ultimate runs on Flying Aureus, which she gains at 1 point per 2 ally attacks and can spend at 6.

A Quantum debuffer whose Skill has an 85% chance to give an enemy a new Weakness matching one of your on-field characters' Types, along with 20% lower RES to it.

A Quantum debuffer who marks one enemy as the Patron and launches a Follow-Up ATK on it whenever teammates hit it.

A Lightning attacker who opens each fight auto-using Basic ATK while he builds Interest from every ally action (10% SPD per point), and hitting 10 Interest for the first time shifts him into a new state.

A Super Break support who pairs with one teammate as Dance Partners; when a Dance Partner hits a broken enemy, that Toughness damage also becomes 60% Super Break DMG.

A Wind attacker who stockpiles Energy: she can hold up to 120 overflow Energy, gains Core Resonance and 60% DMG whenever any ally uses an Ultimate, and spends Core Resonance on Skills for more damage and 8 Energy per point.

An HP-spending Imaginary attacker: his Skill burns half his current HP for a blast, and every 1% HP he loses becomes 1 Charge.

A 4-star buffer whose Ultimate gives one ally 50 Energy and 50% DMG for 2 turns.

A Break support who gives one ally Foxian Prayer, adding 30% Break Effect and letting them cut Toughness without the matching Weakness.

A single-target damage dealer who stacks up to three enhancements onto his Basic ATK, scaling it from a 100% hit to a 7-hit 500% strike that also splashes 180% onto adjacent enemies.

A summoner whose damage comes from Lightning-Lord, which acts on its own at 60 base SPD and fires 3 base hits of 66% each as Follow-Up ATKs, splashing adjacent enemies.

A Lightning healer whose Skill heals one ally and then two more at random, and whose Ultimate heals the whole team and applies Invigoration, which heals an ally each time they're hit.

A DEF-scaling shielder whose Ultimate puts a shield worth 45% of his DEF plus 600 on every ally for 3 turns.

A Physical attacker who duels one enemy at a time: his Skill locks him and a target in a Standoff, taunting it and making it take 30% more damage from him, while his Basic ATK becomes a 220% shot.

A Break attacker whose Ultimate puts her into Sealform for an extra turn, 50% Weakness Break Efficiency and 30% Break Effect, with 3 Chroma Ink to spend on her enhanced Basic ATK.

An Ice attacker who gains Syzygy from her Skill and Ultimate, and at 2 stacks enters Spectral Transmigration: her turn jumps forward 100%, she gains 50% CRIT Rate and her Skill becomes Moon On Glacial River, a 250% blast that costs no Skill Points.

A 4-star debuffer whose Ultimate hits all enemies and makes them Exposed, cutting their DEF by 40% for 2 turns.

A Wind attacker who scales off Max HP and spends his own HP to fight: his Skill costs 30% to enter Hellscape, where he deals 40% more damage and his Basic ATK becomes a Max HP-based blast that costs 10% each use.

A 4-star shielder whose Skill shields one ally for 57% of her DEF plus 760 and draws enemy attacks onto them while they're at 30% HP or more.

A counter-attacker: Svarog strikes back at anyone who hits her for 160% of her ATK and marks them, and her Skill then hits every enemy with a bonus hit on the marked ones.

A Follow-Up attacker who makes one ally her Debt Collector, giving them 30 SPD and adding a 25% ATK Quantum hit on every enemy they strike, at a cost of 2% of their Max HP per attack.

A Fire debuffer who stacks Ashen Roast with every Basic ATK, Skill and Ultimate: one stack makes the enemy take 15% more damage, each extra stack adds 5% up to 5, and the target counts as Burned.

A Fire AoE attacker built around Weakness Break: each break gives her a Charge, and at 3 Charges any ally attack sets off her Follow-Up, a 140% hit on all enemies.

A Fire support whose Ultimate gives the whole team 50 SPD for 2 turns.

A Physical AoE attacker whose Skill and Ultimate hit every enemy, and who gets 3 Energy and a 2.5% CRIT Rate stack (up to 10) for each enemy he hits.

A Follow-Up attacker who fights through Numby, an 80-SPD summon that hits the enemy marked with Proof of Debt for 150% of her ATK.

A counter-attacker who hits back with a 120% blast every time she's attacked, gaining 15 Energy each time.

A single-target follow-up attacker who feeds on enemy debuffs.

A 4-star healer who puts Survival Response on one ally, raising their Max HP and, for Destruction or Preservation characters, drawing enemy attacks onto them.

A single-target Ice attacker whose Skill turns on Soulsteel Sync, which gives him 20% CRIT Rate and 30% CRIT DMG and makes him less likely to be attacked.

A straightforward 4-star healer: her Skill heals one ally, adds a heal-over-time and cleanses a debuff, and her Ultimate heals the whole team.

An AoE Ice attacker whose Skill hits every enemy, harder on those still at 50% HP or more, and whose Ultimate hits all of them for 200%.

A Toughness-focused Quantum attacker who builds Karma whenever she or her teammates cut enemy Toughness, then spends 8 stacks on a 3-hit Follow-Up.

A Follow-Up attacker who marks one enemy as Prey with his Skill and then enters the Departed state while it lasts.

A single-target Physical attacker whose Skill hits for 210% with a 33% chance of a bonus Sword Stance hit, guaranteed if the target is Weakness Broken.

A gamble-based attacker who draws jade tiles: each Skill draws 2 tiles and adds 28% DMG without ending her turn, stacking up to 4 times.

A single-target Wind attacker whose 260% Skill slows the target when it crits, setting up an Ultimate that gains another 120% multiplier against Slowed enemies.

A Wind Shear applier whose attacks each have a 65% chance to inflict a stacking DoT, up to 5 stacks, and whose Skill bounces 5 times at 56% to spread it around.

A Skill Point battery and buffer.

An Ice attacker whose Ultimate grows with the team's Skill Point use: every Skill Point allies spend adds a hit to it, his own Skill adds another, and each 60% hit has a chance to Freeze.

A 4-star buffer whose Skill grants Roaring Bowstrings, giving all allies 80% ATK for the next two ally turns.

A Bleed attacker: his Skill makes the target Bleed for 24% of its Max HP each turn (capped at 338% of his ATK) and strips one buff.

A Burn applier: her Skill hits a target and its neighbors and Burns all of them for 218% of her ATK each turn, and her Basic ATK has an 80% chance to Burn too.

A Shock attacker: her Skill blasts a target and its neighbors with an 80% chance to Shock them, and after every attack she deals a 72% hit to every Shocked enemy.

A single-target Fire attacker whose Skill hits for 240% and Burns, and whose Talent adds a 100% ATK hit plus 5 Energy whenever she strikes a Burned enemy.

A Lightning attacker who spends 15% of his Max HP on every Skill and hits harder the more HP he's missing, up to 72% more damage.