Contemplating Honkai Star Rail loves powercreeping characters, it’s been a very long time since we final acquired a preservation unit. 12 months, to be exact, for the reason that superb Aventurine joined the solid and began conserving our groups extremely secure.
There are, as of April 2025, 69 playable Honkai Star Rail characters within the recreation, with three scheduled for upcoming banners. There are 12 destruction, 12 nihility, 11 concord, ten hunt, 9 erudition, seven abundance, and… 5 preservation characters, together with the trailblazer. I’m not counting the remembrance path right here because it’s very new, although it does have already got three launched characters, so it’s catching as much as preservation already.
Throughout the preservation sector, now we have the usual banner’s Honkai Star Rail Gepard, Honkai Star Rail March seventh, and the Trailblazer – three items that had been all obtainable when the sport launched. We then acquired HSR’s Fu Xuan in model 1.3, with Aventurine in model 2.1. We’re now in model 3.2 and haven’t any extra shield-based characters, or any developing, for that matter.
Now, Honkai Star Rail’s Aventurine is a superb shielder who may also present a bit of harm together with his follow-up assaults. He’s a enjoyable character. He’s handsome. He retains you secure, offers buffs, and suits in actually any staff. Nevertheless it’s no secret that HSR loves a little bit of energy creep. With bosses getting larger and better HP, and new strikes to counteract no matter we’ve acquired happening in our groups, newer characters additionally get stronger.
Honkai Star Rail’s Castorice, with a worldwide passive that triggers regardless of if she’s in your occasion or on the bench, simply launched – and raised the bar for all characters’ usability going ahead. So the place’s our new, extra-cracked shielder? Perhaps somebody who rebounds all harm, or fires projectiles when the defend takes harm, or possibly heals, shields, is a DPS, and has one other world passive – who’s to say what the longer term holds?
See which new characters are developing on the Honkai Star Rail banners in our information, and which Honkai Star Rail occasions are at present lively to get you some freebies – oh, and listed here are all of the Honkai Star Rail codes, too. We just lately did a Honkai Star Rail interview at GDC, which we recommend you learn.