How Strong Is Feixiao? | Feixiao V5 Pre-Release Analysis & Theorycrafting「Honkai Star Rail 2.5」

We'll be taking a look at Fei Xiao's strength before her release!
I'll be saving the Kit Review for a video closer to her release :D

Holy wow this kind of videos attracts the most pretentious people it’s actually annoying

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Kit Summary
1:13 Damage Estimation
3:08 Simulation
3:49 VERY IMPORTANT
5:20 Understanding DPAV
6:05 Simulation Part 2
7:04 Fei Xiao vs Dr Ratio
8:22 Fei Xiao vs Boothill
10:13 Thoughts

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[thdocta]

Great video! This is exactly how comparisons should be done, with full context and explanations.

[djkim]

This is the best Feixiao performance breakdown I've seen. Great work!

[omgjlmiub]

Me who accidently pull Jing Yuan starting a cascading butterfly affect that ended up with me having every FUA character to try and revive this useless ahh general and finally being prepared for my actual general

[Mijoulin]

Cool calculations, I really want Feixiao to be good as well, but I've a few questions.
1. How does Feixiao do without her lightcone? Unfortunately most of us will not be able to afford it.
2. So at about 3 minutes you showed us what you add together. Do I understand correctly that you're calculating with 100% uptime on Robins ultimate buff? Is this realistic for a 5 round MOC?
2. others like prydwen average out your "rollercoaster", by averaging the ultimate damage and then "splitting it up" over several rounds to simulate the MOC 5 turns for example. Is it correct, that this wasn't done here and we're only calculating turn 1 "spike"-damage instead? Because correct me if I'm wrong, but the spike damage will not matter long-term to beat MOC, it will matter if you can beat the bosses in 5 turns, but maybe I'm not understanding you correctly.
3. Boothill starts slow, are you also only comparing his starting damage with Feixiao?
It would be interesting to see the teamdamage. Especially against other teams like the Firefly Break team or Acheron team, because the calculations I've seen for that were sadly very devastating for Feixiao.

[floofzykitty]

Just looking at her kit and even the relics they practically made for her like the Duran and Valorous ornaments/set, she has two different sources of DMG boost, already a tonne of Crit Rate and Crit DMG and several sources of ATK boost. The only buff she doesn't have an overabundance of is SPD. The fact that they reduced some of her multipliers in exchange for increasing/adding self-buffing is like they are intentionally building her so she can be powercrept later. Anyone doomposting her power is lying, but it would be dishonest to say she is a good long term investment. For her to improve in the future she needs good units that can give her more SPD/turns while also stacking her Ult and I think Robin is a great showcase of why this is so good for Feixiao because she currently has a cap on how many Ult stacks she can get per each of her own turns and Robin solves a lot of that problem for her.

How soon she gets powercrept will be determined by how long her massively fat Ultimate multipliers can take her and the enemies they put in the endgame modes. She will be like Jingliu who also has a tonne of self buffing, but currently is just waiting around for Ice weakness to arrive into the endgame modes again. Keep in mind she doesn't IMPLANT Wind weakness, she only IGNORES weakness type for the toughness damage, meaning that the enemy still will have Wind resistance to her on off-element most of the time. She will be amazing some patches, then mediocre others where Wind weakness isn't present.

[aquatazer]

I’m pulling her E0S0 to run with March, E1 Huohuo and E0S1 Robin. I don’t expect her to perform too well but it is what it is.

[nequalle]

Hey! I'm planning to invest all of my saved up pulls into a Feixiao team - what would you say is the order of importance between Robin, Topaz, Aventurine and her Lightcone? Follow Up is the only playstyle in which I haven't invested at all so far, I have basically every other relevant Harmony/Sustain unit and no great LC option (Swordplay S5).

[araarashinigami]

Great video. I think you'd benefit from having a format where it's TLDR at the beginning and the proof following. Otherwise people don't really understand the point of the spreadsheets.

Regarding Feixiao, there's always a vocal minority who hate on any and every new female character released, and another vocal minority who hate on any and every Xianzhou female released. The convergence of trash floating around her release needs to be swept away with videos like this. I was pulling for her regardless of kit, like I do with all my pulls. As someone with E1S1 Topaz, Feixiao will easily feel at home. I almost never play my E1S1 Ratio as is, and Feixiao will finally put him to pasture.

[JLJ]

I literally don’t want anyone from her premium team other than aventurine 😅 I’ll run FEIX, march7/Moze if I pull him, JiAQ, and huohuo

[McK]

Would E4 bronya + Robin E1S1 + Galla a good team for Feix? thinking either E0S1 or E2S1 Feix.. any recommendations? I also dont have any 5star sustain units besides fuxuan so galla is pretty much only choice

[truongthaiucduong]

I'm aiming for the strong Fua tea, that I can use in the long term. I do not really care about the other team. From the beginning of the game I only full for Seele E1S0, and Acheron E2S1.(thank god they gave DR.Ratio for free). Feixiao will be the third dps I have. I have E1S1 Topaz. E0S0 Robin. Question: what should I go for. E1, S1 ROBIN or E2S1 Fexiao. surely, I will get E0S1 Fexiao first.

[Porcospino]

Man I don't have robin/adventurine/topaz, I heard that they are gonna rerun robin soon!

[ravenwong]

I don't get why cowboy haver would invade Feixiao TC section just to tell everyone that Boothill is better 1 to 1 comparison when at the end of the day everyone uses a team of 4.

[Eclectic.Nostalgia]

I don't have Robin or Topaz but I'm planning to pull for Feixiao. Does M7, Moze, Aven, Bronya work with her?

[AETevil]

I started to play recently, managed to pull for Huohuo and I'm currently pulling Sparkle which implies I don't have Robin or Topaz, it's still recommendable pulling or her?

[andretanza]

Ahhh yess.. finally math… btw, I don’t have Topaz and Adventurin, if i take E2S1 is it still legit?

[Kazuhara]

Is fei xiao's LC worth getting for your overall account? like can it be used by other hunt char's like topaz, ratio, boothill, etc.

[donewthita]

How much worse is ratio lc on her ? I have s1 topaz I say this since his LC scales off of debuffs also

[amp-le]

Does this also work for e0s0 feixiao? How big is the drop in dmg if she was on s5 stellar sea or 4 star lc? What about if robin is e1s0?

[omega]

the problem with her that a lot of her fan dislike is the self buff, yes through calculation and on paper even in first glance, you see oh so many self buff, stronger now. 5 patch from now and youll see truly why self buffs are bad compare to less self buffs but higher multiplier. Also dislike how her team could be totally unique or at least different but in reality shes just ratio replacement from RRAT team to FART team