Why EVERYONE Plays: Ruan Mei | Honkai: Star Rail

Ruan Mei has only been out for just shy of 2 versions and has quickly established herself as one of the most valuable characters in the game, with many believing she might be the definitive best unit overall. For our first episode of Why EVERYONE Plays for Honkai: Star Rail we'll be looking at Ruan Mei!

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[Emryuu]

Damage boost, resistance penetration, speed boost literally just by existing, easy to build, fits in every single team, hot and can ruin me. What more do you want?

[FlareBattle]

Ruan Mei is hilariously funny with Dot teams when they break. Essentially, they get broken, they take their turn to recover and get the FIRST instance of applied Dot damage- Her ultimate ability makes it so they get broken again, giving them another turn to recover aaaand take more Dot damage. Basically she creates two enemy turns with no detriment to the player 😂

[totallyahololivesimp]

"getting 180% BE is hard"
me: sweating with an unintentional 273% BE Ruan Mei.

[Levyathyn]

I fell in love with her design the first time I saw her in a card in the Simulated Universe. Then she showed up on one, and gave me a fuckton of Blessings the first time, and I was won over. THEN she showed up, and was a cool, calculating, but awkward genius with a host of strange cute little creatures and what seems to be a clear presence on the spectrum, and I was sold. She's beautiful, elegant, reposed, and loves desserts... what's not to love? So I rolled her.

Then like a week or two later my friend was like, "By the way, she S tier meta support, " and I said, "Oh shit for real?"

[milodiin]

7:48 it's actually 160 ! One of her major trace gives 20% break effect to the whole team, including her !

[dome]

also if you're in Simulated Universe: Swarm Disaster or Gold and Gears, if you get the Ruan Mei (pt1-2) occurrence blessing, and she is in your team, that'll make you choose to get all the listed rewards(curios, blessing of the path you chose and cosmic fragments)

[Lubossxd]

I can't take it anymore. I'm sick of Ruan Mei. I try to play Tingyun. Ruan Mei provides more damage. I try to play pela. Ruan Mei provides more damage. I try to play Bronya. Ruan Mei provides more damage. I want to play Jingliu. Her best team has Ruan Mei. I want to play Kafka, Topaz. They both want Ruan Mei.

She grabs me by the throat. I babysit creations for her. I kill an emanator for her. I give her S5 memories of the past. She isn't satisfied. I pull Past self in mirror for her. "I don't need this effect if my ult will still take 4 turns" She tells me. "Give me any 5% err planar ornament set." She grabs my sustain and forces them to receive every point of damage from enemies. "You just need an err rope. I can do a 3 turn ult rotation without external energy sources."

“Pull e1” she says. I can't pull e1, I don't have enough Stellar jades. She grabs my credit card. It declines. "Guess this is the end." She grabs her Ruan. She says "Sound lingers." There is no hint of sadness in its eyes. Nothing but pure, 68% damage boost, 50% weakness break efficiency and 25% res pen. What a cruel world.

[swagmaster]

As a ruan mei owner its important to point out that she does have a minor weakness where all her break effect bonuses and utility are negated as long as the enemy is stunned by her ultimate because all time where the enemy is weakness broken is time where they could have taken break damage. This is especially noticable when playing units like xueyi, who is suppose to work well with her in theory but less so in practice. This is very noticable when the boss does not have resistance to delayed action like yanqing and gepard.

[WurmyBoi]

Keep in mind because this woman exists, Boss toughness bars were buffed so that basic attacks only deal 1/20 of the Boss' toughness bar without Ruan Mei, so it would take you 20 basics to weakness break a Boss.

[videjones]

The "By the wind of time" ad spam sure helped a lot

[alderwield]

on average of 97% usage of every moc since her release, and similar number on pf since its release too, both in CN and global data

thats fucking wild

[umbrellaskullgirls-rvyh]

I feel like Why Everyone Plays: Fu Xuan would be amazing, she’s just so broken.

[saimfaisal]

Ruan Mei is a must have, she's one of those units that once you put her on a team, you're never taking her off. She's incredibly broken. Maybe the next weop should be a DPS, like Dan heng or jingliu., idk
Also what you said at 6:00 I think huohuo does the same thing, so it seems to be a trend

[Inkfy]

The most unsurprising video. Lololololol
I love using Ruan Mei. She's such a fun and surprisingly easy character to build.
Res. Pen, DMG boost, gives SPD, scales off one stat? It was a recipe for success.
Fun fact also, she was initially going to give more speed in battle until she was nerfed.

[RaikamiX]

Man, I love your thumbnails. You deviate yourself from all other youtubers. It makes it really easy to find you and really happy when I do find you

[duc_huy_ngo]

I would consider her the single best unit in the game as of right now. And she will most likely hold that spot for quite some time unless someone who is even more broken comes out.

[mika]

short answer: she buffs everyone's dmg indiscriminately and incentivizes the only mechanic star rail has -> toughness breaking

[danish.]

Ruan mei is like Furina. Lifting up the restrictions for non-elemental goblets and planar orb sets, making them more preferrable to use. This makes building some characters become easier as there is no mandatory need to put elemental goblets and planar orb sets

[ElysiaSchariac]

3:27 if in the future we have units whose dps scale off break effect. Xueyi literally crying bro

[trainmoremoretrain]

12:04 about that, she has her own traces that buff her Break effect, and she gives 20% teamwide break effect (which includes herself) in combat.
Combine those with Comet Thief relics and the break effect planar from Simulated Universe 4, and that's 189% break effect (in combat) with Cogs.