Complete Guide to TEAM BUILDING in Honkai: Star Rail

lots of small mechanics to look out for in positioning and team comps!
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0:00 | Intro
0:35 | Type Coverage
2:20 | Character Paths
2:38 | Taunt
3:54 | Character Positioning
5:23 | Synergies
11:54 | Outro

Outro: Valence - Infinite (NCS Release)

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[Xlice]

dont want to overwhelm you guys with too much info, so this one covers basic team mechanics and quick infobits on every character we have so far
enjoi

[alazif]

Something that is also very worth mentioning imo is skill point demand. You want at least 2 of the characters to not desire to use their skill every turn so as to save skill points for demanding units. You wouldn't want March - Asta - Dan together because March wants to refresh her shield often, Asta wants to e often, and Dan wants to use skill for max DPS. You WOULD want Fire MC - Asta - Dan though because Fire MC only wants to taunt once in a while. Abundance characters typically don't heal every turn, so their slot automatically counts as "not using skill points often." Qingque actually wants 3 non-demanding teammates so she can gamble which I happen to use on my main team Fire MC - Clara - Bailu - Qingque.

[twinkchrist]

just saying, dont put ur buffer next to ur tank. put the healer. this is because nat and bailu scale on hp so theyre inherently a lot more tanky than asta or tingyun who are extremely squishy.

[argentums]

I'm actually one of the people who almost doesn't use Natasha, because my garantee 5* was Gepard. I didn't really want him, but god he's such a strong character, and after Belobog arc I really like his personality too. I don't see a lot of praise of him, but this guy is the only reason I cleared worlds up to 5 without any real trouble. I still use Natasha on some of the bosses, but it's not too often, so I have one more free spot for any character I want

[dzer]

I got star railed by Gaspard in the simulated world. I wasn't ready for him to have 3 phases.

[iamaherotoo]

4:50 Asta's skill is the most beautiful targeting rng I ever seen

[slyghostchips]

so qingque is all HSR players in a playable character? Gacha

[neanahidden]

I’ve been surprisingly happy with Fire MC, Natasha, Bronya and Arlan combo.

Arlan being able to hit hard without using any skill points keeps skills available for others basically all the time. Nat can heal him when needed, Bronya makes his hit do more damage and skip the line while FireMC shields everyone.

[shuu.modero]

This is incredibly useful especially for people like me who totally ignored Nat because I got Bailu and Yanqing on my first 10 pull, and have both Himeko and Dan Heng on my team just because I simp. Also, I totally didn't know about needing to worry about putting the tankiest character by the edges... I just subconsciously place them on the first or last slot like I do with my DPS Zhongli in Genshin lmaooo

[abellee]

Perfect timing on the release!! Great video! Simple and well structured

[Lightless]

The only HSR content creator to pronounce Qingque correctly.

[humblemac]

Watching this has made me see i can enjoy honkai even more than I thought 😮. A great explanation thats gonna make me fave way more fun playing with teams now!

[kearwin]

Another good thing to note is that skills like March 7's auto shield which applies to the lowest hp% ally at the beginning of combat will automatically choose the left most character if there is a tie for least health (if your entire team is full health)

[kumonoameai]

Thank you so much for making videos like this. I just started as a F2P beginner player and your playlist for gameplay and relic explanations has been super helpful 😊
My team right now is Physical/Destruction Trailblazer, March 7th, Asta, and Serval.

[kurodayuki]

oh neat the first tea building guides are coming out to help the newer players^^

[camokiler]

Looking back as an experienced player from the future this guide in it's general advice is still valid. The only additions I'd made specific mention are prioritising team synergy over element coverage for general non-specific use cases, putting healers next to preservation/destruction since hp scale go brrr and finally for general use content mention of combination between hunt and erudition gives you most of what you need if not using that then hypercarry destruction. (I know hunt and erudition can work hypercarry but destruction's blast targeting gives a lot of versitility)

[VAronB]

Preservation has a taunt lvl 4. My Dan Hung, , and I took that personally''

[nickarooroo]

A reason I love brining Arlan into electric weak enemies bc not only does he dish out decent damage, but he doesn't consume any skill points as it's HP instead. Love him at times!

[averydream]

last week i successfully beat the echo of war dragon and earned the “allies act for 100 times in a single battle achievement” and decided i will NOT be doing that again

learned a lot from this vid

sincerely, someone who ran two preservation + abundance in one team with only one (borrowed) hunt character

[lilaacwitch]

This was super helpful!! Really glad you’re making HSR content, been a watcher of your genshin vids for quite some time now 😊