Who is the BEST DPS CHARACTER in Honkai: Star Rail? | Kit comparisons and pull advice.

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[bronben]

The reason why Rappa still does damage to enemies even when they aren’t broken is because her talent allows her to gain stacks of charge that are used up when ulting. These charge stacks allow you to deal break damage to all enemies, regardless if they are the ones who are broken or not.

An example of this would be the Loufu Arumaton that imprisons you. When he goes into his no toughness damage state, and summons the two fish, if Rappa breaks the two fish on the side, the next attack she does will deal break damage to him regardless of him actually being broken or not.

[mallowmar]

Firefly and BootHill are the most valuable dps for their weakness implant. Especially for f2p players. Having ONE dps that can add a weakness implant so you don’t have to struggle with MOC or bosses with a specific weakness element is a game changer. Firefly legit SAVED me during early game content. Acheron is amazing for exploration and SU but not necessary unless you want her.

[bloonbrawler]

Boothill being one of the 2 hunt characters in the top 5 dps characters makes me happy

[KitanasWarfan]

I ultimately agree with basically everything said.
However I think you're really brushing off the fact that it *really really* depends on the current endgame cycle going on. Unless you have Jiaoqiu, then Acheron is much weaker than Feixiao in this cycle, on the contrary if the enemy has Lightning weakness but no Wind weakness Acheron is going to be much better, especially if there are 2 or more enemies.
And the fact that Rappa is as good as Acheron in the showcases because the next MoC cycle is highly tailored for her specifically.

[freshjnew]

Its physical trailblazer everyone fears the bonkeron

[christopherhu]

The best dps is the next limited 5 star.

[xxartemisxx]

I have E2 Acheron, E2 Firefly and E2 Feixiao with alm their best supports

Id probably rank them as :

1. Feixiao
2. Firefly (Could change places with Feixiao delending on the MOC)
3. Acheron

Feixiao is insane. She has the highest single target damage in the game while also having a team that demolishes AOE scenarios with multiple eiltes because she can run a sub DPS. She also synergizes perfectly with Robin, the best harmony in the game. Just for context, Robin is BIS for teams that arent even FUA, so any DPS that takes full advantage of her buffs would in obviously be broken

Firefly is similar. Her entire team is boosted by superbreak, and that E2 is straight out of SU. So she deals damage that rivals hypercarries while her teammates also deal significant damage

Acheron is versatile but suffers from the fate all hypercarries do. Her teammates dont contribute much to the total damage at all, and you can only oush your hypercarry much. Its obvious she would fall slightly behind. But still, with her best team, she is also a string pick for virtually any content

[pieman]

It's hard not to have a strongest dps list without some biasness in the mix, but I feel the most egregious case of it was when mentioning that FF and Boothill and Rappa needs Ruan mei or they will suffer massive performance decline but not mention it as an issue for Feixiao with robin or Acheron with Jiaoqiu. I agree that the aforementioned break dps would need ruan mei to get their dmg out, but boothill is actually the exception to that rule because his dmg isn't tied to superbreak but break exclusively (dmg isn't determined on toughness dmg dealt).

If this list is noting everyone as e0s1 with optimal teams then feixiao has to be the best dps objectively, but if we aren't favoring most optimal teams then boothill will have to take that spot since that unit quite literally functions with every unit that helps him achieve his goal (pela, hunt march, luka, The other dps in the list lmao, hanya, and hmc). boot really only needs one of his 3 bis sups (hmc, ruan mei, or bronya) to be an exceptional 0-cycle unit.

Now with that out of the way, valuing PF as a game mode, is the only way I see acheron being the "best" dps because she does function is all game modes admittedly tho her PF is a bit lack luster but better than the rest of the cast except Rappa. Even though Rappa is the worst PF premium unit (jade and argenti is better).

good video I must say, but team restrictions are a huge turn off for me when it comes to determining who to put on my account, so this is why i value boothill to be the best dps due to his self-reliance and versatility of his bis teammates. Surprisingly, Acheron would also technically be here as well since she functions alright without jiaoqiu for now, but she suffers from the S1 plague more so than her competition.

[georgecs]

Feixiao does not struggle in PF, with eagle set she easily achieves 40k in all PF rotations while being off-element. Feixiao's only weakness currently is five-target break focused bosses like AS Sunday.

[redvelvetisbetter.]

id argue yunli should be a top 5 dps, she is one of the top dpses in every game mode

[Slackerhun]

I can say for sure my strongest characters are my E2S1 Firefly and Feixiao. I love that their E2 is not just larger numbers, but more action overall.

[jeremychen]

rappa ult state eba has colorless weakness break but 50% on non imaginary. game's a waifu collector unless you go for zero cycles, it's only as hard as you want it to be since they give you 10 cycles.

[Shin-gnng]

Rather than having e1/2 as the difference, its the team members thats gonna matter the most

[kian-ganji]

Honestly it's a race to see who has the best premium supports


Acheron was arguably far weaker than firefly before jiaqiu and probably will yet again fall behind by the release of "fuge"

And acheron is much more LC and E2 dependant that firefly is

[mauriciorosademoraes]

You forget Yunli.

With Jiaoqiu/Robin/Huohuo she normally cause Single Target 450k ~ 500k

[CanadianBulletAnt]

okay but kafka is hotter than acheron so im gonna use her

[jirachi]

IMO yunli is better than both boothill and rappa, especially with s1. Shes good in every game mode, much like acheron. Her damage is really good with her empowered ultimate counter. Her only downside is that she needs enemies to hit her to do her damage, but thats not unlike how firefly and boothill are shit out of luck against enemies that lock out their weakness bar. Shes also goated against second half MOC 12 because of how often hoolay attacks.

[alexfernandez]

Regardless of ranks, you're editing and explanations are super concise and helpful. Props to you buddy

[John_II]

I'm new to HSR, and your channel is probably the most informative. :)

[naturwissenschaften-fu]

I think Rappa is a pretty useless pickup if you have Firefly or Acheron, but otherwise she's wayy better than the doomers are saying, as this video says she's in the top 5.
Even if you have Firefly, getting both Rappa and Fugue means you can have 2 superbreak teams, and that's definitely a way to destroy the whole game.