Star Rail shouldn't keep an item on the back burner for long

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The current patch is less than halfway through and fans are already planning their attractions for Honkai: Star Rail Sunday and Escape from version 2.7. Both supports can fit great in hypercarry/follow-up and break comps. While both are interesting builds, their item types are already quite common. Sunday shares Imaginary with nine other characters, while Fugue currently shares Fire with 10. Honkai: Star Rail they could stand to make their overall roster more diverse and should start with an Element that seems to be almost a year old.




When a character's type matches an enemy's weakness in Honkai: Star Raildeal toughness damage to that opponent. When the player depletes an enemy's toughness gauge, it deals breaking weakness damage and delays the enemy's action for at least one turn. Allied units also deal slightly more damage to an enemy that has weakness. Some items also have special effects, such as damage over time and subsequent action delays. Therefore, it is in the best interest of the player to invest in units of varied types.

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Why Honkai: Star Rail needs to expand its ice roster


Current count for Ice characters in HSR it's just eight, tied with Lightning and trailing only Wind's seven units. The game has already given Wind and Lightning some love with Feixiao and Moze. As such, it's time to do the same for Ice. There are plenty of great reasons to give this item some well-deserved attention.

Ice's limited DPS units are rare

Ice has some useful 4 stars like Pela and Herta. However, it lacks some good 5 stars, the last limited version being Ruan Mei in version 1.6 almost a year ago. A new limited unit is long overdue for this item type, preferably a DPS, as Ice's premiere damage dealer, Jingliu, fell from the meta recently. Newer Destruction characters like Firefly and Yunli can consistently do better damage than her with less compromise.

HSR has yet to release a support unit that perfectly synergizes with Jingliu, such as Sparkle for Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae and Jiaoqiu for Acheron. If he doesn't plan to do so soon, he should add a successor to Jingliu with a new Ice DPS. Since there are already hunting and destruction characters in this type, it only makes sense for the new damage dealer to follow the Path of Erudition. A 5-star Herta would fit this category perfectly.


Ice's weakness breaking mechanic is one of the best in the game

The best ways to get an edge in turn-based RPGs like HSR are to make their characters act as much as possible, delay the enemy's actions as much as possible, or both. Ice characters are experts in the second category.

Ice units freeze enemies after breaking their weakness. While an opponent is frozen, they cannot take any action for the duration of that turn. Upon thawing on their next turn, they will take additional ice damage and still cannot act. However, their next turn will be advanced by 50%.

It would be interesting to see more modern characters using this weakness breaking effect. A new ice DPS can deal massive damage or gain resources such as extra energy when hitting Frozen opponents. The ability to extend an enemy's Frozen state or reduce their speed when unfrozen, much like Welt's slow mechanic, would also be interesting to see. Ice could even venture into damage over time (DOT) territory by introducing a frostbite mechanic. The possibilities are many for this Element and it deserves to be in the spotlight again. Maybe Honkai: Star Rail Version 3.0 could bless Ice with some great new characters.


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