These attacks can be used during the battle and if you're roaming freely. Attacking an enemy with a basic attack in the open world will start the battle and inflict Weakness on them if you attack with one of the required combat types.

On the other hand, the basic attacks of every character deal the same amount of damage during combat unless they're enhanced by other sources.

This is a special ability given to every character that consumes one skill point upon use, with some exceptions. You start every battle with three skill points, and you can gain one each time you perform an attack with any character.

The skill points are cumulative for the entire team, which allows you to mix and match.

After getting enough energy by using your Basic Attack, Skill, or taking damage, you'll be able to use your Ultimate. This ability is strong enough to turn the odds in your favor if used correctly.

This replaces your Skill button when you're in the open world. Use it to get an advantage over your opponents in battle. The advantage provided is different for each character, and you can only use a set number of Techniques before you recharge.

Unlike your characters' health, you can't regenerate your Technique numbers at Space Anchors. To do that, you'll have to break some special purple items in the world.

There are a total of four passives that every character can get after being ascended, and the Talent is the main passive that brings all the abilities together and forms the character.

Hanya

Skill Points are one of the most important mechanics in the combat of Honkai: Star Rail, and it can be difficult to maintain them, especially if you're using characters like Imbibitor Lunae or Argenti that'd use a Skill Point every time they get a turn.

Hanya not only gives your party some extra SP, but also increases the DMG, ATK, and SPD of your DPS character. The DMG boost is essentially permanent since you just have to apply the Burden on the respective enemy.

March 7th

The first character that you unlock in the game, March 7th is decent at shielding one character, which is extremely important for endgame content unless you have Gepard. She also has a chance of Freezing the enemies, which forces them to skip a turn.

Natasha

Another character that unlocks for free through the main story, Natasha is one of the few healers in the game. This makes her extremely valuable at the start of the game since you'll struggle to keep your characters alive.

Moreover, she gets amazing passives after being ascended, which allows her to remove debuffs from her allies. She also makes the enemies deal less damage at the start of battle if her technique is used.

Tingyun

Tingyun is a Harmony character that massively buffs other party members' damage from her Skill and Ultimate apart from dealing extra turret damage with their attacks. This already makes her good with a DPS.

Moreover, she's one of the few characters that get extra basic attack DMG buffed from two of her passives and gets her SPD increased as well.

Sushang

This character can repeatedly advance her turns and deal massive damage to the enemies. Her damage numbers can be higher than most characters in the game, and the Skill Point gained from Eidolon One makes her one of the best four-star DPS.

Lynx

Lynx is the second four-star Abundance character alongside Natasha, and she does almost everything better. She can constantly heal your characters when they get a turn and cleanse your entire team with her Ultimate.

Gallagher

Sustainers are the most valuable type of characters in Honkai: Star Rail, which already gives Gallagher some free points. However, his kit being partly DPS and partly sustained-based holds him back a little bit.

Xueyi

Xueyi is a four-star Destruction character who can damage an enemy's Toughness bar even if they don't have the required weakness through her Ultimate. She also launches a follow-up attack once your party reduces an enemy's Toughness a few times.

While her kit is unique, Xueyi isn't an S-tier character since her overall damage is quite low. However, you can build her in multiple ways, which is always fun.

Guinaifen

Apart from being a great support for Kafka and a phenomenal DoT-based character, Guinaifen is particularly great because of her Firekiss effect. This effect increases the DMG dealt to the enemy by all sources.

You can get over 25 percent DMG boost with this effect, and it permanently stays on the enemy as long as you can keep triggering Burn on them.

Dan Heng

Dan Heng is one of the first characters that you unlock for free soon after the Trailblazer wakes up. He belongs to The Hunt Path and deals phenomenal single-target damage with both his Skill and Ultimate.

He is also quite a self-sustaining character since he can reduce the chances of being attacked on low health, decrease the enemy's SPD, and increase his own SPD.

Serval

Serval is given to every player for free through the pre-registration rewards. Apart from possessing great multi-target Lightning DMG, Serval can keep enemies in a shocked state almost all the time through her Technique and other abilities.

If you have Kafka on your account, you can pair her with Serval and she can even go up to the S tier.

Asta

Asta is a Harmony character who can provide massive ATK and SPD boosts to your team if used correctly. The latter is one of the sought-after stat in the game while the former is great for all DPS teams, especially the ones based on DoT.

Pela

Pela has some powerful abilities that can remove enemy buffs and debuff them. She can reduce the DEF of all enemies at the same time, and the Ice Weakness Break from her can be great in the current meta since there aren't many Ice characters.

Yukong

Yukong is a special Harmony character as she can buff your party members' ATK, Crit Rate, and Crit DMG. The only problem is that this buff only applies to the next two characters taking turns after her, which requires a lot of planning.

Hook

There aren't a lot of viable Fire DPS characters in the game, and Hook can deal a ton of DMG while being self-sustaining with her Traces, especially if you use a healing Destruction Light Cone on her.

Misha

Misha's kit is quite similar to that of Jing Yuan where his Skill feeds into the Hits Per Action for his Ultimate, and you'd want to deal as many instances of damage as possible with this ability.

Unfortunately, his overall damage isn't high enough to be considered a DPS and his supporting abilities aren't that good either.

Qingque

Qingque has a lot of Gacha involved in her Skills, but she got a better position as the game progressed further since many characters can regain these Skill Points now. She can deal some big damage if you get lucky as well.

Sampo

Sampo was great during the early game, but he slowly lost value due to the lackluster nature of DoT. Although, he can be A or even S tier if you have Kafka on your account since she makes DoT much better.

Luka

Luka is the perfect blend between a damage-dealing and DoT character since his DoT can deal damage based on the enemy's max health. Unfortunately, the ATK cap in this DoT is a little too strict. Once again, he can still be great if paired with Kafka.

Herta

Herta has a great kit and damage overall but she can feel a little counter-intuitive sometimes. Moreover, she doesn't have any abilities for freezing enemies apart from Ice Weakness Break.

Arlan

Arlan is one of the characters that could definitely be better when the game's meta shakes up, but he suffers from a lack of self-sustenance at the moment.