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Honkai: Star Rail has a treasure trove full of wonderful characters that all offer unique actions during combat, making team composition and overall builds crucial to your success. Pela, the Intelligence Officer of the Silvermane Guards, is a perfect example of a character that can shine bright with a proper build and solid team formation.

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While she won't necessarily blow you away with raw damage or impenetrable defenses, Pela is a strong character overall. She will make any team composition better if you play to her strengths and focus on placing people around her that help negate her weaknesses.

Best Relics And Planar Ornaments For Pela

A portrait of Pela from Honkai: Star Rail

Pela is a strong and safe choice for your party if you need a support character that can remove buffs from enemies while also applying considerable damage to them in short and consistent bursts.

However, while Pela can hold her own from the jump, she falls far below other choices without a proper build. As such, let's review the best options for Pela regarding Relics and Ornaments to help get the most out of her during combat encounters!

Best Relics For Pela

Relic Set

Reason For Synergy

Thief of Shooting Meteor


2/4 Pieces Equipped

Makes Pela deal substantially more Break Damage when attacking enemies weak to Ice Damage.


Break Effect +16 Percent

Hunter of Glacier Forest


2/4 Pieces Equipped

Significantly increased Pela's Ice Damage.


Ice Damage +10 Percent

When building Pela's Relic Set, you only want to equip two of each Relic Set provided above to obtain the first tier of buffs from both Sets, drastically increasing Pela's Break and Ice Damage.

Best Ornaments For Pela

Ornament Set

Reason For Synergy

Pan-Galactic Commercial Enterprise

Increases Pela's Effect Hit Rate by 10 Percent. Additionally, her Attack will also be raised by 25 Percent of her current Effective Hit Rate.


Effective Hit Rate +10 Percent, ATK +25 Percent

Sprightly Vonwacq

Raises Pela's Energy Regeneration Rate by Five Percent. If her Speed is at least 120 or higher, her actions will be Advanced Forward by 40 Percent at the start of every battle.


Energy Regeneration Rate +5 Percent

Best Light Cones For Pela

Pela about to perform her Frostbite Skill in Honkai: Star Rail

Light Cones are vital to any good build. They enable you to hone in on every character's role to better their performance and abilities during combat encounters. Unfortunately, some Light Cones are only acquired through Warps, the game's Gacha system.

This means that if you're strictly a Free-to-Play player, you will have some of the strongest Light Cone offerings of Honkai: Star Rail essentially locked away from you. That is, unless, you want to grind to get the resources to try your hand at them.

Fortunately, some very good Light Cones can be obtained frequently for those who wish not to engage with the Gacha aspects of the game. For this reason, we have prepared two tables below to showcase the best Light Cones in both categories!

Best Warp (Gacha) Light Cones For Pela

Light Cone

Description

In the Name of the World

Raises Damage dealt to enemies that are Debuffed by 40 Percent. Using your Skill on these enemies will increase your Effective Hit Rate by 30 Percent and your Attack by 40 Percent.


HP +1058, ATK +582, DEF +463

Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat

Hitting an enemy that is currently not Ensnared will give you a 40 Percent chance of Ensnaring them. Enemies that become Ensnared will have their Defense decreased by 16 Percent for one turn.


HP +952, ATK +476, DEF +330

Good Night and Sleep Well

Gain a 24 Percent boost to your Damage for every enemy with a Debuff on screen, stacking up to three times for a total of 72 Percent.


HP +952, ATK +476, DEF +330

Best Free-To-Play Light Cones For Pela

Light Cone

Description

Hidden Shadow

Following your Skill, your Basic Attack will deal additional Damage equal to 120 Percent of your target's Attack.


HP +846, ATK +317, DEF +264

Void

Raises Effect Hit Rate by 40 Percent for three turns at the start of every encounter.


HP +846, ATK +317, DEF +264

It's crucial to note that all Light Cones above are maxed-out, meaning you must Ascend and Superimpose them several times to get these results. When you first obtain these Light Cones, they will offer the same bonuses but will be much less potent.

Pela Traces Overview And Priority

Pela using her Zone Suppression Ultimate in Honkai: Star Rail

To close this out, let's go over Pela's Traces, which essentially allow you to enhance her abilities inside of combat, along with some additional bells and whistles that make her marginally better overall.

All Pela Traces

Trace

Type

Description

Preemptive Strike

Technique

Instantly strike your target. Upon starting the encounter, Pela deals Ice Damage to a random enemy in the arena equal to 80 Percent of her Attack.


The Defense of all enemies on screen will be lowered by 20 Percent for two turns.

Frost Shot

Basic Attack

Pela deals Ice Damage to a single target equal to 50 (Level 1) to 130 Percent (Level 9) of her Attack.

Frostbite

Skill

Terminate one Buff from your target and deal Ice Damage equal to 105 (Level 1) to 262.5 Percent (Level 15) of her Attack.

Data Collecting

Talent

If Pela Debuffs an enemy, she will regenerate 5 (Level 1) to 12.5 (Level 15) Energy. This effect only happens once per turn.

Zone Suppression

Ultimate

Pela hits all enemies on screen with Ice Damage equal to 60 (Level 1) to 120 Percent (Level 15) of her Attack, inflicting all targets with the Exposed debuff.


Enemies that are Exposed will have their Defense lowered by 30 (Level 1) to 45 Percent (Level 15) for two turns.

Bash

Bonus Ability

If an enemy is Debuffed, Pela will deal 20 Percent more Damage against them.

The Secret Strategy

Bonus Ability

When Pela is in the Party, all Party Members will have their Effect Hit Rate raised by 10 Percent.

Wipe Out

Bonus Ability

Using Frostbite to remove an enemy's Buff will enhance the Damage output of Pela's next attack by 20 Percent.

While everything outlined above is crucial in some way to making Pela the best she can be for her team in battle, there are a few Traces you should focus on upgrading first to get the most out of her as early as possible.

Frostbite and Zone Suppression should be your primary focus, with Frost Shot following close behind, as they will give you complete control of a match when used effectively. Constantly inflicting Ice Damage on your opponent and removing their buffs is the name of Pela's game.

As touched on above, Pela may not be the best in her role. Still, she's pretty good at it, and capitalizing on her ability to keep the opponent from buffing up and demolishing everyone is remarkably powerful.

Pela thrives in the early portions of the game and is also competent in the latter sections, so long as you keep focusing on her build and keep a solid team around her. You can't go wrong with her in your party, and her performance explains why that's the case!

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