All Honkai Star Rail elements & their effects: Types explained
HoYoverseIf you’re yet to understand how elements work in Honkai Star Rail, here’s a detailed guide on all HSR elements and their effects during combat.
Like Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail has seven distinct elements, and all characters belong to one of them. From breaking shields to controlling enemies, the majority of combat tactics revolve around the elements of your characters and enemies.
On that note, here’s a guide on all Honkai Star Rail elements and their effects.
- List of all elements in Honkai Star Rail
- How do elements work in Honkai Star Rail
- All Honkai Star Rail elements and effects
List of all element Types in Honkai Star Rail
There are seven elements in Honkai Star Rail, known as Types, and you can check them out below:
| Element Type | Icon | Characters |
|---|---|---|
| Physical |  | Argenti, Boothill, Clara, Hanya, Luka, Natasha, Robin, Sushang, Destruction Trailblazer |
| Fire |  | Asta, Firefly, Gallagher, Guinaifen, Himeko, Hook, Topaz & Numby, Preservation Trailblazer |
| Ice |  | Gepard, Herta, Jingliu, March 7th, Misha, Pela, Ruan Mei, Yanqing |
| Lightning |  | Acheron, Arlan, Bailu, Jing Yuan, Kafka, Serval, Tingyun |
| Wind |  | Black Swan, Blade, Bronya, Dan Heng, Huohuo, Sampo |
| Quantum |  | Fu Xuan, Jade, Lynx, Qingque, Seele, Silver Wolf, Sparkle, Xueyi |
| Imaginary |  | Aventurine, Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae, Dr. Ratio, Luocha, Harmony Trailblazer, Welt, Yukong |
How do Types work in Honkai Star Rail
Each playable character in Honkai Star Rail belongs to one of the seven unique in-game elements, and all enemies possess elemental weaknesses as well. All of this shapes your party’s attack strategies.
To maximize your damage, it’s important to use elemental attacks that break the shield of the enemy. The elemental weaknesses of the enemy are showcased with icons above their health bar.
Once the shield is shattered, the enemy enters the ‘Weakness Break’ state, during which they become more susceptible to your party’s attacks, no matter their element.
HoYoverseAll Honkai Star Rail element Type effects
The list below outlines all the Honkai Star Rail elements and their respective effects:
- Lightning: Triggering Weakness Break will deal Lightning DMG and apply the Shock Effect, dealing Lightning DoT.
- Ice: Using Ice attacks to trigger Weakness Break will deal Ice DMG and Freeze the target, immobilizing the enemy and dealing additional Ice DMG.
- Physical: Triggering Weakness Break will deal Physical DMG and apply the Bleed Effect (Physical DoT).
- Quantum: Using Quantum attacks to inflict Weakness Break will deal Quantum DMG and cause Entanglement, which delays the enemy’s action and deals Additional Quantum DMG to the affected enemy at the start of the next turn. If the enemy is hit while in Entanglement, this extra DMG will increase.
- Fire: Triggering Weakness Break will deal Fire DMG and apply the Burn effect, dealing Fire DoT.
- Wind: Using Wind attacks to trigger Weakness Break will deal Wind DMG and apply the Wind Shear Effect (Wind DoT).
- Imaginary: When using an Imaginary attacks to inflict Weakness Break, the attack will deal Imaginary DMG and inflict Imprisonment. Imprisoned enemies’s actions are delayed actions and their SPD is reduced.
From this list, you’ll learn how certain elements like Lightning, Fire, Wind, and Physical help in damage dealing, while others, like Imaginary and Quantum, are for controlling the actions of enemies and delaying their actions.
You can see why Quantum and Imaginary are the meta Types in HSR, while the others have their uses in endgame modes.
This was everything to know about Types in Honkai Star Rail. For more content on the game, you can check out:
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