There are dozens of playable characters inHonkai: Star Rail. The cast has grown incrementally since the game’s launch in 2023, and we’ll list every character you can currently put in your party in this guide. Provided, of course, you’ve added them to your roster via the gacha system.
How Honkai: Star Rail characters work
Each character inHonkai: Star Railis on a Path, a descriptor that helps define how they function, the abilities they can use, and what role they play on your teams. For instance, a Destruction, Hunt, or Erudition character is a damage dealer.
Additionally, each character has an Element that defines their damage type: Fire, Ice, Lightning, Wind, Physical, Imaginary, and Quantum. Last, characters are also split across a star-rarity level. Rarer five-star units and more accessible four-star characters. Most five-stars are “limited,” meaning they’re only available for three weeks on a special, rotating basis. A small selection of characters is always available to pull for on the “standard” banner.
All Honkai: Star Rail characters and their Paths
As of February 2025, there are 65 characters available inHonkai: Star Rail, with at least another dozen on the way during the 3.0 update period. The 3.0 update also introduced a new Path — Remembrance — which will receive plenty of attention going forward.
All Abundance Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
Abundance characters are healers first and foremost, though units like Lingsha bridge the gap between healer and DPS. The best units that follow this Path can heal outside their place in the action order and cleanse debuffs from allies. The three in the top tier — Lingsha, Gallagher, and Huohuo — can also provide buffs to the team and/or apply debuffs to enemies.
All Destruction Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
Destruction characters are a slightly more versatile group of damage dealers. Their attacks have one primary and up to two secondary targets. How they do that varies from unit to unit. The best options in the game either enable their teammates to do more damage (Firefly’s weakness implant) or have a frankly absurd amount of counter-attack potential (Yunli and her Ultimate counter).
All Erudition Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
The Path of Erudition is another damage-dealing Path, but rather than focusing on a few targets, these characters specialize in attacking everything on the enemy field. Their effectiveness tends to decrease somewhat against one or only a few opponents, though the best of them, like The Herta, have enough tools to still be viable in almost any situation.
All Harmony Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
Harmony characters are the buffing units ofHonkai: Star Rail. They specialize in enabling their teammates to do more damage, either by increasing a damage stat, advancing their turn, granting them Ultimate energy, or some combination of the three. The best of them do those things and enhance a special trait or damage type. See Ruan Mei, Sunday, or Robin.
All Hunt Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
Characters that follow the Path of the Hunt are single-target specialists. They’re usually the best option for dealing with a big boss but can struggle if they need to deal with large groups of enemies. Some, like Feixiao and Topaz & Numby, can get around part of their Path’s limitations, but not all.
All Nihility Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
Nihility characters revolve around applying debuffs to their enemies. What they do with those debuffs varies. At its simplest, a debuff reduces an enemy’s defense or applies a negative condition. For special cases like Acheron, it also powers their main damage output. Still others, like Kafka, enhance and enable the damage-over-time debuffs they and their teammates apply.
All Preservation Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
Another sustain-centric Path, Preservation is about preventing rather than healing damage via shields or redirecting damage away from more vulnerable units. The undisputed king of Preservation is Aventurine, whose shields can be made unbreakable with the right build and playstyle. Don’t count out Fu Xuan’s ability to tank damage for her teammates, but AoE damage will make quick work of her. Gepard is a fine option if you don’t have any limited characters.
All Remembrance Path characters in Honkai: Star Rail
The newest Path inHonkai: Star Rail, Remembrance is a bit of a catch-all. Its DPS unit at launch, Aglaea, is one of the best damage dealers in the game at her release, and the Remembrance Trailblazer is a free S-Tier support-style character. These units rely almost entirely on their memosprite summons to function, but so long as that summon is on the field, Remembrance characters will put in work.
Those are all 65 characters currently available inHonkai: Star Rail, but as the game continues to grow and evolve, there will undoubtedly be dozens more. Get those Stellar Jades ready.
