If you have the best team comps in Honkai: Star Rail, either as a free-to-play player or at any level of spending, not only is finishing the story missions easier, but grinding the endgame becomes much more efficient as well. And there’s a lot of endgame grinding, but you can do all of it without spending a cent — or even pulling a single time on any gacha banner.
Best Team Comps in Honkai Star Rail Table of Contents
In our guide to the best team comps in Honkai Star Rail, we’ll cover:
- The best free-to-play team compositions.
- The best no-pull teams in free-to-play.
- The best pay-to-play groupings.
Best Free-to-Play Team Comps in Honkai: Star Rail
The best team comps in Honkai Star Rail for free-to-play players has a few good options. For this list, we’re assuming you save your Jades and Star Rail Special Passes for the limited banners, only pulling on the Standard banner as you get them and eventually choosing your free five-star at 300 Stellar Warps. I’ve tried to make teams using a variety of choices from the previous few limited-character event banners, as some of them work better in certain situations than others.
Free-to-Play DPS Team
- DPS: Seele/Welt/Yanqing/Clara/Qingque
- Buff/Support: Tingyun/Bronya, Silver Wolf, Yukong
- Healer: Natasha/Luocha
The best F2P DPS teams focus on buffing your main DPS character, and your setup must cater to whoever the DPS is. If you’re building around Seele or Yanqing, your hypercarry team should have Tinyun and Yukong for more an F2P-friendly loadout, but adding Bronya and/or Silver Wolf takes the comp to another level. Hypercarry teams vary depending on your preference, but the one I’ve been running recently is Seele, Silver Wolf, Bronya, and Luocha, and while I wouldn’t say my team is unkillable, there’s not much that survives more than a few rounds.
Free-to-Play Farming Team
- DPS: Jing Yuan/Himeko/Serval
- Buff/Support: Pela, Gepard, Tingyun/Yukong
- Healer: Luocha/Bailu
Farming is all about clearing mobs as quickly as possible, and between Himeko and Jing Yuan in this best FP2 Farming team, you shouldn’t have any trouble with that. Serval is very much “Jing Yuan at home,” but if you prefer her aesthetic — or didn’t pull on the Jing banner (like I didn’t. Thanks for Silver Wolf, Mihoyo) — she’s a fantastic option. You’ll only want one buffer for this team, or you can eschew one altogether and add someone like Gepard for a bit of extra survivability. And while I didn’t add Herta to this list given, you can “Kuru Kuru” in a pinch (or just because).
Best No-Pull Free-to-Play Teams in Honkai: Star Rail
If you don’t pull on any banner as a challenge or to save up and guarantee one specific character for far in the future, you can still be successful with the characters you get just for playing. Some of the premier players in Honkai: Star Rail have gone deep into the endgame with nothing but the free stuff. As long as you’re willing to apply a bit of patience and some out-of-the-box thinking, what is A-tier to some will be S-tier for you in this best no-pull F2P list.
Endgame No-Pull Team
- DPS: Qingque/Dan Heng
- Buff/Support: March 7th, Serval, Asta
- Healer: Natasha
Quantum characters are still at the top of the DPS heap, and the best endgame no-pull team highlights that. While Qingque is no Seele, she can solo high-tier World Six Simulated Universe with relative ease. She’s fairly skill-point heavy, but build her right, and there’s almost nothing Seele can do that Qingque can’t, just a bit less. Dan Heng with Serval and March 7th/Asta is also a potent team, and who you choose between March and Asta depends on which weaknesses you need to break and how confident you are in your ability to sustain over time.
Grinding No-Pull Team
- DPS: Physical Trailblazer, Serval
- Buff/Support: Asta/March 7th
- Healer: Natasha
Don’t count out Physical Trailblazer when it comes to being a DPS or their ability to do good multi-target damage. They don’t quite equal many of the more expensive characters (and compared to Seele, I admit, quite a bit less), but you can still make them work with the right investment, as shown by this grinding no-pull team comp. Serval’s optimal Relic options also give her the ability to be an effective carry on top of her fantastic multi-target potential. Adding Asta or March 7th for some buffs or shields, respectively, can be a great extra boon.
Best Pay-to-Play Teams in Honkai: Star Rail
For the best pay-to-win team comps in Honkai Star Rail, I’m assuming you’re not overly concerned about shelling out real-world cash. I’m not making any assumptions about how much you spend, only that you are willing to spend enough to get the best team comps in HSR — or at least the teams you want.
Pay-to-Play DPS Team
- DPS: Seele/Possibly Blade
- Buff/Support: Bronya, Silver Wolf
- Healer: Luocha/Bailu
Starting with healers, Luocha is currently the absolute best option in Honkai Star Rail. The only thing Bailu has over him is her one-time revive. He provides more healing in every other way that matters, can remove both enemy buffs and teammate debuffs, and can convert team damage into healing on top of his frankly busted personal output. Seele is still your DPS go-to, and with Silver Wolf on the team, you can all but guarantee Seele can hit an enemy’s weaknesss because you made them have a new one. Bronya remains the best buffer in the game, especially with her personal Light Cone (I can personally confrim because of good RNG), and her ability to give Seele somehow even more turns is also borderline broken. This is the best team comp in Honkai Star Rail
Pay-to-Play Farming Team
- DPS: Jing Yuan/Seele
- Buff/Support: Bronya, Himeko/Silver Wolf
- Healer: Luocha/Bailu
As powerful as Seele is, Jing Yuan provides comparable multi-target DPS potential, letting you clear mobs about as, or even more, effectively as she does. Adding Himeko and Silver Wolf to the mix would make things even quicker in most situations, and Bronya remains a very strong choice. Luocha will undoubtedly be a mainstay for any player who has him on their team, but if you missed his banner, Bailu remains a solid secondary option.
You’ll want to experiment with different elemental matchups in your best team comps for some higher-end content, though that’s less the case today, thanks to Silver Wolf. Focusing on Break Effect, Crit Damage, and core stats becomes increasingly important the harder things become. These make-ups will also shift or change entirely as HSR receives new characters, but what’s presented here are great all-purpose comps well worth your investment.
Those are just some of the best team builds in Honkai: Star Rail. I’ve been able to test, and I can confirm that they’re potent. We’ve covered plenty of other facets of the game here, including the best Light Cones for each character, the pity system explained, as well as the best ways to farm experience. For more, see our HSR guides hub.
