Honkai: Star Rail has a selection of banners to pull on for characters and Light Cones. See which banners are best to pull on, as well as the pity mechanics, guaranteed 5-stars, and pull animation differences here!

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Best Warp (Gacha) Banners to Pull On

Character Banners Review

Character Banner	Featured Characters
Eyes to the Stars Rating: ★★★★★	Sunday Arlan Qingque Tingyun
Swirl of Heavenly Spear Rating: ★★★★☆	Jing Yuan Arlan Qingque Tingyun

Best Characters and Tier List

Should You Pull for Sunday?

Sunday is an excellent support for DPS characters with Summons and as a hypercarry for DPS in general. His Skill gives your DPS and their Summon an extra turn and increases their DMG while his Ultimate gives them Energy and increases their CRIT DMG.

He can also remove a debuff using his Skill and is SP-neutral. Pull for Sunday if you need a character who can advance Summons or extra turns and other offensive buffs for your hypercarry team.

Sunday Best Builds and Teams

Should You Pull for Jing Yuan?

Jing Yuan is a strong DPS character with high multi-target damage, making him both effective in AoE damage and breaking the Toughness bar of enemies weak to Lightning.

Jing Yuan is a good choice if you're lacking Lightning characters and especially if you have Sunday since his skill can give Jing Yuan and his Summon an extra turn and increases their DMG.

Jing Yuan Best Builds and Teams

Light Cone Banners Review

Light Cone Banner	Rate Up Cones
Brilliant Fixation Rating: ★★★★☆	A Grounded Ascent Swordplay The Birth of the Self Poised to Bloom
Bygone Reminiscence Rating: ★★★★☆	Before Dawn Swordplay The Birth of the Self Poised to Bloom

Best Light Cones and Tier List

Should You Pull For A Grounded Ascent?

A Grounded Ascent provides Harmony characters with consistent Energy regen provided that they have a single-target Skill or Ultimate. It also gives them access to the Hymn buff, which is great for increasing the damage of the target ally.

Pull for this Light Cone if you have Sunday or you have harmony characters with single-target Skills or Ultimates in their kit to easily stack the Hymn effect fully. Otherwise, other Harmony Light Cones would fit better.

A Grounded Ascent Best Characters

Should You Pull For Before Dawn?

Before Dawn is good if you enjoy using Erudition characters or if you have Jing Yuan. It provides a whopping 36% CRIT DMG increase, an 18% Skill and Ultimate DMG increase, and a 48% follow-up attack DMG buff.

With this, Before Dawn is a solid choice for most types of content since the alternatives are weaker and are also niche.

Before Dawn Best Characters

Banner Pity Mechanics

Hard Pity for Characters and Light Cones

Honkai: Star Rail follows the exact same pity rules as Genshin Impact. Characters are guaranteed to appear after 90 pulls while Light Cones only need 80 pulls.

5-Star Selector

After 300 rolls in the Stellar Warp Banner, players are eligible for a 5-star Selector. This is only available once per account so choose wisely!

5-Star Choices
Bailu	Bronya	Clara
Gepard	Himeko	Welt
Yanqing

Event Banner Pity Carries Over

Like in Genshin Impact, pity in Character and Light Cone Event Banners carries over so your pulls are not exactly wasted.

Example of Pity Carrying Over
Spent 89 pulls for Seele in her banner's last day without getting a 5-Star. Seele's Banner is replaced by Jing Yuan's. Next pull at the 90th is a guaranteed 5-Star with a 50% chance to be Jing Yuan.

How The Pity System Works

Pull Animation Differences

Different Colors for Pulls

Depending on your pull, the door behind Pom-Pom will glow in different colors. If you did a 10-pull, the highest rarity color is prioritized.

Rarity	Pom-Pom Animation
5★
4★
3★

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