

Her skill does even more damage to enemies that already have a DoT debuff. Shock, just one of the status effects in Honkai: Star Rail, whittles away at enemies’ health more than the little purple lightning bolt icon initially lets on. Her Ultimate, Talent, and Technique all apply Shock damage to enemies.

Kafka is a Nihility character, meaning she specializes in applying debuffs to enemies and causing damage to them over time. You want to experiment with a damage over time (DoT) playstyle.You want to raise a Nihility or Lightning character.You’ll want a healer in most cases to ensure that Blade doesn’t kick the bucket before he can unleash his full power. Enhancing his attacks doesn’t use any skill points, so it’s basically begging you to use it. Using his Skill strengthens his attacks in exchange for HP, and his Ultimate restores HP when dealing damage to enemies. Most of Blade’s abilities scale based on his max HP, but they also eat his health. If you already have a fully built Dan Heng, you might want to reconsider getting Blade. Dan Heng can meet many of the same needs because of his expertise in single-target Wind damage, even if he and Blade’s movesets are way different from each other. In general, he’ll be more useful to players that don’t have a heavy-hitting Wind unit yet. You want to experiment with a character that sacrifices HP for buffsīlade can be used as either a primary or secondary damage dealer.You want to raise a Destruction or Wind character.These are just a few things that might make one more valuable than the other for you.

