Honkai Star Rail 4.0 Free Limited 5-Star Selector – Best Characters To Pick

How To Obtain The Free Limited 5-Star Character Selector

To obtain the special limited free 5-star Character Selector Ticket during the release of Honkai Star Rail version 4.0, players simply need to have unlocked the event tab for the game and simply log into the game during the update patch’s period.

This time around, the limited 5-star selector will only be available for grab during the 4.0 update patch and won’t be available once the update patch ends, so players should focus on logging into the game to get this. The 5-star Limited Character Selector will feature a total of 7 different characters for players to get: the 5-star Lightning Erudition Character Jingyuan, the 5-star Lightning Nihility Character Kafka, the 5-star Imaginary Destruction character Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae, the 5-star Ice Destruction character Jingliu, the 5-star Quantum Harmony character Sparkle, the 5-star Lightning Nihility Character Acheron and the 5-star Imaginary Preservation Character Aventurine.

Jingyuan

Jingyuan is a 5-star character of the Erudition Path and Lightning Element. He specializes in dealing AoE Lightning damage to all enemies in order to build up stacks to allow his summon – the Lightning Lord, to deal powerful Lightning Follow Up Attacks on enemies based on the amount of stacks built up when it takes action.

Jingyuan’s gameplay is rather simple: while Jingyuan is on the field, his Lightning Lord summon will have a special action on the action bar. Before his Lightning Lord attacks, Jingyuan wants to use his Skill and Ultimate as frequently as possible to build special stacks for his Lightning Lord. The more stacks Lightning Lord has, the more attacks it will deal and the more damage it will deal to all enemies. Once it acts, Lightning Lord will deal AoE Follow Up Attacks to all enemies based on its stack and will reset the amount of stacks afterward.

Kafka

Kafka is a 5-star character of the nihility Path and Lightning Element. She is a central piece for the DoT centric meta in the game thanks to her unique ability to easily detonate DoT effects on enemies, allowing her to turn DoT from a passive damaging effect to a more active one.

Kafka’s abilities and gameplay revolves around her skill and ultimate. Kafka’s skill allows her to deal Lightning damage to 3 enemies and detonate the DoT effect on the main target, making them take instant DoT damage based on the DoT stacks and Kafka’s Attack stats. Kafka’s Ultimate also allows her to detonate all enemies’ DoT stacks by attacking all enemies, inflicting Shock on them and detonating all of their DoTs. Upon allies using any attacks, Kafka can also do a follow up attack on the same attack target, dealing Lightning damage and inflict Shock on the enemy.

Kafka is the central piece for a DoT centric team with her amazing skill kit and the ability to boost the entire team’s attack and DoT damage output thanks to her talent.

Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae

Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae is a 5-star Destruction character of the Imaginary Element. He specializes in consuming as much SP as possible in order to strengthen his basic attack and deal immense Blast damage to enemies.

Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae’s main gameplay revolves around using his Skill to consume up to 3 SP per use to enhance his basic attack to the maximum. Upon enhancement, Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae’s Basic Attack can deal powerful Imaginary Damage to up to 3 enemies. When using his Ultimate, Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae can gain special stacks that allow him to mitigate the SP consumption cost, helping to alleviate the SP consumption for the team when using his enhanced basic attack.

Jingliu

Jingliu is a 5-star Destruction character of the Ice Element. She specializes in consuming her own HP and her allies’ HP in order to enhance her Skill usage and is able to massively enhance her Skill damage output when she is in her special Ultimate Mode.

Jingliu, after receiving a buff, is a Max HP Critical DPS character that gains immense benefits from consuming her own and her allies’ HP. Upon using her Skill, Jingliu can consume a set amount of the team’s HP to enhance the damage output of the Skill and grant herself a special stack. Upon reaching 2 stacks, Jingliu will enter her enhanced state, making all of her attacks take more HP from the team in exchange to being able to gain amazing buffs and attack all enemies with high max HP-based damage. By attacking enemies with her skill and Ult, Jingliu can maintain her special enhanced state.

Sparkle

Sparkle is a 5-star character of the Harmony Path and Quantum Element. She is an amazing support character capable of action advancing an ally, generating a large amount of SP for the entire team while also buffing the critical damage of the team.

Sparkle’s main gimmick lies in her Ultimate, which allows her to instantly generate a large amount of SP for the entire team to use, which the team can hold up to 9 SP when she is on the team thanks to her talent. Additionally, with her new buff, Sparkle can now store excess amounts of SP generated and refund them whenever the team wants them, making her extremely SP positive. Sparkle can also give a 50% action advance to an ally of her choosing by using her Skill and help boost the team’s overall critical damage and damage output with her talent and ultimate effects.

Acheron

Acheron is a 5-star character of the Nihility Path and Lightning Element. She specializes in dealing extremely high damage to enemies suffering from debuffs and needs enemies to be debuffed to be able to unleash her powerful Ultimate.

Acheron’s main damage output lies in her Ultimate, which is locked behind a special stacking system. Whenever enemies are inflicted with debuffs from Acheron herself or her allies, Acheron will gain 1 stack of her Ultimate. Once she gains all stacks of her Ultimate, she can use it to unleash a series of powerful Lightning Damage slashes to all enemies, dealing more damage proportional to the amount of debuffs on the enemies.

Aventurine

Aventurine is a 5-star character of the Preservation path and Imaginary element. He excels at providing stackable shields to all allies by triggering constant follow up attacks and has the ability to boost the team’s follow up damage.

Aventurine is essentially a shielder character capable of constantly providing shields to allies whenever his Follow Up Attack is triggered. When allies protected by Aventurine’s shields are attacked, Aventurine will gain 1 stack of his passive and once it reaches 7, he will unleash an AoE follow up attack against enemies, providing extra shield to all allies afterward. Aventurine’s shields are stackable and can become extremely beefy, allowing him to protect the team. Additionally, Aventurine’s Ultimate also allows him to deal Imaginary damage to an enemy and make them take more critical damage from all allies for a set amount of time. 

Best Characters To Pick

Now that we have gone over the 7 selectable characters, here is an overall rating of which of these are worth it for players to get. Please keep in mind that this ranking is based on the current meta of the game as of version 4.0 and takes into account the overall meta performance and relevancy of these characters to deem whether or not they are worth getting for the meta gameplay. If you really love a character and want to pick them, it is highly advisable to do so, otherwise, here are the overall ranking for the best picks among these characters:

– Top Pick: Sparkle.

Sparkle is the absolute top pick among the 7 characters as she is the only really meta character among them. Despite falling short compared to other Harmony characters at times, with her new buff, Sparkle can shine amazingly as a SP support character capable of boosting the overall damage output of a SP-reliant team, making her extremely relevant for the game’s upcoming elation meta alongside Sparxie.

– Good Value Picks: Kafka, Acheron and Aventurine.

Among these, Kafka is the only character that is still relevant to the game’s overall meta as she is a central piece for the DoT team, however, Kafka is less valuable to have if you don’t have other DoT centric characters like Black Swan or Hysilens, so players should only get her if you are intending on investing into a full DoT Team.

As for Acheron and Aventurine, these characters are generally out of the game’s meta, yet they still have their uses and still perform relatively okay right now. The main thing both of these characters need is a buff and they will return to the game’s meta in no time, so if you don’t have these characters, you can consider getting them.

– Low Value Picks: Jingyuan, Jingliu and Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae.

These 3 characters are extremely stat hungry, very gimmicky to work with and even at a high investment level, they still fall short of the game’s overall damage point to become actual meta characters. Despite receiving buffs and changes to their gameplay a lot of time, due to how difficult it is to use them and the mediocre damage return compared to the investment, it is not recommended to get these characters unless you really like them.

Conclusion

With that,we have gone over the best picks players should get from the Honkai Star Rail 4.0 5-star Limited Character Selector. If you want to obtain amazing brand new characters in the upcoming Planarcadia update for the game, then don’t hesitate to take advantage of Enjoygm’s special discounted deals for Honkai Star Rail Top Up today!