Who is Honkai Star Rail Yao Guang?

Yao Guang is a 5-star Physical character following the Path of Elation, serving as a premier support who revolutionizes Elation team compositions in Honkai: Star Rail. As a General of the Xianzhou Yuque and a bold Seer Strategist, she deploys Zones to share her Elation stat with allies, generates Punchlines to trigger powerful Aha Instants for extra turns and damage, and enables follow-up Elation DMG through her Talent during Certified Banger states.

There are team-wide RES PEN, SPD boosts, CRIT buffs via relics, and SP recovery coming from Yao Guang’s kit, making her essential for SP-hungry DPS in mono-Elation setups. Yao Guang excels in endgame content like Memory of Chaos and Pure Fiction once paired with fellow Elation units like Sparxie.

Yao Guang Kit Overview

Abilities play a very crucial role for the Honkai Star Rail Yao Guang build as they center on Elation mechanics: Punchline generation for Aha procs, Zone sharing of her Elation stat (which scales with SPD), and bonus Elation DMG instances on ally attacks.

And here is how her abilities work in the game:

Yao Guang Trace Overview

Yao Guang’s traces focus on speed scaling, damage boosts, and extra actions that help maintain smooth combat flow. Each trace rewards proper stat investment and smart skill usage, making her stronger as builds become more refined.

• Amaze In Grace: This trace activates once speed reaches 120 or higher. At that point, Elation damage increases by 30%. Any speed above 120 continues to add extra Elation damage at a rate of 1% per excess speed, scaling all the way up to a cap at 200 speed. Building speed beyond the minimum is highly rewarding and directly improves overall damage output.
• Poised and Sated: Poised and Sated provides a massive boost to critical damage, increasing CRIT DMG by 60%. On top of that, after using an Elation skill, the team gains 1 additional skill point. This trace helps balance aggressive skill usage while keeping the team’s skill economy stable.
• Felicity Ensemble: Felicity Ensemble grants an extra Banger turn. This additional action improves damage consistency and allows more frequent pressure on enemies, especially in extended fights where turn advantage matters most.

Together, these traces encourage fast builds, consistent Elation skill usage, and steady team support, making Yao Guang stronger as speed and combat tempo increase.

Ascension and Trace Materials for Honkai Star Rail Yao Guang Build 

You can pre-farm these for Level 80/10. Invasive Clot is farmable now via Shape of Deepsheaf for Stagnant Shadow.

Ascension Materials Total

Trace Materials Total (excl. Basic ATK)

Priority: Skill (Zone/Punchlines) > Talent (Boon procs) > Ultimate (Aha/RES PEN) > Basic. Max bonus traces for SPD/Elation/CRIT.

To accelerate material and relic farming, especially Cavern of Corrosion for Diviner of Distant Reach, top up Oneiric Shards via Enjoygm. This lets you run more relic domains daily, hitting those SPD breakpoints faster for optimal Elation scaling.

Best Yao Guang Light Cones

For an ideal Honkai Star Rail Yao Guang build, you can prioritize her signature for SPD and team CRIT/ER. It is better to aim for S1+ and these are the best light cones that goes with her.

Best Relics & Planar Ornaments

Choosing the right relics and planar ornaments is key to unlocking consistent damage and smooth rotations for a bets Honkai Star Rail Yao Guang build. Speed thresholds, critical stats, and energy management all play an important role here, so the focus should be on sets that scale naturally with Yao Guang’s kit.

• Relics: 4pc Diviner of Distant Reach stands as the best in slot option: With two pieces equipped, speed increases by 6%, helping reach important speed breakpoints more easily. Equipping all four pieces provides strong offensive value. Critical Rate increases by 10% once speed reaches 120 and jumps to 18% at 160 speed or higher. On top of that, the first Elation skill used in battle grants the entire team a 10% Elation damage boost, making this set excellent for both personal damage and team support..
• Alt: Eagle of Twilight Line with four pieces equipped works well for faster ultimate rotations, allowing more frequent turn advancement. If not, a mixed setup using two pieces of Eagle of Twilight Line and two pieces of Messenger offers a balanced approach, combining speed gains with flexible stat optimization
• Planar Ornaments: Lushaka, the Sunken Seas is the top choice for planar ornaments. The two piece bonus increases energy regeneration by 5%, helping maintain consistent skill and ultimate usage. When the wearer is not placed in Slot 1, an additional 12% attack bonus is granted to the ally in that position, adding extra team value without sacrificing personal performance.
• Alt: Sprightly Vonwacq (ER + advance at 120 SPD), Broken Keel (team CRIT DMG).

Stat Priority for Yao Guang Build

Substats: SPD (160-200+ goal) > CRIT Rate/DMG > ER > ATK% > Effect RES.

Best Yao Guang Teams & Synergies

Yao Guang shines in mono-Elation with SP-positive supports for her Punchline/Aha loops. You can place DPS in Slot 1 for Lushaka ATK%.

Eidolons Values for Yao Guang Build

Playstyle & Rotation Tips

Yao Guang plays best as a fast acting enabler who sets the pace of the fight and amplifies team damage through Elation effects. The entire build revolves around acting early, maintaining buffs, and feeding the team with consistent bonuses.

• Goal: The main objective is to move before enemies by stacking high speed. Acting first allows immediate zone deployment and early setup. Punchlines should be generated and managed carefully, as they are required to unlock stronger effects later in the rotation. The ultimate is used to trigger Aha effects and apply resistance penetration, while keeping Banger active ensures Boons remain available throughout the fight.
• Core Rotation: A smooth rotation keeps buffs active without wasting resources. Start the fight by using the skill to deploy the zone and begin generating Punchlines. Follow up with a basic attack to build additional Punchlines efficiently. Once enough resources are available, activate the ultimate to trigger the Aha burst and apply resistance penetration. After that, use the Elation skill to deal area damage while refunding skill points. Sustain skills can be used in between actions whenever the team requires healing or protection.
• Tips: Reaching 160 or higher speed is a major breakpoint, as it unlocks the full critical and Elation bonuses from relic effects. Pairing Yao Guang with strong skill point generators such as Sparkle greatly improves consistency and allows Boons to stack up to three times per ally attack. Using the technique before combat automatically deploys the zone, saving an early turn and improving opening momentum.

This build maximizes her as Elation enabler, scaling team DMG exponentially in 4.0 meta.

Conclusion  

So, that is all for the Honkai Star Rail Yao Guang build. Focus on the best teams, skill usages and all the tips we brought here and with them all, she is going to shine in the battles just as you wanted.