When crafting an effective Honkai Star Rail Fugue build, players may find it slightly unconventional due to her game role. As a 5-star character belonging to the Nihility category, Fugue primarily serves as a break support unit. This unique role presents its own challenges in understanding her abilities and optimal stat distribution.
This guide provides an overview of the most effective Light Cones and Relics for Fugue, along with team compositions that complement her skill set.
Essential Honkai Star Rail Fugue Build
Fugue’s Optimal Light Cones
Fugue’s ideal Light Cone, Long Road Leads Home, significantly eases her path to achieving a 220% break damage threshold. This cone grants a 60% boost to break damage and a 100% base chance to enforce the “charred”status upon successfully breaking an enemy. The “charred”effect amplifies break damage dealt to the target by 18%, stacking up to two times. While it’s not a necessity, this additional damage is quite beneficial.
The only other Light Cones in the Nihility category that enhance break damage are Fermata and Solitary Healing, with the latter available in Herta’s store. Fermata enhances break effects by 16%, while also boosting damage against enemies affected by shock or wind shear—a feature that won’t benefit Fugue directly.
On the other hand, Solitary Healing offers a 20% increase in break effect while enhancing damage-over-time (DOT) effects by 24% for two turns. Although DOT isn’t Fugue’s strong suit, the break effect bonus is advantageous if players are trying to meet the 220% break mark.
A strong alternative is the Resolution Shines As Pearls of Sweat Light Cone, which significantly increases the chances of applying the “ensnared”status to opponents. This debuff causes a 12% defense reduction on affected enemies for a turn, complementing Fugue’s own defensive reductions.
Additionally, Silver Wolf’s Before the Tutorial Mission Starts is now available via Herta’s store. While Fugue may not require its hit rate for effects, the energy regeneration boost when attacking weakened foes remains beneficial.
Recommended Relics for Fugue
To improve Fugue’s break effect, her most useful Relics are found in the set called Iron Cavalry Against the Scourge. This set is particularly effective as Fugue’s goal is to surpass that crucial 200% break effect mark.
- **Two-piece effect:** Grants a 16% increase in break effect.
- **Four-piece effect:** At 150% break effect or higher, the user ignores 15% of the enemy’s defense when performing a weakness break. At 250% or more, super break damage also ignores an additional 15% of enemy defense.
It’s worth noting that reaching 250% break effect can be challenging for Fugue since she lacks abilities that directly enhance her break effect in her kit. Players might need support from characters like Ruan Mei or Harmony Trailblazer. Additionally, her attack power isn’t as high as other characters like Firefly, limiting her frequency of enemy break activations.
An easier setup involves assembling a mixed set from Iron Cavalry, Watchmaker’s Dream, and Thief of Shooting Meteor, as each provides a solid 16% break effect increase.
Ornaments for Honkai Star Rail Fugue
The best ornaments for Fugue vary depending on her team composition. If paired with Firefly, the Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern is ideal. This ornament boosts speed by 6% and grants an impressive 40% break effect increase for one turn when attacking fire-weak enemies, a scenario easily achieved due to Firefly’s capabilities.
In teams without Firefly, the Talia, Kingdom of Banditry set should be utilized. This set enhances break effect by 16% while also providing an extra 20% break effect boost when the user’s speed exceeds 145. Though this speed requirement is stringent, characters like Ruan Mei can help elevate Fugue’s speed when engaged in battle.
Key Stats for Fugue
Fugue’s paramount stat is break effect, closely followed by speed and effect hit rate. These elements are crucial to ensuring she consistently reduces enemy defense when allies utilize her Foxian Prayer attack. If attaining the 220% break effect proves difficult, it’s worth noting that her third major passive grants a party-wide 12% break effect increase for two turns upon breaking an enemy’s weakness, which can stack twice.
In summary:
- **Body:** Focus on effect hit rate or attack percentage if using an EHR Light Cone.
- **Feet:** Prioritize speed.
- **Orb:** Choose between HP, defense, or attack percentage.
- **Rope:** Emphasize break effect.
Ideal Team Compositions for Fugue
Fugue excels as a debuffer through her defensive reductions but primarily serves as a break support character. Her ability allows for multiple quick breaks, synergizing well with characters like Rappa, who gains bonuses the more weakness breaks occur. She proves valuable to other break-centric characters as well.
Some of the best DPS partnerships for Fugue include:
- Rap
- Boothill
- Break damage Himeko
- Firefly
- Xueyi
- Break damage Luka
Although some players consider pairing her with Acheron due to her capacity to assist other characters in applying debuffs, opting for Jiaoqiu over Fugue remains favorable if Acheron is the primary goal.
For any team focusing on breaking enemies, pairing Fugue with another break support character, such as Ruan Mei or Harmony Trailblazer, would be advantageous. Healers like Gallagher and Lingsha also enhance sustainability, while Aventurine continues to be a reliable choice.
Fugue’s Tier Ranking in Honkai Star Rail
In our tier list for Honkai Star Rail, Fugue is comfortably placed in the S-rank category, particularly in break-focused teams. She enhances allies’ ability to break enemy toughness, amplifies break effects, enables multiple breaks, and provides access to super break capabilities. While Harmony Trailblazer offers similar benefits, including the lack of exotoughness, the Remembrance Trailblazer’s inclusion in current party dynamics adds to the competitive advantage of utilizing Fugue.
However, if you lack a break damage-oriented DPS character, pursuing Fugue may not be the most strategic choice.
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