11 Best Ascension 6 Traces In Honkai: Star Rail

Sushang’s whole kit is built around her Sword Stance. She tries to make it happen as often as possible by using her Skill to Weakness Break or her Ultimate to make it more likely to happen for the next two turns.

In Honkai: Star Rail, Asta is already a great backup character, which is also called a “Harmony” character. Her “Charging” trait is easy to use and keep track of, and it helps any team composition because it’s just a small attack buff. Asta’s only weakness is that she isn’t very good at staying alive, but the Constellation Trace will make that much less of an issue. It can boost her Defense by up to 30 percent, so players can build her for maximum buffs instead of staying alive.

Welt is one of those HSR figures who seems to be playing two different parts. Overall, he doesn’t do enough damage to be a DPS, but Slows and the odd Imprisonment aren’t enough to make him a support character. On the one hand, this makes him a great Nihility figure, but on the other hand, it can make it hard to use him. But with the Punishment Trace, Welt does a lot more damage overall. This is because he usually focuses on slowing enemies and isn’t the one who causes the Weakness Break, so he’ll use this effect a lot.

Even with Version 1.2, Seele is still at the very top of all the tier lists for Honkai: Star Rail, as if she needed anything else to make her better. But that’s only true if she has the right build, and it’s only crazy when she’s “buffed” and in a flow state. If players are having trouble staying in their buffed state, the Rippling Waves Trace will let her use Basic Attack to kill an almost-dead enemy, get into her buffed state, and then Advancement forward will usually let her use her Skill before the enemies have a chance to react, just like a Hunt Path character should.

Let’s be honest: Most people who play HSR only level and spend resources on Dan Heng because he’s the only’real’ Wind-damage DPS in the game right now. So, most of the time, he’s not in a party because he’s someone’s favorite, and he doesn’t usually get Skill Points first.

Even if he only uses his Basic Attack, he will still do a fair amount of damage thanks to this Trace. This Trace also works very well in a team with an enemy-slowing character like Welt or one of the leaked future characters.

Moving on to the third and final part of the Astral Express, it is March 7th. Anyone who uses March 7th regularly on their team knows how often her ultimate, Glacial Cascade, freezes enemies because she gets to use it so often in a fight. So, it’s well worth the resources to get the Trace that makes the base chance that the Ultimate will freeze enemies each time by 15%.

Some people think that the Fire/Preservation Trailblazer is the best tank in Penalty Kick Online game right now. At the very least, it’s the easiest to get, since Gepard and Clara, the other two main choices, are 5-Stars characters that players will have to roll for.

And there will be a lot of turns where the Trailblazer starts with a shield active, especially if a player also uses March 7th or Gepard (though that would probably be too much), so their Action Beats Overthinking Trace is basically just a 15% increase to their attack.

As a healer, Bailu’s main trick is the buff she gives to friends called “Invigoration.” When Invigoration is on, friends who get hit will get some health back, and sometimes even more health than they lost from the hit. And some of the endgame material in HSR can make it hard to keep everyone alive, even with the newest character (at the time of writing this) Luocha in the team comp.

So, her Aquatic Benediction Trace is like a 10% damage reduction buff for the whole team since she always has it on. This is another easy Trace to get as soon as it becomes available.

If you had to use one word to describe the three main tanks in HSR, Clara’s would be “Counters,” Gepard’s would be “Taunts,” and the Trailblazer’s would be “Shields.” But of the three, Gepard probably does the least damage overall, which is why his Fighting Spirit Trace will make such a big difference.

Not only that, but it scales off his defense number, so the tankier Gepard is, the more damage he does, which is every tank’s dream.

Clara and Svarog are in the last of the three “tanks.” Even though Clara is on the Destruction Path and not the Preservation Path, she is still a tank. Now, with the right build, Clara can tank a lot of damage and do a lot of damage herself. People in the community have shared videos of Clara taking on bosses by herself (not including Svarog). So, it’s a no-brainer to spend money on a Trace that makes her main source of damage, Svarog’s Mark of Counter follow-up hits, even stronger.

The last and best Trace on this list isn’t as exciting as some of the other characters’ Traces, but that’s just because it’s so useful. With the Military Might Ascension 6 Trace, Bronya increases everyone’s damage by 10% while she’s on the field.

Bronya can boost an ally’s attack by 76 percent for one turn by adding this to the 33 percent damage boost she gives allies when she uses her skill and the 33 percent damage boost she gives allies when she uses her Belobog March Ultimate right after.

Honkai: Star Rail is now out for PC and mobile devices, and a PS5 version will come out in the fourth quarter of 2023.