The 3.2 update toHonkai: Star Railbrings two long-awaited characters: Castorice and Anaxa. There’s also a host of popular character reruns, many of which are still in the meta long after their release. But who should you pull for?
Should you pull for Castorice in Honkai: Star Rail 3.2
Castorice is a Quantum DPS following the path of Remembrance, and, according to theHonkai: Star Rail leaksand beta footage posted online, her potential damage output is absurd. Her primary source of damage is her Ultimate, which summons a massive dragon. She’s an HP-scaling character and uses her and her team’s health as a resource to power both her and her dragon’s output.
The dragon expends HP to use its breath weapon to attack the entire enemy field and can use up all 100% of its health to deal — and I kid you not — over 1 million damage consistently. you’re able to also restrain it from using its full capacity to keep it on the field longer.
Castorice’s biggest handicap, as you might imagine, is her and her team’s health. She goes some way toward dealing with that issue so long as the dragon is on the field, as no team member can be KO’d while it’s out. Castorice, therefore, requires a strong healer to work at 100% efficiency. Youcanuse Gallagher, but her best choice will likely be Hyacine, who should release in 3.3.
As far as her sub-DPS and support options go, Castorice succeeds where Aglaea failed. Yes,Sunday is probably still her best optionoverall, given his specialty buffing memosprite summons, but there are a lot of other solid options available:
The Amphoreus characters have also introducedHonkai: Star Railto the double DPS meta, and Castorice works surprisingly well with other characters who manipulate their HP. Blade and Mydei, in particular, are amazing partners. She’s also brought Luocha back into vogue (if only temporarily) thanks to a vast increase in attackers powering his healing Talent.
All told, Castorice is likely a surefire winner, even if you don’t have the resources to pull for her signature Light Cone. More Remembrance Light Cones are undoubtedly on their way to make Castorice more free-to-play friendly. If you don’t like losing 20% damage and lots of gameplay comfort, her signature is all but required, though that’s true of almost any limited 5-star these days.
Should you pull for Anaxa in Honkai: Star Rail 3.2
The Erudition Path is eating good withStar Rail‘s Amphoreus arc. First came The Herta, who could be argued to be the most versatile DPS the game’s ever seen. Next, in 3.2, comesAnaxa, a Wind-element character here to put Silver Wolf out of a job. Why? His Ultimate afflicts the entire enemy team with Physical, Ice, Wind, Quantum, Imaginary, Fire, and Lightning Weakness.
All of them. Untiltheirnext turn.
His Ultimate also applies a crowd control debuff should they lack resistance to such effects. He’s got respectable DPS of his own, too. That makes Anaxa yet another “Toughness bars are a suggestion” character who simultaneously ensures the 3.x content never beats the massive powercreep allegatoins.
His teams are pretty flexible as well. He can be played as either a traditional Hypercarry with two supports or as a sub-DPS to even higher-damage potential units.
Like all DPS units, the biggest thing holding Anaxa back is his reliance on Skill Point usage. Your SP management can become an issue on a team with The Herta or other Skill-centric characters, especially without signature Light Cones. If you build Anaxa with enough Energy Regen, youmightbe able to sidestep some of these issues.
If you don’t have other characters capable of applying elemental weakness or otherwise ignoring enemy Toughness, or you want a character who functions differently from a more traditional DPS, Anaxa is a great choice. He’s also likely to grow in value over time because blanket Weakness application will be much harder to powercreep than Silver Wolf’s single-target, random application.
…Right?
Should you pull for a rerun character in Honkai: Star Rail 3.2
There area lotof top-quality rerun characters making an appearance with the 3.2 update toHonkai: Star Rail. And not just DPS units, but supports as well. We’ll briefly go over each of them here so you can get an idea of who to prioritize:
If you were to ask whoI’mpulling for, the answer would always be Castorice. Part of it is to keep up with the meta, and part of it is being fond of her character and design. I don’t have a need for Anaxa’s endless Weakness implant, and while I’d like to add Jiaoqiu to my Acheron team, he’s not someone I’m missing.
