Honkai Star Rail: Most Underrated 4-Stars & Why You Should Give Them A Second Chance

Over the course of the last year, HoYoverse has released a total of 41 new characters in Honkai Star Rail, of which 19 were 4-Stars! However, most players don’t really pay attention to them and focus on building their seemingly more valuable 5-Star units instead! This can hurt your account quite a bit, which is why we will show you some super underrated 4-Stars, you should definitely not forget about!

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Honkai Star Rail: Most Underrated 4-Stars & Why You Should Give Them A Second Chance! | © HoYoverse

Many Honkai Star Rail players are rather reluctant to invest a lot of time and materials into a DPS 4-Star character, because in the eyes of many, they are simply really bad! However, this is only true if you don’t know how and where to use them in order to let them shine as well!

Especially free to play accounts should not give up on their 4-Star DPS units, since there is a bunch of potential hidden in them! Let me show you three ladies, who could be a game changer for your account!

Honkai Star Rail: Most Underrated 4-Stars

The greatest issue with DPS 4-star characters is their lack of base stats! On average, they have significantly lower base values and therefore benefit less from ATK buffs, for example. However, 4-Stars also have a great strength: They are so much cheaper to build!

Especially because of the first reason, many 4-Star units are less suitable as a main DPS, however most of them are excellent sub DPS units instead since you don’t have to invest many resources into them! The following three characters are a perfect example of a super strong Sub DPS if built correctly!

1. Xueyi

“Though puppet in form, I'm fully functional!” — Xueyi
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Honkai Star Rail: Xueyi is definitely one of the most fun to play 4-Stars! | © HoYoverse

Xueyi is one of the most recent units in Honkai Star Rail, and at the same time one of the best 4-stars in the entire game! She is incredibly easy to play and with her follow-up attacks she does a lot more damage than you might think!

And speaking of her follow-up attacks: Since they are her main source of damage, she definitely wants to use “The Ashblazing Grand Duke” set! You may already have a few extra pieces of this set lying around after farming for your Kafka, for example!

Xueyi is most absolutely my number one recommendation if you haven’t built her already!

2. Qingque

“Life's just like a game of tiles, you never know what's gonna come up next!” — Qingque
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Honkai Star Rail: Qingque can deal more damage than you think! | © HoYoverse

Qingque is one of the very first 4-Stars in Honkai Star Rail, which doesn’t mean she is outdated! In fact, to this day, the Star Rail community still can’t decide if Qingque is actually really useless or super broken, there is no in between … However, more and more players love to use her in their teams as a Sub DPS in order to quickly burst down lager enemies which are weak to Quantum!

Qingque's damage output can be incredibly high, however her real strength will be unlocked after getting her fifth Eidolon. After you managed to pull this, your Qingque will be unstoppable!

Sushang

“One should always have dreams, you never know, they might actually become true one day!” — Sushang
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Honkai Star Rail: Sushang is just such an adorable character to have in your team! | © HoYoverse

Sushang is also a pretty old 4-Star, but still really usable! However, she is much more niche than the other two girls we covered in this article, since her biggest strength lays mainly in breaking Physical weakness! Her damage itself isn’t anything special, however her Weakness Break ability is much higher than any other 4-Star's.

Especially if you combine Sushang with Ruan Mei, you will be able to break Physical shields in seconds! Definitely pick her up if you don’t have any other Physical character built so far!

As mentioned above, Xueyi has become one of my favorite characters of all time! Her design is unique, and her abilities are just super fun to watch! Xueyi can be combined incredibly well with many other follow-up main DPS units and doesn't need too much investment to be really strong!

Celine Jaeckel

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