Honkai: Star Rail 2.0 banners: Black Swan, Sparkle, and Misha debut

Honkai: Star Rail 2.0 banners: Phase 1

Starting on February 7, 2024, with update 2.0’s release, you’ll be able to call upon two new characters:

• Black Swan (5-Star character, Wind, The Nihility), Misha (4-Star character, Ice, The Destruction), and two 4-Star characters.
• Imbibitor Lunae (5-Star character, Imaginary, The Destruction), Misha (4-Star character, Ice, The Destruction), and two 4-Star characters.
• Reforged Remembrance (5-Star Light Cone, The Nihility) and three 4-Star Light Cones.
• Brighter Than the Sun (5-Star Light Cone, The Destruction) and three 4-Star Light Cones.

Black Swan

Black Swan is a damage dealer specializing in DoT effects. Not only can she inflict massive amounts of damage over time by herself, she maximizes DoT effectiveness for the entire party. As such, she is going to work together extremely well with Kafka, Sampo, Luka, and Guinaifen.

Imbibitor Lunae

Imbibitor Lunae, of course, is a very Skill Point-hungry character, making Sparkle a perfect support to accompany him. He is an incredibly strong hyper carry for all kinds of content, so players looking for an offensive powerhouse should consider pulling for Imbibitor Lunae and, ideally, Sparkle as well.

Misha

Misha has an interesting mechanic that allows him to increase the number of hits his Ultimate, a bouncing attack, dishes out. Thanks to a chance to Freeze hit enemies, this has the potential to greatly disrupt the entire opposing team.

Honkai: Star Rail 2.0 banners: Phase 2

Phase 2 will begin on February 28, 2024, and run for three weeks from that point on. You’ll be able to get one brand-new character in this time period:

• Sparkle (5-Star character, Quantum, The Harmony), and three 4-Star characters.
• Jing Yuan (5-Star character, Lightning, The Erudition), and three 4-Star characters.
• Earthly Escapade (5-Star Light Cone, The Harmony) and three 4-Star Light Cones.
• Before Dawn (5-Star Light Cone, The Erudition) and three 4-Star Light Cones.

Sparkle

Sparkle is an incredibly interesting type of support character, as she increases the amount of Skill Points available to the team in addition to being able to recover several of them at once. Other than that, she specializes in boosting her team’s Attack and Critical Damage and can Advance Forward an ally’s action.

Jing Yuan

Jing Yuan deals a lot of area-of-effect damage and can call upon the summoned Lightning Lord for follow-up attacks. He’s especially strong in the Pure Fiction mode, though he has certain weaknesses compared to other follow-up attackers – the biggest of which is that Lightning Lord skips his attack if Jing Yuan is stunned.

Three weeks after the second phase of version 2.0 begins, the next update will be released – introducing Acheron, Aventurine, and Gallagher to the game.