Honkai: Star Rail – Black Swan build and ascension guide

Predict your opponents’ doom and fulfill the prophecy with the best Honkai: Star Rail Black Swan build. Specializing in causing and exploiting DoT effects, this Memokeeper from the Garden of Recollection destroys her enemies with a thousand little cuts. Black Swan deals Wind Damage and follows the Path of The Nihility, though lore-wise she is a faithful of The Remembrance. Her kit revolves around inflicting Arcana, a DoT status effect inflicting Wind Damage based on Black Swan’s Attack on those suffering from it at the start of each turn. Each stack of Arcana increases the DoT multiplier and targets can have up to 50 stacks of Arcana inflicted on them. There are some additional effects based on the current number of Arcana stacks on a target: Three or more Arcana: Adjacent enemies suffer Wind Damage based on Black Swan’s Attack with a chance of inflicting Arcana on them. Seven or more Arcana: DoT dealt by this instance of Arcana being triggered partly ignores the Defense of this target as well as adjacent on