Here’s everything we know so far about Honkai: Star Rail Black Swan, including her speculated release date, abilities, and eidolons.
Honkai: Star Rail Black Swan Release Date
While the exact date Black Swan will grace the celestial stage remains a tantalizing secret, we can confidently anticipate her arrival sometime in Honkai: Star Rail’s 2.0 update. This means eager Travelers have some time to prepare for her enigmatic presence, gathering resources and honing their skills in anticipation of her unique gameplay style.
Abilities
Black Swan is more than just a captivating beauty; she wields a potent arsenal of abilities that promise to redefine the battlefield. Here’s a glimpse into her arsenal:
Basic Attack – Percipience, Silent Dawn
Deals Wind DMG equal to 30% of Black Swan’s ATK and has a 50% base chance to inflict a stack of Sacrament on the target. If the target is in Wind Shear, Bleeding, Burning, or Shocked state, each debuff has a 50% base chance to inflict an additional stack of Sacrament.
Skill – Decadence, False Twilight
Deals Wind DMG equal to 45% of Black Swan’s ATK to a single enemy and any adjacent targets, with a 100% base chance to inflict 1 stack of Sacrament to the attacked enemies and a 100% base chance to lower the attacked enemies’ DEF by 14.8%, lasting for 3 turns.
Ultimate – Bliss of Otherworld’s Embrace
Deals Wind DMG equal to 72% of Black Swan’s ATK to all enemies and inflicts Epiphany on them for 2 turn(s). Enemies affected by Epiphany take 15% more damage in their turn, and their Sacrament effect is regarded as Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn, and Shock effects. In addition, when their Sacrament effect is triggered at the beginning of the next turn, the Sacrament stacks are not reset. The stack reservation effect can be triggered up to 1 time(s) during the Epiphany duration, and its charges are replenished when Epiphany is applied again.
Talent – Loom of Fate’s Caprice
Every time an enemy target receives DoT at the start of each turn, there is a 50% base chance to for it to be inflicted with Sacrament. While afflicted with Sacrament, enemy targets receive Wind DoT equal to 96% of Black Swan’s ATK. Each stack of Sacrament increases this DMG multiplier by 4.8%. Then Sacrament resets to 1 stack. Sacrament can stack up to 99 times. Only when Sacrament deals DMG at the start of an enemy target’s turn, Black Swan triggers additional effects based on the number of Sacrament stacks inflicted on the target: When having 3 or more Sacrament stacks, deals Wind DoT equal to 72% of Black Swan’s ATK to adjacent targets, with a 50% base chance of inflicting 1 stack of Sacrament on adjacent targets. When having 7 or more Sacrament stacks, enables the current DoT dealt this time to ignore 20% of the target’s DEF and adjacent targets’ DEF.
Technique – From Façade to Vérité
After using the Technique, at the beginning of the next battle, there is a 150% base chance to inflict a stack of Sacrament on each enemy. If Sacrament is successfully inflicted on any enemy, this effect will be repeated on the affected enemies until it fails to inflict Sacrament on any of them. The re-trigger rate for Sacrament is equal to 50% of the previous trigger rate.
Passives
Viscera’s Disquiet
After using the Skill to hit a single target enemy that has Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn, or Shock, there is a 65% base chance of additionally inflicting 1 stack of Sacrament for each of the above debuffs on the enemy.
Goblet’s Dredges
Every time an enemy target receives DoT during the single attack of allies, there is a 65% base chance for it to be inflicted with 1 stack of Sacrament, stacking up to 3 time(s) during 1 single attack.
Candleflame’s Portent
Increases DMG dealt by this unit by an amount equal to 60% of their Effect Hit Rate, up to a maximum DMG increase of 72%.
Eidolons
- Level One – Seven Pillars of Wisdom: While Black Swan is active in battle, enemies in the Wind Shear, Bleeding, Burning, and Shocked states respectively have their Wind, Physical, Fire, and Lightning RES reduced by 25%.
- Level Two – Weep Not for Me, My Lamb: When an enemy under the Sacrament effect is downed, there is a 100% base chance of inflicting 5 stack(s) of Sacrament on adjacent targets.
- Level Three – As Above, So Below: Skill Lv. +2, up to a maximum of Lv. 15. Talent Lv. +2, up to a maximum of Lv. 15.
- Level Four – In Tears We Gift: While in the Epiphany state, enemy targets’ Effect RES reduces by 10%, and Black Swan regenerates 8 Energy at the start of the target’s turn or when the afflicted enemy is defeated. The Energy Regeneration effect can only trigger up to 1 time while Epiphany lasts. The trigger count will refresh after the enemy is inflicted with Epiphany again.
- Level Five – Linnutee Flyway: Ultimate Lv. +2, up to a maximum of Lv. 15. Basic ATK Lv. +1, up to a maximum of Lv. 10.
- Level Six – Pantheon Merciful, Masses Pitiful: When Black Swan’s teammates attack enemy targets, Black Swan has a 65% base chance of inflicting Sacrament on every enemy target hit. Each time Black Swan inflicts Sacrament on an enemy target, there is a 50% fixed chance to additionally increase the Sacrament stack afflicted this time by 1.
Black Swan’s enigmatic presence promises to redefine the battlefield in Honkai: Star Rail. As the whispers of her arrival grow louder, prepare to unravel her secrets, master her power, and witness the elegance of her debuffing symphony. The Garden of Recollection awaits, and the Black Swan is ready to take flight.
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