Best Seele builds and skills in Honkai Star Rail

Seele is a powerful five-star Quantum character in Honkai: Star Rail who is capable of delivering many swift and powerful attacks in a row.

Since Seele is part of The Hunt, her single-target damage is the strongest part of her skillset, making her a great DPS character. She’s a fairly easy character to build, but Seele will function best when you fully understand all parts of her skillset, know what you need to level her up, and what the best build for her looks like.

Seele’s skills in Honkai: Star Rail

Seele has five skills that are built around bolstering her role as a Quantum Main DPS.

• “Thwack” basic attack: Deals Quantum damage equal to 50 to 110 percent of Seele’s attack against a single enemy.
• “Sheathed Blade” skill: Raises Seele’s speed by 25 percent for two turns and deals Quantum DMG equal to 110 to 242 percent of Seele’s attack against a targeted opponent.
• “Butterfly Flurry” Ultimate: Seele enters the buffed state and deals Quantum damage equal to 255 to 459 percent of her attack against a single targeted foe.
• “Resurgence” talent: Seele’s buffed state is activated after defeating an enemy with her basic attack, skill, or ultimate, and she receives an extra turn. While the buffed state is active, the damage dealt by Seele’s attacks is raised by 40 percent for one turn. Any opponents defeated during Seele’s extra turn provided by Resurgence will not activate another occurrence of Resurgence.
• “Phantom Illusion” technique: Upon using her technique, Seele enters Stealth mode and turns invisible for 20 seconds. As long as Stealth is active, Seele will not be detected by enemies. If Seele enters battle while in Stealth mode, she begins already in the buffed state.

Seele Ascension materials in Honkai: Star Rail

To raise Seele to the maximum level, you’ll need to gather all of the following Ascension materials.

• 308,000 Credits
• 15 Thief’s Instinct
• 15 Usurper’s Scheme
• 15 Conqueror’s Will
• 65 Void Cast Iron

Seele Trace materials in Honkai: Star Rail

Seele has her own unique Trace tree featuring general increases to her skills and additional buffs to enhance her overall statistics. To maximize Seele’s skill tree, you’ll need to gather all of the following Trace materials.

• 3,000,000 Credits
• 18 Arrow of the Beast Hunter
• 69 Arrow of the Demon Slayer
• 139 Arrow of the Starchaser
• 41 Thief’s Instinct
• 56 Usurper’s Scheme
• 58 Conqueror’s Will
• 12 Guardian’s Lament
• Eight Tracks of Destiny

Seele’s best build in Honkai: Star Rail

The best build for Seele is one focused on her DPS skills, especially her damage output and speed. Most Hunt characters function in a similar way, so there are plenty of strong Light Cones available plus a few solid Relic options for her.

Best Light Cones for Seele in Honkai: Star Rail

The best Light Cones for Seele are ones focused on enhancing her DPS abilities through raising critical damage, attack, and critical rate.

Overall, Seele’s signature Light Cone In The Night is the strongest option for her, but there are many other powerful Light Cones for her too if you can’t afford to pull for this option like Cruising in the Stellar Sea and Swordplay.

• In the Night
  • Rarity: Five-star
  • “Flowers and Butterflies” ability: Raises the equipping character’s critical rate by 18 percent. While the equipping recruit is in battle, for every 10 speed that exceeds the base 100 speed, their basic attack and skill damage is then boosted by six percent. Additionally, the critical damage of their Ultimate is raised by 12 percent. This effect can accumulate up to six stacks.

• Cruising in the Stellar Sea
  • Rarity: Five-star
  • “Chase” ability: Increases the equipping character’s critical rate by eight percent, and raises their critical rate against foes who have 50 percent or fewer health points by an additional eight percent. When the equipping character vanquishes an opponent, their attack is raised by 20 percent for two turns.
• Swordplay
  • Rarity: Four-star
  • “Answers of Their Own” ability: For each strike the equipping character delivers against the same target, the damage they deal increases by eight percent for up to a maximum of five stacks. The stack effect will be reset whenever the equipping character changes targets.

Best Relics for Seele in Honkai: Star Rail

The best Relics for Seele are those capable of enhancing her overall DPS abilities which include her attack, critical rate, Quantum damage, and critical damage.

With this in mind, the overall best Relic set for Seele is the four-piece Genius of Brilliant Stars set. You can also do a two-piece of the Genius of Brilliant Stars set with a two-piece Musketeer of Wild Wheat if you prefer to raise her attack instead of obtaining the full four-piece bonus.

• Genius of Brilliant Stars
  • Rarity: Two-star, three-star, four-star, or five-star.
  • Two-piece effect: Quantum damage is raised by 10 percent.
  • Four-piece effect: When the equipping character deals damage against an opponent, 10 percent of their overall defense is ignored. Additionally, when they strike foes who have Quantum weakness, another 25 percent of their defense is ignored.
• Musketeer of Wild Wheat
  • Rarity: Two-star, three-star, four-star, or five-star.
  • Two-piece effect: Attack is increased by 12 percent.
  • Four-piece effect: The equipping character’s speed is raised by six percent and their basic attack damage is increased by 10 percent.

For Seele’s two-piece Planar Ornament set, Rutilant Arena is the best option overall but there are also two other viable options that might suit your specific build for her better.

• Rutilant Arena
  • Rarity: Two-star, three-star, four-star, or five-star
  • Two-piece effect: Increases the wearer’s critical rate by eight percent. When the equipping character’s critical rate reaches 70 percent or more, their basic attack and skill damage are raised by 20 percent.
• Space Sealing Station
  • Rarity: Two-star, three-star, four-star, or five-star.
  • Two-piece effect: Attack is raised by 12 percent. When the equipping recruit’s speed reaches 120 or higher, their attack then increases by an additional 12 percent.
• Celestial Differentiator
  • Rarity: Two-star, three-star, four-star, or five-star.
  • Two-piece effect: Seele’s Critical rate is increased by eight percent. When the equipping character’s critical rate reaches 80 percent or higher, their basic attack and skill damage are increased by 20 percent.