Honkai: Star Rail Yao Guang Build Guide: Best Relics, Light Cone, Team Comps, and more

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Story Highlights

  • Yao Guang is a 5-Star Physical Elation support character.
  • Discover best Relics set, Light cones, and team comps for Yao Guang.
  • Find out is she worth pulling character for your account or not.

Honkai: Star Rail’s Version 4.0 update introduces Yao Guang, a new 5-star character who specializes in supporting the team with Physical damage boosts. This guide will show you how to build Yao Guang to get the most out of her abilities, with a detailed look at her skills and recommended settings to improve her performance.

Elation Mechanisms and Yao Guang Gameplay

Okay, so if you want to get Yao Guang, you need to understand the New Elation Path first. Basically, Elation is a mechanic, and here’s the lowdown on how it works…

Elation Mechanisms

When you include an Elation character in your team, you’ll see mask icons with numbers appear when combat starts. These icons show up on the skill bar, action bar, and next to each Elation character’s health. Elation characters have the ability to deal additional damage, and the action bar indicates when this extra damage – called Aha Instant – will occur.

Aha Instant can only be activated by Elation characters. Currently, we can’t increase its power using a character’s HP, attack, defense, or damage bonus until characters can convert those stats into Elation stats. The mask icons you see always show a number, which determines how much damage Aha Instant does. These numbers are called Punchline values, and higher numbers result in greater damage.

Each character in Elation has a special ability that can either help allies or harm enemies. These abilities are used in a specific order determined by each character’s ID, which you can see by tapping on their ability icon.

When characters use their Elation Skill, the numbers showing progress on their skill and action bars reset to the beginning. However, the numbers on each Elation character’s health bar increase. As an Elation character’s health bar numbers go up, they enter a state called Certified Banger, which gives them a boost. This boost lasts for two turns and can be applied multiple times, with each instance lasting independently.

Yao Guang Gameplay

Her main ability is creating a Zone that boosts her teammates’ Elation, which sets up powerful attack opportunities called Aha Instants and increases their ability to break through enemy defenses. Her ultimate ability, Aha, gives the whole team an extra turn and further enhances their ability to bypass enemy resistances. Below is a detailed look at her skills, techniques, ultimate, talents, Elation skill, and passive abilities.

Skill

Her ability creates a zone that lasts 3 turns, boosting the Elation damage of all allies by 20% – the amount is based on her own Elation stat. Elation is a brand-new stat that can’t be increased with Relics or Ornaments. Additionally, using her normal attack or skill while the zone is active grants her 3 Punchline.

Technique

Using this technique will instantly activate her special ability at the beginning of each fight, and it won’t cost any resources to do so.

Ultimate

Using Ultimate immediately grants you 5 Punchline and boosts your allies’ resistance penetration to all damage types by 20% for 3 rounds. It also triggers an Aha Instant dealing 20 damage, but doesn’t affect your current Punchline total.

Talent

Okay, so playing Yao Guang, if I get the Certified Banger buff, things get really fun. Basically, whenever my teammates attack, we can unleash some serious coordinated Elation damage. And here’s the kicker – if they use skill points while attacking, Yao Guang deals even more damage! It’s like a team-play reward system, and it feels awesome when it all clicks.

Elation Skill

Okay, so this move is pretty awesome. It hits all the enemies with a debuff that lasts for three turns, making them take 16% more damage from everything. Plus, it does a solid chunk of physical damage to everyone right away. Then, it randomly picks one enemy and really focuses on them, hitting them five times with physical damage – each hit is 20% of their max health. It’s a great way to quickly take out a key target while softening up the rest of the group.

Passive Skills

  • Amaze in Grace: If Yao Guang has 120 SPD, then her Elation increases by 30%. For every 1 SPD she has after reaching 120 SPD, her Elation increases by +1 up to 320 SPD. Her main stat Priority is SPD.
  • Poised and Stated: Increase her Crit Damage by 60% after using her Elation skill.
  • Felicity Ensemble: When Yap Guang gets Certified Banger, its duration increases by 1 round.

Honkai: Star Rail Yao Guang Best Relics and Planar Ornaments

Building Yao Guang effectively depends on your team and how you like to play. This part of the Honkai: Star Rail Yao Guang Build Guide will cover the best relics, main stats, and planar ornaments to prioritize.

  • Body: CRIT DMG% or CRIT Rate%
  • Feet: SPD
  • Planar Spear: ATK% or Physical Damage Bonus% 
  • Link Rope:  Energy Regeneration Rate%

Subsidiary Priority: SPD＞Crit Rate＞Effect RES＞Attack%

Relic Set

Relics Effects
Diviner of Distant Reach 2-Pc: Increases the wearer’s SPD by 6%.

4-Pc: Before entering combat, if the wearer’s SPD is greater than or equal to 120/160, increases the wearer’s CRIT Rate by 10%/18%.

 When the wearer uses Elation Skill for the first time in each battle, enhances all allies’ Elation by 10%. This effect cannot stack.

This relic is her best in-slot set. It provides SPD, which is a must-needed stat for her, and also provides Crit rate and team-wide buff for Elation characters.

Planar Ornaments

Planar Ornaments Effects
Lushaka, the Sunken Seas 2-Pc: Increases the wearer’s Energy Regeneration Rate by 5%. If the wearer is not the first character in the team lineup, increase the ATK of the first character by 12%.

It’s her best Planar Ornaments, which grant Energy Regeneration and provide a buff to the first character in the team lineup.
Sprightly Vonwacq 2-Pc: Increases the wearer’s Energy Regeneration Rate by 5%. If the wearer is not the first character in the team lineup, increase the ATK of the first character by 12%.

It’s her best Planar Ornaments, which give her Energy Regeneration and provide a buff for the first character in the team lineup.

Honkai: Star Rail Yao Guang Best Light Cones

Light Cones Effects
When She Decided to See (5*) Yao Guang’s signature Light Cone is absolutely her best option, which buffs the wearer and also provides buffs for your team.

Increases the wearer’s SPD by 18%. When the wearer enters combat or uses Ultimate on an ally target, the wearer gains “Great Fortune” for 3 turn(s).

While the wearer has “Great Fortune,” all allies’ CRIT Rate increases by 10%, CRIT DMG increases by 30%, and the wearer’s Energy Regeneration Rate increases by 12%.
Today’s Good Luck (4*) It’s 4* light cone, but these light cone passives are perfect for Yao Guang.

Increases the wearer’s CRIT Rate by 12%. When the wearer uses an Elation Skill, increases Elation by 12%, stacking up to 2 times.

Yao Guang’s buff depends on her Elation, so it buffs her and her whole team.
Mushy Shroomy’s Adventures (4*) Another very good 4* alternative for Yao Guang, which also buffs the whole team and her own damage.

Increases the wearer’s Elation by 12%. When the wearer uses an Elation Skill, increases Elation DMG taken by all enemies by 6% for 2 turn(s).

Best Team Comps for Yao Guang in Honkai: Star Rail

Yao Guang excels in teams built around the ‘Elation’ mechanic. Her abilities are specifically made to boost characters who focus on Elation damage, using strategic Zone placement, creating ‘Punchline’ effects, and triggering ‘Aha’ Instants.

Sparxie/Yao Guang/Sparkle/Dan Heng Permansor Terrae

This is the strongest team composition for her in Honkai: Star Rail. To maximize her abilities, it’s best to pair her with another character who provides the Elation buff. Currently, Sparxie is the only character available who can do this, and she’ll become available later in version 4.0.

Sparxie is the primary damage dealer on this team. During her ‘Aha Instant’ ability, she rapidly attacks, dealing a lot of fire damage. Yao Guang supports the team by increasing overall damage with her ‘Zone’ ability, building up ‘Punchlines’ through her regular attacks and skills, and then unleashing ‘Aha Instant’ with her Ultimate. She also adds extra damage through her passive ability.

Sparkle acts as our team’s second support, boosting Critical DMG, speeding up actions by 50%, and replenishing 6 Skill Points with her Ultimate. Dan Heng • Imbibitor Lunae handles sustain, providing shields and dealing extra damage through follow-up attacks.

Archer/Yao Guang/Sparkle/Dan Heng Permansor Terrae

This team isn’t specifically built around Elation, but it works well with Yao Guang. Yao Guang, Sparkle, and Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae all fulfill similar roles within the team. Archer acts as the primary damage dealer, relying on Skill Points to maximize his output.

Is Yao Guang worth Pulling in Honkai: Star Rail

She’s a powerful support character, especially for teams built around the ‘Elation’ mechanic. Currently, she excels at boosting ‘Sparxie’ teams, but as more ‘Elation’ characters are released, her value will only grow. If you plan on collecting these new ‘Elation’ characters, she’s an essential addition to your team.

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2026-02-24 04:14