Is it even worth to reroll?

The short answers is no.

And here's the long answer:

  • Some time ago Mihoyo removed the Guest Login option from their games and obviously the option is also missing in Honkai: Star Rail. This means you will need to use a different account for every reroll attempt (because salting isn't working here either),
    • So if you're already playing Genshin Impact for example, if you plan to reroll, there's no way to have both games on the same account.
  • It takes around 30-40 minutes to finish the tutorial and reach the moment when you can actually start pulling,
    • The long time is caused by the tutorial being quite story-heavy and you can't skip any of the conversations and have to click through them,
  • The rates in the game are pretty low (0.3%/0.6% for a 5★ Character), so it might take you even a whole day of rolling to get one - and it's high chance it will be someone you don't want as you will be able to only do roughly 20-22 pulls when you unlock Warping,
  • You are guaranteed to obtain a 5★ Character from the Departure Warp Banner within the first 50 pulls.

If you're still here, then I think this meme is perfect for you:

Reroll Pain

So let's continue with the reroll guide!

How to reroll

Reroll methods

Sadly, there's just one. As we mentioned in the warning section, you will need to prepare a ton of dummy emails if you plan to reroll - the salting method is blocked, so there's no other way.

So the rerolling process will look like this:

  1. Log in to the game with new mail,
  2. Suffer for 30-40 minutes and get finger cramps from all the clicking through dialogue,
  3. Then suffer even more as you're doing your pulls,
  4. Log out and log in with new email.

The prologue

Reroll Pain

The prologue acts as tutorial in Honkai: Star Rail and as we mentioned earlier, it takes around 30-40 minutes to reach the part of it that unlocks Warping - that's how the gacha is called in this game.

While playing through the tutorial in the Final Beta we tried to create an optimal way of progressing though it, but sadly the game leads you in a corridor-like route, slowly introducing the main cast of characters and also various features of the game: exploration, roles, elements, basic combat mechanics, advanced combat mechanics and so on. So you can't really skip any part of the tutorial and have to play through everything the game throws at you.

But the worst offender that affects the length of the tutorial are conversations. Tons of conversations. And you can't skip them - you have to wait for every character to start saying their lines and then you can start clicking to interrupt them and 'move' to the next character. It's tedious.

Prologue steps (beware, spoilers!)
  1. You initially play as Kafka and explore the station together with Silver Wolf,
  2. After a few minutes of enjoying Kafka murdering the Antimatter Legion, you will unlock the main character - you can pick Female or Male version and your choice doesn't matter (gameplay-wise at least - since both genders have the same skills, passives etc.),
  3. March 7th and Dan Heng will replace Kafka and Silver Wolf and together with them you will continue your exploration and unlock Traces and Light Cones,
  4. Himeko will temporarily join your team at this point and she makes murdering the Legion much easier,
  5. A few fights later (including a boss battle) you will meet Asta and finally unlock Warping.
An important tip

Since the majority of the tutorial is focused on fighting, make sure to use your Adventure Logs to level up the MC and Dan Heng - this will improve their damage output and allow you to kill the monsters faster.

Pulling

Once you finish the tutorial and unlock Warping you will receive 20 Star Rail Passes from the pre-register rewards. Sadly, the Passes can't be used on Rate-Up banners as they require Star Rail Special Passes instead. So you're forced to pull on either the Departure Warp (beginner banner) or on Stellar Warp (regular banner).

Also, your Trailblaze Level should be level 4 (though in some cases you can be only TL 3), so you might consider playing for a little bit more to reach TL 5 - this will give you additional 10 Star Rail Passes from the launch progression event.

The next reward in the event is locked behind reaching TL level 15 (which should take roughly 2-3 hours). While progressing till level 15 will give you enough Star Rail Passes to reach the pity on the Departure Warp and obtain your first 5★ Character, it takes quite a while.

So, now you have a few possible options:

NameHow it worksTime required
The fast and greedy reroll

Do the 20 pulls on the Stellar Warp banner right after unlocking warping. Your aim here is to start with 2x 5★ Characters - one from the 20 pulls done on Stellar Warp banner and the other from the Departure Warp pity within 50 pulls.

Just keep in mind that it might take you a lot of tries to get a 5★ from the initial 20 pulls - there's only 0.3% chance to pull one.

You can also play for a 10-15 more minutes and reach TL 5 to get 10 additional tickets.

30-40 minutes
The patient one

Do the 20 pulls on the Departure Warp banner right after unlocking warping (while the banner has 50 pull pity, you might get the 5★ character earlier).

If you're unlucky, just keep playing and you will get 10 more tickets at TL 5 and another 10 tickets at TL 15. This is enough to reach the 50 pity, because the banner has 20% discount (you need to only use 40 tickets to do 50 pulls).

You will get one of the 7 available characters and if it's someone you like - you're done! If not, you have to try again.

  • 30-40 minutes (20 pulls)
  • 50-60 minutes (30 pulls)
  • 120-150 minutes (40 and 50 pulls)
The Volkin Special

Do the 20 pulls on the Departure Warp banner right after unlocking warping (while the banner has 50 pull pity, you might get the 5★ character earlier).

If you're unlucky, just keep playing and you will get 10 more tickets at TL 5. From this moment instead of playing the story, you will buy a few summon tickets in the store and do a chest run to get the remaining Jades. Volkin's video goes over the route and the method in detail.

60-75 minutes

Volkin and Grim explain the reroll process and provide an alternative way of rolling to get the 50 pulls on the Newbie banner:

Characters

You can obtain both 5★ Characters and Light Cones from both banners. Here's the list of possible 5★ Characters:

Bailu
Bronya
Clara
Gepard
Himeko
Welt
Yanqing

Information about the Standard banner:

  • The rate for pulling a 5★ Character from this banner is currently set at 0.3% (and 0.3% for a 5★ Light Cone),
  • The rate for pulling a 4★ Character from this banner is currently set at 5.1%.

Now which of the 7 available characters is the best one? Let's go over each of them to show their good and bad sides!

CharacterRoleProsConsReroll value
Healer

Since the release of Lynx, getting Bailu isn't as important anymore - she's still a great Healer, but no longer a priority.

Her revive passive helps you cover some mistakes as it will prevent the first death of an ally in a battle. Which is a great ability to have in general content, but super important in MoC and SU.

She's a Healer - so getting a damage dealer or a offensive support will be more enticing to some people.

Support

Hands down, she's the most universal Support character available on the release who also should be resistant to powercreep for a long time. Her buffs are too good to pass on and the ability to advance the action of an ally allows you to build them full damage and just continue using Bronya's Skill on them, so they get their turn and nuke the enemy.

She is a must-have if you want to run a hypercarry team, but she also works in any other kind of team due to her buffs being so good and universal.

In the early game, you want to run defensive support characters rather than offensive ones. That's because of how the damage multipliers work - with bad gear, the amplification Bronya gives won't have that big impact.

DPS

Clara is an unique damage dealer as her gameplay is actually the opposite of any other DPS - she just sits in the back and let Svarog (her mecha protector) do the heavy lifting by countering those who dared to attack Clara.

She had the highest damage ceiling of any character available on release, but the right things need to happen in the battle.

You need to build the team around her to actually use her to her full potential.