Best Honkai Star Rail Asta build

Looking for the best Honkai Star Rail Asta build? Building Asta into your Honkai Star Rail squad is a perfect lesson in never turning your nose up at a free character in a gacha game. The inquisitive leader of the Herta Space Station is offered up as the first character you’ll roll for in the game’s warp tutorial, and by turning the heat up just a little with her, she can be baked into a mighty addition to any team in need of speed and attack buffs or break effectivity.

Getting the most out of what Honkai Star Rail gives you for free is important, not to mention this month’s Honkai Star Rail codes. Alongside this, seeing where Asta lies on our Honkai Star Rail tier list will give you an idea of her viability and help cement her as one of the best support characters right now.

What is the best Honkai Star Rail Asta build?

The best Asta build is:

• Light Cone – But the Battle Isn’t Over or Memories of the Past
• Relics – Thief of Shooting Meteor (4-piece set)
• Planar Ornaments – Talia: Kingdom of Banditry or Sprightly Vonwacq
• Eidolons – Moon Speaks in Wax and Wane

We’ve broken our picks down into individual sections below, each with handy context for how we’ve landed on the best Asta build.

Best Asta Light Cones

The best Asta Light Cones are:

• But the Battle Isn’t Over (5-Star)
• Memories of the Past (4-Star)
• Chorus (3-star)
• Meshing Cogs (3-Star)

Ideally, Asta should be built to accentuate her buffing ability, which is why we’ve gone for But the Battle Isn’t Over as a great 5-star Light Cone for her. While it may be ideal for Bronya, it also perfectly suits Asta’s needs for constant uptime on her speed-boosting ultimate too. Alternatively, you can build Asta into a break machine, which Memories of the Past offers in spades, albeit with lesser energy regeneration. 

Best Asta relic set

The best Asta relic set is:

From the early outset, Asta’s Meteor Storm skill sets her up to be a weakness-breaking powerhouse for any team. At its base level, it will hit random enemy targets five times helping to trigger her attack-boost talent, but when facing a lone fire-vulnerable boss, her ability to weakness break skyrockets. As such, this easily acquired set does wonders for her break effectiveness.

Best Asta planar ornaments

The best Asta planer ornaments are:

Our first option, Talia: Kingdom of Banditry, will usually be the more popular choice as it provides Asta with additional break effect, which her multi-hitting skill does in spades. Her innate speed-increasing kit means you’ll always be getting the extra 20% also and suits teams where she’s the only fire-aligned character with DPS being handled elsewhere.

We would suggest our second option, Sprightly Vonwacq, only in situations where you’ve got the fire weakness covered by another team member, which lets Asta focus on speed-tuning the team.

Best Asta Eidolons

The best Eidolons for Asta are:

Thankfully, most of Asta’s Eidolon value comes pretty early. Moon Speaks in Wax and Wane allows Asta the chance to use her ultimate on any turn without dropping her highly valuable charging stacks on her allies, which boosts attack for the entire team by up to 40%(or more with Traces levelled). Allowing Asta to juggle both the massive speed increase from her ultimate and her attack-boosting passive is key to her viability.

Asta ascension materials

Here’s are Asta’s ascension materials:

• (Ascension only) Endotherm Chitin
• Destroyer’s Final Road
• Stellaris Symphony/Ancestral Hymn/Harmonic Tune
• Silvermane Medal/Silvermane Insignia/Silvermane Badges

Stellaris Symphony and Ancestral Hymns will be the tougher ones to grind out on lower difficulties of Calyx (Crimson) in the early game, so we would recommend saving any Undying Embers from your banner rolling and opting to grab any monthly Harmonic Tunes at the ember exchange. You can then simply synthesise the necessary materials until the more rewarding Calyxes become available later.

We’re sure that the details of our best Asta build will be a welcome switch-up to your Honkai Star Rail team comp, and the great thing is you don’t even have to worry about warping or performing any arduous rerolls for her since she’s absolutely free.