StarGuide — The Smartest Honkai Star Rail Team Builder and Guide

Free 3-Day Premium Trial — No Card Required

Every new StarGuide account automatically receives a free 3-day trial of Supporter-tier premium tools on first sign-in. No credit card, no payment method, no checkout. The trial unlocks the full Endgame Planner (stage-by-stage optimization for Memory of Chaos, Pure Fiction, and Apocalyptic Shadow), Relic Insights (farming priority and per-character readiness grades), and Next Best Action (ranked upgrade recommendations across every pull, eidolon, and light cone) for 72 hours so you can try them on your real roster before deciding whether to buy a supporter pass. If you do nothing when the trial ends, you simply return to the always-free tier — no charges, no surprise billing, no ads.

What makes StarGuide different from other HSR team builders?

Most Honkai Star Rail team builders show you the same generic "best teams" regardless of what you own. StarGuide is fundamentally different — it's roster-aware. After importing your account data, every recommendation considers your actual characters, their eidolon levels, and which light cones you have equipped.

StarGuide's team scoring system accounts for teammate synergy ratings, eidolon investment, and light cone equipment. Character power scores are dynamically modified by your actual investment level, so a well-invested lower-tier character can genuinely outperform a poorly-invested meta pick in your team rankings. The algorithm also factors in current endgame rotation boosts — element, path, and label bonuses — so your team rankings automatically update as cycles rotate. See the full methodology page for every formula, threshold, and algorithm behind the scoring system.

Team recommendations also account for the current endgame rotation boosts — element bonuses, path bonuses, and label bonuses — so your team rankings automatically stay relevant as cycles rotate every two weeks.

How does StarGuide compare to Prydwen, GenshinLab, and other HSR tools?

Prydwen Institute is an excellent character database with in-depth editorial guides and a large community wiki. Its team builder is a manual sandbox where you slot characters into role positions yourself. GenshinLab provides curated lists of community-accepted team compositions organized by element. KQM (Keqing Mains) offers detailed theorycrafting guides explaining the mechanics behind team building.

StarGuide fills a different role: it's an automated, account-aware planning tool. You import your roster once, and the team builder, pull advisor, investment planner, and endgame planner all adapt to your specific situation. It answers "given MY characters, what's the best team I can actually build?" rather than "what's the best team in a vacuum?" These tools complement each other — use Prydwen or KQM for deep character analysis and theorycrafting, and StarGuide for personalized account planning.

Who is StarGuide for?

StarGuide is designed for Honkai Star Rail players at any level who want data-driven answers to planning questions. F2P and low-spenders benefit most from the Pull Advisor and Next Best Action tools, which ensure every pull and investment delivers maximum account value. Mid-game players use the Best Teams builder and Endgame Planner to clear Memory of Chaos, Pure Fiction, and Apocalyptic Shadow efficiently. Endgame veterans use the AI Strategy Coach, investment paths, and relic insights to squeeze out optimal performance from fully built accounts. Not sure where to start? The How to Use StarGuide guide walks you through every feature with step-by-step workflows for free, Supporter, and Trailblazer users.

Can StarGuide help me plan pulls across multiple patches?

StarGuide's free and Supporter-tier tools focus on your current roster and released characters. The Best Teams builder, Pull Advisor, Next Best Action, and Banner Advisor answer specific planning questions with deterministic tools. The AI Strategy Coach (Trailblazer tier) connects all of these in a single conversation. Coach knows your full roster and can chain multiple tools together to answer complex questions like "Should I pull on this banner or save?" or "What's the best upgrade path for my account?" It remembers your goals across sessions and its character data is kept accurate with every patch.

What free tools does StarGuide offer?

Best Teams — Roster-Aware Team Builder

Generates the strongest non-overlapping team sets from your owned characters, optimized across all three endgame modes. The algorithm evaluates every possible team combination using synergy ratings and investment data, then selects team pairs where characters don't overlap — critical for split-stage content like Memory of Chaos. You can lock specific characters, favorite team sets, and compare compositions side by side.

Pull Advisor — Who Should You Pull Next?

Shows which released characters you don't yet own would benefit your roster the most. The advisor simulates adding each unowned character to your account and measures the team quality improvement across all endgame modes. Two perspectives: "For Your DPS" reveals which supports your damage dealers are missing, and "For Your Supports" shows which DPS characters your support lineup can best enable. Characters can be dismissed or deprioritized.

Banner Advisor — Should You Pull on the Current Banner?

Evaluates every currently active banner against your roster. Shows exactly how much account value each banner character would add based on team synergy improvements, roster gap analysis, and investment potential. Helps you decide whether to pull now or save for a future banner.

Light Cone Advisor — LC Optimizer

Two modes: the Optimizer globally reassigns your owned light cones across all characters to maximize total team power (finding swaps you might have missed). The Acquire mode recommends which light cone to obtain next based on your roster's biggest equipment gaps. A best-in-slot S1 light cone is worth roughly one full tier step in character rating.

Team Investment Paths — Build Order Guides

Step-by-step cross-character investment guides for popular team compositions like DoT teams, Castorice premium, Firefly Super Break, and more. Each path is organized into phases — Team Assembly, First Upgrades, Deep Investment — answering which characters to pull, which eidolons matter, which signature light cones are worth it, and in what order. Flex slot alternatives and clear stopping points help you avoid over-investing.

Character Database — 85+ Character Guides

Every playable Honkai Star Rail character has a dedicated guide covering investment priority (eidolons and light cones ranked by score impact), recommended relic builds with set bonuses and stat targets, named team compositions (archetypes) the character fits into, synergy-rated teammates organized by role, and pre-built teams. Characters have separate tier ratings for Memory of Chaos, Pure Fiction, and Apocalyptic Shadow because performance varies significantly by mode. Pre-release characters may be added with preliminary guides up to a week before release using Creator Experience Server data, including full kit analysis, team recommendations, and tier placements — refined after live release.

Roster Management

Track character ownership, eidolon levels, and light cone inventory with superimposition levels. Import via UID (automatic from in-game data via Enka Network) or SRO JSON (Reliquary Archiver for full data including relics). Cloud sync keeps your roster data consistent across devices.

What premium features does StarGuide offer?

Endgame Planner — Stage-by-Stage Optimization

Provides team recommendations for each individual stage of Memory of Chaos, Pure Fiction, and Apocalyptic Shadow. The planner simulates all selectable buff combinations (Cacophony, Finality's Axiom, Arbitral Quadrant) and picks the one that maximizes your combined team score. Shows alternative team pairings per stage and accounts for element weaknesses and rotation-specific bonuses. Updated every two weeks when rotations change. Included in the free 3-day premium trial that activates automatically on sign-up.

Trailblazer Report — Account Analytics

Computes your account power score across all three endgame modes using optimal non-overlapping team selections. Includes a power history chart tracking your account growth over time, a community score distribution showing where you rank among other players, and a team count explorer that reveals how your score changes when forced to field 2, 3, or 4 non-overlapping teams.

Next Best Action — Upgrade Planner

Simulates every possible upgrade path — pulling a new character, adding an eidolon, acquiring a light cone — across your entire roster and ranks them by the account power increase they'd produce across all endgame modes. Stage multiple upgrades in sequence to plan multi-pull commitments and watch your simulated account power update as the plan comes together. Reserve teams of characters with the Lock a Team picker so other DPS plans automatically build around locked lineups.

Relic Insights — Farming Priority

Ranks relic farming domains by how many of your actively-used characters benefit from each domain, so you spend stamina where it has the most roster-wide impact. Team Readiness grades each team member's relics from S to D, checking set bonuses, main stats, and substat quality against recommended builds, with specific issue counts so you know exactly what to fix.

AI Strategy Coach — Personalized Roster Advisor

The Strategy Coach connects every StarGuide tool in a single conversation. Ask any strategy question and Coach chains the right tools together: team generator, pull advisor, relic grader, investment simulator, pity calculator. It knows your full roster, runs the same scoring algorithms the rest of the site uses, and gives answers grounded in what you actually own. Cross-conversation memory means Coach remembers your pull plans, jade budget, and account goals across sessions, building on previous conversations instead of starting from scratch. Character data is kept accurate with every patch, and Coach has access to pre-release character data from the Creator Experience Server so you can ask about upcoming characters before they drop.

How much does StarGuide cost?

StarGuide is free to use with a generous free tier, and every new account gets a free 3-day trial of all premium tools on sign-up — no card required. The free tier includes: 85+ character guides, Best Teams roster-aware team builder, Pull Advisor, Banner Advisor, Light Cone Advisor, Team Investment Paths, Roster Management with UID and SRO import, and community features and leaderboards. The Endgame Planner, Relic Insights, and Next Best Action are included in the free 3-day trial on sign-up.

Optional supporter passes unlock premium analysis tools. Supporter tier ($5 for 1 month, $9 for 3 months, $15 for 6 months, $24 for 12 months) adds the full Endgame Planner, Relic Insights, and Next Best Action investment simulator. Trailblazer tier ($10 for 1 month, $24 for 3 months, $36 for 6 months, $59 for 12 months) includes everything in Supporter plus the AI Strategy Coach with cross-conversation memory. The 1-month options are positioned as a low-commitment way to try the premium tools without locking into a longer pass. The methodology page documents every formula and algorithm behind the premium tools and explains what stays free and why.

All passes are paid upfront with no auto-renewal and no card saved for rebilling. Passes stack — buy a 3-month and a 6-month and you get 9 months total. No surprise charges and no ads anywhere on the site.

How do I import my Honkai Star Rail roster into StarGuide?

StarGuide supports two import methods. UID Import: enter your in-game UID and StarGuide imports your character roster automatically via Enka Network — takes about 10 seconds. SRO Import: export your account data using the Reliquary Archiver scanner tool, then upload the JSON file to StarGuide for full data including characters, eidolons, light cones, and equipped relics with substats. Both methods are free. All features also work with manual roster management if you prefer not to import. Cloud sync keeps your data consistent across devices.

Getting Started — Guided Onboarding Tour

First-time visitors are guided through an interactive onboarding tour that walks through every major feature with spotlight highlighting. The tour covers character selection, investment editing, relic viewing, composition selection, teammate ratings, team generation, and all the advisor tools. Steps adapt to mobile with platform-specific descriptions, and some steps wait for you to interact before advancing so you learn by doing, not just reading. If you skip the tour partway through, a resume bar appears so you can pick up where you left off. The tour ends with a link to the full How to Use StarGuide guide, which provides complete step-by-step workflows organized around the questions you'd actually ask: "Who should I pull next?", "What relics should I put on this character?", "MoC just reset, what teams do I run?"

Works Without an Account — Cloud Sync When You're Ready

StarGuide works fully without creating an account. All roster data, favorited teams, and settings are stored locally in your browser, and every free feature is available as a guest. When you sign in (email or Google), cloud sync activates automatically and migrates your local data to the cloud so everything stays consistent across devices. No data is lost either way: guest users get the full experience, and signing in adds sync and the free 3-day premium trial on top.

Community Features

StarGuide includes shareable public profiles with character showcases, roster statistics, power charts, and rare finds. The community features include a real-time activity feed showing roster additions, team saves, and eidolon changes across all users; leaderboards for most owned characters, most invested accounts, and popular team compositions; per-character ownership percentages and eidolon distribution stats across the community; and live online presence tracking.

About StarGuide

StarGuide is built and maintained by a solo developer for the Honkai Star Rail community. It launched in 2025 and is actively developed with new features, character updates, and meta adjustments. The site is hosted on Vercel with a Supabase backend, runs on Vue 3 and TypeScript, and is fully responsive for both desktop and mobile browsers. No native app is required. Character data is updated within days of new releases and rebalanced as the meta evolves. StarGuide has no affiliation with HoYoverse or miHoYo.

Dispatches — Daily HSR Intel and What Changed

Dispatches is StarGuide's daily blog covering the creator guides worth your time, the corrections that shipped to character files, and the concrete build notes that changed across the Honkai: Star Rail meta. The archive gives readers a dated, linkable log of why specific recommendations moved instead of only the final state on character pages.

Latest Dispatch: Silver Wolf LV.999 coverage surge, plus Welt's Cerydra main-DPS unlock — Silver Wolf LV.999 coverage keeps rolling — four creators stress-test her kit across pulls, F2P runs, and a full investment-ladder progression, while Pretender refreshes OG Silver Wolf for the standard-pool refresh and Moon opens a new main-DPS path for Welt.