Sushang offers excellent single-target DPS, and she’s one of the few characters inHonkai: Star Railwho can kick enemies hard when they’re already down. Such a punishment-heavy playstyle requiresa fair bit of investmentinto this character, as well as careful consideration of who players decide to bring with them to a fight.
Every character inHonkai: Star Railworks best when they’re used according to their strengths and weaknesses. This is also true for Sushang, especially since much of her consistency relies on pressing the advantage. Here are two carry-oriented teams to help get the most value out of this character.
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Sushang Team Comps In Honkai: Star Rail
Sushang is an S-tier character when it comes to dealing Physical damage versus single targets. Her Skill damage spikes significantly whenever she’s attacking Weakness Broken enemies, so she’s best paired with teams that can help set that condition up for her.
Sushang Hypercarry Team
The standard double Support setup works well on every DPS character, provided players can survive to pull off the right skill rotations and unleash their big burst combos.
As mentioned above, Sushang relies on having the enemy’s Toughness bar broken for her Skill to deal more damage. Because of that, players must always bring three other characters whocan exploit enemy Weaknesses. Playing a double Support team will only become better once more Nihility and Harmony characters get added to the game.
It’s worth noting here that Sushang can quickly burn through buffs applied to her due to her Ultimateadvancing her turn forward. After buffing Sushang, it’s best to use her Skill before unleashing her giant chicken on the enemy. This way, she won’t lose the benefits from buffs that only last for a single turn.
This team setup can help players push through Forgotten Hall stages, and it can decimate enemies in the Simulated Universe if players manage to stack Hunt or Break Effect-boosting blessings.
Superspeed Sushang Team
In a way, Sushang plays similarly to Dan Heng in terms of how she can make good use of SPD and Slow effects. Since she can advance her next turn just by using her ultimate, Sushang can effectively pepper enemies with multiple attacks before they can recover their Toughness. This becomes more effective with the help of certain characters.
Asta and Welt are incredibly strong when it comes to inflictingWeakness Breakand manipulating turn orders — the former speeds the team up, while the latter slows the enemies down. Then, when Toughness bars have been broken, March can keep enemies down by freezing them with her Ultimate, giving Sushang more opportunities to deal increased damage.
Like the previous team comp, this team’s potential is somewhat limited by thelow number of Support charactersin the release version of the game. Over time, as more units get released, players will be able to take the general idea of this team comp and fill in each of its character slots with the Support characters they manage to pull from the gacha. Anyone will do as long as they canbuff Sushang’s SPD, inflict Slow on enemies, or both.
This setup can be very helpful in the Forgotten Hall and Memory of Chaos since it gives players more chances to deal damage per turn cycle. This style of team is recommended to anyone who’s having trouble getting perfect three-star runs.
Honkai: Star Railis available now for PC and mobile devices. PS4 and PS5 versions are in development.
