Honkai Star Rail Black Swan: Rarity, Path, Element, Abilities & More

This guide shares details on Black Swan's rarity, Path, element, combat skills, and her entire kit in Honkai Star Rail.

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan
Here's everything you need to know about Black Swan in Honkai Star Rail. | © HoYoverse

Black Swan is an upcoming playable character in Honkai Star Rail who made her debut as an in-game character with the "Myriad Celestia Trailer: Fables About the Stars Part 1" trailer.

She was teased at the end of the trailer without further details on her character kit. Though, as always, thanks to the data miners, we have aplenty of information on Black Swan to share.

So keep reading our guide as we talk about Black Swan's rarity, Path, element, combat skills, and other things about her in Honkai Star Rail while sharing a 360 look at her character model.

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan Rarity

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan
Black Swan is a five-star character in Honkai Star Rail. | © HoYoverse

Per the current leaks and data mined information, Black Swan is a five-star playable character in Honkai Star Rail.

This is quite evident from her highly detailed, eye-catching character model. If there are any changes to her rarity, we will update this section of the article.

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan Element And Path

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan
Here are details on Black Swan's Element and Path. | © HoYoverse

Black Swan is a Wind element user in Honkai Star Rail belonging to the Nihility Path.

Making her a great addition to team comps looking for DPS units whose abilities scale with ATK attributes.

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan Combat Skills

Honkai Star Rail Black Swan
Here's a look at Black Swan's combat skills in Honkai Star Rail. | © HoYoverse

Here are all of Black Swan's combat skills in Honkai Star Rail that we translated from data-mined information from the Chinese version of the game.

Combat SkillDescription
Skill Deals wind damage equal to 60% of Black Swan's attack to a designated enemy and its adjacent targets, with a 100% base chance to reduce the defense of each enemy by 27% for 3 turns.
Ultimate Deals wind damage equal to 96% of Black Swan's attack power to the entire enemy team and strengthens the target's [Fate Card] effect for 2 turns. Strengthened [Fate Card] reduces the target's effective resistance by 17. 5% and can be considered as any 1 Damage Over Time type negative status. The enhanced [Fate Card] does not reset its level after the target deals damage at the beginning of its turn, and the effect is triggered a maximum of 1 time during the duration of the enhancement.
Talent When an enemy target takes Damage Over Time, Black Swan has a 60% base chance to apply [Fate Card] to the target, which can be triggered 4 times per unit per action. The target of the [Fate Card] will take wind damage equal to 155% of the Black Swan's attack at the beginning of the turn. [Fate Card] has a level mechanics, with an initial level of 1. Applying [Fate Card] again to a target that has already had it increases the level of [Fate Card] by 1. When [Fate Card] deals damage at the beginning of the target's turn, it has additional effects depending on the level:
  • Greater than or equal to level 1: Each level additionally increases damage equal to 31% of Black Swan's attack power.
  • Greater than or equal to level 3: Deals additional damage equal to of the original damage to adjacent targets.
  • Greater than or equal to level 6: Ignores 22.5% of the target's defense.

[Destiny Card] Resets the level to 1 at the beginning of the target's turn after dealing damage.

TechniqueAfter using the secret technique, draw 1 Fate Crystal (physical, fire, lightning, or wind) that you do not already hold, up to a maximum of 4 Fate Crystals at the sank time. When entering battle, Black Swan consumes all the Fate Crystal it holds, and for each one consumed, triggers a Weakness Break effect with a 100% damage multiplier on every single enemy with a corresponding attribute weakness, depending on the attribute of the consumed Fate Crystal.
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