HoYoVerse revealed the full details of what to expect from Black Swan in Honkai: Star Rail. This five-star wind-type Nihility character will be making her debut in version 2.0 on February 6, 2024.
Black Swan can inflict a new DoT effect for Honkai: Star Rail. It’s called Arcana, and many of her abilities are focused on building this up. Arcana can be stacked any time a DoT effect is applied to an enemy, and will cause wind damage on an affected enemy’s turn.
Black Swan can use her basic attack, Percipience, Silent Dawn, to deals wind damage to a single target. This has a chance of inflicting Arcana, and if the enemy has Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn or Shock applied, there’s a chance for additional Arcana stacks to be added. Her Skill, Decadence, False Twilight, will do the same but for multiple targets. It also has a chance to reduce enemy DEF. Her Technique, From Facade to Verite, will apply a stack of Arcana at the start of battle too.
Black Swan can also use her Talent, Loom of Fate’s Caprice, to enhance the effects of Arcana. Depending on how many stacks are on an enemy, she can increase damage and even apply stacks of Arcana to adjacent enemies. If the player can apply more than seven stacks of Arcana, the damage will also ignore a percentage of the enemy’s DEF.
Her Ultimate is Bliss of Otherworld’s Embrace, which sees Black Swan do wind damage to all enemies and apply another condition known as Epiphany. This adds additional damage as if the enemy was affected by Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn and Shock. It also prevents Arcana stacks from resetting on their turn.
While Black Swan is set to debut in Honkai: Star Rail Version 2.0, it’s not the first we’ve seen of her. She also appeared in the New Year web event Fable of the Stars, where she would read player fortunes.
Honkai: Star Rail is out now for PC, PS5 and mobile devices. Version 2.0 will be released on February 6, 2024.
