Honkai Star Rail: Black Swan Kit, Skills, Materials & Banner

In this article we'll go over Black Swan, the newest 5-star Nihility character coming to Honkai: Star Rail in Version 2.0, and how you can prepare for her!

Honkai Star Rail: Black Swan Kit, Skills, Materials & Banner
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Welcome, Black Swan! The latest 5-star Nihility Character using the Wind Type. She is set to release in the first phase of  Version 2.0 alongside the other Limited 5-star Character Sparkle.

Black Swan will be live starting from the First.Phase of the Version 2.0 Limited Character Banner. This article will cover all of the materials you need to level her up and prepare for her launch!

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Who is Black Swan


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Black Swan

A Memokeeper of the Garden of Recollection. A mysterious and elegant soothsayer.

Black Swan is the newest Limited 5-star character joining the Nihility character roster of Honkai Star Rail.

She is going to be launching with the release.of Penacony and is going to be the first character of Version 2.0 so when it comes to who she actually is, we will find more about that after 2.0 releases.

Black Swan’s Voice Actors are as follows:

  • English: Arryn Zech
  • Chinese: Yang Menglu (杨梦露)
  • Japanese: Nabatame Hitomi (生天目仁美)
  • Korean: Kim Ha-young (김하영)

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Black Swan Ascension Materials


Below you will see all of the Ascension Materials required to level Black Swan up to Level 80 and get her ready to join your Nihility teams.

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Black Swan

Below you will find all of the needed materials to get Black Swan up to Level 80:

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Black Swan Kit and Skills


As a character following the Path of Nihility, Black Swan’s skills are suited towards shaving at enemies using DoT. She is a great addition to any DoT team and will surely pair well with Kafka and Sampo. Here is the full breakdown of her skills and traces.

 

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Black Swan Skills

Below you can see all of Black Swan's skills and their multipliers for Levels 1 and 10

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Percipience, Silent Dawn

  • Deals Wind DMG equal to 30% (60%) of Black Swan's ATK to a single target enemy, with a 50% (65%) base chance of inflicting 1 stack of Arcana on the attacked enemy target. And if the hit target currently has Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn, or Shock applied to them, each respectively has a 50% (65%) base chance of inflicting 1 extra stack of Arcana onto the enemy.
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Decadence, False Twilight

  • Deals Wind DMG equal to 45% (90%) of Black Swan's ATK to a single target enemy and any adjacent targets. At the same time, there is a 100% base chance of inflicting 1 stack of Arcana on the target enemy and the adjacent targets. And there is a 100% base chance of reducing the DEF of the target enemy and the adjacent targets by 14.8% (20.8%), lasting for 3 turn(s).
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Bliss of Otherworld's Embrace

  • Inflicts Epiphany on all enemies for 2 turn(s).
  • Enemies affected by Epiphany take 15% (25%) more DMG in their turn, and their Sacrament effect is regarded as Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn, and Shock effects. In addition, when their Sacrament effect is triggered at the beginning of the next turn, the Sacrament stacks are not reset. The stack non-reset effect can be triggered up to 1 time(s) in Epiphany's duration, and its charges are replenished when Epiphany is applied again.
  • Deals Wind DMG equal to 72% (120%) of Black Swan's ATK to all enemies.
 

From Façade to Vérité - Technique

  • After this Technique is used, there is a 150% base chance for each enemy to be inflicted with 1 stack of Arcana at the start of the next battle. For each successful application of Arcana on a target, inflicts another stack of Arcana on the same target. This process repeats until Arcana fails to be inflicted on this target. For each successive application of Arcana on a target, its base chance of success is equal to 50% of the base chance of the previous successful infliction of Arcana on that target.
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Loom of Fate's Caprice

  • Every time an enemy target receives DoT at the start of each turn, there is a 50% (65%) base chance for it to be inflicted with Arcana.
  • While afflicted with Arcana, enemy targets receive Wind DoT equal to 96% (240%) of Black Swan's ATK at the start of each turn. Each stack of Arcana increases this DoT DMG multiplier by 4.8% (12%). Then Arcana resets to 1 stack. Arcana can stack up to 50 times.
  • Only when Arcana causes DMG at the start of an enemy target's turn, Black Swan triggers additional effects based on the number of Arcana stacks inflicted on the target:
    • When there are 3 or more Arcana stacks, deals Wind DoT equal to 72% (180%) of Black Swan's ATK to adjacent targets, with a 50% (65%) base chance of inflicting 1 stack of Arcana on adjacent targets.
    • When there are 7 or more Arcana stacks, enables the current DoT dealt this time to ignore 20% of the target's and adjacent targets' DEF.

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Black Swan Traces

Below you can find all three of Black Swan's Major Traces and their effects

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Viscera's Disquiet

  • After using the Skill to hit an enemy that has Wind Shear, Bleed, Burn, or Shock, each of these debuffs respectively has a 65% base chance of inflicting 1 extra stack of Arcana.
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Goblet's Dredges

  • Every time an enemy target receives DoT during a single attack by an ally, there is a 65% base chance for the target to be inflicted with 1 stack of Sacrament, stacking up to 3 time(s) during 1 single attack.
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Candleflame's Portent

  • Increases this unit's DMG by an amount equal to 60% of Effect Hit Rate, up to a maximum DMG increase of 72%.

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Black Swan Light Cone


Black Swan’s signature Light Cone is known as [Reforged Remembrance] and is certainly a great addition that will make building her way easier. Here is what the light cone’s effects are!

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Reforged Remembrance

  • Increases wearer's Effect Hit Rate by 40%. When wearer deals DMG to an enemy inflicted with Wind Shear, Burn, Shock, or Bleed, they will individually gain 1 stack of Prohecy. This effect can stack up to 4 times. In a single battle, each type of DoT can only generate 1 stack of Prophecy. Every stack of Prophecy increases wearer's ATK by 5% and the DoT dealt will ignore 7.2% of the target's DEF.

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Black Swan Banner


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Black Swan Banner

Black Swan’s Banner will run on the First Phase of the Version 2.0 update and will start right after the version maintenance, which is speculated to start on:

February 6th, 2024

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Should you pull for Black Swan


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Black Swan

Black Swan is certainly going to be an interesting character to have in your roster. She is our first Nihility 5-star Wind character and is sure to open even more possibilities for DoT teams. Her skills that boost the damage of other Nihility characters and DoTs are going to add a lot of damage to your Kafka teams.

However, aside from DoT teams her usability is yet to be determined. As such it is hard to fully recommend her for those players who do not have Kafka, or do not focus on DoT teams.

Nonetheless,  we’ll have a guide ready for her when she does come out sometime next month, so be sure to keep an eye out on our website!

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