Honkai: Star Rail Version 1.3 Phase 2 introduced two new long-awaited characters, both defensive supports of Quantum element. With the arrival of Master Diviner Fu Xuan and the youngest Landau sibling Lynx, the mono-Quantum dream can finally begin.
You might ask: what sets mono-Quantum apart from other mono-Element comps? And the answer is Silver Wolf and her downright OP ability to implant a new weakness onto an enemy target based on the elements present in your own party.
Playing mono-Quantum guarantees that Silver Wolf will always implant the Quantum weakness, making this particular comp something of a Swiss army knife and an answer to your every problem. The enemy has Fire weakness but you have no Fire main DPS or they’re running in the other half of MoC? Throw mono-Quantum at it. That pesky Imaginary Weakness while your only Imaginary is under-leveled and ungeared Yukong? Mono-Quantum.
The Swarm Disaster is too har– You can see where this is going. The level of unga-bunga here can only be matched by the mono-Geo in Genshin, and it is a glorious sight.
Note that this is not a guide but rather a quick overview as to why and how this team works and what characters can be stuffed into your comps to ensure you get the most of it. Let’s dive right in!
Pure Mono-Quantum
Thanks to the arrival of Fu Xuan and Lynx, we now have enough Quantum-element characters to build an entire 4-character comp using only this element. And as of now there are 5 characters so you have some wiggle room.
The stars of this comp in the order of release are: Qingque (Erudition), Seele (Hunt), Silver Wolf (Nihility), Fu Xuan (Preservation) and Lynx (Abundance). Quite a healthy spread of roles, from AoE DPS to single target nuke, a tank, a healer and a debuffer. Only thing really missing a Quantum Harmony character to ensure that all roles are covered or a non-RNG based AoE/cleave DPS from the path of Destruction.
To ensure that your party works the only “must have” character is Silver Wolf as the entirety of mono-Quantum is built around her skill “Allow Changes?” that adds an Elemental Weakness to the selected enemy target. If the enemy is already weak to Quantum, the mono-comp can work just as any other would but if you want to use it as a 4 short women army that can take on anything and anyone? Yeah, you need SW.
Otherwise, depending on your level of investment, other characters can be interchanged. E6 QQ can take the role of the main DPS from Seele or serve as a sub-DPS if you’d like to use them both. Beware of the SP gluttony, though!
Lynx and Fu Xuan work well together but might be an overkill if any particular one of them is well-geared and leveled, allowing you to spread the Quantum goodness into other comps. So here’s a TLDR of what your party might look like:
- Seele + QQ + Silver Wolf + Fu Xuan/Lynx – double damage-dealer setup, likely providing the most DPS possible until the arrival of a Quantum Harmony for a true hypercarry team;
- QQ/Seele + Silver Wolf + Lynx + Fu Xuan – doubling up on the sustain and support for extra survivability. Less DPS than the previous version, but more safety. In addition to healing, Lynx also provides allies with invaluable dispell;
Check out Prydwen’s guides for how to build any particular character for a role you’d like them to fulfill. There are certain differences based on Eidolons and distinction between, say, pure debuffer Silver Wolf vs the Weakness Break build vs Sub-DPS build. Then proceed to “Disappear Among the Sea of Butterflies” to victory!
Pseudo Mono-Quantum
But what if you find yourself lacking one character – say, you didn’t warp for Seele and only got Lynx while Fu Xuan narrowly escaped your clutches? Your mahjong gremlin is only E1? Or you find that you are lacking damage to get 3 stars on the MoC floor? Or, maybe, it’s the other way around and you notice that having Lynx and Fu Xuan in the same party is an overkill? Glad you asked, let’s check out this scenario.
In Honkai: Star Rail most enemies possess multiple elemental weaknesses at once by default. By carefully matching the characters in your comp, you can ensure that Silver Wolf will always land her Quantum weakness even if there is a rogue element in your party.
Check out the screenshot below. Only two out of the three enemies have Quantum weakness which means you can’t just wing it by throwing in Seele and a bunch of supports (unless your Seele is busted, of course). But all three enemies have something in common: the Lightning weakness.
That means that if you have only Quantum and Lightning characters, Silver Wolf will still have a 100% chance of embedding that Quantum weakness onto your chosen target. You can easily stuff Tingyun as your buffer or, say, Serval as your sub-DPS, with no risk of breaking the very idea behind your comp. If your Tingyun or other Lightning options are busy with another comp, you can go for the next best: the Fire weakness that is shared by 2 out of 3 enemies. Preservation Trailblazer or Asta take the cake here.
So those “pseudo” mono-Quantum comps will look something like this: Seele/QQ + Silver Wolf + Tingyun + Fu Xuan/Lynx or Preservation Trailblazer + Seele/QQ + Silver Wolf + Lynx, depending on the characters you have available. Playing with such “pseudo” mono-Quantum can also free a character from your main party to help out the comp for the second half of the MoC, like Lynx and her cleanse. Here are some suggestions for the replacements per element excluding limited 5-star characters:
- Fire: Asta, Preservation Trailblazer, Himeko;
- Ice: March 7th, Gepard, Pela;
- Lightning: Tingyun, Bailu;
- Wind: Bronya;
- Imaginary: Welt, Dr. Ratio;
- Physical: Natasha, Clara.
Double Element Comps
Building on the idea from the previous point, as long as you can guarantee Silver Wolf’s Weakness placement, why limit yourself to just Quantum? This is how the comps with Silver Wolf worked until the arrival of Fu Xuan and Lynx anyway.
Look at the screenshot above again: provided you have only Lightning and Quantum characters, you can guarantee that extra Quantum Weakness. So instead of running mono-Quantum or only using Tingyun or Serval, you can run something like: Seele/QQ + Silver Wolf + Tingyun + Bailu instead, freeing your Lynx and/or Fu Xuan for your second party. If you don’t mind a bit of RNG, you can alternatively try something like Seele/QQ + Silver Wolf + Preservation Trailblazer + Asta, provided you can solo sustain that way.
It also works backwards if your target already has an in-built Quantum weakness like in the example below. Since Silver Wolf prioritizes the element that is not already present, you can manipulate that to your advantage and build a double-element comp around that. Here are some examples:
- Silver Wolf + Kafka + Tingyun + Bailu/Lynx/Fu Xuan (Quantum + Lightning duo element comp);
- Silver Wolf + Himeko + Asta + Preservation Trailblazer/Lynx/Fu Xuan (Fire + Quantum);
- Silver Wolf + Imbibitor Lunae/Welt + Yukong + Lynx/Fu Xuan (Imaginary + Quantum);
- Silver Wolf + Clara + Natasha/Lynx + Luka/QQ (Physical + Quantum);
- and so on!
Reading through the entirety of the text in one-go might sound like a sales pitch for Silver Wolf, but that is exactly why she is a must-have for a mono-Quantum team. Her ability to embed a Weakness adds an entirely new style of gameplay that allows you to take advantage of your roster’s stronger sides while plugging the weaker ones with Silver Wolf herself. And that is not even going into her actual debuffs.
Still, double elements-based comps do require a certain investment outside of your designated Quantum comp that comes as a weakness that mono-Quantum itself doesn’t have. Simply toss three other Quantum characters together with Silver Wolf and unga-bunga your way to victory.
There are certain drawbacks, of course, such as Seele and QQ being extremely SP-hungry and lacking a real Quantum support or sub-DPS. But, as more characters join the roster, these points will be taken care of in due time. For now, it simply feels great knowing that even if enemy has Weaknesses that I have no characters to match against, I still have something up my sleeve.
