Honkai Star Rail Pure Fiction characters tier list

Pure Fiction is arguably one of the best end-game activities that Honkai Star Rail has ever released. This mode saw its debut alongside the launch of version 1.6. In this activity, Trailblazers can complete four stages to obtain various rewards. Additionally, each stage requires players to defeat as many waves of enemies as they can to accumulate a good amount of score.

This means Trailblazers must build several team compositions consisting of the best characters that can unleash attacks simultaneously. Therefore, the FUA (Follow-Up Attack) characters such as Herta, Dr. Ratio, Yunli, Jade, and more are the best units that players can use to achieve a high score in the activity.

This article ranks every Honkai Star Rail character in a tier list so players can pick any good characters for Pure Fiction and build them to their liking.

Note: This article solely relies on the writer’s opinion and is influenced by their Honkai Star Rail experience and inventory.

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Tier list for Honkai Star Rail Pure Fiction

Honkai Star Rail Pure Fiction tier list (Image via Tiermaker)

In the picture above, players can see all of the Honkai Star Rail characters ranked in a tier list. All of them have been placed in this list based on their performance in Pure Fiction and also are analyzed without Eidolons for a fair evaluation. In the section below, we have detailed why these units are ranked this way.

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SS tier

Yunli (Image via HoYoverse)

The Honkai Star Rail characters in this tier are the best units players can acquire for Pure Fiction:

• Herta
• Yunli
• Jade
• Robin
• Himeko
• Dr. Ratio
• Topaz & Numby
• Ruan Mei
• Aventurine

These units usually dominate the meta of Pure Fiction and can easily defeat enemies with little to no effort. Characters such as Herta, Yunli, Jade, Dr. Ratio, Topaz, and Himeko have excellent synergy with each other and can also be paired with any characters in the S tier.

Moreover, Robin, Ruan Mei, and Aventurine are some of the best support units players can acquire for Pure Fiction. Robin and Aventurine are FUA supports, while Ruan Mei is a universal support unit.

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S tier

March 7th (Hunt) (Image via HoYoverse)

The Honkai Star Rail characters in the S tier of this Pure Fiction tier list are:

• March 7th (Hunt)
• Fu Xuan
• Jing Yuan
• Huohuo
• Clara
• Sparkle
• Tingyun

All of these characters have an extraordinary synergy with the units in the SS tier. They are the must-pick units when building team compositions to complete each stage of this activity with three stars. Moreover, these characters are usually used as either the second DPS unit or supports for the main DPS.

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A tier

Acheron (Image via HoYoverse)

This Honkai Star Rail Pure Fiction tier list rank features:

• Acheron
• Firefly
• Boothill
• Gallagher
• Black Swan
• Silver Wolf
• Hanya
• Luocha
• Trailblazer (Harmony)
• Kafka
• Asta
• Jingliu
• Bronya
• Qingque
• Lynx
• Pela
• Xueyi

Most of the characters above perform somewhat okay in this activity and cannot achieve a highscore even though they perform well outside of Pure Fiction. Additionally, Acheron and Firefly are meta-defining characters but fail to produce good results in this activity when compared to the SS- and S-tier characters.

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B tier

Luka (Image via HoYoverse)

The characters in the B tier for this Pure Fiction tier list are as follows:

• Blade
• Misha
• Seele
• Argenti
• Guinaifen
• Luka
• Yanqing
• Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae
• March 7th (Preservation)
• Dan Heng
• Welt
• Smapo
• Gepard
• Bailu
• Yukong

These units are decent in the other activities but are not as viable in Pure Fiction since Trailblazer must defeat as many enemies as possible in a short period. That said, some of these characters require a hefty investment to perform well while fighting.

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C tier

Serval (Image via HoYoverse)

In this Pure Fiction tier list, the C-tier units are listed in the following section:

• Serval
• Sushang
• Arlan
• Hook
• Natasha
• Trailblazer (Preservation)
• Trailblazer (Destruction)

These Honkai Star Rail characters are victims of power creep and fail to show their value. Additionally, these units should be avoided when players want to build a Pure Fiction team composition.