Most popular characters in Honkai Star Rail 2.3 Apocalyptic Shadow

The Apocalyptic Shadow game mode saw its debut alongside the Honkai Star Rail 2.3 patch. After its release, this activity’s popularity has sky-rocketed since players can earn a significant amount of Stellar Jades from it. Within less than a week after the launch of the update, X user @StarRailVerse1 has shared a list of the most popular characters in Apocalyptic Shadow.

Let’s take a look at the 10 most popular characters in Honkai Star Rail 2.3 Apocalyptic Shadow game mode.

Note: Some aspects of this article are subjective and solely rely on the writer’s opinion.

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What are the most popular characters in Honkai Star Rail 2.3 Apocalyptic Shadow?

The 10 most popular characters in Honkai Star Rail 2.3 Apocalyptic Shadow are listed in the following section:

1. Ruan Mei – 89.31%
2. Acheron – 74.79%
3. Firefly – 58.49%
4. Fu Xuan – 56.75%
5. Silver Wolf – 50.49%
6. Sparkle – 36.32%
7. Aventurine – 35.87%
8. Black Swan – 28. 10%
9. Kafka – 26.21%
10. Robin – 18.39%

Ruan Mei secures first place as the most popular character in Honkai Star Rail version 2.3 Apocalyptic Shadow game mode. This placement was quite foreseeable since she had been dominating the meta soon after her debut in the title. In the recent patches, the developers released various DPS characters that scale with Break Effect which Ruan Mei specializes in, leading to a significant rise in her pick rate.

Apart from Ruan Mei, Acheron has been one of the best damage dealers of this turn-based space odyssey following her launch in version 2.1. Since she is also one of the most anticipated characters, the majority of the player base has added her to their collection. Building Acheron is quite easy her team composition requires very little investment; therefore, her pick rate being high is quite justifiable.

Surprisingly, Firefly secures the third place on this list. Since it has been less than a week after her release in this title, her placement high surprisingly high. But, as one of the anticipated characters of this space odyssey, and one of the strongest meta characters third place is quite valid.

Since Fu Xuan’s first rerun banner just ended last week her pick rate has risen quite a lot. She is also one of the best Path of Preservation characters that this title offers. Acheron’s release also made Fu Xuan a go-to unit to choose from since the latter can absorb an extensive amount of damage while also boosting her allies’ CRIT stats.

Apart from the abovementioned characters, the rest of the characters are quite powerful. However, these characters mainly fill support roles while the DPS units in Honkai Star Rail 2.3 are subject to power creep.