Honkai Star Rail 1.6 usage rate shows the most popular characters in Pure Fiction

The Pure Fiction in Honkai Star Rail is shaping up to be prominent end-game content that features a four-week reset cycle alongside consecutive enemy spawn mechanics. While it follows the fundamental combat system, players must challenge each stage of the domain and obtain the required points to unlock their respective rewards. Due to this, a proper selection of characters is necessary to secure the highest possible score.

Thankfully, they can refer to the Prydwen Institute, a renowned source for Honkai Star Rail theory-crafting, to employ individuals to create the ultimate team compositions. This article further discusses the most popular characters for v1.6’s Pure Fiction specified in the database.

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Most popular character in Honkai Star Rail 1.6 Pure Fiction

Pure Fiction character usage rate for version 1.6 (Image via Prydwen Institute)

With the release of Pure Fiction in Honkai Star Rail 1.6, Prydwen Institute set up a separate section for the game mode, showing all the popular characters in the current cycle. The data has been acquired from a sample size of 20124 players as of this writing, so one can rely on the authenticity of the information.

The following list shows the most prominent units and their usage rates for the reader’s convenience:

1. Ruan Mei: 68.93%
2. Tingyun: 62.69%
3. Bronya: 52.34%
4. Fu Xuan: 51.99%
5. Jingliu: 51.02%
6. Pela: 44.68%
7. Luocha: 40.47%
8. Kafka: 37.76%
9. Himeko: 34.47%
10. Jing Yuan: 33.57%
11. Huohuo: 32.94%
12. Blade: 27.79%
13. Asta: 25.53%
14. Herta: 24.62%
15. Clara: 24.37%

Ruan Mei has undoubtedly exceeded the expectations of the Honkai Star Rail community with her arsenal of powerful buffs that can benefit almost every character. She can basically enable allies to ignore a target’s DEF while attacking, pushing the entire team’s damage output through the roof.

Himeko and Herta appear to be quite popular in Pure Fiction (Image via HoYoverse)

It also appears that some of the underrated units, like Himeko and Herta, are shining in Pure Fiction, sitting at a substantially high usage rate. This is due to their powerful follow-up attacks, which not only activate automatically but can also hit multiple enemies in the battle.

Jing Yuan has access to a similar mechanic where his Lightning Lord crashes down on opponents, dealing damage in an AoE. Therefore, he has secured the 10th position with a whopping 33.57% usage rate. He is directly competing against Kafka, who has overshadowed him as a 5-star unit from the same element.

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