Honkai: Star Rail - Dan Heng's Lunar Ambivalence: Worth the Investment?

Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence is the latest character introduced in recent days, leaving Honkai: Star Rail players in a dilemma whether to welcome this Dragon to their team or not.

Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence (Dan Heng IL) is the true form of the Vidyadhara Dan Heng, taking on the identity of the Lunar Ambulance. This character made its official debut in version 1.2, belonging to the Quantum type, with the Fate of Destruction and can be summoned through the Leap Step at the current moment.

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Skill Set

Upon detailed examination, players can observe that Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence's skill set is quite extensive as described by the game publisher. In general, the damage output of Dan Heng IL focuses on enhancing normal attacks and consuming a considerable amount of skill points, specifically:

Normal Attack: Earth's Measure

• No CH: Single Attack: Unleashes 2 normal attacks dealing 50 - 100% of Dan Heng IL's attack as Virtual Damage to an enemy.
• CH Proc 1: Single Attack: Unleashes 3 normal attacks dealing 130 - 260% of Dan Heng IL's attack as Virtual Damage to an enemy.
• CH Proc 2: Disperse: Unleashes 5 consecutive attacks on a designated enemy causing Virtual Damage of 190 - 380% of Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence's attack. Starting from the 4th attack, simultaneously inflicts Virtual Damage of 30 - 60% of Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence's attack on nearby targets.
• CH Proc 3: Disperse: Unleashes 7 consecutive attacks on a designated enemy causing Virtual Damage of 250 - 500% of Dan Heng IL's attack. Starting from the 4th attack, simultaneously inflicts Virtual Damage of 90 - 180% of the attack on nearby targets.

Ultimate Technique: Dragon Force Within Enhances the normal attack effect, can be continuously enhanced up to 3 times, activates this skill without consuming Skill Points, and does not count as using a Special Skill.

• Enhance once, 'Earth's Measure' transforms into 'Instant Wrath'.
• Enhance twice, 'Earth's Measure' transforms into 'Sacred Spear of Spirits'.
• Enhance thrice, 'Earth's Measure' transforms into 'Miraculous Alchemical Table'.

When unleashing 'Sacred Spear of Spirits' or 'Miraculous Alchemical Table', starting from the 4th attack, before each attack, gain 1 layer of 'Roaring Gale Dance', increasing Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence's Crit Damage by 6 - 12%. This effect can stack up to 4 layers, lasting until the end of the character's phase.

Ultimate Move: World Purge: Executes 3 attacks dealing Virtual Damage to a single enemy by 180 - 300% of Dan Heng IL's attack, simultaneously inflicting Virtual Damage to nearby targets by 84 - 140% of Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence's attack, and grants self 2 layers of Chaos Crest.

Can possess a maximum of 3 Chaos Crest layers, used to offset the SP consumption of Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence. The consumption of Chaos Crest is considered Skill Point consumption.

Innate Talent: Righteous Heart: After each attack executed by Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence, gains 1 layer of Righteous Heart, increasing self-inflicted damage by 5 - 10%. This effect can stack up to 6 layers, lasting until the end of the character's phase.

Secret Art: Dragon God Shatters the Void: After using the Secret Art, enters the Divine Table state for 20 seconds. In this state, performing an attack swiftly moves forward and attacks the enemies in contact, able to resist all enemy attacks while moving quickly. In the Divine Table state, after actively attacking an enemy in combat, inflicts Virtual Damage of 120% of Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence's Attack to all enemies, and grants self 1 Chaos Crest.

Luminous Headgear “Brighter Than the Sun”

Accompanying the character, Hoyoverse introduces a new Apocalypse-themed headgear called “Brighter Than the Sun,” the effects and stats of this headgear are as follows:

Daring Venture: Boosts the critical rate of the equipped character by 18%. When the player executes normal attacks, gains 1 layer of Dragon Roar, lasting 2 phases. Each Dragon Roar layer increases the equipped character's attack by 18% and energy recharge efficiency by 6%. Dragon Roar can accumulate up to 2 layers.

This is a headgear with a substantial amount of HP and ATK, and moreover, it can significantly increase critical rate and attack, making it very suitable for Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence.

Real Combat

When considering summoning Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence in Honkai: Star Rail, players need to carefully evaluate the practical combat capabilities of this Dragon Lord. Pay attention to the following:

• Consumes a significant amount of skill points, so team composition needs to be relatively selective.
• Current enemies generally have 0-20% Virtual Damage resistance, making it easier to deal significant damage. Skills can cause multiple instances of damage, potentially easily breaking through enemy defenses.
• Requires high SP management skills.
• Enhanced normal attack (level 10) with 2 boosts can inflict up to 380% damage based on attack, nearly equivalent to Seele's level 8 ultimate, so Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence players should prioritize having 2 skill points for stable damage output.
• Limit adding an additional DPS; support heavily relies on skills in the team. Include characters with good SP regeneration, focusing more on ultimates.

Is it worth investing in Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence?

According to Mytour's assessment, players should refrain from rolling for Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence if they are new to Honkai: Star Rail because he is relatively challenging to play and prone to running out of resources if players use SP excessively. Instead, wait for Fu Xuan to have a complete team with 2 healers for the Forgotten Palace, and a 4-star DPS is sufficient. However, if you already possess the skills, equipment, and good support characters, welcome Dan Heng - Lunar Ambivalence with the Brighter Than the Sun headgear and enjoy damage numbers in the hundreds of thousands even without VTMP buffs.