Unveiling Seele's Fate in Honkai: Star Rail – Destruction or Hunting, which is the 'true love' for Seele?

Seele is the character with an insanely 'broken' amount of damage in Honkai: Star Rail. Her power consistently ranks at the top and can surpass many simple levels despite her debut being over half a year ago, amidst the emergence of many other hot names.

The 'Night Butterfly' Seele always holds a special position in gamers' lineups when tackling challenging stages like the Chaotic Memories or the Simulated Universe in Honkai: Star Rail. For the latter, the majority of players opt for Seele paired with Hunting as she plays the role of the primary DPS and follows this fate. Additionally, Mytour itself acknowledges that Seele following Destruction also presents a strong and interesting gameplay during the gaming process. In this article, let's explore with Mytour the pros and cons when choosing the two fates, Destruction & Hunting, for Seele to venture into the Simulated Universe in Honkai: Star Rail.

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The Aspects Players Love Most When Using Hunting for Seele

• The Echoing Structure Sequence: Star Hunting Day, Bow and Name, Targeting Precision

• Blessing Combos: Red Bow and White Arrow (1 star), Backstab (1 star), Misty Fog Chase Evil Spirits (2 stars), Good Luck Star (2 stars), Entity Destruction (3 stars), Eternal Victory (3 stars),...

In general, Hunting characters have relatively similar stat boost strategies focusing on CrR and CrD. This also applies to Seele where players need a critical rate of 60% and a critical damage of 120% to reach the 'usable' threshold or 65% and >140% with >2750 ATK for 'graduation'.

In the Simulated Universe, Lan helps enhance brothers' critical rate by around 64% - 88%, critical damage by 94% - 126% from the Accuracy effects and 1-star blessings. This boost is particularly dominant with critical rate because if brothers have enough 8-12 Accuracy layers, Seele will continuously critical hit. Seele's inherent ability to gain an extra turn upon defeating an enemy will grant her an additional 40-80% ATK, seemingly 'overlapping' with the Misty Fog Chase Evil Spirits buff, but this blessing has truly built Seele's reputation. Players can unleash nearly infinite attacks, with a total increase of up to 160% ATK, especially in battles with small monsters as they only require one regular hit to defeat.

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Good Luck Star, Eternal Victory, Entity Destruction play a crucial role as they significantly increase turn generation, output damage, especially granting up to 4 layers of Accuracy. Besides damage-related stats, Seele also inherits 42% speed, around 48 SPD points if brothers don't invest any in speed when building her. 

Thus, Seele has the following advantages and disadvantages when using Lan's blessings:

What are the pros and cons of Destruction? Can it replace Hunting?

• The Echoing Structure Sequence: Stellar Transformation, Heavy Helium Qi, Event Horizon

• Blessing Combos: Primordial Black Hole (1 star), Reflection Effect (1 star), Destruction Reinforcement (2 stars), Luminous Cannon Destruction (2 stars), Antimatter Reverse Matter Equation (3 stars), Universe's Fiery Death (3 stars),...

Destruction has a rather unique gameplay where players need to exchange a portion of HP for ATK, this exchange rate will fluctuate around 50-70% of the character's HP to achieve effectiveness and safety when playing well. In return, brothers can receive approximately 171% to 216% and a maximum of 246% ATK bonus when the character reaches 40% HP. This is not to mention other offbeat stats like 171% defense, 70% damage increase (35% HP), counter damage,...

But another question arises, how to reach that HP threshold when Seele's provocation is too small, even reducing the chance of being attacked? The answer is for players to arrange their lineup so that characters belonging to Protection or Prosperity stand close to Seele to provoke monsters or they can use the Echoing Fate with the Stellar Transformation structure to bring it down to 40% HP.

In Honkai: Star Rail, there are currently only three characters capable of reducing their own HP: Arlan, Blade, and Jingliu, but Arlan is not favored by players, Jingliu is relatively new, Blade cannot follow Destruction; as for Seele, she is only limited by her ability to reduce HP. If you're afraid your Seele will be defeated, remember that your lineup also includes shielders, healers, or the Destruction buffs to support her survival.

The biggest benefit of this strategy is that your buffers can buff more damage. For example, Tingyun2000's ATK will buff Seele by nearly 1000 ATK. Furthermore, when Seele follows Nanook, she also has high output damage, stable if the gamer is skilled enough, and the shielder is strong enough. Because now Seele no longer relies too much on the player's luck. The maximum damage may be slightly lower than Hunting by about 10-20%, but in return, players will no longer feel 'depressed' because Seele will have a stable damage of 25,000 and can go up to 120,000 damage if HP is low with critical hits.

With Destruction, Mytour lists the strengths and weaknesses when using Seele as follows:

Which fate to choose?

When comparing overall effectiveness, Seele is more suitable for Hunting than for Destruction because Hunting is specifically tailored for Seele and has created a powerful wombo combo. Destruction with Seele is also a very interesting, powerful gameplay, but unfortunately, it is too difficult to play.