Honkai Star Rail’s Jade is a unique five-star quantum damage dealer. She treads the path of the Erudition, meaning she can dish out some powerful multi-target damage, but she also provides some very valuable buffs to her allies. So let’s dive into how to make the most of her in our HSR Jade build, featuring her top team comps, relics, light cones, and more.
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Here’s everything in our Honkai Star Rail Jade build.
What’s the best Honkai Star Rail Jade build?
Honkai Star Rail’s Jade is a five-star quantum character who treads the path of the Erudition. She’s a powerful multi-target DPS who dishes out heaps of AoE damage.
| Best light cone | Yet Hope is Priceless |
| Light cone substitute | Night on the Milky Way |
| Best relic set | Genius of Brilliant Stars |
| Best planar ornament set | Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves |
| Main stats | Body: crit rate/damage Feet: attack Planar sphere: quantum damage boost Link rope: attack |
| Sub-stats | Crit rate/damage, attack, speed |
The best light cone for Jade is her signature five-star, Yet Hope is Priceless. Her best relic set is four pieces of Genius of Brilliant Stars paired up with two pieces of Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves. When choosing relics for Jade, we recommend prioritizing crit rate and damage (try to maintain a 1:2 rate-to-damage ratio), attack, and speed, with quantum damage on her planar sphere.
In terms of leveling up her skills, we recommend prioritizing her talent first, followed by her ultimate. After that, you can level up her skill and basic attack equally. As for her major traces, prioritize Collateral Ticket, followed by Reverse Repo, then Asset Forfeiture.
How to use Jade
Jade performs best on a double DPS team and synergizes incredibly well with AoE and follow-up attack-focused units. She boasts incredible performance in Pure Fiction, and provides a very strong, single-target speed boost, making her a very valuable asset to any roster.
Her performance outside of Pure Fiction is quite disappointing. Without her first eidolon, she’s also almost exclusively tied to multi-target battles. She relies heavily on there being multiple enemies on the field in order to get stacks for her follow-up attack, so she doesn’t perform well against single-target bosses. We recommend mainly using her in Pure Fiction teams or as a secondary DPS alongside Blade.
Jade’s kit primarily focuses on follow-up damage, but her skill provides a buff to one ally. This buff increases the target’s speed and also causes all of their attacks to deal a single additional instance of quantum damage based on Jade’s attack. We recommend using her skill on allies that already have high speed, especially those who have follow-up attacks, as this means they can dish out multiple attacks and make the most of the buff before Jade has to apply it.
To summarize – Jade performs best in Pure Fiction and in battles against multiple enemies. In combat, use Jade’s skill to buff an ally (preferably one who has a follow-up attack or high speed), every three turns, use her basic attack to hit enemies and generate SP between buffs, and use her ultimate whenever it’s available. It’s a pretty simple rotation and is a surefire way to get you through Pure Fiction with minimal effort.
What are the best light cones for Jade?
Jade’s best light cone is her signature five-star, Yet Hope Is Priceless. It offers a significant boost to her crit rate and follow-up attack damage, as well as a hefty amount of defense shred to help her take down her enemies even quicker. Night on the Milky Way is another solid five-star option for Jade, but only if you intend to play her exclusively in Pure Fiction as, outside of that gameplay mode, it’s very difficult to maintain stacks, and its performance dramatically drops off when there are fewer enemies on the field.
For a more accessible option, the best four-star light cone for Jade is Today Is Another Peaceful Day due to the high energy cost of her ultimate. Alternatively, Geniuses’ Repose is also a solid four-star option, though for it to truly shine you need to keep the buff up consistently, meaning Jade needs to take down at least one enemy every three turns.
| Yet Hope Is Priceless | Increases Jade’s crit rate. While Jade is in battle, for every 20% crit damage that exceeds 120%, her follow-up attack damage increases. This effect can stack up to four times. When the battle starts or after Jade uses her basic attack, both her ultimate and follow-up attack damage ignores a percentage of the target’s defense, lasting for two turns |
| Night on the Milky Way | Increases Jade’s attack for every enemy that’s on the field (up to five stacks). When an enemy is inflicted with weakness break, Jade’s damage increases for one turn |
| Today Is Another Peaceful Day | After entering battle, Jade’s damage increases based on her max energy. Her damage increases by a set percentage per point of energy, up to 160 energy |
| Geniuses’ Repose | Increases Jade’s attack. When Jade defeats an enemy, her crit damage increases for three turns |
What are the best relics for Jade?
The best relic set for Jade is a four-piece set of Genius of Brilliant Stars, as it boosts her quantum damage, and ignores a slice of the enemy’s defense. A four-piece set of Ashblazing Grand Duke is also a great option as it works with all enemies, not just the quantum weak. If you have Jade’s signature light cone, we recommend Genius over Ashblaze.
As long as you pair Jade up with another follow-up attack character, the best planar ornament set for Jade is Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves. It’s a strong all-rounder that boosts her follow-up attack damage and crit damage. If you plan to use Jade exclusively in Pure Fiction, Sigonia, the Unclaimed Desolation is a strong choice. It offers a nice crit rate increase, as well as a stackable crit damage boost when you defeat an enemy.
Relics
| Genius of Brilliant Stars | Two pieces: increases quantum damage by 10% Four pieces: when Jade deals damage to the target enemy, she ignores 10% defense. If the enemy has quantum weakness, she ignores an additional 10% defense |
Obtain from the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence on Jarilo VI |
| The Ashblazing Grand Duke | Two pieces: increases follow-up attack damage by 20% Four pieces: when Jade uses follow-up attacks against the target enemy, her attack increases by 6% every time the follow-up attack deals damage. This effect can stack for a maximum of eight times and lasts three turns. The effect expires the next time Jade uses a follow-up attack |
Obtain from the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Darkness in Fyxestroll Garden |
Planar ornaments
| Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves | When allies use follow-up attacks, Jade receives one stack of merit, stacking up to five times. Each stack of merit increases Jade’s follow-up attack damage by 5%. When there are five stacks, her crit damage also increases by 25$ | Obtain from the Divergent Universe |
| Sigonia, the Unclaimed Desolation | Increases Jade’s crit rate by 4%. When you defeat an enemy target, her crit damage also increases by 4%, stacking up to ten times | Obtain from the World 9 of the Simulated Universe |
| Izumo Gensei and Takama Divine Realm | Increases the wearer’s ATK by 12%. When entering battle, if at least one other ally follows the same Path as the wearer, then the wearer’s CRIT Rate increases by 12%. | Obtain from the World 9 of the Simulated Universe |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Body: crit rate/damage
- Feet: attack%
- Planar sphere: quantum damage
- Link rope: attack%
Sub-stats
- Crit rate/damage
- Attack%
- Speed
What are the best Jade team comps?
Jade’s best ally is Blade. She benefits from his follow-up, his basic attack, and his ultimate. He appreciates the buff from her skill as it allows him to do an additional instance of damage when he uses his abilities, which gives him two stacks for his talent instead of one. Both Jade and Blade benefit from Bronya’s speed boost and the additional turns she provides, making them a very powerful trio.
Outside of Blade, Jade performs best on a team with other follow-up and multi-target DPS characters like Argenti, Herta, and Himeko. Pairing Jade with these options is really effective in Pure Fiction.
As Jade is best suited to double DPS teams, she also plays well with both Robin and Ruan Mei as they can add some significant boosts to your damage. Unless you’re running Jade with Blade (in which case Bronya is always the most valuable support), we highly recommend putting either Ruan Mei or Robin on her team.
What are Jade’s skills?
Here are all of Jade’s active and passive skills. All of the multipliers are based on Jade’s stats at level one but remember that they increase as you level her traces up.
Active skills
| Basic attack | Lash of Riches Deal quantum damage equal to 45% of Jade’s attack to a single target enemy, and quantum damage equal to 15% of Jade’s attack to adjacent enemies |
| Skill | Acquisition Surety Makes a single target ally become the Debt Collector and increases their speed by 30 for three turns. After the Debt Collector attacks, they deal one instance of additional quantum damage equal to 15% of Jade’s attack to each enemy target they hit, at the cost of 2% of the Debt Collector’s max HP. If their current HP is insufficient, their HP reduces to one. If Jade becomes the Debt Collector, she cannot gain the speed boost effect, and her attacks do not consume HP. While a Debt Collector exists on the field, Jade cannot use her skill. At the start of Jade’s turn, the Debt Collector’s duration reduces by one turn |
| Ultimate | Vow of the Deep Deals quantum damage equal to 120% of Jade’s attack to all enemies. Also enhances the follow-up attack from Jade’s talent, increasing its damage multiplier by 40%. This enhancing effect can activate two times |
Passive skill
| Talent | Fang of Flare Flaying After Jade or an ally with the Debt Collector status attacks, Jade gains one charge for each enemy target hit. When she gets eight charges, she consumes them all to launch a follow-up attack, dealing quantum damage equal to 60% of her attack to all enemies. This follow-up attack doesn’t generate a charge stack. When launching the follow-up attack, Jade immediately gains five stacks of Pawned Asset, with each stack increasing her crit damage by 1.2%. This effect can stack up to 50 times |
Technique
| Visionary Predation | After using the technique, Jade inflicts enemies within a set area with blind fealty for ten seconds. Enemies inflicted with blind fealty won’t initiate attacks on allies. When entering battle via actively attacking enemies inflicted with blind fealty, all enemies with blind fealty will enter combat simultaneously. After entering battle, deals quantum damage equal to 50% of Jade’s attack to all enemies, and immediately gains 15 stacks of pawned asset |
Traces
| A2 | Reverse Repo When enemy targets enter combat, Jade gains one stack of pawned asset. When a Debt Collector ally’s turn starts, Jade additionally gains three stacks of pawned asset |
| A4 | Collateral Ticket When the battle starts, Jade’s action advances forward by 50% |
| A6 | Asset Forfeiture Each stack of the talent’s pawned asset additionally increases Jade’s attack by 0.5% |
What are Jade’s eidolons?
Similar to Genshin Impact’s constellations, eidolons are special buffs that you can unlock when you pull more than one copy of a character.
| E1 | Altruism? Nevertheless Tradable The follow-up attack damage from Jade’s talent increases by 32$. After the character with the Debt Collector effect uses an attack and hits 2/1 enemy targets, Jade additionally gains 1/2 points of charge |
| E2 | Morality? Herein Authenticated When Jade has 15 stacks of pawned asset, her crit rate increases by 18% |
| E3 | Honesty? Soon Mortgaged Increases the level of Jade’s skill and talent by two, up to a maximum of level 15 |
| E4 | Sincerity? Put Option Only When using her ultimate, the damage Jade deals ignores 12% of the enemy targets’ defense, lasting for three turns |
| E5 | Hope? Hitherto Forfeited Increases the level of Jade’s ultimate by two, up to a maximum of level 15, and her basic attack by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E6 | Equity? Pending Sponsorship When there are Debt Collector allies on the field, Jade’s quantum res pen increases by 20% and Jade gains the Debt Collector state |
What are Jade’s ascension materials?
You can use EXP logs to get Jade all the way up to level 80, but you need to use specific materials at set intervals to increase her ascension ranks, too.
| 20➔30 | 4k credits Five dream collection components |
| 30➔40 | 8k credits Ten dream collection components |
| 40➔50 | 16k credits Three dream flamers Six dream flow valves |
| 50➔60 | 40k credits Seven dream flamers Nine dream flow valves |
| 60➔70 | 80k credits 20 dream flamers Six dream making engines |
| 70a➔80 | 160k credits 35 dream flamers Nine dream making engines |
Here’s where to get all of HSR Jade’s ascension materials:
- Dream collection components, flow valves, making engines
- Obtain from Dreamjolt Troupe enemies, golden calyxes in Penacony, the Simulated Universe, assignment rewards, the Embers Exchange store, or the omni-synthesizer material exchange
- Dream flamers
- Obtain from the Dreamjolt Troupe’s Beyond Overcooked enemy in the Stagnant Shadow: Shape of Roast, located in Dream’s Edge, Penacony
What are Jade’s trace materials?
You can enhance the power of Jade’s attacks by upgrading her major and minor traces. To max out all of Jade’s traces, you need the following materials:
- 15 rough sketches, 72 dynamic outlining, and 139 exquisite colored drafts
- Obtain from the crimson calyx in Penacony’s Grand Theater or purchase from the Embers Exchange store
- 41 dream collection components, 56 dream flow valves, 58 dream-making engines
- Obtain from Dreamjolt Troupe enemies, golden calyxes in Penacony, the Simulated Universe, assignment rewards, the Embers Exchange store, or the omni-synthesizer material exchange
- 12 lost echo of the shared wish
- Obtain from the Harmonious Choir – The Great Septimus boss in the Echo of War: Salutations of Ashen Dreams challenge
- 11 tracks of destiny
- Obtain from the Embers Exchange store, the simulated universe, the nameless honor battlepass, or as rewards from limited-time events
That’s everything we’ve got on Honkai Star Rail’s Jade. If you fancy taking the fight elsewhere, be sure to check out our guides on Hoyoverse’s other games, including our Zenless Zone Zero codes and Zenless Zone Zero tier list.