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Honkai Star Rail Qingque build

Enhance your Honkai Star Rail Qingque build with this handy guide, detailing the best light cones, skills, and more for this four-star.

honkai star rail qingque against a blue purple pocket tactics background

Honkai Star Rail’s Qingque is a cheery girl who wields mahjong-like tiles, and we’re about to go over what we know about her right here. She’s a four-star unit that you get for free in the Forgotten Hall, which uses the quantum element. Learn all about the best Quingque build, light cones, and skills right here so that you can integrate her into your team and get the most out of her.

If you’re after more, check out our Honkai Star Rail characters guide and Honkai Star Rail tier list, plus we have a bunch of Honkai Star Rail codes so you can bag some freebies. If you want some more build guides, we have plenty for the likes of Honkai Star Rail’s Jingliu, Honkai Star Rail’s Feixiao, and Honkai Star Rail’s Yunli.

Here’s everything in our Honkai Star Rails Qingque build.

What’s the best Honkai Star Rail Qingque build?

Qingque’s affiliation with the Erudution path places her in the role of a multi-target DPS, though her first attack is a single-target attack. From this, we can see that she needs plenty of attack and of course, a quantum damage boost from relics, if we’re lucky enough to grab those.

Qingque’s attack buffs rely on a random selection of tiles (you can see them under her icon on the screen) that she collects while in battle. When she gets four matching tiles, she automatically enhances her next attack – however, there is no way to assist her in doing this, so there’s some reliance on RNG. Putting a set of attack-boosting relics on Qingque won’t go amiss for her build.

Here’s a quick overview of our best HSR Qingque build:

Best light cone Yet Hope Is Priceless
Light cone substitutes Night on the Milky Way, Geniuses’ Repose
Best relic set Genius of Brilliant Stars
Best planar ornament set Rutilant Arena
Main stats Body – Crit rate/damage
Feet – Speed
Link rope – Attack
Planar sphere – Quantum damage bonus
Sub stats Crit rate, crit damage, speed, attack
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How to use Qingque

Qingque can deal a lot of damage – a Qingquillion, as the community says – with her enhanced skill. Enhancing it can be quite point-hungry, but the payoff is worth it. As soon as it’s her turn, hit the enhance and see what happens. Sometimes her skill can automatically enhance depending on which tiles she gains.

At later eidolons, Qingque gets a follow-up move where she repeats her action, adding to her abilities.

What are the best light cones for Qingque?

Qingque’s best light cone is Yet Hope Is Priceless as it’s an Erudition cone that focuses on crit rate and damage for her basic attack, skill, and follow-up. This is actually Honkai Star Rail Jade‘s light cone, but if you’re not using Jade, it’s perfect for Qingque.

If you’re consistently going against fields of more than three enemies, and if they are weak to quantum, Night on the Milky Way is a great, affordable five-star option as you can buy it in the shop each month. Its effectiveness does depend on how wide the field of enemies is though, so make sure you’re using it correctly.

The best four-star light cone for Qingque is Geniuses’ Repose. If you make sure that she is the one dealing the final blow on enemies, this cone provides a huge buff to Qingque’s crit damage and attack.

Here are HSR Qingque’s best light cones:

Yet Hope Is Priceless Increases Qingque’s crit rate by 16%. While Qingque is in battle, for every 20% crit damage that exceeds 120%, the follow-up attack damage dealt increases by 12%. This effect can stack up to four times. When the battle starts or after Qingue uses her basic attack, enables the ultimate or follow-up attack damage dealt to ignore 20% of the target’s defense, lasting for two turns Light cone event banner
Night on the Milky Way For every enemy on the field, increases Qingque’s attack by 9%, up to five stacks. When an enemy is inflicted with weakness break, Qingque’s damage dealt increases by 30% for one turn All banners and Starlight Exchange
Geniuses’ Repose Increases Qingque’s attack by 16%. When she defeats an enemy, Qingque’s crit damage increases by 24% for three turns All banners
Sagacity Increases Qingque’s attack by 24% for two turns when she unleashes her ultimate All banners

What are the best relics for Qingque?

Ideally, your Qingque should have a set of the Genius of Brilliant Stars relics, but there are other options if the RNG isn’t giving you what you need. You can pair this set with two pieces of Musketeer of Wild Wheat for an extra attack buff, or run a full set of Musketeer to help with her basic attack damage. For a little help with Qingque’s crit rate, try pairing Scholar Lost in Erudition with two pieces of Genius for quantum damage, or another attack-buffing set like Musketeer.

To further boost Qingque’s crit rate, we recommend equipping her with the Rutilant Arena planar ornament set. With the right build, she can easily reach the 70% crit requirement for the additional basic attack and skill damage buff.

Here are HSR Qingque’s best relics:

Genius of Brilliant Stars Two pieces equipped: Increases quantum damage by 10%
Four pieces equipped: When Qingque attacks an enemy, the damage dealt ignores 10% of their defense. If the enemy has a quantum weakness, ignore an additional 10%
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence on Jarilo-VI’s Everwinter Hill
Musketeer of Wild Wheat Two pieces equipped: Increases attack by 12%
Four pieces equipped: increases Qingque’s speed by 6% and her basic attack damage by 10%
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Drifting in Jarilo-VI’s Corridor of Fading Echoes
Scholar Lost in Erudition Two equipped: Increases crit rate by 8%
Four equipped:
 not recommended
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Uncertainty in the Xianzhou Luofu’s Shackling Prison

Here are HSR Qingque’s best planar ornaments:

Space Sealing Station Two pieces equipped: Increases Qingque’s attack by 12%. When Qingque’s speed reaches 120 or higher, her attack increases by another 12% Immersion Reward Devices in World 3 of the Simulated Universe, and Divergent Universe: Untoppled Walls
Rutilant Arena Two pieces equipped: Increases Qingque’s crit rate by 8%. When her current crit rate reaches 70% or higher, her basic attack and skill damage increase by 20%. Immersion Reward Devices in World 7 of the Simulated Universe, and Divergent Universe: Fruit of Evil

Qingque stat recommendations

When you’re deciding on the best relics for Qingque, we suggest prioritizing the following stats.

Main stats:

  • Body: Crit damage/rate
  • Feet: Speed
  • Link rope: Attack
  • Planar sphere: Quantum damage increase

Sub-stats:

  • Attack
  • Crit damage, crit rate
  • Speed

Honkai Star Rail Qingque throwing mahjong tiles during her ultimate

What are the best Qingque team comps?

Using characters like Tingyun and Bronya, in classic HSR form, will add a lot to Qingque’s performance. You can also use Silver Wolf to make a strong mono-quantum team that ignores enemy weaknesses. Remember that Qingque’s skill can be skill-point hungry, so it is best to pair her with units who can recover skill points, and not the likes of Imbibitor Lunae.

Here are some examples of powerful Qingque team comps:

Qingque Honkai Star Rail Seele iconSeele Silver Wolf Fu Xuan
Qingque Tingyun Bronya Flex healer slot
Qingque Hanya Fu Xuan Flex sub-DPS slot

What are Qingque’s skills?

Here’s what Qingque has up her sleeve to throw at the enemy in battle, using her quantum elemental skills. All of the multipliers are based on Qingque’s level one stats, so remember that they will only ever increase as you level her traces.

Active skills:

Basic attack Flower Pick
Qingque deals quantum damage equal to 50% of her attack stat to a single enemy
Skill A Scoop of Moon
Increases Qingque’s damage for one turn by 14% and can stack up to four times
Ultimate A Quartet? Woo-Hoo!
Qingque deals quantum damage equal to 120% of her attack

Passive skills:

Celestial Jade At the beginning of an ally’s turn, Qingque draws a tile. She can hold up to four tiles at once. If Qingque holds four of the same suit, she enters the Hidden Hand state which buffs her attack and enhances her basic attack. This state will end when she performs an enhanced basic attack

Technique:

Game Solitaire After using this skill, Qingque draws two jade tiles at the beginning of a battle

Major traces:

A2: Tile Battle Qingque recovers one skill point after she uses her skill for the first time in each fight
A4: Bide Time When using her skill, Qingque’s next attack’s damage increases by 10%
A6: Winning Hand Qingque’s speed increases by 10% for every turn after using her enhanced basic attack

What are Qingque’s eidolons?

If you’ve ever played Genshin Impact, you’re likely aware of what a constellation is. Well, in Honkai Star Rail, eidolons are pretty much the exact same thing – a boost you gain with every copy of a character you pull.

Here are all of HSR Qingque’s eidolons:

E1 Rise Through the Tiles
Qingque’s ultimate deals 10% more damage
E2 Sleep on the Tiles
Each time Draw Tile triggers, Qingque regenerates one energy
E3 Read Between the Tiles
Increases Qingque’s ultimate level by two. The maximum level is 15. Her talent level raises by two, with a maximum of 15
E4 Right on the Tiles
After using her skill, Qingque has a 24% chance to gain Autarky. This allows her to launch a follow-up attack that deals quantum damage equal to 100% of her previous attacks’ damage
E5 Gambit for the Tiles
Increases Qingque’s skill level by two. The maximum level is 15, and her basic attack level by one, up to a maximum of ten
E6 Prevail Beyond the Titles
Qingque recovers one skill point after using her enhanced basic attack

Honkai Star Rail Qingque surrounded by chibi characters

What are Qingque’s ascension materials?

Xianzan Luofo’s Qingque has a few requirements to get her ascended up to level 70 and beyond. The following is what you need to do just that. Void cast iron drops from the Base Zone’s  Honkai Star Rail stagnant shadow on the Herta Space Station.

Here are all of HSR Qingque’s ascension materials:

Required level Credits Materials
20 3.2k Four thief’s instinct
30 6.4k Eight thief’s instinct
40 12.8k Two void cast iron and five usurper’s scheme
50 32k Five void cast iron and eight usurper’s scheme
60 64k  15 void cast iron and five conquerors will
70 128k 28 void cast iron and seven conquerors will

Here’s where to get all of HSR Qingque’s ascension materials:

  • Thief’s instinct, usurper’s scheme, conqueror’s will
    • Dropped by Voidranger Reavers and enemies in the storage and supply zones of the Herta Space Station, Simulated Universe, and can be created in the Synthesizer
    • Void cast iron
      • Dropped by the Stagnant Shadow in the base zone or obtained through the exchange

What are Qingque’s trace materials?

In order to upgrade Qingque’s traces and abilities, you’ll need to upgrade her minor and major traces. To max all of Qingque’s traces, you need the following materials:

  • 28 thief’s instincts, 42 usurper’s schemes, and 42 conqueror’s wills
    • Obtain from voidranger enemies, purchase from the Embers Exchange store, purchase from the Xianzhou Luofu world shop, and the synthesizer
  • 12 keys of inspiration, 54 keys of knowledge, and 105 keys of wisdom
    • Obtain from the Bud of Erudition calyx, purchase from the Embers Exchange store, purchase from Herta’s Space Station world shop, and the Jarilo-VI world shop
  • 12 Guardian’s Lament
    • Obtain from Cocolia, Mother of Deception’s boss fight in the Echo of War at Everwinter Hill
  • 5 tracks of destiny
    • Obtain from events, as rewards in the Simulated Universe, from the Embers exchange, and Nameless Honor (battlepass) rewards
  • 2,400,000 credits

Skill trace priority:

  • Basic attack > ultimate > talent > skill

Major trace priority:

  • The Battle > Bide Time > Winning Hand

For more Honkai Star Rail details, check out our build guides for Honkai Star Rail’s Gepard, Honkai Star Rail’s Trailblazer, and Honkai Star Rail’s Firefly. Or head back into Teyvat and build Genshin Impact’s Yoimiya or Genshin Impact’s Chasca, and make sure to snap up the new Genshin Impact codes while you’re there!