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.
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Here's everything in our HSR Qingque build:
What's the best Qingque build?
Qingque is a four-star quantum-element character who treads the path of the Erudition. This 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.
Here's a brief overview of our best Qingque build:
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Element | Quantum |
| Path | Erudition |
| Best light cone | Yet Hope Is Priceless |
| Light cone substitute |
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| Best relic set | Poet of Mourning Collapse |
| Best planar ornaments |
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Qingque's best light cone is Yet Hope Is Priceless. Her best relic set is Poet of Mourning Collapse, and she makes great use of either Tengoku@Livestream or Rutilant Arena as planar ornaments. In terms of relic stats and sub-stats, you should focus on crit rate and damage, as well as attack.
How to use Honkai Star Rail's 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 is the best light cone 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 Wayis 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 to enemies, this cone provides a huge buff to Qingque's crit damage and attack.
Here are the best HSR Qingque 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 |
| 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 |
| Geniuses' Repose | Increases Qingque's attack by 16%. When she defeats an enemy, Qingque's crit damage increases by 24% for three turns |
| Before Dawn | Increases Qingque's crit damage by 36%. Increases her skill and ultimate damage dealt by 18%. After Qingque uses her skill or ultimate, gains Somnus Corpus. Upon triggering a follow-up attack, consumes Somnus Corpus, and increases follow-up attack damage dealt by 48% |
What are the best relics for Qingque?
Qingque's best relic set is Poet of Mourning Collapse. As her kit doesn't rely on a high speed stat, the speed reduction element of the set doesn't affect her, and lets you buff her quantum damage and crit rate.
If a slow Qingque doesn't work for your team, a full set of Genius of Brilliant Stars is still a fantastic option for any quantum DPS, especially in teams with Honkai Star Rail's Silver Wolf, where quantum weakness is guaranteed. If you're struggling to build her crit rate, you can pair two pieces of Poet or Genius with two pieces of Scholar Lost in Erudition.
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. However, Tengoku@Livestream is a fantastic option for Qingque as a skill point-hungry DPS, massively increasing her crit damage when using her skill takes three or more points.
Here are HSR Qingque's best relics:
| Poet of Mourning Collapse | Two equipped: increases quantum damage by 10% Four equipped: decreases Qingque's speed by 8%. Before entering battle, if Qingque's speed is lower than 110/95, increase her crit rate by 20%/32%. This effect also applies to the wearer's memosprite |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Aria, "Bloodbathed Battlefront" Castrum Kremnos, Amphoreus |
| Genius of Brilliant Stars | Two equipped: increases quantum damage by 10% Four 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% |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence on Jarilo-VI's Everwinter Hill |
| Scholar Lost in Erudition | Two equipped: increases crit rate by 8% Four equipped: not recommended |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Uncertainty in the Xianzhou Luofu's Shackling Prison |
Planar ornaments
| Rutilant Arena | Two 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%. | Obtain from: World 7 of the Simulated Universe, and Divergent Universe: Fruit of Evil |
| Tengoku@Livestream | Two equipped: increases Qingque's crit damage by 16%, If three or more skill points are consumed in the same turn, additionally increases Qingque's crit damage by 32% for three turns | Obtain from: Divergent Universe: Within the West Wind |
Relic stat recommendations
When you're deciding on the best relics for Qingque, we suggest prioritizing the following stats.
Main stats:
- Body: crit rate or crit damage
- Feet: attack% (Poet) or speed (other set)
- Planar sphere: quantum damage
- Link rope: attack%
Sub-stats:
- Crit rate
- Crit damage
- Speed
- Attack
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 |
 Seele |
 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 |
Talent and technique:
| Talent | Celestial Jade When an ally's turn starts, Qingque randomly draws one tile from three different suits and can hold up to four tiles at one time. If Qingque starts her turn with four tiles of the same suit, she consumes all tiles to enter the "Hidden Hand" state. While in this state, Qingque cannot use her skill again. At the same time, Qingque's attack increases by 36%, and her basic attack "Flower Pick" is enhanced, becoming "Cherry on Top!" The "Hidden Hand" state ends after using "Cherry on Top!" |
| Technique | Game Solitaire Qingque draws two jade tiles when the battle starts |
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 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 |
What are Qingque's ascension materials?
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 Qingque's ascension materials:
| 20 ➔ 30 |
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| 30 ➔ 40 |
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| 40 ➔ 50 |
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| 50 ➔ 60 |
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| 60 ➔ 70 |
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| 70 ➔ 80 |
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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
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