Throughout your time on Jarilo-VI, Honkai Star Rail's Seele plays an important role, standing by your side as you fight for justice as a key member of the Wildlife faction. Our Honkai Star Rail Seele build guide aims to show exactly how to harness the power of this deadly butterfly's quantum damage.
If you want an extra helping hand getting acquainted with all the other citizens of Belabog, check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list and Honkai Star Rail code guide. We also have builds for other five-stars including Honkai Star Rail's Jing Yuan and Honkai Star Rail's Bronya.
Here's everything in our Honkai Star Rail Seele build guide:
What's the best Honkai Star Rail Seele build?
Honkai Star Rail's Seele is a five-star DPS that uses the quantum element, and follows the path of the Hunt.
| Best light cone | In the Night |
| Light cone substitutes | Sleep Like The Dead, Swordplay |
| Best relic set | Genius of Brilliant Stars |
| Planar ornaments | Rutilant Arena |
| Main stats | Body – Crit rate/damage Feet – Attack Link rope – Attack Planar sphere – Quantum damage bonus |
| Sub stats | Crit rate, crit damage, attack, speed |
Seele is a high-impact, burst-based DPS, that deals heaps of damage to a single target over a short period of time. Her kit focuses on crit, speed, and plenty of attack, so she can do as much damage as possible each turn. As such, we recommend building Seele with attack, speed, crit rate, crit damage, and quantum damage, and using her as a main damage dealer. Pairing her up with a supporting character – especially Honkai Star Rail's Bronya – to add to her own self-buffs can also help her shine even more.
How do I use Seele?
Seele is the DPS in her teams, and you want to use her with as many buffs, boosts, and extra turns as you can to get some extra damage out of her. Letting her loose on opponents with her skill and ultimate can really deal some damage.
While Seele is a single-target DPS, she can do a lot of damage in one turn. If you defeat an enemy, her passive skill gives her an extra move and a buff. Her damage increases by 44% for the next turn, meaning she can potentially take out two enemies each turn.
What are the best light cones for Seele?
In the Night is a five-star light cone tailored towards Seele's kit, increasing her crit rate and boosting her basic attack damage and ultimate crit damage depending on her speed. With the speed buff, she gains from her skill, this light cone can offer a substantial boost in stats that make it very worthwhile.
However, we all know that getting a light cone alongside a five-star character can be expensive, so it isn't for everyone. There are some other really good options for Seele including Cruising in the Stellar Sea, available in Herta's shop, and Sleep Like the Dead, available on all banners or in the Starlight Exchange. Just make sure you go for one that aligns with the Hunt path.
If you use the River Flows in Spring light cone, we recommend taking a shielder or taunt party member with Seele so that she doesn't get hit, and keeps the buff.
| In the Night | Increases Seele's crit rate by 12%. If her speed is above 100, every additional ten speed points increase her basic attack damage and skill damage and increase her ultimate crit damage. This effect can stack up to eight times. | Light cone banner |
| Cruising in the Stellar Sea | Increases Seele's crit rate by 8%, and increases her crit rate against enemies with HP less than 50% by an extra 8%. When she defeats an enemy, her attack increases by 20% for two turns. | Herta's Store |
| Sleep Like the Dead | Increases Seele's crit damage by 30%. When her basic attack or skill does not result in a crit hit, it increases her crit rate for one turn. | Standard and light cone banner, and Starlight Exchange |
| Swordplay | For each hit on the same target, the damage increases by 8%, stacking up to five times. This effect dispells when changing targets. | All banners |
| River Flows in Spring | When entering battle, Seele's speed and damage increase. When she takes damage, the effect disappears. The effect returns at the end of Seele's next turn | All banners |
What are the best relics for Seele?
The best relic set for Seele is Genius of Brilliant Stars, which boosts her quantum damage and increases her attack. When it comes to sub-stats, we recommend aiming for crit, attack, speed, and quantum damage boost where possible. For crit, you should try to maintain a 2:1 ratio between crit damage and crit rate.
For Seele's planar ornaments, we recommend choosing a set that boosts the stat you need – be it crit rate, crit damage, or attack. We recommend the Rutilant Arena set above all else, though.
When choosing relics for Seele, it's important to keep an eye on the main and sub-stats on each piece. The best ratio to aim for is 70% crit rate and 150% crit damage – or above. As for her attack, aim for 2,000 or above.
Relics
| Genius of Brilliant Stars | Two pieces: Increases quantum damage by 10% Four pieces: When Seele attacks an enemy, the damage dealt ignores 10% of their defense. If the enemy has quantum weakness, she ignores an additional 10% |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence in Jarilo-V's Everwinter Hill |
| Musketeer of Wild Wheat | Two pieces: Increases attack by 12% Four pieces: Increases Seele'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 |
Planar ornaments
| Rutilant Arena | Two pieces: Increases Seele'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 |
| Space Sealing Station | Two pieces: Increases Seele's attack by 12%. When her speed reaches 120 or higher, her attack increases by another 12% | Immersion Reward devices in World 3 of the Simulated Universe |
| Firmament Frontline: Glamoth | Two pieces: Increases Seele's attack by 12%. When her speed equals 135 or 160, she deals 12 or 18% more damage respectively | Immersion Reward devices in World 8 of the Simulated Universe |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Body: Crit rate/crit damage
- Feet: Attack
- Planar sphere: Quantum damage increase
- Link rope: Attack
Sub-stats:
- Crit damage (150% or more)
- Crit rate (70% or more)
- Attack
- Speed (115 or more)
What are the best Seele team comps?
If you have a Bronya in your roster, we highly recommend using her and Seele together, to provide Seele with extra turns and some nice buffs. Fu Xuan is also an excellent teammate who grants even more boosts. Silver Wolf can make an all-quantum team effective against any enemy by ignoring their elemental weakness, making Seele all the more useful.
 Seele |
 Bronya |
 Fu Xuan |
 Tingyun |
| Seele |
 Silver Wolf |
Fu Xuan |
 Lynx |
| Seele |
Silver Wolf |
Fu Xuan |
 Sparkle |
What are Seele's abilities?
Seele's kit revolves around dealing quantum damage, and here is what each of her skills do.
Active skills
| Basic attack | Thwack Deal 60% of Seele's attack as quantum damage to a target enemy |
| Skill | Sheathed Blade Deal 121% of Seele's attack as quantum damage to a target enemy. Seele gains 25% speed for two turns |
| Ultimate | Butterfly Flurry Seele receives a buff and deals 256% of her attack as quantum damage to a target enemy |
Passive skill
| Resurgence | Seele gains a buff on defeating an enemy, and receives an extra action. While buffed, Seele increases her damage dealt by 44% for one turn. If Seele defeats an enemy during the extra action gained through this talent, the buff will not take effect |
Technique
| Phantom Illusion (enhance) | After using Seele's technique, gain stealth for 20 seconds. While stealth is active in the Maze, Seele isn't detected by enemies and gains a buff after triggering combat with an attack |
Traces
| Nightshade | If Seele's HP is 50% or lower, the chance of enemies attacking her reduces |
| Rippling Waves | After Seele uses a basic attack, her next action advances forward 20% |
| Lacerate | Seele's quantum resistance increases by 20% while buffed |
What are Seele's eidolons?
Honkai Star Rail's eidolons are a lot like Genshin Impact's constellations, in that you need to pull more than one copy of a character in order to unlock them. Here are all of Honkai Star Rail Seele's eidolons.
| E1 | Extirpating Slash When dealing damage to an enemy whose HP is 80% or lower, Seele's crit rate increases by 15% |
| E2 | Dancing Butterfly The speed boost from Seele's skill can stack up to two times |
| E3 | Dazzling Tumult Increases the level of Seele's skill by three, up to a maximum of level 15, and increases the level of her talent by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E4 | Flitting Phantasm Seele regenerates 15 energy when she defeats an enemy |
| E5 | Piercing Shards Increases the level of Seele's ultimate by three, up to a maximum of level 15, and the level of her basic attack by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E6 | Shattering Shambles After using her ultimate, Seele inflicts the target enemy with Butterfly Flurry for one turn. After getting attacked, the enemy suffering from Butterfly Flurry takes an additional 15% of Seele's ultimate damage as quantum damage. If the additional damage that Butterfly Flurry triggers defeats a target, Seele's talent isn't triggered |
What are Seele's ascension materials?
Seele, as an underworld resident, needs a lot of thief's items. Her boss drop requirements are the void cast iron items and to grab a load of them, head to the Herta Space Station's Base Zone and challenge the Stagnant Shadow you find there.
| 20➔30 | 4k credits Five thief's instinct |
| 30➔40 | 8k credits Ten thief's instinct |
| 40➔50 | 16k credits Three void cast iron Six usurper's scheme |
| 50➔60 | 40k credits Seven void cast iron Nine usurper's scheme |
| 60➔70 | 80k credits 20 void cast iron Six conquerors will |
| 70➔80 | 160k credits 35 gvoid cast iron Nine conquerors will |
What are Seele's trace materials?
Seele requires trace materials that are available in the early game, found on the Space Station and Jarilo-VI.
- 41 thief's instincts, 56 usurper's schemes, and 58 conqueror's wills
- Obtain from voidranger enemies, purchase from the Embers Exchange and Herta's Space Station world shop, assignment rewards, and synthesizer
- 15 arrows of the beast hunter, 72 arrows of the demon slayer, and 139 arrows of the starchaser
- Obtain from the Bud of the Hunt 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 the Cocolia, Mother of Deception Information weekly boss located in Everwinter Hill
- 11 tracks of destiny
- Obtain from events, as rewards in the Simulated Universe, from the Embers exchange, and Nameless Honor (battlepass) rewards
- 3,000,000 credits
Skill trace priority
- Ultimate > skill > talent > basic attack
Major trace priority
- Lacerate > Nightshade > Rippling Waves
And that's it for our Honkai Star Rail Seele guide. Take a look at our Genshin Impact codes page and Genshin Impact tier list for more fun Hoyovers frolics.