As one of the first characters you meet in the game, Honkai Star Rail's Silver Wolf certainly knows how to make an impression. The universe is just another game to this 1337, tsundere hacker, and she can't wait to zap through the enemies, grab that EXP, and hop on up to see what the next level has to offer. In this guide, we intend to shed some light on who exactly Silver Wolf is, along with her best build, attacks, relics, and more.
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Here's everything in our HSR Silver Wolf build:
What's the best Honkai Star Rail Silver Wolf build?
Silver Wolf is a five-star quantum element character who treads the path of Nihility. She excels at dealing single-target damage, implanting debuffs in the enemy, and manipulating the opponent's weakness types.
Here's a brief overview of our best Silver Wolf build:
| Rarity | ★★★★★ |
| Element | Quantum |
| Path | Nihility |
| Best light cone | Lies Dance on the Breeze |
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| Best relic set | Genius of Brilliant Stars or Messenger Traversing Hackerspace |
| Best planar ornament set | Quantum team: Penacony, Land of the Dreams General use: Broken Keel |
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Silver Wolf's best light cone is Lies Dance on the Breeze, but she has a large range of four-star and five-star alternatives. Her best relic sets are Genius of Brilliant Stars and Thief of Shooting Meteor.
When she is acting as support for a quantum DPS character, equip Silver Wolf with Penacony, Land of the Dreams. As a general debuffer, Broken Keel is the best choice. We recommend building her with plenty of effect hit rate and quantum damage boost.
How should I use Silver Wolf?
Silver Wolf's abilities are perfect for targeting down strong enemies and inflicting them with various debuffs that your team can take advantage of. Get debuffs on the enemy using her attack and skill alongside other debuff characters, then pop her ultimate for massive quantum damage.
She synergizes well with DPS characters that require enemies to have debuffs in order to do damage, and she works particularly well in a mono-quantum team as she can apply quantum weakness using her skill.
What are the best light cones for Silver Wolf?
Silver Wolf's best light cone is Lies Dance on the Breeze. This is Honkai Star Rail Cipher's signature light cone, but it gives Silver Wolf a massive speed boost and works wonders with her debuffing kit.
Version 1.1 introduced Silver Wolf's signature five-star light cone, Incessant Rain, which is catered specifically to her DoT/debuff-heavy kit. Sadly, it's fallen way behind compared to other options.
Silver Wolf also has access to some incredible four-star light cones, including the event-exclusive Before the Tutorial Mission Starts. This buffs her effect hit rate, making her debugs even more likely to hit. At superimposition five, it completely eliminates the need for an effect hit rate relic. If you missed the event, Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat can buff Silver Wolf's defense reduction and apply additional debuffs thanks to her three-hit basic attack, and Eyes of the Prey is a decent stat stick for her effect hit rate.
Here are the best HSR Silver Wolf light cones:
| Lies Dance on the Breeze | Increases Silver Wolf's speed by 18%. After she uses an attack, there is a 120% base chance to inflict the "Bamboozle" state on every enemy target. While under the "Bamboozle" state, enemy targets have their defense decreased by 16% for two turns. If Silver Wolf's speed is higher than or equal to 170, there is a 120% base chance to inflict the "Theft" state on every enemy target. While under the "Theft" state, enemy targets have their defense decreased by 8% for two turns. When "Bamboozle" or "Theft" is repeatedly inflicted, only the most recently inflicted instance takes effect |
| Incessant Rain | Increases Silver Wolf's effect hit rate by 24%. When she deals damage to an enemy that currently has three or more debuffs, her crit rate increases by 12%. After Silver Wolf uses her basic attack, skill, or ultimate, there is a 100% base chance to implant Aether Code on a random hit target that does not yet have it. Targets with Aether Code receive 12% increased damage for one turn |
| Before the Tutorial Mission Starts | Increases Silver Wolf's effect hit rate by 20%. When she attacks enemies that have reduced defense, regenerates four energy |
| Resolution Shines as Pearls of Sweat | When Silver Wolf hits an enemy and if the hit enemy is not already Ensnared, then there is a 60% base chance to Ensnare the hit enemy. Ensnared enemies' defense decreases by 12% for one turn |
| Eyes of the Prey | Increases Silver Wolf's effect hit rate by 20% and increases DoT by 24% |
What are the best relics for Silver Wolf?
The best relic set to use for Silver Wolf is undoubtedly Genius of Brilliant Stars, due to its increase to both her quantum damage and attack. For sub-stats, we recommend building attack, quantum damage, and then adding in some speed or energy restoration where possible.
Silver Wolf is often lacking speed, so equipping her with a four-piece set of Messenger Traversing Hackerspace, or mixing two speed sets, is a great stopgap measure.
As for her Planar Ornaments, we recommend Broken Keel for most scenarios. Its team-wide crit damage is great for supporting your DPS unit, and Silver Wolf only has access to effect resistance through her relics, so having this stat rolled in is a bonus. If you're partial to running Silver Wolf in a mono-quantum team (which we discuss in more detail below), Penacony, Land of the Dreams is well suited to Silver Wolf's sub-DPS/support role, thanks to its useful same-type damage buff.
Here are HSR Silver Wolf's best relics:
| Genius of Brilliant Stars | Two equipped: increases quantum damage by 10% Four equipped: when Silver Wolf attacks an enemy, the damage dealt ignores 10% of their defense. If the enemy has quantum weakness, ignores an additional 10% |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Providence in Jarilo-V's Everwinter Hill |
| Messenger Traversing Hackerspace | Two equipped: increases speed by 6% Four equipped: when Silver Wolf uses her ultimate on an ally, speed for all allies increases by 12% for one turn. This effect cannot be stacked |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Elixir Seekers in the Xianzhou Luofu's Alchemy Commission |
Planar ornaments
| Broken Keel | Two equipped: increases Silver Wolf's effect resistance by 10%. When her effect resistance is at 30% or higher, all allies' crit damage increases by 10% | Immersion Reward devices in World 7 of the Simulated Universe |
| Penacony, Land of the Dreams | Two equipped: increases Silver Wolf's energy regeneration rate by 5%. Increases damage for all other allies with the same damage type (quantum) as Silver Wolf by 10% | Immersion Reward devices in World 8 of the Simulated Universe |
Relic stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Body: effect hit rate
- Feet: speed
- Planar sphere: quantum damage boost
- Link rope: energy regeneration
Sub-stats:
What are the best Silver Wolf team comps?
Silver Wolf can deal a decent amount of damage but she excels as a support/sub-DPS unit in mono-quantum or quantum/other element teams. This is because her skill has a high chance to make enemies weak to your party's elements, which you can buff with the right light cones and relics.
Running Silver Wolf in a mono-quantum team removes the element of chance when it comes to applying weakness and guarantees that your team of quantum characters can all hit hard. Similarly, if you run Silver Wolf alongside one other quantum unit like Honkai Star Rail's Lynx for healing or Honkai Star Rail's Fu Xuan for defense, you can complete your team with two other characters who share an element to narrow the weakness field.
Here are some examples of mono-quantum Silver Wolf teams:
 Seele |
 Fu Xuan |
 Silver Wolf |
 Lynx |
 Sparkle |
 Qingque |
Silver Wolf |
Fu Xuan |
And here are a couple of examples of Silver Wolf quantum/mono-element teams:
As an added bonus, Silver Wolf is a crucial part of one of Honkai Star Rail Acheron's best teams:
 Acheron |
 Pela |
Silver Wolf |
Fu Xuan |
What are Silver Wolf's abilities?
Hoyoverse buffed Silver Wolf's abilities in version 3.4, so below we've listed the enhanced abilities, rather than her abilities from the past.
Active skills:
| Basic attack | System Warning Deals 50% of Silver Wolf's attack as quantum damage to a target enemy |
| Skill | Allow Changes? There is a 120% base chance to add one weakness of an on-field ally target's type to one designated enemy target (prioritizes implanting the weakess corresponding to the first ally character in the lineup), also reducing the enemy target's resistance to that weakness type by 20% for three turns. If the enemy target already has that type weakness, the resistance reduction effect to that type does not trigger. Silver Wolf can only implant one weakness per enemy target. When Silver Wolf implants another weakness to the target, only the most recent implanted weakness is kept. In addition, there is a 100% base chance to further reduce the target's all type resistance by 13% for two turns. Deals quantum damage equal to 196% of Silver Wolf's attack to this target |
| Ultimate | User Banned Has a 120% base chance to decrease all enemies' defense by 45% for three turns. At the same time, deals quantum damage equal to 380% of Silver Wolf's attack to all enemies |
Talent and technique:
| Talent | Awaiting System Response… Silver Wolf can create three types of bugs: Reduce attack by 10%, reduce defense by 12%, and reduce speed by 6%. After every attack Silver Wolf launches, she has a 100% base chance to implant one random bug that lasts for three turns in the attacked enemy. When the enemy target is defeated, the weakness Silver Wolf implanted on it is transferred to another surviving enemy on the field that hasn't been implanted with weakness, prioritizing Elite targets and greater |
| Technique | Force Quit Program Immediately attacks the enemy, dealing 80% of Silver Wolf's attack as quantum damage to all targets. After entering battle, reduces toughness from all enemies, ignoring their weakness. Enemies with their weakness broken in this way trigger the quantum weakness break effect |
Major traces:
| A2 | Generate Extends bug's duration for one turn. Whenever you break an enemy's weakness, Silver Wolf has a 100% base chance of inflicting a random bug on the target |
| A4 | Inject At the start of the battle, immediately regenerates 20 energy. Silver Wolf regenerates five energy at the start of her own turn |
| A6 | Side Note For every 10% effect hit rate that Silver Wolf has, additionally increases her attack by 10% to a max of 50% |
What are Silver Wolf's eidolons?
Honkai Star Rail's eidolons are similar to Genshin Impact's constellations, where you unlock them by pulling multiple copies of the same character. Here are all of Silver Wolf's eidolons.
| E1 | Social Engineering After using her ultimate to attack enemies, Silver Wolf regenerates seven energy for every debuff currently on the target enemy. This effect can trigger up to five times in each use of her ultimate |
| E2 | Zombie Network When an enemy enters battle, increases their damage taken by 20%. When an enemy target receives an attack from ally targets, Silver Wolf has a 100% base chance to implant the attacked enemy target with one random bug |
| E3 | Payload Increases Silver Wolf's skill by two, up to a maximum of 15, and the level of her talent by two, up to a maximum of 15 |
| E4 | Bounce Attack After using her ultimate to attack enemies, Silver Wolf deals additional quantum damage equal to 20% of her attack for every debuff on the enemy target. This effect can trigger a maximum of five times against each target during each use of her ultimate |
| E5 | Brute Force Attack Increases Silver Wolf's ultimate level by two, up to a maximum of level 15, and the level of her basic attack by one, up to a maximum of ten |
| E6 | Overlay Network For every debuff the target enemy has, Silver Wolf's damage dealt increases by 20%, up to a limit of 100% |
What are Silver Wolf's ascension materials?
You'll need to scout some specialist materials to ascend Silver Wolf to her highest level.
Here are all of the materials you need to fully ascend Silver Wolf:
| Required level | Credits | Ascension materials |
| 20 | 4k | Five ancient parts |
| 30 | 8k | Ten ancient parts |
| 40 | 16k | Three void cast iron and six ancient spindles |
| 50 | 40k | Seven void cast iron and nine ancient spindles |
| 60 | 80k | 20 void cast iron and six ancient engines |
| 70 | 160k | 35 void cast iron and nine ancient engines |
Here's where to get all of Silver Wolf's ascension materials:
- Ancient parts, spindles, and engines - drops from automaton enemies in Jarilo-VI's robot settlement, the Great Mine, or the Honkai Star Rail simulated universe, obtain via synthesis or assignment rewards, or bought in the embers exchange store
- Void cast iron - drops from the Stagnant Shadow: Shape of Quanta in the Herta Space Station's Base Zone
What are Silver Wolf's trace materials?
You need trace materials to fully power up all of Silver Wolf's attacks and bonus abilities. Here's the full list of materials and where to find them:
- 41 ancient parts, 56 ancient spindles, and 58 ancient engines
- Drops from automaton enemies in Jarilo-VI's robot settlement, the Great Mine, or the Honkai Star Rail simulated universe, obtain via synthesis or assignment rewards, or bought in the embers exchange store
- 15 obsidian of dread, 72 obsidian of desolation, and 139 obsidian of obsession
- Obtain from the Bud of Nihility crimson calyx in the Great Mine, synthesis, and the embers exchange
- 12 destroyer's final roads - rewards from the Echo of War: Destruction's Beginning
- 11 tracks of destiny
- Three million credits
Skill trace priority:
- Skill > Ultimate > Talent > Basic attack
Major trace priority:
- Generate > Inject > Side Note
That's everything we've got on Honkai Star Rail's Silver Wolf. While you're here, hop over to our Genshin Impact tier list and Genshin Impact codes guide to catch up on what you've missed in Teyvat. We also have build guides like this for Genshin Impact's Albedo, Genshin Impact's Chiori, and Genshin Impact's Sucrose.