Penacony introduces us to many new faces, including Honkai Star Rail's Sparkle, an eager follower of the Elation and key member of the Masked Fools. She's a five-star quantum unit who follows the path of the Harmony, and regenerates tons of skill points for your team - making her a valuable unit.
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Here's everything in our HSR Sparkle build:
What's the best Sparkle build?
Sparkle is a five-star quantum unit who follows the path of Harmony. Sparkle is all about skill points and giving damage boosts to your team. As you can see below, both her skill and ultimate pertain to giving your allies buffs in battle, and refilling skill points.
Here's a brief overview of our best Sparkle build:
| Rarity | ★★★★★ |
| Element | Quantum |
| Path | Harmony |
| Best light cone | Earthly Escapade |
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| Best relic set | Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal |
| Best planar ornaments | Broken Keel |
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Her best light cone is Earthly Escapade, and the best sets you can equip her with in terms of relics are Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal and Broken Keel.
How do I use Honkai Star Rail's Sparkle?
Sparkle is an excellent support unit for skill point-heavy DPS teams, such as Imbibitor Lunae and Qingque. She can also provide a good quantum damage boost with one of her talents, too, so make sure to build your team accordingly. Using her ultimate regenerates skill points, and adds more to the count than the usual five.
What are the best light cones for Sparkle?
Sparkle's best light cone is her signature, Earthly Escapade. This provides a hefty boost to crit damage and crit rate across the team. You can also use But the Battle Isn't Over, Bronya's signature weapon, which also generates more skill points for the team.
If, like me, you don't have many five-star light cones at your disposal, don't fret, there are some really good four-star options for Sparkle, including Dance! Dance! Dance! and Past and Future.
Here are the best HSR Sparkle light cones:
| Earthly Escapade | This cone increases Sparkle's crit damage by 32%. When starting a battle, she gets a Mask, which lasts for three turns. While she wears a mask, all teammate's crit rate increases by 10%, and their crit damage by 28%. Every skill point that Sparkle recovers gains one stack of Radiant Flame. When she has four stacks, she gains another Mask for four turns |
| But the Battle Isn't Over | Increases Sparkle's energy regeneration rate by 10% and generates one skill point when she uses her ultimate on an ally. This can trigger after every two uses of her ultimate. When she uses her skill, the next ally to take action deals 30% more damage for one turn |
| A Grounded Ascent | After Sparkle uses her skill or ultimate on one ally character, she regenerates six energy, and the ability's target receives one stack of "Hymn" for three turns, stacking up to three times. Each stack of "Hymn" increases its holder's damage dealt by 15%. After every two instances of skill or ultimate Sparkle uses on one ally character, recovers one skill point |
| Dance! Dance! Dance! | When Sparkle uses her ultimate, all allies' actions are advanced forward by 16% |
| Past and Future | When Sparkle uses her skill, the next ally taking action deals 16% increased damage for one turn |
| Planetary Rendezvous | When Sparkle enters battle, if a party member deals quantum damage, their damage increases by 12% |
What are the best relics for Sparkle?
The best set for Sparkle is Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal, and really, nothing else compares thanks to its combined speed and crit damage buffs. While farming for that set, you can equip her with a full set of Messenger Traversing Hackerspace for the speed boost for Sparkle and her teammates.
If you're going for a mono-quantum team, we recommend Penacony, Land of Dreams as a set of planar ornaments. Otherwise, Broken Keel is your best bet.
If Sparkle has around 160 speed, using a four-piece of Eagle of Twilight Line (not a two-piece - the wind bonus won't do any good here) will advance her actions forward, meaning you can use her skill points quicker, should you need it.
Here are HSR Sparkle's best relics:
| Sacerdos' Relived Ordeal | Two equipped: increases speed by 6% Four equipped: when using skill or ultimate on one ally target, increases the ability target's crit damage by 18%, lasting for two turns. This effect can stack up to two times |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Uncertainty in the Xianzhou Luofu's Shackling Prison |
| Messenger Traversing Hackerspace | Two equipped: increases speed by 6% Four equipped: When Sparkle uses her ultimate on an ally, the speed of all allies increases by 12% for one turn. This cannot stack |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Elixir Seekers in the Xianzhou Luofu's Alchemy Commission |
| Eagle of Twilight Line | Two equipped: not applicable Four equipped: After Sparkle uses her ultimate move, her action advances forward by 25% |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Gelid Wind in the Herta Space Station's Storage Zone |
Planar ornaments
| Broken Keel | Two equipped: This set increases Sparkle's effect resistance by 10%. When this reaches 30% or higher, all allies get a 10% crit damage increase | Obtain from: Immersion Devices World 7 of the Simulated Universe, and Divergent Universe: Fruit of Evil |
| Penacony, the Land of Dreams | Two pieces: Increases Sparkle's energy regeneration rate by 5%. This also increases damage for allies with the same elemental type as Sparkle - a key for mono-quantum teams | Obtain from: Immersion Devices World 8 of the Simulated Universe, and Divergent Universe: Pouring Blades |
Stat recommendations
Main stats
- Body: crit damage
- Feet: speed
- Planar sphere: HP% or defense
- Link rope: energy regeneration
Sub-stats
- Crit damage
- Speed
- HP%
- Effect resistance
What are the best Sparkle team comps?
Sparkle is a support character and one that can specifically boost Qingque and Imbibitor Lunae massively, due to her skill point regeneration. You can, of course, use her with any DPS you like to make sure they have plenty of skill points available.
As you ascend her, you also unlock a passive talent that grants a hefty quantum damage boost, so mono quantum is an excellent choice of team for her. Here, you can use Seele and Qingque as your main DPS, and then Silver Wolf, Fu Xuan, and Lynx alongside Sparkle as supports.
If you want to make any DPS an incredibly cracked unit, you can use Ruan Mei, Sparkle, and Fu Xuan or Bronya alongside them for a truly powerful punch.
 Sparkle |
 Imbibitor Lunae |
 Tingyun |
 Luocha |
| Sparkle |
 Robin |
 Yunli |
 Huohuo |
| Sparkle |
 Qingque |
 Silver Wolf |
 Fu Xuan |
| Sparkle |
 Acheron |
 Jiaoqiu |
Fu Xuan |
What are Sparkle's abilities?
Let's take a look at what Sparkle does as part of our teams. Her main deal is that she refills your skill points, but she can also add some debuffs to enemies while adding attack boosts to your party.
Active skills:
| Basic attack | Monodrama Sparkle deals quantum damage equal to 50% of her attack to a single target |
| Skill | Dreamdiver Sparkle increases the crit damage of an ally by 12% of her own crit damage value, plus 27%, for one turn. This also advances the same ally's action forward by 50%. If you use this skill on Sparkle herself, the action advance doesn't take effect |
| Ultimate | Hero With a Thousand Faces Using this recovers four skill points for your team, and gives all team members the Cipher state. This means that all stacks of Sparkle's damage-boosting effect, provided by her talent, increase by a further 6% for two turns |
Talent and technique:
| Talent | Red Herring When Sparkle is on field, she increases the maximum amount of skill points available by two. When you use a skill point, all allies' damage increases by 3.0%. This lasts for two turns and can stack up to three times |
| Technique | Unreliable Narrator This gives all allies the Misdirect state for 20 seconds. During this, they won't be detected by enemies, and entering battle in this state recovers three skill points |
Major traces:
| A2 | Almanac Using Sparkle's basic attack regenerates ten energy |
| A4 | Artificial Flower The crit damage boost Sparkle provides with her skill, Dreamdiver, extends until the target's next turn |
| A6 | Nocturne Sparkle increases all teammate's attack stats by 15%. If there are one, two, or three quantum users in the party, then their attack increases by a further 5/15/30% accordingly |
What are Sparkle's eidolons?
If you're pulling for more than one copy of Sparkle, or you happen to win your 50/50 back-to-back, then here are the extra skills you can unlock with her eidolons.
| E1 | Suspension of Disbelief Sparkle's Cipher effect, appearing during her ultimate, lasts for an extra turn. Allies with the Cipher effect's attack increases by 40% |
| E2 | Purely Fictitious Each stack of Sparkle's talent's effect allows teammates to ignore 8% of a target's defense |
| E3 | Pipedream The level of Sparkle's skill, Dreamdiver, increases by two up to a maximum of 15. Her basic attack, Monodrama, increases by one, up to a maximum of ten |
| E4 | Life is a Gamble Sparkle's ultimate recovers an extra skill point, and her talent increases the maximum amount of skill points by a further point |
| E5 | Parallax Truth The level of Sparkle's ultimate, Hero With a Thousand Faces, increases by two up to a maximum of 15. Her basic attack, Red Herring, increases by two, up to a maximum of 15 |
| E6 | Narrative Polysemy The crit damage boost that Sparkle provides increases equal to 30% of her own crit damage. If she uses her skill, the boost effect applies to all allies with the Cipher state When Sparkle uses her ultimate, any ally who benefits from her crit damage boost spreads that to any allies with the Cipher state |
What are Sparkle's ascension materials?
To get Sparkle ascended up to level 80, you're going to need a few items. These are found in the new Penacony area, dropped by overworld enemies, and farmed from the stagnant shadow: Shape of Roast - you know, the robotic dinosaur chef.
| 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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What are Sparkle's trace materials?
Here's the list of items Sparkle needs to upgrade all of her talents, and where to find them.
- 41 tatters of thought, 56 fragments of impression, 56 shards of desires
- Obtain from synthesis, memory zone enemies, and simulated universe enemies
- 15 firmament notes, 72 celestial sections, and 139 heavenly melodies
- Obtain from the Bud of Harmony crimson calyx in Penacony's Reverie Hotel
- 12 past evils of the borehole planet disaster
- Obtain from the Borehole Planet's Old Crater echo of war on the Herta Space Station Seclusion Zone
- 11 tracks of destiny
- Obtain from events, simulated universe rewards, the embers exchange, and nameless honor
- Three million credits
Skill trace priority
- Talent > ultimate > skill > basic attack
Major trace priority
- Artificial Flower > Nocturne > Almanac
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