If you're a fan of the wider series, Honkai Star Rail's Sushang might look familiar to you - she's a protagonist of the 7 Swords visual novel, a character in Honkai Impact 3rd, and now she's here to accompany you as a member of the Cloud Knights. She's a capable and easy-to-build physical DPS.
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Here's everything in our HSR Sushang build:
What's the best Sushang build?
Sushang is a four-star physical element character who treads the path of The Hunt. Sushang deals high single-target damage, with a kit geared towards taking down bosses rather than groups of enemies. As such, she's not as universal as other DPS, but her ability to advance her own attacks and dish out heaps of physical damage makes her a powerful asset for many solo-target challenges. Plus, she has a massive, chubby bird that butt-stomps enemies during her ult - what's not to love?
Here's a brief overview of our best Sushang build:
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Element | Physical |
| Path | The Hunt |
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| Best relic set | Champion of Streetwise Boxing |
| Best planar ornaments | Firmament Frontline: Glamoth |
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Depending on your playstyle, you can either build Sushang as a break effect DPS or a straightforward physical damage DPS. Her best break light cone is Sailing Towards A Second Life, whereas her best DPS light cone is In the Night. Sushang's best relic set is Champion of Streetwise Boxing, and her best planar ornaments are Firmament Frontline: Glamoth.
How do I use Sushang?
Your Sushang is key to dealing plenty of physical damage to enemies with that weakness. Triggering Sword Stance deals a huge amount of damage after Sushang breaks an enemy's weakness, or uses her ultimate, which also advances her action forward, so you can change the lineup and use her to finish off an enemy before they get a chance to move.
What are the best light cones for Sushang?
Sushang's best break light cone is the five-star light cone, Sailing Towards a Second Life. This cone belongs to Honkai Star Rail's Boothill, and greatly increases the user's break effect and ability to ignore the enemy's defense.
Sushang's best generic DPS light cone is In the Night, as it raises her crit rate, crit damage, and attack damage based on her speed.
Swordplay is a four-star light cone that is tailored to Sushang's kit, complementing her role as a single-target DPS. As it's a four-star, it's relatively easy to pull through the normal banner.
Here are the best HSR Sushang light cones:
| Sailing Towards a Second Life | Increases Sushang's break effect by 60%. The break damage Sushang deals ignores 20% of the target's defense. When Sushang's break effect in battle is at 150% or greater, this increases her speed by 12% |
| In the Night | Increases Sushang's crit rate by 18%. While she is in battle, for every ten speed above 100, her basic attack and skill damage increases by 6%, and the crit damage of her ultimate increases by 12%. This can stack up to six times |
| Swordplay | Each time Sushang hits the same target, her damage dealt increases by 8%, stacking up to five times. The stack effect is reset when Sushang changes targets |
| Cruising in the Stellar Sea | Increases Sushang'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 |
What are the best relics for Sushang?
Unsurprisingly, the best relic set for Sushang is Champion of Streetwise Boxing, as it increases her already high physical damage even further. It also gives her a nice boost to her attack when she performs or receives an attack, which complements her speed and advances.
Sushang's best planar ornament set is Firmament Frontline: Glamoth. It gives her a flat attack boost and, given the benefits of additional speed stats on the rest of her kit, it's highly likely that she can at least reach the 135 speed threshold needed for the first additional damage boost.
If you're running a break build of Sushang, consider using Talia: Kingdom of Banditry instead, as this increases her break effect and also gains extra benefits based on her speed.
Here are HSR Sushang's best relics:
| Champion of Streetwise Boxing | Two equipped: increases physical damage by 10% Four equipped: after Sushang attacks or is hit, her attack increases by 5% for the rest of the battle. This effect can stack up to five times |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch in Jarilo-VI's Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone |
| Thief of Shooting Meteor | Two equipped: increases break effect by 16% Four equipped: increases Sushang's break effect by 16%. After she inflicts weakness break on an enemy, Sushang regenerates three energy |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch in Jarilo-VI's Silvermane Guard Restricted Zone |
| Scholar Lost in Erudition | Two equipped: increases crit rate by 8% Four equipped: increases skill and ultimate damage by 20%. After using ultimate, additionally increases the damage dealt by the next skill by 25% |
Obtain from: Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Uncertainty in the Xianzhou Luofu's Shackling Prison |
Planar ornaments
| Space Sealing Station | Two equipped: increases Sushang's attack by 12%. When her speed reaches 120 or higher, Sushang's attack increases by another 12% | Obtain from: World 3 of the Simulated Universe or Divergent Universe: Untoppled Walls |
| Talia: Kingdom of Banditry | Two equipped: increases Sushang's break effect by 16%. When Sushang's speed reaches 145 or higher, her break effect increases by an extra 20% | Obtain from: World 4 of the Simulated Universe or Divergent Universe: Smelted Heart |
| Firmament Frontline Glamoth | Two equipped: increases Sushang's attack by 12%. When her speed is equal to or higher than 135/160, she deals 12%/18% more damage | Obtain from: World 8 of the Simulated Universe or Divergent Universe: Pouring Blades |
Stat recommendations
Main stats
- Body: crit rate/damage
- Feet: speed or attack%
- Planar sphere: physical damage
- Link rope: break effect or attack%
Sub-stats
- Crit rate/damage
- Break effect (if break build)
- Speed
- Attack%
What are the best Sushang team comps?
Given that Sushang is a DPS, you want to pair her with a buffer, healer, and perhaps a shielder when you take on hefty enemies. You can use Ruan Mei and the Harmony Trailblazer to make an excellent break-effect-focused team with Sushang, and if you have Gallagher, throw him into the mix for a truly powerful team.
Here are some popular Sushang team comps:
 Sushang |
 Clara |
 Silver Wolf |
 Luocha |
| Sushang |
 Fu Xuan |
 Sparkle |
 Tingyun |
| Sushang |
 Gallagher |
 Ruan Mei |
 Trailblazer (Harmony) |
What are Sushang's abilities?
Here's what Sushang brings to battle (along with her giant sword). Sushang excels at heavy-hitting physical damage and has the chance to trigger extra buffs in her kit.
Active skills:
| Basic attack | Cloudfencer Art: Starshine Deal 50% of Sushang's attack as physical damage to a target enemy |
| Skill | Cloudfencer Art: Mountainfall Deal 105% of Sushang's attack as physical damage to a single target enemy. After the final hit, there's a 33% chance of triggering Sword Stance, dealing 50% of Sushang's attack as additional physical damage to the target. If Sushang hits the target's weakness break, Sword Stance is guaranteed to trigger |
| Ultimate | Shape of Taixu: Dawn Herald Deal 192% of Sushang's attack as physical damage to a single target enemy and advance her next action forward by 100%. Sushang's attack also increases by 18%, and using her skill has two additional chances to trigger Sword Stance for two turns. Sword Stance triggered from the additional chances deals 50% of the original damage |
Talent and technique:
| Talent | Dancing Blade Increases Sushang's speed by 15% for two turns when there's an enemy with weakness break on the field |
| Technique | Cloudfencer: Warcry Immediately attack the enemy. After entering the battle, deal 80% of Sushang's attack as physical damage to all enemies |
Major traces:
| A2 | Guileless Reduces the chance of enemies attacking Sushang when her HP is 50% or lower |
| A4 | Riposte Every time Sushang triggers Sword Stance, the damage increases by 2%. This can stack up to ten times |
| A6 | Vanquisher Sushang's action forwards 15% if any enemies on the field have weakness break when she uses a skill or basic attack |
What are Sushang's eidolons?
Like Genshin Impact's constellation system, if you want to unlock Sushang's eidolons, you need to pull more than one copy of her.
| E1 | Child's Play If Sushang's target has weakness break, she regenerates one skill point after using her skill |
| E2 | Refined Body After triggering Sword Stance, Sushang receives 20% reduced damage for one turn |
| E3 | Ancient Sword Style Increases the level of Sushang's ultimate by three up to a maximum of level 15, and increases the level of her basic attack by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E4 | Sharp Mind Sushang's ultimate's crit rate increases by 15% and crit damage increases by 25% for targets with weakness break |
| E5 | Will of Taixu Increases the level of Sushang's skill by three, up to a maximum of level 15, and increases the level of her basic attack by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E6 | Adapt Like Water The speed boost of Sushang's talent can stack up to two times. After entering battle, Sushang immediately gains one stack of speed boost |
What are Sushang's ascension materials?
To get Sushang nice and strong at max level, you need the following items. The artifex cogwheels and gyrehearts from the mara-struck enemies on the Xianzhou Luofu, Honkai Star Rail Simulated Universe, or assignment rewards, or from the embers exchange store. In order to get some broken teeth of the iron wolf, head to the Honkai Star Rail stagnant shadow in Jarilo-VI's Great Mine and farm, farm, farm!
Here are all of Sushang's ascention materials:
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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 Sushang's trace materials?
All of Sushang's required materials are found on the Xianzhou Luofu and on Jarilo-VI, making her easy to build if you're still in the early game.
- 28 artifex's module, 42 artifex's cogwheel, and 42 artifex's gyreheart
- Obtain from Mara-struck soldiers, purchase from the Embers Exchange store, purchase from the Xianzhou Luofu world shop, and the synthesizer
- 12 arrows of the beast hunter, 54 arrows of the demon slayer, and 105 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 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
- Ultimate > skill > talent > basic attack
Major trace priority
- Guileless > Riposte > Vanquisher
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