The Xianzhou is heating up with Honkai Star Rail Yunli’s reveal, a new character hailing from the Zhuming. She’s a physical-aligned Destruction character, which means she’ll pack a punch in her team comps. Let’s see what we know about her and her potential build so far.
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Here’s everything we know so far about Honkai Star Rail’s Yunli.
Who is Honkai Star Rail’s Yunli?
Yunli, the granddaughter of General Huaiyan hailing from the Xianzhou Zhuming, is a sword aficionado and the second youngest prodigy of the Flamewheel Octet. Yunli doesn’t agree with the Zhuming’s production of cursed swords, however, so she’s on a mission to hunt them down and get rid of them all.
We may not have met Yunli in the game yet, but there is a connection to her already. During the Cosmodyssey board game event, an encounter with everyone’s favorite General, Honkai Star Rail’s Jing Yuan, mentions Yunli. Apparently, Jing Yuan thinks that as Yunli and his protegee Honkai Star Rail Yanqing are of similar age and both enjoy collecting swords, they would hit it off.
Yunli release date speculation
The most recent Honkai Star Rail livestream confirmed that Yunli will release in version 2.4. She makes her debut in the first half of the update, alongside a rerun of Honkai Star Rail’s Huohuo.
What do we know about Yunli’s build?
Despite Yunli’s flame-filled drip marketing, Yunli is a five-star, physical character who follows the path of the Destruction. This tells us that she’ll likely be a hard-hitting DPS similar to Honkai Star Rail’s Jingliu, Honkai Star Rail’s Blade, and other multi-targeting characters.
Her signature five-star light cone is called Dance at Sunset and will likely be her best light cone, at least on launch while we’re still figuring out her kit.
What are Yunli’s abilities?
While we don’t know the exact details of her full kit just yet, this is what we learned during the version 2.4 livestream.
Active skills:
| Skill | Effect |
| Skill: Bladeborne Quake | Yunli restores her own HP while dealing physical damage to a single target and adjacent enemies |
| Ultimate: Earthbind, Etherbreak | Yunli acquires the Parry state, drastically raising her crit damage, reducing damage taken, and taunting all enemies. Using her ultimate also upgrades her counter to Powerful Counter, dealing higher damage |
Talent:
| Skill | Effect |
| Flashforge | When an enemy attacks Yunli, she immediately launches a counter that deals damage to both the target enemy and adjacent enemies |
Technique:
| Technique | Effect |
| Posterior Precedence | During the duration of Yunli’s technique, she blocks oncoming enemy attacks during exploration, initiating combat and launching a Poweful Counter on a random enemy |
Who are Yunli’s voice actors?
In English, Yunli’s VA is Brenna Larsen who also voices Genshin Impact’s Navia. Her Chinese voice actor is Liu Wen, in Japanese she’s played by Wakayama Shion, and in Korean, is Lee Ju-eun. A fun fact for you, Yunli’s English voice actor is married to Honkai Star Rail Boothill’s voice actor in real life.
That’s all we’ve got on Honkai Star Rail’s Yunli for now, but the fun doesn’t stop here. Get up to date on the goings-on of Teyvat with our Genshin Impact events guide. We’ve also got build guides for characters like Genshin Impact’s Albedo, Genshin Impact’s Razor, and Genshin Impact’s Xinyan.