Honkai: Star Rail – Jade build and ascension guide

Become a skilled seductress with the best Honkai: Star Rail Jade build and punish those who would break a deal made with this beautiful devil. This 5-Star Quantum character following The Erudition comes with area-of-effect capabilities, Follow-Up Attacks (she is from the IPC, after all), and the ability to buff allies — for a price.

Jade is the first character in the game to feature a Basic Attack that deals area-of-effect damage right from the start.

Her Skill, Acquisition Surety, targets an ally and makes them the Debt Collector for three turns, which increases their SPD and allows their attacks to deal additional Quantum DMG based on Jade’s ATK. Each instance of damage dealt like this consumes a small percentage of the Debt Collector’s HP. Jade can cast this Skill on herself, but won’t benefit from the SPD boost and won’t lose HP when attacking. Debt Collector’s duration is decreased by one at the start of Jade’s turn and she can’t use the Skill again while there is an active Debt Collector on the field.

Jade’s Ultimate, Voice of the Deep, deals Quantum DMG based on her ATK to all enemies and enhances her Talent’s Follow-Up Attack for the next two times it’s triggered.

Her Talent, Fang of Flare Flaying, allows Jade to obtain a point of Charge for each enemy hit by the Debt Collector. Once she has eight Charges, she consumes all to launch a Follow-Up Attack dealing Quantum DMG based on her ATK to all enemies. Whenever Jade uses this attack, she gains five stacks of Pawned Asset. She can have up to 50 of these with each increasing her CRIT DMG.

Pulling duplicates of Jade to increase her Eidolon Level is another way of improving her combat power. Eidolon 1 boosts Jade’s Follow-Up Attack DMG and allows her to obtain Charge more easily. Eidolon 2 provides her with a CRIT Rate increase upon reaching a certain number of Pawned Asset stacks. Eidolon 4 gives all of Jade’s attacks the ability to ignore some of the enemy’s DEF for three turns after she’s used her Ultimate. Finally, Eidolon 6 bolsters her Quantum RES PEN when a Debt Collector is on the field and provides Jade herself with the Debt Collector status.

Honkai: Star Rail – Jade: best Light Cones

Jade’s signature Light Cone, Yet Hope Is Priceless, features a high ATK stat and increased CRIT Rate. It boosts the wearer’s Follow-Up Attack DMG based on CRIT DMG that exceeds a certain threshold, which obviously synergizes perfectly with her Talent. In addition, it allows the wearer’s Follow-Up Attacks and Ultimate to ignore a portion of the enemy’s DEF for two turns after they use their Basic Attack or enter battle.

Best Light Cones for Jade in HSR:

• Yet Hope Is Priceless (5-Star)
• Eternal Calculus (5-Star)
• Before Dawn (5-Star)
• Night on the Milky Way (5-Star)
• The Birth of the Self (4-Star)
• Geniuses’ Repose (4-Star)
• The Day the Cosmos Fell (4-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Jade: best Relics

There are quite a few equipment options available for Jade, depending on the composition you’d like to play her in. In a Follow-Up Attack team, Jade can make great use of the Duran set, which is obviously not ideal if she’s the only Follow-Up Attacker in the party. You’ll want to focus on getting Ultimate and Follow-Up Attack DMG stacked on her, since these are her main offensive tools.

Everything she does is based on ATK, though depending on your Planar Ornament set you’ll want to hit certain CRIT Rate thresholds as well. Ideally, Jade always has the first action in battle so she can designate a Debt Collector and start earning those Charge stacks immediately. One of her Traces provides her with a 50% Action Forward after entering battle, so getting SPD as a consistent sub stat should be enough to let Jade go first, providing an opportunity to boost her offensive power with yet more ATK. If your other Relics don’t have enough SPD on them, you should still opt for SPD on her boots.

Best Relic Sets for Jade in HSR:

• Genius of Brilliant Stars (4) – +10% Quantum DMG, wearer ignores 10% DEF when dealing damage and another 10% DEF when attacking enemies weak to Quantum DMG.
• The Ashblazing Grand Duke (4) – +20% Follow-Up Attack DMG, +6% ATK each time the wearer’s Follow-Up Attacks deal damage (effect stacks up to eight times) for three turns; this effect is removed the next time the wearer uses a Follow-Up Attack.
• The Ashblazing Grand Duke (2) + Genius of Brilliant Stars (2) – +20% Follow-Up Attack DMG, +10% Quantum DMG.
• The Wind-Soaring Valorous (4) – +12% ATK, +6% CRIT Rate, +36% Ultimate DMG for one turn after the wearer used a Follow-Up Attack.

Best Planar Ornaments for Jade in HSR:

• [Follow-Up Attack team] Duran, Dynasty of Running Wolves (2) – +5% Follow-Up Attack DMG for the wearer per stack of Merit and an additional +25% CRIT DMG when the maximum of five stacks has been reached; Merit is gained whenever an ally launches Follow-Up Attacks.
• Inert Salsotto (2) – +8% CRIT Rate, +15% Follow-Up Attack and Ultimate DMG when the wearer’s CRIT Rate surpasses 50%.

Best stats for Jade in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), ATK %, CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD
• Hands – ATK (Primary), ATK %, CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD
• Body – CRIT Rate (Primary), ATK %, CRIT DMG, SPD, ATK
• Feet – ATK % or SPD (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD or ATK %, ATK
• Planar Sphere – Quantum DMG (Primary), ATK %, CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD
• Link Rope – ATK % (Primary), CRIT Rate, CRIT DMG, SPD, ATK

Honkai: Star Rail – Jade: best teams

Jade is a powerful addition to parties specializing in area-of-effect damage and Follow-Up Attacks, making her a strong choice for Pure Fiction teams.

• The Herta (Main DPS), Jade (Sub DPS), Tribbie (Support), Lingsha (Support)

Jade is an ideal partner for The Herta on the battlefield. Designating her as the Debt Collector speeds up the rate at which Jade gains Charge and can unleash her Follow-Up Attacks, which in turn helps regenerate Energy for The Herta. Add Tribbie into the mix to give the team even greater damage output. Lingsha is an excellent healer for this party, aiding The Herta’s Energy gain and keeping the team healthy.

Herta and Himeko are characters harmonizing well with Jade, too, since they can hit a lot of foes in quick succession with their own area-of-effect Follow-Up Attacks. Robin, of course, is a great support option for her thanks to her Follow-Up Attack buffs. Jade is an excellent addition to any Blade team as well, siphoning his HP to trigger his own abilities. The same factor makes her an able Sub DPS for Castorice, though you'll want to avoid giving the Main DPS too much SPD through Jade's Skill.

Honkai: Star Rail – Jade: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Jade ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of her talents.

Jade requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x308,000
• Dream Collection Component x15
• Dream Flow Valve x15
• Dream Making Engine x15
• Dream Flamer x65

You can collect Dream Collection Components, Dream Flow Valves, and Dream Making Engines from enemies in Pencony as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express. They are one of the materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material, or gain them as a byproduct from farming Golden Calyxes on Penacony. Dream Flamers are dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Dream’s Edge). The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes found across the universe.

Jade requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x3,000,000
• Dream Collection Component x41
• Dream Flow Valve x56
• Dream Making Engine x58
• Rough Sketch x18
• Dynamic Outlining x69
• Exquisite Colored Draft x139
• Lost Echo of the Shared Wish x12
• Tracks of Destiny x8

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Rough Sketches, Dynamic Outlinings, and Exquisite Colored Drafts can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (Grand Theater) in Penacony. As usual, you can create the high-level materials by using up lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Lost Echo of the Shared Wish is rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Grand Theater) domain, while Tracks of Destiny can be obtained during time-limited events, the Embers Exchange, the Nameless Honor, or as a Simulated Universe Points Reward.