Honkai Star Rail has a good selection of free characters for you to unlock. This guide will show all the characters you can get for free in Honkai Star Rail, as well as how to unlock them.
There are eight characters in total, and you get them in various ways. Let’s take a look at how to get them all!
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Honkai Star Rail: All free characters available
There are a lot of characters you can only get by using warps, which will cost you Star Rail Passes. While you can unlock any of these characters by chance using the free Star Rail Passes you accumulate, there’s no guarantee you’ll actually get them.
So it’s a good job Honkai Star Rail has some free characters that all players can get their hands on without having to roll.
Here are all the characters and their combat types/paths.
- Trailblazer – Physical/Destruction
- March 7th – Ice/Preservation
- Dan Heng – Wind/The Hunt
- Asta – Fire/Harmony
- Herta – Ice/Erudition
- Natasha – Physical/Abundance
- Qingque – Quantum/Erudition
- Serval – Lightning/Erudition
All of these characters above can be obtained for free just by playing the game, with no need to use any warps.
Honkai Star Rail: How to unlock all free characters
You’ll unlock some of the free characters very early on without having to do anything. The Trailblazer, March 7th, Dan Heng, and Asta will all join your team as you progress through the first story missions on the space station.
Herta can be obtained after completing the Trailblaze mission “Simulated Universe: First Closed Beta”. Just visit Herta’s office on the space station once you’re prompted and complete the task she wants you to do.
Natasha will be unlocked after completing the Trailblaze mission “Lying in Rust”. This mission comes a fair bit later on, so you won’t be able to unlock her for a while. Just keep playing the story missions to eventually get to her.
Qingque can be unlocked after reaching Trailblaze level 21 and completing “Forgotten Hall – Memory Stage 3”. This mission won’t unlock until you have Trailblaze level 21.
Serval can be obtained for free as part of the pre-registration and social media follower rewards. You’ll just need to progress through the story until you gain access to your mail.
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And those are all the free characters you can get your hands on in Honkai Star Rail!
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