It’s been 365 days and Honkai Star Rail still doesn’t have a new shielder

Considering Honkai Star Rail loves powercreeping characters, it’s been a long time since we last got a preservation unit. 365 days, to be precise, since the glorious Aventurine joined the cast and started keeping our teams incredibly safe. There are, as of April 2025, 69 playable Honkai Star Rail characters in the game, with three scheduled for upcoming banners. There are 12 destruction, 12 nihility, 11 harmony, ten hunt, nine erudition, seven abundance, and… five preservation characters, including the trailblazer. I’m not counting the remembrance path here as it’s very new, though it does already have three released characters, so it’s catching up to preservation already. Within the preservation sector, we have the standard banner’s Honkai Star Rail Gepard, Honkai Star Rail March 7th, and the Trailblazer - three units that were all available when the game launched. We then got HSR’s Fu Xuan in version 1.3, with Aventurine in version 2.1. We’re now in version 3.2 and have no more shield-based characters, or any coming up, for that matter. Continue reading It’s been 365 days and Honkai Star Rail still doesn’t have a new shielder MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Honkai Star Rail codes, Honkai Star Rail tier list, Honkai Star Rail banners

Apr 17, 2025 - 19:18

It’s been 365 days and Honkai Star Rail still doesn’t have a new shielder

Considering Honkai Star Rail loves powercreeping characters, it’s been a long time since we last got a preservation unit. 365 days, to be precise, since the glorious Aventurine joined the cast and started keeping our teams incredibly safe.

There are, as of April 2025, 69 playable Honkai Star Rail characters in the game, with three scheduled for upcoming banners. There are 12 destruction, 12 nihility, 11 harmony, ten hunt, nine erudition, seven abundance, and… five preservation characters, including the trailblazer. I’m not counting the remembrance path here as it’s very new, though it does already have three released characters, so it’s catching up to preservation already.

Within the preservation sector, we have the standard banner’s Honkai Star Rail Gepard, Honkai Star Rail March 7th, and the Trailblazer - three units that were all available when the game launched. We then got HSR’s Fu Xuan in version 1.3, with Aventurine in version 2.1. We’re now in version 3.2 and have no more shield-based characters, or any coming up, for that matter.

Continue reading It’s been 365 days and Honkai Star Rail still doesn’t have a new shielder

MORE FROM POCKET TACTICS: Honkai Star Rail codes, Honkai Star Rail tier list, Honkai Star Rail banners