Physical Element Characters

Every Physical element character in Honkai: Star Rail — with the best builds, teams, light cones and relics, kept up to date with the meta.

Last updated: 31/07/2026

15 characters

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What do you want to do today?

Who is the strongest?Clara (5★) Dig deeperSee 122 monsters weak to this element

The Physical element currently has 15 characters in Honkai: Star Rail.

The figures on this page come directly from gamevika's internal game data store (counted/read straight from the real records), not an estimate or copy from elsewhere.

The most important thing to understand

Honkai: Star Rail has NO Genshin-style elemental reaction system. An element only determines the damage type dealt and the Weakness Break debuff applied — weaknesses are a property of each individual enemy, not a fixed element-vs-element chart.

Clara

Yunli

Argenti

Robin

Boothill

Phainon

Hysilens

Dan Heng • Permansor Terrae

5★

Yao Guang

5★

Evanescia

5★

Trailblazer · Physical

Natasha

Luka

Sushang

Hanya

15 characters

Characters	★	Browse by Path
Clara	5★	Destruction
Yunli	5★	Destruction
Argenti	5★	Erudition
Robin	5★	Harmony
Boothill	5★	The Hunt
Phainon	5★	Destruction
Hysilens	5★	Nihility
Dan Heng • Permansor Terrae	5★	Preservation
Yao Guang	5★	Elation
Evanescia	5★	Elation
Trailblazer · Physical	5★	Destruction
Natasha	4★	Abundance
Luka	4★	Nihility
Sushang	4★	The Hunt
Hanya	4★	Harmony

Dig deeper

See 122 monsters weak to this element See all 15 characters of this element (this page)

Breaking Weakness with this element ( )

Break DMG multiplier

×2

Debuff applied

Bleed

DoT multiplier: ×2 · Turns: 2

DoT scales off the enemy's max HP — normal enemies 16% max HP/turn, elites & bosses 7% max HP/turn; capped at exactly the instant Weakness Break DMG (never exceeds it).

Three things players get wrong

Honkai: Star Rail has NO Genshin-style elemental reaction system. An element only determines the damage type dealt and the Weakness Break debuff applied — weaknesses are a property of each individual enemy, not a fixed element-vs-element chart.
Break Effect is nearly USELESS on Ice characters: Frozen carries no follow-up DoT to multiply against, it only skips the enemy's turn (with their next turn's action gauge advanced 50%) — whereas Physical/Fire/Wind/Lightning all apply an uncapped Break Effect-scaling DoT. Stacking Break Effect on an Ice DPS is close to wasted substats.
An enemy that is NOT weak to the element being used has a baseline 20% DMG RES against that element; an enemy that IS weak to it has 0% RES. Some enemies stack extra RES (≥40%) on top of that 20% baseline. This is why the same character's damage swings sharply between a matching-element enemy and a mismatched one, even with no reaction chart involved.

Toughness reduction per hit — by character

Community-measured numbers, NOT official publisher figures. Only characters with confirmed numbers are listed — this element may have other characters without enough data yet. Values shown in IN-GAME units (same scale as enemy Toughness): basic ATK = 30, skill = 60, ultimate = 90.

Character	Move	Toughness reduction · in-game
Boothill	Basic ATK (base)	30
	Enhanced Basic ATK — tier 1	60
	Enhanced Basic ATK — tier 2	90
	Enhanced Basic ATK — tier 3	120
	Enhanced Basic ATK — tier 4	150

What matters — and what doesn't (save your build)

Community-verified through hands-on testing (with comparison screenshots).

Toughness reduction per hit — FIXED

Does NOT matter

ATK · CRIT Rate/DMG · Own Max HP · Enemy's stats/debuffs

DOES matter

ONLY the "Weakness Break Efficiency" buff

DMG dealt AT THE MOMENT of Weakness Break

DOES matter

Break Effect · Character's level · Enemy's DEF · Enemy's level · Enemy's max Toughness

Does NOT matter

ATK · Own DEF · Own Max HP · CRIT Rate/DMG · Which move type triggered the break

Many players over-invest in ATK/CRIT for a break-focused character — neither affects toughness reduction or break DMG. Only Break Effect + character level actually matter.

Toughness Calculator — how many hits to break?

Pick a character + a monster weak to this element → get the hits needed to break its Toughness. Links toughness-reduction numbers (community-measured) with the real Toughness (official) of 248 monsters (bestiary template).

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