The best Honkai: Star Rail Pela build lets this 4-star supporter break through enemy defenses and wear mobs down quickly. Pela follows the Path of Nihility and specializes in exploiting ice weaknesses and reducing enemy defense to make battles against strong foes a little easier. Pela might have landed in the lower brackets of our Star Rail tier list, but she’s still an excellent supporter to have on any team, especially if you’re missing a powerful DPS character.
Honkai: Star Rail – Pela: skills
Pela’s skill, Frostbite, deals ice damage based on her attack to a single enemy and removes one buff from the target. It’s a weak skill with low damage scaling, so the main use is whittling down break meters or, if you’re up against a buffed enemy, taking them down a peg.
Her ultimate is Zone Suppression, an ability that deals light ice damage that scales just a little higher off Pela’s attack and inflicts the Exposed status, which reduces enemy defense by 30 percent for two turns. Pela’s Talent, Data Collecting, restores five energy if Pela attacks a debuffed enemy. It’s not much and only activates once during an attack, but it helps push you a bit closer to activating her ultimate again anyway.
Pela’s first Eidolon grants her five additional energy for every defeated enemy, while the fourth one reduces enemy ice resistance. The sixth Eidolon buffs Pela’s damage against debuffed enemies. She’s a bit weak on her own, so of all the 4-star launch characters, it’s definitely worth unlocking her Eidolons if you can.
Honkai: Star Rail – Pela: Best Light Cones
Pela’s signature Light Cone is Good Night and Sleep Well, and it boosts the wearer’s damage by 12 percent to 24 percent, up to three times for every debuff the target has. That’s a significant power boost for Pela and an excellent choice if you manage to get it.
If you have Welt’s Light Cone, In the Name of the World, you may want to try it on Pela instead. This one also boosts the wearer’s damage to any opponent with a debuff, and it raises their effect hit rate and attack when using their skill. Pela’s skill doesn’t have an effect hit rate, so the main point of using In the Name of the World is just to get the double attack buff.
We Will Meet Again is a good 4-star alternative. After the wearer uses a basic attack or skill, they trigger a follow-up. Hidden Shadow, a 3-star Light Cone, raises the power of the wearer’s next basic attack after they use a skill.
Best Light Cones for Pela:
- In the Name of the World (5-Star)
- Good Night and Sleep Well (4-Star)
- We Will Meet Again (4-Star)
- Hidden Shadow (3-Star)
Honkai: Star Rail – Pela: Best Relics
Just like fellow Nihility follower Welt, Pela needs more attack and effect hit rate, so that’s what your focus should be for her relics.
Best Relic Sets for Pela:
- Thief of Shooting Meteor (4) – +16 percent break effect, another +16 percent break effect and the wearer regenerates three energy on inflicting Weakness Break.
- Hunter of the Glacial Forest (4) – +10 percent ice damage, +25 percent critical hit damage for the wearer for two turns after activating their ultimate.
We prefer Shooting Meteor, since it gives Pela some extra utility when she uses her skill and basic attack.
Best Planar Ornaments for Pela:
- Pan-Galactic Commercial Enterprise (2) – +10 percent effect hit rate, attack increases by up to 25 percent of effect hit rate.
Prioritize the following Relic and Planar Ornament stats for Pela:
- Head – HP (Primary), effect hit rate percent, speed, critical hit damage, critical hit Rate
- Hands – attack (Primary), effect hit rate percent, speed, critical hit damage, critical hit Rate
- Body – effect hit rate percent (Primary), speed, critical hit damage, critical hit Rate, attack percent
- Feet – speed (Primary), effect hit rate percent, critical hit damage, critical hit Rate, attack percent
- Planar Sphere – ice damage percent (Primary), effect hit rate percent, speed, critical hit damage, critical hit Rate
- Link Rope – energy regeneration percent (Primary), effect hit rate percent, speed, critical hit damage, critical hit Rate
Honkai: Star Rail – Pela: Best teams
Pela is a strong support option for any team thanks to her ultimate, whether you’re clearing the path for your strong DPS to wipe out foes or helping weaker allies take down enemies without issue.
- Yanqing (Main DPS), Bronya (Support), Pela (Support), March 7th (Support)
Yanqing is a powerful main DPS, though he doesn’t fare too well under heavy attack. Having a shielder from the Path of the Preservation like March or Gepard on board is a good idea. Pela helps by reducing the enemy team’s defense and – given she has the right Eidolon level – can further maximize Yanqing’s damage by reducing their ice resistance. Bronya, Tingyun, or Asta can buff the team’s damage output even more with their abilities.
Honkai: Star Rail – Pela: Ascension materials
Here’s everything Pela needs to level up and to refine her talents.
Pela requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80:
- Credits x246,000
- Extinguished Core x12
- Glimmering Core x13
- Squirming Core x12
- Horn of Snow x50
You can obtain Cores from enemies in Backwater Pass and Rivet Town or in the Simulated Universe. You can also create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, and you can get Extinguished Cores pretty regularly from Daily Assignments.
Horns of Snow come from the Stagnant Shadow in the Corridor of Fading Shadows The best source of Credits is the Great Mine Calyx.
Pela requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:
- Credits x2,400,000
- Extinguished Core x28
- Glimmering Core x42
- Squirming Core x42
- Obsidian of Dread x12
- Obsidian of Desolation x54
- Obsidian of Obsession x105
- Guardian’s Lament x12
- Tracks of Destiny x5
You can farm Obsidian items in the Great Mine Calyx and create the high-level materials by using lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.
Guardian’s Lament is a boss material only dropped by the Echo of War (Everwinter Hill) 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.
Check out our Honkai Star Rail codes list if you need some extra Jade for more tickets to try and get Tingyun on your team.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
