Honkai: Star Rail Top 20 Most Used Characters in Memory of Chaos

Data on character usage rates in Version 3.8 Memory of Chaos

Introduction

In Honkai: Star Rail, Memory of Chaos (MoC) is the ultimate proving ground for your character roster. It’s part of "Forgotten Hall" and serves as the game’s primary endgame challenge, resetting every few weeks with new rewards, mechanics, and buffs.

Character Role(s) Rarity Faction Path Type Usage Rate
Hyacine Sustain, Sub-DPS 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Remembrance Wind 57.73%
Castorice DPS 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Remembrance Quantum 53.25%
Cyrene Amplify 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Remembrance Ice 52.27%
Evernight Sub-DPS, DPS 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Remembrance Ice 44.78%
Dan Heng • Permansor Terrae Sustain 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Preservation Physical 44.44%
The Dahlia Amplifier, Break 5 Star The Cremators Nihility Fire 41.52%
Firefly DPS, Break 5 Star Stellaron Hunters Destruction Fire 38.04%
Tingyun • Fugue Amplifier, Break 5 Star Xianzhou Alliance Nihility Fire 35.37%
Tribbie Amplifier, Sub-DPS 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Harmony Quantum 29.42%
Sunday Amplifier 5 Star Cosmos Harmony Imaginary 25.33%
Phainon DPS 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Destruction Physical 24.47%
Lingsha Sustain, Sub-DPS, Break 5 Star Xianzhou Alliance Abundance Fire 21.39%
Trailblazer • Rememberance Amplifier 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Remembrance Ice 19.77%
Cerydra Amplifier 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Harmony Wind 18.70%
Ruan • Mei Amplifier, Break 5 Star Genius Society Harmony Ice 12.94%
Trailblazer • Harmony Amplifier, Sub-DPS, Break 5 Star Astral Express Harmony Imaginary 12.45%
Sparkle Amplifier 5 Star The Masked Fools Harmony Quantum 11.82%
Hysilens DPS, DoT 5 Star Chrysos Heirs Nihility Physical 11.29%
Kafka Sub-DPS, DPS, DoT 5 Star Stellaron Hunters Nihility Lightning 11.20%
Gallagher Amplifier, Sustain, Break 4 Star Penacony Abundance Fire 9.88%

Data Analysis

With the release of Amphoreus, its Chrysos Heirs, and the Remembrance Path in Version 3.0, It makes sense why the current meta favors Chysos Heirs and the Rememberance. In 3.8, The Dahlia was released which resulted in the buff of break characters like Firefly, Tingyun • Fugue, Lingsha, Trailblazer • Harmony, and Gallagher. Currently in the game, the number of 5 star rarity characters far surpass 4 star rarity, with 60% of the characters being 5 star, it makes sense why high usage characters are almost all 5 star

Glossary of Terms

Roles
Amplifier: A unit that buffs characters on the team rather than doing damage themselves
Break: Units that can break enemy weakness bars effectively
DPS: Stands of damage per second, represents unit that does the most damage in the team
DoT: Stands for damage over time, represents units that can apply debuffs that deals extra damage to enemies
Sub-DPS: A unit that can deal damage but is not the main DPS
Sustain: A unit that provides healing or shielding, preventing the team from dying
Path: a character's Path is essentially their combat philosophy. It dictates their role in the party and what kind of "Light Cones" (weapons) they can use.
Abundance: Characters that provide healing
Destruction: Characters with high survivability and damange outputs
Erudition: Characters that specialize in area damage
Harmony: Characters that buff their teammate's damage
Hunt: Characters that focuses damage on a single target
Nihility: Characters that debuff the enemies
Preservation: Characters that provide shields
Rememberance: Characters that can summon a memosprite, a separate ally entity