by « Game of Swords » is one of the best four-star Cones of Light that we can get on Honkai Star Rail to equip our characters on the Hunting Way . We can achieve it randomly by making jumps in any type of banner.
What makes this Cone of Light so good is that its passive allows you to increase the overall damage produced by the Hunt to which we equip it after attacking any enemy. This effect can stack up to a total of 5 times and can increase a character’s damage by up to 80% at its maximum overlap.
As you can see, this significant damage increase makes it a tremendous weapon for any character that belongs to this lane. The only bad thing about this Cone of Light is that we will lose the effects if we change the objective; But don’t worry, getting stacks of this effect is pretty easy.
ATTRIBUTES OR STATS OF “SWORDPLAY”
Let’s start looking at its basic attributes, keep in mind that we will give you the data it has at level 80 (the maximum):
- HP : 952
- ATK : 476
- DEF : 330
Now we go with the passive that is what really interests us:
- S1 : When the bearer of this Cone of Light hits the same target multiple times, the damage dealt to said enemy is increased by 8%. This effect can be stacked up to five times and will be lost if we change targets.
- S5 : When the bearer of this Cone of Light hits the same target multiple times, the damage dealt to said enemy is increased by 16%. This effect can be stacked up to five times and will be lost if we change targets.
At first, the description of the effect of «Game of Swords» can make us believe that for each attack we make with the bearer of this Cone of Light, we will be able to gain a stack of the effect of this passive; but it doesn’t actually work that way.
Actually we will gain charges of this effect for each hit made by the different abilities of its bearer , and this differs in each character, what they all have in common is that the Basic Ability is the one that usually gives a greater number of charges and the Ultimate Ability is the one that gives the least charges in general.
For example, Seele can get 4 charges when using his Basic Ability, 2 when he performs his Basic Attack, and only one when he uses his Ultimate.
This will be something that we will have to keep in mind if we decide to take our Hunt with this Cone of Light, since to take advantage of it we will need it to be maintained for as long as possible with the greatest amount of stacks of the passive effect of “Game of Swords”. » possible. And as we have mentioned before, when hitting a different enemy, we will lose the charges that we had and they will be reset.
WHICH CHARACTER DO I EQUIP IT TO?
Any character you equip it to can get a lot of use out of it, but there are some characters that can stack up faster than others:
In addition to being a character that has a fairly high SPD, Yanqing hits multiple times when using his skills and can also perform additional attacks while under the effects of his Talent with which he can also get charges from the passive of “Game of Swords”.
He also possesses an additional ability that also allows him to perform additional attacks on those enemies that are weak against Ice Release. All this set of circumstances makes Yanqing one of the best characters to be able to get and maintain the passive effects of this wonderful Cone of Light.
Seele can be played in both multi-target and single-target compositions despite belonging to the Hunting Path and therefore we can think that this Cone of Light does not suit him, since the effects are lost when hitting a different enemy.
But she is a character that has very high damage, her SPD is quite high, she can advance her actions, get extra turns, and she is also able to get four charges of the «Game of Swords» passive by using her Skill only once. basic. Therefore, she is very worth equipping this Cone of Light to boost her damage and it will actually be quite easy for us to maintain this Cone of Light stacks with Seele.
Although the base Sushang is the character that receives the least stacks of the «Games of Swords» passive when executing his skills, he has several skills that will allow him to act multiple times or increase the number of hits he generates, so he can carry this Cone Light without problems.
For example, when using his Ultimate Ability, Sushang will be able to act again immediately. He also has a randomly activated effect called “Swordsman Stance”, which allows him to generate additional hits (meaning that if activated we can get a higher number of stacks with Sushang).
Finally, he also has an additional ability that allows him to advance his actions by performing a Weakness Break . So, as you can see, Sushang can act a large number of times in a short time and quickly get the maximum number of stacks of this Cone of Light’s passive.
These are other characters that can take advantage of the bonuses of this Cone of Light:
- Dang Heng : Hits the same number of times as Seele with their respective abilities, but he has lower damage and speed than hers; In addition to not having his abilities to get extra turns and advance her actions, so he will take less advantage of it than her.
