Star Rail Saber Build Guide Best Relics, Light Cone, Team Comps, and more

The Version 3.4 update of Honkai: Star Rail has released a very popular, famed character from the Fate/Stay Night collab, the 5-star character Saber. She is a Wind character following the Path of Destruction. This Honkai: Star Rail Saber Build Guide will help you get the most out of her kit by offering a simplified breakdown of the gameplay and recommending the best configurations to optimize Saber’s performance.

Saber Kit Breakdown

Saber is a Wind Destruction unit with high base stats and a unique energy-focused kit that revolves around generating and consuming Core Resonance to trigger powerful skill effects and maintain a near-constant cycle of skill, ultimate, and enhanced basic attacks.

Her skill can generate immediate and potential energy with Core Resonance, and when her total potential energy reaches 360, she unleashes a stronger version of her skill, gains energy back, and can immediately use her ultimate. This setup rewards tight energy management and can lead to explosive damage turns when played correctly.

Her ultimate hits all enemies and follows up with 10 high-damage bounce attacks, then triggers an enhanced AoE basic attack that benefits from huge damage buffs if there are fewer enemies. This basic attack also helps generate more Core Resonance, keeping the energy loop going.

Saber’s passive traits further improve this cycle, giving her overflow energy storage, strong CRIT buffs, and synergy with frequent ally ultimates, making her both self-sufficient and team-reliant in the right setups. Overall, Saber plays like a momentum-driven engine. Start slow, build up Core Resonance, and once you hit the threshold, you’ll chain skills, ultimates, and enhanced basics in rapid succession. Her kit is dense, but once you get the rhythm, she becomes a bursty powerhouse with excellent AoE and solid boss damage potential.

Materials Needed for Saber in Honkai: Star Rail

Refer to the detailed farming guide for Saber as we break down her materials and how to obtain them effectively. To summarize the materials in this Honkai Star: Rail Saber Build Guide:

Character Level-Up Materials

• 15x Thief’s Instinct
• 15x Usurper’s Scheme
• 15x Conqueror’s Will
• 65x A Glass of the Besotted Era
• 3x Travel Encounters
• 3x Adventure Log
• 289x Traveler’s Guide
• 888,000x Credit

Trace Level-up Materials

• 18x Borisin Teeth
• 69x Lupitoxin Sawteeth
• 139x Moon Rage Fang
• 41x Thief’s Instinct
• 56x Usurper’s Scheme
• 58x Conqueror’s Will
• 12x Destroyer’s Final Road
• 8x Tracks of Destiny
• 3,000,000x Credit

Honkai Star Rail Saber Best Relics and Planar Ornaments

In terms of stat goals, shoot for 135 SPD, around 2.5 to 3k ATK, and 100% CRIT Rate in combat (accounting for the 20% she gets from her A2). CRIT DMG can be flexible; she buffs herself heavily and gets a lot from her team, so focus more on hitting your CRIT Rate and ATK thresholds for the best performance.

• Body: Crit DMG
• Feet: SPD/ATK%
• Planar Spear: DMG%/ATK%
• Link Rope: ATK%

Relic Set

Wavestrider Captain	The best option is the new Wavestrider set, which gives her a 48% ATK buff after every ultimate. It’s perfect since her whole kit revolves around ulting often. This buff also applies to her enhanced basic attack and can carry over to boost her next skill if you ult on her turn.
Scholar Lost in Erudition	If you don’t have Wavestrider, Scholar of Erudition is still solid, offering consistent buffs to both skill and ultimate damage, with a bonus skill buff after each ult.
Musketeer of Wild Wheat/Eagle of Twilight Line	Opt for the 2-piece if you have the above sets fully farmed.

Planar Ornaments

Firmament Frontline: Glamoth/Inert Salsotto/Rutilant Arena

When it comes to planar ornaments, Saber is flexible. You can go with any strong generalist DPS set like Rutilant Arena, Glamoth, Space Sealing Station, or Inert Salsotto, just pick the one with the best stats you’ve farmed.

Honkai Star Rail Saber Best Light Cone

A Thankless Coronation (Saber Signature 5* Light Cone)	Saber’s best Light Cone is undoubtedly her signature, which gives her a flat 36% CRIT DMG and a massive 40% ATK buff for 2 turns after using her ultimate. On top of that, because her max energy is over 300, she gets another 40% ATK buff and restores 10% of her max energy every time she ults, translating to 36 Energy per ult. This not only boosts her damage directly but also helps smooth out her rotation by making it easier to hit her energy thresholds consistently. Her signature is a clear upgrade over F2P options, not just in raw numbers but also in how it stabilizes her entire playstyle. The extra energy lets her keep up with advance-forward strategies and ult more frequently, something that isn’t always reflected in pure damage calcs but becomes very noticeable in practice. If you can get her signature, it adds a huge layer of consistency and damage scaling to her entire kit.
Thus Burns the Dawn (5* Light Cone)	Very High Base ATK. Second-best option for Saber.
On the Fall of an Aeon (5*)	The Light Cone from the Herta store is still totally viable.
A Trail of Bygone Blood (4*)	The Battle Pass Light Cone is a good 4-Star option.
Under the Blue Sky (4*)	The most F2P option, but will lose a lot of damage compared to his S1.

Best Team Comps for Saber in Honkai Star Rail

Saber thrives in teams that can help her maintain her energy loop and maximize her action economy.

Saber, Sunday/Bronya, Robin, Huohuo/Hyacine

In a hypercarry setup, your ideal core is Saber + a buffer + a debuffer/support + a healer. Sunday is her top-tier support thanks to his massive energy battery; his ultimate gives Saber a huge 72 energy, which is crucial for hitting her Core Resonance thresholds consistently.

His advance-forward mechanic also synergizes perfectly with her back-to-back actions. If you don’t have Sunday, Bronya is a strong alternative. While she doesn’t offer energy, her buffs still benefit Saber greatly, and the SP economy isn’t too strained in Saber comps.

For secondary supports, Robin is arguably the best pick. She gives a huge ATK buff that Saber needs, plus her Concerto ultimate allows Saber to take multiple turns in a row, lining up beautifully with Saber’s consume skill and ult combos.

Tingyun is another good option, especially if you’re lacking Robin. She boosts Saber’s ATK and also provides energy, making her a solid, versatile support. Remembrance Trailblazer (RMC) is a great F2P-friendly pick, especially when paired with Sunday. With proper manual play and rotation timing, RMC can advance Saber and stack True DMG buffs for huge burst potential.

For sustain, Huohuo is Saber’s best all-rounder. She feeds energy to everyone, contributes to Saber’s Core Resonance via ult, and helps keep the whole team’s cycle running. Gallagher is a reliable F2P healer who can support Saber’s needs with flexible Light Cone builds. And if you’re in Wind-weak stages, Hyacine can double as a healer and sub-DPS, slotting in nicely while contributing some damage herself.

Is Saber worth pulling in HSR

Honestly, she’s a solid unit, not broken, but not weak either. In content like Memory of Chaos and Apocalyptic Shadow, she performs consistently well with strong ultimate-based damage and decent wave-clearing. Just be warned, her advanced forward mechanics can feel a bit clunky, especially when paired with certain ally ultimates or timed enemy attacks. It takes some practice to get her rhythm right.

That said, she has great synergy with energy-centric teams, and as the game introduces more energy batteries and future supports, her value could grow even more. She isn’t powercreeping the meta, but she’s reliable and satisfying to play once you get used to her flow. In Pure Fiction, while she’s not on the level of top PF nukers, her AoE ult, bounces, and enhanced basics give her solid multi-target utility, especially as a Destruction unit.

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