Honkai: Star Rail – Robin build and ascension guide

Become the most famous galactic idol with the best Honkai: Star Rail Robin build and propel your team towards success with the sheer power of your voice. Robin is a 5-Star character following The Harmony and dealing Physical DMG, specializing in boosting her party’s offensive capabilities.

Robin’s Skill, Pinion’s Aria, provides a massive increase to the outgoing damage of all allies for three turns with the duration decreasing at the start of Robin’s turn — that’s a long runtime and should make her light on Skill Point usage.

Her Ultimate, Vox Harmonique, Opus Cosmique, allows Robin to enter the Concerto state and makes all of her allies take action immediately. In the Concerto state, Robin boosts the ATK of all allies based on her own ATK and adds Physical DMG based on her own ATK to each offensive move by an ally. This does not count as a Follow-Up Attack and has a set CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG. When Robin is in the Concerto state, she’s immune to Crowd Control debuffs and can’t take any other action. The state ends when the Concerto countdown, which appears on the Action Bar with a set SPD , gets its turn — this will lead to Robin leaving the Concerto state and immediately taking her regular turn.

Robin’s Talent, Tonal Resonance, boosts the CRIT DMG of all allies and allows her to regain Energy whenever an ally attacks. It’s worth taking note of one of Robin’s Traces as well, which increases the CRIT DMG of Follow-Up Attacks made by allies while she’s in the Concerto state.

Her Eidolon Levels – gained when you pull another copy of her – offer additional improvements: Level 1 adds All-Type RES PEN to the effects of Robin’s Ultimate, while Level 2 boosts both effects of her Talent. Level 4 gives Robin’s Ultimate a cleansing effect, dispelling all crowd control debuffs on allies and increasing their Effect RES. Finally, Level 6 boosts Robin’s own damage output when she’s in Concerto thanks to a massive CRIT DMG increase.

Honkai: Star Rail – Robin: best Light Cones

Robin has the privilege of having a signature Light Cone called Flowing Nightglow, which is the best possible option for her. Every attack by an ally allows the wielder to obtain one stack of the Cantillation effect. Each of these stacks (up to five) increases their Energy Regeneration. When the wielder uses their Ultimate, Cantillation will be removed and Cadenza gained instead, which increases the wielder’s ATK and the damage done by all allies for a turn.

It’s a very specific set of effects, tailored to Robin’s requirements.

Best Light Cones for Robin in HSR:

• Flowing Nightglow (5-Star)
• Earthly Escapade (5-Star)
• For Tomorrow’s Journey (4-Star)
• Carve the Moon, Weave the Clouds (4-Star)
• Dreamville Adventure (4-Star)
• Past and Future (4-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Robin: best Relics

ATK and Energy Regeneration are the key stats Robin wants to stack up. As usual for your support characters, stats like HP and Effect RES that enhance their chances of survival are welcome, too. SPD is secondary for her, though you should get enough to activate any set bonuses you get from your Planar Ornaments. CRIT is not vital for Robin, since her primary damage source has fixed CRIT DMG and CRIT Rate values.

Best Relic Sets for Robin HSR:

• Musketeer of Wild Wheat (2) + Prisoner in Deep Confinement (2) – +12% ATK x2.
• Musketeer of Wild Wheat (4) – +12% ATK, +6% SPD, +10% Basic Attack DMG.
• Messenger Traversing Hackerspace (4) – +6% SPD, +12% SPD for all allies for one turn when the wearer uses their Ultimate on an ally.

Best Planar Ornaments for Robin in HSR:

• Fleet of the Ageless (2) – +12% Max HP, +8% ATK for all allies when the wearer’s SPD is 120 or higher.
• Broken Keel (2) – +10% Effect RES, +10% CRIT DMG for all allies when the wearer’s Effect RES is 30% or higher.
• Space Sealing Station (2) – +12% ATK, +12% ATK on top if the wearer’s SPD is 120 or higher.

Best stats for Robin in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), ATK %, ATK, HP %, SPD
• Hands – ATK (Primary), ATK %, HP %, SPD, Effect RES
• Body – ATK % (Primary), ATK, HP %, SPD, Effect RES
• Feet – SPD (Primary), ATK %, ATK, HP %, Effect RES
• Planar Sphere – Physical DMG (Primary), ATK %, ATK, HP %, SPD
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), ATK %, ATK, HP %, SPD

Honkai: Star Rail – Robin: best teams

Robin is a powerful support no matter how you look at her — however, that Trace we highlighted in the overview of her kit makes her shine especially bright as part of a Follow-Up Attack team.

• Feixiao (Main DPS), Topaz (Sub DPS), Robin (Support), Aventurine (Support)

This is the most potent follow-up attack team you can build at this point: Topaz can get targets for Feixiao marked, ensuring that she’ll consistently make boosted Follow-Up Attacks against them and charge up her Ultimate. Aventurine is a powerful shield character with his own Follow-Up Attacks, though his main priority is keeping the team alive. You can replace Aventurine with Lingsha. Finally, Robin provides her passive buff to the team’s Follow-Up Attacks on top of the ones contributed by the rest of her kit.

Other Follow-Up Attackers such as Dr. Ratio can replace Feixiao as this team’s Main DPS.

Of course, Robin isn't confined to Follow-Up Attack teams: Other compositions, such as DoT teams, can make use of her fantastic offensive buffs and turn manipulation as well.

Honkai: Star Rail – Robin: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Robin ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of her talents.

Robin requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x308,000
• Dream Collection Component x15
• Dream Flow Valve x15
• Dream Making Engine x15
• IPC Work Permit x65

You can collect Dream Collection Components, Dream Flow Valves, and Dream Making Engines from enemies in Pencony as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express. They are one of the materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material, or gain them as a byproduct from farming Golden Calyxes on Penacony. IPC Work Permits are dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Clock Studios Theme Park). The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes found around the cosmos.

Robin requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x3,000,000
• Dream Collection Component x41
• Dream Flow Valve x56
• Dream Making Engine x58
• Firmament Note x18
• Celestial Section x69
• Heavenly Melody x139
• Past Evils of the Borehole Planet Disaster x12
• Tracks of Destiny x8

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Firmament Notes, Celestial Sections, and Heavenly Melodies can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (The Reverie, Dreamscape) in Penacony. As usual, you can create the high-level materials by using up lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Past Evils of the Borehole Planet Disaster is rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Seclusion Zone) 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.