Honkai: Star Rail – Serval build and ascension guide

Make the world clamor with the best Honkai: Star Rail Serval build, extracting the most out of this free character. Serval is the older sister of Gepard and Lynx and another figure the player meets early on. She follows the Path of The Erudition and deals Lightning DMG.

Serval’s Skill, Lightning Flash, deals Lightning DMG based on her ATK to a single foe and blasts it to any adjacent enemies. This attack has a 80% base chance to apply Shocked for two turns, dealing DoT. Whenever Serval attacks, she deals additional Lightning DMG to all Shocked foes thanks to her Talent, Galvanic Chords.

Her Ultimate, Here Comes the Mechanical Fever, dishes out Lightning DMG based on her ATK to all enemies on the field, extending the duration of Shocked on all targets already afflicted by it by an additional two turns.

Serval’s Eidolon levels, which can be obtained by getting duplicates of her, enhance her kit even further. Level 1 allows her Basic Attack to deal damage to one adjacent target as well. Level 2 regenerates Energy for her whenever her Talent is triggered. Her Ultimate applies Shocked to all enemies that don’t have it yet on Level 4. Finally, Serval deals more damage to all Shocked targets with her Eidolon 6.

Honkai: Star Rail – Serval: best Light Cones

Serval’s Ultimate is cheap in terms of Energy costs, allowing her to spam it every other turn. The 5-Star Light Cone An Instant Before A Gaze not only increases her CRIT DMG, but her Ultimate DMG as well, raising this particular stat based on her Max Energy.

Best Light Cones for Serval in HSR:

• An Instant Before A Gaze (5-Star)
• Before Dawn (5-Star)
• Night on the Milky Way (5-Star)
• Eternal Calculus (5-Star)
• The Day The Cosmos Fell (4-Star)
• Make the World Clamor (4-Star)
• Geniuses’ Repose (4-Star)
• Passkey (3-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Serval: best Relics

All of Serval’s offensive moves depend on her ATK for damage, making it a crucial stat for her. SPD and Energy Regeneration are important for her as well. CRIT Rate and CRIT DMG round out her damage potential nicely, while Effect Hit Rate is a great filler stat to make her Shocked application more reliable.

Best Relic Sets for Serval in HSR:

• Pioneer Diver of Dead Waters (4) – +12% damage against enemies with debuffs, +4% CRIT Rate, +8%/12% CRIT DMG to enemies with at least 2/3 debuffs; after the wearer inflicts a debuff on enemies, these effects are doubled for one turn.
• Scholar Lost in Erudition (4) – +8% CRIT Rate, +20% Skill and Ultimate DMG, +25% Skill DMG on the next Skill use after the wearer used their Ultimate.
• Band of Sizzling Thunder (4) – +10% Lightning DMG, +25% ATK for the wearer for two turns after using their Skill.

Best Planar Ornaments for Serval in HSR:

• Firmament Frontline: Glamoth (2) – +12% ATK, +12%/18% more damage if the wearer’s SPD is 135/160 or higher.
• Pan-Galactic Commercial Enterprise (2) – +10% Effect Hit Rate, ATK increases by up to 25% of Effect Hit Rate.

Best stats for Serval in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), CRIT DMG, CRIT Rate, ATK %, SPD
• Hands – ATK (Primary), CRIT DMG, CRIT Rate, ATK %, SPD
• Body – CRIT Rate or CRIT DMG (Primary), CRIT DMG or CRIT Rate, ATK %, SPD, Effect Hit Rate
• Feet – SPD (Primary), CRIT DMG, CRIT Rate, ATK %, Effect Hit Rate
• Planar Sphere – Lightning DMG (Primary), CRIT DMG, CRIT Rate, ATK %, SPD
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), CRIT DMG, CRIT Rate, ATK %, SPD

Honkai: Star Rail – Serval: best teams

Serval is a robust Sub DPS character for free-to-play users, as she can nicely pad out line-ups headlined by a couple of premium units.

• The Herta (Main DPS), Serval (Sub DPS), Tribbie (Support), Lingsha (Support)

Serval is a solid alternative to Jade or Herta in this composition, providing the necessary splash damage to quickly charge up The Herta and Tribbie’s Energy counts. Lingsha provides healing and cleansing to the party in addition to further splash damage.

• Kafka (Main DPS), Serval (Sub DPS), Black Swan (Support), Huohuo (Support)

Serval is a solid addition to DoT teams thanks to her consistent DoT application. Both Kafka and Black Swan can increase the effectiveness of the status effects Serval inflicts on enemies, while Huohuo recharges the team’s Energy, thereby allowing high-frequency Ultimate use.

Honkai: Star Rail – Serval: ascension materials

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

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

• Credits x246,000
• Silvermane Badge x12
• Silvermane Insignia x13
• Silvermane Medal x62
• Lightning Crown of the Past Shadow x50

You can gain Silvermane Badges, Insignia, and Medals from enemies in the Outlying Snow Plains and the Corridor of Fading Echoes as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Silvermane Badges are one of the materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material.

Lightning Crown of the Past Shadow is dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Corridor of Fading Echoes) or gained through exchange. The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes that can be found around the universe.

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

• Credits x2,400,000
• Silvermane Badge x28
• Silvermane Insignia x42
• Silvermane Medal x42
• Key of Inspiration x12
• Key of Knowledge x54
• Key of Wisdom x105
• Guardian’s Lament x12
• Tracks of Destiny x5

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Keys can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx ( Rivet Town). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by using up lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Guardian’s Lament is a rare material only gained from 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.