Honkai: Star RailMarch 7th • The HuntBest build, teams and other guides

March 7th, The Hunt edition, is an incredibly powerful unit that's obtained entirely for free including Eidolons. She can choose to boost a single ally's SPD and will also get personal benefits to her Enhanced Basic ATK based on the Path of the buffed character, getting either Additional DMG instances or increasing her Weakness Break Efficiency. She deals very high single-target damage and can reduce the Toughness of non-IMG weak enemies, and she can be played as a strong CRIT carry or as a strong Breaker. Because of this, she is extremely flexible.

Everyone's favorite goofball got her own personal anime training arc, and has upgraded from March 7th to March 8th. This new Reignbow Arbiter flavoured form boasts one of the most versatile damage carry kits in the game, and most ridiculous of all is that we're given her for free, and will even get all of her Eidolons over time.

The big focus of March's kit comes from her Enhanced Basic ATK. It initially deals 3 hits, with each dealing up to 80% ATK to a single enemy. After the final hit, there's a 60% fixed chance to deal an extra hit, up to 3 extra hits. This Enhanced Basic cannot recover Skill Points, and will not recover extra Energy with more hits, but as compensation, it will restore a typical Skill's worth of Energy, 30 Energy per usage.

March's big damage comes from her Enhanced Basic ATK, but we've got to get through her other abilities first to understand how everything interacts with one another and where the real juice comes from. This starts at her Skill. March designates a single ally besides herself as Shifu, increasing their SPD by up to 10%. This Shifu designation lasts until March recasts her Skill. March will gain benefits for her Basic ATK and Enhanced Basic ATK based on the Path of her chosen Shifu; if the Shifu follows the Path of Erudition, Destruction, or The Hunt, then her Basic ATK and every singular hit of her Enhanced Basic will deal up to 20% ATK Additional DMG. If the Shifu follows the Path of Abundance, Nihility, Harmony, or Preservation, her Basic ATK and every singular hit of her Enhanced Basic will deal +100% Toughness damage (different from Weakness Break Efficiency).

This unique interaction allows March to be played as a traditional CRIT carry or as a dedicated Super Breaker. On its own, this may not seem impressive enough compared to existing characters who can fill these two roles already, but this is only the surface. March's Ultimate will deal up to 240% ATK to a single enemy and will increase the initial number of hits of her Enhanced Basic by 2 hits, for a new base amount of 5 hits. In addition to this, it will also increase the fixed chance of getting extra hits by 20%, for a new total of 80% fixed chance. This Ultimate has a below-average cost of 110.

Aside from the upfront damage of this Ultimate and its Toughness damage, this will turbo-charge March's next Enhanced Basic to be insanely powerful, potentially dealing up to an insane 800% ATK to a single enemy. Even if you are laughably unlucky and somehow don't get any additional hits, this Enhanced Basic will still do 500% ATK after the Ultimate, which for an attack that costs literally zero Skill Points, that's pretty damn strong.

March's Talent tells us how she gains access to her Enhanced Basic. After the designated Shifu uses an attack or an Ultimate, March 8th gets 1 point of Charge. When she gets at least 7 points of Charge, March will immediately be Action Advanced by 100% and will gain up to an 80% DMG boost for this turn. Her Basic ATK gets Enhanced and she cannot use her Skill. After using her Enhanced Basic ATK, she consumes 7 points of Charge, and can hold up to 10 points at once. March's regular Basic ATK will also generate 1 point of Charge, though her Enhanced Basic will not generate any.

This Talent is nuts; a free way to gain massive amounts of free DMG% as well as getting a full Action Advance for doing nothing more than you were already doing is ludicrous, and depending how you sort her teams, March is getting this quite a bit. You may have noticed that because her primary source of damage is from an Enhanced Basic, and she has no need to use more than a single Skill Point at the start of the fight, March is dealing all this crazy damage and breaking while being COMPLETELY SP POSITIVE. This is absolutely unheard of, and we're not even at the end yet.

See, this is already criminally strong for a free 4-star unit, but we've got her Bonus Ability Traces and Eidolons left. Her A2 will Action Advance March 8th by 25% at the start of combat. Like similar Bonus Abilities from other characters like Robin or Guinaifen, this allows March to be among the first characters to act in a fight, making it easier to designate an ally as Shifu before any actual fighting has started. March's A6 will provide the Shifu with 60% CRIT DMG and 36% Break Effect for 2 turns after March uses her Enhanced Basic ATK, which is a remarkably powerful boost with very high uptime that, once again, is attained by doing what you were already doing.

I had to separate out her A4 because it's quite possibly the dumbest thing I've ever read in my life. March 8th can reduce the Toughness of enemies whose Weakness Type is the same as the Shifu's Combat Type. Yes, that does mean what you think it means. Whoever March makes the Shifu, that character's Element can now also be damaged by March; if you designate a Fire character the Shifu, March will now also deal Toughness damage to enemies with a Fire Weakness, even if they are not also weak to Imaginary, and she does that at 100% efficiency. For free. If she Breaks the enemy, she triggers Imaginary Break.

We've got a space cowboy who can implant his Weakness Type onto enemies and stops caring about Weaknesses once an enemy is Broken, and we've had an orbital frame who freely implants her Weakness onto enemies. March says 'Don't care. Perish.' Simply deal the Toughness damage, it's just that easy. Now you can carefully pair March with a character who has a good Elemental matchup and laugh maniacally as the enemies get shredded. 'But I don't even have an Imaginary Weakness!', say your enemies. 'Don't care. Perish', says March.

As I said before, we will eventually gain access to all of March's Hunt Eidolons, and they're just as crazy as the rest of her kit. E1 will increase March's SPD by 10% when the Shifu is on the field, essentially granting herself the same SPD bonus as she can grant another character. E2 is the final piece of the puzzle for March's game plan. After the Shifu uses a Basic ATK or Skill to attack an enemy, March 7th will immediately do a follow-up attack equal to 60% ATK to the attacked enemy. This follow-up will also grant 1 point of Charge to March. If there is no primary target, this follow-up will hit a random enemy instead. This can only happen once per turn.

This one Eidolon fully solidifies March 8th's position as a near-universally applicable character. Being able to be paired with damn near anyone and see strong benefits for herself is invaluable on its own, but also being able to play into specific team settings and action verbs pushes her over the edge. Super Break, CRIT, follow-up — whatever you want, you can do it. She's just that good.

E4 will grant March 5 Energy at the start of each turn, further expediting the acquisition of her already cheap and fast regenerating Ultimate, potentially letting March get more Enhanced Basics buffed by her Ultimate. Lastly, E6 will allow her Ultimate to additionally increase the CRIT DMG of her next Enhanced Basic ATK by 50%.

This character is silly. It's silly and I love it. The poster woman of the game is now no longer limited to being a niche Freeze support and decided 'Fine, I'll do it myself.™' As mentioned, she has many great options for teammates and can be played pretty much anywhere so long as you're not sacrificing some other pivotal piece of your team's puzzle. The biggest downside is that you can't have a one-size-fits-all build; if you want to do a dedicated Super Break setup after building for CRIT, you'll need to make some slight adjustments before you can pop off again, but as far as downsides go, it's really not a big deal at all. Please note that I say Super Break here; March doesn’t really work as a Breaker without the Harmony Trailblazer.

Even better is that because she's so SP-positive, you can freely make use of really SP-negative supports like Bronya and take full advantage of both kits. You can pair March with Gallagher and this lets March gain lots of points of Charge very quickly thanks to the frequent actions of Gallagher and lets both of them quickly and easily Break enemies to deal even more damage, and this works in both CRIT and Super Break, and with Bronya’s Action Advance on top of that, you can give Gallagher a crazy amount of actions, thus granting March even more points of Charge. Robin also fits into this category and her kit is similarly synergistic, providing plenty of damage buffs, bonus damage, and of course her signature party-wide Action Advance.

Making a follow-up user your Shifu, such as Topaz, Ratio, Yunli, or Clara, will construct an incredibly strong and accessible follow-up team that can easily destroy enemies; the large amount of follow-up actions will give March many points of Charge quite quickly, and the associated Paths of the aforementioned characters means March gets the additional damage instances on her Enhanced Basic.

Or maybe you want to make your 4-star Wind Dan Heng the Shifu, or some other DPS character like Herta or Himeko, and you just want to see enemies disappear for no extra SP cost. You can do that, too.

Your Imagination really is the limit.