In Honkai: Star Rail, the key to winning battles is putting together the right team. If you choose the right characters and make sure they work well together, you can handle any challenge in the game easily. Finding the best team combination can lead to huge damage and really powerful effects.

Building a team in Honkai: Star Rail relies a lot on luck, so not everyone will have access to the top characters. However, free-to-play (F2P) units can still handle almost any challenge. Here are the best F2P team setups in Honkai: Star Rail that anyone can use.

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1. Ol' Reliable Team

Hsr The Ol Reliable Team Setup

This is the basic F2P team setup in Honkai: Star Rail that all players should know about. It includes:

  • 1 Tank
  • 1 DPS
  • 1 Healer
  • 1 Flex pick

Players can use this team anywhere and still do well, as long as they play strategically. Since it's a classic RPG setup, it's also quite flexible with character choices. The starting trio of Dan Heng, March 7th, and Physical Trailblazer can easily handle the story content in Honkai: Star Rail, as well as most early levels of Forgotten Hall and Simulated Universe.

2. Double Tank Team

Hsr The Double Tank Setup

As the name implies, this team setup uses two tanks to share enemy attention and protect the rest of the team. It is composed of:

  • Fire Trailblazer
  • March 7th
  • 2 Flex picks

As of the launch version of Honkai: Star Rail, March, and Fire Trailblazer are the only free-to-play (F2P) tanks available. Fortunately, both of them are really effective at their roles.

This team setup offers a lot of flexibility for damage options. You can use any characters for the remaining two slots, and because the tanks provide ample protection, a healer is optional unless you’re in a long boss fight. Depending on the enemies you face, either March or Fire Trailblazer can also handle Weakness Breaking, while the other continues their tank role.

3. Hyper Carry Team

Hsr The Hyper Carry Crew

Using a hyper-carry team can be risky, but it can be very rewarding if players manage their units well. An example of this with F2P characters might look like:

  • Dan Heng/Any DPS carry
  • Tingyun
  • Asta
  • A Tank or Healer

In this F2P team setup, Asta and Tingyun will mainly focus on boosting the team's DPS to deal massive damage to enemies. Bronya is the perfect support for this team, replacing Asta's speed boosts with attack and crit damage buffs that work well with Tingyun's buffs.

The last slot can be filled by either a tank or a healer. Typically, March 7th or Fire Trailblazer with any 4-star Light Cone will do the job. They can break Toughness Bars, giving the rest of the team more room to execute their big moves.

4. Elation Meme Team

Hsr The Elation Meme Team

This team is tailored for the Simulated Universe and focuses on using ultimate abilities and follow-up attacks to achieve massive damage, thanks to Elation's many blessings. The team setup is as follows:

  • March 7th
  • Herta
  • Dr. Ratio
  • Pela

This team doesn’t worry much about elemental weaknesses. With Slaughterhouse No. 4 and either Auto-Harmonica or Champion's Dinner: Cat's Cradle, players can overpower almost any challenge with raw damage. Adding Freeze-related bonuses from Remembrance ensures enemies won’t get a chance to act before being wiped out by powerful ultimates and Herta spins. This best F2P team setup in Honkai: Star Rail works best with E6 March, as her shield can heal allies.

Dr. Ratio was added as a free 5-star character for players who played Honkai: Star Rail from January 16, 2024, until the end of the 2.1 patch. Players who missed out on him during that period might need to roll for him in a future banner.

5. Hyperbreak Team

Hsr Hyperbreak Team

With Imaginary Trailblazer now in HSR, players can create teams that leverage the Break system. Here’s a team setup that’s friendly for free-to-play players:

  • Imaginary Trailblazer
  • Sushang
  • Bronya
  • Any sustain unit (Tank or Healer)

Imaginary Trailblazer has an effect called Super Break, allowing allies to deal huge bonus damage to enemies whose Toughness Bars are already broken. This character works especially well with someone like Sushang, who becomes much more powerful against enemies that are broken.

Bronya is the ideal second Harmony unit for this setup because she can make other team members take extra turns, speeding up the depletion of Toughness Bars by letting key characters attack more often. Players can obtain her for free after completing 300 pulls on the standard banner.

Bronya is the perfect second Harmony unit for this setup because she can give extra turns to other team members, helping to reduce Toughness Bars faster by letting important characters attack more often. Players can get her for free after doing 300 pulls on the standard banner.

6. Pure Fiction Team

Hsr F2p Pure Fiction Team

The last F2P team setup in Honkai: Star Rail we would like to suggest is a pure fiction team. This team includes the top Pure Fiction characters in Honkai: Star Rail, but is especially geared towards free-to-play players.

  • Herta
  • Serval
  • Gallagher
  • Guinaifen

This team gets its damage from Serval and Herta. Both are very good at hitting all enemies at once. Serval can lower weaker enemies' health to 50%, so Herta can then hit them even harder.

Both Guinaifen and Gallagher are excellent at handling groups of enemies. Guinaifen can apply the Firekiss debuff to several enemies at once, which makes them take more damage from everything. Gallagher can boost the Break DMG enemies receive with his Besotted debuff. Plus, even though Gallagher is a healer, he can deal a lot of damage if built correctly.

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