Honkai Star Rail Cipher teams guide: Best F2P and premium team comps

Players need a fully functioning team in Honkai Star Rail to clear most activities. Since Cipher is new to the game, many Trailblazers may be unfamiliar with her synergy with other units. As a result, they might pair her with incompatible characters or place her in an ineffective team composition. When this happens, players may struggle to clear most end-game activities efficiently.

This article takes a look at the best Cipher teams you can build in Honkai Star Rail.

Note: Some aspects of this article are subjective and solely rely on the author’s opinion.

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Best Cipher teams players can build in Honkai Star Rail

Feixiao + Cipher + Robin + Aventurine

Aventurine (Image via HoYoverse)

If you are looking for the best Cipher team in Honkai Star Rail, this Feixiao composition is worth choosing. Featuring all 5-star characters, this squad can easily clear waves of enemies in an instant.

Feixiao can attack foes, dealing a significant amount of damage with her abilities. Meanwhile, Cipher can record a portion of that damage and release it at her convenience. The newly introduced Nihility unit can also weaken enemies with her abilities.

Robin can boost Feixiao and Cipher’s outgoing damage with her abilities, while Aventurine can provide shields for every ally and increase their CRIT DMG against a single enemy.

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Cipher + Anaxa + Hyacine + The Herta

Anaxa (Image via HoYoverse)

Due to Cipher’s versatility, she is very useful in this The Herta team composition. While Anaxa and The Herta can inflict damage on enemies, Cipher can apply her debuff on them. This allows her to record all damage dealt to the targeted foe. Additionally, this Nihility character can execute follow-up attacks using her abilities.

Here, Hyacine can deal a decent bit of damage and heal her allies with the help of her little memosprite, Ica.

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Acheron + Cipher + Jiaoqiu + Gallagher

Acheron (Image via Sportskeeda Gaming || HoYoverse)

While Cipher can be placed in various teams, this Acheron composition stands out as one of the most dominant in the current meta.

As usual, Cipher can apply her debuff to an enemy with a large HP pool and record the damage inflicted upon them. Meanwhile, Jiaoqiu can place various debuffs on adversaries to make sure Acheron gets to trigger her Ultimate often.

On the other hand, Gallagher deals a decent bit of Break damage while also healing his teammates, making sure they stay alive.

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Dr. Ratio + Cipher + Pela + Lynx

Cipher (Image via HoYoverse)

As a free-to-play player, you can easily build this Cipher team featuring Dr. Ratio in Honkai Star Rail.

Cipher synergizes well with this The Hunt unit, allowing her to execute follow-up attacks. While both units deal damage to enemies, Pela lowers their DEF, making them take more damage from her allies. Meanwhile, Lynx heals her teammates to make sure they stay in fighting condition.

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