Current and next Honkai Star Rail banner August 2023

Wondering which characters and light cones are featured on the current and next Honkai Star Rail banner? Well, you’re in the right place. With a consistent rotation of featured five- and four-star characters and equipment, it can be hard to wrap your head around when to spend your valuable in-game currency and when to save it. But, with our help, you always know who’s available now and who’s on the horizon so you can plan your pulls accordingly.

We update our Honkai Star Rail next banner guide regularly with all the latest details, so be sure to bookmark this page and check back regularly. You can also take a look at our Honkai Star Rail tier list to see which characters are worth pulling, and grab some freebies from our Honkai Star Rail codes guide so you can start saving right away.

What’s the current Honkai Star Rail banner?

The current Honkai Star Rail banner features five-star wind character, Blade. The current banner runs from July 19 to August 9.

Here are all of the characters featured on the current banner.

A Lost Soul – phase one

Alongside the limited character banner, there’s also the Brilliant Fixation Light Cone Event Warp. Here are all of the light cones featured on the current Honkai Star Rail light cone banner.

Brilliant Fixation – Light Cone Event Warp

The Unreachable Side (Destruction)
Shared Feeling (Abundance)
Swordplay (The Hunt)
A Secret Vow (Destruction)

What’s Honkai Star Rail’s next banner?

Hoyoverse revealed during the 1.2 livestream that you can expect Kafka to feature as the five-star character on the next banner.

Nessun Dorma

Alongside the above character banners, we also get a Brilliant Fixation banner which features a five-star signature light cone for the five-star character it runs alongside.

Here are the five-star characters that we’ve met either in the beta or through the story so far that you may see in banners sooner rather than later:

Of course, we’ll be sure to update this guide as soon as we know for sure!

What’s the Honkai Star Rail Beginner Warp banner?

The Beginner Warp banner, also known as the Departure Warp, is a banner that’s, unsurprisingly, aimed at giving beginners a running start. It offers a 20% discount off a set of ten warps, meaning you only need to spend eight warp tickets to get ten pulls. You can pull a total of 50 times on this banner.

When pulling, you’re guaranteed to get at least one four-star or higher every ten warps, and one five-star before you complete all 50 warps. Here are the five-star characters featuring on the Beginner Warp.

Here are the four-star characters featured on the beginner’s banner during the final beta.

Aside from the characters above, you can also pull these four-star light cones on the beginner’s banner.

Post-Op Conversation
Good Night and Sleep Well
Day One of My New Life
Only Silence Remains
Memories of the Past
The Moles Welcome You
The Birth of the Self
Shared Feeling
Eyes of the Pray
Landau’s Choice

What’s the Honkai Star Rail Standard Warp banner?

Honkai Star Rail’s Standard Warp is a permanent banner, much like the standard Genshin Impact banner. There’s a standard pool of three- to five-star characters, light cones, and items for you to pull. You’re guaranteed at least one four-star or higher object or character every ten warps, and at least one five-star or higher object or character every 90 warps.

As of the final closed beta, the pool of three- to five-star characters and items is the same as those on the beginner’s banner, so check the list above to see what you can pull.

That’s all we’ve got on the standard, current, and next Honkai Star Rail banners for now. If you want to brush up on your knowledge in the run-up to the Honkai Star Rail release date, head over to our Honkai Star Rail characters guide and get familiar with the other passengers aboard the Astral Express.