“Honkai Impact 3rd: Star Railway” introduced two new characters with great strategic depth in version 3.2 – Xiadie and Nakxia. The former is a pioneer character of memory destiny, and builds a unique battle rhythm with summoning mechanism and life control; the latter has become the most explosive group damage main C in the current intellectual destiny with multiple weaknesses and bounce mechanism. Both have broken the inherent thinking of traditional destiny and output structure, bringing a new thinking path to team building and tactical formulation.
This article will deeply analyze the actual combat potential of Xiadie and Nakxia in the current version from four dimensions: character mechanism analysis, combat performance, light cone and relic recommendation, and actual team matching.
1. Xiadie mechanism analysis and actual combat value
Xiadie is the first character in “Star Railway” with the ability to “sacrifice teammates’ health in exchange for attack benefits”. Her positioning combines the functions of summoning support and auxiliary control, and is more inclined to “sub-C + debuff support” in the team.
Her key mechanisms are as follows:
Memory Summoning System: Xiadie can summon the “Memory Dead Dragon” through the ultimate skill. This summon exists independently for several rounds and imposes significant debuffs on the enemy (such as reducing all resistances and causing additional damage), continuously enhancing our output efficiency.
Health Control Mechanism: Xiadie consumes the health of all or individual teammates through skills and talent mechanisms to enhance her skill damage or expand her skill range. This mechanism requires the team to be equipped with characters with blood recovery capabilities to balance risks.
High Growth Coefficient and Resistance Reduction Attribute: Her skills have a high multiplier and can apply resistance reduction. She is a strong auxiliary character in the current version that provides a continuous output window for high-frequency output characters (such as Black Swan, Jingyuan, etc.).
Practical Application Suggestions:
Suitable for matching with blood recovery nurses (such as Luosha and Bailu) to maintain the health of the entire team to offset Xiadie’s “sacrifice cost”.
Suitable for matching with high-frequency output characters, such as Black Swan and Huangquan, to use Xiadie’s resistance reduction mechanism to amplify damage.
It is not suitable for independent use in the novice stage, because the operation threshold is high and there are certain requirements for team building.
2. Analysis of the mechanism of Naksha and practical advantages
Naksha is another five-star character in version 3.2, with the destiny of intelligence and the attribute of ice. He has a unique combat mechanism of “multiple weaknesses + bouncing AOE”, and is one of the main Cs with great explosive potential and wide applicability in the current version.
Its mechanism highlights include:
Ultimate multiple weaknesses: Naksha’s ultimate skill can impose seven attribute weaknesses on all enemies, ignoring the original enemy’s resistance, thereby opening up the strategic advantage of breaking weaknesses and controlling the enemy.
Attack with added weaknesses: When attacking, his general attack and combat skills will give priority to adding attribute weaknesses that the enemy does not have, and can impose up to 5 or more weaknesses at the same time, greatly improving the efficiency of breaking shields and triggering debuffs.
Exposed Essence state damage mechanism: When the enemy has more than 5 weaknesses, “Exposed Essence” is triggered. In this state, Na Ke Xia’s output is significantly improved, and additional combat skills are obtained, forming a high-frequency burst window.
Bounce mechanism and AOE ability: Combat skills have bounce damage, which can chain multiple enemies, which is extremely suitable for facing multiple waves of enemies or long-map high-density enemies in battle.
Practical application suggestions:
It works well with void characters such as Sambo, Black Swan, and Fu Xuan, because these characters can add more negative states, which forms a perfect match with Na Ke Xia’s debuff stacking strategy.
Suitable for matching with ice-attribute auxiliary (such as Pella) to further improve the output performance of the ice system.
It can be competent for the main C positioning, especially in multi-enemy scenes and calculation modes.
3. Recommended team combinations
The following is a recommended team construction method for the two new characters based on the current character pool and mechanism design:
Recommended team for Xiadie main control:
Main C: Huangquan / Black Swan
Sub C / Support: Xiadie
Healing: Luosha / Bailu
Function: Fu Xuan / Fu Hua (shield breaking / resistance supplement)
Analysis: Xiadie can provide resistance reduction and continuous damage enhancement for Huangquan or Black Swan, while maintaining a balance between field control and auxiliary output through the summoning mechanism. The nurse is responsible for maintaining life balance, and Fu Xuan provides shields and group survival support.
Recommended team for Naksha burst:
Main C: Naksha
Sub C / Field Control: Black Swan / Sambo
Auxiliary Defense Reduction: Pera / Xiluwa
Nurse: Luosha
Analysis: With Naksha as the core, cooperate with multiple characters that can apply debuffs, stack weaknesses, trigger the mechanism of exposing essence, and improve overall explosive power. Black Swan or Sambo can quickly stack negative effects and bounce with Naksha.
IV. Light cone and relic recommendation
Xiadie recommends light cone:
“She is gone”: a dedicated light cone for remembering destiny, improving life and group resistance reduction efficiency.
“This body is sacrificed”: improves the effect hit rate and survivability after releasing the finishing move.
Recommended relic: Pioneer’s Wandering + Forgotten Court’s Old Days, the main attributes are life%, effect hit and speed.
Nakexia recommends light cone:
“The Fall of Wisdom”: enhances multi-stage output and provides additional damage.
“Ask in a Dream”: increase the damage and effect hit of the finishing move.
Recommended relic: Star Arena + Thief’s Legacy, the main attributes are critical hit/critical damage, attack%, speed, etc.
V. Summary: The starting point of tactical depth and version change
The two new characters in version 3.2 not only bring innovation in mechanism, but also promote the diversification of team matching strategies. Xiadie has opened up a new auxiliary system with its “sacrifice support” feature, while Nakxia has created an output core with extremely strong tactical flexibility through “all attribute weaknesses”.
In this version that emphasizes mechanism linkage, team collaboration and rhythm control, rationally planning resources and forming a new team with Xiadie or Nakxia as the core will become an important key to the player’s victory. With the addition of more memory destiny and intellectual destiny characters in the future, we can foresee that the tactical dimension of “Honkai Impact 3rd: Star Railway” will continue to deepen and evolve.