Honkai: Star Rail Leak Teases Details for New Gacha Banner

Key Takeaways

• A new Honkai: Star Rail leak is teasing more details about the new “self select” banner coming with the Version 2.5 update.
• The banner will reportedly let characters choose between Kafka, Black Swan, and Robin, with players able to switch featured characters at any time and pity transferring between characters.
• Version 2.5’s release will also bring three new characters to Honkai: Star Rail with Feixiao, Lingsha, and Moze joining the game’s roster.

A new leak from Honkai: Star Rail is sharing the details for the new “self select” gacha banner expected to debut in Version 2.5, allowing players to choose their featured five-star. The sci-fi RPG from HoYoverse has introduced a wide variety of characters for players to choose from, with many quickly becoming fan-favorites among the game’s community. Characters like Kafka, Firefly, and Ruan Mei have all been regarded as some of Star Rail‘s most powerful and popular characters since their release. Now, a new gacha banner is giving fans the opportunity to select their featured unit.

Recent Honkai: Star Rail leaks have begun to tease the existence of a new type of gacha banner coming to the game in Version 2.5. The gacha banner would reportedly give fans the chance to pick between three of the RPG’s past characters and Light Cones to be their prioritized reward. Past information has also suggested which characters will be included in the special rerun, with Kafka, Robin, and Black Swan among the included five-star units. New information is now sharing more details about how the new gacha banner will function.

Honkai: Star Rail Leak Details New Gacha Banner

A new post shared to the Honkai: Star Rail leaks subreddit via prominent leaker StepLeaks is detailing Star Rail‘s newest gacha banner. According to the leak, the “self select” banner will run during one half of Version 2.5, with players able to switch between the three featured characters at any time during the banner’s run. The post confirms that pity will be transferred between the three characters, allowing players to pivot while not losing their progress towards a guaranteed five-star character. Honkai: Star Rail‘s Version 2.5 is expected to debut on September 10.

Star Rail‘s new “self select” banner will not be the first time HoYoverse has experimented with giving players a choice in its gacha banners. Genshin Impact debuted the “Chronicled Wish” banner during Version 4.5, allowing players to choose a Mondstadt character to be featured in the special gacha during the update. Honkai Impact 3rd also offers a similar system with its “EXPA” gacha banners, granting a similar option to hand-pick featured characters. HoYoverse has yet to officially announce Honkai: Star Rail‘s newest gacha banner.

With a special gacha banner on the way, Honkai: Star Rail has multiple new characters coming in Version 2.5 as well. Feixiao and Lingsha will debut during the update as Honkai: Star Rail‘s newest five-star characters, while Moze will join the game as a four-star unit. Leaks have also teased plenty of new features coming with Version 2.5, including the heavily rumored pet system and multiple new in-game bosses. Version 2.5’s launch looks to bring a wealth of content to Honkai: Star Rail, while also giving players the chance to pick up multiple fan-favorite characters.