[ Guide ] Honkai Star Rail – Should You Pull for Argenti (Ability Breakdown, Best Build, and Team Synergies)

Time to welcome the Knight of Beauty Argenti into Honkai Star Rail with your bouquet of roses and here we have a guide that goes through everything about him.

Regarded himself as the paragon knight of the Knights of Beauty, the forthright and noble Argenti wanders the cosmos espousing the virtues of the Aeon of Beauty, Idrila’s good name. Upholding the good name of Beauty is Argenti’s duty and to fulfill this responsibility, one must be pious when one initiates battles, and one must make their opponent yield willingly when one strikes with one’s spear.

In this Honkai Star Rail guide for Argenti, we will go through his abilities in detail, recommending the best Relic or Light Cone for him, and his potential teams.

Argenti is a 5✦ Physical character who follows the Path of Erudition and has a unique trait that allows him to use a more potent and destructive Ultimate by consuming more Energy. Argenti also gains more CRIT Rate and regenerates more Energy, the more enemies he hits.

Basic ATK – Fleeting Fragrance

Argenti lunges toward his target and swings his spear, dealing Physical DMG to a single enemy equal to a portion of Argenti’s ATK.

Talent – Sublime Object

For every enemy hit when Argenti uses his Basic ATK, Skill, or Ultimate, regenerates Argenti’s Energy by 3 and grants him a set number of Apotheosis stacks, increasing his CRIT Rate. This effect is stackable up to 10 times.

Skill – Justice, Hereby Blooms

Leaps into the air, Argenti brandishes his spear and slams down, dealing Physical DMG to all enemies equal to a percentage of Argenti’s ATK.

Ultimate

Unlike other characters in Honkai Star Rail, Argenti has two different Ultimate attacks and he would cast them depending on the amount of Energy spent.

For In This Garden, Supreme Beauty Bestows

Consumes 90 Energy to deal Physical DMG to all enemies equal to a percentage of Argenti’s ATK.

Merit Bestowed in “My” Garden

Consumes 180 Energy to deal Physical DMG to all enemies equal to a percentage of Argenti’s ATK. Furthermore, deals Physical DMG for 6 additional times, each time to a random enemy.

Technique – Manifesto of Purest Virtue

After using Argenti’s Technique, enemies at a set distance are inflicted with Daze, causing them to not actively seek and attack the player.

When initiating combat against a Dazed enemy, Argenti will deal Physical DMG to all enemies equal to 80% of Argenti’s ATK and regenerate 15 Energy upon entering battle.

Ascension Traces

Piety (Ascension 2) 

At the start of a turn, immediately gains 1 stack of Apotheosis from his Talent.

Generosity (Ascension 4) 

When enemy targets enter battle, Argenti immediately regenerates 2 Energy for himself.

Courage (Ascension 6) 

Deals 15% more DMG to enemies whose HP percentage is 50% or less.

Ability Breakdown

Be blinded by Argenti’s dazzling beauty because this ardent follower of Idrila is here to unleash flowery flourishes to take down those who stand in his way. Aside from his Ultimate, Argenti is a rather straightforward character who excels at demolishing waves of lowly goons as an Erudition follower.

His Skill is as straightforward as it gets, hitting all enemies at once and dealing Physical DMG. That said, Argenti does have a special trait that sets him apart from other Erudition characters and that is his unique ability to cast his Ultimate depending on the amount of Energy spent. Essentially, you can adapt to situations and control the strength of Argenti’s Ultimate. Perhaps using the weaker variant to chain up multiple casts for enemy wave after wave, or unleashing the more potent Ultimate to immediately drop an Elite’s health down.

Given his unique Ultimate and his reliance on utilizing them as frequently as possible, Argenti would need plenty of Energy. This is where his Talent comes into play, regenerating Energy as well as bolstering his CRIT Rate to a whopping 28% increase once gathered up the maximum Apotheosis stacks. Stacking up to 10 stacks, every enemy hit by Argenti’s attack grants one stack, thus hitting multiple at once would allow this gallant red-haired knight to reach the maximum stacks quicker.

In most cases, it is more advisable to use Argenti’s Skill or Ultimate to upkeep the Apotheosis stacks, and because of it, this knightly champion is quite a Skill Point negative character.

Eidolons

Sir Knight in shining armor is quite a viable warrior on the battlefield at E0. Like always, you can still consider Argenti’s Eidolons if you have sufficient Stellar Jades to spend as each further strengthens him.

Relics and Planar Ornaments Build

When considering Relics and Planar Ornament build, know that Argenti relies on offensive stats to go nuts with his damage output. In other words, focus on maximizing his damage output with the stats he scaled with, which is ATK, as well as hitting the 1:2 CRIT Rate CRIT DMG ratio.

Since his Talent should provide a sufficient Energy Regeneration Rate, he need not have said stat on a Link Rope.

Light Cones Build

As always, the 5★ limited characters’ Light Cone is generally the respective characters’ best-in-slot and Argenti is no exception.

His signature Light Cone is An Instant Before A Gaze and its effect is straight-up tailor-made for Argenti. Its effect is called “A Knight’s Pilgrimage” and what it does is as follows:

• Increases the wearer’s CRIT DMG by 36%. When the wearer uses their Ultimate, the wearer’s Ultimate DMG increases based on their Max Energy: Ultimate DMG increases by 0.36% per point of Energy, up to 180 Energy.

Of course, if you are not planning to pull for Argenti’s Light Cone, you can still go with many other alternatives such as the following:

Teams and Synergies

Since Argenti is rather straightforward as a character, he can be slotted into many different team compositions as a Main DPS with support by his side further enhancing his damage output.

While he does have a strong Energy Regeneration Rate built into his kit, it can still benefit him a lot by having support that grants Energy as well, enabling an Ultimate spamming playstyle.

Due to Argenti’s flexibility, other alternative Harmony supports to consider are Yukong and Hanya, or Nihility debuffer such as Pela is also a great ally.

Should You Pull?

From the looks of his kit, Argenti’s theatrics equate to his combat prowess, balancing his performances for beauty with destructive strength. The answer to whether should you pull for him depends on what you are looking for as his role is purely on damage output.

If you lack good Physical DPS, then Argenti is a great character to pull for especially considering how flexible he is and how easy it is to manage his Energy. Who does not like seeing rose petals raining down on the screen?

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