Continuing their wave of drip marketing, Honkai: Star Rail announced yet another 5-star character today. This new character is known as Jiaoqiu and is set to be a 5-star Pyro Nihility unit.
Jiaoqiu is speculated to be released in the second phase of Honkai: Star Rail 2.4 on August 21st.
Today we’ll go over everything we know about Jiaoqiu to help you decide if you want to save for this character.
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Jiaoqiu Introduction
A foxian healer from the Xianzhou Yaoqing and a counselor. Often greets people with a smile, but is rather cunning.
Born into a prestigious Alchemy Commission family, he once withdrew from practicing medicine due to a broken heart. However, he returned to the field to treat "the Merlin's Claw," General Feixiao.
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Jiaoqiu is the second Pyro Nihility character in the game and the only 5-star Pyro Nihility unit. Although Nihility units were scarce at the start of the game, as time went on, the Nihility roster has only been growing, and right now some of the most useful characters in Star Rail can be found there.
A new Nihility user also means a new possible teammate for Acheron, and we know just how overpowered Acheron is, so any new characters that can boost her damage are certainly a good addition to the game.
What we know of Jiaoqiu right now is that he is a unit that will focus on applying Decrease DEF debuffs and other types of debuffs while also having some self-sustain in the form of a heal, thanks to his skill.
If he truly does end up being a fire-based nihility debuffer, then he will without a doubt prove to be an excellent teammate for Acheron, who’s in desperate need of more Nihility debuffers to proc her traces and help get her ultimate faster.
As of right now, Jiaoqiu looks like he will be a great addition to Acheron teams, but it's uncertain how he’ll perform on other teams. This will naturally be revealed with time, and we’ll keep you updated with more information about him.
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Jiaoqiu Release Date
Following the trend of HoYoverse’s drip marketing, we can safely assume that Jiaoqiu will appear in the second phase of version 2.4, which is speculated to start on August 21.
This gives us almost 3 months to begin saving for this new potential Acheron teammate. If you only log in to do dailies this will equal almost 30 pulls. Combined with events, codes, and all other means to get Stellar Jade, you should have more than enough pulls to get Jiaoqiu when he releases.
Unfortunately, there is still no information about his banner or which 4-star will be on it, and it will still be a long time before that is revealed, but we will be keeping you up to date with any new information about this and other future characters, so make sure to check back regularly.
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