Ahead of The Dahlia debut in Honkai: Star Rail on December 17, 2025, HoYoVerse shared a “Keeping Up with Star Rail” video highlighting her moveset. It also offered a little more insight into the dynamic between her and Black Swan, as the latter appeared in the video and discussed some animosity between them. Notably, Black Swan repeatedly brings up her tendency to betray people.
The Dahlia is a Nihility character who deals Fire damage, so she works best in Break teams and ones that make the most of damage over time (DOT) strategies. If you use her Technique before a fight, it will create a “dimension” that keeps on-field enemies from attacking and causes her zone to appear the second a fight with one of them starts. Her basic attack is Fiddle… Fissured Memory and hits one foe. Her Lick… Enkindled Betrayal Skill, she hits one enemy and the two surrounding it for an AOE attack. This Skill also sets up a temporary zone in the battlefield that makes it easier for characters to break enemy weaknesses and adds Super Break DMG conversion. Her Ultimate is Wallow… Entombed Ash that hits every enemy and puts them in the Wilt state temporarily. Wilt enemies will have her designated Dance Partners’ elements added as a weakness. The video also shows her working alongside Boothill and Firefly on teams quite often as a possible suggestion.
Here’s the full “Keeping Up with Star Rail — The Dahlia: I Used to Hold You When You Were Little” Honkai: Star Rail video. It also goes over some more detailed nuances of attacks and her Trace effects.
At the moment, a number of Chrysos Heirs characters are available on Honkai: Star Rail banners. There are reruns for the five-star units Cipher, Mydei, and Phainon, and Cyrene is still available.
Honkai: Star Rail is available on the PS5, PC, and mobile devices, and The Dahlia arrives when the 3.8 update arrives on December 17, 2025.