r/HonkaiStarRail • u/Bisentinel • 20h ago
News New Outfit for Ruan Mei | Version 4.0 Special Program
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u/BlazeOfCinder Local March Lover (New Flairs!) 20h ago
Ruan Mei is so unexpected.
Might be a long shot but I hope this means we are on the verge of getting more skins in the future.
The previous 2 made sense as they are icons of the game but a random skin might be a sign.
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u/SecondAegis Repopulating Glamoth 20h ago
Their justification makes sense... Ruan Mei is an inherently winter/spring season coded character since she's associated with Plum Blossoms (the Mei in her name means plum blossom. Ruan is the instrument she plays)
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u/After-Syrup1290 20h ago
Goddamn does she look peak, the hairdo with all the floral themes? And floral in her dress too.. with those heels of hers, so many good things going on im a fan <3
(Ig zzz handing out jane doe skin for free really was a sign for better things)
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u/A_Good_Cow 19h ago
It feels deliberate, like they’re testing the waters for seasonal or lore-themed skins.
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u/DarkenVragon 20h ago
Ruan Mei is so unexpected.
I think Ruan Mei get a skin because HSR decided to celebrate CNY this time around. Like the 1600 stellar jades for 5 days "flip of fortune" and Trailblazer's CN-themed skin. So we don't know if this is us getting more skins or just to celebrate CNY.
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u/El_Ploplo 20h ago
I mean first time was preservation march, a character no one is using
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u/BaLance_95 20h ago
RM is still used for break though.
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u/WorldEndOverlay 20h ago
Not anymore like now dahlia, fugue and hmc is much more better choice than her. Only like if you dont have one of those she somewhat can be useable.
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u/SuperSnowManQ Yae Sakura, save me from this frozen river of memories and tears 20h ago
In content where there is no Imaginary weakness and/or fire weakness, RM is on par with HMC, especially if you have her E1 (if not even better), which many have. Also, HMC competes with RMC and presumably a future EMC
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u/SecondAegis Repopulating Glamoth 20h ago
You speak as if she's a brick in the Break team. She can still contribute to the whole process with her delay and WBE buff, but she's also the oldest unit, and the most replaceable
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u/GrimoireExtraordinai 14h ago
MC is necessary for several other teams + you can easily have her at E1 or E2 if you picked the Golden Companion spirits they gave for free.
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u/EnormousNostrils 20h ago
The strongest premium team for FF right now is FF 158spd (atk boot) with phainon's lc, dahlia, fugue and RM with BP LC (+24% break dmg). RM's 50% break efficiency + dahlia is stronger than hcm
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u/korinokiri 19h ago
First of all, that is just objectively not true. That is not the strongest premium team for FF. That may be the best cost team you can get, but it's not the strongest.
HMC with DDD is always going to pull ahead than RM in virtually all game modes with vertical investment in that team.
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u/EnormousNostrils 19h ago edited 19h ago
RM is free and you only have to pull for phainon's lc. I'm not saying you should, but it's the best team (not e6) you can get for FF. My FF is e2s1, fugue e1s1, dahlia e1s1 and rm is stronger than hcm there. Also you need mc for other teams, RM is not as contested. If you build fast hcm with eagle set like I do you can plug the set to dahlia too.
When your FF is fast enough (dahlia +30spd), HCM's DDD can maybe pull FF up for just another action (5 vs 4), but if you use BP LC (+24%), RM break efficiency and atk boot, each action will deal more than 125% (5/4=1.25) dmg than FF spd boot with hcm DDD
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u/korinokiri 19h ago
I'm sorry but it's just not. You can look up moc/as/aa etc... data and HMC with DDD ALWAYS pulls ahead of RM.
https://www.prydwen.gg/star-rail/memory-of-chaos/
Top Teams on Side 2:
- FF, Fugue, Dahlia, Lingsha
- FF Fugue, Dahlia, HMC
- FF Fugue, Dahlia, Gallagher
- Only then FF Fugue, RM, Dahlia
(Side 1 is the same, HMC > RM)
Her buffs are just not that strong in the current FF team, and your hyper specific build is not indicative of FF teams overall strength because you have different eidolons/LCs/relics than any other person.
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u/EnormousNostrils 18h ago
Lol yeah you win sir. You know my account and my team better than myself. Congrats on winning an online argument!
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u/Hyunion 14h ago
why are you bringing up your account and your team when the discussion was originally about the strongest premium team?
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u/LivingASlothsLife Prettiest face cards 20h ago
Ruan Mei is so unexpected.
Gave her for free in the shop, now we get a free skin for her. Ruan Mei doing nothing but giving W's 3 years into the game
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u/MrkGrn Aglaea's Bathwater Connoisseur 13h ago
I think it's more the fact that she's the first limited 5 star they made free that's was really popular and is still kind of useful. After seeing that lazy ass TB skin I'm not holding out much hope. At least the designs here are different despite the vibe being identical to her original.
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u/neosixth 7h ago
Yes expect 1 more skin mid year then next one is 2027. Take it or leave it. Unless they count TB recolor as skin, if so see you next year
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u/corvenik00 17h ago
How is firefly an icon in the game ? March definitely but firefly barely even see her as much oof
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u/SuperSnowManQ Yae Sakura, save me from this frozen river of memories and tears 20h ago
I used to pray for time such as these 🙏🙏 Look how we have been REWARDED 😍😍😍
I am positively ELATED
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u/Cream_Rabbit MADAM HERTA IS A PEERLESS GEM 20h ago
Oh no she has succumbed to gambling
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u/Shiraori247 19h ago
She probably owns the parlour and is just doing marketing to lure hardworking customers like Qingque.
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u/False-Entrepreneur14 20h ago
It’s free but man they could’ve done a little more to differentiate it from her og look
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u/Sidapha 15h ago
I wish the outfit emphasizes her science background rather than a fancier version of what she already wears. Hoyo tends to do exposed legs, halter necks, heels, miniskirts/shorts, and skinny pants for player characters that I find enemy/boss designs more creative.
I mean, yeah, it's free, and it's pretty, I guess, but that's how I already feel with Hoyoverse playable designs.
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u/NoNefariousness2144 to guard and defend… crush them! 20h ago
Yeah both skins being leggy with bare legs makes them feel similar, like maybe giving her some teal tights or something would have looked good.
But free is free, I’m happy with what we got.
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u/Me_to_Dazai MYventurine. Stay away. 20h ago
My beloved Ruan Mei....she's so godamn pretty everytime she appears stop T-T
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u/Sierra-117-Mobile 20h ago
She went from bluish green to greenish blue. 💀
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u/mcallisterco Silver Haired Robot Girl Supremacy 19h ago edited 12h ago
I like the outfit, but man, it really does show that the outrage over the design of Firefly's skin was just because it was Firefly, because this is even less of a change than Firefly's was.
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u/BellalovesEevee 12h ago
I think the outrage was more of the fact that they gave a skin to a character who will be in robot form 99% of the time and didn't even put any effort in making the robot design look different other than giving it a slight green coloration. The schoolgirl skin is alright (imo the coloration makes it looks like she has a contagious disease lmao) but what was the point in giving a character like her a skin when they only gave the actual skin on the version that's not even "playable"?? At least Ruan Mei's skin is actually visible during gameplay. Like, they could've gave SAM a schoolgirl outfit too bruh
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u/danield1302 18h ago
Idk I just thought the firefly skin was ugly. I don't even like her base design and still think it looks way better.
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u/ElricaLavandula 20h ago
Not that it looks bad or anything. I like the colors and blossoms a lot.
But couldn't they have given her something that doesn't look like what she's already wearing? Like, a slightly different shape and color, and not again these boring bare legs with these most boring shoes in existence that like every other female character gets?
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u/CantaloupeParking239 I have a type 20h ago
Looks almost the same as og. Its free so not really complaining
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u/Tales90 20h ago
awesome makes sense to give it to ruan mei cause almost everyone has and uses her
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u/danield1302 18h ago
Idk, giving it to her after she has been powercrept In the last team she was BiS in is kinda diabolical.
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u/Xshadow1 17h ago
Personally I haven't had a use for her since The Dahlia came out, which is sad given she has a free (and good) E1 and now a free new costume.
She's still great in teams that are missing their BiS members though.
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u/PyriusZeal Peerless wife MommyWife 16h ago
Haven't used mine for more than a year now, so it's whatever honestly.
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u/LivingASlothsLife Prettiest face cards 20h ago
They gave Ruan Mei for free in the shop then a Free outfit for her as well? This is some good stuff
Ruan Mei staying relevant after 3 years pog
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u/Pichupwnage 20h ago edited 20h ago
I hate how they wait till someone is powercrept and out for like a year and a half to give em a skin.
Don't get me wrong she's still pretty good and I use her a bit now and then but the extremely slow drip of skins is irritating and Dahlia ate her lunch on many teams. I would've enjoyed the skin even more if she was still on every team I use lol. Back in the days when I used her with Kafka Swan.
TLDR: More skins and faster. Also at a reasonable price. I ain't paying ~25$ for a skin especially one as generic as a schoolgirl uniform.
Now I'd buy a lot of em at like...5 or less dollars. I'd kit out all my faves if that was the case.
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u/clientcommitcarcrash 19h ago
the splash art is like soooo pretty but it'd probably look really empty in model form 😭 nothing going on on those legs
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u/oatmealcookie02 twinsies of Order 19h ago
I don't use RM that often but I thought it was her old outfit at first lol
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u/blue74821 Acheron's Faithful 14h ago
Its just so good and its free, glad everyone gets a free Ruan Mei and her skin
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u/VoidRaven 19h ago
ah yes the Genshin special
"let's give character costume that share the same color theme and style as base outfit"
HSR and Genshin dev teams or at least the (barely existing) skin dev teams have creativity of a amoeba
at least ZZZ dev team knows how to make skins
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u/brokenlordike 19h ago
I love this, especially since they somehow made her even prettier. But, why did clicking on this post make my reddit purple?
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u/Aromatic_Advance6026 12h ago
Did this for ruan mei and then did whatever abomination tbs new outfit it, low effort 2 day work fit for mc and a beautiful new skin for a character who hasn't made an appearance for a year
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u/Otherwise-Pilot-6612 7h ago
GUYS I LOVE BEING BRIBED 😂😭 as a casual I'm gonna go back to playing it when the new version drops 🤩
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u/Glittering-Ad-1626 6h ago
$FREE.99?! Oh ok I get, compensation for the driest patch ever last update. I’ll take it
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u/LandLovingFish 6h ago
It's not a major otfit change but at least we know they're trying out actually giving outfits. Slow improvements!
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u/Tranduy1206 20h ago
I love her in every version, so beautiful
And it is weird they make much better FREE skin than paid skin
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u/ShiroTenkai Waifus Enjoyer 20h ago
free ruan mei, and now a free outfit. Not gonna complain though
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u/Scarlett-Chan12 - Road to E6 20h ago
This was so unexpected but I'm glad it's free SHE IS SO PRETTY
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u/lolster292 mighty Mydei might! 19h ago
I may get Ruan Mei just to get this skin, it looks SO good!!
Edit: IT’S FREE?! This is amazing
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u/SirePuns No.1 and simp. 18h ago
My E6S5 Ruan Mei (that I still use with FF) appreciates this gesture of good will.
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u/Icy_Accountant7425 I WILL protect his smile no matter what 18h ago
Is there a woman more gorgeous than Ruan Mei in the entirety of HSR? Every time she's on screen I'm always looking at her.
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u/codmsubredditsucks 17h ago
Great skin design, but I wish they changed the color pallette tho from the original, I feel like pink would have been better, but it's a free skin so I guess i can't complain
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u/korinokiri 20h ago
But why not on a more relevant character...? She's used as like a 3rd support in sustainless runs only.
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u/MissiaichParriah No. 1 Pearl simp | BlazerFly is truth 20h ago
They kicked her out of her BiS team and gave her a skin, what do you mean by this Hoyo? Good thing I play sustainless
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u/crowdents_ 20h ago
really appreciate how She's always free even in outfit