Honkai: Star rail | Black Swan's Hit Requirement Analysis for Effect | 2.0 New Monster Effects

How much is the hit rate of Black Swan's effect in Honkai Impact 3rd? In the game Honkai Impact 3rd, many players are unsure about the hit rate of Black Swan's effect. Today, we have prepared this guide to provide detailed information on the topic.

1. Distribution of Effect Resistance and Weaknesses of New Monsters

It is worth noting that there are two monsters with a 40% effect resistance, namely Memorial Inklings - Stygian Nemeses and Star Core Hunter - Sam. This level of effect resistance is the highest in the Chaos Memories/Fictional Narrative mode.

The second level of resistance is 30%, which includes most elite monsters and some bosses. Due to the large number, they are not listed here. There are also 20% and 10% resistance levels, which are usually assigned to low-health smaller monsters.

To make it easier to view, we have compiled these two monsters and other predecessors with a 40% resistance into a table. These two creatures may raise some questions: the Simulated Universe has three health bars, and the ones with Complete Swarm in their names have a 50% resistance, while the ones with two health bars inside the Abyss have a 40% resistance. The Quantum Insects are weekly bosses and have not entered the Abyss yet, and it seems that they won't enter in the near future, so we will leave them aside for now.

2. Base Probability and Damage Increase Conversion of Black Swan

There are various ways for Black Swan to apply the signature mark, but the base probability is always 65%. The damage increase conversion of the signature mark is 60% of the effect hit rate, with a maximum damage increase of 72%. This means that you would need 120% effect hit rate to reach the maximum damage increase.

Using 120% effect hit rate as the benchmark, we can calculate the actual effectiveness against most monsters with a 30% resistance and a small number of monsters with a 40% resistance. By simply substituting the values into the formula, we can determine that the actual effectiveness against monsters with a 30% resistance is 100%.

However, when facing monsters with a 40% resistance, the actual effectiveness drops to 85.8%. Although this may seem like a decent value, it significantly affects the stacking speed of Black Swan's signature mark. To achieve a 100% actual effectiveness against monsters with a 40% resistance, you would need 157% effect hit rate.

Does this mean that Black Swan needs to stack 157% effect hit rate? Based on the monster distribution in the current version of Chaos Memories and Fictional Narrative, it is not necessary. However, we cannot guarantee that these monsters with 40% resistance will not enter Chaos Memories or Fictional Narrative in future versions.

Let's also take a look at the distribution of weaknesses among these monsters with 40% resistance. Only Swallow and the newly added boss have the wind weakness, which means that Black Swan only needs a higher effect hit rate when facing these two monsters. Monsters without a corresponding weakness usually have a 20% resistance, and if the toughness is not broken, the monster will also have a 10% toughness reduction. Therefore, we believe that Black Swan is not suitable or necessary to deal with monsters without a wind weakness.

In conclusion, with 120% effect hit rate, you can reach the maximum damage increase and have a 100% actual effectiveness against most monsters. Only when facing the new boss or Swallow might you need to slightly increase the hit rate or adjust the relics.

Summary: 120% effect hit rate is sufficient to achieve maximum damage increase and have a 100% effectiveness against most monsters. Only when facing these two monsters would you need a higher effect hit rate, but this additional effect hit rate does not contribute to damage and is not beneficial. Therefore, we do not recommend aiming for 157% hit rate and consider 120% as the graduation goal.

Therefore, stacking 120% effect hit rate can be considered as sufficient.