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Is there any difference between 4-star and 5-star characters?
I mean, the drop rate is different, sure and I see the difference in a quality of animations (or that's my imagination?), but is there a practical difference like damage and stuff like that?

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  • Stars = rarity. Think of weapon refining or constellatins, you need lots of $$ to do those often with 5-stars and most free-players won't have even one of some.
    – user135338
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 15:37

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5* characters have better base stats on average than 4* characters:

Rarity HP Avg ATK Avg DEF Avg
5* 10434.14 257.86 676.57
4* 8911.5 244 653.71

I've got base numbers from this spreadsheet with all characters stats on 80 lvl, then excluded Traveller (because we cannot get it from Wishes) and did simple average (sum / # of characters).

On average difference is not that big, but let's compare some specific characters - 2 best DPS from each rarity:

Character ATK
5* Diluc 295
5* Keqing 285
4* Fischl 216
4* Razor 207

Clearly 5* DPS beat their 4* counterparts by their most important stat.

In theory, constellations for 4* are more easily obtainable and should offset any initial stats difference, but in reality 4* character pool is bigger, meaning you will receive a lot of constellations for characters you don't play.

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  • I don't think it's fair to directly compare those characters unless they have the same substat. Its like how some 4* weapons have higher base damage values than others but it's solely dependent on their substats
    – childe
    Commented Nov 10, 2020 at 18:00
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    @sayu actually base stats is the only thing we could compare right now - everything else is different - used weapons, elements, secondary stats, cooldowns, energy costs, etc. The point of my answer was to show that at least in some aspect 5* are better
    – arghtype
    Commented Nov 10, 2020 at 19:02
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There is no difference between 4* and 5* characters, asides from their gacha pull rarity.

People may mistakenly assume that 5* are more powerful than 4*. "Powerful" is an extremely subjective term because of how many different aspects characters can be viewed from, whether it be their base stats, or their relevance in the Spiral Abyss, or for overworld exploration.

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    If "powerful" is indeed extremely subjective, are people still mistaken in the stated assumption?
    – Mast
    Commented Oct 19, 2020 at 14:16
  • To be specific here, a c0 5* will probably, in general, be stronger than a c0 4* (but not always). However, it's very common for c1, c2, and especially a c6 4* to be stronger than a c0 5*. Power is fairly relative and depends more on how the character is developed than their rarity.
    – Seiyria
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 14:29
  • > c0 5* will probably, in general, be stronger than a c0 4* Not true, as I mentioned previously in my answer, saying "stronger" means nothing when there are a wide variety of criteria to judge a character's power. Venti is strong due to his CC, whereas Sucrose offers a weaker version of CC in exchange for a boost to the team's elemental mastery. Each character has tradeoffs and no character is a direct upgrade over one another.
    – childe
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 22:34
  • It would be like saying "Diluc is stronger than Barbara". Well yes, combat-wise, but Barbara is stronger than Diluc at healing. Then Venti is stronger than Barbara at CC. But Fischl is a better bow user than Venti -- ad infinitum. Comparing 5* and 4* directly makes little sense unless they both have the same weapon slot and fill the same exact role...
    – childe
    Commented Oct 20, 2020 at 22:37
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    @klm123 In a sense yes, because you're more likely to pull 4* heroes more often than 5* heroes out of banners. I don't understand what you mean by "level them more"? Do you mean you can get upgraded constellations? 4* and 5* characters have the same max level cap of 90, there is no difference.
    – childe
    Commented Oct 23, 2020 at 11:58

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