Honkai Star Rail 2.5 livestream date and time, 2.5 banner leaks

The Honkai: Star Rail 2.5 live stream date and time has been officially announced and will provide information about the upcoming banner schedule and events included in the free update.

The 2.5 Special Program is expected to reveal two new 5-star characters for the next banners and one new 4-star character, as well as provide the usual details on story updates and new limited-time events.

We will provide the exact 2.5 Date and time of the live stream in Honkai: Star Rail below, and also provide all the information we have about the Version 2.5 Banner Leaks.

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Honkai Star Rail 2.5 live stream date and time in UK, BST, CT, ET and PT

The Honkai Star Rail 2.5 livestream is online Friday, August 30, 12.30pm (BST) / 7.30am (ET) simultaneously on the official Honkai Star Rail Youtube channel and the Honkai Star Rail Twitch channel.

In other time zones Honkai: Star Rail 2.5 live stream date and time Is:

• West Coast USA: Friday, August 30, 4:30 a.m. (PT)
• Central USA: Friday, August 30, 6:30 a.m. (CT)
• East Coast USA: Friday, August 30, 7:30 a.m. (ET)
• Japan: Friday, August 30, 20:30 (JST)
• Australia: Friday, August 30, 9:30pm (AET)
• United Kingdom: Friday 30 August, 12.30pm (BST)
• Europe:Friday, August 30, 1:30 p.m. (CEST)

Once it's live, you can also watch the 2.5 livestream by clicking on the video below:

Be sure to check out our Honkai: Star Rail codes page to stay up to date with the latest codes released during the stream, as they will expire less than 24 hours after the announcement and redemptions will be limited.

Honkai Star Rail 2.5 Banner Leaks

There is no official confirmation yet on the schedule of the version 2.5 banners, but to help you decide who to save your precious Stellar Jade for, we have compiled information below on the likely version 2.5 banners, based on reliable leaks and official marketing that always gives clues as to who is coming next.

With that in mind, since they were mentioned in the 2.5 livestream announcement on X and their drip marketing has started on social media, it is all but confirmed that Feixiao And Lingsha are the next banners in Honkai: Star Rail during Version 2.5, with Feixiao, a 5-star Wind attacker from the Hunting Path who should run during Phase 1, and Lingsha, a 5-star Fire attacker from the Abundance Path who should run in Phase 2.

We also have drip marketing for MozeMoze is a 4-star Lightning Attacker from the Hunting Path who will most likely debut on either Feixiao or Lingsha's banner.

We're less confident about character respawn banners in 2.5, as according to leakers Ubatcha (shared on the HonkaiStarRail_leaks subreddit) and Stepleaks (also on the HonkaiStarRail_leaks subreddit), it looks like we'll be getting a new type of 5-star character select banner.

Who exactly will be included in this new banner iteration changes from leaker to leaker, but with information from StepLeaker, Uncle G7DD8tV, and HSRTeamMew, here is the likely banner schedule for Honkai: Star Rail in version 2.5:

This is a lot of speculation based on all the leaks so far, and it's possible that Dr. Ratio could instead be the returning character in Phase 2 of Version 2.5, or that the two could appear together in the new banner type, like Kafka and Black Swan did in Phase 1.

It's also possible that Robin could be included in the 2.5×1 repetition of Banner with Kafka and Black Swan.

It's safe to say that we've never been more sure about who the replay characters will be, so we strongly recommend that you wait to pre-farm any materials or relics until the version 2.5 livestream confirms who we're getting.