Honkai: Star Rail – Huohuo build and ascension guide

Put to rest all evil spirits with the best Honkai: Star Rail Huohuo build, adding another powerful support character to your roster. This timid ghost hunter follows the Path of The Abundance, dealing Wind DMG with her attacks — but attacking is not her role.

Huohuo’s Skill, Talisman: Protection, dispels a debuff on the allied target, healing them based on Huohuo’s own Max HP. Allies adjacent to the target are healed at the same time, though by a lower amount. Using her Skill activates her Talent, Possession: Ethereal Metaflow, giving her the Sacrificed Life status for two turns. Whenever an ally starts their turn or uses their Ultimate when Huohuo has Sacrificed Life, that ally regenerates HP based on Huohuo’s Max HP. This effect additionally dispels a debuff on said ally and can be triggered up to six times. That trigger count is reset whenever Huohuo uses her Skill.

Her Ultimate, Tail: Spiritual Domination, regenerates the Energy of all party members excluding Huohuo as well as heavily buffing their ATK for two turns.

Obtaining additional copies of Huohuo upgrades her Eidolon Levels, further boosting her power. Eidolon 1 lets Sacrificed Life last one turn longer and adds a SPD boost effect for all allies to the Talent. Eidolon 2 enables Huohuo to revive an ally that was knocked out while Sacrificed Life is active, an effect that can occur two times per battle. Eidolon 4 increases the healing from the Skill and Talent the less HP the target has. Finally, Eidolon 6 adds a damage buff to her healing, boosting the offensive capabilities of the target for two turns.

Honkai: Star Rail – Huohuo: best Light Cones

Huohuo has a really strong signature Light Cone, Night of Fright, which increases her Energy Regeneration. In addition, it allows the wearer to immediately heal the ally with the lowest HP percentage when any ally uses their Ultimate. In addition, that ally’s ATK is boosted for two turns, which can stack up to five times. This Light Cone adds even more healing and support power to Huohuo.

Best Light Cones for Huohuo in HSR:

• Night of Fright (5-Star)
• Time Waits for No One (5-Star)
• Warmth Shortens Cold Nights (4-Star)
• Hey, Over Here (4-Star)
• Shared Feeling (4-Star)
• Cornucopia (3-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Huohuo: best Relics

HP and Outgoing Healing are the two critical stats for Huohuo you’ll want to boost through Relics, as they will maximize her healing abilities. SPD is always a great attribute to boost as well, as it allows for quicker actions and is a requirement for some Planar Ornaments to provide their full effects. Finally, Energy Regeneration will allow Huohuo to activate her Ultimate more often, leading to more Energy gain and ATK buffs for her allies. Fill the rest of the slots with stats like DEF and Effect RES to give Huohuo more survivability.

Best Relic Sets for Huohuo in HSR:

• Messenger Traversing Hackerspace (2) – +6% SPD, +12% SPD for all allies for one turn when the wearer activates their Ultimate.
• Passerby of Wandering Cloud (2) + Longevous Disciple (2) – +10% Outgoing Healing, +12% Max HP.

Best Planar Ornaments for Huohuo in HSR:

• Fleet of the Ageless (2) – +12% Max HP, +8% ATK for all allies when the wearer’s SPD is 120 or higher.
• Broken Keel (2) – +10% Effect RES, +10% CRIT DMG for all allies if the wearer’s Effect RES is 30% or higher.

Best stats for Huohuo in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), HP %, SPD, Effect RES, DEF %
• Hands – ATK (Primary), HP %, SPD, Effect RES, DEF %
• Body – HP % or Outgoing Healing % (Primary), SPD, Effect RES, DEF %, HP
• Feet – SPD (Primary), HP %, Effect RES, DEF %, HP
• Planar Sphere – HP % (Primary), SPD, Effect RES, DEF %, HP
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), HP %, SPD, Effect RES, DEF %

Honkai: Star Rail – Huohuo: best teams

Huohuo is the best healer released since Luocha. While she gives up some healing capabilities in comparison to some of her peers by having an Ultimate that revolves around buffing, the fact that she comes with amazing dispel capabilities more than makes up for it — Bailu, for example, may be a little better at straight-up HP recovery, but her lack of a dispel has become a major drawback. 

Basically, you can use Huohuo as any team’s main healer and secondary buffer. She is going to be Skill Point neutral, which means she’ll use as many SP as she generates due to how her kit is set up.

• Aglaea (Main DPS), Sunday (Support), Robin (Support), Huohuo (Support)

This Aglaea hyper carry team can make great use of Huohuo. Sunday is an obvious choice to fill one of the support slots, as his abilities increase the effectiveness of summoners through buffs and turn manipulation. Plus, he can replenish Aglaea’s Energy reserves, sharing this duty with Huohuo. Robin is a solid choice for similar reasons, providing a damage boost and turn manipulation in her team’s favor. All that will allow Aglaea and Garmentmaker to generate maximum buffs for themselves, dealing tons of damage in the meantime. Huohuo is an excellent pick as this squad’s healer, keeping the team in shape, providing ATK as well as SPD boosts, and refilling everyone’s Energy.

• Kafka (Main DPS), Black Swan (Sub DPS), Jiaoqiu (Support), Huohuo (Support)

When it comes to inflicting as many DoT effects as possible, a team with Kafka and Black Swan at its core is currently the best option. There are several 4-Star characters that can accompany this duo, such as Sampo, Luka, or Guinaifen, but Jiaoqiu eclipses them all — though he’s another 5-Star, so we’re getting into the realm of premium teams here. Huohuo is a particularly great option to round out the team, as she buffs vital stats and provides Energy.

Honkai: Star Rail – Huohuo: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Huohuo ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of her talents.

Huohuo requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x308,000
• Immortal Scionette x15
• Immortal Aeroblossom x15
• Immortal Lumintwig x15
• Ascendant Debris x65

You can collect Immortal Scionettes, Aeroblossoms, and Limtwigs from enemies on the Xianzhou Luofu as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Immortal Scionettes are one of the base materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material. Ascendant Debris is dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Fyxestroll Garden) or gained through exchange. The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes found around the cosmos.

Huohuo requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x3,000,000
• Immortal Scionette x41
• Immortal Aeroblossom x56
• Immortal Lumintwig x58
• Seed of Abundance x18
• Sprout of Life x69
• Flower of Eternity x139
• Regret of Infinite Ochema x12
• Tracks of Destiny x8

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Seed of Abundance, Sprout of Life, and Flower of Eternity can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (Backwater Pass). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by investing lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Regret of Infinite Ochema is a rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Scalegorge Waterscape) domain, while Tracks of Destiny can be obtained during time-limited events, the Embers Exchange, the Nameless Honor, or as a Simulated Universe Points Reward.