Huohuo HSR - Guide, Skills, Builds, Teams & More

Huohuo is an Energy-based Healer with excellent cleansing capacity. With her powerful Ultimate being a teamwide energy battery, she is generally the go-to sustainer for not only Energy-based DPS but also a lot of energy-hungry support units in the game and can trivialize a lot of heavily debuff-based gimmick encounters in the game.

Huohuo HSR Kit Overview (Trace Level 10)

Huohuo’s kit as well as her main selling points can essentially be split into two major parts: her Ultimate and her Talent.

Her Ultimate – Tail: Spiritual Domination restores all allies’ energy by 20% of their max Energy cap and increases their Attack by 40%. Since this is based on the unit’s max Energy cap, units with extremely high energy caps such as Robin (160), Argenti (180), or Yunli (240) will gain significantly more energy than low energy cap units (like Pela). As of the moment, Huohuo is the only unit with a teamwide Energy Regeneration effect, and in general large Energy injections are quite rare for good reasons: there are a lot of powerful units whose a lot of their power is locked behind their Ultimate. The main downside of this Ultimate is it has a very large energy cost of 140, which means Huohuo cannot use it as frequently as she would want.

Huohuo’s Skill is a Blast Heal, which heals a primary target, dispels 1 debuff on them, and further heals the two units next to said target. The skill by itself is not that powerful but rather serves as the means to trigger her Talent – Possession: Ethereal Metaflow. After using her Skill, Huohuo gains a special effect called Divine Provision that lasts for 2 turns. While she has this status, whenever an ally takes action or uses their Ultimate, they will heal and cleanse a debuff from themselves. The cleanse has a cap of 6 times during Divine Provision’s duration, while the heal is only capped by the number of actions or ultimates the team can squeeze in during this window. Furthermore, any ally at 50% HP or below will be healed every time Divine Provision triggers, serving as a form of emergency healing.

Huohuo’s cleansing capacity is one of the best, if not the best, amongst all sustainers thanks to Divine Provision. It is also extremely potent against Crowd Control effects since the cleanse will trigger before the character turns, which means it is particularly effective against bosses that like to spam disabling effects like Kafka or Cocolia. The tradeoff, however, is that Huohuo has to use her skill at least once every 3 turns to upkeep this status. This made her a lot more SP-intensive than some other sustainers like Luocha or Aventurine.

Huohuo’s traces are all quite strong. Her first trace put up Divine Provision for 1 turn at the start of the battle, saving the need to use Skill right away. Her second trace is a 35% increased chance to resist Crowd Control, which is quite handy since she should always be available to emergency cleanse ally with her Skill when needed. Her last trace grants her 1 Energy every time Divine Provision’s healing effect is triggered, which helps her access her Ultimate more often.

Huohuo’s Technique will terrorize a small area around her by releasing Tail – the Heliobus that possesses her. All enemies within this area will be Terrorstruck, running away from Huohuo. The more practical effect of this Technique is a small Attack debuff onto all enemies with Terrorstruck when entering battle.

Huohuo HSR Core Skills

Basic Attack – Stormcaller: Deals Wind Damage equal to 50% of Huohuo’s Max HP to a target enemy.

Skill – Talisman: Protection: Dispels 1 debuff from a single target ally and immediately restores this ally’s HP by an amount equal to 21% of Huohuo’s Max HP plus 560. At the same time, restores HP for allies that are adjacent to this target ally by an amount equal to 16.8% of Huohuo’s Max HP plus 448.

Ultimate – Tail: Spiritual Domination: Regenerates Energy for all teammates (i.e., excluding this unit) by an amount equal to 20% of their respective Max Energy. At the same time, increase their Attack by 40% for 2 turns.

Talent – Possession: Ethereal Metaflow: After using her Skill, Huohuo gains Divine Provision, lasting for 2 turns. This duration decreases by 1 turn at the start of Huohuo’s every turn. If Huohuo has Divine Provision when an ally’s turn starts or when an ally uses their Ultimate, restores HP for that ally by an amount equal to 4.5% of Huohuo’s Max HP plus 120. At the same time, every ally with 50% HP percentage or lower receives healing once.

When Divine Provision is triggered to heal an ally, dispel 1 debuff from that ally. This effect can be triggered up to 6 times. Using the skill again resets the effect’s trigger count.

Technique – Fiend: Impeachment of Evil: Huohuo terrorizes surrounding enemies, afflicting Horror-Struck on them. Enemies in Horror-Struck will flee away from Huohuo for 10 second. When entering battle with enemies in Horror-Struck, there is a 100% base chance of reducing every single enemy’s Attack by 25% for 2 turns.

Huohuo HSR Traces

Fearful to Act: When battle starts, Huohuo gains Divine Provision, lasting for 1 turn.

The Cursed One: Increases the chance to resist Crowd Control debuffs by 35%.

Stress Reaction to Horror HSR

Stress Reaction to Horror: When her Talent is triggered to heal allies, Huohuo regenerates 1 Energy.

Huohuo HSR Eidolons

Anchored to Vessel, Specters Nestled: The duration of Divine Provision produced by the Talent is extended by 1 turn. When Huohuo possesses Divine Provision, all allies’ SPD increases by 12%.
Sealed in Tail, Wraith Subdued: If Huohuo possesses “Divine Provision” when an ally target is struck by a killing blow, the ally will not be knocked down and their HP will immediately be restored by an amount equal to 50% of their Max HP. This reduces the duration of “Divine Provision” by 1 turn. This effect can only be triggered 2 time per battle.
Cursed by Fate, Moths to Flame: Ultimate Lv. +2, up to a maximum of Lv. 15. Talent Lv. +2, up to a maximum of Lv. 15.
Tied in Life, Bound to Strife: When healing a target ally via Skill or Talent, the less HP the target ally currently has, the higher the amount of healing they will receive. The maximum increase in healing provided by Huohuo is 80%.
Mandated by Edict, Evils Evicted: Skill Lv. +2, up to a maximum of Lv. 15. Basic Attack Lv. +1, up to a maximum of Lv. 10.
Woven Together, Cohere Forever: When healing a target ally, increases the target ally’s Damage dealt by 50% for 2 turns.

Eidolon Priority

Sustainer’s Eidolon is generally not a great investment compared to Amplifier or DPS Eidolon. For Huohuo’s vertical healing, her E1 is the best amongst available options, as her Light Cone is not necessary to her function. Her E1 makes her a lot more SP-positive and also helps a lot of allies reach the desired Speed threshold.

After E1, it is not recommended to invest in Huohuo’s Eidolon unless one wants to go all the way to E6 (which, while quite strong, is still extremely expensive and inefficient compared to Amplifiers and DPS Eidolon).

Eidolon 1: Very High
Eidolon 2: Very Low
Eidolon 4: Very Low
Eidolon 6: Very High

Huohuo HSR Build Guide Overview

Light Cones

Night of Fright
Shared Feeling
Quid Pro Quo
Fine Fruit

Main Stats

Body: HP% / Outgoing Healing%
Feet: Speed
Orb: HP%
Rope: Energy Regeneration Rate%

Relics:

Passerby of Wandering Cloud
Messenger Traversing Hackerspace
Eagle of Twilight Line

Planar Set

Lushaka, the Sunken Seas
Sprightly Vonwacq
Fleet of the Ageless
Broken Keel

HSR Huohuo Light Cones

Premium Options

Honkai Star Rail Night of Fright

Night of Fright: Increases the wearer’s Energy Regeneration Rate by 12% / 14% / 16% / 18% / 20%. When any ally uses their Ultimate, the wearer restores HP for the ally currently with the lowest HP percentage by an amount equal to 10% / 11% / 12% / 13% / 14% of the healed ally’s Max HP. When the wearer provides healing for an ally, it increases the healed ally’s Attack by 2.4% / 2.8% / 3.2% / 3.6% / 4%. This effect can stack up to 5 times and lasts for 2 turns.

Despite being Huohuo’s Signature Light Cone, Night of Fright is not a particularly efficient use of Warps. While this Light Cone makes her sustain capacity extremely comfy, it packs a lot weaker teamwide offensive support than her other options, which is her primary draw compared to other sustainers. Nonetheless, it is still a strong choice for Huohuo, just not absolutely above all other choices like most Signature Light Cones.

Honkai Star Rail Shared Feeling

Shared Feeling: Increases the wearer’s Outgoing Healing by 10% / 12.5% / 15% / 17.5% / 20%. When using Skill, regenerates 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4 Energy for all allies.

Shared Feeling is one of the two best teamwide support Light Cones for Huohuo. It both increases her healing capacity but also gives an Energy boost to all allies when she uses her skill. Generally, Huohuo only wants to use Skill whenever her Divine Provision effect is running out or when she needs to emergency heal/cleanse an ally, so the effects are not that pronounced. However, there are teams (such as with Sparkle or Sunday) where Huohuo can afford to use her Skills a lot more often to take advantage of this effect.

F2P Options

Honkai Star Rail Quid Pro Quo

Quid Pro Quo: At the start of the wearer’s turn, regenerates 8 / 10 / 12 / 14 / 16 Energy for a randomly chosen ally (excluding the wearer) whose current Energy is lower than 50%.

Quid Pro Quo is widely considered to be the strongest utility Light Cone for Abundance characters. The primary Huohuo’s build aims for high Speed to maximize the effect of this Light Cone, further emphasizing Huohuo’s role as an Energy battery.

Fine Fruit

Fine Fruit: At the start of the battle, immediately regenerates 6 / 7.5 / 9 / 10.5 / 12 Energy for all allies.

There are certain units whose first Ultimate can make or break a run, and Fine Fruit is a niche but effective choice to enable such rotation.

HSR Huohuo Main Stats

Body: HP %/ Healing % /
Feet: Speed
Orb: HP%
Rope: Energy Regeneration Rope %

Huohuo’s Healing scales off two stats, which are HP% and Healing%, so going for these stats on her Armor and Orb makes the most sense.

For Feet, Huohuo wants to be as fast as possible to both improve her SP economy and take advantage of Light Cones like Quid Pro Quo. Furthermore, resetting Huohuo’s Divine Provision also means resetting the cap of her cleanse effect which helps a lot against debuffing heavy enemies. Thus, Speed Boot is the ideal choice.

For Rope, Energy Regeneration is non-negotiable. Huohuo’s main selling point is her Ultimate, and having faster and more frequent access to it is tantamount to maximizing her value.

Speed Tuning:

When it comes to Speed Tuning, Huohuo is very simple. She wants to be as fast as possible. The easiest breakpoint to reach is 134 Speed, which lets her act twice in cycle 0. The next major Speed Breakpoint is 200 Speed which lets her act twice every cycle after cycle 0. Normally this is extremely hard to reach and unrealistic on her own, but one can reach it by combining several Speed increase effects (such as her E1, Ruan Mei’s Skill, or Robin E2 …) as well as Turn Advancing effects (such as the Dance Dance Dance Light Cone or the Eagle of Twilight set). Since it is varied depending on what each account has and her scaling off HP or Effect Res are not that influential, the general rule of thumb is just to get as much Speed on her as possible.

HSR Huohuo Sub Stats

Speed
HP%
Effect Res %

Outside of Speed and HP% which directly affect her performance, Effect Res can be an extremely clutch stat in high difficulty content when combined with her Crowd Control reduction trace. Huohuo in general does not want to get Crowd Control since she is the main source of cleansing and healing for the team, and if she is unavailable during enemies’ burst window it can be the end of a run.

HSR Huohuo Relics

Option A

Passerby of Wandering Cloud:

2-Pc: Increases Outgoing Healing by 10%.
4-Pc: At the start of the battle, immediately regenerates 1 Skill Point.

This is the most beginner-friendly set for Huohuo. It shares the domain with Musketeer of Wild Wheat – another good generalist set and provides two highly practical effects for Huohuo – being Healing% and Skill Point.

Option B

Messenger Traversing Hackerspace:

2-Pc: Increases SPD by 6%.
4-Pc: When the wearer uses their Ultimate on an ally, SPD for all allies increases by 12% for 1 turn. This effect cannot be stacked.

Huohuo can trigger the effect of Messenger whenever she uses her Ultimate. The impact of this is quite varied depending on her teammates and their setup, but if used well it can help save the team’s Action Value.

Option C

Eagle of Twilight Line:

2-Pc: Increases Wind Damage by 10%.
4-Pc: After the wearer uses their Ultimate, their action is Advanced Forward by 25%.

Eagle of Twilight is one of the ways to increase Huohuo’s effective Speed, but just like any tool for Speed tuning, it is highly dependent on other factors. Furthermore, the other set in this Domain is extremely mediocre, and thus it is only recommended to farm if the players have a lot of stamina to burn.

Option D

2+2 Combinations:

Any two combinations of these sets are viable options for Huohuo as she can make use of the stats increase.