Honkai: Star RailHuohuoBest build, teams and other guides

Huohuo consolidates strong Abundance healing with Harmony support. She can restore 20% Max Energy to all other allies as well as buff their ATK by 40% for 2 turns with her Ultimate. Her Skill’s healing is AoE by default, and her Talent provides a high degree of strong passive healing akin to Luocha with the added benefit of cleansing allies both when their turn starts or when they use an Ultimate. Huohuo must use SP to keep her Talent active, so she is not fully SP-positive, but she is able to maintain SP neutrality very easily.

The timid trainee Ten-Lords Judge, Huohuo, is another addition to the Path of Abundance. Though she occupies a somewhat ironic position in-universe given her scaredy-cat disposition, she has no issues whatsoever when it comes to sustaining your party, and even comes with a few very unique perks that could potentially make her a more desirable pickup.

Huohuo’s Skill will target an ally and restore their HP by up to 21% of Huohuo’s Max HP plus 560. This is actually a Blast Heal that also heals adjacent allies for up to 16.8% of Huohuo’s Max HP plus 448. Given that Huohuo is an HP-scaling scaler, this ends up being a colossal amount of healing to be given out upfront, and better yet is that it naturally includes a debuff dispel for the main ally.

Her Skill is important to mention first because it ties into her verbose but powerful Talent. Huohuo gains Divine Provision for 2 turns after using her Skill. While Huohuo has Divine Provision, she is able to provide passive healing to allies at the start of their turn or when they use their Ultimate, restoring up to 4.5% of Huohuo’s Max HP plus 120. When this healing is triggered, it will also cleanse a debuff from the ally who was healed. The cleanse effect has 6 uses before it needs to be reset by using Huohuo’s Skill. Adding onto this, every ally who is below 50% Max HP will also be healed in addition to the ally whose turn or Ultimate it was, meaning this is also a fairly effective emergency healing tool.

This is a very impressive amount of passive healing over time, and since it requires that Huohuo use her Skill to refresh the number of uses, her total healing output is astonishing, giving Luocha’s Abyss Flower a run for its money. More impressive however is the amount of free cleansing that Huohuo gives out; many enemies have pesky Crowd Control debuffs that stop your allies in their tracks, but many more have more subtle but equally dangerous debuffs like Damage over Time (DoT) or DEF Reduction, and the other Abundance characters are often not able to deal with them in a quick enough fashion at the end game.

Against debuff-heavy enemies, this creates a battle of attrition that realistically only Luocha is capable of outhealing consistently (when considering Abundance characters specifically). Huohuo is capable of getting close to that level of healing whilst also providing extremely frequent debuff dispels at virtually no additional cost, but the activation criteria is more restrictive since it specifically requires a turn or an Ultimate, rather than just dealing damage.

Huohuo also follows in Fu Xuan’s footsteps of challenging what it means to be a part of her respective path; just as Fu Xuan is able to provide offensive utility with her Matrix of Prescience, so too is Huohuo able to provide that with her Ultimate. Huohuo’s Ultimate will regenerate up to 20% of all other allies’ respective Max Energy and provide a 40% ATK boost for 2 turns. Having your sustain unit provide benefits more akin to that of a Harmony is impressive, and allows the opportunity to have more intriguing and experimental team compositions.

There are a few things to note about this Ultimate; the Energy restoration portion is a nice addition to have but can often be inconsequential, as 20% of a character’s Max Energy is usually anywhere between an extra Skill or Basic ATK’s worth of Energy. This means that for the majority of damage dealers, this will not significantly shift the needle on when they get their Ultimates, but it can actually be quite useful for your other support characters. The other big thing is that this Ultimate has an Energy cost of 140, meaning it’s not going to be up super frequently.

Huohuo’s first Bonus Ability Trace A2 lets her start with a 1-turn Divine Provision, giving her a head start on healing, and her A4 increases her Crowd Control RES by 35%. Huohuo’s A6 is of particular note as it restores 1 Energy to her whenever her Talent is triggered to heal allies. This actually ends up being a very significant increase to her overall energy gains and helps offset her high Ultimate cost.

Because of her costly Ultimate, Huohuo is not as straightforward to play as other healers if you wish to maximize the usefulness of her Ultimate’s buffs. There are many factors at play to try and reach a consistent timing on her Ultimate, including having speedy allies to trigger Huohuo’s Talent frequently and having Huohuo herself getting hit semi-consistently to get more Energy back that way. Specific Light Cone options and Energy Regen Ropes can also help reach this more easily and should probably be considered to ease the burden of maximizing her.

Compared to other Healers, Huohuo shines in teams that can make use of her energy-battery ability. Yunli, Argenti, Kafka, and Robin are only a few examples of characters that love to have Huohuo in their teams as the additional energy helps them tremendously in their rotations.