When Model 2.4 goes reside in Honkai: Star Rail, Huohuo will re-run within the banner alongside new character Yunli. Whereas a brand new attacker character could appear tempting, I extremely advocate that those that don’t have her but and have sufficient firepower on their staff contemplate getting Huohuo as a substitute. Apart from her capabilities as a healer, she’s nice as a help and is a improbable Abundance character for high-level groups or endgame content material.
To start out with, as a healer, Huohuo is simply alright. She doesn’t excel as a maintain like Luocha and Aventurine do, that means that she’s not as good at protecting your characters alive. That sounds horrible for an Abundance character. Nevertheless, that’s as a result of Huohuo’s true price lies extra in her skill to extend your staff’s harm output by her myriad of buffs and her skill to passively cleanse debuffs. The primary factor with Huohuo is that she works higher on a constructed staff. In case you run her with characters you haven’t invested in, you’re going to assume she’s a horrible unit. So all the time run her with a celebration that received’t crumple like a paper bag earlier than Huohuo can get a flip in.
As a short abstract of Huohuo’s package, her Ability can heal a personality and take away a debuff. She will be able to additionally heal adjoining characters, although they obtain much less HP. This provides you a bit extra management over who she heals, versus Bailu’s randomness. Her Ability additionally grants two Divine Provision stacks. Whereas she has these stacks, characters can heal themself when their flip begins or once they use their Final. They will additionally dispel a debuff, that means they’ll transfer even when hit with a Crowd Management debuff as a substitute of needing to attend for his or her subsequent flip. Lastly, her Final can regenerate Vitality and improve their ATK.
In case you learn all that and thought, “Wow, she sounds nice for [insert character here]” you’re most likely appropriate! In contrast to characters like Bronya and Sparkle, you should utilize Huohuo with any celebration. This consists of characters with extra distinctive specialties like Firefly (Break Impact) and Kafka (DoT). They don’t want Crit DMG. However everybody desires ATK and Vitality boosts, and everybody likes an excellent cleanse or two. I’ve lengthy since asserted that when you’re pondering of pulling for in Honkai: Star Rail and also you care about having a powerful celebration, you ought to pull for a restricted 5-star help. Attackers are a dime a dozen and you will get an excellent one with correct funding. Sure, even when they’re a “low-tier” character like Qingque or Serval. Nevertheless, with out a good help character, even ridiculously highly effective attackers like Acheron and Firefly can fall flat.
Huohuo’s primary use falls in how helpful she is in endgame content material. For instance, you may convey her into the tougher ranges of Simulated Universe, Pure Fiction, or Reminiscence of Chaos. In modes like Pure Fiction, her skill to do away with annoying Crowd Management debuffs which will price a personality a flip is efficacious while you wish to clear the battle inside a time restrict. You’ll be able to run her with just about any staff offered that you just’re operating her with characters you constructed. She will be able to additionally unencumber a slot in your staff, as she will double as a maintain and a help. This implies you don’t all the time must run a Concord or a Nihility along with her.
Huohuo’s viability on a staff won’t ever change as a result of universality of what she brings to the desk. But when we’re speaking in regards to the particular upcoming patch by which Huohuo and Sparkle are each re-running, some individuals may must determine who to drag for. That’s not even taking into account Yunli and Jiaoqiu. Whereas I can’t communicate on them, as we’ve got no clue how they fare within the remaining construct of the sport, I can give a short rundown on Sparkle versus Huohuo.
In my view, it actually comes all the way down to who else you want to make use of. Huohuo has a really generic package for any attacker, that means you should utilize her with any celebration. Her Final actually helps different characters on the staff get again their Final. Sparkle, however, provides a DMG increase (completely different level of calculation from ATK), Crit DMG bonus, and extra SP. Nobody can say no to extra SP. So by way of their kits, Huohuo and Sparkle can profit the whole celebration in numerous methods.
Nevertheless, in my expertise, whereas Sparkle is undoubtedly a improbable help, not everybody could make full use of her. In reality, I’d go so far as to say that Dan Heng Imbibitor Lunae is the one one who wants Sparkle’s optimistic SP economic system (as of Model 2.3 anyway). This is because of his Enhanced Primary Assault taking a whopping 3 SP as a substitute of the sane 1. However individuals can get by simply positive even with out her (albeit with different premium choices like Ruan Mei or, sure, Huohuo).
Huohuo can actually pace issues up because of her function as a battery, help, and healer. This makes her invaluable for any account. I extremely advocate anybody who doesn’t have her to think about forfeiting your Stellar Jades and Particular Passes to Huohuo. Might she and Tail lead you starward.
Honkai: Star Rail is available on the PS5, Home windows PC, and cellular units. You’ll be able to solely get Huohuo in Honkai: Star Rail when the “Bloom in Gloom” banner is energetic.
