Best Huohuo Builds and Teams for Honkai Star Rail 3.1

With the launch of the Honkai Star Rail 3.1 banner on March 19, the powerful and versatile healer HuoHuo is finally making her return!

As a highly used survival support, now is the perfect time to learn how to optimize her full potential. This guide covers Huohuo’s Trace priorities, Light Cones, Relics, and team compositions—hope you find it helpful!

 

Huohuo Overview

Rarity: 5-star   Element: Wind   Path: Abundance

Strengths	Weaknesses
Healing: Provides team-wide healing and single-target healing. Debuff Cleansing: High-frequency cleansing of debuffs, crowd control, and DoT effects. Buffing: A rare team-wide Energy Regeneration boost & increasing ATK.	Fairly point-consuming, with a 0-Eidolon HuoHuo typically following an EAEA cycle. Her healing output is lower than Luocha’s.

Generally speaking, Huohuo is a Wind Abundance character who not only provides healing but also offers Harmony support and high-frequency debuff cleansing. Trailblazers who missed her before—don’t miss this chance!

You can choose to top up Oneiric Shards from LDShop at a discounted price to easily pull Huohuo.

 

Huohuo Trace Priorities

HuoHuo’s Ultimate is her most crucial support ability, and with high-quality Relics, the level requirements for her Skill and Talent can be slightly reduced. So we recommend you the following sequence:

Ultimate＞Skill=Talent＞Basic attack

• Ultimate (Tail: Spiritual Domination): Max first. Regenerates Energy for all teammates by an amount equal to 20% of their respective Max Energy. At the same time, increases their ATK by 40% for 2 turn(s).
• Skill (Talisman: Protection): Provides active healing. Spreads healing and removes a single target's debuff.
• Talent (Possession: Ethereal Metaflow): Provides passive healing. Restores HP and dispels debuffs at the start of an ally’s turn, when using the Ultimate, or when HP falls below a certain threshold.
• Basic Attack (Hundred Rockets): Deals single-target Wind DMG.

 

Huohuo Light Cones

HuoHuo’s Light Cone choices can be broadly categorized into Energy Regeneration and Healing types. Travelers can choose based on your team composition and available Light Cones.

Best-in-Slot

Signature Light Cone - Night of Fright (5★):  

• 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, increases the healed ally’s ATK by 2.4%/2.8%/3.2%/3.6%/4%. This effect can stack up to 5 times and lasts for 2 turn(s).

Night of Fright is an excellent option for HuoHuo, as it enhances her support abilities.

The boost in Energy Regeneration Rate allows her to use her ultimate more frequently, improving her effectiveness in combat.

The additional healing triggered when allies activate their Ultimates ensures the most vulnerable team member receives extra care, promoting overall team sustainability.

Furthermore, the stacking ATK increase for healed allies adds an offensive advantage to her supportive role.

 

Alternatives

Weapon		Effect
	5-star Time Waits for No One	Increases the Huohuo's Max HP by 18% and Outgoing Healing by 12%. When any ally launches an attack, a random attacked enemy takes Additional DMG equal to 36% of the recorded Outgoing Healing value.
	4-star Post-Op Conversation	Increases the Huohuo's Energy Regeneration Rate by 8% Increases Outgoing Healing when Huohuo use her Ultimate by 12%.
	4-star Shared Feeling	Increases the wearer's Outgoing Healing by 10%. When using Skill, regenerates 2 Energy for all allies.

Also, you can choose Perfect Timing, Hey, Over Here to wear. Each of these alternatives has its own advantages and disadvantages, and the most suitable is Huohuo's Signature Light Cone, Night of Fright.

Worried about not having enough Star Jade to pull for Light Cones? Come to LDShop and enjoy your discount HSR top up!

 

Huohuo Relics, Ornaments & Stats

Relics Sets

• Best choice: Messenger Traversing Hackerspace (4-Piece)

When Huohuo uses her Ultimate on an ally, SPD for all allies increases by 12% for 1 turn(s).

• Alternative: Passerby of Wandering Cloud

2 Set Effect – Increases Outgoing Healing by 10%.

4 Set Effect – At the beginning of the battle, immediately recovers 1 Skill Point.

Combining the two and using a Messenger Traversing Hackerspace（2）& Passerby of Wandering Cloud（2）set is also a good option.

 

Ornaments

• Best choice - Fleet of the Ageless

It’s a Planar Ornament set that can increase Huohuo's Max HP by 12%.

And when Huohuo's SPD reaches 120 or higher, all allies' ATK increases by 8%.

• Alternative - Broken Keel

Increases the wearer’s Effect RES by 10%.

When the wearer’s Effect RES is at 30% or higher, all allies’ CRIT DMG increases by 10%.

 

Main/Sub Stats

Body: Outgoing Healing

Boots: SPD

Planar Sphere: HP%

Link Rope: Energy Regeneration Rate (ERR%)

Substats: HP%/SPD > Effect RES > DEF%.

 

Huohuo Teams

Herta Premium Team

Main DPS Herta	Sub DPS Jade	Support Tribbie	Healer Huohuo

This team is built around the main DPS, the Herta, ensuring a stable cycle for frequent Ultimate usage.

Herta's Ultimate deals massive damage, triggering Tribbie's follow-up attack.

Tribbie's follow-up, which scales with ATK, also helps restore Herta's energy.

Jade focuses on boosting the team's ATK and CRIT Rate, enhancing Herta's burst potential.

HuoHuo ensures the team's survivability, making for a well-synchronized team rotation.

 

Aglaea & Huohuo Team

Main DPS Aglaea	Support Sunday	Support Remembrance	Healer Huohuo

In this team, Aglaea serves as the main DPS, providing damage output, while Sunday advances Aglaea’s action order.

The support Remembrance can be replaced with Robin.

 

DOT Team

Main DPS Kafka	Sub DPS Black swan	Support Ruan Mei	Healer Huohuo

Kafka and Black Swan serve as the main DPS and sub-DPS for DoT damage, while Ruan Mei provides multiple buffs.

Huohuo's Ultimate is highly beneficial for DoT teams, as most of their units rely on the ATK stat. Additionally, she replenishes the team's energy, enabling faster Ultimate usage.

 

Is Huohuo worth pulling?

As a powerful and well-established Abundance character from version 1.4, HuoHuo offers a versatile skill set that includes healing, high-frequency debuff cleansing, ATK buffs, and energy restoration, making her a well-rounded support unit. In the current meta, she remains the healer with the most buffing capabilities, making her an excellent choice for strengthening a team.

HuoHuo is particularly well-suited for energy-demanding units or those reliant on Ultimates. Thanks to her Ultimate’s team-wide energy regeneration, she plays a key role in teams centered around Ultimate cycles, such as those featuring the Herta or Aglaea, significantly improving Ultimate uptime. This makes her an ideal fit for dual-core or multi-core team compositions.

As for Eidolons, HuoHuo is fully functional at E0, while E1 enhances the team's Speed, improving overall gameplay fluidity.

 

In summary, HuoHuo remains a highly versatile and valuable healer in current version. For those of you who missed her before, this is your chance to pull her again! Head to LDShop now for Honkai Star Rail top up and enjoy incredible discounts, helping you obtain HuoHuo at the best price. Don’t miss out this time!