A strong protective unit is key to winning most of the battles you’ll come across in Honkai: Star Rail—and healers are some of the most powerful characters who can fulfill this role.
The further you progress into Honkai: Star Rail, the more important healing units become. All healers in Honkai: Star Rail follow the Path of Abundance, and there are currently six healers in the game. Additionally, three other playable characters have unique healing abilities worth mentioning, although they can’t be classified as dedicated healers.
Here are all the playable healers, what you need to know about their skill sets, and which ones are the best overall.
Every healer in Honkai Star Rail, from best to worst
1) Luocha
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Imaginary
- Path: Abundance
Luocha is one of the best healers in Honkai: Star Rail alongside Huohuo. Both of them excel at healing but have their pros and cons, and which one might work better for you depends on your team and the mode you’re playing.
The main benefit of using Luocha is Skill Point efficiency. He can heal a ton, and most of that healing comes from his Abyss Flower passive. It’s incredibly convenient as one stack of Abyss Flower comes from using his Ultimate, and the other Luocha can get himself by using the passive effect of his Skill without consuming any Skill Points.
Luocha’s Ultimate has another use, which is to remove buffs from enemies. Although it’s situational, you can make use of it to remove things like revives and healing on Mara-Struck Soldiers and Disciples of Sanctus Medicus: Shape Shifter.
His healing is incredibly potent and works great in that have health-draining units like Blade or Jingliu. You’ll never fall in battle unless you’re playing the hardest content in the game, where you have to be careful with every turn and potentially consider shielders or teams with two sustain characters.
2) Huohuo
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Wind
- Path: Abundance
The constantly terrified Foxian Huohuo specializes in healing. A five-star character, just like Luocha, her healing is very consistent on top of the Harmony-like buffs she provides with her Ultimate.
She offers plenty of healing and debuff dispelling with her Skill and Talent. Huohuo’s Ultimate regenerates Energy for all allies and increases their ATK for two turns, giving her more utility than an average healer.
The main downside of using Huohuo is that she’s not as Skill Point-efficient as Luocha and generally heals less. It’s usually not a problem even when playing the hardest content in Honkai: Star Rail, but it’s something to consider if you plan to pull for Huohuo. You might like her better if you want a healer who also has some Harmony-like skills since she has solid healing plus other abilities, while Luocha solely excels at providing unmatched healing.
3) Gallagher
- Rarity: Four-star
- Element: Fire
- Path: Abundance
The first four-star character on the list is Gallagher, who is an accessible and incredibly strong healer with a few offensive capabilities.
Gallagher’s healing scales with his Skill level and Break Effect once you have the Novel Concoction passive unlocked. Apart from healing, his Ultimate inflicts a debuff on all enemies and allows you to reduce targets’ ATK with the next Basic ATK. Enemies affected by the debuff receive more Break damage, which makes him perfect for Break teams with characters like Firefly, Harmony Trailblazer, Ruan Mei, and Boothill.
Gallagher requires some investment in his Traces, but otherwise, he’s very easy to build. The only downside is you need his second Edidolon as it allows your Skill to remove debuffs, just like most healers in the game.
4) Bailu
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Lightning
- Path: Abundance
Bailu is a standard Abundance character you’ll likely get sooner or later. If you’re not lucky (or unlucky) enough to get her naturally, you can choose her as a free five-star upon reaching 300 pulls.
She’s not the best option available (especially with Gallagher available), but she’s not the worst one either. Baliu is an adorable healing unit that can restore health through her Skill, Ultimate, Talent, and Technique. She can also save allies from a killing blow once per battle, which is very useful for those tougher boss battles you’ll face.
One of the biggest issues with her kit is the lack of debuff dispelling, which can be devastating in harder content. Considering how many bosses and enemies currently in the game apply some sort of debuff or impairment, Bailu is a very situational choice.
5) Lynx
- Rarity: Four-star
- Element: Quantum
- Path: Abundance
Even though Lynx is somewhat guilty of path-crossing, her healing abilities are so strong and reliable that I can’t be mad about it. Lynx heals through the majority of her kit and can also raise allies’ HP through her Skill and remove debuffs with her Ultimate.
Lynx’s Skill also has a unique interaction with Destruction and Preservation characters. If you use the Skill on a character of these paths, they get an increased chance of being attacked by enemies. This can work well with someone like Blade, who has a passive that requires him to get hit.
This is where the path-crossing comes into play as these abilities feel more Preservation than Abundance, but her main function is still healing, and she excels at it.
6) Natasha
- Rarity: Four-star
- Element: Physical
- Path: Abundance
Even though Natasha is technically the worst playable healer out of the available options, she’s still a very powerful one. There really is no bad healer in Honkai: Star Rail, and Natasha possesses mighty healing abilities even though she’s the weakest of the available options.
Natasha only heals through her Skill and Ultimate, which is the primary reason she’s a weaker healing unit than the rest of the group. She enhances her future healing through her Talent, but this seems kind of weak when other healers just directly heal instead.
Honorable mentions
Although these three characters are not Abundance characters, they do have some unique, primarily self-centered healing abilities that make them honorable mentions among Honkai: Star Rail’s healers.
1) Fu Xuan
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Quantum
- Path: Preservation
Fu Xuan is so good that most players feel she’s broken—and she has a self-healing ability that’s so powerful that it’s almost impossible for her to die. Whenever she reaches 50 percent or fewer health points, her talent immediately restores between 80 to 92 percent of her health.
She also can do some very light team healing with her “Dunjia, the Metamystic” ability activated on the Trace tree. You can make her an extremely potent healer if you obtain her signature “She Already Shut Her Eyes” Light Cone, but since these abilities are all very conditional and based on how you build her, she can’t count as an official healing unit.
Regardless, Fu Xuan is an amazing support and one of the best characters Honkai: Star Rail has to offer.
2) Gepard
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Ice
- Path: Preservation
Gepard is mainly dedicated to protecting the team with shields, but his “Unyielding Will” Talent allows him to save himself and provide self-healing during a killing blow. This ability will only apply to him, but he can revive himself and restore 25 to 55 percent of his own health upon being defeated. His death-defying ability can only happen once per battle, but it’s a superb healing save.
3) Trailblazer
- Rarity: Five-star
- Element: Physical
- Path: Destruction
Although it makes no sense for their Destruction-based skillset, the Trailblazer can heal the entire party through their “Immortal Third Strike” Technique. This healing is very minimal, though, since it’s only based on 15 percent of the Trailblazer’s HP.
More healers are certain to arrive in future Honkai: Star Rail updates, so this list will be expanded upon as more playable characters with healing abilities are released.
Published: Jun 20, 2024 12:02 pm