Developed by miHoYo, Honkai: Star Rail is available to download for free from the Play Store.
Fu Xuan’s best build consists of a mixed relic set and a choice between two different sets of planar ornaments. Learn about Fu Xuan’s best build, her best light cones, and stat priority by reading more below!
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Fu Xuan is a playable character introduced in the second half of version 1.3 of Honkai: Star Rail.
While game developers miHoYo show no signs of slowing down when it comes to their monthly character releases, let’s take the time to break down Fu Xuan and learn about her best build.
Build Overview
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Talent => Skill=> Ultimate=>Normal Atk
Fu Xuan is an all-in-one support unit thanks to the unique combination of benefits granted by her kit.
She can tank, heal, and buff critical rates, making her an excellent choice for anyone who doesn’t already have a solo-sustain character like Luocha, Bailu, or Gepard.
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Fu Xuan’s Talent is what allows her to mitigate damage while also healing herself. As Fu Xuan will constantly be absorbing a portion of all damage for your team, we highly recommend upgrading this ability first.
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Next up should be her Skill, because it allows her to boost ally critical rate while also increasing their max HP.
We do not yet know if this max HP buff stacks with Lynx’s max HP buff, but it will certainly be useful in endgame content such as Swarm Disaster, where enemies can kill you in one blow.
Lastly, you want to consider whether or not you’ll be investing in her Ultimate or her normal attack. Leveling up these abilities only increases the amount of damage they deal. While these both scale with Fu Xuan’s max HP, you will typically rely on another character (such as Imbibitor Lunae) to deal damage for your team.
Traces
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- Taiyi, The Macrocosmic – Regenerates 20 Energy every time Fu Xuan casts her Skill while the Matrix of Prescience is active.
- Dunjia, The Metamystic – When Fu Xuan’s Ultimate is used, heals all other allies by an amount equal to 5% of Fu Xuan’s Max HP plus 133.
- Liuren, The Sexagenary – Allies can resist once crowd control effect whenever Fu Xuan uses her skill to activate the Matrix of Prescience.
Fu Xuan’s traces make her a more effective support unit because of how they reduce the cost of her Ultimate ability while increasing the effectiveness of her heals and protecting her allies from status effects.
Taiyi, The Macrocosmic effectively reduces the cost of Fu Xuan’s Ultimate ability. Fu Xuan’s Ultimate ability would normally cost 135 Energy, but because you’ll be casting your skill fairly often, you’ll be able to utilize this trait to grant Fu Xuan enough energy to cast her ultimate every two or so turns.
Dunjia, The Metamystic turns Fu Xuan into a pseudo-healer. While Fu Xuan innately has the ability to heal allies, she can never heal them back to maximum HP because her initial heal only works on a percentage of HP that’s already been lost.
With enough energy regeneration and HP relics, this trace makes it possible for Fu Xuan to heal your entire team back to full HP.
Additionally, this trace makes it so that selecting you could theoretically build Fu Xuan with healer relics, which will allow you more wiggle room when building your team.
Liuren, The Sexagenary provides one layer of debuff protection whenever Fu Xuan casts her skill. Since Fu Xuan will usually cast her skill once every two turns, you can think of this trace as a pseudo-cleanse.
Eidolons
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Should players be lucky enough to draw Fu Xuan’s signature Lightcone, it could be worth using a Body piece with an Outgoing Healing boost, which could potentially allow you to run Fu Xuan without any healers.
Broken Keel
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The second best set of Planar Ornaments for Fu Xuan would be the Fleet of the Ageless set since it increases Fu Xuan’s max HP and increases ally Atk once the wearer reaches 120 Spd. It’s worth noting that triggering the second bonus is quite easy once you equip a set of SPD boots.
Best Light Cones
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Players who do not have enough Herta’s Store credits could opt to equip Fu Xuan with the 4-star LC, Landau’s Choice, while newer players can equip her with the 3-star LC, Defense.
Conclusion
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Fu Xuan is an amazing support unit who can fill multiple roles by herself. She can heal chip damage, offensively buff allies with crit multipliers, and protect allies with damage mitigation.
This compilation of different buffs included in Fu Xuan’s kit allows players to select more offensive units for their team without having to slot in multiple characters. This makes Fu Xuan perfect for content like Memory of Chaos, where battles happen quickly and character HP is reset after every level.
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Adversely, running Fu Xuan in content like Simulated Universe may be a bit uncomfortable since she cannot heal your team to full without a very high investment. So build your team depending on how built your Fu Xuan is!
