HSR Firefly Build Guide

Apr. 24, 2024

Firefly is a 5-star Destruction character, featuring in the Honkai Star Rail 2.3. She is a Fire Type character and her kit is DPS focused with Break Effect scaling. If you are interested in Firefly and want to know whether it is worth saving Stellar Jades for her, here is everything we know about Firefly’s best build, kit, release date, Teams, Relics, Traces, and Eidolons.

HSR Firefly Release Date and Banner

Honkai Star Rail’s recent Drip Marketing campaign featured Firefly, and it has received an amazing reception from HSR players with 6.9 million views and 121k likes on X (Twitter) at the point of writing. The community is glad that she was featured as Firefly and not Sam.

Firefly is a 5-star DPS Destruction character with the Fire damage type.Her Drip Marketing mentions that she was born as a weapon and is afflicted with Entropy Loss Syndrome due to genetic modification. Firefly joined the Stellaron Hunters in search of the meaning of life and to relentlessly pursue ways to defy fate.

Her Drip Marketing makes it sound as if she was a lab experiment, which is something we haven’t learned in theTrailblazing missions. It would be interesting to learn who or what is responsible for her affliction and how it plays into the grand scheme of things.

Firefly’s English voice actors are Analesa Fisher (Firefly VA) & Adin Rudd (SAM VA).Analesa Fisher is known for voicing Ema Yoshiike in PuraOre! Pride of Orange (Anime), and Veronica in Guardian Tales (video game). Adin Rudd is known for voicing Beelzebub in Grandblue Fantasy Versus: Rising (Video Game), Peseta in One Piece (Anime), and Cthulhu in Smite (Video Game).

Firefly’s Japanese voice actors are Kusunoki Tomori (Firefly VA) and Jun Kasama (SAM VA).Kusunoki Tomori is known for voicing Makima in Chainsaw Man (Anime), Kanade Yoisake in Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage (Video Game), and Annette / Forgetter in Spy Classroom (Anime). Jun Kasama is known for voicing Wilibald Koenig in Isekai Quartet (Anime), Tesso in Lost Judgment (Video Game), and Hisashi Mitsui in The First Slam Dunk (Anime Movie).

Firefly features a strong DPS kit, filled with Break Effect and Super Break Effect damage buffs. Let’s take a closer look at her kit and how to play her properly.

Firefly’s kit suggests very strong DPS and solo-sustaining abilitiesfor her Best Build.She can constantly heal herself and deal high amounts of damage to enemies. Her kit also allows her to take multiple turns by buffing her speed and forwarding her action. Firefly is looking to be a very strong DPS character.

Most of Firefly’s kit is based on her Complete Combustion state from her Ultimate ability. She can easily recharge her Ultimate using her Skill and Ultimate,while also increasing her Speed and forward her action. After entering the Complete Combustion state, she can deal the most damage using her enhanced Skill.

This is how Firefly’s ideal rotation should be:

The4-piece Iron Cavalry Against the Scourge is the best relic set for Firefly.This relic set will be released on version 2.3, and it is a very strong Break Effect DPS relic set. It increases the wearer’s Break Effect by 16% and allows the wearer to ignore enemy defenses when the wearer meets the Break Effect threshold.

The 4-piece Genius of Brilliant Stars is the best alternative if you have good stats on them. This set will allow Firefly to ignore 10% of enemy defenses to all enemies and ignore 10% more against Quantum weakness enemies.

The2-piece Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern is tailor-made for Firefly’s kitand is her best planar ornament set. This planar ornament set will also be released in version 2.3. It increases the wearer’s speed by 6% and increases the Break Effect by 40% for 1 turn when the wearer hits an enemy with Fire Weakness.

The 2-piece Talia: Kingdom of Banditry is the best alternative planar ornament set, as it can increase the Break Effect of the wearer by 36%.

When it comes to Firefly’s main and sub-stats,her damage scales more on Attack than Break Effect. Use an Attack % body, Speed boots, Attack % Sphere, and Break Effect Rope to get the best out of her kit. Try toreach 150 Speedwith her sub-stats to get 210 speed after using her Ultimate, andreach 360% Break Effect%. Other than that, simply stack as much Attack% as possible.

Firefly has some really good Light Cone options. Her signature Light Cone‘Whereabouts Should Dreams Rest’ is her best Light Cone, giving her a massive 60% increase in Break Effect. Furthermore, it deals 24% increased Break Damage to enemies and lowers the speed of enemies by 20%.

On the Fall of an Aeon is Firefly’s best free-to-play Light Cone and her best alternative. It can be easily superimposed to 5 and can give a massive Attack % buff to the wearer. Other than that, A Secret Vow, Flames Afar, and Indelible Promise are also good options.

Now that you have taken a look at Firefly’s kit, let’s take a closer look at her Eidolons as well.

Firefly’s Eidolons are extremely strong. Her E1 allows her Enhanced Skill to ignore 15% of the defense, which is extremely strong. Furthermore, her E2 is simply broken as it gives her an extra turn when she uses her Enhanced Basic Attack or Skill to defeat or weakness-break an enemy during the Complete Combustion state. Pair her E2 with the insane Speed her build will have, and you can likely see how broken it can be.

Ascension Abilities:

Status Boosts:

Firefly’s best team will feature Ruan Mei, Harmony Trailblazer and Gallagher,as they all increase Break Damage some way, which is the main damage dealing source for Firefly. Other than that, you can also use Pela and Asta as supports, and Fu Xuan or Luocha as Sustains. We have prepared a detailed guide onbest Firefly teams, which you should check out.

Yes, Firefly is one hundred percent a must-pull character. She is going to be one of the strongest DPS units in the game, probably at the same level or better than Acheron, Jingliu, and Dan Heng IL. Her kit is insanely strong and doesn’t require too many other strong characters to function well.

So, that’s everything we know so far about Firefly. Share your thoughts on Firefly in the comment section, and let us know if you are going to pick her orJadein the Honkai Star Rail 2.3 banners.

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