Honkai: Star Rail – Guinaifen build and ascension guide

Captivate the audience with the best Honkai: Star Rail Guinaifen build and become the people’s favorite street performer. Following the Path of The Nihility and dealing Fire DMG, Guinaifen specializes in causing damage of time, or DoT, as well as making enemies more vulnerable to attacks made by her allies.

Her Skill, Blazing Welcome, deals Fire DMG based on her ATK to the target as well as any adjacent enemies, having a chance to inflict Burn on them all. Guinaifen’s Burn deals damage based on her ATK and lasts for two turns.

Guinaifen’s Ultimate, Watch This Showstopper, deals Fire DMG based on her ATK to all foes on the field. If they are already suffering from Burn, its damage effect is immediately triggered.

Her Talent, PatrAeon Benefits, provides a chance for enemies to be inflicted with Firekiss after they take damage from Burn. While suffering from Firekiss, enemies receive additional damage from all sources. This effect lasts for three turns and can stack up to three times.

Guinaifen’s Eidolon Levels, which can be upgraded by pulling additional copies of her, further boost her capabilities. Eidolon 1 adds a chance of reducing the enemy’s Effect RES to Guinaifen’s Skill. Eidolon 2 enables Guinaifen’s Basic Attack and Skill to increase the damage multiplier of the Burn status affecting her target. Eidolon 4 regenerates Energy for Guinaifen whenever Burn inflicted by her damages an enemy. Finally, Eidolon 6 allows Firekiss to stack four times instead of three.

Honkai: Star Rail – Guinaifen: best Light Cones

Guinaifen primarily wants two stats: ATK to boost the damage of her Burn and Effect Hit Rate to increase the chance of Burn actually being inflicted on enemies. The Nihility has several great Light Cones to offer that support these needs. Those Many Springs is likely the best of them for her, providing a massive Effect Hit Rate boost and an additional debuff that makes foes more vulnerable to incoming damage, complementing Guinaifen’s role.

Best Light Cones for Guinaifen in HSR:

• Those Many Springs (5-Star)
• Incessant Rain (5-Star)
• Reforged in Remembrance (5-Star)
• In the Name of the World (5-Star)
• Patience Is All You Need (5-Star)
• Solitary Healing (5-Star)
• Eyes of the Prey (4-Star)
• Before the Tutorial Mission Starts (4-Star)
• It’s Showtime (4-Star)
• Good Night and Sleep Well (4-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Guinaifen: best Relics

The stated goals from above still apply, making ATK and Effect Hit Rate the highest priorities for Guinaifen. It’s noteworthy that she’s also one of the most fragile characters in the game, so you won’t regret having some HP or other defensive attributes on her equipment.

Best Relic Sets for Guinaifen in HSR:

• Prisoner in Deep Confinement (4) – +12% ATK, wearer’s attacks will ignore 6% of enemy’s DEF for every DoT the target is suffering from, counting up to three DoTs.
• Firesmith of Lava-Forging (4) – +10% Fire DMG, +12% Skill DMG, and another +12% Fire DMG for the next attack after using the Ultimate.

Best Planar Ornaments for Guinaifen in HSR:

• Pan-Cosmic Commercial Enterprise (2) – +10% Effect Hit Rate, ATK increases by an amount equal to 25% of the wearer’s Effect Hit Rate up to a maximum of 25%.

Best stats for Guinaifen in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), ATK %, Effect Hit Rate, SPD, HP % or DEF %
• Hands – ATK (Primary), ATK %, Effect Hit Rate, SPD, HP % or DEF %
• Body – ATK % (Primary), Effect Hit Rate, SPD, ATK, HP % or DEF %
• Feet – SPD (Primary), ATK %, Effect Hit Rate, ATK, HP % or DEF %
• Planar Sphere – Fire DMG (Primary), ATK %, Effect Hit Rate, SPD, HP % or DEF %
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), ATK %, Effect Hit Rate, SPD, HP % or DEF %

Honkai: Star Rail – Guinaifen: best teams

Guinaifen is perfect to fill the role of a secondary DoT-focused DPS on a team, especially to round off a composition that is focused on Fire DMG, since her Talent can inflict Firekiss on characters afflicted with Burn even if that status has not been caused by Guinaifen herself.

• Kafka (Main DPS), Black Swan (Sub DPS), Guinaifen (Sub DPS), Huohuo (Support)

Guinaifen is a fantastic complementary character to Kafka, as the Stellaron Hunter can trigger DoT effects multiple times thanks to her own abilities. Kafka also boosts the DoT enemies take with her Follow-Up Attacks, helping Guinaifen deal additional damage. Black Swan further raises the lethality of this composition with her own kit, giving you a highly dangerous trio. Huohuo is great to round the team out, providing healing, offensive buffs, and additional Energy.

Honkai: Star Rail – Guinaifen: ascension materials

Here’s everything you need to know to get Guinaifen ascended to the maximum level and upgrade all of her talents.

Guinaifen requires the following ascension materials to get to level 80 in addition to the necessary XP:

• Credits x246,000
• Artifex’s Module x12
• Artifex’s Cogwheel x13
• Artifex’s Gyreheart x12
• Searing Steel Blade x50

You can collect Artifex’s Modules, Cogwheels, and Gyrehearts from enemies on the Xianzhou Luofu as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Artifex’s Modules are one of the materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material. Searing Steel Blades are available from the Stagnant Shadow (Great Mine). The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes across the cosmos.

Guinaifen requires the following materials to upgrade her combat abilities and Traces:

• Credits x2,400,000
• Artifex’s Module x28
• Artifex’s Cogwheel x42
• Artifex’s Gyreheart x42
• Obsidian of Dread x12
• Obsidian of Desolation x54
• Obsidian of Obsession x105
• Regret of Infinite Ochema x12
• Tracks of Destiny x5

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Obsidians can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (Great Mine). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by using up lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Regret of Infinite Ochema is a rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Scalegorge Waterscape) domain, while Tracks of Destiny can be obtained during time-limited events, the Embers Exchange, the Nameless Honor, or as a Simulated Universe Points Reward.