Honkai: Star Rail – Natasha build and ascension guide

Come and get your shot with the best Honkai: Star Rail Natasha build that keeps your team alive and kicking. This good-hearted underground doctor and secret leader of Wildfire follows the Path of The Abundance and deals Physical DMG thanks to her immense gun. Natasha is going to be a staple in many teams, as she’s a free character and likely the first healer you’ll ever get in the game.

Natasha’s Skill, Love, Heal, and Choose, heals a single ally based on Natasha’s Max HP. The target will gain automatic, though weaker, heals for two additional turns as well.

Her Ultimate, Gift of Rebirth, heals the entire party based on Natasha’s Max HP, making her kit pretty straightforward and focused on keeping the team alive. Her Talent, Innervation, boosts Natasha’s Outgoing Healing whenever she targets an ally that has 30% HP or less.

Natasha’s Eidolon levels, which you get by pulling duplicates of her, have even more buffs to her healing powers in store. Level 1 focuses on her own survivability, automatically triggering a heal on herself once per battle in case she falls below 30% of her HP. Level 2 enables her Gift of Rebirth to provide healing for another turn to any ally at 30% HP or lower. Level 4 regenerates five extra Energy when Natasha is attacked, while the final and sixth level boosts Natasha’s own damage output by adding Physical DMG equal to 40% of her Max HP to Basic Attacks.

Honkai: Star Rail – Natasha: best Light Cones

Natasha has access to a signature Light Cone, which is named Post-Op Conversation and is a pretty solid option for her as it boosts her Energy Regeneration and Outgoing Healing when she uses her Ultimate, but it’s not her best choice.

Time Waits for No One, the signature Light Cone of Bailu, increases the wearer’s Max HP and Outgoing Healing, which in Natasha’s case are both significantly boosting her healing power. In addition, this Light Cone will once per turn record the Outgoing Healing value for a heal and then deal damage to a random enemy based on that amount when the character healed by the wearer makes an attack. The Damage Type of this attack depends on the wearer of the Light Cone, which thus allows the healer to contribute some damage output to the team.

Best Light Cones for Natasha in HSR:

• Time Waits for No One (5-Star)
• Post-Op Conversation (4-Star)
• Warmth Shortens Cold Nights (4-Star)
• Shared Feeling (4-Star)
• Cornucopia (3-Star)
• Multiplication (3-Star)

Honkai: Star Rail – Natasha: best Relics

HP and Outgoing Healing are the two critical stats for Natasha you’ll want to boost through Relics, which isn’t surprising. SPD is always a great attribute to boost as well, as it allows for quicker actions and is a requirement for some Planar Ornaments to provide their full effects, so that’s another one to get. The same goes for Energy Regeneration, which allows a character to get their Ultimate into action much sooner.

Best Relic Sets for Natasha in HSR:

• Passerby of Wandering Cloud (2) + Messenger Traversing Hackerspace (2) – +10% Outgoing Healing + 6% SPD.
• Passerby of Wandering Cloud (4) – +10% Outgoing Healing, recovers one Skill Point at the start of battle.

Best Planar Ornaments for Natasha in HSR:

• Giant Tree of Rapt Brooding (2) – +6% SPD, +12%/20% Outgoing Healing when the wearer’s SPD is 135/180 or higher.
• Fleet of the Ageless (2) – +12% Max HP, +8% ATK for all allies when the wearer’s SPD is 120 or higher.

Best stats for Natasha in HSR:

• Head – HP (Primary), HP %, SPD, Effect RES, DEF %
• Hands – ATK (Primary), HP %, SPD, Effect RES, HP
• Body – Outgoing Healing (Primary),  HP %, SPD, Effect RES, HP
• Feet – SPD (Primary), HP %, Effect RES, HP, DEF %
• Planar Sphere – HP % (Primary), HP, SPD, Effect RES, DEF %
• Link Rope – Energy Regeneration (Primary), HP %, SPD, Effect RES, HP

Honkai: Star Rail – Natasha: best teams

Natasha is useful on basically any team that needs a healer, which is most of them. Being the very first, most basic character of the role you get access to, she’s naturally been eclipsed by every one of her peers since the game launched, but that’s alright — she still does a brilliant job in most story content.

• Trailblazer (Destruction) (Main DPS), Asta (Support), March 7th (Preservation) (Support), Natasha (Support)

This team filled with freely unlockable characters is one you can field quite early on in the game and will be strong enough to get you through most big fights in the story. Natasha and March 7th (Preservation) are on defensive duties, keeping the team safe, while Asta boosts the offensive capabilities of the Trailblazer (Destruction).

Honkai: Star Rail – Natasha: ascension materials

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

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

• Credits x246,000
• Ancient Part x12
• Ancient Spindle x13
• Ancient Engine x12
• Broken Teeth of Iron Wolf x50

You can collect Ancient Parts, Ancient Spindles, and Ancient Engines from enemies in the Robot Settlement or the Great Mine as well as the Simulated Universe. You can create or exchange them through the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express, too. Ancient Parts are one of the base materials you can easily farm through the Daily Assignments to your characters, making for a steady income of the material. 

Broken Teeth of Iron Wolf are dropped by the Stagnant Shadow (Great Mine) or gained through exchange. The best source of Credits are the Golden Calyxes found on many worlds.

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

• Credits x2,400,000
• Ancient Part x28
• Ancient Spindle x42
• Ancient Engine x42
• Seed of Abundance x12
• Sprout of Life x54
• Flower of Eternity x105
• Guardian’s Lament x12
• Tracks of Destiny x5

For the materials already mentioned, check above. Seed of Abundance, Sprout of Life, and Flower of Eternity can be farmed in the Crimson Calyx (Backwater Pass). As usual, you can create the high-level materials by investing lower-level materials in the Omni-Synthesizer on the Astral Express.

Guardian’s Lament is a rarer material only gained from the Echo of War (Everwinter Hill) 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.