Highlights
- Fu Xuan in Honkai: Star Rail stands out as a unique five-star Quantum Preservation unit, as she does not apply shields to herself or allies.
- Unlike other Preservation units, Fu Xuan's skills are oriented around HP rather than DEF, making her normal attack deal more damage with higher HP.
- Fu Xuan serves her role as a Preservation unit well despite not shielding her allies, and players can prioritize her ultimate and skill for her utility. Her ascension abilities enhance her healing and grant allies the ability to ignore crowd control debuffs.
Honkai: Star Rail has continued to impress players with its new characters. New five-stars have yet to disappoint, and Fu Xuan happily follows that trend with her unique kit, as she is the first Preservation unit that does not apply a shield to herself or allies. Honkai: Star Rail's Fu Xuan is a five-star Quantum Preservation unit whose uses stretch far and wide.
Fu Xuan continues to break trends as well, as unlike the other Honkai: Star Rail Preservation units, she does not scale with DEF. Instead, Fu Xuan's skills ascend and orient around HP. Even her normal attack, which isn't a priority skill, follows her kit's trend and deals more damage with higher HP. Players don't need to be worried about such a unique kit though. Despite not shielding her allies, Fu Xuan still serves her role as a Preservation unit wonderfully well.
Honkai: Star Rail - Fu Xuan's Kit
When it comes to figuring out which of Fu Xuan's traces to prioritize, players should put most of their focus into her ultimate and skill. They are where most of Fu Xuan's utility comes from, after all. Honkai: Star Rail players should also do their best to level Fu Xuan as high as they can to unlock her ascension bonuses. The most important of which are her fourth and sixth ascension abilities.
Fu Xuan's ascension ability, Dunjia, the Metamystic, allows her ultimate to heal her allies by 5% of her HP on top of its current use. Her ultimate deals AoE damage that scales off of her HP and then triggers her talent. Her talent is always up when she's in battle and reduces damage for her teammates. However, when Fu Xuan uses her ultimate, her talent triggers again to heal her for a large chunk of her missing HP. This can happen twice in a battle.
Fu Xuan's sixth ascension ability, Liuren, the Sexagenary, grants allies the ability to ignore a crowd control debuff from enemies once. This can be refreshed after another uses from her skill. Blocking debuffs, reducing damage, and healing herself makes Fu Xuan a mix between a support and a tank. This is wonderful news for players who can't figure out what teams to use or have spent ages flipping between different characters. Adding a sense of stability in Fu Xuan's team comps is a much-needed relief for players who have pulled her.
However, players should note that her healing from her ultimate might not be enough to make her a sustainable healer for a team. Luckily, Fu Xuan dropped alongside Lynx, a healer who she has a lot of synergy with. Fu Xuan can be used alongside almost anybody though, so players don't need to panic if they don't have a specific unit. However, if players want to test her skill alone to see if they need a healer on the team with her, a great place to test would be Memory of Chaos. Since this allows players to run two different teams at once, they can experiment with Fu Xuan's capabilities and see how they should change her for their needs.
Should players find they want to invest a lot into Fu Xuan, they don't need to worry about dishing out a lot of Stellar Jade. She has plenty of free-to-play light cones that she can use. We Are Wildfire may be the most accessible weapon for the master diviner. However, the three-star Defense light cone is another easy pick for Fu Xuan. Players can easily build her and slot her into teams as needed.
Honkai: Star Rail is available now on Mobile, PC, and PS5.
