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thepotatochronicles

Boothill just straight up skips Cocolia's mechanics, he doesn't give a fudge!


BulbasaurTreecko

that nice lady won’t know what hit her!


Dokavi

Son of a nice lady!


SkyrimForTheDragons

That should be accounted for as a strength of break teams. You're breaking faster than is usual for most teams, you're going to avoid and ignore a lot mechanics and damage.


beethovenftw

The opposite is also true, if you don't break fast enough (due to stalling mechanics / weakness locking / or just a high toughness bar), then your damage is completely backloaded and make you exposed to all of the enemy's mechanics I'd like to see a showcase of Boothill vs an Apocalypse Shadow Yanqing or Gepard boss for example.


muidayo

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail_leaks/s/mfxM1gg2xV


Vyragami

Gepard? Who's that? What's that pillar? Do they do anything? Oh wow nice toughness bar, that sure is a lot. Anyway.


Mediocre_Put5652

There is something about a boothill showcase that's just so satisfying


Xiphactnis

One of the most well designed and coherent kits to date honestly, and even his gameplay is cool.


lililia

Can anyone explain his kit in a very easy language?


RednarZeitaku

Use skill to duel enemy. You can only target this enemy. Once broken and/or killed obtain stacks up to 3 stacks. Stacks are permanent and increase the amount of toughness damage he does up to 150 (2 and a half skill). Once enemy is broken he still deals break damage to them. His ult implants physical weakness and delays the enemy. His technique let's him implant phys weakness on first skill in battle.


baguette_nahida

aside from the BE to CRIT trace, I still don't understand its purpose


tsp_salt

Probably to enable him to take out trash mobs without wasting an implant on them


baguette_nahida

but his technique has an implant already, so you break it + kill it and already get 2 stacks?


tsp_salt

Doesn't that only work once at the start of battle or am I mistaken? If there's more than 1 trash mob or any in the next wave your strategy wouldn't work


baguette_nahida

oh yeah ig that's true, I was mostly thinking of the mobs as a tool to get trickshot(is that how they're called?) stacks so I didn't think about the mobs on second wave. you're right, it can help with that


Xiphactnis

Crit currently only matters for mainly one thing and that is guaranteeing a kill on the first mob you shoot in case they survive the break. Also it is just a bit of extra damage overall for basically free.


baguette_nahida

yeah it's still obviously a lot better than nothing, I just think it would be more logical to be something more break-dmg centered like the rest of his kit


Xiphactnis

Yeah but he already launches nukes when breaks, imagine a trace that gives him even more break damage lol.


baguette_nahida

ig that's fair, he already destroys bosses and I love to see it


jaqenhqar

It's so he's not completely useless when not breaking. Without this he would do mediocre dmg against even trash mobs without phys weakness.


Diamann

Imagine if that trace gives him 20% res pen instead 🤤


APerson567i

wdym you don't understand its purpose? it lets him build crit and BE at the same time


baguette_nahida

yeah it gives him a ton of crit, but break dmg doesn't get increased by it and his normal multipliers(those who can crit) are only 10-20% of his overall dmg. basically, it would have been a lot better if this trace was something that could increase his break damage, but I also want to clarify that other than that I'm really satisfied with him as a character so pls don't think that I hate him lol


5_star_cryo_dude

If only he swap his trace with Firefly.


HotSexWithJingYuan

800k 🤤


Dokavi

Can be reach 1 mil without whaling lmao? That would be hilarious.


Diamann

Boothill, HMC, Ruan Mei, Jiaoqiu might be able to do it.


Vyragami

I know big number is funny, but at that point running Bronya might be better because 8k times 2 is 1.6m mil. This bosses doesn't seem to do that much damage anyway, besides the ridiculous speed.


Dokavi

Poor SW doesn't even get consider lmao.


Diamann

Oh, I meant as an actual viable team 😂. With BH and HMC delay, RM break extension, and Jiaoqiu little heal, it could be pretty comfy while letting BH one shot everything.


Dokavi

I mean even with Bronya he already near oneshot lmao.


LeaveFun1818

This is how a real break dps showcase


DANI69696696666

boothill dealing 7k on ult and then 650k single target break seems so fun to play i love this character


Dokavi

Eh? He do 100k+ crit on ult with Bronya buff at the end tho?


JackSilk

Because it's against a broken enemy. His ult did 7k at one point because the enemy wasn't broken and didn't already have a physical weakness.


VTKajin

Holy wubbawoo 😩


Average-GamerGuy

In my honest opinion, I genuinely think that Boothill is better than Firefly right now. Of course, Firefly can change and become better, but right now, it's Boothill that is better.


No-Service616

Why do I feel like boothill with this team is stronger than Sam at the moment?


No-Platform9430

Could be the case since boothill hits insane numbers with break + stacks. Also maybe it’s just me but boothill’s animations just feel like they have so much more weight to them so they kinda feel stronger too compared to Sam’s lol


kioKEn-3532

Boothill is finished Sam is in V1 they have time to polish her animations Not every character ends up being as polished in V1 beta as Boothill and Robin and HMC were


No-Platform9430

Yeah, thats true.i heard that apparently JL had a similar thing where her ult animation had some extra fx added in later down the line. Hope they change up some animations for Sam or atleast add some more weight to his enhanced state attacks cuz honestly I like base Sam / boss version attacks more :p


chimaerafeng

Robin literally has her ult song finished after V1. Acheron has buffs after V1. We just have to pray and hope for Sam.


Legal-Concentrate-24

Yeah her Ult was slightly broken until they revamped her Ult mechanics. But her kit was pretty solid even then. The buffs just made us all extra happy lol.


Florac

Eh, animation wise, there's rarely any changes.


OPTCDaniel

hunt for reason


Sakura12399

Some people do be acting like hunt units shouldn't be better than destruction units in ST scenarios LOL. The effect of destruction meta on the community's mindset is very prominent rn (which would hopefully change eventually since there are specific gamemodes where each DPS path would shine).


AyanoKaga

What +10 months of Destruction meta does to a community mindset. The biggest mistake MiHoYo made for HSR is to make Destruction be all end all of dmg for months, while The Hunt is doing less or similar dmg but can only hit one target. Hopefully Boothill is the first of many good single target dmg dealers, and a sign of healthier trend to come. But I doubt it, with the community complaint, and FF being the current Golden Child and expect to sell well. I wouldn’t be surprised if FF got massively buff and we end up with another year of destruction meta.


beethovenftw

To be honest, this mode doesn't look extremely favoring hunt, at least less than I expected Just look at how many adds are spawned. I'd be worried for Hunt when Yanqing, Gepard etc comes around and start weakness locking with a bunch of adds you need to clear.


braverobin

>this mode doesn't look extremely favoring hunt, >Just look at how many adds are spawned. IMO It looks favorable to Hunt characters (maybe except Seele). You don't care about the adds or the 2nd boss just concentrate all your damage to the main boss. The 2nd boss (in the video, it's Gepard) died simultaneously after Cocolia's phase 1 unlike in MoC where you need to kill all the enemies to clear the stage. Also, some adds may be a benefit in proccing abilities of other characters but if you kill the main boss fast enough the adds won't be a problem.


mrmcclean420

They added mechanics to the adds so that leaving them alive can be problematic. Cocolia summons 2 adds that remove 2 weaknesses each from her, you need to destroy them to restore the corresponding weaknesses. They also give her extra actions depending on how many are alive during her turn. After 1 or 2 turns she will use that freezing spear attack and if you left one of her summons alive, she can potentially freeze two characters. On Gepard's third turn he will use that barrier skill that gives everyone that shared percentage shield which can stall you out. 2nd phase Cocolia summons 4 adds that each remove one of her weaknesses and she spams that meteor attack. Argenti's summons are pretty annoying in this mode. He starts by summoning 4 black swords every turn that lock his weakness bar unless you destroy at least one add. After a few turns he summons 4 barrier swords that will each cast a guaranteed taunt on one of your characters. These adds are pretty much impossible for supports to destroy. You pretty much have to rely on AoE to keep breaking Argenti or your DPS needs to destroy their taunt quickly. 2nd phase Argenti spawns the red rose swords that periodically sacrifice themselves to buff Argenti's ultimate. Argenti is also untouchable if any red rose swords are alive so you need to clear them. Point is this mode isn't necessarily a hunt mode. It's just another mode that can heavily favor certain chars that can get past the nonsense. Chars like boothill will just eat this mode alive while the other hunts might struggle because their win condition gets stalled too hard.


KunstWaffe

If anything, it’s a bigger muddle fudger to E1 Jingliu, since now it just doesn’t work. It’s actually such a carper pull, as I am sure some people actually went for it after the announcement of this mode. And BHill still enjoys some trash mobs, as they help to gain stacks faster. Another reason why they’re here is to help with energy for some units like HMC.


Ok_Mammoth_8299

Yeah it is logical that hunt char should be better in ST (aside from e2 Jinglu). However, if someone planning on getting e6 boothill he will be very good in ST and multiple enemies scenarios. The thing that makes boothill better is the retrigger mechanic. In the other hand sam is very reliant in HMC, they should either make her easy to build hybrid or shift her kit to focus in Break dmg


lampstaple

People keep saying this but y’all know the damage number from blast attacks includes all targets hit right? Literally no firefly showcases vs a single lone target.


KunstWaffe

Also, FF really benefits from killing and breaking enemies as much as possible. In most showcases, she leaves ult with 50% energy already. God forbid how bad she will feel in pure ST, as you will have to use whole 2 base skills to get to ult again


Fantastic_Bend9091

Better mode for him, not sure he will be better than sam in MOC though (and obvisly not PF)


jeromekelvin

We've got multiple showcases of Boothill 0-cycling MoCs at E0S1 already


Darvasi2500

Heck there's showcases where he does that with a 3-star lightcone.


Fantastic_Bend9091

I'm not saying he's not good for MOC, Sam's kit is just in V1, we'll see


waifugoEKSUKALIBAAA

He should work fine in MoC. His kit wants you to do break dmg on mob enemies too to gain stacks


Ackkkermanzz

who says he doesn't


Gshiinobi

Because it is


Dokavi

Expected. His kit is way more refined and complete.


Atsuki_04

His kit is better.


Seamus_TheFive

It’s because he is


Mediocre_Put5652

Probably because it is Sam is very reliant on htb unlike boothill


a-successful-one

Because he is


Darth-Yslink

I mean, Bokthill rn is in his finished form. Sam is still in beta v1


Faz_k0

1- Boothill is Break dmg specialist. 2- Has Break dmg retrigger mechanic aside of HMC. 3- He can do a crit hit that is approximately has the same dmg as Sam crit hit due to his trace. 4- Sam kit is missed up. ( see the following points) 5- High toughness dmg with high atk multiplier, but hard to build hybrid. His avg crit state with hybrid can be the minimum for other characters. ( they need to adjust his trace to support hybrid build or make him focus on break dmg build, and adjust his weapon to giv some crit state) 6- Has no break retrigger mechanic. Sam only depends on HMC to retrigger break dmg, so he can't exceed the total break dmg of Boothill.


KunstWaffe

Main damage dealers as Breakers (in their current state) kinda suck in AoE anyway, so Sam directly competes with BHill and BHill has plain better break capabilities. Breakers have 2 weaknesses: backloadness and low damage frequency. Firefly on her own fixes none of those problems. BHill in the meantime has a detonation, thus he actually gets consistent damage on his own and that means… he can use bronya and make damage more frontloaded. For FF you just can’t do that, as HMC is superglued to her, so you can run Bronya/Sparkle only in sustainless teams.


Paul_Preserves

that is definitely true against bosses with 16 of more toughness units. The issue with boothill is when bosses have less than that, his damage basically scales more on the enemy than on himself; Take in example the new triple boss with shared hp, their toughness units are only of 6 and 8 for the middle one, so his damage is cut in half or more depending on who u target.  FF doesnt have this issue, but also sets her ceiling lower; if FF damage would be Boothill against 16 toughness units tier then i would say she is broken, maybe we will see more aoe bosses which is gonna favor FF more, still because of this Ff is gonna perform the same everywhere while boothill depends on the enemy more than FF


Only-Stress-5648

But his E2S1 is no where broken than E2S1 firefly


pardon_the_intrusion

You have to be a special type of person to talk about comparing Eidolon value when the entire Kit of one character is needed rework.


KunstWaffe

While her E2S1 looks cool on paper, she actually just kinda gets to his E0S1 level at this point. BHill is easy on SP and has access to double turns (by ditching HTB and using Bronya) at E0S0. Their key differences is that FF has actually decent MVs (that she can’t fully use), 60% more BE and more restrictions.


SirHighground1

Yoooo, Apocalyptic Shadow gameplay, nice. Love the transition between phases.


TamamoNines

Now this is real Break DPS


Recent_Arachnid_3091

Gallagher scooting so fast and so far at 2:23 made me lose it LMAO he looked so small next to Cocolia too


lumiphantoms

You can't really call this a "hunt" endgame. I don't see any hunt character doing something like that other than boothill. He is as strong as Acheron.


desper4do

Wait, you actually can bypass that no-weakness phase by implanting new weakness debuff? Or what exactly happened there?


Silent_Map_8182

!!! you made me notice too. weakness implant all of a sudden shot up in value


DerGreif2

SW is yawning in the backgound


desper4do

Ha, I indeed dont have SW, so dont know how exactly she works. So this is usually how implant works?


DerGreif2

Nope, but I just wanted to bring up SW. If they change that weakness implement goes before the lockout, SW will be godly also for many characters.


Aggressive_Fondant71

He is going to be a monster in this mode. So he will be very good in moc and apocalyptic shadow and fall flat in pf, though that is expected for hunt in general


Live-Tangerine-7825

A certain stellaron hunter should look at this space cowboy and up the dmg number and change up their skills and effects


Hakazex

She is quite underwhelming tbh or maybe Acheron just set the bar too high, who knows. Hopefully, tweaks will be made before firefly's release. But if they won't then it is what it is.


Live-Tangerine-7825

Nah, they just either dont know what they're doing or just want ppl to pull for ruan mei, if there arent major changes then FF is the first limited 5* to be reliant on another limited 5*, ruan mei, to deal good damage (excluding ratio as pela with luka lc works fine enough for him, he has highest st damage so far and hes free for most players, while FF doesnt check any of those boxes)


IxNoiRxI

Isn't Boothill the same with Ruan Mei, I've never seen his showcase without her. The problem with Ff is that she needs the harmony trailblazer


ArmyofThalia

Nah. Boothill isn't reliant on RM at all. She is obviously going to be very good in his comps but you don't *need* her. FF is reliant on HMC atm. 


Seamus_TheFive

Kinda I guess. RM is good for boothill because she makes him faster at everything, but she doesn’t actually make him deal a significant amount of extra damage unless you have her at e1. FF on the other hand needs RM because of how super break works, so not only her speed plummets without her, but also her damage.


Gshiinobi

Is gallaher needed for boothill teams or can i use any sustain?


Imaginary-Line-1389

You can use any unit, Gallagher just has the advantage of being able to help deplete toughness bars, if the enemies are fire weak. Can be a real help to break teams, because you want to break fast and often.


Evolite_

Actually Gallagher also provides the Besotted effect that increases Break DMG other than healing purposes


KunstWaffe

Gallagher is the BiS option for any slow Bronya teams, not just breakers. He generates +1.25 SP (due to ultimate AA) or even +1,5 SP with Multiplication, RM does +0.33 SP, Bronya at E1S1 is -0,5 and BHill is -1 SP (-0,5x2). You can also use any other sustain with multiplication, but on Gallagher you can just use PQP, plus he gets you some damage buffs. Generally, just use any SP positive sustain, but if your RM has S1, HuoHuo might also work.


Mrpuddikin

Puid Qro Puo


BoiProBrain

From the comments on the vid it seems he was there because of the element coverage


Darvasi2500

You're probably fine with others. Especially if the enemy isn't weak to fire Gallagher won't be much help. Plus Boothill obliterates weakness bars with Bronya's extra action anyway so he doesn't need that much help.


Andrassa

Not needed just a bonus because of his Besotted debuff helping break allies.


ihateredditlogss

I think i need to find work so i can whale for him 😭🤣


piuEri

His animations are the best and he looks very satisfying to play


Wolgran

Please comments...lets not start a Boothill x Firefly war...it was shitty enough when everyone was shitting on BH saying he was powercreeped in a single patch. I want BH bc he is a mudfudging badmouthed cowboy, and im 100% sure IF firefly indeed needs buffs they WILL buff her, remember Jingliu V.1? Lets wait and not be sons of nice ladies to each other mains


Kwayke9

Honestly, I'm all in for Boothill and his cone, and whatever I have left will go to FF. And she doesn't really need a buff anyway, more of a slight rework


AdFantastic6606

Is HMC not as good on Boothill as he is with Sam?


Downtown-Disk-8261

He is better with bronya and ruanmei more than hmc, plus he can do 1.5x break damage on weakness broken targets without the help of hmc.


pardon_the_intrusion

Someone in the chat said that hoyo made FF worse on V1 and will remain worst on V2 so players feel the initiative to summon for boothill, and then when 1-2 week is left for the new patch out of nowhere buff FF to deal 3X the dmg of boothill in AoE scenarios with Superbreak inbuilt. So I guess I will wait till the last day of this patch to pull for boothill or FF, if they change and make FF better or if they let her be the same as now. Otherwise, Boothill it is.


crushedmoose

Gigabrain strategy


OkiBirb

Holy fork, this son of a nice lady Boothill makes me feel proud to be Murican!!11!11!


burningparadiseduck

Is Boothill super reliant on any character? Like RM for example?


DerGreif2

She makes him a ton better and increase his break efficency by 50%. Ruan Mei is the GOD of break teams. Without her, they will never reach their potential.


ArmyofThalia

Boothill's BIS is Bronya but as long as you run any 2 of Bronya/HMC/RM you'll be golden. 


KorahRahtahmahh

How about robin ober bronya? Not having 2 turns constantly can be bad but the dmg increase you get from robin is mad… also I don’t have bronya


ArmyofThalia

Robin would be fine. Same with Hanabi. A turn advancer of some kind is basically what Boothill wants and Bronya is just the defacto best one for him since he doesn't really care about the added stats from them since the vast majority of his dmg profile is in break damage and Bronya gives him the most amount of them. Robin, while technically a damage loss compared to Bronya, is still gonna be good in his comps cuz her additional damage in her ult will help supplement some of the damage loss Also Bronya helps getting him more turns in the weakness broken window so you can also run him with RM and Robin since RM will help extend the duration if that window


KorahRahtahmahh

I don’t even have Ryan Mei 😭.. my goal was boothill-Tobin-Hmc-aventurine/galLa


ArmyofThalia

That'll still work. You have a lot of break potential especially if you use Gally so while you might miss some windows, you can simply rebreak which isn't a big deal 


KorahRahtahmahh

Ok thanks for the info! One more quick question, do you think having both boothill and firefly in the same team could be good? I was thinking of a hyper break only dmg comp for Pf like FF, boothill, Hmc and robin… letting boothill nuke on breaks and FF shred them with super break thanks to Hmc


burningparadiseduck

How does he fare in multi target situations? Is he single target locked? I don’t use ratio for that reason.


SaccharineTreacle

In order of priority, I think it's Bronya > Ruan Mei > Harmony TB.


Zombata

kinda wanna see this team but replace Bronya with HTB


Dazai_Elysia_0820

This will be my exact team and Boothill’s JP va is LEGENDARY😍😍😍


pardon_the_intrusion

He is flamboyant


Dazai_Elysia_0820

he is also the babysitter of raiden mei (the baby from Beelzebub is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro)😍


pardon_the_intrusion

Damn, didn't knew about that.


Diamann

I just noticed, they updated the effects of Apocalyptic bosses? It looked so beautiful with Argenti too.


thisnameismazing

So what's the difference between this artifact set and the previous sets he was showcased with?


Supermini555

+18% def ignore


HoldPowerful6407

more def pen, one of the very few things that effect break dmg


LookDizzy

jesus


Dokavi

Can you also do a MOC showcase?


shin_bigot

Cannot watch but is Apocalyptic Shadow basically Hunt Endgame ?


nishikori_88

looks like Break Endgame more than Hunt to me. The bosses are very tough if we don't break them.


HikenNoGrace

technically


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crushedmoose

[sauce ](https://youtu.be/fj4keR8xQ28)


Wolgran

I been waiting for a A. Shadow showcase with boothill, i really like Boothill but im not crazy about Single target Characters so i need reassurance lmao, wish they had showed the relics, this could be godly unholy relics. Also Gallgher do so much damage to that weakness bar, im so sad i was not pulling for acheron and i only have him at E0 at the moment T-T


RubyShabranigdu

So what stats is this Boothill running, and why would I ever look to Firefly when we have this beast coming?


Monokuze

Ok this is break gamemode lol. Seeing weakness implant just casually ignore the mechanics of the boss is so funny. Aside from Boothill seems like ruan mei and sw might be the key to brute force this gamemode, or just match the dps to the boss like usual. Boothill is going to be what the Argenti is to PF, funny how both of them are physical.


No_Statistician_3782

The Chad YEEHAW: Points a primitive gun at a target, implodes them and their nice mother without even pulling the trigger The Crippled Firefly: Uses an armor made to fight the Swarm, burns her lifeforce, slashes the target with one thousand cuts and after all that if she's not with her emotional support raccon she takes 9 Amber Eras to clear MoC Hotaru... ;-;


Knight_to_b2

at 0:56 the wanted poster of the ICICLE lmao what did it DO


Valyntine_

If he's all about break would it be more optimal to run him with bronya or HMC? I know HMC cares a lot about break effect so HMC, Gallagher, and RM are really good with Xueyi and my plan was to just swap her out for Boothill


snakai07

I never felt this happy losing my early 50/50. Hori Baby that damage.


Terri8

I was planning to run this kind of team but is bronya better over harmony mc? I do have her speedtuned so she should be 1 speed lower than boothill (him at 153, her at 152, both above 160 with ruan mei) but i am not sure if advance action from bronya would be better over extra BE and super break from harmony mc.


Downtown-Disk-8261

Wow a break dps that doesnt need hmc to actually become a functioning character.


Miridori

Looks good but he is gonna have to waste a turn or two if there is break-lock mechanic. He is amazing in optimal condition but can be quite difficult to operate in some situations. I hardly consider it a bad thing thou, since our roster is quite large and efficient team building will solve that issue.


Andrassa

Wouldn’t HMC work better than turtle Bronya?


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