Huohuo vs Luocha, Comparison of the 2 Best Healers on Honkai Star Rail

Coffin Man or Fearful Foxian?

Honkai Star Rail is a turn-based game where your strategic prowess is truly tested to win battles. In turn-based games, the presence of defensive characters like healers is generally crucial.

No matter how powerful your DPS is, it won't be of any use if the DPS cannot attack, either because they are dead or under a debuff.

This is where a healer comes in as a savior. Besides providing protection, a healer's presence indirectly increases the team's survivability.

Currently, in Honkai Star Rail, there are only two 5-star limited healer characters: Huohuo and Luocha.
Undoubtedly, both characters are the best healers in the game.

However, there is still much debate among players about who is the superior healer between the two.

So, without further ado, let's discuss each of them one by one.

Comparison of Huohuo and Luocha

The comparison chart above is purely my opinion, and you don't have to take it as an absolute benchmark.

Healing Aspect

Let's dive into the healing aspect. As you can see, Huohuo excels much more than Luocha in terms of AoE heal and Continuous Heal.

Huohuo's skill provides a high-impact blast heal, and her passive offers continuous healing. The passive is easy to trigger—just use her passive skill, and it activates right away.

On the flip side, Luocha can provide area healing, but the amount is considerably smaller and depends on how often you land hits on enemies when Luocha's passive is active.

While Luocha's passive is active, your team will continuously receive sustained skills when attacking enemies. However, activating this passive requires precise rotation and well-timed attacks to keep it active continuously.

In terms of emergency healing, Luocha has the upper hand. She can automatically provide a substantial heal when a teammate's HP drops below 50%.

Huohuo can also perform automatic healing, but the amount is too small. To deliver a significant heal, you have to wait for Huohuo's turn and unleash her skill.

Cleanse Debuff

For cleansing debuffs, Huohuo has a significant advantage. While her passive is active, she can automatically cleanse debuffs for all characters when their turn arrives or when they unleash their ultimate.

In contrast, Luocha can cleanse debuffs through her skill, but it's only for one person. The skill can automatically activate when a teammate's HP drops below 50%, but the cooldown is quite long—2 turns.

Debuff

In terms of debuffs, Huohuo loses out because she can't inflict debuffs on enemies. Luocha, on the other hand, can provide debuffs by removing buffs from enemies, and it can be applied to all enemies simultaneously.

Buff

In the buff department, Luocha falls behind because she can't provide buffs to teammates. Huohuo, on the other hand, can offer buffs such as increased attack and energy regeneration to all her teammates.

SP Efficiency

Now, in terms of SP efficiency, Luocha is clearly superior to Huohuo. Luocha doesn't need to spend much SP—she can simply stay put and provide healing to her team. On the other hand, Huohuo requires SP to ensure her passive skill remains active. While she doesn't always need SP on her turn, occasionally when her passive is about to end, she still needs more SP than Luocha.

From the chart and discussion above, you can see that Huohuo and Luocha have their own strengths and weaknesses.

So, my suggestion is to pick one if possible because whoever you get, that character will surely be valuable to your team.

Or perhaps you can go for both; that would be even better.