Trailblazers touched down in Penacony and met a whole new cast of characters including Honkai Star Rail's Gallagher - a member of the Bloodhound Family and part-time bartender. He's a four-star character following the Abundance and can heal your team while also dishing out some fiery damage while using neon pink Wolverine-like claws. How cool is that?
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Here's everything you need to know about building Honkai Star Rail's Gallagher:
What's the best Gallagher build?
Gallagher is a four-star fire-element character who treads the path of the Abundance. Gallagher can restore your teammate's HP with his skill, talent, and his traces are not to be sniffed at - he may be a four-star, but he's the best four-star healer in the game, ranking at the top of most tier lists.
Gallagher can debuff enemies so they take more break effect damage, while also dealing quite a bit of fire damage, considering he's an Abundance follower.
Here's a brief overview of our best Gallagher build:
| Rarity | ★★★★ |
| Element | Fire |
| Path | Abundance |
| Best light cone | Scent Alone Stays True |
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| Best relic set | Messenger Traversing Hackerspace and Passerby of Wandering Cloud |
| Best planar ornaments | Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern |
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Gallagher's best light cone is Scent Alone Stays True. His best relics are a combination of Messenger Traversing Hackerspace and Passerby of Wandering Cloud, and his best planar ornament set is Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern. You should aim to boost his speed, HP, outgoing healing, and break effect.
What is the best light cone for Gallagher?
Gallagher's best light cone is the five-star cone, Scent Alone Stays True. As his ultimate deals damage rather than healing his teammates, this cone's effect boosts both his damage output and his break effect significantly.
If you missed out on this limited five-star light cone, there are plenty of great Abundance options. Quid Pro Quo is useful in an energy-hungry team, as is Post-Op Conversation, and Night of Fright is simply one of the best five-star cones for healers, providing healing, energy regeneration, and attack boosts.
Here are the best HSR Gallagher light cones:
| Scent Alone Stays True | Increases Gallagher's break effect by 60%. After Gallagher uses his Ultimate to attack enemy targets, he inflicts the targets with the "Woefree" state, lasting for two turns. While in "Woefree," enemy targets take 10% increased damage. The effect of increasing damage taken is additionally boosted by 8% if Gallagher's current break effect is 150% or higher |
| Night of Fright | Increases Gallagher's energy regeneration rate by 12%. When any ally uses their Ultimate, Gallagher restores HP for the ally currently with the lowest HP percentage by an amount equal to 10% of the healed ally's max HP. When Gallagher provides healing for an ally, he increases the healed ally's attack by 2.4%. This effect can stack up to five times and lasts for two turns |
| Quid Pro Quo | At the start of Gallagher's turn, he regenerates eight energy for a randomly chosen ally (excluding himself) whose current energy is lower than 50% |
| Post-Op Conversation | Increases Gallagher's energy regeneration rate by 8% and increases outgoing healing when he uses his Ultimate by 12% |
What are the best relics for Gallagher?
The best relic sets to equip him with are a two-piece set of Passerby of Wandering Cloud, and either Messenger Traversing Hackerspace or a break effect boosting two-piece, depending on how your stats turn out. Really, there aren't any four-piece sets that really work for him, unless you want to capitalize on skill points with a full set of Passerby. This would mean you need excellent sub and main stats, however.
Remember that primarily, Gallagher is a healer, so focus on that more than any fire-boosting relics. Speed is helpful to make sure he moves first, so you can heal up when you need to, but attack and break effect are also important to ensure he can do some damage, and make his passive - Novel Concoction - worthwhile. You should aim for around 150% break effect.
Here are HSR Gallagher's best relics:
| Passerby of Wandering Cloud | Two equipped: Increases Gallagher's outgoing healing by 10% Four equipped: When starting a battle, Gallagher regenerates one skill point |
Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Drifting on Jarilo-VI |
| Messenger Traversing Hackerspace | Two pieces: Increases Gallagher's speed by 6% Four equipped: not applicable |
Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Elixir Seekers on the Xianzhou Luofu |
| Watchmaker, Master of Dream Machinations | Two equipped: Increases Gallagher's break effect by 16 Four equipped: not applicable |
Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Dreamdive in Penacony's Reverie Hotel |
| Thief of Shooting Meteor | Two equipped: Increases Gallagher's break effect by 16% Four equipped: not applicable |
Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch on Jarilo-VI |
Planar ornaments
| Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern | Increases Gallagher's speed by 6%. When he hits enemies with fire weakness, his break effect increases by 40% for one turn | Obtain in the Divergent Universe - Eternal Comedy |
| Broken Keel | Increases Gallagher's effect resistance by 10%. When his effect resistance is 30% or higher, all teammate's crit damage increases by 10% | Obtain in the World 7 of the Simulated Universe |
| Talia: Kingdom of Banditry | Increases Gallagher's break effect by 16%. When his speed reaches 145 or higher, his break effect increases by a further 20% | Obtain in the World 4 of the Simulated Universe |
Relic stat recommendations
When you're picking relics for Gallagher, we recommend prioritizing the following stats:
Main stats:
- Body: outgoing healing
- Feet: speed
- Planar sphere: HP% or defense%
- Link rope: energy regeneration rate
Sub-stats:
- Speed
- Break effect
- Effect resistance
- HP
What are the best Gallagher team comps?
As a healer, Gallagher will fit nicely into a lot of teams. Given that he's also a debuffer, units like Dr. Ratio that take advantage of debuffed enemies will benefit from him on their team. He is an excellent and key teammate for both Firefly and Boothill, especially when paired with Ruan Mei and/or the Harmony Trailblazer.
 Gallagher |
 Boothill |
 Ruan Mei |
 Trailblazer (Harmony) |
| Gallagher |
 Firefly |
Ruan Mei |
Trailblazer (Harmony) |
| Gallagher |
 Dr. Ratio |
Ruan Mei |
 Welt |
| Gallagher |
 Acheron |
 Tingyun |
 Jiaoqiu |
| Gallagher |
 Feixiao |
 Robin |
Jiaoqiu |
What are Gallagher's skills?
Our resident bartender can cover a lot of bases as a member of your team. Gallagher can deal some fire damage, which does pack a punch with his enhanced basic attack, but his main priority is a lot of healing for your team.
Active skills:
| Basic attack | Corkage Fee Gallagher deals fire damage to one target equal to 90% of his attack stat |
| Enhanced basic attack | Nectar Blitz Gallagher deals fire damage equal to 225% of his attack stat to a single target while reducing the target's attack by 14%. This lasts for two turns |
| Skill |
Special Brew Heals a target ally for 1,200 HP |
| Ultimate | Champagne Etiquette This AoE attack inflicts Besotted on all enemies for two turns and deals fire damage equal to 130% of Gallagher's attack to all enemies. His next basic attack becomes enhanced to the Nectar Blitz state |
Talent and technique:
| Talent | Tipsy Tussle The Besotted state makes targets receive 6% more break damage. Every time a Besotted target gets attacked by an ally, the attacking ally's HP is restored by 80 |
| Technique | Artisan Elixir Immediately attacks the enemy. Upon entering battle, he inflicts Besotted on all enemies, lasting for two turns, and deals fire damage equal to 50% of Gallagher's attack to all enemies |
Major traces:
| A2 | Novel Concoction This increases Gallagher's outgoing healing equal to 50% of his break effect, up to a maximum increase of 75% |
| A4 | Organic Yeast When using his ultimate (Champagne Ettiquette), Gallagher's action advances forward by 100% |
| A6 | Bottoms Up When using Nectar Blitz to attack enemies with the Besotted state, Gallagher's HP restoring effects apply to all other allies for this instance |
What are Gallagher's eidolons?
If you get more than one Gallager on the banners, you can unlock some extra skills for him.
Here are all of Gallagher's eidolons:
| E1 | Salty Dog When Gallagher enters a battle, he regenerates 20 energy and increases his effect resistance by 50% |
| E2 | Lion's Tail When Gallagher uses his skill, he removes a debuff from a target ally. This also increases their effect resistance by 30% for two turns |
| E3 | Corpse Reviver Increases Gallagher's skill level by two, up to a maximum of level 15. Also increases his basic attack level by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E4 | Last Word Extends the duration of the Besotted state created by his ultimate by one turn |
| E5 | Death in the Afternoon Increases the level of Gallagher's ultimate by two, up to a maximum of level 15. Also increases his talent by two levels up to a maximum of 15 |
| E6 | Blood and Sand Gallagher's break effect and weakness break efficiency both increase by 20% |
What are Gallagher's ascension materials?
As a four-star unit, Gallagher requires a bit less money and fewer items than his five-star companions.
Here are all of Gallagher's ascension materials:
| 20 ➔ 30 |
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| 30 ➔ 40 |
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| 40 ➔ 50 |
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| 50 ➔ 60 |
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| 60 ➔ 70 |
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| 70 ➔ 80 |
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Here's where to find the specific items you need to ascend Gallagher:
- Raging hearts
- These are drops from the Memory Zone Meme boss fight located in the stagnant shadow: shape of ire
- Dream collection components, dream flow valves, and dream making engines
- Obtain from Penacony enemies and purchase from the Embers Exchange store
What are Gallagher's trace materials?
You'll also want to upgrade Gallagher's traces in order to get the best healing out of him. Here are all the materials and items you need to do that, and where to find them all in the game:
- 28 dream collection components, 42 dream flow valves, and 42 dream making engines
- Obtain from Penacony enemies and purchase from the Embers Exchange store
- 12 alien tree seeds, 54 nourishing honey, and 105 myriad fruit
- Obtain from the Bud of Abundance calyx and purchase in the Embers Exchange
- 12 past evils of the borehole planet disaster
- Obtain from the Starcrusher Swarm King boss on the Herta Space Station
- Five tracks of destiny
- Obtain from events, as rewards in the Simulated Universe, from the Embers exchange, and Nameless Honor (battlepass) rewards
- 2,400,000 credits
Skill trace priority
- Talent > skill > basic attack > ultimate
That's everything you need to know about Honkai Star Rail's Gallagher.