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 Honkai Star Rail Gallagher build?
Gallagher is an interesting four-star character who uses the fire element and who follows the path of Abundance.
| Best light cone | What Is Real? |
| Light cone substitutes | Night of Fright, Post-Op Conversation |
| Best relic set | Messenger Traversing Hackerspace and Watchmaker, Master of Dream Machinations |
| Planar ornaments | Forge of the Kalpagni Lantern |
| Main stats | Body – Outgoing healing Feet – Speed Link rope – Energy regeneration Planar sphere – HP or defense |
| Sub stats | Speed, break effect, HP |
Gallagher can restore your teammate’s HP with his skill, talent, and traces and is not to be sniffed at – he may be a four-star, but he’s the best four-star healer in the game, ranking in the top of most tier lists.
He 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.
Gallagher’s best build in Honkai Star Rail is as a healer with a high break effect stat. The best light cone for him is What Is Real?, and the best relic sets for him are a mix of two Watchmaker, Master of Dream Machinations and Passerby of Wandering Cloud two-piece sets. You need to build up plenty of break effect to ensure his healing covers your entire team.
What are the best light cones for Gallagher?
Gallagher, as a healer, can benefit from any healing-centric light cones. Night of Fright is generally considered the best light cone for healer characters, but Gallagher’s kit is a little different. His passive Novel Concoction scales off his break effect to add more outgoing healing, so we recommend the light cone What Is Real? to boost this stat for him. Plus, it has his face on it, so it looks the part.
| Night of Fright | Increases Gallagher’s energy regeneration rate by 12%. When an ally uses their ultimate move, he restores HP for that ally equal to 10% of their maximum HP stat. When healing party members, he also increases their attack by 2.4%. This can stack five times and lasts for two turns | Light cone banner |
| What Is Real? | This increases Gallagher’s break effect by 48%. After using his basic attack, he restores 4.0% of his own maximum HP, plus 800 | Gacha |
| Quid Pro Quo | At the start of Gallagher’s turn, he regenerates 8/10/12/14/16 energy for a random ally whose current energy is lower than 50% | Forgotten Hall store |
| Post-Op Conversation | This increases Gallagher’s energy regeneration rate by 8%, and his outgoing healing by 12% when he uses his ultimate | Gacha |
| Shared Feeling | Increases Gallagher’s outgoing healing by 10%. When he uses his skill, he regenerates two energy for all team members | Gacha |
| Perfect Timing | Increases Gallagher’s effect resistance by 16%, and his outgoing healing by 33% of his total effect resistance. You can gain a 15% increase in this way | Gacha |
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.
Relics
| Passerby of Wandering Cloud | Two pieces: Increases Gallagher’s outgoing healing by 10% Four pieces: 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% |
Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Elixir Seekers on the Xianzhou Luofu |
| Watchmaker, Master of Dream Machinations | Two pieces: Increases Gallagher’s break effect by 16 | Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Dreamdive in Penacony’s Reverie Hotel |
| Thief of Shooting Meteor | Two pieces: Increases Gallagher’s break effect by 16% | Obtain in the Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Jabbing Punch on Jarilo-VI |
Planar ornaments
Again, focusing on break effect is your best bet here. You can use Broken Keel to add higher crit damage to the entire team, but this relies on Gallagher’s effect res being 30%.
| 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 |
Stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Body: Outgoing healing
- Feet: Speed
- Planar sphere: HP or defense
- Link rope: Energy regeneration
Sub-stats:
- Speed
- Break effect
- 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: 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
| Tipsy Tussle | The Besotted state causes enemies to take 10.5% more break damage from Gallagher. Each time you attack an enemy with the Besotted state, the attacking party member’s HP restores by 500 |
Technique
| Artisan Elixir | Gallagher immediately attacks the target enemy, which enters battle. As you enter a fight, Gallagher inflicts the Besotted state on enemies, lasting for two turns, while dealing fire damage equal to 50% of his attack stat to all enemies |
Traces
| Organic Yeast | When using his ultimate (Champagne Ettiquette), Gallagher’s action advances forward by 100% |
| Novel Concoction | This increases Gallagher’s outgoing healing equal to 50% of his break effect, up to a maximum increase of 75% |
| 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 each of his eidolons and what they do:
| 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’s what you need to ascend him to level 70.
| 20➔30 | 3.2k credits Four dream collection components |
| 30➔40 | 6.4k credits Eight dream collection components |
| 40➔50 | 12.8k credits Two raging hearts Five dream flow valves |
| 50➔60 | 32k credits Five raging hearts Eight dream flow valves |
| 60➔70 | 64k credits 15 raging hearts Five dream making engines |
| 70➔80 | 128k credits 28 raging hearts Seven dream making engines |
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
- 5 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. If you’re looking for some help on your journey across Teyvat, take a look at our build guides for characters like Genshin Impact’s Freminet, Genshin Impact’s Yae Miko, and Genshin Impact’s Kinich.