When we first saw Honkai Star Rail’s Luocha, we said the same thing as many of you – ‘hold on, is that playable Otto?’ But, as much as Luocha may bear a striking resemblance to Honkai Impact’s Otto, he’s certainly a man of his own, setting out to heal everyone’s ailments… With a coffin by his side? But what we have worked out is this Honkai Star Rail Luocha build, featuring his best light cones, relics, and more.
Before you hit the rails, be sure to check out our Honkai Star Rail tier list, Honkai Star Rail codes, and Honkai Star Rail banner guide. We also have more build guides just like this one, including Honkai Star Rail’s Black Swan, Honkai Star Rail’s Firefly, and Honkai Star Rail’s Trailblazer.
Let’s dive into everything you need to know about Honkai Star Rail’s Luocha.
What’s the best Honkai Star Rail Luocha build?
| Best light cone | Echoes of the Coffin |
| Light cone substitutes | Night of Fright (five-star) or Perfect Timing (four-star) |
| Best relic set | Passerby of Wandering Cloud/Messenger Traversing Hackerspace |
| Best planar ornament set | Fleet of the Ageless or Broken Keel |
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Luocha’s best light cone is Echoes of the Coffin which is made specifically for him. Pair this with either a four-piece set of Passerby of Wandering Cloud or two Passerby and two Messenger Traversing Hackerspace for his standard relics and a two-piece set of Broken Keel for his planar ornaments. This healer can hit hard when he wants to.
While his healing may not be as reliable as Honkai Star Rail’s Natasha due to her ultimate offering the perfect emergency button, Luocha is a powerful support. He offers great heals that scale off his attack, while also having the potential to deal some impactful imaginary damage, and his ability to strip enemies of buffs with his ultimate can be extremely handy.
How do I use Luocha?
Luocha’s utility revolves around his ability to both hit hard and heal his teammates. Use his basic attack to target enemies with imaginary weakness and assist your allies with his Prayer of Abyss Flower skill. Build up Luocha’s Abyss Flower stacks with his skill and ultimate to protect your team and provide passive healing along the way.
What are Luocha’s best light cones?
Echoes of the Coffin is Luocha’s signature five-star light cone, boosting his attack to increase his healing, and offering buffs for his team. However, as it’s a five-star limited gacha pull, it may be tricky to get your paws on. Another light cone in a similar position, Night of Fright, continues to be a top-tier option for any healer, despite Luocha’s unique kit. If you’ve got one spare, consider making use of its energy regeneration and outgoing healing boosts.
When it comes to four-star options, Perfect Timing is a great choice as it boosts both Luocha’s effect resistance and outgoing healing. Shared Feeling is also a strong option, especially if you have an energy-hungry team that favors using their ultimates more frequently.
Unfortunately, Post-Op Conversation isn’t a great option for him, as it boosts outgoing healing when the wearer uses their ultimate – and, of course, Luocha’s ultimate doesn’t heal.
| Echoes of the Coffin | Increases Luocha’s attack. After he uses his ultimate, provides all allies with a speed boost for one turn. Additionally, for each different target Luocha attacks, he recovers five energy. Each attack can recover energy a maximum of three times | Limited gacha |
| Night of Fright | Increases Luocha’s energy regeneration rate by 12%. When any ally uses their ultimate, Luocha 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 Luocha provides healing for an ally, increases the healed ally’s attack by 2.4%. This effect can stack up to five times and lasts for two turns | Limited gacha |
| Perfect Timing | Increases Luocha’s effect res by 16% and increases his outgoing healing by 33% of his effect res. Outgoing healing can increase by a max of 15% in this way | Gacha |
| Shared Feeling | Increases Luocha’s outgoing healing by 10%. Using his skill regenerates two energy for all allies | Gacha |
What are the best relics for Luocha?
Due to Luocha’s primary role and utility being based on healing, we recommend going with the Passerby of Wandering Cloud four-piece set. For the neck and article relics, as Luocha’s healing scales of attack instead of HP, you could also mix and match sets to stack attack% bonuses. Seeing as Passerby’s four-piece bonus isn’t as relevant to Luocha’s success, we also recommend pairing the set with Messenger Traversing Hackerspace to boost his speed.
Alternatively, if you want to increase his personal damage, you can go with a full set of Wastelander of Banditry Desert – or, for a balanced healing and damage build, you can combine two pieces of Wasteander of Banditry Desert and two pieces of Passerby of Wandering Clouds, boosting both his outgoing healing and imaginary damage.
We’re currently rocking four pieces of the Passerby of Wandering Cloud set, and two pieces Broken Keel, as Luocha’s healer and debuffer role means that keeping him alive and active is essential for success, so the set’s effect resistance comes in handy. Alternatively, Fleet of the Ageless is much easier to come by and grants Luocha a healthy boost to his max HP while buffing the team’s attack.
| Passerby of Wandering Cloud | Two equipped: increases outgoing healing by 10% Four equipped: immediately recover one skill point at the beginning of battle |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Drifting in Jarilo-VI’s Corridor of Fading Echoes |
| Messenger Traversing Hackerspace | Two equipped: increases speed by 6% Four equipped: not applicable |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Elixir Seekers in the Alchemy Commission |
| Musketeer of Wild Wheat | Two equipped: increases attack by 12% Four equipped: increases Luocha’s speed by 6% and his basic attack damage by 10% |
Cavern of Corrosion: Path of Drifting in Jarilo-VI’s Corridor of Fading Echoes |
Planar ornaments
| Fleet of the Ageless | Two equipped: increases Luocha’s max HP by 12%. When his speed reaches 120 or higher, all allies’ attack increases by 8% | Immersion Reward devices in World 3 of the Simulated Universe, or Divergent Universe ‘Untoppled Walls’ boss |
| Broken Keel | Two equipped: increases Luocha’s effect resistance by 10%. When his effect resistance is at 30% or higher, all allies’ crit damage increases by 10% | Immersion Reward devices in World 7 of the Simulated Universe, or Divergent Universe ‘Fruit of Evil’ boss |
Relic stat recommendations
Main stats:
- Body: Outgoing healing bonus
- Feet: Speed or attack%
- Planar sphere: Attack%
- Link rope: Energy regeneration rate or attack%
Sub-stats:
- Attack
- Speed
- Effect resistance
What’s the best team comp for Luocha?
As a healer, Luocha fits well in a range of Honkai Star Rail team comps, but thanks to his bonus ability Sanctified, he works particularly well with follow-up attackers. Characters like Honkai Star Rail’s Clara and Honkai Star Rail’s March 7th deal follow-up damage to certain enemies and if this happens inside Luocha’s Cycle of Life field, it grants the team additional passive healing.
Here are some examples of strong Luocha team comps:
 Clara |
 March 7th |
 Pela |
 Luocha |
 Imbibitor Lunae |
 Tingyun |
 Yukong |
Luocha |
| Imbibitor Lunae |
 Sparkle |
 Silver Wolf |
Luocha |
 Firefly |
 Trailblazer (Harmony) |
 Ruan Mei |
Luocha |
What are Luocha’s abilities?
Active skills:
| Basic attack | Thorns of the Abyss Deal 50% of Luocha’s attack as imaginary damage to a target enemy |
| Skill | Prayer of Abyss Flower After using his skill, immediately restores the target ally’s HP equal to 40% of Luocha’s attack plus 200. Meanwhile, Luocha gains one stack of Abyss Flower. When any ally’s HP percentage becomes equal to or less than 50%, an effect equivalent to Luocha’s skill immediately triggers and applies to this ally for one time (without consuming skill points). This effect can trigger again after two turns |
| Ultimate | Death Wish Deal 120% of Luocha’s attack as imaginary damage to all enemies, and dispel one enemy buff. Luocha gains one stack of Abyss Flower |
Talent:
| Cycle of Life | When Luocha gains two stacks of Abyss Flower, he consumes all stacks to deploy a field against the enemy. When an ally attacks an enemy unit within the field, the ally immediately restores HP equal to 12% of Luocha’s attack plus 60. The field effect lasts two turns |
Technique:
| Mercy of a Fool | After using his technique, Luocha triggers his talent at the start of the next battle |
Traces:
| Cleansing Revival | Luocha’s skill removes one debuff from the target ally |
| Sanctified | When an ally attacks any enemy in the Cycle of Life field, all allies (except the attacker) restore HP equal to 7% of Luocha’s attack plus 93 |
| Through the Valley | The chance to resist crowd control debuffs increases by 70% |
What are Luocha’s eidolons?
Eidolons are additional benefits that you unlock for Luocha by pulling duplicates of him on the gacha.
| E1 | Ablution of the Quick While the Cycle of Life field is active, all allies’ attack increases by 20% |
| E2 | Bestowal From the Pure When Luocha triggers his skill, if the target ally’s HP is lower than 50%, Luocha’s outgoing healing increases by 30%. If the target ally’s HP is at 50% or higher, the ally receives a shield that can absorb damage equal to 18% of Luocha’s attack plus 240, lasting for two turns |
| E3 | Surveyal by the Fool Increases the level of Luocha’s skill by two, up to a maximum of level 15, and the level of his basic attack by one, up to a maximum of level ten |
| E4 | Heavy Lies the Crown When Luocha’s ‘Cycle of Life’ field is active, it weakens enemies. Weakened enemies deal 12% reduced damage |
| E5 | Cicatrix ‘Neath the Pain Increases the level of Luocha’s ultimate by two, up to a maximum of level 15, and his talent by two, up to a maximum of level 15 |
| E6 | Reunion With the Dust When Luocha uses his ultimate, there is a 100% fixed chance to reduce all enemies’ all-type resistance by 20% for two turns |
What are Luocha’s ascension materials?
To ascend Luocha all the way to level 80 you’ll need a range of specialist materials.
Here are all of the materials you need to fully ascend Luocha:
| Required level | Credits | Ascension materials |
| 20 | 4k | Five artifex’s modules |
| 30 | 8k | Ten artifex’s modules |
| 40 | 16k | Six artifex’s cogwheels and three golden crowns of the past shadow |
| 50 | 40k | Nine artifex’s cogwheels and seven golden crowns of the past shadow |
| 60 | 80k | Six artifex’s gyrehearts and 20 golden crowns of the past shadow |
| 70 | 160k | Nine artifex’s gyrehearts and 35 golden crowns of the past shadow |
Here’s where to get all of Luocha’s ascension materials:
- Artifex’s modules, cogwheels, and gyrehearts – drops from entranced ingenuity enemies such as entranced ingenium: golden cloud toad and the aurumaton gatekeeper either in the Xianzhou Luofu’s Stargazer Navalia or in the Honkai Star Rail simulated universe, via synthesis, from assignment rewards, or the embers exchange store
- Golden crown of the past shadow – drops from the Stagnant Shadow: Shape of Mirage in Jarilo-VI’s Backwater Pass
What are Luocha’s trace materials?
Traces are how Honkai Star Rail refers to abilities and bonus abilities. To max out all of Luocha’s traces, you’ll need the following materials:
- 15 seeds of abundance, 72 sprouts of life, and 139 flowers of eternity
- Obtain from the Bud of Abundance crimson calyx in Backwater Pass, and the embers exchange
- 41 artifex’s modules, 56 artifex’s cogwheels, and 58 artifex’s gyrehearts
- Obtain from entranced ingenuity enemies either in the Xianzhou Luofu’s Stargazer Navalia or in the Honkai Star Rail simulated universe, via synthesis, from assignment rewards, or the embers exchange store
- 12 guardian’s laments – rewards from the Echo of War: End of the Eternal Freeze
- 11 tracks of destiny
- Three million credits
Skill trace priority:
- Talent > Skill > Ultimate > Basic
Major trace priority:
- Cleansing Revival > Sanctified > Through the Valley
That’s everything we’ve got on Honkai Star Rail’s Luocha. If you’re a fan of Hoyoverse’s characters and worlds, check out some of our Genshin Impact guides like our Genshin Impact tier list, Genshin Impact codes guide, and Genshin Impact next banner guide. We’ve also got build guides for Genshin Impact’s Sethos, Genshin Impact’s Amber, and Genshin Impact’s Keqing.